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• NHL star Carey Price coming home to B.C. full-time - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 23:55 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. minister says abused foster children were 'failed at every level ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 23:45 via news.google.com
  
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• The Titan submersible: What it is, what might have gone wrong and what’s being done to find it

  20-06-2023 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A growing number of aircraft and ships from the U.S. and Canada searched Tuesday for a submersible vessel carrying five people that disappeared on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic.The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the search for the small craft, named Titan, in a remote area of the North Atlantic Ocean. OceanGate Expeditions, an undersea exploration company, has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.What we know so far
  
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• A Titanic expert, an adventurer, a CEO, and a father and son are on missing submersible

  20-06-2023 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A renowned Titanic expert, a world-record holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families and the CEO of the company leading an expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck are facing critical danger aboard a small submersible that went missing in the Atlantic Ocean.
  The submersible Titan was reported overdue Sunday night about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, according to Canada’s Joint Rescue C
  
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• Loophole allows former officials to lobby for corporations: lobbying commissioner

  20-06-2023 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Lobbying commissioner Nancy Bélanger says the law needs to be changed to ban former public office holders from lobbying on behalf of corporations.
  The commissioner appeared before MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee today to testify about the appointment of former Liberal industry minister Navdeep Bains to a position at Rogers. 
  The law says an elected official is not permitted to engage in lobbying activities for five years after leaving public office, but B&
  
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• Idaho man charged with 4 counts of murder in shooting deaths of his neighbors, including one minor

  20-06-2023 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary after prosecutors said he broke into his neighbors’ home and shot and killed the people there, including a minor.
  Majorjon Kaylor, 31, of Kellogg, was arrested Sunday night shortly after the shooting in the small mining community.
  A magistrate judge identified the victims as Kenneth Guardipee, Kenna Gaurdipee, Devin Smith and an unnamed juvenile during Kaylor’s first
  
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• Raptors eyeing option of moving up in important upcoming NBA draft

  20-06-2023 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have some considerations in mind for Thursday night’s draft.
  Toronto has just one pick, sitting on the back end of the lottery at 13th overall in the first round. But with a number of unknowns surrounding the roster as free agency approaches, assistant general manager and VP of player personnel Dan Tolzman said the team is looking at different options, including moving up.
  “Quite a bit,” Tolzman said when asked how much consideration there is
  
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• Chilliwack's Bill Henderson going into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame - Vancouver Sun

  20-06-2023 22:23 via news.google.com
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• Accused in 2017 Vernon, B.C. murder deemed unfit for trial, again ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Greek court questions smuggling suspects over migrant ship disaster, as new survivor accounts emerge

  20-06-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nine men suspected of crewing a migrant smuggling ship that sank off Greece leaving more than 500 missing appeared in court Tuesday for questioning, as new accounts emerged on the sinking and the appalling conditions on the trip from Libya towards Italy.
  The Egyptian suspects face charges that include participation in a criminal organization, manslaughter and causing a shipwreck. The hearing took place in Greece’s southern city of Kalamata.
  Only 104 men and yout
  
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• Reports: Raptors guard Trent opts in to final year of contract

  20-06-2023 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Shooting guard Gary Trent Jr. will opt into the final year of his contract with the Toronto Raptors, according to multiple media reports.
  Trent’s player option for the 2023-24 season is worth US$18.8-million. Reports say the guard and the Raptors are working on an extension.
  The 24-year-old Trent averaged 17.4 points a game and shot 36.9 per cent from three-point range in 2022-23.
  Those numbers were down from his strong 2021-22 campaign, when he averaged 18.3 points a game
  
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• Nelson man guilty of manslaughter in death of Abbotsford officer ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 21:02 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. launches $20M flood mitigation fund for the Fraser Valley

  20-06-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The British Columbia government says a new $20-million flood mitigation program for the Fraser Valley will help support farmers and food resiliency in prime agricultural areas that were inundated by floodwaters in November 2021.
  A statement from the Agriculture Ministry says the funding will be used for community-scale projects that protect and restore local ecosystems and wetlands, such as culvert improvements, embankment stabilization and crop diversification.
  It says
  
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• Inuit group hopes review into handling of priest allegations brings change

  20-06-2023 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — A national group representing Inuit says it hopes a review into how the Oblates handled allegations of a former priest sexually abusing children in Nunavut will bring change within the Catholic Church.
  A retired Quebec judge has been tasked with leading the review into how the Oblates handled the abuse allegations against Johannes Rivoire.
  “We look forward to engaging with Justice André Denis and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate to achieve a greater understand
  
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• Montreal archdiocese ombudswoman sees improvement in handling of abuse complaints

