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• Canucks aim for positives from loss into next game against Predators

  30-10-2023 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks are looking to put the disappointment of a missed opportunity behind them and focus on the positives.
  The Canucks (5-2-1) fell 4-3 in overtime to the New York Rangers on Saturday, courtesy of a K’Andre Miller winner 3:48 into the extra session, but are stressing the improvements they have made this season.
  The loss snapped a three-game winning streak and was the first defeat at home for Vancouver.
  “I think there were things to like there, espec
  
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• Trudeau to host top EU officials in Newfoundland, amid growing focus on green tech

  30-10-2023 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to welcome the top two leaders of the European Union to Newfoundland next month.
  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is to visit St. John’s alongside European Council President Charles Michel in late November.
  Trudeau’s office noted that the meeting takes place at one of the ports closest to Europe at a time when both sides of the Atlantic are expanding trade in clean technology.
  The EU and Ottawa hold leaders&rs
  
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• B.C. retailers call for 'critical' crime crackdown on repeat offenders - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. retailers call for 'critical' crime crackdown on repeat offenders  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hope Fire Dept. responds to suspicious motorhome fire on Silver Skagit Road outside of Hope

  30-10-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — The Hope Fire Department says it responded to a suspicious fire late Sunday night outside of town on Silver Skagit Road.
  According to a news release from Fire Chief Thomas Cameron, Hope Fire was summoned for the report of an RV fire approximately two kilometres out of area Sunday night (Oct. 29) at approximately 11:56 p.m. On arrival, fire crews found a fully engulfed motorhome in flames with several exposures, including RVs and other vehicles nearby.
  A total of eight firefighters w
  
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• Head coach Dyce to return to Redblacks, other staff to be evaluated after 4-14 season

  30-10-2023 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks say they will conduct a “deep dive” after finishing out of the playoffs for a fourth straight CFL season, but any restructuring will not include a change at head coach.
  General manager Shawn Burke said head coach Bob Dyce will “absolutely” be back as the Redblacks cleaned out their lockers Monday following a second consecutive 4-14 season.
  Dyce was officially named the Redblacks head coach last December after having served as interim he
  
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• Bonmati wins women’s Ballon d’Or, Messi favorite to take men’s award

  30-10-2023 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Spain and Barcelona player Aitana Bonmati has won the women’s Ballon d’Or for the first time.
  Bonmati followed in the footsteps of her teammate Alexia Putellas, who won the past two awards.
  Bonmati claimed the award after leading her country to victory at the Women’s World Cup in August.
  Lionel Messi is the favorite to win a record-extending eighth trophy later Monday.The Argentine great fulfilled his life’s ambition by leading his country to the World
  
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• Canada’s Shady El Nahas a Pan American Games judo champion

  30-10-2023 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — Shady El Nahas captured Pan American Games judo gold Monday in the men’s 100-kilogram class.
  The 25-year-old from Toronto defeated Chile’s Thomas Briceno in the final by a match-ending ippon, which is defined as either a successful throw of an opponent onto his or her back, or a pin lasting 20 seconds.
  After winning a bronze medal in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam late last week, El Nahas said he arrived in Santiago, Chile, feeling sore and injured.
  “I came he
  
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• BC Hydro asks for 2.3% rate increase to start spring 2024

  30-10-2023 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says the province’s Crown power utility is applying for a 2.3-per-cent rate increase starting in April, adding about $2 a month to the average residential bill. 
  A statement from the Energy Ministry says it’s the sixth year in a row that BC Hydro has applied for an increase below the rate of inflation.
  It says rates are currently 15.6 per cent lower than the cumulative rate of inflation over the last seven years, starting in 2017-
  
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• Construction phase of northern B.C. natural gas pipeline complete - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 21:42 via news.google.com
  
  Construction phase of northern B.C. natural gas pipeline complete  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fiscal and monetary policy rowing in opposite directions, Macklem says

