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• Lu Dort thinks more high school programs will help grow basketball in Montreal

  27-02-2024 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Luguentz Dort likes the direction that basketball in Montreal is headed, but he would make just one tweak.
  Dort is having an excellent season as the starting small forward for the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder. Along with Bennedict Mathurin of the Indiana Pacers and Chris Boucher of the Toronto Raptors, the 24-year-old Dort is part of a new generation of NBA talent coming out of Quebec’s largest city.
  “Whatever’s going on right now it&rs
  
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• San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies

  27-02-2024 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their descendants for the city’s role in perpetuating racism and discrimination.“On behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors offers its deepest apologies to all African Americans and their descendants who came to San Francisco and were victims of systemic and structural discrimination, institutional racism, targeted acts of violenc
  
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• Canada’s Pamela Ware looks for redemption at diving World Cup in Montreal

  27-02-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Top Canadian diver Pamela Ware is looking for redemption this weekend after a world championship to forget earlier this month.
  Following a stellar 2023 season that included five World Cup medals, a world championship bronze and three medals (two gold, one silver) at the Pan American Games, Ware finished 25th in the individual three-metre event and experienced some déjà vu in the synchronized dive.
  The 31-year-old from Montreal missed her takeoff and dropped feet-fi
  
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• Canada men’s rugby coach Kingsley Jones looks forward to busy 2024 fixture list

  27-02-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian men’s rugby team could play as many as nine test matches this year, starting in July with games against sixth-ranked Scotland and No. 20 Romania in Ottawa.
  The 21st-ranked Canadian men will also host No. 12 Japan in Vancouver on Aug 25.
  The busy fixture list is welcome news for Canada coach Kingsley Jones considering the Canadian men had just four tests in each of 2022 and ’23 and have played just 10 times (4-6-0) since October 2021, when their bid to qualify for the 202
  
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• Quebec doesn’t seem serious about discussing asylum seeker costs: Ottawa

  27-02-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he doesn’t think Quebec wants to have serious discussions about the costs and social consequences of the influx of asylum seekers.
  Miller told reporters in Ottawa today that Quebec provincial politicians seem to prefer to negotiate in public, which he says isn’t the way “responsible governments” behave.
  His comments come in reaction to Quebec’s demand last week that the federal government transfer $1 billi
  
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• Sean Payton hints at moving on from Russell Wilson, says Broncos have to hit on ‘the next one’ at QB

  27-02-2024 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Sean Payton isn’t providing anything definitive on Russell Wilson’s time in Denver but he did hint at the Broncos moving on from him when he suggested the team cannot afford to miss on “the next one” at quarterback.
  Payton met with the media at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday and said the club should know by the end of next week what direction they’ll take at QB.
  Asked if he embraced the idea of finding a solution at
  
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• Province not effectively managing hazardous spills, says B.C.’s auditor general

  27-02-2024 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s auditor general says the Ministry of Environment is not effectively managing hazardous spills in the province, using a decade-old response plan and data that is not easily accessible.
  A report from auditor general Michael Pickup says the government didn’t consistently notify First Nations communities of hazardous spills, and millions of dollars owed to the province haven’t been recovered from those responsible.
  Pickup says in a statement that
  
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• Strong turnout for Gill Bar restoration event in Chilliwack

  27-02-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — If attendance figures are any indication, there’s strong interest in seeing what the restoration of Gill Bar in Chilliwack will entail.
  Well over 100 people turned out at Cheam First Nation for last week’s event involving the Gill Bar restoration and Management Plan project on Wednesday evening, Feb. 21.
  Pelólxw Tribe members Cheam and Sqwá had extended an invitation to the greater Chilliwack community to attend the event to better understand the plan
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah struggles in first pre-season start

  27-02-2024 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKELAND, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah allowed four earned runs over 1 2/3 innings in his first start of the pre-season Tuesday afternoon against the Detroit Tigers.
  Manoah, who was demoted twice last season after an all-star campaign in 2022, hit three batters and allowed a walk and three hits in a 6-4 loss at Publix Field. He was pulled after 38 pitches.
  Ryan Vilade put the Tigers ahead with a two-run single in the eighth inning off Brandon Eisert (0-1), one of eight
  
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• Free rugby camp for Indigenous youth coming to Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  27-02-2024 21:52 via news.google.com
  
  Free rugby camp for Indigenous youth coming to Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• His son died in a 2021 B.C. crane tragedy. He wants to know why they still happen

