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• Alberta and B.C. in talks to expand Canadian LNG reach globally, Danielle Smith says

  13-07-2023 23:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province has begun talks with British Columbia on expanding the reach of Canadian natural gas in the global market.
  Smith says she and B.C. counterpart David Eby began the discussion two weeks ago to explore leveraging Article 6 of the United Nations Paris Accord, which allows Canada to gain carbon credits for reducing emissions abroad.
  Speaking on the final day of the international LNG 2023 conference in Vancouver, Smith says she wants t
  
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• Early-learning and child-care ministers promise to work together to improve workforce

  13-07-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for early learning and child care say they plan to work together to address workforce challenges.
  Karina Gould, minister of Families, Children and Social Development Canada, announced the ministers agreed during a meeting in Iqaluit to develop a plan focused on recruitment, retention and recognition.
  Natalie Jameson, Prince Edward Island’s minister of Education and Early Years, says that is to include fair w
  
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• Telus revises 2023 guidance, citing technology sector cost-cutting

  13-07-2023 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Telus Corp. revised downward its annual guidance for 2023, citing demand pressures as the technology sector looks to cut costs. 
  The Vancouver-based company says it revised its guidance as a result of Telus International’s updated full-year annual outlook.
  As a result, Telus says it’s targeting consolidated operating revenue growth of 9.5 to 11.5 per cent, down from 11 to 14 per cent. 
  Telus, which is the controlling shareholder of Telus International, say
  
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• Premier Eby welcomes tentative deal ending B.C. port strike ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 23:30
  
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• Chilliwack Library hosting live animal show Friday by Urban Safari Rescue Society

  13-07-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Getting younger kids out of the house during the summer break can be a challenge for any parent, but an upcoming show from Urban Safari Rescue Society may do just the trick.
  The downtown Chilliwack Library will host Urban Safari for a live animal presentation on Friday, July 14 from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The presentation is free and open to the public.
  The presentation will cover topics like animal characteristics, habitat, adaptations, why exotic animals should not be pets, a
  
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• Deal reached in Montreal cemetery workers’ standoff that has left 300 bodies unburied

  13-07-2023 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The union representing striking maintenance workers at one of the country’s biggest cemeteries says a deal has been reached with their employer.
  The Confédération des syndicats nationaux confirmed that its members will be back on the job at Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery on Monday after they voted 83 per cent in favour of a new agreement. 
  Gates at the cemetery have been closed since mid-January, leaving bereaved families unable to visit
  
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• Project AIM fundraiser in Agassiz to help in reducing menstrual ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 22:36
  
  Project AIM fundraiser in Agassiz to help in reducing menstrual ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Tourist stabbed in Vancouver in 'completely random' attack, police ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 22:34
  
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• Tornado warnings issued for southwestern Quebec, including Montreal Island

  13-07-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Environment Canada issued tornado warnings Thursday for much of southwestern Quebec, including the Island of Montreal.
  The weather agency said meteorologists were tracking a severe thunderstorm that could possibly produce a tornado.
  It said the warnings were in effect for the Montreal area, and regions to the west and north.
  Those areas could also see “damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall,” the agency said.
  Environment Canada said residents in affe
  
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• Heat wave Cerberus has southern Europe in its jaws - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 22:15
  
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• B.C. Supreme Court weighs in on Agassiz raw milk sale case ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 22:04
  
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• In 'Oppenheimer,' Nolan builds a thrilling, serious blockbuster for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 22:00
  
  In 'Oppenheimer,' Nolan builds a thrilling, serious blockbuster for ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Toronto FC trades Canadian Kaye to Revolution for Blessing, international slot

  13-07-2023 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC traded Canadian midfielder Mark-Anthony Kaye to the New England Revolution for midfielder Latif Blessing and a 2023 international roster slot on Thursday.
  Kaye, 28, totalled two goals in 30 appearances over two seasons with Toronto FC after previous stints in Major League Soccer with the Colorado Rapids and Los Angeles FC.
  The Toronto-born player has also played 40 games internationally for the Canadian men’s national team, totalling two goals and seven assists. Kaye was part of
  
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• Ontario horse trainer suspended for suspicious death of racehorse

  13-07-2023 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A racehorse trainer has been suspended from the sport for three years and fined $11,000 for the suspicious death of a horse.
  The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says an investigation found that the trainer violated multiple rules of standardbred racing.
  It says the violations included an act of neglect, providing misleading information regarding the whereabouts of the horse, engaging in conduct not in the best interest of racing and failing to report the death of the racehorse.
  The AGCO
  
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• After quick turnaround, Alouettes face extra challenge against undefeated Argonauts