  30-10-2023 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it harder to bring inflation down.Macklem is appearing before MPs on the House of Commons finance committee after the Bank of Canada’s recent rate decision and quarterly economic projections.In response to questioning from Conservative MP Jasraj Singh Hallan, the governor says government spending is working at cross purposes with the central bank’s efforts to
  
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• B.C. raises pay $2 per hour for daycare workers at licensed facilities

  30-10-2023 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Daycare workers at British Columbia’s licensed child-care facilities will receive a $2-per-hour pay increase starting Jan. 1.
  Grace Lore, B.C.’s minister of state for child care, says in a statement that daycare workers play a vital role in the early development of children and are critical for families and the economy.
  B.C.’s Education and Child Care Ministry says the $2-per-hour raise and previous wage boosts totalling $4 an hour since 2018 will increase the
  
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• Health professionals, not police should care for intoxicated prisoners: B.C. watchdog

  30-10-2023 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The head of British Columbia’s police watchdog says caring for intoxicated prisoners is a health-care issue and shouldn’t be a police responsibility. 
  A report released by Ronald J. MacDonald, the chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations Office, says holding those who are intoxicated in jail cells is outdated and offers no guarantee of their safety and health.
  The report came after a man in Williams Lake, B.C., who was thought to be sufferin
  
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• Correctional staff seize $24K worth of cocaine, other drugs at Abbotsford prison

  30-10-2023 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A tip of the hat ought to go out correctional staff members at a federal prison in Abbotsford for their role in confiscating over $24,000 worth of illicit drugs.Correctional Service Canada says that as a result of the vigilance of staff members, contraband was seized at Pacific Institution, a multi-level security federal institution, on Monday, October 23.This seizure is the result of the combined efforts of correctional officers, security intelligence officers, and other staf
  
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• UFV Cascades women's volleyball sweep Manitoba in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 20:26 via news.google.com
  
  UFV Cascades women's volleyball sweep Manitoba in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. non-profits to receive $60 million from government to help with their work: Eby

  30-10-2023 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Certain non-profit organizations in British Columbia are getting $60 million from the government in grant funding to help them do their work.
  Premier David Eby says the help of non-profits is crucial and they benefit the people of B.C. with community supports, arts and cultural services and assistance to find affordable housing.
  Four types of non-profits will be supported by the funding, including large, multi-service organizations, small operations affected by the pandemic and
  
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• Housing group brings renters’ troubles with corporate landlords to review panel

  30-10-2023 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A national housing advocacy group delivered about 400 stories of renters’ difficulties in dealing with large corporate landlords to federal offices in 10 Canadian citiestoday.
  The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, held rallies in cities including Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and Ottawa as they provided the testimonials to Liberal MPs and to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
  The tenantsdescribe how after their rental units were taken over by
  
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• Chilliwack Songs of Praise Orchestra to hold free concert this Sunday, Nov. 5

  30-10-2023 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Songs of Praise Orchestra will hold a Thanksgiving-themed concert this Sunday, November 5 at 6 p.m. at Cooke’s Presbyterian Church, 45825 Wellington Road, in Chilliwack.
  Admission is free. A free will offering will be collected to help defray any costs associated with the concert. There’s no requirement to give.Jim Banman will conduct this Thanksgiving-themed concert.Songs of Praise Orchestra conducts a series of community hymn sings and concerts in vari
  
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• New heat recovery system transfers waste heat from Coliseum to Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre

  30-10-2023 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says it has completed the installation of a heat recovery system that will take waste heat produced by the Chilliwack Coliseum and use it to help heat the pools, hot tubs, and dehumidifiers in the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre.
  According to a statement from the municipality, city staff say this $945,000 project received a total of $700,000 in funding support. FortisBC provided $500,000 and BC Hydro, through the CleanBC program, provided $200,000. Thi
  
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• Protesters condemn Quebec plan to double tuition for out-of-province students

  30-10-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Protesters are marching in downtown Montreal to condemn the Quebec government’s plan to double university tuition for students from other provinces. 
  Protest organizer Alex O’Neill, who grew up in Montreal and studies at McGill University, says out-of-province students can’t afford to pay the $17,000 the government wants to charge them next year. 
  Many participants at the protest, which stretched the length of two city blocks, wore purple, the colour
  
