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• Philibert-Thiboutot, Mitton win Canada’s first track and field golds at Pan Am Games

  02-11-2023 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO — Charles Philibert-Thiboutot won Canada’s first track and field gold medal of the Pan American Games on Thursday with his victory in the men’s 1,500 metres.
  And his effort was shortly followed up with another gold from Sarah Mitton in the women’s shot put.
  The 32-year-old Philibert-Thiboutot from Quebec City strained at the finish line and fell crossing it to edge his Canadian teammate Robert Heppenstall.
  Philibert-Thiboutot’s time was three minutes 39.74
  
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• ‘He was a good man’: Family of First Nations man question Winnipeg in-custody death

  02-11-2023 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Loved ones of a First Nations man who died in police custody say officers failed to help him when he needed it most. 
  Family and friends of Elias Whitehead, along with First Nations leaders in Manitoba and Ontario, held a news conference Thursday calling for changes to how police approach wellness checks. They also voiced concern about the force Winnipeg officers used while taking the 37-year-old into custody last month. 
  “The police are supposed to keep people s
  
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• Lions not looking at past mistakes ahead of playoff tilt against Stampeders

  02-11-2023 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions aren’t looking back as they enter the Canadian Football League playoffs.
  The Lions (12-6) ended their season with a 41-16 loss to the Calgary Stampeders and will face off against their Western rivals on Saturday in the Western Semifinal.
  “We’re jogging on and off the field whether it’s a good play or bad play,” said Lions quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. after practice at B.C. Place. “You can’t look in the rear view mirror.&r
  
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• House approves $14.5 billion in assistance for Israel as Biden vows to veto the GOP’s approach

  02-11-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved $14.5 billion in military aid Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
  In a departure from norms, Johnson’s package required that the emergency aid be offset with cuts in government spending elsewhere. That tack established the new House GOP’s conservative leadership, but it also turned what
  
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• Winnipeg’s Collaros, Toronto’s Kelly lead CFL Divisional All-Stars

  02-11-2023 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Winnipeg’s Zach Collaros and Toronto’s Chad Kelly were named quarterbacks of the CFL’s Divisional All-Star teams Thursday.
  Collaros, who has won the last two CFL outstanding player awards, is one of 11 Blue Bombers on the West Division squad.
  Running back Brady Oliveira, the CFL’s rushing leader, is named a divisional all-star for the first time. The Winnipeg native is the West finalist for this year’s outstanding player award.
  Winnipeg receivers Dal
  
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• No evidence of mechanical failure in plane crash that killed North Dakota lawmaker, report says

  02-11-2023 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal investigators say they found no evidence of a mechanical failure before a North Dakota state senator’s plane crashed in Utah last month, killing him, his wife and their two young children, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
  Doug and Amy Larsen and their two sons, 11-year-old Christian and 8-year-old Everett, died Oct. 1 in the crash near Moab, Utah. The family’s single-engine aircraft we
  
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• Here are the six candidates running to be Assembly of First Nations national chief

  02-11-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The chief electoral officer with the Assembly of First Nations says it has received nomination papers from six candidates vying to be the next national chief of the organization that represents more than 600 First Nations in Canada.
  Reginald Bellerose, chair of the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority and the Saskatchewan Indian Training Assessment Group, is running again after losing out in the assembly’s last national chief election.
  Craig Makinaw, the former chief of Ermi
  
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• Auxiliary bake sale, raffle to raise money for Chilliwack General ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 22:19 via news.google.com
  
  Auxiliary bake sale, raffle to raise money for Chilliwack General ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Heralded Canadian filly Moira chasing Breeders’ Cup success

  02-11-2023 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARCADIA, Calif. — He’s won the King’s Plate, Woodbine Oaks and Prince of Wales Stakes but a Breeders’ Cup victory would be a crowning achievement for Canadian trainer Kevin Attard.
  “Being Canadian, the King’s Plate means a lot,” Attard said. “But if you get lucky enough to win a Breeders’ Cup, that might surpass the Plate just because you’re on a world stage.
  “If you’re a hockey player, at the end of the day that’s wha
  
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• BC RCMP - Chilliwack RCMP warn public of fraudsters targeting ... - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  02-11-2023 22:05 via news.google.com
  
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• NDP to back Tory motion calling for carbon price off all heat sources