  20-06-2023 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The ombudswoman of Montreal’s Roman Catholic archdiocese says she’s seen an improvement in the handling of abuse complaints since raising concerns about it last year.
  Marie Christine Kirouack today issued her latest report on complaints received by the archdiocese of Montreal since her post was created two years ago.
  In December, Kirouack said that delays in certain files had become “interminable” and had caused some complainants to lose faith in the proc
  
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• Growing residential school denial 'the last step in genocide': report ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• CSIS warned B.C. Sikh temple leader of assassination threat before killing: lawyer

  20-06-2023 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A close associate of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says his friend was warned by Canadian intelligence officials about being targeted for assassination by “mercenaries” before Nijjar was gunned down in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday. 
  New York-based lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun says in a statement he spoke with Nijjar by phone the day before he was killed outside the Guru Nanak Sikh gurdwara where he served as president. 
  Pannun says Nijjar spoke about an unofficial
  
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• Unregulated drug deaths continue to rise in eastern Fraser Valley ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 20:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Town Butcher in Chilliwack to mark 15th anniversary Saturday with block party BBQ

  20-06-2023 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Town Butcher, a go-to butcher in Chilliwack for locally raised and sourced meats that are grass-fed and all cut on location, will celebrate its 15th anniversary this Saturday, June 24 with a block party fundraiser BBQ.
  Bill Turnbull and his friendly staff invite you to stop by their store at the corner of Vedder Road and Keith Wilson Road, close to Starbucks, to check out the full list of festivities happening between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. this Saturday.The festivities include a
  
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• FC Cincinnati looks to add to winning record as Toronto FC comes to visit

  20-06-2023 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC and third-string goalkeeper Greg Ranjitsingh stand between FC Cincinnati and history on Wednesday at TQL Stadium.
  League-leading Cincinnati (12-1-4) has won its first 12 home games in all competitions this season, matching San Jose’s record run set in 2002. Nine of those home victories have come in league play and San Jose also holds the league mark for home consecutive wins to start the season at 10.
  Cincinnati, a fifth-year franchise that finished bottom of the Eastern Confere
  
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• Canada’s oil output would plummet by 2050 in a net-zero world, new modelling shows

  20-06-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — New modelling from the Canada Energy Regulator suggests Canadian oil production will plummet by 2050 if the world achieves its Paris target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within that time.
  The regulator says if emissions regulations successfully limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, fossil fuel use will drop by 65 per cent from 2021 to 2050.
  That would prompt a collapse in global oil prices, to as low as US$35 per barrel by 2030 and US$24 per barrel by 2050.
  The regu
  
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• IMF applauds Canada’s climate action, warns of ‘race to the bottom’ with subsidies

  20-06-2023 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The International Monetary Fund warns that Canada’s green subsidies could stoke an international race to the bottom, even as it credits the country for a “multipronged” approach to addressing climate change. 
  The international agency published today the preliminary findings of its staff from an official visit to Canada.
  The IMF applauded Canada’s climate action, including its carbon-pricing regime and 2023 federal budget investments in the green econom
  
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• Yukon’s COVID vaccine rollout falls short in First Nations care, engagement: auditor

  20-06-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A new report from Canada’s auditor general on Yukon’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout finds clinics at First Nations communities did little to alleviate residents’ fears and suspicions of the shots.
  The report presented to the Yukon legislature says some First Nation residents had “concern that they were the test cases to determine the efficacy of the vaccination,” and many workers involved in the immunization lacked the training to ease those anxieties.
  The report says re
  
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• Rested CF Montreal ‘excited’ by return to Stade Saputo against Nashville SC

  20-06-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal returned from the last Major League Soccer international break at the end of March with three consecutive losses, conceding 10 goals and scoring none.This time around, the club is looking to return on the front foot with another impressive result at Stade Saputo.
  The Quebec club faces Nashville SC on Wednesday evening in what will be the stiffest test at home to date for Montreal (7-9-1).
  Three of Montreal’s next four games are at home, where the club is 6-1-0
  
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• Paris Olympics could join a longer list of Games marred by scandal

  20-06-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The news that French law enforcement officials are looking into possible corruption in awarding contracts for the Paris Olympics threatens to place those Games on the ever-growing list of Olympics that have been tarnished by scandals. A look at notable bidding scandals of the 21st century:
  SALT LAKE CITY, 2002 — Possibly the most wide-ranging bidding scandal of all time resulted in the removal of 10 members of the International Olympic Committee and a complete overhaul of the bidding proce
  
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• Canadian BMXer Mike Varga eager to compete in front of fans as X Games return

  20-06-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Arguably the greatest moment in X Games history was when skateboarder Tony Hawk landed a 900 on a halfpipe at the 1999 edition of the summer action sports spectacular. 
  It took him 11 attempts to finally land the trick, with his fellow competitors and thousands of fans cheering him on after each hard-hitting failure.
  Mike Varga wants to have his own “Tony Hawk moment.”
  The Canadian BMX rider has had plenty of success in competition, winning the Dave Mirra DMX Best Trick event at
  
