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• B.C. government announces new programs, police standards for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 23:40 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta government checking medical clinic offering faster physician access for a fee

  24-07-2023 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it is checking into a Calgary clinic that is promising fast-track access to a family doctor along with other perks to patients who pay up to $4,800 a year.
  “The Government of Alberta remains committed to the principles of the Canada Health Act. Albertans don’t have to pay out of pocket for insured health services such as seeing a family doctor or a hospital visit — that won’t change,” Alberta Health spokesman Scott Johnso
  
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• VIDEO: Bears beat Bandits at home - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. government announces new programs, police standards for sexual assault

  24-07-2023 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is updating policing standards in response to sexual assaults to ensure more effective investigations and improved outcomes for survivors. 
  The province also says it’s committing to providing stable annual funding to 68 sexual assault programs across B.C., while it sets new standards for police to collaborate with victims services workers during investigations. 
  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says survivors deserve to be tr
  
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• Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border

  24-07-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America’s southern border.For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the state’s 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) border with Mexico. Now blowback over the tactics is widening,
  
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• Biden administration sues Texas governor over Rio Grande buoy barrier that’s meant to stop migrants

  24-07-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier that the state placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.The lawsuit asks a court to force Texas to remove a roughly 1,000-foot (305-meter) line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns. The suit also claims that Texas unlawfully installed the barrier
  
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• Man trapped in van after jumping curb in Chilliwack parking lot - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 22:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Abbotsford Outlaws 07 repeat as provincial champions - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Abbotsford Law Courts evacuated after bomb threats

  24-07-2023 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — On the same morning that the Chilliwack courthouse was evacuated due to a bomb threat, the Abbotsford Police Department received a similar threat.
  According to Constable Art Stele, media relations spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department, a male caller phoned the Abby PD on Monday morning, July 24 at 9:14 a.m. to report two bombs at the Abbotsford Law Courts building, located at 32375 Veterans Way.
  Constable Stele said that the caller did not identify himself or elabo
  
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• Navy to conduct drills on Okanagan and Kootenay Lakes - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 21:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Pospisil among three Canadians given National Bank Open wild-card spot

  24-07-2023 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Former semifinalist Vasek Pospisil is one of three Canadians to get a wild-card spot in the main draw of the 2023 men’s National Bank Open.
  Tennis Canada on Monday announced the remaining participants for the tournament, which runs Aug. 5-13 at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto.
  Pospisil, from Vernon, B.C., reached the final four of the 2013 tournament in Montreal before losing to fellow Canadian Milos Raonic.
  Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo and Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., wer
  
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• Bomb scare in Abbotsford causes evacuation at Chilliwack Law Courts - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Fire responds to structure fire on Young Road north of downtown Monday

  24-07-2023 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — At least nine engines from multiple fire halls in Chilliwack have been dispatched to a report of a structure fire in the 9800 block of Young Road Monday morning.
  The call came in at approximately 10:35 a.m.
  According to scanner traffic, the fire may have been an upstairs bedroom and spread to a living room in the house.
  Occupants of the home have reportedly escaped according to scanner traffic, but this has not been confirmed by the Chilliwack Fire Department. It is unknown if
  
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• Alouettes sign Shawn Lemon, veteran lineman ranks 15th in CFL history with 92 sacks

  24-07-2023 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes have signed veteran defensive lineman Shawn Lemon, the CFL club announced Monday.
  The 34-year-old was named a CFL all-star last season after registering 29 defensive tackles, 14 sacks, four knockdowns and five forced fumbles in 17 games with the Calgary Stampeders.
  He signed with the B.C. Lions in free agency but was released midway through training camp.
  Lemon has played in 135 career CFL games with Saskatchewan, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto and B.C
  
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• Canadian men’s relay team to receive Olympic silver medals at reallocation ceremony

  24-07-2023 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — The Canadian men’s 4×100-metre relay team from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will finally receive its silver medals.
  The Canadian Olympic Committee announced Monday that team members Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney will get their upgraded medals Saturday at the Canadian national trials in a medal reallocation ceremony.
  The group had initially earned bronze at the Tokyo Games two years ago. 
  However, an official upgrade came in May 20
  
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• Russian president signs legislation marking the final step outlawing gender-affirming procedures

  24-07-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed new legislation Monday which marked the final step in outlawing gender-affirming procedures, a crippling blow to Russia’s already embattled LGBTQ+ community.
  The bill, which was approved unanimously by both houses of parliament, bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records. The only exception will be medical inter
  
