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• Midfielder Russell Teibert retires after 16 seasons with Vancouver Whitecaps

  01-03-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Russell Teibert is calling time on his playing career after 16 seasons with Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps.
  But while he may not be in uniform, he will still be a part of the team.
  The 31-year-old Teibert announced his retirement on Friday, a move widely expected when the Whitecaps declined to pick up the option year of his contract in the off-season.
  At the time, Whitecaps coach Vanni Sartini said the team was in talks with Teibert about moving the stalwart mi
  
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• Canada’s showing at W Gold Cup complicating life for coach when it comes to selection

  01-03-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The CONCACAF W Gold Cup is not making Canada coach Bev Priestman’s life any easier.
  Not that she is complaining. Olympic champion Canada is the top-seeded team going into the weekend quarterfinals in Los Angeles, having outscored its opposition 13-0 in three wins with a combined 51-5 edge in shots.
  But her players are adding to the degree of difficulty in selecting an 18-player roster for this summer’s Olympics.
  “Definitely more difficult,” Priestman told a media availabi
  
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• Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders

  01-03-2024 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain in a rare prosecution of medical responders that has left officials rethinking how they treat people in police custody.
  The convictions of Peter Cichuniec and a fellow paramedic sent shock waves through the ranks of paramedics across the U.S. and thrust their profession into the acrimonious fight over social justice sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police
  
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• Leafs GM Brad Treliving talks Lyubuskin deal, approach ahead of NHL trade deadline

  01-03-2024 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Brad Treliving did some late-night shopping.
  After addressing a glaring need on his blue line, the Maple Leafs general manager still has a long list of areas he would like to touch on ahead of the NHL’s March 8 trade deadline.
  He’s also pragmatic.
  Toronto reacquired bruising defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin in a three-team deal late Thursday evening that involved a couple of draft picks, salary retention gymnastics, and adds just US$687,500 to the team’s cap.
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• Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Democrats’ congressional redistricting challenge

  01-03-2024 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Democratic lawsuit that sought to throw out the battleground state’s congressional maps, marking a victory for Republicans who argued against the court taking up the case.The decision leaves the state’s current congressional district boundaries in place for the November election.
  The decision not to hear the congressional challenge comes after the court in December ordered new legislative m
  
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• CF Montreal looking to keep positive on lengthy stretch away from home

  01-03-2024 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal is used to embarking on long road trips early in the season. However, the beginning to the 2024 campaign is the most skewed since the team’s arrival in Major League Soccer. 
  The club is opening the season with six consecutive games, and eight of its first 10, being played away from home.
  With five of the club’s six-week training camp taking place outside Montreal before the season started, the extended time on the road presents a mental challenge for
  
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• Measles virus possibly circulating in Quebec, health officials say

  01-03-2024 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal public health officials say community transmission of the measles virus is possible after a person in the suburb of Laval contracted the disease despite not having travelled abroad or been in contact with another known case.
  The public health agency sent a notice to local health professionals on Thursday warning that the person from Laval had visited two medical facilities in Montreal, including the Sainte-Justine children’s hospital.
  The measles case — first reported on Feb
  
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• Experience world's best mountain films at Chilliwack theatre - Hope Standard

  01-03-2024 22:34 via news.google.com
  
  Experience world's best mountain films at Chilliwack theatre  Hope Standard
  
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• After winning Canadian citizenship, teenage surfer Erin Brooks misses out on Olympics

  01-03-2024 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After winning her battle for Canadian citizenship earlier this year, teenage surfer Erin Brooks won’t be wearing the Maple Leaf at the Paris Olympics.
  Brooks has been eliminated at the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games, the final Olympic qualifier that wraps up Sunday in Puerto Rico.
  Brooks, one of six Canadians competing, was knocked out of Round 2 by France’s Vahiné Fierro and then eliminated in Thursday’s repechage round.
  Canadians Sanoa Dempfle-Olin, who is provisionally
  
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• Goalie fights, often a crowd favourite, have almost completely disappeared from the NHL

  01-03-2024 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Watching fights between Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon and Ron Hextall and Felix Potvin in the 1990s, Martin Biron recalled, he always wanted to be the goaltender who could win a bout as the spunky underdog.
  Then he got into one against Ray Emery and asked himself, “What were you thinking?” 
  Two decades since Robert Esche and Patrick Lalime went at it as part of the Philadelphia Flyers-Ottawa Senators brawl that set the NHL record for penalty minutes, goalie fighting has essentiall
  
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• Obstruction charge withdrawn for Alberta reporter covering homeless camp clearing