  13-07-2023 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal Alouettes head coach Jason Maas knows his team faces a tough challenge against the CFL’s only remaining undefeated team.
  But a win for the Alouettes (2-2) would be that much sweeter heading into a bye week as they host the Toronto Argonauts (3-0) in a rematch of last year’s Eastern final on Friday night.
  “(The Argos are) the best in the East right now. There’s no denying that, the record states that,” said Maas on Thursday at Olympic Stadium. “They&rs
  
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• B.C. city ranked as Canada's third most expensive: study ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 21:50
  
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• Mother of Amanda Todd, victim of cyberbully, frustrated by Dutch sentencing delay

  13-07-2023 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — The mother of Amanda Todd, the British Columbia teenager who took her own life after years of cyberbullying and sextortion by a man from the Netherlands, said the latest delay at a Dutch court has added to her “never-ending story.”
  Carol Todd said she hoped to learn the court had converted a 13-year Canadian sentence imposed on Aydin Coban in B.C. last fall, after he was convicted of harassment and extortion in the relentless online stalking before the 2012 dea
  
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• Abbotsford Police looking to ID men who dumped 10 bags of asbestos into school dumpster

  13-07-2023 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Two men tasked with disposing of asbestos took the easy way out and now they’re being investigated by the Abbotsford Police Department.AbbyPD tweeted Thursday (July 13) that it is looking to identify two males who illegally dumped ten bags of drywall suspected of containing asbestos into a school dumpster in the 35000 block of Old Clayburn Road on Saturday, July 8 at 9:52 p.m.The school where the illegal dumping occurred appears to be Abbotsford Christian Middle and Seco
  
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• Jays to start 2024 with 10-game road trip as Rogers Centre improvements continue

  13-07-2023 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays will embark on a second consecutive 10-game season-opening road trip to start the next Major League Baseball campaign as renovations are set to continue at Rogers Centre.
  The Blue Jays released their 2024 schedule Thursday, Toronto will kick things off with a four-game series at Tampa Bay, close to their spring training facility in Dunedin, Fla.
  Toronto will then visit Houston and the New York Yankees before hosting Seattle in its home opener on April 8.
  The
  
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• Mayor Popove blasts province over plan to shift Highway Patrol duties to cities like Chilliwack

  13-07-2023 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mayor Ken Popove is expressing profound disappointment in the provincial government over its decision to download the South Coast Highway Patrol’s service model onto municipalities like Chilliwack with what he calls “zero consultation.”The plan, set to take effect on September 1, 2023, would require Hope RCMP and Chilliwack RCMP to begin responding to vehicle accidents and other incidents on the Coquihalla, Highway 1, and Highway 3, the Crowsnest Highway.In a
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Tentative deal reached in B.C. port strike

  13-07-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A tentative deal has been reached between employers and workers in the strike that’s halted shipments in and out of British Columbia ports for nearly two weeks.
  A statement from the BC Maritime Employers Association says it has reached a tentative agreement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
  It says the four-year deal is subject to ratification by both parties, so details are not yet being released.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Feds doing ‘broader review’ of social media after banning TikTok from work devices

  13-07-2023 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The government is taking a look at possible threats from other social-media applications, after banishing TikTok from the mobile devices of federal public servants for privacy and security reasons.
  The government said in February that popular app TikTok posed an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.
  Martin Potvin, a spokesman for the Treasury Board Secretariat, says the government is conducting a wider review of social-media applications on work devices and will shar
  
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• Frustration grows over continued homeless camps in the Chilliwack River Valley

  13-07-2023 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Two Chilliwack River Valley residents who live close to the Chilliwack Lake Road corridor are expressing frustration over the continued presence of toxic homeless camps in the otherwise pristine backcountry.For years now, homeless encampments have been occupying forested venues north and south of Chilliwack Lake Road at the expense of the environment and normal code enforcement. They are often littered with household effects, including stolen goods, and they produce excrement
  
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• Lawyer asks for court to adjourn hearing on injunction to end landfill blockade

  13-07-2023 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A lawyer representing some of those demonstrating at a Winnipeg landfill has asked for an adjournment during a court hearing on an injunction to end the blockade.
  Dozens of protesters have blocked the main road to the Brady Road landfill demanding a search of a different landfill north of the city, called Prairie Green, where it’s believed the remains of two slain Indigenous women were dumped last year. 
  The City of Winnipeg filed an application Tuesday to the Court o
  
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• Ottawa officials say tornado touched down in city suburb of ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 19:30
  
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• B.C. government lawyers head to court against employer - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 19:30
  
