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• Catcher Danny Jansen returns to roster as Blue Jays prepare for nine-game road trip

  13-06-2023 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE — Catcher Danny Jansen was reinstated from the Blue Jays’ 10-day injured list on Tuesday and he was available to play in Toronto’s game versus the Orioles in Baltimore.
  Jansen’s return to the roster following a left groin strain was just one in a series of moves the Blue Jays made before starting a three-game series in Baltimore to kick off a nine-game road trip.
  Infielder Brandon Belt was put on the 10-day IL retroactive to Sunday with left hamstring inflammati
  
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• Canadian rider Michael Woods finishes runner-up in challenging Mont Ventoux race

  13-06-2023 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian rider Michael Woods finished second Tuesday at the CIC Mont Ventoux Challenge, outkicked by France’s Lenny Martinez.
  The one-day race was originally scheduled to feature two challenging climbs up Mont Ventoux, but the second ascent was cancelled due to a weather warning. That reduced the distance of the French race to 98.3 kilometres.
  With four kilometres to go, Woods made his move up front. Israel-Premier Tech teammate Domenico Pozzovivo managed to join him in the lead group with
  
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• Possible hate crime at B.C. track meet investigated by RCMP ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 23:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Pride Toronto director feels connection with Jays is still strong after Bass saga

  13-06-2023 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Pride Toronto executive director Sherwin Modeste feels the organization’s relationship with the Blue Jays remains strong but notes there are still “mixed feelings out there” as a result of the Anthony Bass saga. 
  “The entire community has not let go and has not forgiven,” Modeste said. “It’s going to take time. For some folks, it may take two weeks. For some folks, it may take a year. 
  “But we have to allow people to deal
  
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• Tuesday cold front could help Harrison wildfire fight - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 22:57 via news.google.com
  
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• BIA, Ruth & Naomi’s to expand pilot program to keep Chilliwack streets cleaner

  13-06-2023 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A program touted by local elected officials that helps keep the streets of Chilliwack clean by putting homeless people to work is getting a $125,000 funding boost from the provincial government to expand.
  In a news release Tuesday afternoon, the province says a partnership between the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association and Ruth and Naomi’s Mission housing shelter will receive $125,000 from the B.C. government to expand a pilot program that employs peopl
  
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• Oilers sign forward Derek Ryan to two-year contract extension

  13-06-2023 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Derek Ryan to a two-year, US$1.8-million contract extension on Tuesday.
  Ryan, 36, had 20 points (13 goals, seven assists) across 80 games in his second season with the Oilers in 2022-23.
  He contributed another three points (one goal, two assists) in 11 post-season games as Edmonton made a second-round exit.
  The contract carries an average annual value of $900,000.
  The five-foot-10, 185-pound centre played for the Calgary Flames for three s
  
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• Drive-thru breakfast event in Chilliwack to support Ann Davis ... - Mission City Record

  13-06-2023 22:42 via news.google.com
  
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• Drive-thru breakfast event in Chilliwack to support Ann Davis ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 22:42 via news.google.com
  
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• Vulnerable people in Chilliwack benefit from jobs | BC Gov News - BC Gov News

  13-06-2023 22:17 via news.google.com
  
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• Improving transparency ‘not a priority’ for the Trudeau government: info watchdog

  13-06-2023 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal information watchdog says the government’s key transparency provision has steadily eroded to the point where it no longer serves its intended purpose.
  In her annual report to Parliament, information commissioner Caroline Maynard says chronic issues continue to plague the Access to Information system, with no solutions in sight.
  For a $5 fee, Canadians can use the access law to request federal records, from briefing notes and reports to emails and invoices.
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• Canada’s Jeff Smith looks to add to North American title at World Cup of Darts

  13-06-2023 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRANKFURT — Canada’s Jeff (The Silencer) Smith and Matt (Ginja Ninja) Campbell open against India on Thursday at the 450,000-pound ($754,370) My Diesel Claim World Cup of Darts.
  The 40-team tournament runs through Sunday at Frankfurt’s Eissporthalle. Canada has made the quarterfinals of the World Cup three times in the past.
  Smith arrives on a high after winning the bet365 North American Championship darts title earlier this month in New York. The 47-year-old from Hampton, N.B.
  
