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• David Johnston files final report on foreign meddling, done as special rapporteur

  26-06-2023 23:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — David Johnston has filed his final — and confidential — report on foreign interference to the prime minister, ending his controversial term as special rapporteur.
  Johnston had announced his plans to resign the role earlier this month, saying the atmosphere around his work had become too partisan.The former governor general was appointed to the role in March, as the Liberal government faced increasing pressure to tackle allegations that China meddled in the last two fed
  
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• Calls for resignation of B.C. children’s minister after Chilliwack judge sentences pair over abuse

  26-06-2023 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of abuse.CHILLIWACK — First Nations leaders in British Columbia are calling for the resignation of the children’s minister and an overhaul of the foster system after a horrific case involving torture, starvation and other abuse that culminated in the beating death of an 11-year-old boy.
  In a story from the Canadian Press dated June 26, a provincial court judge in Chilliwack sentenced a man and woman to 10 years in prison earlier this
  
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• B.C. shells out $12M for four new animal shelters across province as demand rises

  26-06-2023 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier David Eby hung out with some dogs while announcing $12 million in funding toward the construction of four new SPCA facilities. 
  Several of the society’s dogs were brought in Monday while Eby announced the funding will be used to build state-of-the-art shelters in Vancouver, Duncan, Prince George and Fort St. John, where existing facilities are either outdated or closed.
  Eby also said work is ongoing to establish a pet breeder registry in the province to
  
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• B.C. moved ahead with ending letter grades despite parent, teacher, student concerns

  26-06-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Ministry of Education went ahead with plans to do away with letter grades from Kindergarten to Grade 9 despite its own public consultation showing the majority of teachers, students and parents didn’t like the idea. 
  A 97-page report completed in 2021 for the Education Ministry includes a survey of more than 4,000 people on the government’s new policy which includes assessing younger students as emerging, developing, proficient or exten
  
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• Canada considers Quebec woman with six children in Syria a security risk, lawyer says

  26-06-2023 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lawyer says Canada will not repatriate a Quebec woman being held in Syria with her six children because officials believe she poses a security risk.
  Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who has been working to bring the woman home, says he was advised of the decision recently by Global Affairs Canada.
  He says the department wrote June 21 that the woman has “extremist ideological beliefs” that may lead her to act violently, and the government cannot ensure no such conduct occur
  
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• Marriott brand hotel coming to Lickman Road interchange in Chilliwack

  26-06-2023 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A major hotel chain is coming to Chilliwack.In a statement released Monday by the Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation, Denciti Development Corp. has reached an agreement to return a major hotel chain to Chilliwack with a 150-room Marriott brand hotel at Chilliwack’s Hwy 1 interchange at Lickman Road. The hotel will be a dual-branded Fairfield Inn & Suites and TownePlace Suites by Marriott, built and operated by P.R. Hotels and Meridian Development.Located at 439
  
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• Herdman: Solutions needed quickly for financially troubled Canada Soccer

  26-06-2023 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian men’s soccer coach John Herdman says Canada Soccer needs to find solutions to its financial troubles.
  With a World Cup coming in three years, he adds it has to happen quickly.
  Herdman spoke to reporters today at BMO Field on the eve of Canada’s Gold Cup match against Guadeloupe.
  He was asked to weigh in on the organization’s financial situation after TSN published an interview with Jason deVos, in which Canada Soccer’s interim general secretary sa
  
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• N.W.T. power corporation fined $200K following death of worker in 2021

  26-06-2023 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has been fined $200,000 for contravening the territory’s Safety Act after a worker died from injuries he sustained at a Yellowknife power plant in 2021.
  Michael Chinna, who was in the fourth year of his apprenticeship as a power systems electrician, was hit by falling ice outside an entrance at the Jackfish Lake diesel plant on March 5 that year. Another employee found him outside on the ground unconscious and bleeding from hi
  
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• B.C. government dishes out $12 million for 4 new SPCA shelters ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• First Nations in B.C. call on minister to resign over horrific child abuse case

  26-06-2023 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK, B.C. — First Nations leaders in British Columbia are calling for the resignation of the children’s minister and an overhaul of the foster system after a horrific case involving torture, starvation and other abuse that culminated in the beating death of an 11-year-old boy.
  A provincial court judge in Chilliwack, B.C., earlier this month sentenced a man and woman to 10 years in prison after they pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault and manslaughter of the fostered First
  
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• B.C. child advocate investigating Lake Errock foster child abuse ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• One dead in single-vehicle accident in Chilliwack - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 21:33 via news.google.com
  
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• Recent lightning strikes carpet northeast B.C., as active wildfire ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Levy sanctions against foreign aggressors targeting Canada with disinformation: MPs

