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• Two new Abbotsford Canucks ladies hoodies released for 2023 - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 23:53 via news.google.com
  
  Two new Abbotsford Canucks ladies hoodies released for 2023  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Actor Donald Sutherland shares frustration with the Toronto Blue Jays

  19-10-2023 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Even famed Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is frustrated with the Toronto Blue Jays.
  Sutherland was using batting as a metaphor on Thursday while speaking about a new Canada Post stamp that will bear his likeness when he segued into talking about Toronto’s early exit from Major League Baseball’s post-season.
  “They didn’t hit the ball so well in clutch situations, the Blue Jays,” said Sutherland from his home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
  Toronto lost back-to
  
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• Police watchdog investigates West Kelowna RCMP actions after ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 23:36 via news.google.com
  
  Police watchdog investigates West Kelowna RCMP actions after ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Labour minister promises action to prevent repeat of B.C. port strike dispute

  19-10-2023 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s federal labour minister says the government’s latest attempt to prevent disruptive disputes at British Columbia’s ports will lead to change this time.
  Seamus O’Regan promised to follow through on recommendations from a review of what went wrong during the port strike this summer that stopped cargo from moving through Canada’s busiest ports. 
  Previous studies dating back to the 1990s on the contentious relationship between the longshore union and BC Mar
  
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• Health expert says B.C. overdose crisis needs expanded, dignified treatment focus

  19-10-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A British Columbia health expert says the province needs more overdose prevention sites and a renewed commitment to decriminalization as it tries to curb drug poisonings that kill six people a day.
  Dr. Reka Gustafson, the chief medical health officer for Island Health, told about 300 addiction experts meeting in Victoria that drug treatment policies and programs must have the same status as any other health service.
  Gustafson says dedicated cancer treatment facilities and anti-a
  
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• Flames draft pick Topi Ronni under investigation in Finland after accusation of rape

  19-10-2023 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary Flames draft pick Topi Ronni is under investigation in his native Finland after being accused of rape.
  Ronni’s Finnish Elite League team Tappara Tampere said on its website that Ronni informed the club of the investigation and stepped away from team activities.
  The alleged incident occurred two years ago, when Ronni was a minor.Ronni, 19, said in a statement on the team website that he received a court summons regarding the allegation on Thursday. The allegations have not been prov
  
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• Newly appointed California Sen. Laphonza Butler will not seek election to a full term in 2024

  19-10-2023 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly appointed California Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler will not seek election to a full term in 2024.Butler — who was named earlier this month by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to complete the remaining term of the late Dianne Feinstein — says in a statement she made the decision after considering “what kind of life I want to have, what kind of service I want to offer and what kind of voice I want to bring forward.”Her candidacy would have compl
  
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• MAID: Abbotsford MP's bill to remove mental health provisions fails - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 23:10 via news.google.com
  
  MAID: Abbotsford MP's bill to remove mental health provisions fails  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Massey Tunnel replacement procurement process moves to next ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 22:58 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. judge 'wrestling' with 8-month spotted owl protection gap - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. judge 'wrestling' with 8-month spotted owl protection gap  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Meer B.C.'s breakout breaking star B-Boy Phil Wizard - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 22:10 via news.google.com
  
  Meer B.C.'s breakout breaking star B-Boy Phil Wizard  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• No more freebies at city-owned EV charging stations in Chilliwack

  19-10-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The days of charging up your electric vehicle for free at municipally-owned charging stations in Chilliwack are coming to an end in less than two weeks.Starting November 1, the City of Chilliwack says it will be implementing user fees on all municipally-owned electric vehicle chargers. These rates will be instituted to allow the municipality to pay electrical and maintenance costs and were approved by Chilliwack city council at its regular meeting back on July 4, 2023.The new
  
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• Austin Peters Commits to University of Maine

  19-10-2023 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Chilliwack Chiefs are proud to announce that Austin Peters has committed to play NCAA hockey at the University of Maine.
  Peters is in his first BCHL season after spending two seasons in the MJHL.
  “This is a perfect example of what our league is all about—bringing in really good hockey players, putting them in a good league where the competition is competitive every single night,” said Chiefs Head Coach and General Manager Brian Maloney. “Austin has come here from anot
  
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• Le Devoir latest Quebec media outlet to get registered journalism organization status

  19-10-2023 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal daily newspaper Le Devoir has become the latest Quebec media outlet to transform into a registered journalism organization — which can issue tax receipts for donations.
  The publication said today it obtained “qualified donee” status under a tax measure from 2020 introduced by the federal government to support Canadian journalism.
  With its new designation Le Devoir will benefit from tax advantages, including the ability to issue donation receipts, to be exempt from inco
  
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• Ministers to address reports India has reportedly ordered Canadian diplomats to leave

