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• ‘The next Cale Makar’: Hutson impresses Reinbacher at Canadiens development camp

  04-07-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROSSARD, Que. — Canadiens fifth-overall draft pick David Reinbacher had some high praise for talented defence partner Lane Hutson at Montreal’s development camp on Tuesday.
  “You get the puck, skate it out a little bit, then you give it to him and just start watching,” said Reinbacher. “He’s probably the next Cale Makar.”
  Hutson, 19, has a long way to go before reaching that level. 
  Makar has a Norris Trophy as the NHL’s defenceman, a Conn Smy
  
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• Movie ticket price-dripping case should be dismissed: Cineplex ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Marie-Philip Poulin ready for new women’s pro hockey league

  04-07-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A woman destined to be a star player in the new North American women’s professional hockey league can’t wait to get started.
  Canadian women’s hockey team captain Marie Philip-Poulin was among the Professional Womens’ Hockey Players’ Association (PWHPA) membership who steadfastly pursued their vision of a women’s pro league.
  The PWHPA voted Sunday to ratify a comprehensive collective bargaining agreement with the new league’s owners long before January&rs
  
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• Pipe bomb found in Kamloops neighbourhood - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 23:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Manitoba man killed in tent by tree felled during storm: RCMP

  04-07-2023 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANIGOTAGAN, Man. — Manitoba RCMP are investigating the death of a man apparently killed in a tent by a falling tree.
  Police responded to a call early Monday about a sudden death at a campground at Manigotagan near Lake Winnipeg.
  Officers were told that during a thunderstorm that produced high winds, a large tree fell onto a tent where a man and woman had been sleeping.
  Several nearby campers heard the woman call for help and came to her aid.
  The fallen tree had to be cut in order for the
  
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• Exporters want law to limit future disruptions on fourth day of B.C. port strike

  04-07-2023 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Groups representing Canadian businesses want the federal government to intervene in the ongoing labour strike at British Columbia ports, with one organization calling for legal changes that would discourage future disruptions.
  Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters says designating ports and rail lines as essential infrastructure and limiting when and where labour and other disruptions can occur would provide manufacturers the stability they need.
  The Greater Vancouver Board of
  
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• British Columbia port strike enters day four as talks stall

  04-07-2023 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The strike at British Columbia ports enters its fourth day after talks between the two sides stalled on Monday.
  More than 7,000 workers who load and unload cargo at more than 30 B.C. ports have been on strike since Saturday morning.
  Representatives for the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada negotiated over the long weekend before the association issued a statement Monday saying it didn’t think more bargaining is go
  
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• Expansion, upgrade project valued at $366.5M starts at Williams Lake hospital

  04-07-2023 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — British Columbia’s health minister says the long-awaited redevelopment and expansion of the 1960s-era hospital serving the Cariboo region is underway.
  Adrian Dix says the $366.5-million construction project now starting at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake will increase the hospital’s capacity and provide a modern working environment.
  The minister, who was in Williams Lake for a news conference about the project, says it includes two phases, with
  
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• Elections BC bans Mark Marissen and municipal party over ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine, AP sources say

  04-07-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
  Secret Service agents were doing routine rounds on Sunday when they found the white powder in an area accessible to tour groups, not in any particular West Wing office, the officials said.
  
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• Police watchdog recommends charges after police dog attack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 22:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Elections BC bans Mark Marissen and municipal party over financing breach

  04-07-2023 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Elections BC has banned longtime political organizer Mark Marissen from running in local elections for three years after it deregistered his Progress Vancouver party for breaking campaign finance rules.
  A news release from the elections body says the party and six of its eight candidates in last year’s municipal vote failed to meet the filing deadline for finance reports in January this year. 
  Elections BC says they filed a month later to meet a late filing deadline,
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of July 2, 2023

  04-07-2023 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: Daniel Creagh
  Age: 31
  Height: 5’9” ft Weight: 225lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Green
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: June 23, 2023Name: Jason DesjardinsAge: 34
  Height: 6’2” ft Weight: 291lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Assault
  Warrant in effect: June 27, 2023
  Parole Jurisdiction: ChilliwackName: Anavah La’adri’el Alias: HA
  