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• Quebec coroner calls for police access to less lethal weapons in report on killing

  20-06-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A coroner’s report into the death of a Black man shot and killed by police in a town northeast of Montreal recommends the municipal force acquire and train officers in the use of intermediary weapons.
  Jean René Junior Olivier was killed on Aug. 1, 2021 in Repentigny, Que., as he was experiencing a mental health crisis.
  In February, Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office decided there were no grounds to lay criminal charges against any of the officers in conn
  
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• 1 of 3 Harrison-Sts'ailes area wildfires declared out - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 19:28 via news.google.com
  
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• 3 men convicted in US trial that scrutinized China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ repatriation campaign

  20-06-2023 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Three men were convicted of various charges Tuesday in a trial showcasing U.S. claims that China has engineered pressure campaigns on American soil to bully expatriates into returning home, part of an effort called “Operation Fox Hunt.”
  American private investigator Michael McMahon and two Chinese citizens living in the U.S. — Zheng Congying and Zhu Yong — all were accused of taking part in scare tactics aimed at a former Chinese official. He was liv
  
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• Vernon man killed in crash near Kamloops - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Jury rules Quebec man ran 20-year mail fraud scheme that stole US$175 million

  20-06-2023 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A United States federal jury has convicted a Quebec man of running a 20-year mail fraud scheme that stole more than US$175 million.
  Patrice Runner, 57, was convicted in a New York District Court last week on 14 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. 
  U.S. prosecutors say Runner and his co-conspirators mailed fraudulent letters supposedly from psychics to millions of Americans.
  The letters prom
  
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• Telus and Aussie EV charger Jolt to build up to 5,000 charging stations across Canada

  20-06-2023 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Telus has signed a partnership with an Australian electric vehicle charging company, announcing plans to install up to 5,000 EV charging stations across Canada.
  The companies expect to begin installing the network of stations which will include Telus’s public Wi-Fi capability later this year.
  They say in a press release that electric vehicle drivers will be able to use their Jolt app to access seven kilowatt-hours of free charging per day.
  The companies say the free charg
  
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• Garage fire did not spread to Chilliwack house thanks to 'swift action ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 18:24 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec wildfires: Province says fireworks banned ahead of Fête nationale holiday

  20-06-2023 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s natural resources minister is warning people ahead of the Fête nationale holiday that fireworks are prohibited in much of the province because of the threat of wildfires.
  Maïté Blanchette Vézina told reporters that a ban on outdoor fires — in effect north of the St. Lawrence River except for Montreal Island and neighbouring Laval, Que. — includes fireworks.
  The province’s national holiday, also known as St-Jean-Baptiste D
  
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• UPDATE: Special Weather Statement for Okanagan highways ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada’s Milos Raonic withdraws from Wimbledon warm-up tournament

  20-06-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Canada’s Milos Raonic withdrew from the Cinch Championships on Tuesday shortly before his scheduled first-round match at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament. 
  Raonic, who recently returned to the ATP Tour after an absence of nearly two years, was scheduled to play Australia’s Jordan Thompson. 
  Reports indicate Raonic is nursing a right shoulder injury. Lucky loser Alexei Popyrin of Australia replaced him in the draw.
  The severity of the shoulder issue and Raonic
  
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• Nearly half of BC drivers are failing the ICBC road test, as demand skyrockets

  20-06-2023 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER — The provincial auto insurer says demand for road tests in British Columbia has never been higher, as a record 35,500 road tests were conducted in B.C. in May, up 24 per cent compared to the monthly average.At the same time, ICBC says nearly half of those applicants are failing their first attempt at a road test.In a news release Monday (June 19), the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia said the Crown company has conducted 33 per cent more road tests (343,132) the pa
  
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• FortisBC to lower gas bills starting July 1

  20-06-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — FortisBC, based in Surrey, says it has received approval from the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) to decrease the cost of gas rate for all of its customers by $1 from $4.159 per gigajoule (GJ) to $3.159 per GJ as of July 1.“We understand that energy affordability is a priority for B.C. families and businesses,” said Joe Mazza, vice-president, energy supply and resource development at FortisBC. “This decrease in the cost of gas rate will provide custo
  
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• Monument to residential school survivors, victims to be built on Parliament Hill

  20-06-2023 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A survivor-led steering committee announced today that a tribute to survivors and victims of residential schools will be built on the west side of Parliament Hill.Ottawa appointed the committee in April 2022 to select a site for a national residential schools monument in keeping with one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action.
  Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said at a ceremony this morning that the monument is a “significant” step towards reconciliatio
  
