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• Vancouver Canucks buy out defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s contract

  16-06-2023 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have bought out Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s contract, making the defenceman an unrestricted free agent.
  Ekman-Larsson has four years and US$29 million remaining on an eight-year, $66-million contract he signed with Arizona in 2018.
  In a release, the Canucks say they’ll pay the Swedish defenceman $19.33 million over the next eight years, which will reduce the team’s salary-cap hit.
  The Canucks acquired Ekman-Larsson and forward Conor Garland in
  
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• 99% drop in Ozempic shipments to U.S. residents after B.C. introduces restrictions

  16-06-2023 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says there’s been a 99 per cent drop in the number of online Ozempic prescriptions filled by Americans from pharmacies in that province since it introduced regulations to protect the local supply for diabetes patients.
  Weight loss is one of the side-effects of the injectable medication, sparking a huge uptick in its popularity, with Americans ordering it from two Vancouver-area pharmacies at cheaper prices than in the U.S.
  The Health Ministr
  
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• DeVos made history at 2000 Gold Cup, now hopes to see Canada men lift another cup

  16-06-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jason deVos knows all about making history in CONCACAF. As captain, he lifted the Gold Cup trophy after Canada upset Colombia 2-0 in the 2000 final.
  Now Canada Soccer’s interim general secretary, deVos hopes to watch the 47th-ranked Canadian men make their mark Sunday when they take on the 13th-ranked U.S. in the CONCACAF Nations League final in Las Vegas.
  “It was a special time,” deVos said of the 2000 cup run. “You don’t realize how impactful those moments are whe
  
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• African descent advisory group feels lied to over police return to Vancouver schools

  16-06-2023 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Members of the African descent advisory committee for the Vancouver Police Department say they feel they were lied to over the process to reinstate a program that deploys armed officers to public schools.
  Parker Johnson said he and the other committee members had “unanimously and unreservedly” determined they did not want police returning to schools this fall, and they were surprised to learn Thursday that a decision had already been made.
  Johnson was among those wh
  
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• Toronto Argonauts host rival Hamilton Tiger-Cats to kick off their ’23 season

  16-06-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Chad Kelly and the Toronto Argonauts will finally kick off their 2023 CFL season.
  Toronto hosts rival Hamilton (0-1) in its season opener Sunday night at BMO Field. The Tiger-Cats began their campaign last week with a 42-31 road loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  Kelly, 29, begins his first full season as Toronto’s starting quarterback. The nephew of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly spent ’22 as the Argos backup behind veteran McLeod Bethel-Thompson, who&rsq
  
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• Chilliwack teens to perform free Halq'eméylem concerts on ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-06-2023 22:39 via news.google.com
  
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• Western Hockey League’s Winnipeg Ice franchise moving to Wenatchee, Wash.

  16-06-2023 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — After four years in Winnipeg, the Western Hockey League’s Ice franchise is moving west.
  The team and league announced Friday that the club has been sold and relocated to Wenatchee, Wash. The move received approval of the WHL’s board of governors and was effective immediately.
  “Unfortunately, multiple attempts by the Ice ownership to construct an arena facility of acceptable WHL standards in Winnipeg, based on the agreed upon timeframes, were unsuccessful, leadin
  
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• Federal workers vote ‘overwhelmingly’ in favour of agreements that ended strike: PSAC

  16-06-2023 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s largest federal public-sector union says more than 155,000 workers have ratified new four-year deals with the federal government.
  The Public Service Alliance of Canada says members voted “overwhelmingly in favour” of the tentative agreements reached in May.
  Those deals ended a 12-day strike that had shut down a range of government services. 
  The union says the four-year contacts, spanning from 2021 to 2024, provide wage increases that compensate wor
  
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• Some reaction to the highway crash that killed 15 in Manitoba

  16-06-2023 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAUPHIN, MAN. — Health authorities say six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in southern Manitoba that killed 15 others were listed in critical condition in hospital.
  They were among a group of seniors from Dauphin, Man., on a day-trip to a casino when their minibus crashed with a semi while crossing the Trans-Canada Highway.
  Here is some of Friday’s reaction: 
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  “I know that all of Canadians stand with people during this very, very difficult time. There are lot
  
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• Surrey votes to keep RCMP; councillors 'muzzled' after closed-door ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-06-2023 21:25 via news.google.com
  
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• CP NewsAlert: RCMP say no critical injuries in crash of B.C. bus with 30 aboard

  16-06-2023 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE — Mounties say there are no critical injuries among 30 people on a charter bus that crashed on a forest service road north of Prince George, B.C.
  RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Cooper says numerous ambulances and police officers have been dispatched to the First Lake Forest Service Road.
  Northern Health spokesperson Eryn Collins said the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George has activated a “code orange,” used in cases where an influx of patients a
  