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• Labour shortages: Quebec to fast-track training for some in-demand construction jobs

  30-10-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The Quebec government is offering paid fast-track training programs for workers in skilled trades that are most in demand in the province’s construction industry. 
  Quebec Premier François Legault told reporters today he hopes to train anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 new carpenters, excavator operators, heavy machinery operators, refrigeration technicians and tinsmiths — workers who make things with sheet metal.
  He says the province is launching one-time accele
  
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• B.C. coalition seeks ‘critical’ crackdown on violent retail crime

  30-10-2023 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A group of more than 30 British Columbia retailers, trade associations and other organizations is calling for a co-ordinated government response for repeat offenders they say are behind a wave of theft, vandalism and violent crime.
  The Save Our Streets coalition says the need for immediate action is “critical” to meet threats to staff safety, rising security costs and the community impact.
  The group says federal and provincial governments can’t succeed by addr
  
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• Canada to deport Montreal man facing death sentence in Egypt

  30-10-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An Egyptian refugee claimant in Montreal says the Canadian government is deporting him to face a death sentence at the hands of the Egyptian legal system.
  Ezzat Gouda has been ordered to return to Egypt by Nov. 1, despite claims that he will be persecuted and killed in Egypt because of his political affiliations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolution.
  Gouda had already been arrested without charges several times by the time he helped establish the Freedom and Justice Party
  
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• Toffoli, Johansson, Hartman named NHL’s three stars of the week

  30-10-2023 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — New Jersey right-wing Tyler Toffoli, Tampa Bay goaltender Jonas Johansson and Minnesota right-wing Ryan Hartman have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Toffoli led the league with six goals and added an assist over four games last week.
  His week included back-to-back three-point games, including his fifth career hat trick in a 5-2 win over Montreal on Tuesday.
  Johansson, who has filled in ably for injured star goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, stopped all 55 shots he f
  
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• Canada expands drug strategy to prevent more overdoses, provide additional services

  30-10-2023 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal government is expanding its drug and substance use strategy to try to save more lives and provide more services to people disproportionately affected by Canada’s overdose crisis.
  The Public Health Agency of Canada says the drug landscape has changed with an increasingly toxic supply since the strategy was first developed in 2016. 
  It also says the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the government’s approach and the need for a more holistic, integrated response. 
  
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• Structure fire broke out near the malls in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 19:10 via news.google.com
  
  Structure fire broke out near the malls in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Wickenheiser calls for neck protection at ‘every level’ after Johnson’s death

  30-10-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hayley Wickenheiser is calling for mandated neck protection at “every level in hockey” after former NHL player Adam Johnson died from a cut by a skate blade during a game in England on Saturday.
  Wickenheiser is a four-time Olympic women’s hockey gold medallist who completed medical school after her playing career and currently works as an assistant general manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs. 
  She says the risk is far too great not to wear neck protection, even if it doesn
  
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• Indigenous group wants Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose 2018 Juno over ancestry doubts

  30-10-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Indigenous Women’s Collective is calling for Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose her 2018 Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year, after a CBC story raised doubts about the singer’s ancestry.
  The collective says in a statement that it has reviewed the story and believes Sainte-Marie deceived the public about her origin.
  It says the deception allowed her to benefit from a false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous people.
  CBC obtained Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate, wh
  
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• Federal Court dismisses applications against Trudeau’s 2020 firearms ban

  30-10-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Federal Court today dismissed a legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s May 2020 regulations banning some 1,500 styles of firearms.
  Justice Catherine Kane says in a decision released today that the applicants raised issues around the matter of guns and public safety but the court only explored the question of whether Trudeau’s cabinet went beyond its powers in passing the regulations.
  A few weeks after a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 22 people in April 20
  
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• Federal charge says former North Dakota lawmaker traveled to Prague with intent to rape minor