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• Edmonton man appears in U.K. court after terrorism investigation

  24-07-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An Edmonton man arrested in a terrorism investigation in the United Kingdom appeared in a London court today.Khaled Hussein, who is 28, was charged under the Terrorism Act for allegedly being a member of a proscribed organization in the U.K.
  He was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport last week.
  Hussein is charged alongside a 56-year-old British preacher, Anjem Choudary, who was allegedly directing a terrorist organization and addressing meetings to encourage support for a radical group s
  
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• Liberal minister Carolyn Bennett announces she will not stand for re-election

  24-07-2023 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett has announced that she will not stand for re-election as a member of Parliament. 
  Bennett said she met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to let him know, and added that serving her Toronto-St. Paul’s constituents has been the “best job.”
  The news came as Bennett announced government funding for a 988 suicide crisis hotline in Toronto. 
  The longtime Liberal was first elected to the House of Commons i
  
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• Over 350 customers in Fairfield Island without power due to car crash

  24-07-2023 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — BC Hydro estimates that over 350 customers in Fairfield Island in Chilliwack will be without power until Monday afternoon.
  A motor vehicle accident hit a utility pole near 46955 Hope River Road,prompting a massive power outage that affected over 2,200 customers Monday morning (July 24). A white car reportedly hit a utility pole.While Hydro has restored power to the majority of those impacted customers, about 357 customers north of Hope River Road aren’t expected to have
  
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• Former Chilliwack Chief continues pro hockey career in Germany - Hope Standard

  24-07-2023 19:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Former Chilliwack Chief Continues Pro Hockey Career In Germany - Abbotsford News

  24-07-2023 19:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Backups step up as start of ’23 season is tough on CFL quarterbacks

  24-07-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Rick Campbell and Neil McEvoy looked prophetic Saturday night.
  B.C. lost starter Vernon Adams Jr. (knee) in the first quarter of its 19-9 home win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. That made the Lions the fourth CFL team this season to lose its No. 1 quarterback to injury.
  Fortunately, though, the Lions had veteran Dane Evans waiting in the wings. Evans, acquired in February from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, finished 16-of-25 passing for 219 yards with a touchdown and an interceptio
  
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• Search resumes for Ukrainian man missing after swimming in Quebec river

  24-07-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINT-ANSELME, Que. — Quebec provincial police continue to search the banks of a river southeast of Quebec City for a Ukrainian refugee missing since Wednesday.
  Sgt. Jean Raphaël Drolet says officers are searching the shoreline of the Etchemin River near St-Anselme, Que., assisted by a police helicopter.
  Drolet says officers will continue searching on the ground but not inside the water because divers determined the current was too strong — as has been the case since Thursday.
  T
  
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• Chilliwack Law Courts building locked down Monday morning

  24-07-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  **UPDATE at 10:09 a.m.: Chilliwack RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk says that out of an abundance of caution, a search of the Chilliwack Courthouse was conducted by Chilliwack RCMP and Lower Mainland Integrated Police Dog Services. Police did not locate anything suspicious and the Courthouse has once again resumed normal operations.”
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Law Courts building has been locked down and its personnel have been evacuated pending an investigation Monday morning.
  According to
  
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• Aspartame findings shouldn’t change aspartame consumption: B.C. ... - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Mental health minister puts $156M toward launch of 988 crisis hotline in November

  24-07-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mental Health Minister Carolyn Bennett says the government is putting $156 million over three years toward a new three-digit suicide-prevention hotline.
  Starting on Nov. 30, people in crisis will be able to dial 988 anywhere in Canada to be connected with trained responders 24 hours a day by phone or text message.
  The free service will be offered in English and French.
  The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will receive the money to launch and operate the hotline.
  The minister
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP confirm drowning death of man in Vedder River ... - Hope Standard

  24-07-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Criminal trial for ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King trial to begin in November

  24-07-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — “Freedom Convoy” organizer Pat King has been scheduled to stand trial beginning Nov. 27, and he says he wants to be judged by a jury of his peers.
  King was an influential figure in the convoy movement that occupied the streets of downtown Ottawa for three weeks in 2022 to protest COVID-19 public health measures and the Liberal government. 
  He has been charged with mischief, counselling to commit mischief, counselling to disobey a court order and counselling to obs
  
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• Six Ukrainian refugees who played at Quebec hockey tournament return for school