  27-02-2024 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — When Chris Vilness heard about the crane accident that killed a construction worker in Vancouver last week, he was angry, and he didn’t have to imagine what the woman’s family was going through.
  In 2021, his son Cailen was among five men killed when a crane that was being dismantled collapsed in Kelowna, B.C.
  “That’s so unfair for that family to have to go through something a lot similar to what we did,” he said in an interview. “It’s t
  
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• Quebec provincial police make 22nd arrest in eastern Quebec drug war crackdown

  27-02-2024 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Provincial police have arrested a 22nd person they say is tied to a war between crime groups in Quebec City and the eastern part of the province.
  Organized crime experts say the conflict involves independent drug dealers who are aligned with a Quebec street gang called Blood Family Mafia and who are refusing to pay the Hells Angels for operating on that organization’s territories.
  The uptick in violence has been accompanied by videos distributed within crime networks depic
  
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• Chiefs coach Andy Reid expresses sorrow over parade shooting, offers hope to avoid future tragedies

  27-02-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid walked to the podium Tuesday in Indianapolis with a message that went beyond the football world.
  He paid tribute to the woman who was killed two weeks ago at the city’s Super Bowl celebration — and wanted everyone to know that what happened in not representative of the city he calls home.
  It’s the first time since the Feb. 14 shooting that killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan and left 22 injured that anyone from the organization
  
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• No evidence that data was extracted from RCMP during recent cyberattack: commissioner

  27-02-2024 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The head of the RCMP said Tuesday there was no evidence to date that personal or operational information had been pilfered from the national police force’s systems during a recent cyberattack.
  “Based on information that we’ve gone through, there’s no data that’s been extracted from the systems, which is the good news,” RCMP commissioner Mike Duheme said after being briefed on the security breach that targeted the force’s networks.
  The RCMP
  
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• Safety board says broken wheel caused 61-car CN Rail derailment in B.C.

  27-02-2024 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Transportation Safety Board says a broken wheel set off a train derailment in B.C.’s Fraser Canyon, spilling six million kilograms of potash. 
  In September 2020, 61 cars on a Canadian National Railway freight train left the tracks just south of Hope, B.C.
  A board report says no one was hurt and none of the product that spilled was dangerous. 
  The board investigation determined the broken wheel dropped between the rails, breaking the track at multiple welds a
  
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• Break-and-enter results in 14 sets of deer antlers stolen from B.C. property

  27-02-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Police in Fort St. John, B.C., are on the lookout after a number of hunting trophies were stolen, including 14 sets of deer antlers.
  Mounties say the break-in was reported at an abandoned property on Feb. 9 and the rear door had been kicked in.
  Inside, police found items had been stolen from the residence, including multiple sets of mule deer and whitetail antlers with full or partial skulls.
  Police say four pieces of animal hide and boxes of ammunition were also take
  
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• Man to plead guilty to helping kill 3,600 eagles, other birds and selling feathers prized by tribes

  27-02-2024 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation — then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to illegal wildlife trafficking and other criminal charges, court documents show.
  Prosecutors have alleged Travis John Branson and others killed about 3,600 birds during a yearslong “killing spree” on the Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere. Feathers from eagles and other birds are hig
  
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• Political eyes on Conservatives as MPs set to vote for ban on replacement workers

  27-02-2024 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons is expected to vote today on a bill that would ban replacement workers from being used during strikes and lockouts at federally regulated workplaces. 
  Liberals are watching to see how the Opposition votes, as Pierre Poilievre’s surging Conservatives have yet to state an opinion on the legislation.
  Some union leaders have cautioned their members in recent months about supporting Poilievre, saying he borrows the language of the working class but repre
  
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• Proposed Quebec language rules will lead to fewer products, higher prices: lawyer

  27-02-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Appliance manufactures and a Montreal lawyer say proposed Quebec language regulations will lead to fewer choices and higher costs for products like home appliances.
  The draft regulations released last month require manufacturers to translate into French all permanent markings on appliances that are necessary for the use of the products.
  Under current law, permanent markings, such as those that are engraved on or welded to appliances, don’t have to be in French unless they&
  
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• Could Missouri’s ‘stand your ground’ law apply to the Super Bowl celebration shooters?