  30-10-2023 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former longtime North Dakota lawmaker has been indicted on a federal charge alleging he traveled to Prague with the intent to rape a minor.
  The four-page indictment against former Republican state Sen. Ray Holmberg also charges him with one count of receiving images depicting child sexual abuse. The indictment was filed Thursday in federal court in North Dakota.It accuses the 79-year-old Holmberg of traveling from North Dakota to the Czech Republic from about June 2
  
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• Feds ban WeChat, Kaspesky apps from government-issued devices over security concerns

  30-10-2023 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is banning WeChat and Kaspersky applications from its phones over security concerns.
  WeChat is a social network, messaging and payments app from Chinese company Tencent, while Kaspersky was founded by Russian entrepreneur Eugene Kaspersky and offers cybersecurity and antivirus software.
  The government says both apps will be removed from its devices today and users will be blocked from downloading WeChat or Kaspersky products in the future.
  It says it made th
  
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• Tuna fisherman still missing after miraculous rescue off Vancouver ... - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
  Tuna fisherman still missing after miraculous rescue off Vancouver ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Climate change: Droughts, heavy rain turn Canada’s pumpkin harvest spooky

  30-10-2023 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Severe weather across Canada caused by climate change has wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest this year.
  Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill says the spring planting season was arid because of wildfires, then heavy rains in the summer flooded his fields.
  Dill, owner of Howard Dill Enterprises in Windsor, N.S., calls this year’s pumpkin season “spooky,” adding that it’s the worst harvest he’s had in his 40 years of farming.
  Pumpkin farmer Mike Williams of Ponoka
  
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• Impaired driver crashes into Aldergrove RCMP office, flees the scene – but not for long

  30-10-2023 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALDERGROVE — Langley RCMP say a man has been arrested for impaired operation of a motor vehicle after he allegedly crashed into the Aldergrove RCMP Community Police Office on Fraser Highway.
  On Sunday October 29, 2023 just before 8:30 p.m., Langley RCMP received the report of a motor vehicle crashing into the Aldergrove Community Policing Station at 26970 Fraser Highway. The police office appears to have sustained damage to its front wall.Officers responded and found several witnesses at t
  
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• Vancouver Bandits, partners bring basketball courts to First Nations in Chilliwack, Abbotsford

  30-10-2023 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — FortisBC has joined forces with the Vancouver Bandits, BC’s professional basketball team from the Canadian Elite Basketball League, and the Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation Council (I∙SPARC) to build outdoor basketball courts that will serve as new recreational hubs for local youth in four Indigenous communities across the province.
  According to a news release dated Friday, October 27 on the Vancouver Bandits,The four communities where courts equippe
  
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• Joly to plead for humanitarian pauses as she says time is running out to help in Gaza

  30-10-2023 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says time is running out to help people in Gaza.
  In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto this afternoon, Joly is expected to plead for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to allow more aid to get into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which is home to more than two million Palestinians.
  Joly’s speech will also urge that the more than 200 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza must be released.
  Her c
  
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• Illinois man pleads not guilty to hate crime and murder charges in attack on Muslim mother and son

  30-10-2023 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictmen t by an Illinois grand jury.
  Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14. Authorities said the victims were targeted because of their Muslim faith.
  Shahin told police that Czuba, her landlord in Plainfield in Will Cou
  
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• All BC employers will be required to post wage/salary info for advertised jobs starting Nov. 1

  30-10-2023 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — All employers in British Columbia will be required to furnish transparent wage or salary information on publicly advertised jobs starting in November 2023.
  According to a news release from the provincial government, B.C. employers will be required to include salary or wage information on all publicly posted jobs under B.C.’s Pay Transparency Act, which passed into law this year.
  The act means B.C. employers are no longer able to ask prospective employees for pay history in
  
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• Poilievre calls on Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from carbon price

  30-10-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an exemption on home heating oil.
  The federal government announced last week it is increasing the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians and lifting the carbon price off home heating oil entirely for the next three years.
  The changes come as affordability concerns leave their party flailing in the polls in Atlanti
  
