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• Media Advisory- Seniors' care workers to launch job action in ... - BCGEU

  14-06-2023 23:59 via news.google.com
  
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• A look at how the Bell layoffs affect their journalism platform

  14-06-2023 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — BCE Inc. announced Wednesday that it is cutting 1,300 positions, around three per cent of its workforce, and closing or selling nine radio stations as the company plans to “significantly adapt” how it delivers the news. Here’s a look at who and what’s affected by the cuts to their journalism platform.
  Fewer Journalists
  The layoffs include a six per cent cut at Bell Media. Many of those who received notices of their termination shared the news on social med
  
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• Miami Mayor Francis Suarez enters crowded GOP presidential race days after Trump’s indictment

  14-06-2023 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez filed paperwork Wednesday to launch his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, jumping into the crowded race just a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump appeared in court on federal charges in Suarez’s city.
  The 45-year-old mayor, the only Hispanic candidate in the race, declared his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. He had teased an announcement, noting that he would be making a “big speech” Thursday at th
  
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• Police: More complaints possible after ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor charged in Alberta

  14-06-2023 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TSUUT’INA FIRST NATION — Police in Alberta say they anticipate more people will come forward after a former actor and self-described medicine man was charged with sexual exploitation and sexual assault in that province. 
  The Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service says Nathan Chasing Horse, a former actor in the movie “Dances With Wolves,” is facing nine charges, which also include removing a child from Canada under the age of 16.
  Sgt. Nancy Farmer would not say how ma
  
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• Ottawa mayor Sutcliffe ‘delighted’ with Andlauer agreement to buy NHL’s Senators

  14-06-2023 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says he is “delighted” that Michael Andlauer’s bidding group has reached a deal in principle to buy the NHL’s Senators.
  The team announced Tuesday that Andlauer and his group will purchase 90 per cent of the club from the Melnyk family. The deal is reportedly worth nearly US$1 billion.
  The sale of the team garnered plenty of suitors, including competing bids that reportedly included Canadian movie star Ryan Reynolds, Canadian R&B singer The
  
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• All-star Peters back with Toronto Argonauts after being released by Falcons

  14-06-2023 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Jamal Peters has returned home.
  The all-star cornerback practised with the Toronto Argonauts on Wednesday, his first time with the CFL club since helping it capture the 2022 Grey Cup with a 24-23 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers last November in Regina. In January, Peters signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons but was released June 5.
  “Overwhelmed . . . they’ve welcomed me back with open arms,” Peters said following practice. “I’m just happy t
  
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• Suicides in Quebec: Coroner wants friends and family included in mental health care

  14-06-2023 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner says the province’s Health Department should do more to involve friends and family members in the treatment of people suffering from mental health issues and addictions in order to prevent suicides.
  Coroner Julie-Kim Godin says that consent forms used in the health-care system should be changed to ask people whether they agree to have their medical information shared with loved ones, who she says often want to help but are frequently shut out of the treatm
  
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• CanCon Rules: NHL champion Vegas Golden Knights roster loaded with Canadians

  14-06-2023 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Stanley Cup will criss-cross the Great White North this off-season as the many Canadians on the Vegas Golden Knights roster spend their day with the trophy.
  As for when the Cup is actually awarded to a Canadian team — it’s been 30 long years and counting — that remains anyone’s guess. 
  The Golden Knights won their first NHL championship on Tuesday by closing out a five-game series win over the Florida Panthers. Canadian contributors — including Winnipeg&rsq
  
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• B.C. Lions cancel practice after player suffers ‘significant medical episode’

  14-06-2023 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The B.C. Lions say they have cancelled the team’s practice on Wednesday after offensive lineman Phil Norman suffered what they described as a “significant medical episode.”
  The team says the incident happened before the practice and added that Norman is conscious, alert and receiving medical attention.
  Norman signed with the Lions in 2018 after spending three years playing football at Bethune-Cookman University.
  He spent the 2018 season on the Lions practic
  
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• New changes to Canadian Environmental Protection Act just a start: minister