  27-02-2024 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The man accused of firing the first shots at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because someone was shooting at him, according to court documents.Experts say that even though the shooting left one bystander dead and roughly two dozen people injured, 23-year-old Lyndell Mays and 18-year-old Dominic Miller might have good cases for self-defense through the state’s “stan
  
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• A low-ranked American tennis player is banned after testing positive for marijuana at a tournament

  27-02-2024 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — A low-ranked American tennis player who competed for the University of North Carolina has been suspended for two years after testing positive for marijuana during an ATP Challenger tournament, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Tuesday.
  The ITIA said Casey Kania’s in-competition urine test contained cannabis in August 2023 at Cary, North Carolina, where he lost in the doubles quarterfinals. He is a 21-year-old with a career-high doubles ranking of 1,317
  
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• Woman’s death in Quebec City after weekend house fire ruled a homicide: police

  27-02-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec City police say the death of a woman who was found unresponsive after a house fire over the weekend has been ruled a homicide.
  Police say 42-year-old Joëlle Lapointe was killed and the exact cause of death will be determined after investigators receive autopsy results.
  Lapointe was found unresponsive in the basement of a semi-detached home in the provincial capital’s Loretteville sector around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
  First responders were unable to revive her and she was declared dea
  
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• Convicted sex offender banned from coming to downtown Chilliwack park

  27-02-2024 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Police Department issued a warning Monday (Feb. 26) that a convicted sex offender who will be residing in Vancouver poses a strong risk to women in the community, and is banned from coming to a park in downtown Chilliwack.In a news release from the police agency, Vancouver Police say Skylar Wayne Pelletier, 24, is currently serving a five-year long-term supervision order for convictions of sexual assault, assault and break and enter.Pelletier is described by polic
  
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• Three-time amateur champion Lisa Meldrum named to Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

  27-02-2024 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAKVILLE, Ont. — Accomplished amateur and professional player Lisa Meldrum has been selected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
  The 41-year-old from Montreal will be inducted into the player category in a ceremony on May 28.
  She will become the Hall of Fame’s 86th member.
  Meldrum, a Class A member of the PGA of Canada, got her start in golf as a 10-year-old at The Royal Montreal Golf Club, where she now works as its head teaching professional.
  Her induction will be part of the 2024 R
  
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• Online hate speech must not become political ‘yo-yo,’ anti-hate expert warns

  27-02-2024 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The former chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is warning parliamentarians against turning a newly reintroduced section of the Canadian Human Rights Act into a game of political “yo-yo.” 
  Bernie Farber, a founding member of the advocacy group, says he welcomes the reintroduction of online hate speech as a discriminatory practice in new Liberal legislation.
  The former Conservative government of Stephen Harper repealed that provision out of concern it violated f
  
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• B.C. First Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery

  27-02-2024 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BELLA BELLA, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a civil lawsuit against the federal government over its decision in 2022 to ban one of its commercial fisheries
  The Heiltsuk Nation says the Fisheries Department’s move to close the commercial harvest of herring spawn-on-kelp in the nation’s territory was an infringement of its Aboriginal rights.
  In a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court against the Attorney General of Canada, the nation says the department
  
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• UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirm driver, now cooperating, is 'not involved' in man's death - Chilliwack Progress

  27-02-2024 18:18 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirm driver, now cooperating, is 'not involved' in man's death  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Not consulted’: Alberta health minister questions Ottawa’s national pharmacare plan

  27-02-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister is questioning the need for a national pharmacare plan, saying the province already has a comprehensive program for seniors, those on a low-income and those who receive disability benefits.
  The federal NDP said last week it had reached a deal on pharmacare with the Liberal government that would allow every Canadian with a health card to access free diabetes medication and birth control.The coverage is to be included in the first piece of a nationa
  
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• Jays’ Swanson to be away from team as young son hospitalized after being hit by car

  27-02-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKELAND, Fla. — Blue Jays reliever Erik Swanson will be away from the team indefinitely after his son was hit by a car and hospitalized on Sunday in Florida, manager John Schneider said.
  The Toronto skipper provided a statement Tuesday before the Blue Jays’ pre-season game against the Detroit Tigers at Publix Field.
  “Erik Swanson’s son, Toby, was hit by a car Sunday and was airlifted to nearby hospital,” Schneider said. “Thanks to the incredible work from Cle
  
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• UPDATE: Abbotsford Police evacuate businesses after grenade found at Value Village

  27-02-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  **UPDATE at 9:10 a.m.: AbbyPD has released a follow-up statement to yesterday’s incident involving a possible explosive device.
  “Yesterday evening, officers with the [RCMP] Explosives Disposal Unit attended and removed the device, which was determined to be a decommissioned World War II Mills grenade. The donator was contacted and advised that the item was inadvertently donated and served as a paperweight,” Cst. Art Stele said.
  Following the removal of the decommissioned grenad
  