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• No fireworks, but plethora of Canada Day activities, entertainment ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-06-2023 21:24 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada passes 40 million population milestone amid immigration push

  16-06-2023 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s population has reached more than 40 million, Statistics Canada said.The milestone comes amid a wave of new immigrants as part of Ottawa’s promise to bring in 500,000 people a year by 2025.The 40-million mark came faster than expected, Statistics Canada said, as the country added 1.1 million people in 2022, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants.That’s more than twice the federal government’s plan to welcome more than 430,000 new permanent
  
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• Arrows coach looks for positives out of frustrating, injury-plagued MLR season

  16-06-2023 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows go into Saturday’s regular-season finale against the visiting NOLA Gold with one win and a boatload of injuries.
  It’s been that way most of the year for the lone Canadian entry in Major League Rugby. Arrows head coach Peter Smith hopes the 2023 campaign serves as short-term pain for long-term gain.
  “Whilst the injuries have really affected our performances and our results, it’s provided opportunities to some younger (players) who have re
  
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• Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92

  16-06-2023 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died.He was 92.Ellsberg, who announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, died Friday morning, according to a letter from his family released by a spokeswoman, Julia Pacetti.Until the early 1970s
  
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• First practice cut short at Canadian GP due to local security camera issue

  16-06-2023 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The first practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix barely started before it was cut short due to local security camera issues around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
  The FIA announced the local security cameras around the circuit were not synced correctly and that session could not resume until the issue was fixed because of safety reasons. 
  The session had already been delayed once before when Alpine driver Pierre Gasly drew a red flag after his car stalled from a drivesh
  
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• Manitoba RCMP, community leaders look to Saskatchewan after deadly crash

  16-06-2023 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies. 
  Fifteen people were killed and 10 more were sent to hospital Thursday after a firey crash between a bus full of seniors en route to a casino and a semi-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg.
  The 25 people on the bus were from Dauphin and the surrounding rural area. Mayor David Bosiak
  
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• Surrey to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions

  16-06-2023 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — The mayor of Surrey says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars.
  Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she has spoken to Premier David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth about council’s decision.
  The B.C. government recommended in April that Surrey continue its transition to the independent Surrey Police Service, offering $150 million over five years to help the city cover costs, but saying it woul
  
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• Surrey, B.C., to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions

  16-06-2023 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars. 
  Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she has spoken to Premier David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth about council’s decision.
  The B.C. government recommended in April that Surrey continue its transition to the independent Surrey Police Service, offering $150 million over five years to help the city cover costs,
  
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• Abbotsford couple embark on 4,300 km cycling trip across ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-06-2023 20:25 via news.google.com
  
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• Pickup truck goes up in flames on Hwy. 1 near Chilliwack - Hope ... - Hope Standard

  16-06-2023 20:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Pickup truck goes up in flames on Hwy. 1 near Chilliwack - Agassiz ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  16-06-2023 20:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Emergency crews respond to bus rollover north of Prince George

  16-06-2023 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE — A bus rollover occurred north of Prince George Friday morning.
  RCMP confirm it happened on Hambone Road and Firth Lake Forest Service Road, about an hour-and-a-half north of Prince George at 8:30 a.m.
  RCMP confirm a charter bus was involved in the crash. However it’s not known how many people have been injuried. Police say the location is so remote, it took two hours for first responders to arrive at the scene.
  Sources tell CKPG Today that a Code Orange has been decla
  
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• After relocating from B.C., Winnipeg WHL franchise on the move ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-06-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C.’s largest wildfire still threatens, as conditions elsewhere ease

  16-06-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Rain and cooler weather over much of British Columbia has prompted two fire centres in the southern and central Interior to roll back campfire bans.
  The Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres say the Category 1 open fire ban will lift at noon Friday, covering blazes no larger than 1.5-metres high by 1.5-metres wide. 
  Restrictions on all other types of fires, including prohibitions on equipment such as burn barrels, fireworks and sky lanterns, remain in place.
  The change comes a
  
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• Free store on Skwah First Nation near Chilliwack closes after ... - Hope Standard

  16-06-2023 19:23 via news.google.com
  
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• Abortion providers in North Carolina file federal lawsuit challenging state’s new restrictions

  16-06-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion providers in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Friday that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the dwindling days before the new restrictions take effect.
  Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Dr. Beverly Gray, an OB-GYN at Duke Health, are asking a federal judge to block numerous provisions they argue are unclear and unconstitutional, or to place an injunction on the law to prevent it from be
  
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• House of Commons passes motion to permanently allow virtual attendance, voting

  16-06-2023 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons passed a motion Thursday evening to keep hybrid workplace rules adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  This means members of Parliament can attend sittings and committee meetings virtually, and keep voting through an app.
  The final vote on government House leader Mark Holland’s motion passed 171 to 137, with support from most Liberal and NDP MPs.
  Most Conservatives and Bloc Québécois MPs voted against it.
  Holland has said MPs should be
  