  02-11-2023 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The New Democrats say they will back the Conservatives on a motion to pull the carbon price off all home heating until after the next election.
  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tabled the motion today, insisting the government’s decision last week to temporarily pause carbon pricing for home heating oil for three years is a divisive policy to save Liberal seats in Atlantic Canada.
  The Liberals say the pause helps Canadians across the country, with a majority of home heat
  
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• Alberta doctors ‘trepidatious’ about changes to already fragile health-care system

  02-11-2023 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The new president of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors are “trepidatious” about expected changes to the province’s health-care delivery system.
  Dr. Paul Parks has been touring the province to hear from physicians in hospitals and clinics about their concerns.
  He says two of the main issues he’s hearing about are the ongoing crisis in family medicine and the strain on hospitals due to service levels and staffing challenges.
  Parks has also heard concerns about th
  
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• City of Chilliwack invites residents to 150th anniversary fireworks, food truck festival Nov. 18

  02-11-2023 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack cordially invites the community to celebrate Chilliwack’s 150th anniversary at Food Trucks and Fireworks Festival on Saturday, November 18 in Townsend Park, 45130 Wolfe Road.
  Weather-permitting, the event and food trucks will open at 6 pm, with live music starting at 6:15 pm, and fireworks at 7 pm., according to a news release from the city.
  “This year is the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Chilliwack, and to date we&rsq
  
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• City invites residents to 150th anniversary fireworks, food truck festival Nov. 18

  02-11-2023 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack cordially invites the community to celebrate Chilliwack’s 150th anniversary at Food Trucks and Fireworks Festival on Saturday, November 18 in Townsend Park, 45130 Wolfe Road.Weather-permitting, the event and food trucks will open at 6 pm, with live music starting at 6:15 pm, and fireworks at 7 pm., according to a news release from the city.“This year is the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Chilliwack, and to date we&rsquo
  
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• B.C. students only Canadians picked for NASA space rover challenge - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 21:40 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. students only Canadians picked for NASA space rover challenge  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hate rats? You might want to make a move to Chilliwack - Vernon Morning Star

  02-11-2023 21:22 via news.google.com
  
  Hate rats? You might want to make a move to Chilliwack  Vernon Morning Star
  
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• Hate rats? You might want to make a move to Chilliwack - Salmon Arm Observer

  02-11-2023 21:22 via news.google.com
  
  Hate rats? You might want to make a move to Chilliwack  Salmon Arm Observer
  
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• Death of a player from a skate to the neck reignites hockey’s stubborn debate over protective gear

  02-11-2023 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It took the NHL until 1979 to mandate helmets and goalie masks for new players. It wasn’t until 2013 that eye-protecting visors became mandatory — grandfathered in for veterans, of course. A handful of players still don’t wear them.
  Broken jaws, smashed noses and concussions haven’t led to full face shields or cages in professional men’s hockey at any level, either. This week, the death of an American player from a skate blade to the neck during a game in England ha
  
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• UPDATE: Freezing rain warnings lifted for major B.C. highways - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 20:58 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Freezing rain warnings lifted for major B.C. highways  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack Fire Dept. dispatched for small fire at yet another abandoned house Thursday

  02-11-2023 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched Thursday morning (Nov. 2) for the report of a small fire at yet another abandoned house.
  According to scanner traffic transmissions, Chilliwack firefighters were dispatched at approximately 8:50 a.m. for the report of a fire at an abandoned home at 8861 School Street, right next to St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and Holy Apostles Orthodox Church.
  On arrival, firefighters located very light smoke and a small fire at bo
  
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• Ticats will have to become road warriors to keep Davis’s Grey Cup streak alive

  02-11-2023 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will have to become road warriors and register two season firsts to keep Ja’Gared Davis’s impressive Grey Cup streak alive.
  The burly defensive lineman has been a Grey Cup fixture since 2016, having appeared in the last six CFL championship games (2016-18 with Calgary, 2019 and ’21 with Hamilton, 2022 with Toronto). Twice he’s been on the winning side — 2018 with the Stampeders and last season with the Argonauts.
  Given his tr
  
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• Canada routs Mexico 17-1 at Pan Continental Curling Championships