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• Abbotsford Police evacuate businesses after possible explosive device found at Value Village

  27-02-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is investigating how an apparent explosive device was found at a thrift store on South Fraser Way in Abbotsford Monday afternoon.According to a statement from Abbotsford PD spokesperson Constable Art Stele Monday night, AbbyPD officers responded to Value Village at 31970 South Fraser Way at 3:16 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, after receiving a 911 call reporting that an explosive device had been located by store staff in its donation inventory.Cst. Stel
  
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• Ottawa will shut down shady post-secondary institutions if provinces don’t: Miller

  27-02-2024 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa is ready to step in and shut down shady schools that are abusing the international student program if provinces don’t crack down on them.
  Miller says there are problems across the college sector, but some of the “really bad” actors are private institutions — and those schools need to be shut down. 
  The minister says provinces are responsible for addressing problems in the post-secondary sector with regards t
  
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• UFV professor to share her journey living with chronic pain at UFV Science Café event today

  27-02-2024 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — UFV kinesiology professor Luisa Giles will share her story of living with chronic pain for over a decade at a UFV Science Café event today in Chilliwack.According to a news release from the university, Giles, an assistant professor, will address the often invisible burden of chronic pain and the symptoms she experienced following an innocuous fall off a bicycle in 2009. That incident was followed by two more concussions. Giles has had a constant resting headache the las
  
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• Significant snow and strong winds expected for the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt

  27-02-2024 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT, B.C. — Drivers are being asked to temporarily avoid travel on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt starting Tuesday (Feb. 27) night.
  Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch for the stretch of Highway 5. Beginning Tuesday night and lasting into Thursday, the Coquihalla Highway is expected to see nearly 30 centimetres of snow and southwest winds of 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h.
  It’s due to a strong pacific frontal system that will push into B.C.’s Interior. T
  
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• Senators-Flyers 2004 brawl in Philadelphia still holds NHL record for most penalty minutes

  27-02-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The root of one the wildest brawls in NHL history came only a week earlier, when Ottawa’s Martin Havlat’s rocked Mark Recchi in the face with his stick and drew a two-game suspension.
  The Ottawa instigator was a repeat offender, and his strike on the long-time popular Flyers forward led Philadelphia coach Ken Hitchcock to declare of Havlat: “Someday somebody’s going to make him eat his lunch.”
  Boy, did the Flyers listen.
  What happened on Ma
  
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• Relive the biggest modern NHL brawl through the words of those who were involved

  27-02-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 2004 brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators still holds the NHL record for the most penalty minutes in a game in NHL history with 419. It ended with 21 fighting majors, 20 ejections and a handful more misconduct penalties. Only one suspension was doled out.Twenty years later, those who were there recall how it all went down.
  WHAT LED TO IT
  On Feb. 26, Ottawa’s Martin Havlat high-sticked Philadelphia’s Mark Recchi in the head. He was su
  
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• Former NHL fighter Donald Brashear is still playing hockey at 52 and doing it his way

  27-02-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Donald Brashear fought in the NHL because that was his job, not because he wanted to drop the gloves — which he did more than all but seven players to ever play in the league.
  “Fighting was never the most important thing in my life,” Brashear said. “But I did it anyway and I found a role in that.”
  Brashear picked the fight that started the 2004 brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Ottawa Senators, which still holds the NHL record for the most penalty minute
  
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• 20 years since NHL’s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere

  27-02-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Chicago’s Marcus Foligno took a hit, delivered one of his own to Minnesota’s Jarred Tinordi, and the two big guys dropped the gloves. Outdoors in front of 82,000 people in the Meadowlands, it took even less for Matt Rempe and Matt Martin to spice up the Rangers-Islanders showdown with a fight.
  When Morgan Rielly cross-checked Ridly Greig for firing a slap shot into an empty net? Some pushing and shoving. Nothing more.
  “How there wasn’t a brawl there, I don’t know ho
  
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• Backlog of problems with federal Phoenix pay system bigger than ever: union

  27-02-2024 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Three unions are calling on the government to provide additional compensation to federal public servants, as issues with the Phoenix pay system continue.
  Eight years after the system was launched, the number of unresolved problems has piled up to 444,000. 
  Chris Aylward, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said in an interview that “we’ve never seen this many cases in the backlog.” 
  Federal public service unions said in a press
  