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• Teck Resources president and COO Harry Conger to retire Wednesday

  30-10-2023 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. says Harry (Red) Conger will retire as president and chief operating officer, effective Wednesday.
  He is also expected to step down from Teck’s board of directors at the same time.
  Teck says chief executive Jonathan Price will assume the role of president, while a search will be conducted to fill the chief operating officer job.
  Conger joined Teck in September 2020 as executive vice-president and chief operating officer.
  He was promoted to president an
  
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• Canada’s Sanoa Dempfle-Olin claims Olympic surfing berth at Pan American Games

  30-10-2023 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — Canadian surfer Sanoa Dempfle-Olin qualified for next summer’s Olympic Games by reaching the Pan American Games women’s shortboard final Monday.
  The 18-year-old from Tofino, B.C., posted scores of 4.50 on her first wave and 5.50 on her second to win the bronze-medal heat 10-4.20 over Leilani McGonagle of Costa Rica.
  Dempfle-Olin advanced to the gold-medal round against Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb.
  Canada didn’t have a surfer in the sport’s O
  
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• White House lays out early framework for regulating AI development, growth

  30-10-2023 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order later today laying out the ground rules and guardrails for the explosive development and growth of artificial intelligence. 
  The order requires the industry to establish standards for safety and security, as well as safeguards to ensure the protection of consumer and privacy rights. 
  The White House is billing the order as the most sweeping actions any government has taken to date to confront both the pr
  
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• Thousands turn out for B.C. vote on Sikh independence - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 16:10 via news.google.com
  
  Thousands turn out for B.C. vote on Sikh independence  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Homeless in the heart of B.C.: Josh and Turbo's story - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  
  Homeless in the heart of B.C.: Josh and Turbo's story  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Vandalism funding established for small businesses

  30-10-2023 13:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Small businesses will soon be able to apply for funding to help recover costs from vandalism.
  Jobs Minister Brenda Bailey says applications for the government’s $10.5 million dollar Securing Small Business Rebate Program open on Nov. 22.
  She says businesses will be able to apply for up to $2,000 dollars per business for the cost of repairs due to vandalism, and up to $1,000 dollars for prevention measures.
  Bailey says the rebate will be administered by the B-C Chamber of
  
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• Grassroots group celebrates campaign that gave B.C. free ... - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 13:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Christmas Craft Market fundraiser supports artists in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 13:30 via news.google.com
  
  Christmas Craft Market fundraiser supports artists in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. businesses calling for action to curb crime and violence

  30-10-2023 13:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A new provincewide public safety coalition that includes community and business groups, citizens and well-known B-C retailers is set to launch today.
  A statement says the coalition wants governments to work together and act quickly on crime and violence issues in communities across B-C.
  The coalition statement says many people in B-C are afraid to walk their own streets, while employees fear assaults at work and businesses say they are losing revenues due to in-store thefts.
  Th
  
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• In the news today: Son of Canadian presumed hostage in Gaza fears military escalation

  30-10-2023 09:17 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…
  Son of Canadian presumed hostage in Gaza: ‘Military actions don’t solve anything’
  The son of a Canadian woman believed to be among those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza wants the world to push for an end to the fighting, and says he fears Israel’s escalating offensive could end all chance of bringing his mother safely home.
  Yonatan Zeigen’s mot
  
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• Legacy Walk will bring history of Chilliwack military base to life - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2023 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Legacy Walk will bring history of Chilliwack military base to life  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fireworks ban reminder for Chilliwack residents

  30-10-2023 05:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — If you’re looking to get your fireworks fix this Halloween, you’re going to have to leave Chilliwack. Like many other municipalities in British Columbia, the use of fireworks is banned within city limits.
  The Upper Fraser RCMP recently sent our a reminder of the bylaw that exists in Chilliwack via social media. In fact, even being in possession of fireworks in Chilliwack is considered illegal under the bylaw.
  A reminder that the use of fireworks is illegal within t
  
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