  26-06-2023 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — MPs are urging the Liberal government to levy sanctions against individuals and organizations who target Canadians with disinformation.
  In a new report calling for stronger cybersecurity, the House of Commons defence committee warns of increasingly sophisticated disinformation and foreign influence campaigns by China, Russia and other aggressors.
  Overall, the committee says more could be done to strengthen Canada’s cybersecurity and cyberwarfare efforts, and to improve resil
  
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• GW Graham selects new senior varsity football coach

  26-06-2023 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — GW Graham athletic director Jake Mouritzen announced Monday (June 26) that Ryk Piche has been named as the new senior varsity football coach for the Grizzlies.
  Piche replaces Luke Acheson, who guided the Grizzlies to multiple winning seasons and postseason appearances.
  In a Facebook post from Amber McKay, Mouritzen was quoted as saying, “I am very excited and honoured to announce our program’s fourth senior varsity coach, Ryk Piche. Coach [Piche] brings years of fo
  
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• Toronto Six sign Emma Woods to contract extension; 12th player under contract

  26-06-2023 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Isobel Cup champion Toronto Six have signed Emma Woods to a one-year contract extension.
  Woods, from Burford, Ont., had 10 goals and 13 assists in 24 games last season — the best of her Premier Hockey Federation career to date.
  The forward also scored the overtime winner against Connecticut in the second game of the semifinal series.
  Woods joined the Six in its inaugural 2020 season and has served as an alternate captain for three seasons.
  She finished third in points f
  
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• Homeless advocates protest closure of squalid Abbotsford homeless camp

  26-06-2023 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Two British Columbia organizations that advocate on behalf of vulnerable residents have sent an open letter to B.C.’s housing minister urging him to halt imminent evictions at a tent encampment in Abbotsford.The BC Civil Liberties Association and Pivot Legal Society want Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon to stop any evictions at the Lonzo Road homeless camp, located on provincially-owned land originally intended as a park-and-ride in Abbotsford, near Cactus Club on Sumas Way.
  
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• Chilliwack's G.W. Graham football program makes surprise change ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 20:45 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘We will navigate this together:’ Funerals begin for seniors killed in bus crash

  26-06-2023 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After months of recovery from an accident, Donna Showdra was excited to venture on her first small trip doing something she loved — spending a day at the casino. 
  Showdra, 79, was among the seniors on a minibus from western Manitoba travelling to the Sand Hills Casino on June 15 when it went into the path of a semi-trailer truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near the town of Carberry. 
  Sixteen of the seniors, who were from Dauphin and the surrounding area, died in the crash, while
  
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• Raptors first-round 2023 draft pick talks family, desire to work and Fred VanVleet

  26-06-2023 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Gradey Dick moved his dad to tears on Monday.
  The newest Toronto Raptors sharpshooter, chosen 13th overall in the NBA Draft last Thursday, visited his new basketball home over the weekend and was grilled by reporters after a morning workout with head coach Darko Rajaković at the team’s practice facility.
  The 19-year-old Dick was asked if he’s had much contact with Raptors guard Fred VanVleet, who played collegiately in Dick’s hometown for the Wichita State
  
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• Decampment deadline arrives at Abbotsford's Lonzo Road site ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 20:18 via news.google.com
  
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• Man dies after crashing into stop sign on Tyson Road on Chilliwack, cardiac arrest possibly involved

  26-06-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A man described by a witness as being in his 60s has died following a single-vehicle accident Monday morning at the corner of Tyson Road and Insley Avenue in Chilliwack.
  According to a Chilliwack resident named Pam who lives at the corner of Tyson and Insley, an older man driving a yellow-coloured truck collided with a stop sign on her property.
  The yellow-coloured truck bore the company name Supreme Paving on it. The company is based in Fort Langley, B.C., but serves the enti
  
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• Recent lightning strikes carpet northeast B.C., as active wildfire count climbs

  26-06-2023 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Wildfire crews in northeastern British Columbia are keeping an anxious lookout after a series of weekend lightning storms rolled through the parched region.
  The BC Wildfire Service is reporting 102 active wildfires in the province, most of them in the Prince George fire centre where the vast Donnie Creek blaze has now charred more than 5,745 square kilometres of boreal forest since it was sparked by lightning on May 12.
  The service confirms weekend storms peppered the region wi
  
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• StarWalk ceremony for Nickelback on Vancouver street ahead of ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 19:33 via news.google.com
  
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• Oscar best picture rules are changing, here's what it means ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Advocates urge B.C. leaders to halt planned evictions at Abbotsford, B.C., tent camp