  B.C. government lawyers head to court against employer  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• VIDEO: 1 displaced from downtown Chilliwack apartment after fire ... - Hope Standard

  13-07-2023 19:23
  
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• VIDEO: 1 displaced from downtown Chilliwack apartment after fire ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 19:23
  
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• Ottawa police, fire services say tornado touched down in city suburb of Barrhaven

  13-07-2023 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa police say they are responding to a tornado that touched down in a suburb in the city’s south end.
  Police are advising residents to seek shelter.
  They say officers are resounding in Barrhaven and the surrounding areas.Reports of injuries or structural damage have yet to surface.
  Ottawa Fire Services says firefighters and structural collapse teams have been dispatched to Umbra Place in Barrhaven.Environment Canada has issued a tornado warning for the entire National Capital Region.Th
  
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• B.C.'s fire season now second-worst on record - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 19:16
  
  B.C.'s fire season now second-worst on record - Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. expected to request Ottawa’s help with worsening wildfires: minister

  13-07-2023 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s Emergency Preparedness Minister says he is expecting a “fairly substantive” request for help from British Columbia as wildfires worsen.
  Bill Blair tells The Canadian Press the government operations centre has been in discussions with the province for the last several days, and Ottawa is ready to deploy the needed resources as the formal request for help is expected today.
  That’s said to include military assistance for airlift evacuations from remote locations, as
  
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• Back from injury, rising star Jayde Riviere looks forward to second Women’s World Cup

  13-07-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Just 22, Jayde Riviere already has a glittering soccer resume. And she is expected to add to that reputation at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
  The fullback from Markham, Ont., who plays her club football for Manchester United, has already won Olympic gold, featured at the 2019 World Cup in France and won 37 caps for Canada. Not to mention earn an endorsement deal with Under Armour.
  Riviere is poised beyond her years, on and off the field.
  “She’s incredible
  
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• Andreescu, tournament champion in 2019, among wild cards for National Bank Open

  13-07-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Three Canadians have been given the last wild-card entries into this year’s National Bank Open women’s tennis tournament, including 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu.
  Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino were the other Canadians given a wild-card spot at the event, which runs Aug. 4-13 in Montreal. Former world No. 1s Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki were given the other two wild-card berths earlier.
  Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., won the 2019 event in Toronto w
  
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• Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry to host car show, BBQ for family who lost business due to bus fire

  13-07-2023 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — When a charter bus caught fire near 44408 Vedder Mountain Road back on June 8, its flames spread to a nearby building and destroyed a custom car shop owned by Dave and Lisa Bisschop.Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry, a Yarrow-based farm operation that produces and retails duck, chicken and other poultry products, is trying to help the Bisschop family recover from their significant losses with a special car show and BBQ on Saturday, July 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4540 Simmons
  
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• Experts doubt whether illegal magic mushroom stores will advance drug policy

  13-07-2023 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Magic mushroom stores are opening illegally across Canada, challenging the country’s drug laws, but experts say the illicit vendors are unlikely to radically advance acceptance of the hallucinogenic fungi among authorities — or the public. 
  Psilocybin — the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms — is increasingly used in clinical trials examining its therapeutic effects. But a rapid growth in the illegal hallucinogenic drug market could stifle progr
  
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• Parents hope soccer net bill will prevent deaths of more children

  13-07-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The parents of two children killed by unanchored, movable soccer nets say they hope an Ontario bill that would require those goals to be properly secured will prevent future tragedies.
  The legislation is going through committee hearings today, the step before bringing it back to the legislature for third and final reading, and has the support of all parties, which should ensure its passage later this year.
  David Mills’ 15-year-old son Garrett was playing in a Napanee, Ont.,
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Planning for, preparing for, and preventing wildfires

  13-07-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Wildfires have devastating impacts on our communities and our ecosystems. Right now, there are over 300 wildfires burning in the province and we have already seen over 1.15 million hectares burned since April 1, 2023. With the current wildfire situation, everyone has a part to play in prevention and preparedness. Prevention starts with following fire bans that are in place for your region.
  As of Monday, July 10, all open fires, including campfires for cooking, are banned throughout the province
  
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• BC Highway Patrol – Chilliwack investigating collision on Highway ... - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  13-07-2023 16:31
  
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• Premier says interest rate hike hurts 'poorest people' in B.C. ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 16:30
  
  Premier says interest rate hike hurts 'poorest people' in B.C. ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Drought update follows minister's call for B.C. residents to conserve ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-07-2023 16:30
  
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• Supreme Court won’t examine sharing of Canadian bank account info with U.S.