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• Brayden Yager ready for NHL draft moment: ‘A drive to be great’

  20-06-2023 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Brayden Yager was one of the newest members of the Moose Jaw Warriors. 
  Selected third overall at the Western Hockey League draft in April 2020 — two spots behind phenom Connor Bedard and barely a month into the COVID-19 pandemic — the teenager was eager to jump right in. 
  When society started to open back up later that year, Yager asked head coach Mark O’Leary if he could make the two-hour drive south with his parents, Cam and Maureen, to get the lay of the land and
  
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• Brian Mulroney praises Trudeau’s leadership, omits any mention of Tory leader

  20-06-2023 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is basking in the praise of Brian Mulroney today after the former prime minister said “trash” talk against the Liberal leader will be forgotten in light of historic achievements.
  The former Progressive Conservative prime minister made the comments on Monday night to delegates attending the Atlantic Economic Forum, at St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, N.S. 
  Mulroney said during his speech that history will not be
  
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• Henrik Lundqvist tops list of candidates for Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2023

  20-06-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2023 will be unveiled Wednesday afternoon. 
  Last year’s crop featured both a Swedish and West Coast feel with Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Daniel Alfredsson and Roberto Luongo taking centre stage. 
  The Canadian Press examines some of the contenders hoping to get their hall call ahead of November’s induction ceremony.
  HENRIK LUNDQVIST 
  The former New York Rangers goaltender is the safe bet in his first year of eligibi
  
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• B.C. evacuation order rescinded but district says wildfire remains ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Nomination process begins to replace ex-Supreme Court justice Russell Brown

  20-06-2023 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has begun the search for a new Supreme Court of Canada justice.
  Qualified candidates interested in the job, who must be functionally bilingual and demonstrate a relationship with Western or Northern Canada, will have until July 21 to apply. 
  A non-partisan advisory board is then expected to pick a shortlist of candidates to present to Trudeau.
  The vacancy was created when former justice Russell Brown resigned from the top court earlier this month
  
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• Call public inquiry first, then Tories will suggest who can lead it: Poilievre

  20-06-2023 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must make the first move and call an independent public inquiry into allegations of foreign interference.
  He says only then will the Conservatives provide the Liberal government with a list of proposed names for people to lead the process.
  The official Opposition leader made his demand in a letter to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
  Poilievre also pledged to propose a mandate and terms of re
  
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• Palestinian attacker opens fire at West Bank gas station, kills at least 4 people

  20-06-2023 16:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker opened fire at a gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, Israeli medics said, as violence continued to roil the occupied territory.
  Israeli security forces said they shot the gunman and were still searching for other attackers near the Jewish settlement of Eli north of the Palestinian city of Ramallah. The condition of the attacker was not immediately clear. Photos
  
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• Chilliwack Fire Dept. responds to garage fire in Sardis Tuesday morning

  20-06-2023 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Multiple engines and firefighters from the Chilliwack Fire Department are on scene in the 7000 block of Rochester Avenue Tuesday morning (June 20) for the report of a garage fire.
  A witness, Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, shared images of smoke billowing from the garage area of a single-family residence west of Vedder Road and Spruce Avenue. Firefighters could be seen attacking the fire.
  At least three fire engines were dispatched just before 7 a.m.
  Occupants of the home a
  
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• Search for missing submersible near Titanic wreck site a race against time

  20-06-2023 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — An air and sea search continues today in a remote area of ocean south of Newfoundland for a submersible carrying five people that went missing during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic.
  The search, in an area about 700 kilometres south of St. John’s, N.L., is a race against time because the 6.4-metre vessel had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it submerged on Sunday, according to an adviser for owner OceanGate Expeditions.
  The surface launch ship Polar Prince reportedly lost
  
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• RCMP confirms missing man from Hope has been found deceased

  20-06-2023 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Nearly six months after he was reported missing in December 2022, Mounties from the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack have confirmed that a 58-year-old Indigenous man has been located deceased.
  In a statement released Monday afternoon (June 19), RCMP Corporal Martin Godard, media relations spokesperson for the detachment, said James Thibert has passed away.The cause of his death is not considered suspicious, Cpl. Godard said.“We offer our sincere cond
  
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• Montreal Canadiens sign centre Sean Monahan to one-year contract, US$1.985M extension

  20-06-2023 15:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens signed veteran centre Sean Monahan to a one-year, US$1.985-million contract extension, the club announced Tuesday.
  Monahan had six goals and 17 points in 25 games with the Canadiens in 2022-23 before suffering a lower-body injury in early December that ended his season.
  The 28-year-old from Brampton, Ont., has 218 goals and 479 points in 681 games with the Canadiens and Calgary Flames.
  The sixth overall pick at the 2013 draft, Monahan was set to become an
  
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