  02-11-2023 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — Kerri Einarson and Canada’s women’s team finished round-robin play at the 2023 Pan Continental Curling Championships with a 17-1 win over Mexico on Thursday,
  The four-time defending Canadian women’s champions from Gimli, Man., scored five in the first and third ends.
  Canadian steals of three in the fourth and fifth ends, and one in the sixth, prompted a handshake from Mexican skip Adriana Camarena. 
  Einarson’s crew finished the round robin at 4-
  
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• Langley RCMP asking for help in locating missing 54-year-old woman

  02-11-2023 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Langley RCMP are appealing for public assistance in locating 54-year-old Inge Lewerentz, who was reported missing on Saturday, October 28, 2023.
  According to a statement from Corporal Craig van Herk, media relations officer for the Langley RCMP, Lewerentz was last seen in Langley on October 28, 2023.
  Description:Caucasian female
  54 years
  5 ft 10 in (180 cm)
  brown hair
  blue eyes
  glassesShe was last seen wearing:black jacket
  pink scarf
  brown bootsAnyone with information on the wher
  
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• Ottawa Senators forge ahead amid turmoil: ‘Got to cut the noise out’

  02-11-2023 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa Senators head coach D.J. Smith says his team will just have to block out the noise moving forward.
  The Senators fired general manager Pierre Dorion on Wednesday after the franchise was forced to forfeit a first-round pick in one of the next three upcoming drafts for its role in an invalidated trade in 2022.
  The move also followed forward Shane Pinto’s 41-game suspension for violating league gambling rules last week.
  Smith says players have a responsibility to tune out these distract
  
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• B.C. Indigenous summit addresses the elephant in the backroom

  02-11-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says Indigenous leaders “raise an important point” about bureaucrats standing between First Nations and political leaders on the path to reform.
  Eby addressed First Nations’ frustrations of trying to change attitudes, relationships and laws in the province at the opening news conference of the eighth B.C. Cabinet and First Nations Leaders’ Gathering, underway in Vancouver.
  He was responding to First Nations Summit execu
  
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• Minister intervenes in deportation of man facing death sentence in Egypt

  02-11-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A man who was set to be deported from Canada to Egypt, where he faces a death sentence, says the federal immigration minister intervened in his case and prevented his removal. 
  Dr. Ezzat Gouda was ordered to return to Egypt by Nov. 1, despite claims that he would be persecuted and killed because of his political affiliations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolution. 
  Gouda says he showed Canadian officials court documents that prove he has been sentenced to death i
  
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• ‘Abnormal’: Quebec says there are still too many asylum seekers entering the province

  02-11-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec’s immigration minister says the number of asylum seekers entering the province is “abnormal.”
  Christine Fréchette told reporters today that the federal government needs to do more to distribute would-be refugees across the country.
  She says that since the closure of Roxham Road — the irregular land border crossing between Quebec and New York state — there are now too many asylum seekers showing up at the province’s airports.
  Federal government st
  
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• Ticats head coach Steinauer won’t say who’ll be his starting QB against Montreal

  02-11-2023 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Orlondo Steinauer wasn’t tipping his hand Thursday regarding who’ll be his starting quarterback Saturday.
  The Hamilton head coach says he’s expecting both veterans Bo Levi Mitchell and Matt Shiltz to play when the Tiger-Cats visit the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division semifinal. When pressed, Steinauer said the club has determined who’ll start the playoff game but wouldn’t reveal who it will be.
  “It doesn’t do anything to sit here
  
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• PHOTOS: Grizzlies beat Knights to win girls volleyball banner in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 19:32 via news.google.com
  
  PHOTOS: Grizzlies beat Knights to win girls volleyball banner in ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Tax avoidance: Canadian companies transferred $120B to Luxembourg, study says

  02-11-2023 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec research institute says some of Canada’s biggest companies have transferred billions of dollars in profits to Luxembourg to avoid paying domestic taxes.
  The research published today by IRIS says 59 Canadian companies — including 33 headquartered in Quebec — transferred some $119.8 billion in net profits to the European low-tax country over a period of about 10 years.
  The companies operate in several sectors including finance, natural resources, food an
  
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• Canadian man in Gaza says Ottawa has asked him to be prepared to leave with family