  26-06-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Two British Columbia organizations that speak on behalf of vulnerable residents have sent an open letter to B.C.’s housing minister urging him to halt imminent evictions at a tent encampment in the Fraser Valley.
  The BC Civil Liberties Association and Pivot Legal Society want Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon to stop any evictions at the Lonzo Park encampment, located on provincially owned land originally intended as a park-and-ride in Abbotsford.
  The letter reminds Kah
  
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• VIDEO: Abbotsford siblings enter Dude Perfect contest after ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 18:58 via news.google.com
  
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• Biden says the US and NATO had no involvement in the insurrection in Russia by a mercenary force

  26-06-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday said United States and NATO had no involvement in the short-lived insurrection in Russia by the Wagner Group mercenary force. He said it’s “too early” to assess theimpact on the war in Ukraine.
  Biden said he held a video call with allies over the weekend and they are all in sync in working to ensure that they give Russian President Vladimir Putin “no excuse to blame this on the West” or NATO.
  “We made clear
  
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• Missing dog Rosie located Sunday in Chilliwack

  26-06-2023 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The search for Rosie, a Jindo mix pup from Korea who escaped on April 24 and was on the run for over two months, has ended with good news that she was located sometime Sunday in Chilliwack.According to multiple social media posts, Rosie was located by Al Maclellan from a pet search company sometime on Sunday (June 25).Maclellan is a widely touted expert from Petsearchers Canada who has over 30 years experience training hounds and humane live trapping.
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• Quebec wildfire smoke causes widespread smog warnings, grounds some water bombers

  26-06-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Smoke from the wildfires burning across northern Quebec has forced the grounding some of the province’s water bombers and is causing widespread smog warnings farther south. 
  A spokesman for the province’s forest fire prevention agency says there are 29 fires burning out of control. 
  Nicolas Vigneault says the heavy smoke has reduced visibility, meaning that some water bombers and helicopters haven’t been able to take off. 
  However, he says heavy
  
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• Real Valladolid picks up option to sign Canadian striker Larin till 2025

  26-06-2023 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VALLADOLID, Spain — Spanish soccer club Real Valladolid say they have signed Canadian forward Cyle Larin until June 30, 2025.
  Larin, 28, was playing on loan for Valladolid from Belgian team Club Brugge.
  The Canadian joined Valladolid in January, making 19 appearances scoring eight times.
  The club was relegated at the end of the season to the Spanish second division.
  Larin has previously played for Orlando City, Turkish team Besiktas and Belgian clubs Zulte Waregem and Club Brugge.
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• Young boy who survived near-drowning at Cultus Lake is heading to US for treatment

  26-06-2023 17:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The 3-year-old Cultus Lake boy who nearly drowned at Cultus Lake on June 1 is heading to the US to seek additional medical treatment.
  In an online update posted this past week, Azaryah Hope’s great aunt Jenni McGrew says he will be leaving for the United States with his mom and dad, Natalie and Cam Hope.
  “Azaryah will be going on an adventure to the USA with his mom and dad shortly! He will be receiving intense oxygen treatment for his body (more specifically brain
  
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• The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez rolls to first-round victory at Bad Homburg Open

  26-06-2023 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BAD HOMBURG, Germany — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez rolled to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Germany’s Lena Papadakis in first-round play Monday at the Bad Homburg Open.
  Fernandez, from Laval, Que., needed only 54 minutes to complete the victory at the WTA Tour 250-level event. 
  She will play Anna Blinkova in the second round. The ninth-seeded Russian posted a 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory over Germany’s Sabine Lisicki. 
  Fifth-seeded Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., was sch
  
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• Calgary-based Suncor Energy says it suffered a cybersecurity incident

  26-06-2023 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canadian oil company Suncor Energy Inc. has confirmed it has been the victim of a cyberattack.
  The Calgary-based energy giant said in a news release late Sunday that it has “experienced a cyber-security incident.”The company said it is working with third-party experts to investigate and resolve the situation, and has notified appropriate authorities.
  Suncor provided no further details about the type of attack, or which parts of its operations were affected.
  However, o
  
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• Diallo wins, Pospisil loses on opening day of qualifying at Wimbledon

  26-06-2023 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Canada’s Gabriel Diallo defeated Turkey’s Cem Ilkel 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in first-round qualifying play Monday at Wimbledon.
  Diallo, the world No. 140 from Montreal, will face Matteo Gigante in the next round. The 254th-ranked Italian defeated Britain’s Harry Wendelken 6-3, 7-6 (6) to advance.
  The six-foot-eight Diallo is seeded 29th in the qualification draw. Three victories are needed to secure a berth in the main draw at the Grand Slam event.
  Vasek Pospisil, a native
  
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• Suspect pleads guilty in attack that killed 5 at Colorado Springs sanctuary for LGBTQ+ community