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• Fraser Valley farmers receiving support to improve soil health

  16-06-2023 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — B-C is offering Abbotsford and Metro Vancouver farmers more than one-million-dollars to improve food production and environmental protection.
  The funding is being offered through the Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust for programs focusing on soil health, carbon capture, biodiversity and ecosystem enhancements.
  The total funding of 1.5-million dollars is part of a federal-provincial partnership program aimed at improving Canadian agriculture’s competitiveness and resilien
  
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• Canada must combat residential school denialism, special interlocutor’s report says

  16-06-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves says “urgent consideration” should be given to legal mechanisms as a way for Canada to combat residential school denialism. 
  Kimberly Murray makes the call in an interim report released today, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from residential schools. 
  The former executive direct
  
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• Truck driver guilty of killing 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue in deadliest attack on Jews in US history

  16-06-2023 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A truck driver who expressed hated of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.
  The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ own lawyers conceded at the trial’s outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, in the deadliest attack on Jews
  
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• Residents of Quebec town emptied two weeks ago because of fire to return home Sunday

  16-06-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Residents of a northern Quebec town that has been under an evacuation order for the past two weeks due to forest fires are expected be allowed to return home on Sunday.Lebel-sur-Quévillon Mayor Guy Lafrenière announced the news, adding that some essential workers will begin to go back today to ensure services are in place when residents return.
  Lafrenière says a more detailed plan for the return home will be announced Saturday.Forests Minister Maït&eacu
  
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• The latest on the deadly crash between seniors’ bus and semi truck in rural Manitoba

  16-06-2023 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RCMP say 15 people are dead and 10 are injured after a bus carrying seniors to a casino crashed with a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Man., on Thursday morning.
  Here are the latest developments (all times CT): 
  10:30 a.m.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the flag will fly at half-mast on the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in honour of the Manitoba crash victims.
  He says he can’t imagine what families are going through.
  Trudeau also says it brings back terrible
  
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• NBA suspends Ja Morant 25 games for latest social media incident involving a gun

  16-06-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Memphis guard Ja Morant has been suspended for the first 25 games of the upcoming season for his second known incident of displaying what appeared to be a firearm on social media, the NBA announced Friday.
  Morant will also have to adhere to certain conditions before being reinstated, the NBA said. It is the second time he has been suspended in the last three months for showing a firearm on social media, following an eight-game suspension in March.
  Morant is due to make around $33.5 million this
  
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• After George Floyd’s killing, DOJ probe finds Minneapolis police show pattern of violating rights

  16-06-2023 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has found that Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people following an investigation prompted by the killing of George Floyd.
  The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible,” the report said.
  The investigation found that Minneapoli
  
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• James MacDonald decides to drive Redwood Hanover in North America Cup

  16-06-2023 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAMPBELLVILLE, Ont. — James MacDonald has won plenty of races at Woodbine Mohawk Park but isn’t counting on having a home-track advantage Saturday night in the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup.
  The Guelph, Ont., resident will drive Redwood Hanover in the prestigious event for three-year-old pacers. And while MacDonald will certainly be familiar with the nuances of Mohawk Park, so too will many other drivers in the race who annually come up to the track for big events like the North
  
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• Heather Mack, convicted in Bali of killing mom and stuffing body in suitcase, pleads guilty in US

  16-06-2023 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) —The daughter of an American woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at an Indonesian resort island changed her plea to guilty in Chicago federal court on Friday on charges that she helped kill her mother during a luxury vacation to Bali nine years ago.
  Heather Mack was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 of being an accessory to Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s murder with her then-boyfriend in a bid to gain access to a $1.5 million trust fund. Mack served seven years be
  
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• Canada will deploy Leopard 2 tank squadron to NATO battlegroup in Latvia

  16-06-2023 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces will deploy 15 Leopard 2 battle tanks and 130 personnel to a NATO force in Latvia by next year.
  Defence Minister Anita Anand made the announcement from Brussels, where she is meeting with defence ministers from countries that support Ukraine’s efforts to fight Russia’s invasion.
  Canada already leads a 10-country NATO battlegroup in Latvia and negotiations are underway to grow that force to a battle-ready brigade.The 15 tanks and 50 support veh
  
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• Iowa high court refuses to unblock strict ban on most abortions

  16-06-2023 15:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s high court refused Friday to unblock a strict ban on most abortions, rebuffing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and, for now, keeping the conservative state from joining others that have severely limited access to the procedure.
  The decision to uphold a 2019 district court ruling that blocked the law comes roughly a year after the same body — and the U.S. Supreme Court — determined that women do not have a fundamental constitutional right to abo
  