  02-11-2023 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Canadian man trying to get out of Gaza with his family says Global Affairs Canada has asked him to gather his documents and be prepared to leave at any moment through the enclave’s border crossing with Egypt. 
  Mahmoud Nasser says his wife, who has a Brazilian passport, got a call from Global Affairs today during which an official confirmed that Nasser, his wife, his Canadian father and brother and his Palestinian sister-in-law were all registered with Ottawa to evacuate. 
  Nasse
  
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• Traffic incident on Hwy. 1 westbound in Abbotsford Thursday morning

  02-11-2023 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Drive B.C. says a vehicle incident is blocking the left lane of westbound Highway 1 west of Whatcom Road in Abbotsford.According to a post from Drive B.C. at 10:40 a.m., a vehicle incident is impacting westbound traffic through Whatcom Road.The Cole Road rest stop highway camera (exit 99), utilized by Drive B.C., shows traffic completely backed up and congested as of 10:45 a.m. That’s at least four kilometres of highway traffic backed up.Drive B.C. says crews are on scen
  
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• Canadian prisons ‘disturbingly and unconscionably Indigenized’: corrections watchdog

  02-11-2023 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal prison watchdog says there are still too many Indigenous people behind bars in Canada.
  In fact, correctional investigator Ivan Zinger says the problem has gotten significantly worse since he originally flagged it a decade ago. 
  Zinger’s latest annual report says 32 per cent of all federal inmates in Canada — and 50 per cent of the women — are Indigenous, compared to 25 per cent in 2013.
  The report describes the country’s penitentiary system
  
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• RCMP looking for suspect who tried to derail a train north of Hope; incident could have been catastrophic

  02-11-2023 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SPUZZUM — Hope and Boston Bar RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance with their investigation into an attempt to derail a train, according to Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment spokesperson Sgt. Michael Sargent.On Sunday, October 22, at 3:18 a.m., an individual placed a vice clamp on a section of the train tracks near the old Alexandria Bridge in Spuzzum, north of Hope, Sgt. Sargent said.Police are asking for anyone to come forward who may have driven through the area between
  
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• Colombia’s government says ELN guerrillas kidnapped the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz

  02-11-2023 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government said Thursday that the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, known as ELN, was responsible for the weekend kidnapping of the father of Liverpool and Colombian national soccer team striker Luis Díaz.
  The peace delegation of the government, which is currently in negotiations with ELN, said in a statement it was “officially aware” that the kidnapping had been “perpetrated by a unit that belongs to ELN.”
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• Senate sidesteps Tuberville’s hold and confirms new Navy head, first female on Joint Chiefs of Staff

  02-11-2023 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate circumvented a hold by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Thursday and confirmed Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, making her the first woman to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Franchetti’s historic confirmation as the chief of naval operations comes as Tuberville has drawn bipartisan criticism for holding up almost 400 military nominations in an effort to protest Pentagon abortion policy.
  
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• PM urged to back off digital tax before White House hemispheric trade summit Friday

  02-11-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Business leaders are seizing on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to Washington on Friday to urge him to delay a controversial tax aimed at foreign tech firms that cater to Canadian audiences.
  The digital services tax, which takes effect in January, is deeply unpopular with Canada’s most important ally and trading partner, says Goldy Hyder, president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada. 
  And those tensions are mounting at a time of growing internation
  
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• Halloween a busy night for Chilliwack RCMP responding to calls - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
  Halloween a busy night for Chilliwack RCMP responding to calls  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Top court nominee chosen for expertise in criminal, constitutional law, MPs hear

  02-11-2023 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The chair of the independent advisory board tasked with helping to fill a vacancy on Canada’s top court says they were looking for a candidate who was an expert in both criminal and constitutional law. 
  Wade MacLaughlin, a former premier of Prince Edward Island, spoke at a parliamentary committee today about why the board shortlisted Mary Moreau, the chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, as a candidate to join the Supreme Court.
  MacLaughlin says M
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Saskatoon mother accused of faking deaths pleads guilty to 3 charges

  02-11-2023 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — A Saskatoon woman accused of faking her death and that of her child before they crossed the border into the United States has pleaded guilty to three charges.
  Dawn Walker has pleaded guilty to forgery offences as well as abduction in contravention of a custody or parenting order.
  Walker and her child were reported missing in July 2022 after her pickup truck was found near a river at a park south of Saskatoon.
  Some people feared the pair had drowned and there was a missing perso
  