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• Chilliwack group uses performance art to combat drug use stigma ... - Hope Standard

  04-07-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack group uses performance art to combat drug use stigma ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta weekend tornado that damaged, destroyed homes rated rare, violent twister

  04-07-2023 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A preliminary report on a weekend tornado in central Alberta says its winds were so violent they picked up a 10-tonne farm combine and tossed it half the length of a football field.
  “(The combine) then rolled for another 50 to 100 metres after that,” said the report, issued Tuesday by the Northern Tornadoes Project.
  The report follows up on ground and drone surveys on the tornado that ripped through the rural area between the towns of Carstairs and Didsbury on Saturd
  
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• Chilliwack mom collects signatures in effort to change Amber Alert ... - Hope Standard

  04-07-2023 21:04 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack mom collects signatures in effort to change Amber Alert ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Chilliwack mom collects signatures in effort to change Amber Alert ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 21:04 via news.google.com
  
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• VIDEO: A foul-filled loss by Vancouver Bandits in Edmonton ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 20:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelling to Latvia and NATO summit in Lithuania

  04-07-2023 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Europe next week for the annual NATO leaders’ summit.
  The two-day summit in Lithuania starts July 11 and comes as the alliance has agreed to extend the term of Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg by another year.
  NATO also recently expanded its membership to include Finland and Canada and other nations are pushing to allow Sweden to join as well.
  Before the summit Trudeau will stop in Latvia where he will meet with the Latvian pres
  
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• Canada’s Hadwin credits more positive outlook for Rocket Mortgage Classic success

  04-07-2023 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Despite a solid FedEx Cup ranking hovering around 50th, Adam Hadwin was losing his cool on the course.
  For nearly six weeks the product of Abbotsford, B.C., was getting frustrated when he played, even as he got solid results like a tie for 12th at the RBC Canadian Open on June 11. He finished 59th at the U.S. Open the next week and in the ensuing break he decided to get out of his own way and just have fun.
  The result? A tie for second at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit on Sunday, losing
  
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• Hockey Canada names former Curling Canada exec Katherine Henderson as president, CEO

  04-07-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Hockey Canada is appointing Katherine Henderson as its next president and chief executive officer.
  She spent the last seven years as Curling Canada’s CEO.
  Hockey Canada is coming off a scandal-filled year related to the national sport organization’s handling of sexual assault allegations and settlement payouts.
  Federal and corporate funding was slashed as scandals mounted. Public faith in the organization took a significant hit. 
  The board of directors resigned l
  
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• Walk in Chilliwack brings in $13,000 for Alzheimer Society of B.C. ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 19:39 via news.google.com
  
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• PHOTOS: Suspicious fire destroys multiple Vernon businesses ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Teenager dies following mountain biking crash at Big White ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 19:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Joly concerned for safety of India’s diplomats, calls protest poster ‘unacceptable’

  04-07-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she is concerned about the safety of India’s diplomats following what she calls an “unacceptable” poster for an upcoming protest near Toronto.
  The protest is planned in memory of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was killed in a shooting in British Columbia in June.
  A poster for the protest circulating on social media includes photos of India’s top two diplomats in Canada, calls them “killers in Tor
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs assistant GM, associate coach accepts coaching job in Alberta

  04-07-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Chiefs announced Monday (July 3) that assistant GM and associate coach Brad Rihela has been named the head coach of the Lloydminster Bobcats in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL).
  “I want to thank the entire Chilliwack Chiefs organization for everything they have done for my family and me over the years. It has been an amazing experience from start to finish. I will always be grateful for my time in Chilliwack and the people I was so fortunate to work
  
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• Indian band challenges Princeton's Copper Mountain Mine owners ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 18:38 via news.google.com
  
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• Toronto Raptors name staff for new head coach Darko Rajakovic