  19-10-2023 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Immigration Minister Marc Miller are expected to speak with reporters today amid reports Ottawa has followed India’s request to remove some of Canada’s diplomats from that country.
  Relations with New Delhi have hit a deep freeze since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a month ago that Canadian intelligence services are investigating “a potential link” between India’s government and the killi
  
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• Toronto Raptors rookie Gradey Dick’s music video debut with Drake happened by chance

  19-10-2023 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — In his first ever NBA pre-season, forward Gradey Dick promised himself to put in long hours at the Toronto Raptors’ training facilities and do whatever his coaches asked of him.
  That dedication quickly paid dividends as it led to him appearing in a music video with famous Toronto rapper Drake.
  Dick had returned to the OVO Athletic Centre, the Raptors facility in downtown Toronto, after the team’s training camp in Vancouver. because he had left some things in his locke
  
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• Judge probes eight-month wait in federal minister’s owl protection recommendation

  19-10-2023 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A Federal Court judge says he’s “wrestling” with why the minister responsible for protecting the northern spotted owl waited eight months to recommend an emergency protection order to cabinet with only one wild-born bird remaining.
  Judge Yvan Roy questioned Crown counsel Aileen Jones during a hearing in Vancouver today, asking why federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made his recommendation to cabinet in late September despite saying he would take th
  
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• $750 million cargo logistics project announced for Prince Rupert port - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 21:03 via news.google.com
  
  $750 million cargo logistics project announced for Prince Rupert port  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Driver rolls over pedestrian in violent Vancouver road-rage incident - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 20:41 via news.google.com
  
  Driver rolls over pedestrian in violent Vancouver road-rage incident  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Georges St-Pierre: From humble beginnings to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame

  19-10-2023 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  From age 17 to 20, Georges St-Pierre held down three jobs while going to school and training in mixed martial arts. Five hours sleep a night was par for the course.
  While studying natural sciences at CEGEP, he worked in a government recreation centre for delinquent youth, in a floor recovery store and as a bouncer at a club named Fuzzy Brossard in suburban Montreal.
  To this day, he remains proud that he earned his floor recovering certificate.
  The hard work eventually led to the UFC, where St-Pi
  
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• McGill postpones French program as Quebec hikes tuition for out-of-province students

  19-10-2023 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — McGill University has postponed a $50-million investment in French-language programs as a result of the provincial government’s plan to nearly double tuition for out-of-province students.
  The university says the programs were meant to help students, faculty and staff improve their French and better integrate in Quebec society.
  McGill explains it decided last week to put an announcement of the program on hold after the province warned its finances could be affected by unspe
  
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• Virtue and Moir, St-Pierre, and Ferbey among 2023 Order of Sports recipients

  19-10-2023 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GATINEAU, Que. — Scott Moir enjoys hearing about people who tuned in emotionally to watch him skate with partner Tessa Virtue, especially those who otherwise didn’t care about ice dance.
  “As a boy who grew up wanting to be (Canadian Hockey Hall of Famer) Joe Sakic, it’s especially meaningful when, especially hockey players, are watching ice dance with a tear in their eye,” Moir said.
  The figure skating super tandem added another accomplishment to their impressive re
  
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• Canada taking ‘necessary time’ to probe hospital blast in Gaza, says Trudeau

  19-10-2023 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is working with allies to determine “exactly what happened” in the blast at a hospital in Gaza earlier this week that has become a flashpoint in the Israel-Hamas war. 
  Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa today that Canada is taking the “necessary time” to probe a blast that the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry says left hundreds dead. 
  Hamas is blaming the Israeli military for the blast, but I
  
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• District of Kent looking to build a new fire training facility in Agassiz

  19-10-2023 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Bids have now closed on a request for proposal from the District of Kent to build a new modular fire training facility on Industrial Way in Agassiz.According to documents on the district of Kent’s website, bids closed on Wednesday, October 18 inviting proponent firms to design and construct a new fire training facility to be located within the fenced training compound at the Agassiz Fire Hall, 7652 Industrial Way.The district states the proponent will be required to design,
  
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• Vancouver Island communities seek oil tanker ban during rough seas - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• SFU teaching assistants reach tentative agreement, union says - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 19:24 via news.google.com
  
  SFU teaching assistants reach tentative agreement, union says  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Israel-Hamas war cannot become another 9/11 moment, says anti-Islamophobia envoy

  19-10-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special representative for combating Islamophobia is warning against allowing the Israel-Hamas war to become a catalyst for the stereotyping of Muslim Canadians. 
  Amira Elghawaby, who was appointed to the new role in January, released a statement on the impact the war is having on members of Canada’s Muslim communities. 
  She says people are expressing fear about a “resurgence” in Islamophobia that “has troubli
  