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• Angel Flight offers B.C. cancer patients free flights to hospitals ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Astronaut Chris Hadfield working with King Charles on ‘Astra Carta’

  13-06-2023 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Chris Hadfield says he’s been working with King Charles on a space sustainability plan dubbed the Astra Carta.
  The Canadian astronaut says the plan will explore how humans can use space and settle the moon in a different way than they have settled on Earth.
  Hadfield says the king reached out to him for help with the draft last summer and they plan to release it at the end of the month in London.
  Hadfield hopes the Astra Carta will evolve into a document that will engage man
  
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• Women gardening in Prince George, B.C., is bitten by coyote

  13-06-2023 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A woman is nursing minor injuries after being bitten by a coyote while she was doing some gardening in Prince George, B.C.
  A statement from the B.C. Conservation Officers Service says the coyote walked up to the woman from behind and bit her.
  The attack happened Monday in a residential area of the city, and the service says the coyote was chased away. 
  The service says in a statement that the woman was treated in hospital for her injuries. 
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• Tories, Bloc discuss next steps on foreign interference as NDP pitches its own idea

  13-06-2023 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two opposition party leaders have now met to discuss the next steps for how the Liberal government should tackle the issue of foreign interference.
  A spokesman for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre confirms he met today with Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet.
  Their meeting comes after former governor general David Johnston informed the prime minister last Friday he was resigning as special rapporteur on the matter, citing a hyper-partisan environment th
  
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• Fox News shouldn’t air in Canada despite Tucker Carlson ouster, LGBTQ group argues

  13-06-2023 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — An advocacy group that wants the CRTC to ban Fox News says the network’s “abusive content” extends beyond its divisive personalities such as recently fired host Tucker Carlson.
  Fox News should be banned from Canadian airwaves because it has “repeatedly and regularly” violated broadcasting standards with content that subjects many groups to hate, Egale Canada is arguing in its formal submission to Canada’s broadcasting regulator.The LGBTQ rights
  
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• Radon testing in Chilliwack and Cultus Lake reveals cause for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Bills receiver Stefon Diggs misses practice on opening day of mandatory minicamp

  13-06-2023 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills star receiver Stefon Diggs is not present for the start of the team’s mandatory minicamp, coach Sean McDermott said before practice opened on Tuesday.
  “I’m very concerned,” is all McDermott would say regarding the absence of the team’s top receiver. Diggs had previously skipped the team’s voluntary spring sessions and workouts.
  In clarifying McDermott’s comments, the Bills released a statement saying Diggs wa
  
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• Raptors’ VanVleet declines player option, set to become free agent

  13-06-2023 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet is set to become a free agent this summer.
  General manager Bobby Webster confirmed Tuesday that the 29-year-old declined his US$22.8 million player option for next season. ESPN first reported the news Monday.
  The option year was slated to be the last of a four-year, $85 million contract he signed in 2020.
  VanVleet has spent his entire seven-year career with the Raptors after going undrafted in 2016.He was a key contributor on the 2018-19 championship team and
  
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• ‘I wasn’t afraid of them’: Ukrainians build new lives, help others after invasion

  13-06-2023 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine — When Katerina Mischenko looks out the window of her 14th-floor apartment in an older, somewhat rundown neighbourhood in Kyiv, she doesn’t see the graffiti on buildings across the street or the old woman rummaging through a garbage bin below.
  Instead, she focuses on laughing children playing tag in a playground and the thought that she is safe and free.
  Mischenko has made a new life, sharing a home with her sister and her husband, after fleeing Russia’s bloody in
  
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• Patrick Roy steps down as Remparts coach/GM after guiding team to Memorial Cup