  04-07-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors named eight assistants to new head coach Darko Rajakovic’s staff on Tuesday. 
  Pat Delany, Jama Mahlalela, James Wade and assistant coach Jim Sann will be on Toronto’s front bench.
  Mike Batiste, Vin Bhavnani, Drew Jones and Ivo Simovic will be on the back bench.
  Sann is returning for his eighth season with the Raptors.
  Rajakovic was named Toronto’s head coach on June 13, the 10th in the team’s history.
  He says his coaching staff ref
  
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• Redblacks acquire rights to Canadian linebacker Francis from Elks

  04-07-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks have acquired the rights to Canadian linebacker Kevin Francis from the Edmonton Elks for a fourth-round pick in the 2024 CFL draft.
  The 30-year-old Francis was on the Elks’ suspended list.
  The Elks signed Francis on Feb. 14, but after the deal was made the special-teams ace publicly stated he wasn’t happy with the contract terms and didn’t report to camp. 
  Francis, from Toronto, had a CFL-leading 22 special-teams tackles with the B.C. Li
  
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• Jones and Homan earn early berths at 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

  04-07-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two more rinks are joining the 18-team field at the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  Curling Canada says that Team Jennifer Jones and Team Rachel Homan will play at the national women’s curling championship in Calgary in February.
  The organization says those rinks earned spots as pre-qualified teams based on their rankings from last season.
  Team Kerri Einarson locked up its spot as defending champion by winning the 2023 Scotties crown in Kamloops, B.C.
  Curling Canada anno
  
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• Feds uncover stash of printed 3D guns, ammo in raid of Langley home

  04-07-2023 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Criminal investigators from Canada Border Services Agency Pacific Region, along with the RCMP Integrated Emergency Response Team, uncovered a stash of firearms, equipment, and ammunition during a raid of a Langley home about two weeks ago.
  According to a statement released Friday (June 30) from the federal government, CBSA Pacific Region criminal investigators opened an investigation in 2022 into an importer after being advised of multiple shipments containing parts required in t
  
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• Senators sign defenceman Travis Hamonic to two-year, $2.2M contract

  04-07-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed defenceman Travis Hamonic on a two-year, US$2.2-million contract. 
  Hamonic had six goals and 15 assists in 75 games with the Senators last season.
  The 32-year-old from St. Malo, Man., set a new career high in games played and was second among Senators defencemen in scoring.
  Hamonic has 229 points (50 goals, 179 assists) and 715 penalty minutes over 793 career NHL games with the New York Islanders, Islanders, Calgary, Vancouver and Ottawa.
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• Waiting game continues for several Canadian players at rainy Wimbledon

  04-07-2023 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Several Canadian tennis players will have to wait at least another day before playing their first-round matches at Wimbledon.
  Wet weather has hampered early play at the Grand Slam competition with rain forcing the suspension of several matches Tuesday.
  Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., Rebecca Marino of Vancouver and Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., had their respective first-round matches pushed back to Wednesday.Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Carol Zhao of Ric
  
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• New riots make France confront an old problem - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Akwesasne police say body found near island in St-Lawrence River

  04-07-2023 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Police in Akwesasne Mohawk Territory say a body has been found near a small island in the St. Lawrence River.
  The body was located about 10 kilometres northeast from Snye, Akwesasne, where the bodies of eight people were found in a marshy area of the river last March.
  Police have said that those eight people — two families of Indian and Romanian migrants — died during a failed attempt to cross illegally into the United States by boat.
  Since then, Akwesasne police hav
  
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• Fierce blaze damages several businesses, forces evacuation in downtown Vernon, B.C.