  14-06-2023 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Environmental Protection Act has been updated for the first time in more than 20 years, and the environment minister says that’s just a start. 
  Steven Guilbeault says there will be more to come, now that the law states Canadians have the right to a healthy environment. 
  Work on that particular change has been ongoing for years, and is not done yet. 
  The government has given itself up to two years to decide precisely what it means, and how it will
  
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• Russia says relations ‘on the verge of being severed’ as Ottawa seizes cargo plane

  14-06-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Moscow is warning that relations with Canada are “on the verge of being severed” after the Trudeau government moved to forfeit a massive Russian cargo plane.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Ukraine on the weekend, where he announced that Canada officially seized an airplane that had been sitting on the tarmac at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport since February 2022.
  Russia’s foreign ministry said in an English-language statement posted Tuesday t
  
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• Chilliwack Highway Patrol nabs motorcyclist for doing a wheelie on Hwy. 1

  14-06-2023 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A New Westminster motorcyclist who decided to showboat on Highway 1 in Chilliwack last month got his just reward for unknowingly doing a wheelie in front of a police officer with the Chilliwack B.C. Highway Patrol.In a statement Wednesday from police, an officer from the Chilliwack B.C. Highway Patrol was traveling behind a group of several motorcycles on May 21 at approximately 3:45 p.m. on Highway 1 between Vedder Road (exit 119) and Prest Road (exit 123). The officer witnes
  
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• B.C. border agents find 6,300 kg of meth, including largest single seizure to date

  14-06-2023 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DELTA, B.C. — The Canada Border Services Agency says it has confiscated more than 6,300 kilograms of methamphetamine in British Columbia over the last six months, including the largest ever single seizure of the drug.
  The agency says the drugs were found in four Metro Vancouver seizures in jugs labelled as canola oil and destined for export to Australia.
  In December of last year, agents in Burnaby found 40 jugs containing just over 200 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, and a month late
  
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• What you need to know about wildfires in Canada

  14-06-2023 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Wildfires continue to rage in Canada in one of the worst seasons in recent memory. Not enough rain in Quebec fell to help the firefight, while B.C. reports fire above highway is held. Here’s a look at developments Wednesday:
  Canada expecting more firefighting help from abroad
  More firefighters from abroad were expected Wednesday in Canada as the country grapples with its worst wildfire season of the 21st century.
  Officials from Quebec said 240 firefighters, 100 from Portugal and 140 from S
  
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• Road to the PGA Tour: Canadian Tour season tees off with Victoria Open

  14-06-2023 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The PGA Tour Canada could be the start of something great for Noah Steele.
  He’s one of 31 Canadians in the field at this week’s Royal Beach Victoria Open, the first tournament of the season on the PGA Tour Canada. The 25-year-old Steele, from Kingston, Ont., said that the third-tier tour means a lot to him, and not just because it’s in Canada.
  “It’s the beginnings of the journey to the PGA Tour, which is what all of us are looking to get to someday,” said Stee
  
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• Riders expect veteran starter Harris to play against Blue Bombers despite hip injury

  14-06-2023 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  He might be ailing somewhat, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders expect starter Trevor Harris to play Friday night in the CFL team’s home opener.
  Harris, 37, suffered a hip injury late in Saskatchewan’s 17-13 season-opening road win over the Edmonton Elks on Sunday night. Harris was limited in practice Tuesday — the Riders’ first since the victory — as backup Mason Fine was under centre with the starting unit.
  Afterwards, head coach Craig Dickenson told reporters in Re
  
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• Emergency calls to 911 in May were the highest in E-Comm’s recorded history

  14-06-2023 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — E-Comm, the emergency dispatch agency and the first point of contact for 9-1-1 callers for almost all of British Columbia, says it is managing an extraordinary call volume in just the first five months of 2023.
  In a statement Wednesday (June 14), E-Comm, which also provides dispatch services for police, fire and ambulance throughout the province, reports that calls to 9-1-1 are up 21 per cent in the first five months relative to the same five months in 2022.May was the busiest
  
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• Newly appointed high performance director looks forward to Rugby Canada challenge