  13-06-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Patrick Roy has resigned as general manager and head coach of the Quebec Remparts just over a week after the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team won the Memorial Cup. 
  Roy, a Hall of Fame goaltender who coached the Remparts for 13 seasons over two stints, made the announcement Tuesday in a press conference at the Quebec City’s Videotron Centre, where the Remparts play their home games. 
  Roy’s longtime partner and friend, Jacques Tanguay, also resigned as t
  
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• Paramount Plus orders Canadian series from Elliot Page, ‘Letterkenny’ producers

  13-06-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Paramount Plus is boosting its CanCon with acquisition and development deals that include a scripted comedy inspired by the Ben Johnson doping scandal and a limited series from Elliot Page’s production company.
  The Paramount-owned streamer touted four Canadian series in the works including “Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story,” from writer Anthony Q. Farrell of “The Office” and “Run the Burbs,” and “Letterkenny” producers New Metric Media.
  
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• New York Rangers hire Peter Laviolette as coach to replace Gerard Gallant

  13-06-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The New York Rangers have hired Peter Laviolette as their next coach, bringing in a seasoned veteran with Stanley Cup-winning experience to replace Gerard Gallant.
  The team announced the selection of Laviolette on Tuesday, putting the U.S.-born leader in NHL coaching victories in charge at a time of great expectations, with the Original Six franchise firmly in win-now mode.
  “With Peter’s extensive experience as a head coach in the National Hockey League, as well as the success his te
  
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• Its My Show heads to Pepsi North America Cup chasing sixth straight win

  13-06-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAMPBELLVILLE, Ont. — Its My Show will chase a sixth straight win Saturday night in the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup.
  Its My Show sports a 5-0 record this year and win the third of fourth Cup elimination races at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
  The horse will start from the No. 2 spot Saturday night with driver Scott Zeron of Oakville, Ont.
  Zeron won this race in 2019.
  Christchurch trainer Nancy Takter will chase a third Cup victory (2019 with Captain Crunch, 2020 with Tall Dark Stranger).
  The
  
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• Chilliwack's G.W. Graham Secondary debuts outdoor jazz and art ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Trump heads to Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents

  13-06-2023 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is on his way to the federal courthouse in Miami to face dozens of charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents.
  Trump departed his Doral golf course Tuesday afternoon en route to the courthouse, where he is expected to surrender to federal authorities and face a judge.
  The former president is not expected to have his mugshot taken but will have his digital fingerprints taken.
  Trump was indicted last week on 37 felony charges accusing hi
  
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• Coyote bites B.C. woman as she's busy gardening - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 19:46 via news.google.com
  
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• A look at the Toronto Raptors’ new head coach Darko Rajakovic

  13-06-2023 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Darko Rajakovic may not yet be a familiar name in Toronto, but he has a coaching pedigree that spans almost three decades from Serbia, to Spain, to North America.
  Here is a look at the Raptors’ new head coach:
  Born: February 22, 1979.
  Start in coaching: Rajakovic began his career as a teenager in 1996 and coached two different youth teams over 11 years in his native Serbia. He then served as head coach of Espacio Torrelodones in Spain from 2009-2012. He also spent some years as a Europe-ba
  
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• Province to fund 34 new homes on Seabird Island

  13-06-2023 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEABIRD ISLAND — The provincial government is partnering with the Seabird Island Band northeast of Agassiz to build 34 new affordable homes on reserve for band members, including families, elders and people living with disabilities.
  “These homes will help more Band members live affordably and close to their family, community and culture,” said Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Housing.The project will include two buildings with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom homes. One building w
  
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• Chiefs Sign Goaltender Vladimir Nikitin

  13-06-2023 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Chilliwack Chiefs are proud to announce that 2005-born goaltender Vladimir Nikitin has signed with the club.
  Nikitin spent most of the 2022/23 season with the Barys Astana U20 team in the Kazakhstan U20 league. In 24 games played, the 18-year-old posted a .921 save percentage and a 2.07 goals against average. He was also named the league’s top goaltender.
  “We’re excited to have Vladimir join the Chiefs family. He’s a big athletic goaltender with a ton of potential. Hi
  
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• A B.C. connection to newly named Calgary Flames head coach ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 19:05 via news.google.com
  
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• Changes cut wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent in N.W.T.