  01-03-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Crown prosecutors have withdrawn an obstruction charge against an Edmonton reporter.
  Brandi Morin was arrested in January while she was covering police clearing a homeless encampment in the provincial capital.
  Morin was held for about five hours before being released and charged with one count of obstruction.
  She says she was informed by her lawyer that the charges were withdrawn as of this morning.
  Morin says she’ll continue her work, but the charge was an emotional strai
  
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• Coach John Herdman says Toronto FC has more work to do with the roster

  01-03-2024 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — While the signing of former Newcastle midfielder Matty Longstaff brings Toronto FC to its senior roster limit of 30, coach John Herdman says the MLS club isn’t done dealing.
  “I think anything’s possible,” Herdman said after training Friday. “We’re working with the front office just to see what is possible, what’s available. Conversations with players will happen as they start to see how the cards are falling with regard are they core (pla
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps look to bring pre-season momentum to home opener

  01-03-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps’ season started early.
  A shortened pre-season due to CONCACAF Champions Cup action in January and February meant the Whitecaps were back on the field sooner than in previous years.
  Head coach Vanni Sartini said there have been some lessons learned for his squad following the Champions Cup matches against Mexican side Tigres UANL heading into the team’s regular season home opener against Charlotte FC.
  “Our defensive compactness needs to
  
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• Gov. Abbott says Texas wildfires may have destroyed up to 500 structures

  01-03-2024 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STINNETT, Texas (AP) — The largest wildfire in state history may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle and that number could rise as damage assessments continue, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday.
  The Smokehouse Creek fire, which started Monday, has burned about 1,700 square miles (4,400 square kilometers) in Texas and killed two people. It has left behind a charred landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned-out homes in the Texas Panhandle.
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• Ottawa pledges $58.8M to continue local journalism program to 2027

  01-03-2024 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government is extending a program that funds 400 local reporting jobs across the country.
  Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says Ottawa will spend another $58.8 million to continue the Local Journalism Initiative until 2027.
  The program, which provides funding for news organizations to hire local reporters, was first established in 2019.
  The government says its journalists provide news coverage in underserved communities including Indigenous, official language minority
  
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• Biden approves military air drops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left dozens dead

  01-03-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. will begin air-dropping humanitarian assistance into Gaza, a day after dozens of Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.The president announced the move after at least 115 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were injured, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, on Thursday when witnesses said nearby Israeli troops opened fire as huge crowds raced to pull goods off an
  
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• Conservative Party of BC announce new candidate for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake riding

  01-03-2024 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Conservative Party of BC has announced Á’a:líya (A’aliya) Warbus as the party’s new candidate in the riding of Chilliwack-Cultus Lake.Warbus is the daughter of former B.C. Lieutenant Governor Steven Lewis Point and is described on the party’s website as a person with deep family roots in politics and activism.Warbus is a mother of three and has a Fine Arts Masters in film production. She has worked professionally as the Director of Cul
  
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• Canada’s Morales Williams’s world-best 400m effort shows rapid progression

  01-03-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Christopher Morales Williams’s progression has been as rapid as his world-best performance last Saturday was shocking.
  The 19-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., a sophomore at the University of Georgia, won the NCAA Southeastern Conference indoor title in the men’s 400 metres with a time of 44.49 seconds — an indoor world record, until it wasn’t ratified.
  “For my progression, last year I came in (the) middle of the year so it was a little bit hard for me to get used to th
  
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• Brad Gushue hopes to replicate winning feeling in Regina’s Brier

  01-03-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Brad Gushue was cruising at the 2018 Canadian men’s curling championship in Regina.
  After winning a first Brier in storybook fashion in his hometown of St. John’s N.L. and a world championship in 2017, the pressure was off and his curling team fired on all cylinders in Regina.
  But a lesson was learned there to which Gushue teams still adhere.
  “We no longer eat steak during the week,” the skip said Friday at the Brandt Centre. “We went out for a steak
  
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• Argos quarterback Kelly denies harassment allegations made by former team employee

  01-03-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly is denying allegations that he harassed a former employee of the CFL club.
  A woman who worked as a strength-and-conditioning coach with the Argos filed a lawsuit last week against the team for wrongful dismissal and against Kelly for alleged violations of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
  The complainant said in a statement of claim filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that she was subject to continued harassment from Kelly, beginning with unwant
  
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• New Jersey businessman pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate in case against Sen. Bob Menendez

  01-03-2024 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez after signing a cooperation deal with prosecutors.
  Jose Uribe entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to seven charges, including conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services wire fraud, obstruction of justice and tax evasion. Prosecutors allege that he gave Menendez’s wife a Mercedes-Benz.
  According to a plea agreement, Uribe could face up to 95 years in prison, though he ca
  
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• Brian Mulroney: The last, and so far only, conservative to taste victory in Quebec