  14-06-2023 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Stephen Aboud arrives as Rugby Canada’s new high performance director with a glowing endorsement, albeit from his wife.
  “He makes others look good,” says Olive.
  Aboud also gets rave reviews from outside his immediate family.
  “We took our time to try to get the right person,” said Rugby Canada CEO Nathan Bombrys. “I’m feeling really good about Steve and what he’s about. And what his values are as a man and his philosophies in rugby … I think
  
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• Special adviser says Simon Fraser University football exhibition plan ... - Chilliwack Progress

  14-06-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Seamus O’Regan gives impassioned defence of global LGBTQ labour rights

  14-06-2023 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan spoke strongly in favour of keeping LGBTQ rights enshrined in labour standards this week while a United Nations agency faced a push to remove them.
  Some countries in Africa and the Middle East had called on the International Labour Organization to cut phrasing from its budget about protecting workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
  The United Nations agency sets international standards on issues such as child lab
  
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• Canadian sim racers vie for chance to play F1 champion Max Verstappen at Grand Prix

  14-06-2023 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A video game is taking Mikel Cunningham somewhere he’s never been before.
  The 30-year-old gamer from Windsor, Ont., is going to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend after finishing top five in “Player 0.0,” a simulator racing competition where people across Canada could submit their best lap on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve playing the EA Sports F1 video game.
  “I’m still kind of in shock,” Cunningham said. “Like I … I’ve nev
  
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• Deportations for international students caught in fraud scheme put on hold

  14-06-2023 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says deportation orders for international students caught up in a fraud scheme have been put on hold while a task force investigates each case.
  Hundreds of students might have been affected by the scheme, which saw immigration agents issue fake acceptance letters to get international students into Canada.
  Some students had no idea their documents were forged until it came time for them apply for permanent residency.
  Fraser says the department is aw
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada halting activity at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

  14-06-2023 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada will halt all government-led activity at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
  This comes after a Canadian citizen resigned from the financial institution, alleging it is dominated by the Chinese Communist Party.
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• First Nation in Manitoba celebrates Whitecloud, Golden Knights win for Stanley Cup

  14-06-2023 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MASKAWATA, Man. — The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba is celebrating one of its own after Zach Whitecloud of the Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup.
  The First Nation says Whitecloud and the team’s win brings honour to the community and to the Dakota Nation as a whole.It says the player, who is a member of the First Nation, represents the community’s values.The First Nation says Whitecloud’s journey is a testament to what can be achieved when one is committed,
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. provides universal coverage for opioid treatments

  14-06-2023 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia says it is providing universal coverage for opioid agonist treatments that help people with substance use disorders, making it the first province in Canada to do so.
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• Street-cleaning program for vulnerable people in Chilliwack gets ... - Hope Standard

  14-06-2023 19:43 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. school district bans man who queried gender of girl, 9, at track meet

  14-06-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — A man has been banned from events at a British Columbia school district after a mother said he interrupted a track meet to wrongly suggest her nine-year-old daughter was transgender and demanded proof she was born biologically female.
  Kevin Kaardal, the superintendent of Central Okanagan Public Schools in Kelowna, B.C., says in a statement that staff at the regional track and field meet last week intervened and eventually moved the girl’s event across the field.
  He sa
  
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• Chilliwack resident awarded Lieutenant Governor’s medal

  14-06-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack resident Lisa Doell has been recognized as this year’s recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s medal for her work in helping UFV professors and fellow students better understand Indigenous culture and the challenges faced by Indigenous people.In a news release from UFV communications staff member Anne Russell, Doell learned a lot by taking the Bachelor of Fine arts degree program but also did her fair share of teaching.“Lisa’s most important c
  
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• ‘Keep fighting’: Ukrainian soldiers continue battle with Russia despite low morale

  14-06-2023 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine — The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has left many Ukrainian soldiers feeling war weary but unwilling or unable to give up the fight.
  Artem Baulin, a junior sergeant from Kyiv, is undergoing rehab at a military hospital after he was injured in an explosion and suffered a concussion during the bloody conflict in the eastern city of Bakhmut. The battle there has claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides.
  “I’ve been fighting for over a year, from
  