  26-06-2023 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub last year has pleaded guilty in the attack. Monday’s plea by Anderson Lee Aldrich comes just seven months after the shooting and spares victim’s families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial.The plea entered during a court hearing follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from Aldrich to The Associated Press expressing remorse and the intent
  
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• Secrets and Live and the 7 Sins with Martin Mayer - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• NHL draft journey nearly complete for B.C.'s Connor Bedard ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Cost, stadium size among possible reasons Taylor Swift skipped ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Celebration and protest erupts during Canada's largest Pride ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Post-Connor Consolation: Plenty of talent available after Bedard at NHL draft

  26-06-2023 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Connor Bedard and the 2023 NHL draft were mentioned in the same breath long before the phenom played a single shift in junior hockey.
  The 17-year-old’s path to the stage at Bridgestone Arena has been dotted by big goals, clutch performances and memorable moments in a young career poised to enter its next phase.
  The draft in Nashville — Wednesday’s made-for-TV first round followed by six more Thursday — is all but assured of being his coronation story as the first overall
  
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• Toronto FC fires head coach Bob Bradley, names Terry Dunfield assistant coach

  26-06-2023 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Struggling Toronto FC has fired Bob Bradley, who doubled as the MLS team’s head coach and sporting director.
  Mike Sorber, assistant coach and technical director, was also relieved of his duties.
  Toronto is mired in 14th place in the Eastern Conference at 3-7-10.
  Terry Dunfield, a former TFC player and Canadian international, has been named interim head coach. He had been serving as head coach of the under-17 team at the Toronto academy.
  Bradley whose son is TFC captain Mich
  
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• Israel OK’s plans for thousands of new settlement homes. Move defies White House calls for restraint

  26-06-2023 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s far-right government on Monday approved plans to build thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank — a move that threatened to worsen increasingly strained relations with the United States.
  The decision defied growing U.S. criticism of Israel’s settlement policies. It also raised tensions with the Palestinians at a time of rising violence in the occupied territory.
  Multiple Israeli media outlets said the Defense Ministry plannin
  
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• International group of agencies investigates loss of submersible carrying 5 people to the Titanic

  26-06-2023 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An international group of agencies is investigating the loss of the Titan submersible, seeking to determine what caused it to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic.
  Investigators from the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the French marine casualties investigation board and the United Kingdom Marine Accident Investigation Branch are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident that drew worldwi
  
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• Supreme Court unfreezes Louisiana redistricting case that could boost power of Black voters

  26-06-2023 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power.
  The order follows the court’s rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama and unfreezes the Louisiana case, which had been on hold pending the decision in Alabama.
  In both states, Black voters are a majority in just one congressional district. Lower courts had ruled that the maps raise
  
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• Groups decry ‘punitive,’ ‘coercive’ drug policies in worsening overdose crisis

  26-06-2023 15:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A coalition of eight advocacy groups is decrying Canada’s “devastating” drug policy that advocates say is doing more harm than good in the country’s fight against the illicit drug overdose crisis.
  The groups sent a co-written letter to three federal ministers on Monday, criticizing the country’s drug policy as “punitive” and “coercive” and urging Ottawa to “issue a public statement denouncing all forms” of involu
  
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• Ensure Line 5 keeps running until reroute completed in 2026, Enbridge asks U.S. judge

  26-06-2023 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Enbridge Inc. wants a U.S. judge to confirm that the controversial Line 5 pipeline won’t be shut down before it can be rerouted around Indigenous territory. 
  The Calgary company is asking Wisconsin district court Judge William Conley to clarify his order that the pipeline be moved within the next three years.
  The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has been fighting Enbridge in court since 2019, saying the company no longer has permission to operate on its
  
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• Left-fielder Daulton Varsho fitting in seamlessly with Blue Jays teammates

  26-06-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — All it takes is 30 seconds in Toronto’s clubhouse to see that Daulton Varsho has fit right in with the Blue Jays.
  Sitting in front of his corner locker at Rogers Centre, he can be found quietly chuckling along as fellow outfielders George Springer and Whit Merrifield gently rib the 26-year-old Varsho.
  “It’s been awesome here,” said Varsho before getting cut off.
  “Liar!” said Springer.
  “Yeah, be honest, Daulton,” said Merrifield.
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• Trudeau in Iceland and Toronto votes: A look at what’s In The News for today

  26-06-2023 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today.
  Day two in Iceland for the P.M. 
  Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance will be discussed today at a meeting of Nordic leaders in Iceland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in attendance.
  Trudeau is scheduled to meet privately with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on the sidelines of the annual Nordic leaders’ summit, which Canada’s leader
  
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