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• FVRD confirms 27 buildings were burned in Kookipi Creek fire near Boston Bar

  06-09-2023 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District released a statement Wednesday (Sept. 6) confirming that 27 structures were burned by the Kookipi Creek wildfire northwest of Boston Bar.
  In a news release from FVRD spokesperson Samantha Piper, the regional district said six of the 27 structures were residences and the remaining were either recreational or maintenance buildings. FVRD says it has contacted all property owners where structure loss and damage was identified by BC Wildfire Serv
  
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• Ex-national team players excited by Canadian men’s growth, exposure on world stage

  06-09-2023 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hope has turned into reality for former members of the Canadian senior men’s basketball team.
  Canada clinched its first-ever semifinal spot at the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup on Wednesday with a win over Slovenia in Manila, Philippines. The team also qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics on Sunday, ending a drought that dates back to the 2000 Games.It’s the type of moment members of Canada’s 1982 FIBA World Championship and 1983 Universiade Games teams say they’
  
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• Felony convictions vacated for 4 Navy officers in sprawling scandal

  06-09-2023 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The felony convictions of four Navy officers in a sprawling bribery case were vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct Wednesday.U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino called the misconduct “outrageous” and agreed to allow the four men to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $100 fine each.The officers — former Capts. David Newland, James Dolan and David Lausman and former Cmdr. Mario Herrera — were convicted in one of the worst bribery cases in rec
  
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• A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier used to deter migrants to the bank of the Rio Grande

  06-09-2023 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande after protests from the the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest tactic to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border.
  The decision by U.S. District Judge David Ezra of Texas is likely to be appealed by the state, which for the past two years has aggressively pushed legal boundaries to curb the the flow of mi
  
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• PODCAST: Black Press football insiders preview 2023 NFL season - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 22:35 via news.google.com
  
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• Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide

  06-09-2023 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.
  That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.
  The court’s sw
  
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• Liberals could ask Bank of Canada to stop hiking interest rates: NDP

  06-09-2023 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The New Democrats say the federal government should follow the lead of British Columbia’s premier and ask the Bank of Canada to stop raising interest rates.
  Premier David Eby wrote to Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem last week and asked him not to hike rates again as Canadians struggle to pay for food and rent.
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh applauded that move and today says the Liberals should be reconsidering the central bank’s mandate to ensure it puts people first.
  
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• Disaster relief available for communities impacted by 2023 B.C. ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 22:21 via news.google.com
  
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• Prosecutors seeking new indictment for Hunter Biden by end of September

  06-09-2023 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking to bring a new indictment against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter by the end of September, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
  The exact charges the president’s son would face were not immediately clear, but he has been under investigation in Delaware on gun and tax charges.
  U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, newly named a special counsel in the case, referred to the new indictment in a status report required by
  
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• A football coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field has resigned

  06-09-2023 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game back.Assistant Bremerton High School coach Joe Kennedy made the announcement on his website, citing several reasons, including that he needed to care for an ailing family member out of state. He had been living full-time in Florida before the football season started last Friday.
  “I believe I
  
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• Tennessee Titans trying to avoid rebuild in chasing Jaguars to retake AFC South title

  06-09-2023 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons has never even thought of his Tennessee Titans as rebuilding, especially not under coach Mike Vrabel.
  “I want to win, and I know Vrabes and them want to win,” Simmons said. “So I’m sure it’s never crossed their mind.”
  The Jacksonville Jaguars are the defending AFC South champs, and it’s a title that the Tennessee Titans want back as soon as possible. The Titans lost out to
  
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• Pennsylvania inmate escaped by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, prison official says

  06-09-2023 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante was able to escape a prison yard in suburban Pennsylvania last week by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, officials said at a news conference Wednesday.
  Howard Holland, the acting warden of the prison, said there was a guard in an observation tower who has since been put on administrative leave.Two suburban Philadelphia school districts remained shuttered and one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens was closed We
  
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• Remains of two Innu children exhumed in Quebec as families question who they buried

  06-09-2023 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The remains of two Innu children have been exhumed from a Quebec cemetery to help give closure to families who have long-standing questions about the identities of the bodies they buried in 1970.
  A group helping the families of the two children says the exhumations took place last week in Pessamit, Que., around 305 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. 
  The two infant boys died within days of each other at a Baie-Comeau, Que., hospital in May 1970.
  In both cases, the child&r
  
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• Rental of B.C. school for Sikh referendum vote is cancelled by district