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• Chilliwack city council approves funding for one of the few free airshows in Canada

  14-06-2023 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — One of the few remaining free airshows left in Canada is getting a financial boost from the City of Chilliwack for the next three years.With projected expenses totaling nearly $178,000 for this year’s event, organizers behind Chilliwack Flight Fest saw their request for funding get the green light at a Chilliwack city council meeting on Tuesday, June 6.Council approved funding for the airshow over the next three year under the Community Development Initiative funding pol
  
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• Northern B.C. wildfire nudges key northern highway, Island route still cut by flames

  14-06-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A key highway that connects Yukon and northern British Columbia to the rest of the province is now threatened by the huge Donnie Creek wildfire as the blaze chews through woodlands south of Fort Nelson.
  The Peace River Regional District has posted an evacuation alert for a section of the Alaska Highway as out-of-control flames creep within two kilometres.
  If the 4,875-square-kilometre blaze cuts the highway, residents north of Fort Nelson could face a more than 1,700-kilometre
  
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• Los Angeles city councilman charged with embezzlement may face suspension

  14-06-2023 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles City Council said he will file a motion Wednesday to suspend a councilman charged with embezzlement, perjury and other crimes in the latest scandal among leadership of the nation’s second-largest city.
  Council President Paul Krekorian said he was shocked by the criminal complaint against Curren Price Jr., who he referred to as “a friend and colleague” while stressing that the presumption of innocence is a bedrock princip
  
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• Singh and Poilievre to begin talks on terms for public inquiry on foreign meddling

  14-06-2023 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A spokesperson for the NDP says its leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are about to begin talks on setting terms of reference for a possible public inquiry into foreign interference.
  NDP communications director Eric Demers says the two are expected to talk on the phone sometime today. 
  A spokesperson for the Conservative party says Poilievre’s office reached out to Singh on Tuesday with hopes of speaking to Singh today, but it has yet to recei
  
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• Hockey Hall of Famer Henri Richard had stage 3 CTE at time of death, study finds

  14-06-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Hockey Hall of Famer and Montreal Canadiens great Henri Richard has been posthumously diagnosed with stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada announced Wednesday.
  CTE is a progressive brain disease associated with repeated traumatic brain injuries, including concussions and repeated blows to the head.
  Richard’s son, Denis, released the findings of his father’s brain study hoping to bring attention to the risks of repeated
  
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• Chilliwack-area volunteers unite to find Rosie, a pup missing for over 50 days

  14-06-2023 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Nearly a dozen Chilliwack-area volunteers have united behind a concerted effort to find Rosie, a Jindo mix pup from Korea who arrived in Chilliwack in April, but escaped around April 24 and has been on the run for over 50 days.Chilliwack residents Jackie Smith and Natasha Lumsden are spearheading the effort to help locate Rosie, who was last spotted on Sunday, June 11 near Broadway and Brooks Avenue north of the highway. Smith is overseeing the social media side of things whil
  
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• First-ever vegan festival coming to Central Community Park in ... - Hope Standard

  14-06-2023 17:53 via news.google.com
  
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• First-ever vegan festival coming to Central Community Park in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  14-06-2023 17:53 via news.google.com
  
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• Poilievre calls for Mendicino to resign over handling of Paul Bernardo transfer

  14-06-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Marco Mendicino should resign or be fired over his office’s handling of knowledge that Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison. 
  Poilievre points out that when the Correctional Service of Canada’s decision to move the convicted killer and serial rapist from his maximum-security penitentiary became public, the minister of public safety said he was shocked. 
  The Conservative leader is now calling
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Keep yourself and your community safe this summer

  14-06-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The current wildfire season in B.C. is already setting records, and with more hot weather on the horizon it could spell disaster.Fire bans have now been implemented in the Coastal Fire Centre, which includes the Fraser Valley, and it’s vital that people respect these restrictions. All campfires and open fires, such as slash burning, are now prohibited, as are fireworks, burn barrels, tiki torches, chimineas and the like. However, you can still use outdoor stoves that burn charcoal and gas.
  