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• Hinchcliffe highlights Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023

  02-11-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — James Hinchcliffe, a six-time winner on the IndyCar circuit, headlines the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.
  The 36-year-old from Oakville, Ont., who recovered from a near-fatal accident at the 2015 Indianapolis 500, had 18 total podiums over an 11-year IndyCar career.
  Hinchcliffe won his first IndyCar race in 2013 at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix. He added two more victories that season in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Newton, Iowa.
  His 2015 season started strong
  
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• Prosecutor: Former Memphis officer pleads guilty to state and federal charges in Tyre Nichols’ death

  02-11-2023 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer changed his plea to guilty Thursday in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, becoming the first of five officers charged to reverse course.
  Desmond Mills Jr. entered his plea during a hearing at the Memphis federal courthouse as part of a larger agreement to settle charges in state court as well. It wasn’t immediately clear how the four other officers planned to respond and specifically whether they would follow suit. Their attorneys
  
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• AbbyPD teams up with RCMP Air 5 helicopter to nab 3 break-and-enter suspects

  02-11-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department says three suspects have been arrested after they allegedly broke into a property in the 6500 block of Lefeuvre Road in Bradner, northwest of Abbotsford.On Wednesday, November 1, at 1:09 P.M., AbbyPD responded to a reported break-and-enter in progress at a property in the 6500 block of Lefeuvre Road, according to a Facebook post from the department.Upon attending the scene, members observed signs characteristic of a break-in. Due to the swift r
  
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• Body located at the scene of a motorhome fire on Silver Skagit Road in Hope

  02-11-2023 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment Sergeant Mike Sargent says a body has been located at the scene of a motorhome fire that occurred late Sunday night on Silver Skagit Road.
  On Monday, October 30, at 12:50 a.m., the Hope RCMP received a request to assist the Hope Fire Department with a camping trailer on fire along Silver Skagit Road, according to a statement from Sgt. Sargent. The Hope Fire Department was able to extinguish the fire.
  Upon examination of the debris an individua
  
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• Surrey care aide pleads guilty to 30 charges - Chilliwack Progress

  02-11-2023 17:07 via news.google.com
  
  Surrey care aide pleads guilty to 30 charges  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCMP officers raid huge fentanyl lab in Mission after responding to report of gun shots

  02-11-2023 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mission RCMP say a huge fentanyl lab has been discovered on Stave Lake Road in the Hatzic Valley after police responded to a report of gunshots last week.
  In the early morning hours of Friday, October 27, Mission RCMP were called to a report of gunshots heard in the 12700 block of Stave Lake Road, according to a statement from Constable Harrison Mohr, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP. When officers arrived, they found a number of spent bullet casings, which promp
  
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• New peer support program helps patients at Chilliwack General ... - Fraser Health Authority

  02-11-2023 17:02 via news.google.com
  
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• At-risk Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can now get details on partner’s history

  02-11-2023 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A law is now in force in Newfoundland and Labrador allowing those at risk of domestic violence to get information from police about their partner’s history.
  Justice Minister John Hogan told reporters today that Newfoundland and Labrador is the third province to enact such a law, after Alberta and Saskatchewan.
  Known as Clare’s Law, the new rules allow people to seek the information from police, and they allow police to proactively disclose those details
  
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• Lifetime cost of Canada’s F-35 fighter jets is $73.9B: parliamentary budget officer

  02-11-2023 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer has pegged the lifetime cost of Canada’s new fleet of F-35 fighter jets at $73.9 billion over 45 years.
  Yves Giroux says the cost of the acquisition phase is estimated to be $19.8 billion. 
  In January, the federal government announced a deal with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. government to buy 88 jets at a cost of about US$85 million each. 
  Defence minister Anita Anand said at the time that the acquisition cost was estimated at $19 b
  
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• Hydro-Québec to spend up to $185 billion to increase capacity, reliability

  02-11-2023 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s public hydroelectric utility says it plans to spend up to $185 billion by 2035 to increase generating capacity and improve the reliability of its network. 
  Hydro-Québec forecasts that by 2050 it will need to produce about twice as much power as it can now for homes and the province’s growing industrial sector.
  CEO Michael Sabia says the utility plans to spend around $100 billion by 2035 to increase production capacity, as well as the capacity of
  
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