  24-07-2023 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Six Ukrainian refugees who took part in Quebec City’s famed peewee hockey tournament earlier this year are returning to the provincial capital to attend school.
  One of the organizers who brought the Ukrainian hockey team to Quebec City last winter says six of the players fell in love with the city but had to return home after the tournament.
  Sean Bérubé, a Quebec City-area businessman, says the six players have secured visas to take classes and play hockey at
  
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• Recent acquisition Kwadwo Opoku signs new contract with CF Montreal

  24-07-2023 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Striker Kwadwo Opoku signed a new contract with Major League Soccer club CF Montreal on Monday.
  The contract is effective immediately and runs through 2026, with an option year in 2027. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  Montreal acquired Opoku from Los Angeles FC on July 5 for US$1.65 million in general allocation money for 2023 and $100,000 in 2024.
  The 22-year-old from Ghana has started two games so far for Montreal and scored his first goal for the club in a 2-0 win over
  
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• Canada hailed for focusing foreign aid on women’s rights amid global backslide

  24-07-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is being hailed for funding initiatives in developing countries that aim to keep women who care for children or elders from being excluded from the economy.
  Ottawa announced projects to support people working in the caring economy at a major foreign-aid conference focused on women’s advancement.
  International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan also offered details at the Women Deliver conference in Rwanda about how $200 million in previously announced funding would be
  
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• Chilliwack car accident knocks out power in Fairfield Island area - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. professor pushing marbled murrelet old growth habitat ... - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Groups seek permission to appeal Quebec court ruling maintaining school prayer ban

  24-07-2023 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group are seeking to appeal a court ruling maintaining the province’s ban on visible prayer in public schools.
  The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, who have launched a court challenge to the rule, are hoping to have the ban suspended until that case can be heard.
  In June, a Quebec Superior Court judge refused to suspend the ban, which forbids schools from making any space availabl
  
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• Ottawa reveals conditions for allowing future fossil fuel subsidies

  24-07-2023 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Ottawa is restricting the conditions under which it will allow subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
  The federal government has released guidelines that will limit when public funds are used to support oil and development.
  Subsidies will be allowed if they support clean energy as well as projects that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or have a credible plan to achieve net zero by 2030.
  Subsidies aiding Indigenous involvement in the industry will continue, as will those tha
  
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• Chilliwack firefighters union stresses sufficient staffing after massive fire on Chilliwack Lake Rd.

  24-07-2023 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The professional association representing Chilliwack career firefighters says a fully staffed Engine 4 was critical in the battle against a residential structure on Chilliwack Lake Road last week.
  In a Facebook post from Chilliwack Firefighters Local 2826 Friday morning (July 21), the firefighters association emphasized the importance of a fully staffed fire engine of four.“Last night (Thursday, July 20), Chilliwack Firefighters responded to a residential structure fire
  
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• Showers for much of B.C., but evacuation orders, alerts grow in drought-ridden south

  24-07-2023 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — For the first time in more than a month, showers and cooler weather are reaching parched sections of British Columbia, potentially bringing some respite for crews battling hundreds of wildfires.
  Environment Canada says about 20 millimetres of rain should dampen Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver.
  But showers could be spottier around Kamloops, where a fire just south of the city has forced the evacuation of 344 properties.
  The BC Wildfire Service says the fire was first spotte
  
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• Popp returns in scoring form for Germany at Women’s World Cup - Chilliwack Progress

  24-07-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• BC Transit says it will take time before buses resume in Chilliwack, Fraser Valley

  24-07-2023 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — While the Fraser Valley transit strike is officially over, BC Transit says it will take time before buses return to service in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the surrounding Fraser Valley.
  In a statement released Saturday night, BC Transit says CUPE 561 and First Transit Canada have ratified a new labour agreement, and First Transit is working to determine a return to service date.
  “It will be several days before transit service is able to resume,” BC Transit said in a
  
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• Man reportedly drowns in Vedder River near Peach Park Friday

  24-07-2023 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A 55-year-old man reportedly drowned in the Vedder River near Peach Park Friday afternoon (July 21).Chilliwack Fire, BC Emergency Health Services, and Chilliwack Search and Rescue were deployed sometime after 3:30 p.m. Friday to an area just west of Peach Park for the report of a possible drowning.First responders attempted to revive the man with cardiopulmonary resuscitation through chest compressions, but the man could not be revived.A crew of four SAR rescue personnel utili
  
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• Searchers continue to pump water from Nova Scotia field in search for flood missing