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• Original Golden Knight Misfits key part of Vegas Stanley Cup run ... - Chilliwack Progress

  14-06-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Only 1.5 per cent of Proline bettors had Taylor winning RBC Canadian Open

  14-06-2023 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Nick Taylor’s stunning victory at the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday took the vast majority of Proline players by surprise.
  According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., Taylor took just 1.5 per cent of all bets in the tournament winner market. But that was expected, given his long odds of 71.0 and Taylor entering the final round tied for eighth, four shots off the lead.
  But Taylor, of Abbotsford, B.C., captured the dramatic victory with a 72-foot putt on the fourth playo
  
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• Spezza reunited with Dubas after being named Penguins assistant general manager

  14-06-2023 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins have named Jason Spezza as assistant general manager, reuniting him with hockey operations president Kyle Dubas.
  The team announced Spezza’s addition to the Penguins’ front office in a release on Wednesday.
  Spezza resigned from his role as special assistant to the GM in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization on May 19, shortly after the team fired Dubas after five years as general manager.
  The Penguins say the 40-year-old Spezza will report di
  
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• Life and style with Jaclyn Robertson - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Volkswagen deal to cost the federal government more than previously announced: PBO

  14-06-2023 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says Canada’s exclusive contract with German auto giant Volkswagen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario will cost the federal government up to $16.3 billion over the next ten years. 
  That figure is higher than what the federal government said the deal would cost taxpayers, which included a $700-million upfront capital investment and up to $13.2 billion in production tax credits.
  The analysis by the PBO looks
  
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• Quebec judge rejects request from Muslim group to suspend ban on school prayer rooms

  14-06-2023 15:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied a request to suspend the province’s ban on prayer room spaces in public schools.
  The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims have argued that the ban was causing irreparable harm to Muslim students.
  Justice Lukasz Granosik disagreed, ruling today that the groups did not prove that there was an urgent need to stay the province’s decree while their case is heard on its merits.
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• House, Senate vote to give Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza honorary citizenship

  14-06-2023 15:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Parliament is bestowing honorary Canadian citizenship on jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.
  The Senate voted Tuesday night to recognize the prominent Russian journalist and activist, following a House of Commons vote last Thursday.
  Kara-Murza, a prominent journalist and activist who has helped lead a political party in Russia, was charged in April 2022 with “spreading deliberately false information” about the invasion of Ukraine.
  Before the war, he h
  
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• Casket of Italian ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi is brought to cathedral for his funeral

  14-06-2023 15:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi was honored Wednesday with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of national mourning, as his legacy — positive or negative — was being hotly debated among Italians.
  Tens of thousands of people outside the Duomo and within erupted in applause as a sign of respect as Berlusconi’s flower-draped casket was hoisted out of the hearse and into the cathedral. His children and companion teared up as the casket was placed in fron
  
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• Blinken heads to China this weekend on mission to salvage sinking ties and keep communications open

  14-06-2023 14:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend as part of the Biden administration’s push to repair deteriorating ties between Washington and Beijing and keep lines of communication open, the State Department said Wednesday.Blinken will be the most senior U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office. His visit had initially been planned for earlier this year but was postponed indefinitely after the discovery and shootd
  
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• Canada’s Brown building on past year’s late-season success with further confidence

  14-06-2023 13:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Aaron Brown’s strong finish last season made him reconsider possibilities for himself on bigger stages.
  “I ended my season on a really high note and had the most successful Diamond League finals in my career, so I went into the off-season with a lot of confidence and I took away little things from that meet that I was going to apply into (the) next year,” he said. 
  “And the way I competed against those same guys because I knew, especially in the 200 (metres), those a
  
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• Greece: 32 migrants dead, more than 100 rescued after fishing vessel capsizes

  14-06-2023 12:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least 32 people have died off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized and sank, authorities said Wednesday.
  A large search and rescue operation was launched in the area. Authorities said 104 people have been rescued so far following the nighttime incident some 75 kilometers (46 miles) southwest of Greece’s southern Peloponnese region.Four of the survivors were hospitalized with symptoms of hypothermia. It was unc
  
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