  13-06-2023 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government is lauding changes to its health-care system that it says reduced wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent.
  The territory released a report Tuesday on its implementation of Stepped Care 2.0 in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of Canada and Stepped Care Solutions. The model for delivering mental health and addictions recovery services is designed to meet people’s needs with the least intensive and most effe
  
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• B.C. govt. says it will clear Lonzo Rd. homeless camp near Sumas Way in Abbotsford

  13-06-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The provincial government announced Tuesday morning it will work with the city of Abbotsford, B.C. Housing and local service providers to clear the massive Lonzo Road homeless encampment near exit 92, Sumas Way, and Cactus Club in Abbotsford.In a news released issued Tuesday (June 13), the province says it willtransition homeless people living at the encampment at Lonzo Road and Sumas Way into safe indoor spaces to address health and safety concerns.
  Once the encampment has be
  
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• Mission RCMP arrests repeat shoplifters who stole over $2K in baby formula

  13-06-2023 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Two suspects with a reported history of high-value shoplifting from various stores throughout the Lower Mainland couldn’t elude the Mission RCMP in their latest attempt at theft last week.In a Facebook post from the Mission RCMP detachment, Mounties reported that on Friday, June 9, a loss prevention officer from a retail store in Mission advised them that a female who was already banned from the store had just left after stealing over $2,000 worth of baby formula.
  The femal
  
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• THE MOJ: Legends being born on Abbotsford public golf course ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Abby PD impounds trailer for unsecured load, no insurance, and mismatched license plates

  13-06-2023 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A pickup truck driver’s sloppy effort at securing a load of scrap on a flat deck trailer caught the attention of the Abbotsford Police Department this past Sunday.In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, the Abbotsford PD said its patrol officers observed a pickup truck traveling on Sunday, June 11 with mismatched license plates and an unsecured load of scrap being hauled on an uninsured flat deck trailer in the area of Bevan Avenue.A subsequent vehicle stop resulted in a vio
  
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• Canada’s Bianca Andreescu wins opening match at Libema Open

  13-06-2023 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu defeated Turkey’s Zenyep Sonmez 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday in first-round play at the Libema Open.
  Andreescu, the No. 6 seed from Mississauga, Ont., completed the victory in 84 minutes.
  She will face Slovakia’s Viktoria Hruncakova in the second round. Hruncakova was a 6-4, 6-2 winner over Switzerland’s Susan Bandecchi.
  Carol Zhao of Richmond Hill, Ont., is the other Canadian entered in the singles draw of the
  
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• Storm expected in northeast B.C., amid ‘volatile’ wildfire situation

  13-06-2023 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — More information is expected later today about what officials in northeastern British Columbia describe as the “volatile and rapidly evolving” wildfire situation, as another storm brings rain, powerful winds and potential lightning to the region.
  The Peace River Regional District says it will have updates on the vast Donnie Creek blaze that has charred nearly 4,660-square kilometres south of Fort Nelson, as well as the almost 200-square-kilometre Kiskatinaw fire thr
  
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• Chief justice ‘not comfortable’ with lack of transparency over judicial complaints

  13-06-2023 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s chief justice says he has asked the national body that oversees the conduct of judges to consider making the process for dealing with complaints more transparent.
  At a news conference today, Richard Wagner says he is “not comfortable” with the current process because it is too opaque and insufficiently clear for the public.
  Russell Brown retired from the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday, ending a probe into allegations of misconduct.
  The Canadian Judici
  
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• Rain could help Quebec firefighting effort as more than 7,200 people still evacuated