  01-03-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ask Brian Mulroney’s chief political rival about the former prime minister’s greatest success, and the answer runs through Quebec.Jean Chrétien cites Mulroney’s 1984 breakthrough, which delivered the Progressive Conservatives the largest majority win in Canadian history.It also produced 58 of Quebec’s 75 seats at the time, an impressive feat for a conservative party.Chrétien says Mulroney was also a son of Quebec — but an anglophone, whi
  
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• 3 MLS teams are celebrating 50 years of North American pro soccer this season

  01-03-2024 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Well before Major League Soccer kicked off, the North American Soccer League was at the top of professional soccer in the United States. And in 1974, three new teams joined that fold: the Seattle Sounders, the Vancouver Whitecaps and the San Jose Earthquakes. 
  All three teams eventually morphed into MLS clubs, and this season the trio are celebrating a 50-year milestone. 
  The NASL was founded in 1967 and was the first successful top-tier league in the United States. The Whitecaps, Soun
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs to face Capitals and Bulldogs on home ice - Chilliwack Progress

  01-03-2024 19:09 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack Chiefs to face Capitals and Bulldogs on home ice  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Cedric Fofana advances to men’s 3m diving final at Montreal World Cup

  01-03-2024 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal’s Cedric Fofana advanced to his first major final on the international stage Friday at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup.
  The 20-year-old Fofana placed 10th in the men’s three-metre springboard preliminary round with 387.75 points — just under six shy of his career high (393.65) — in front of friends and family at the Olympic Pool.
  Bryden Hattie of Victoria missed the cut by finishing 13th (375.90), but could still feature in the final if a diver from the top 1
  
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• Theodore Wirtz - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  01-03-2024 18:35 via news.google.com
  
  Theodore Wirtz - Obituary -  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fire that gutted Metro Vancouver school caused by humans, police say

  01-03-2024 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COQUITLAM, B.C. — Police say they believe a fire last October that destroyed an elementary school in Port Coquitlam, B.C., was human caused.
  Coquitlam RCMP say the investigators are now asking those responsible or people who may know who is responsible to come forward and contact police.
  The fire at Hazel Trembath Elementary School happened in the early morning of Oct. 14, and the weekend fire was initially deemed suspicious by police.
  Police said that investigators were treating the blaze
  
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• Saudi Arabia launches formal bid to host 2034 World Cup in FIFA contest effectively already won

  01-03-2024 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Saudi Arabia launched its formal bid campaign Friday to host the 2034 World Cup, in a race that basically became a formality last October when the oil-rich kingdom was the only candidate to enter the contest.
  The Saudi Arabian soccer federation revealed the bid slogan “Growing. Together” and a campaign logo of two multi-colored ribbons forming the number 34.
  The logo “is designed to capture the essence of Saudi Arabia’s young nation, vibrant society and rich heritage,&rdq
  
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• RCMP determine a person is to blame for an October fire at a Port Coquitlam school

  01-03-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COQUITLAM — Coquitlam RCMP have determined a devastating fire at Hazel Trembath Elementary School in Port Coquitlam last fall, was human-caused.Emergency officials were called to the school fire at3:17 a.m. on October 14. They arrived to discover the school was fully engulfed by flames. The Port Coquitlam Fire Department battled the flames for several days, dealing with smoldering embers and fire flare-ups under the rubble.
  Image: RCMP supplied / Fire crews mop up fire at Hazel Trembath El
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada says a computer’s IP address deserves privacy protection

  01-03-2024 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says police need judicial authorization to obtain a computer’s internet protocol address, calling the identification number a crucial link between a person and their online activity.
  The top court’s ruling came today in a case that began in 2017 when Calgary police investigated fraudulent online transactions from a liquor store.
  The store’s third-party payment processor voluntarily gave police two IP addresses — numerical identif
  
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• Woman convicted of murder conspiracy, coverup, in 2019 disappearance of Connecticut mother

  01-03-2024 17:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to murder missing mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos, who vanished from a wealthy Connecticut enclave in 2019 and was never found.
  Prosecutors said Michelle Troconis, 49, helped her then-boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, in his plot to kill his estranged wife and cover it up.
  While the jurors were polled as to whether they agreed with the verdict, Troconis sat with her head down, crying, as one of her lawyers rubbed her back. She later rested her head on the table and
  
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• Orchard expansion in Canada’s wine country stirs fears a key wildlife corridor will be harmed

  01-03-2024 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a cherry orchard expansion span the eastern stretch above Highway 33 on the outskirts of Kelowna in Canada’s wine country.
  New cherry varieties and climate change in British Columbia’s interior have enabled the fruit to grow at higher than usual elevations. Soon, this grassland terrain surrounded by mountains of ponderosa pine will be full of rows of cherry tr
  