  13-07-2023 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a challenge of legislation that allows account information held by Canadian financial institutions to be shared with U.S. authorities. 
  The case began when two U.S.-born women who now live in Canada contested the Canadian provisions implementing a 2014 agreement between the two countries that made the information-sharing possible. 
  The two unsuccessfully argued in lower courts that the provisions breach the Charter of Rights and
  
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• Amsterdam court needs more Canadian detail before sentence in cyberbullying case

  13-07-2023 14:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AMSTERDAM —
  Judges in Amsterdam said Thursday they need more information from Canadian authorities as they consider the sentence of a Dutch man convicted in Canada last year of crimes, including extortion and harassment of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd.
  The ruling delayed legal moves to convert Aydin Coban’s 13-year Canadian sentence into a Dutch prison term in the notorious case of online extortion.
  Coban blackmailed the 15-year-old to expose herself in front of a webcam. She took h
  
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• Apartment on Williams St. in Chilliwack catches fire in two-alarm blaze Wednesday

  13-07-2023 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Another day, another two-alarm blaze for Chilliwack firefighters to tackle.Multiple Chilliwack fire personnel were dispatched Wednesday evening (July 12) at about 5:30 p.m. for the report of a fire in an apartment building at 9482 Williams Street.Shortly after the call came in, the call was upgraded to a second alarm when flames were reportedly seen from the second floor of the apartment complex.Firefighters were able to contain the fire to one unit at the complex, located jus
  
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• In the news today: Effectiveness of past health accords, possible port strike deal

  13-07-2023 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…
  Did past health accords work?
  Experts say governments have often failed to set a baseline that lets them know how well federal-provincial health accords are working.But the latest deals are trying to change that.
  The federal government is now attaching data requirements to $46 billion in new spending over the next 10 years.All provinces and territories except Quebec have
  
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• Union and employers consider mediator’s deal that would end B.C. port strike

  13-07-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Both sides in the ongoing British Columbia port strike will have to decide today whether to accept terms of a settlement recommended by a federal mediator that would end the 13-day-old industrial action.
  The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada and the B.C. Maritime Employers Association were given 24 hours to review the recommendations ordered by federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan, and decide if the deal is acceptable.
  About 7,400 workers have been on strike since July 1
  
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• Drought update follows minister’s call for B.C. residents to conserve water

  13-07-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia residents will get a clearer picture today about the status of the drought that has parched much of the province.
  Emergency Management and Climate Readiness Minister Bowinn Ma has scheduled a briefing with weather and wildfire experts to provide an overview of the drought situation.
  Earlier this week, she urged B.C. residents to take measures to conserve water, including watering lawns sparingly, taking shorter showers and doing only full loads of laundry.
  Ma s
  
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• ‘Wild West’: Amid foreign meddling headlines, lawyers fear unfair immigration rulings

  13-07-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Even as the conversation around foreign interference continues to centre on efforts to disrupt Canadian elections, the federal government is routinely deporting people suspected of engaging in espionage or terrorism — or barring them entry to Canada. 
  Lawyers who work within the immigration system say they expect security officials to ramp up those efforts amid the heightened attention on other countries’ meddling attempts. Some fear they could go too far.
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• Did past health accords work? Ottawa is trying to make that question easier to answer

  13-07-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — In medicine, before a doctor treats a patient’s illness, they first try to get a sense of the person’s health.They collect information on the symptoms, run tests and blood work and gather whatever details they can.
  That way, they’ll know whether or not the medicine has worked.It’s called establishing a baseline, and policy experts do the same thing to figure out if their latest strategy has actually fixed the problem.
  When it comes to fixing Canada’s
  
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• Alberta energy minister told to design incentives for industry to clean up oil wells

  13-07-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Direction from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to her new energy minister suggests the United Conservative government hasn’t given up on a controversial program that would see taxpayers backstop the cleanup of old oil and gas wells that companies are already legally required to do. 
  In her mandate letter to Brian Jean, Smith charges him with “developing a strategy to effectively incentivize reclamation of inactive legacy oil and natural gas sites and to enable fu
  
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• Shaqiri, Haile-Selassie lead Fire to 3-0 romp over Montreal

  13-07-2023 08:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP-CP) — Xherdan Shaqiri and Maren Haile-Selassie both had a goal and an assist in the first half to power the Chicago Fire to a 3-0 victory over CF Montreal on Wednesday night.
  Chicago (7-7-8) struck quickly when Brian Gutiérrez used a pass from 19-year-old Georgios Koutsias in the 9th minute to score his first goal of the season.
  Haile-Selassie and Shaqiri set each other’s goals up. Haile-Selassie’s fourth netter this season came two minutes after Gutié
  
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