  04-07-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VERNON, B.C. — A restaurant, boutique, salon and costume shop are among the businesses believed to have been destroyed in an early morning fire in downtown Vernon, B.C.
  Flames broke out in the commercial building at about 2:30 a.m., blanketing the downtown core of the north Okanagan city with thick smoke.
  The single-storey complex has been heavily damaged, prompting the owner of the Okanagan Eatery, one of the affected businesses, to post a photo of the flames online, writing, “Wow,
  
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• Meta looks to target Twitter with a rival app called Threads ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Opening of Popkum Starbucks delayed

  04-07-2023 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  POPKUM — Popkum and Rosedale residents will have to wait just a little longer before they get their London fog, venti cold brew, or frappuccino drinks.The opening of the Popkum Starbucks at 52964 Yale Road has been delayed until the end of September, according to Starbucks manager Semi Lee, who works in the Chilliwack area.Starbucks had been projected to open in August, but it’s been pushed back to the end of September. Lee did confirm via Facebook this past week that Starbucks is st
  
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• John Gruden named head coach of American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies

  04-07-2023 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — John Gruden is the new head coach of the Toronto Marlies.
  He succeeds Greg Moore in the position.
  Moore and assistants A.J. MacLean and John Snowden were let go in May after the Marlies were swept in the first round of the American Hockey League playoffs. 
  Gruden becomes the eighth head coach in the club’s history.
  The 53-year-old native of Virginia, Minn., served as an assistant coach with the Boston Bruins this past season.
  Gruden previously worked as an assistant co
  
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• State of emergency, evacuations rescinded as Kelowna wildfire ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 16:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Fire extinguishes homeless camp fire near Chilliwack Lake Rd. on Canada Day

  04-07-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched Saturday evening, July 1 for the report of black smoke and some kind of explosion about a kilometre southeast of the Vedder Bridge close to Chilliwack Lake Road.According to scanner traffic, Chilliwack Fire Engines 1, 4, and 4-2 were dispatched Saturday at approximately 9 p.m. to the area of 46100 Chilliwack Lake Road for the report of black smoke accompanied by the possible sound of an explosion.
  Firefighters responded to the scen
  
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• Man dies in Chehalis River, north of Harrison Mills, over Canada Day long weekend: witness

  04-07-2023 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON MILLS — A man has died after swimming near the shore of the Chehalis River, north of Harrison Mills, over the Canada Day long weekend, according to a Chilliwack resident who says he witnessed the incident.The tragedy happened sometime between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday, July 2, as swimmers gathered for a recreational dip in the Chehalis River on a day when temperatures were hovering between 25 and 27 degrees in the afternoon. The incident occurred just south, or down river, of the C
  
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• Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie due to illustration showing Chinese ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• RoseAnne Archibald calls for reinstatement after removal as AFN ... - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigating break and enter on First Ave. by underage suspects

  04-07-2023 16:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP are currently investigating a residential break and enter involving theft that occurred in the 46600 block of First Avenue in the early morning hours of Friday, June 30.
  Three suspects under the age of 18 are believed to be responsible for the crimes.In a statement released Monday (July 3), Sgt. Krista Vrolyk, media relations spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, says Mounties are actively investigating a break and enter and theft from a
  
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• Search stretches into third day for two people missing after Quebec landslide

  04-07-2023 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAGUENAY, Que. — The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day.
  Rescue teams resumed looking today for a man and woman in their 40s missing in Rivière-Éternité, Que., about 260 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
  The search operation is focused along a 1.8-kilometre stretch of the small, winding Éternité River, on the shore and in the water.
  Quebec provincial police say th
  
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• PODCAST: Smart Kitchens, by Design - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  04-07-2023 14:40 via news.google.com
  
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• Happy with a safe pair of hands as the war drags on, NATO again extends Stoltenberg’s mandate

  04-07-2023 11:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will stay in office for another year, the 31-nation military alliance decided on Tuesday.
  Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister, has been NATO’s top civilian official since 2014. His term had been due to expire last year but was extended then to keep a steady hand at the helm after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
  U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts had been due to name a su
  
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• In the news today: B.C. port strike enters its fourth day

  04-07-2023 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…
  B.C. port strike still unresolved
  The strike at more than 30 British Columbia ports enters its fourth day this morning.
  Talks between the B.C. Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada stalled yesterday.
  The employers say the union’s demands were “outside any reasonable framework for settlement,” and the un
  
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