  24-07-2023 15:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Workers are continuing to pump water from a flooded field in Nova Scotia that is the focus of a search for four people, including two children, who went missing in a torrent of water Saturday.
  Abraham Zebian, mayor of West Hants Regional Municipality, was at the site earlier today and says search teams are pumping more than 94,000 litres of water a minute from the field.
  Zebian says the work is lowering water levels so ground search and rescue teams can have easier access to the
  
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• BC regulatory body prohibits Chilliwack massage therapist from treating female clients

  24-07-2023 15:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A registered massage therapist in Chilliwack has been ordered not to treat female patients following a disciplinary ruling from a regulatory body in British Columbia.
  According to a disciplinary notice dated July 13, the College of Massage Therapists of BC (CMTBC) has ordered William Hendricks, a registered massage therapist in Chilliwack, not to treat any more female patients following a complaint in June 2023 that he engaged in non-therapeutic touching of a female patient&rs
  
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• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is hitting well after his Derby win, and Toronto’s offense could use a boost

  24-07-2023 15:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is hitting just fine after winning the All-Star Home Run Derby.
  The Toronto slugger went deep Sunday for the fourth time in nine games since the break, which should quell whatever concerns exist about whether the Derby messes with players’ swings. In fact, Guerrero has shown more power in the past couple weeks than he was before his big victory in Seattle.
  Guerrero had only 13 homers in his first 88 games this year and entered the break with a .787 OPS. He’s rai
  
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• Israeli parliament approves key part of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul as opposition exits chamber

  24-07-2023 14:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a key portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive plan to reshape the country’s justice system.
  The vote came after a stormy session in which opposition lawmakers chanted “shame” and then stormed out of the chamber.
  The vote reflected the determination of Netanyahu and his far-right allies to move ahead with the plan, despite massive, sustained protests for months and opposition from business leaders,
  
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• Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil wins silver in 100m butterfly at worlds

  24-07-2023 14:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FUKUOKA, Japan — Canadian swimmer Maggie Mac Neil claimed silver in the women’s 100-metre butterfly at the World Aquatics Championships on Monday.
  Mac Neil, of London, Ont., finished with a time of 56.45 seconds. Yufei Zhang of China won gold with a time of 56.12 seconds, while Torri Huske of the United States finished third in 56.61.
  Mac Neil, 23, entered the race as the reigning Olympic champion.
  Also on Monday, Canadians Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm qualified for Tuesday’s fi
  
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• At his sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup, Sermanni is a fountain of knowledge for Canada

  24-07-2023 12:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia — They say it’s a small world. And Tom Sermanni has coached in most of it.
  The Scottish-born, Australian-based coach is working his sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup — and his second as a member of the Canadian coaching staff. Sermanni, who also had a 16-month stint in charge of the U.S. women in 2013-14, served as Australia’s head coach at the soccer showcase in 1995, 2007 and 2011 and led New Zealand at the 2019 tournament.
  With Canada, he served a
  
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• In the news today: Nova Scotia surveys damage from massive weekend rainfall

  24-07-2023 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…
  Municipal offices in Halifax closed after weekend rains
  Municipal offices across Halifax will be closed today as emergency crews work to repair damage caused by extensive rainfalls over the weekend. The Halifax Regional Municipality says many areas remain inaccessible, leading to safety concerns for local residents.
  Rescue efforts are also continuing at a flooded Nova Sco
  
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• ‘We take pride in what we accomplished’: Canadian veterans remember the Korean War

  24-07-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War.
  Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Veterans Association, where Black is president of an Ottawa chapter, as the 70th anniversary of the armistice in that conflict approaches. 
  More than 26,000 Canadian Armed Forces were deployed to assist South Korea after it was invaded by North Korea in 1950 and 7,000 more followed to help with pe
  
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• First Nation spends day in ceremony to launch dig for potential unmarked graves

  24-07-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE — Before the sun broke through the sky Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way. 
  Spiritual advisers were to lead a pipe ceremony in Minegoziibe Anishinabe while a sacred fire was to be lit near where potential graves of children forced to attend residential school may be. 
  The sacred fire is expected to burn for the entirety of the estimated four-week-long excavation of an area underneat
  
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• Calls for residential school abuse records to be re-examined for names of deceased

  24-07-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Geraldine Shingoose was shocked when she opened a report probing what should be done to protect potential unmarked grave sites at former residential schools for Indigenous children. 
  Of the thousands of former students who detailed the abuses they suffered to an adjudicator tasked with determining their eligibility for compensation under the historic Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, only about 30 have sought to have copies of their words archived.
  Shingoose &m
  
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