  06-09-2023 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Organizers of a Sikh community referendum on Punjabi independence say they’ve received a “slap in the face” from a British Columbia school district that cancelled their rental of a school to host voting this weekend.
  The Surrey School District says in a statement that it cancelled the rental of Tamanawis Secondary School for the Sept. 10 referendum because promotional posters featured a picture of the school alongside what it called “images of a weapo
  
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• UFV education program to find new home at Mission campus - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 21:14 via news.google.com
  
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• Impaired female driver hits cars and building, refuses to give Mission RCMP a breath sample

  06-09-2023 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mission RCMP arrested a 50-year-old Mission woman after she hit two parked cars, grazed the side of a building and crashed into a pole last week in Mission, and refused to submit to a breath sample.On Wednesday, August 30, multiple witnesses contacted the Mission RCMP detachment after an older motorhome with mismatched license plates ran into parked cars on 1st Avenue, continued driving, scraped the side of a building and crashed into a pole on North Railway Avenue.
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• CP NewsAlert: Appeal Court overturns stay granted to Quebec judge in wife’s killing

  06-09-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal has overturned a stay of proceedings granted to a retired Quebec judge whose conviction for fatally shooting his wife in 2012 was reversed by the federal justice minister.
  The province’s highest court has ordered that the case against Jacques Delisle return to Quebec Superior Court, where he had been facing a second trial.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Top Canadians test out the challenging Olympic surfing venue this week in Tahiti

  06-09-2023 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s top surfers are riding the waves in Tahiti this week, testing the waters at Teahupo’o that will host next year’s Olympic surfing event. 
  Dom Domic, executive director of Surf Canada, says it doesn’t get much better than Teahupo’o (pronounced Chop-pu) which he calls “probably … one of the planet’s top three waves.”
  “It’s a real challenge,” Domic said. “And it will be an absolute visual spectacle for the O
  
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• Montreal-area police equip schoolchildren with backpacks that display speed cameras

  06-09-2023 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Children in Quebec are becoming living speed cameras as a way to get drivers to slow down in school zones.
  Police in the Montreal area are equipping a handful of schoolchildren with backpacks that display passing vehicles’ speeds.
  The demonstrations are part of a series of measures municipalities are deploying to better secure school zones this year.
  The City of Montreal is launching biweekly police operations to crack down on dangerous driving around schools.
  It’s a
  
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• Free ice skating in Chilliwack starts next week

  06-09-2023 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As part of Chilliwack’s 150th anniversary, the city invites residents and families to take part in four free skating sessions starting next week.The free skates will be held Saturday, September 16 from 5:45-7:15 p.m. at Sardis Sports Complex, Sunday, Sept. 17 at the Chilliwack Coliseum from 2:30-4 p.m., and the following weekend on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 5:45-7:15 p.m. at Sardis Sports Complex, and Sunday, Sept. 24 at the Chilliwack Coliseum from 2:30-4 p.m.Later this f
  
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• California judge halts district policy requiring parents be told if kids change pronouns

  06-09-2023 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted a Southern California school district from requiring parents to be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school.
  San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Garza ruled after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District for adopting a policy requiring schools to tell parents when their children change their pronouns or use a bathroom of a gender other
  
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• 'Groundbreaking' adult education coming to Sqwá First Nation near ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 20:31 via news.google.com
  
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• Montreal landmark church says people ignited a flare, not a fire, at famous shrine

  06-09-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A landmark Montreal church is confirming that a group of people ignited a flare — and not a bonfire — on the steps leading to the Catholic shrine on Saturday.
  Representatives of Saint Joseph’s Oratory had originally suspected that a video depicting the incident was fake because it appeared to show a large fire burning on church property at night. 
  The video that circulated on social media seemed to show people playing drums and chanting around a fire on th
  
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• Lions’ Adams Jr. secures top quarterback grade in win over Alouettes

  06-09-2023 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A victory over his former team helped Vernon Adams Jr. earn the top quarterback grade in the CFL’s weekly honour roll Wednesday.
  Adams received a 83.5 grade after leading B.C. past Montreal 34-25 on Saturday. It was Adams’s first game against the Alouettes since being dealt to the Lions last year.
  Adams finished 21-of-33 passing for 306 yards and three TDs while rushing eight times for 54 yards.
  Players in nine specific positions are highlighted as per data points reg
  
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• Children’s Ministry refuses to compensate youth it misinformed: B.C. Ombudsperson