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• Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder dies from injuries suffered in crash during Tour de Suisse

  16-06-2023 15:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder died Friday, one day after crashing and falling down a ravine during a descent at the Tour de Suisse, the Bahrain-Victorious team said.
  The 26-year-old Mäder crashed on a fast downhill road approaching the end of the mountainous fifth stage into La Punt.
  “Gino lost his battle to recover from the severe injuries he sustained,” the team said in a statement. “Despite the best efforts of the phenomenal staff at Chur hospital, G
  
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• Montreal’s Lance Stroll aiming for best result at home Grand Prix

  16-06-2023 12:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Lance Stroll feelshe’sfinally driving a car that can compete with the best on home soil.
  The 24-year-old from Montreal heads into this Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix driving for an Aston Martin team that’s third in the Formula One constructors’ standings and viewed by many as the second-best team behind Red Bull this year.
  “Yeah, it is, for sure,” Stroll said when asked if he was driving a good car in Montreal for the first time. “Definite
  
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• In The News for June 16 : Manitoba grieving after deadly highway crash kills 15

  16-06-2023 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 16 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Residents in Dauphin, Man., are anxiously waiting for word on the identities of 15 people killed in a fiery bus crash.
  Mounties say the group of mostly seniors was heading to a casino when the bus they were on crashed with a semi-trailer near the town of Carberry, west of Winnipeg.
  
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• Thousands allowed back home, but officials say wildfires still leaving many displaced

  16-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  People in parts of Alberta and British Columbia are returning home after wildfire evacuation orders were lifted Thursday.
  Thanks to recent rain and favourable winds, roughly 2,000 residents from Tumbler Ridge, B.C., were allowed to return home.
  An evacuation order was also lifted for the town of Edson, Alta., and surrounding area, allowing more than 8,000 to return.The ending of the order in Alberta comes six days after flames jumped fireguards outside the town 200 kilometres west of Edmonton an
  
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• Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of Safe Third Country Agreement

  16-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top court will deliver the final word Friday on whether the pact between Canada and the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers violates their fundamental rights.
  The Safe Third Country Agreement, which came into effect in 2004, recognizes Canada and the U.S. as safe places for potential refugees to seek protection.
  Under the agreement, refugees must seek asylum in the first of the two countries they land in, making it illegal to cross the border and see
  
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• RCMP working to confirm identities of 15 killed on bus heading to Manitoba casino

  16-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARBERRY, Man. — Residents in Dauphin, Man., are anxiously waiting for word on the identities of 15 people killed in a fiery bus crash.
  Mounties say the group of mostly seniors was heading to a casino when the bus they were on crashed with a semi-trailer near the town of Carberry, west of Winnipeg.
  Ten people were also sent to various hospitals.
  RCMP say they are working as fast as possible to identify the victims and get information to their families.
  They say those on the bus were from D
  
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• Some Chinese Canadians embrace ‘white people food’ movement, others are baffled

  16-06-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Cheese sticks and a bagel. A boiled egg with raw broccoli. A fat ball of burrata cheese sitting atop a pile of green grapes.
  Welcome to the divisive world of “white people food,” a movement that has exploded in popularity among Chinese Canadian communities, both as an internet hashtag and lifestyle philosophy.
  At its core are depictions of simple — some might say depressing — meals. Plain, often raw, and devoid of sauces and flourish, the meals are a sou
  
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• ‘Hero to me’: Kyiv’s memory wall a reminder of losses in Ukraine-Russian conflicts

  16-06-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine — Yuri Pisarenko reaches high up on the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, pulls down a faded portrait of his grandson and reverently puts an identical photo in its place. 
  Timofy Pisarenko, 19, was killed by a landmine a day after Easter. 
  The wall, created in 2014, has been updated over the past decade to honour victims of Ukraine’s wars against Russia. While the original panels were neatly structured with orderly military pictures, that changed
  
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• Free Store On Skwah First Nation Near Chilliwack Closes After ... - Abbotsford News

  16-06-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Pope Francis leaves Rome hospital 9 days after surgery

  16-06-2023 08:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring.Francis, 86, left in a wheelchair, smiling and waving and saying “thanks” to a crowd of well-wishers, then stood up so he could get into the small Vatican car awaiting him.The Associated Press
  
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• Tornado devastates Texas Panhandle town, killing 3 and injuring dozens

  16-06-2023 06:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PERRYTON, Texas (AP) — A tornado ripped through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday, killing three people, injuring dozens more and causing widespread damage as another in a series of fierce storms carved its way through Southern states.
  The National Weather Service in Amarillo confirmed that a tornado hit the area Thursday afternoon. But there was no immediate word on its size or wind speeds, meteorologist Luigi Meccariello said.Perryton Fire Chief Paul Dutcher told reporters
  
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