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• Shohei Ohtani set for Dodgers debut Tuesday in spring game vs White Sox

  27-02-2024 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is likely to get two or three plate appearances Tuesday when he makes his exhibition debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago White Sox.
  It’ll be the two-way star’s first game action since signing a record $700 million, 10-year contract during the offseason — and since right elbow surgery in September that will keep the two-time MVP from pitching this year. He’ll be the designated hitter, a role he’s expected
  
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• Ottawa freezes merger notification threshold, funds housing innovation projects

  27-02-2024 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is freezing the threshold at which the Competition Bureau must be notified of a merger. 
  It also announced $123 million of funding to eight homebuilders that the federal government says are driving innovation and will help build more than 5,000 affordable homes.
  The announcements came this morning during Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s weekly economic update alongside other ministers.
  Competition law requires mergers that exceed a certain val
  
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• Priest facing sexual assault charge in Nunavut will not be dismissed from Oblates

  27-02-2024 14:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A French priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children in Nunavut will be allowed to remain a member of the Oblates congregation after leadership in Rome ruled against his dismissal.
  Johannes Rivoire, who is in his mid-90s and lives in Lyon, France, has long faced allegations he sexually abused Inuit children during his time in Nunavut.
  “I was deeply disappointed,” said Rev. Ken Thorson with OMI Lacombe Canada.
  The Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI Lacombe Canada and the Oblates of
  
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• Changes needed to ensure safer, more resilient RCMP, union mental-health report says

  27-02-2024 14:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The union representing front-line Mounties is urging the RCMP to move beyond “patchwork solutions” to ensure the mental health of officers amid concerns they face increasing risks to their well-being.
  In a new report, the National Police Federation calls on the RCMP to fully implement its employee well-being strategy, institute regular psychological health screening and make it simpler to access mental-health supports.
  The federation is releasing the report, Behind the
  
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• A Russian court sentences the co-chair of a Nobel-winning rights group to 30 months in prison

  27-02-2024 10:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to two years and six months in prison. He was taken directly into custody from the courtroom.
  Oleg Orlov, 70, was convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army in an article he wrote denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. He has rejected the case against him as politically motivated.The prosecution on Monday demanded that he be sentenced to two years and 11 months in pr
  
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• In the news today: Liberals to create digital safety commission via Online Harms Act

  27-02-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  Online harms: Liberals seek to create digital safety commission, new ombudsperson
  The Liberal government plans to create a new digital safety regulator to compel social-media platforms to take action against online harms and remove damaging content _ including child sex-abuse material and intimate images shared without consent _under penalty of millions of dollars in fine
  
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• Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest to hear more details about in-custody death of killer

  27-02-2024 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — A Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest will hear more details today about how a man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others during a stabbing rampage died in police custody.
  Myles Sanderson had been on the run for several days when police caught up to him on Sept. 7, 2022, and during the first day of the inquest Monday, jurors were shown video from RCMP dashboard cameras of a high-speed police pursuit.
  A Mountie used her vehicle to ram into the truck Sanderson was driving.
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• Cape Breton U tripled its international recruitment. Students say they pay the price.

  27-02-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Over the past five years, Navy Nguyen says she has watched thousands of international students arrive at Cape Breton University to find a town that was wholly unprepared for them.
  From 2019 to 2020, the school more than tripled its efforts to recruit international students, before being forced to scale back as incoming students couldn’t find anywhere to live or work, and services such as public transportation were swamped.
  Nguyen said the situation set up international students to bear the
  
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• UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirm driver, now cooperating, is 'not involved' in man's death - Abbotsford News

  27-02-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirm driver, now cooperating, is 'not involved' in man's death  Abbotsford News
  
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• Have your say on active transportation in Chilliwack River Valley - Abbotsford News

  27-02-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Have your say on active transportation in Chilliwack River Valley  Abbotsford News
  
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• Auger-Aliassime bounced from Mexican Open after first-round loss to qualifier

  27-02-2024 08:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ACAPULCO, Mexico — Felix Auger-Aliassime knows Acapulco is famous for its cliff diving, beaches and bars, but the Montreal tennis star was hoping it might also become a destination to get his inconsistent game back on track.
  Hobbled by injuries and untimely lapses, Auger-Aliassime was looking at the popular Mexican Open to reclaim his panache.
  But, despite beating 21-year-old Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli 6-2 in the opening set on Monday night, Auger-Aliassime dropped the next two sets
  
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