  06-09-2023 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government is refusing to pay a young woman for its own mistakes and the provincial ombudsperson says she may not be the only one harmed. 
  Jay Chalke says the Ministry of Children and Family Development gave the woman incorrect information, leading her to believe she was eligible for government support for post-secondary education worth tens of thousands of dollars. 
  Chalk’s report says the ministry doesn’t accept responsibility, no
  
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• Honorary Oscars event celebrating Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks pushed back amid Hollywood strikes

  06-09-2023 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar.
  The 14th Governors Awards has been delayed from November until January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday.
  The Academy, which puts on the Oscars, decided to delay the event due to the state of the industry, in which Hollywood’s writers and actors are months into strikes for new contracts with major entertainment companies.
  Bassett, who was up for the best supporting actress award earl
  
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• Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic to play Vancouver film festival

  06-09-2023 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Sofia Coppola’s buzzworthy biopic “Priscilla,” about a young Priscilla Presley’s budding romance with music superstar Elvis, is headed to this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival.
  Organizers say they’re returning to the first fully in-person festival since before the COVID-19 pandemic with a selection of roughly 140 feature films and 100 shorts.
  “Priscilla,” based on Priscilla Presley’s own autobiography, “Elv
  
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• Prosecutors in Trump’s Georgia election subversion case estimate a trial would take 4 months

  06-09-2023 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Prosecutors in the Georgia election subversion case involving former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a trial would likely take four months.
  The estimate from special prosecutor Nathan Wade came during a hearing Wednesday before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on attempts by two of those indicted to be tried separately. The hearing was broadcast live on television and on the judge’s YouTube channel, highlighting a marked difference with the ot
  
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• Argos can clinch season series with Montreal and playoff spot with home win

  06-09-2023 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Another week, another chance for Chad Kelly and the Toronto Argonauts to clinch a season series with an East Division rival.
  Toronto (9-1) hosts the Montreal Alouettes (6-5) on Saturday afternoon in the second of three regular-season meetings between the two teams. The Argos took the first 35-27 at Molson Stadium on July 14 but a victory at BMO Field would cement a playoff spot for the defending Grey Cup champions for a third straight year.
  The West Division-leading Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-3) c
  
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• Quebec anti-corruption unit arrests former junior college manager on fraud charges

  06-09-2023 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s anti-corruption police force says a former executive at a junior college north of Montreal has been arrested for allegedly defrauding the student union.
  The force, known as UPAC, says Éric Boily defrauded the student union out of “many” hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  UPAC says the crimes occurred between 2011 and 2018 at Collège Lionel-Groulx, located in Ste-Thérèse, Que.
  Boily was arrested this morning on charges of frau
  
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• Driver not liable after pedestrian struck in Langley: judge - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 19:36 via news.google.com
  
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• After fleeing alone to Newfoundland, Ukrainian boy begins Grade 11 in ‘second home’

  06-09-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — In many ways, Serhii Semenets is like any other 17-year-old starting Grade 11 in Newfoundland this week. He likes playing guitar, he struggles with Shakespeare, and his ideal dinner is a plate of poutine.
  But unlike most kids at Holy Heart of Mary High School, in St. John’s, Semenets is 6,000 kilometres away from his family; he last saw his mother 16 months ago. Weeks after Russia began its attack on Ukraine last year, Semenets’s mother hurried him onto
  
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• BC RCMP - Chilliwack man faces charges following shooting on ... - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  06-09-2023 19:25 via news.google.com
  
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• Cycling fundraiser will support new outreach program in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 19:21 via news.google.com
  
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• NDP leader calls for Bank of Canada mandate review as key rate holds steady

  06-09-2023 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the federal government needs to review the mandate of the Bank of Canada to put people first.
  Singh’s comment today comes as the bank holds its key interest rate steady at five per cent after raising it 10 times since March of last year.
  Singh says while interest rates won’t rise, they’re still higher than they have been in the last 20 years.
  Bank of Canada rates have taken on more of a political tone as Canadians struggle financiall
  
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• Southeast Asia looks to Canada for economic peace and stability - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 19:09 via news.google.com
  
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• On eve of party convention Poilievre says he’s not bound by grassroots’ policy ideas

  06-09-2023 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — On the eve of his first policy convention as leader, Pierre Poilievre is reminding Canadians that he is not bound by the policies the Conservative grassroots choose to advance. 
  He is in Quebec City a day before Conservatives hold a convention to talk about how to win the next federal election and debate than two-dozen policy suggestions from party members. 
  Many of the ideas championed by different riding associations fall in line with Poilievre’s own priorities,
  