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• As Merritt’s hospital ER closes for 18th time, B.C. govt. announces more funding to recruit docs to Merritt

  19-10-2023 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT — Around the time that Nicola Valley Hospital’s emergency room closed for the 18th time this year, the B.C. government suddenly announced Wednesday (Oct. 18) that it will commit $7.5 million in permanent funding to help stabilize physician ER coverage at hospitals in Merritt and two other cities in the B.C. Interior.The provincial government says patients in Merritt, Oliver and Salmon Arm and surrounding communities will soon have better access to emergency care by virtue of
  
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• Atmospheric river passes in southern B.C., but area rivers still rising

  19-10-2023 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Rainfall warnings across Vancouver Island and the inner south coast have lifted in most areas, but the effects of British Columbia’s first atmospheric river of autumn could take a little longer to ease.
  The B.C. River Forecast Centre posted flood watches across western Vancouver Island and for the Englishman River near Parksville, warning of levels seen only once every 10 years on some waterways.
  High streamflow advisories and the risk of local flooding cover the rest of
  
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• Surrey mom shares how local charity gave her family hope - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 18:38 via news.google.com
  
  Surrey mom shares how local charity gave her family hope  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Tentative deal ends job action by teaching support staff at Simon Fraser University

  19-10-2023 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — The union representing instructors, teaching assistants and other education support workers at Simon Fraser University says it has reached a tentative agreement, ending a strike that began just over three weeks ago.
  The Teaching Support Staff Union posted on social media that it has a proposed deal and has removed pickets from all the university’s campuses in Burnaby, Surrey and downtown Vancouver.
  Nearly 1,600 members launched job action on Sept. 26 after being witho
  
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• 'Subterranean': Film documents B.C. researchers' dive into Canada's ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 18:12 via news.google.com
  
  'Subterranean': Film documents B.C. researchers' dive into Canada's ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. gets ready for annual ShakeOut earthquake drill - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 18:09 via news.google.com
  
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• GoFundMe started for Hope man who lost his home, all belongings in a fire

  19-10-2023 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — A GoFundMe campaign has been started for a Hope resident who lost his home and everything he owns due to a fire that happened Tuesday night (Oct. 17) near Othello, east of Hope.
  According to a social media post on the department’s Facebook page, Hope Fire Department personnel responded to Jason Road near Othello, east of Hope, just after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after receiving multiple reports of a possible mobile home on fire. On arrival, crews encountered a small single-room struc
  
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• Profits, markups rose as competition weakened over 20 years: Competition Bureau

  19-10-2023 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Competition Bureau says profits and markups have increased over the last two decades as the state of competition in Canada has deteriorated.
  The bureau published a report today analyzing how competition evolved across industries between 2000 and 2020.
  It finds that the most concentrated industries got even more concentrated over time, while more industries came to be considered highly concentrated. 
  Large firms are facing fewer challenges from smaller competitors, and few
  
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• Canadiens defenceman Kaiden Guhle out day-to-day with upper-body injury

  19-10-2023 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROSSARD, Que. — Montreal Canadiens defenceman Kaiden Guhle is out day-to-day with an upper-body injury, the team announced Thursday.
  Guhle, who did not practise on Thursday, left Tuesday’s 5-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild late in the second period and did not return.
  The day-to-day update is relatively good news for the Canadiens, who lost second-line centre Kirby Dach for the season with a knee injury.
  Montreal was hit hard by the injury bug last season and led the league in man-game
  
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• Chilliwack Fire dispatched for reported fire at Island 22 encampment overnight

  19-10-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched for an apparent trailer fire at the Island 22 homeless encampment early Thursday morning.According to information gathered from Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, who monitors overnight scanner traffic, fire personnel responded to the off-grid encampment just south of Cartmell Road, near Fairfield Island, sometime after 1:15 a.m. Thursday (October 19).A picture taken Thursday morning at around 8 a.m., and shared by Hiscock with Fraser
  
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• Chilliwack Fire dispatched for fire at Island 22 encampment overnight

  19-10-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched for an apparent trailer fire at the Island 22 homeless encampment early Thursday morning.
  According to information gathered from Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, who monitors overnight scanner traffic, fire personnel responded to the off-grid encampment just south of Cartmell Road, near Fairfield Island, sometime after 1:15 a.m. Thursday (October 19).
  A picture taken Thursday morning at around 8 a.m., and shared by Hiscock with Frase
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Making it easier to fill high-demand jobs

  19-10-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia is growing, and people are coming from around the world to live in our beautiful province. With a growing population, comes a need for more skilled professionals. Many people who come to live here have hard-earned credentials from their home countries, but sometimes it can be difficult for them to be recognized in B.C.The credential recognition process for internationally trained professionals has been long and at times difficult, and it’s time things changed. There are pl
  