  13-06-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s public security minister says a rainy forecast is raising hopes that the province’s more than 7,200 fire evacuees will be able to return home in the coming days.
  François Bonnardel told reporters this morning that rain showers and cooler temperatures should be moving into northwestern Quebec, where powerful forest fires have threatened the towns of Lebel-sur-Quévillon and Normétal.
  Bonnardel said he hopes to have good news in the next 24
  
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• Local news, Quebec publishers first targets of Facebook’s block on Canadian news

  13-06-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Meta has started blocking news for some Canadians on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to a Liberal government bill that is currently being studied in the Senate.
  Chris Dell, news editor of Chris.D.ca, a Winnipeg-based digital news outfit, says some readers informed him Monday that they are no longer able to access content the outlet had posted on Facebook.
  He says it’s unfortunate that these measures are being taken in response to the Online News Act, which w
  
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• Accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash has case postponed to August

  13-06-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAVAL, Que. — The court case of a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare has been postponed to late August.
  Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a city bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, killing two four-year-olds and injuring six other children.
  The fifty-one-year-old St-Amand is charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as seven other charges, including
  
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• Justice minister says accusation that he intimidated Tory MP in email is ‘ridiculous’

  13-06-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Justice Minister David Lametti says an accusation from Tory MP Frank Caputo that the minister tried to intimidate him with an email is “ridiculous.” 
  Caputo says Lametti told him in an email last week that he would “let the community know” that he clapped in the House of Commons after fellow Conservative MP Michael Barrett questioned the impartiality of former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci.
  Barrett’s comments came after ex-foreign interfe
  
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• Civil liberties, Muslim groups ask Quebec court to suspend ban on school prayer rooms

  13-06-2023 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A civil liberties group and a Muslim advocacy organization are asking a Quebec Superior Court justice to suspend the province’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools.
  Lawyers for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims told a Montreal court today that the ban would cause irreparable harm if it is not suspended while a court challenge is heard on their case’s merits.
  Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville in late Apr
  
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• RCMP investigating foreign meddling attempts against three MPs

  13-06-2023 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The RCMP says investigations are underway into alleged foreign interference involving three members of Parliament, including Conservatives Michael Chong and Erin O’Toole and New Democrat Jenny Kwan.
  Acting RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme confirmed the investigations this morning during a parliamentary committee meeting.
  He says more than 100 investigations into foreign interference writ large are underway in Canada.
  Duheme also says police stations allegedly operated by Beijin
  
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• NDP attempts to prod Liberals into action on pharmacare by tabling its own bill

  13-06-2023 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party has tabled its own pharmacare legislation in the House of Commons, showing the New Democrats are no longer content to wait for the Liberals to make good on their promise.
  The NDP and Liberals struck a confidence-and-supply agreement last year that would see the NDP support the government on key votes to hold an election off until 2025 in exchange for progress on NDP priorities.
  One of the conditions of that deal was that the Liberals make pr
  
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• Environment Canada issues special weather statement for much of ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Search and Rescue activated for possible drowning in Vedder River

  13-06-2023 15:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Search and Rescue crews have been activated for a possible drowning in the Vedder River early Tuesday morning near the Hopedale parking lot south of Keith Wilson Road.
  The Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched sometime around 6:08 a.m. Tuesday to the Hopedale Road parking lot. RCMP and B.C. Emergency Health Services attended as well.Part of the Rotary Vedder Trail had been cordoned off by a female RCMP officer to impede access as rescue personnel converged on th
  
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• How population growth is affecting everything from jobs to housing in the economy

  13-06-2023 15:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Rapid population growth is challenging economists’ understanding of the economy as they monitor how businesses and consumers are responding to high interest rates.
  The Canadian economy has outperformed expectations so far this year, avoiding the slowdown many forecasters were anticipating in response to the Bank of Canada’s aggressive rate hikes. The resilience of the Canadian economy prompted the central bank to raise interest rates again last week, saying that the ri
  
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