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• Lawsuit contends Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause bars Trump from running again for president

  06-09-2023 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — A liberal group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, arguing he is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.”
  The lawsuit, citing the 14th Amendment, is likely the initial step in a legal challenge that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.It will jolt an already unsettled 2024 primary
  
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• Chilliwack welding students take top spot in national contest with ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  06-09-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers can cement playoff spots with wins

  06-09-2023 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers can become the first two CFL teams to secure post-season berths this week.
  Toronto (9-1) hosts the Montreal Alouettes (6-5) at BMO Field on Saturday afternoon. The defending Grey Cup champions will secure a playoff spot with a home victory.
  Winnipeg (9-3) can also do the same Saturday afternoon with a home victory over Saskatchewan (6-5). The Roughriders are coming off a  32-30 overtime win over the Blue Bombers on Sunday at Mo
  
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• Feds award $15 million contract to Sun Life to lay groundwork for dental care program

  06-09-2023 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has awarded a contract worth up to $15 million to lay the groundwork for a new national dental insurance plan.
  Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Health Minister Mark Holland announced today the contract was awarded to Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. 
  The federal government says this interim agreement will allow for the “timely launch and successful operation” of the plan, while details of the main contract are finalized.
  The fe
  
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• Hockey Canada summit to tackle toxic masculinity as a root problem in sport’s culture

  06-09-2023 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Sheldon Kennedy feels the weight of what will be discussed at Hockey Canada’s summit in Calgary.
  The two-day “Beyond The Boards Summit” on Friday and Saturday is designed to tackle one root cause identified at the heart of racism, sexism, homophobia, discrimination and exclusion in hockey.
  How masculinity is defined in hockey — glorifying toughness and violence, the “bro culture”, the “code of the locker room” — and how elite
  
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• CPTPP panel sides with New Zealand over Canada dairy supply-management rules

  06-09-2023 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Pacific Rim trade panel says Canada’s dairy-sector protections violate obligations Ottawa signed with countries like New Zealand.
  The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership includes certain quotas for countries to export dairy at preferred tariff rates into other member countries.
  New Zealand says Canada is limiting its quotas to protect domestic dairy processors, who operate under federal rules regulating the cost and supply of products such
  
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• Joe Jonas files for divorce from Sophie Turner - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 17:28 via news.google.com
  
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• Summer lawn sprinkling ends in Chilliwack to combat ongoing drought - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 17:14 via news.google.com
  
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• Baby dies after struck by vehicle in Kamloops driveway - Chilliwack Progress

  06-09-2023 17:14 via news.google.com
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: NDP gives political staff secret raises during affordability crisis

  06-09-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  At a time when the cost of groceries, gas, and housing is higher than ever before, people expect government to take action on affordability. British Columbians are looking to the NDP, hoping they will honour their campaign promise to “make life more affordable” and provide some sort of relief in the face of rising prices.
  Unfortunately, Premier David Eby decided to take a different course of action, choosing to help his friends and insiders, rather than everyday British Columbians. L
  
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• Jeff Daniels looks back with stories and music in new Audible audio memoir ‘Alive and Well Enough’

  06-09-2023 16:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Daniels tackles his life and career in an absorbing, unconventional way this month with a music- and skit-filled audio memoir from Audible that he calls “a little bit like a one-man musical.”In the 12-episode season of “Alive and Well Enough,” the actor, musician and playwright explores his influences and opinions, offering thoughts on everything from fedoras to folk star Arlo Guthrie.
  “Over the course of these episodic excursions, I&rsquo
  
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• Deb Haaland, first Indigenous member of U.S. cabinet, meets counterparts in Ottawa

  06-09-2023 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The first-ever Indigenous member of the U.S. cabinet is in Canada to talk about how best to help First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities across the continent.
  Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo tribe, has made missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls a top priority of her department.
  While in Ottawa, she will take part in a trilateral working group set up in 2016 to address the problem, a crisis in all three countries
  
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• US Imposes sanctions on Sudanese paramilitary leader for human rights abuses in monthslong conflict

  06-09-2023 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on a Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his troops in their monthslong conflict with Sudan’s army.In a lengthy statement, the U.S. Treasury said it had sanctioned Abdelrahim — a senior military commander and brother of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo who is the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces— accusing him of leading a group of sol
  
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