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• Matt Dunstone dumps top-ranked Brendan Bottcher at Grand Slam’s Tour Challenge

  19-10-2023 16:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — Matt Dunstone defeated Brendan Bottcher 7-1 in a battle of Canadian skips on Thursday morning at the Grand Slam’s HearingLife Tour Challenge.
  Dunstone, from Kamloops, B.C., scored three points in the fourth end and added three more in the sixth for the victory.
  Bottcher, from Spruce Grove, Alta., threw a game-low 75 per cent. His team recently moved into top spot in the men’s world rankings.
  In other early games, Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., drop
  
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• Netflix password crackdown results in surge of new subscribers - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Five things to know about the auditor general’s reports on the federal public service

  19-10-2023 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new round of reports from auditor general is once again revealing gaps and delays across the federal public service, including on access to antimicrobial drugs, the processing of immigration applications and discrimination in the public service.
  Auditor General Karen Hogan’s audits also look at the public service’s efforts to modernize its information technology systems and the way that benefits such as employment insurance are delivered.
  Here are five things to know
  
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• Auditor general calls for online application portal for refugees amid severe backlogs

  19-10-2023 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Refugees are being left behind by Canada’s oversized immigration backlogs, and the federal auditor general is calling on the government to immediately create a way for them to apply online.A report from Auditor General Karen Hogan released on Thursday suggests that while processing times improved for most permanent residency programs in 2022, they remained long for refugee and humanitarian programs.
  Some applicants had waited almost three years for a decision,and as of the e
  
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• Anti-discrimination efforts falling short in the public service: auditor general

  19-10-2023 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal auditor general says Canada’s efforts to combat racism and discrimination in major departments and agencies are falling short.
  Auditor General Karen Hogan found in a report released today that bureaucrats are failing to use data to understand how racialized employees are feeling, and this results in “missed opportunities” for change. 
  The office examined the Department of Justice, Public Safety Canada, the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency,
  
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• Sidney Powell pleads guilty in deal with prosecutors over efforts to overturn Trump loss in Georgia

  19-10-2023 16:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
  Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial. A judge agreed that she will serve about six years of
  
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• Canada warms up for playoffs with win over Hungary at world mixed curling playdowns

  19-10-2023 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABERDEEN, United Kingdom — Canada remained unbeaten at the world mixed curling championship on Thursday by posting a 12-6 victory over Hungary at Curl Aberdeen.
  The round-robin finale was a playoff warm-up for the Montreal-area team of skip Felix Asselin, Laurie St-Georges, Emile Asselin and Emily Riley. 
  “Being undefeated feels great,” said the Canadian skip. “Finishing first in our pool was our goal and once we did clinch that, we definitely had our sights on havin
  
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• Canadian breaking star Philip (B-Boy Phil Wizard) Kim constantly on the move

  19-10-2023 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian breaking star Philip (B-Boy Phil Wizard) Kim is in Paris this week for the Red Bull BC One World Final. Before that he’s not so sure.
  “It’s been the busiest year of travel for me,” he said. “It has been a lot but it’s been good.”
  Breaking, better known as breakdancing, takes the 26-year-old from Vancouver around the world. And Kim is in demand.
  He was in Leuven, Belgium, last month to defend his title at the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) Wo
  
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• RCMP tells owners to turn in guns after banned fully automatic model sold in Canada

  19-10-2023 14:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The RCMP has told owners to turn in fully automatic military surplus firearms after hundreds were misidentified and allowed into Canada for commercial sale.
  The Mounties say the registrar of firearms immediately froze records relating to the 245 prohibited guns upon discovery of the issue to prevent further sale or transfer of the firearms.
  The registrar believes three firearm businesses imported and registered the guns as semi-automatic Tavor X95s that are classified as restricte
  
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• In the news today: Israel’s envoy to Canada warns of “fine line” in free speech

  19-10-2023 14:14 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…
  ‘Thin line’ for free speech, hate: Israel envoy
  Israel’s envoy to Canada says it’s important for democracies to look at when a line has been crossed between freedom of speech and what he calls “freedom of hate.”
  Ambassador Iddo Moed spoke generally in an interview with The Canadian Press about what he sees as a “thin line” b
  
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• Canada promised to stop exporting unwanted plastic waste. But it’s still happening.

  19-10-2023 13:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — On the northern fringe of Myanmar’s largest city is a township of nearly 300,000 people with a growing industrial base in textiles, consumer goods and food products. 
  But north of Yangon in Shwepyithar, whose name in English means “golden and pleasant,” nothing is growing faster than garbage. 
  And a lot of it isn’t even theirs.
  Piled up on every block are great big mounds of tattered bags, discarded plastic bottles and packaging turned grey from w
  
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