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• Quebec City police make arrest in Jean Béliveau photo theft from peewee tourney

  01-03-2024 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec City police say they’ve made an arrest in the theft of a signed Jean Béliveau photo from the Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament, but the photo has not been recovered.
  Police say a 50-year-old Quebec City man was arrested Thursday and released under a promise to appear.
  Authorities say the file has been transferred to the Crown.
  Tournament organizers say the more than 60-year-old framed photo of Béliveau taking part in an event at the tournament’s inaug
  
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• Canada defeats Scotland for second win in ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 play

  01-03-2024 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI CITY, United Arab Emirates — Pargat Singh hit 87 not out to lead Canada to a commanding seven-wicket victory over Scotland in ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 play Friday.
  The Canadian men won their opening match Wednesday, defeating the United Arab Emirates by three wickets.
  On Friday, Canada won the toss and elected to field, restricting the Scots to 215 for eight in their allotted 50 overs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Nicholas Kirton and Dillon Heyliger led the Canadi
  
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• Portage and Main: Landmark Winnipeg intersection could open again to pedestrians

  01-03-2024 16:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A landmark intersection in Winnipeg could soon be open again to pedestrians.
  Mayor Scott Gillingham says he’s in favour of reopening the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street by the summer of 2025, after receiving a report on the cost of needed repairs.
  Concrete barriers have prevented pedestrian crossings there for more than 40 years, forcing people to go through an underground concourse. 
  The study says carrying out repairs at the intersection, while mainta
  
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• Celine Boutier takes second-round lead at LPGA tournament in Singapore

  01-03-2024 15:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SINGAPORE (AP) — Six-time LPGA Tour winner Celine Boutier had a bogey-free round of 8-under 64 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship.
  The 30-year-old French player had a 36-hole total of 7-under 137 on the Sentosa Golf Club course, a layout a short drive south of the Singapore city center. 
  Ayaka Furue of Japan was in second after a 67. Madelene Sagstrom was in third after a 67, two strokes behind Boutier.
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• Canada’s Sarah Mitton wins gold in shot put at world indoor athletics championships

  01-03-2024 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GLASGOW, United Kingdom — Sarah Mitton set a Canadian record and claimed the gold medal in women’s shot put at the world athletics indoor championships on Friday.
  Mitton’s record throw, on her fifth attempt, measured 20.22 metres.
  The reigning Commonwealth and Pan American Games champion from Brooklyn, N.S., had already clinched victory on her fourth throw, which measured 20.20, also setting a national mark. 
  Yemisi Ogunleye of Germany won silver with a throw of 20.19, whi
  
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• Navalny’s family is laying the opposition leader to rest after his death in prison

  01-03-2024 11:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral Friday in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.
  His supporters say several churches in Moscow refused to hold the service before Navalny’s team got permission from one in the capital’s Maryino district, where he once lived before his 2020 poisoning, treatment in Germany and su
  
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• In the news today: Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney dead at 84, tributes pour in

  01-03-2024 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…
  Commons to stay empty after Brian Mulroney’s death
  Members of Parliament are absent from the House of Commons as Canadians mourn the death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. 
  The flag atop the Peace Tower is flying at half-mast in tribute to the Progressive Conservative titan who died Thursday at 84. 
  Tributes to Mulroney and his substantial politica
  
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• What are the next steps on the Liberals’ long road to a national drug plan?

  01-03-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The bill Health Minister Mark Holland tabled in the House of Commons Thursday is only the first step toward a possible pharmacare program. 
  But the legislation does lay down a road map for how the federal government plans to get there. 
  The first step is to negotiate universal coverage for birth control and diabetes drugs with provinces and territories — something he says he’s fairly certain he can accomplish by the next election.
  The Liberal government draft
  
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• House of Commons silent, Parliament Hill flag at half-mast after death of Mulroney

  01-03-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are absent from the House of Commons as Canadians mourn the death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. 
  The flag atop the Peace Tower is flying at half-mast in tribute to the Progressive Conservative titan who died Thursday at 84. 
  Tributes to Mulroney and his substantial political and personal legacy are sure to dominate when the sitting resumes March 18. 
  A family spokesman says Mulroney died surrounded by his family in a Palm Beach hospi
  
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• PHOTOS: Lots to see at Fraser Valley Women's Expo in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  01-03-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  PHOTOS: Lots to see at Fraser Valley Women's Expo in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Barbara MacAulay Obituary - Chilliwack, BC - Dignity Memorial

  01-03-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Barbara MacAulay Obituary - Chilliwack, BC  Dignity Memorial
  
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• Scandinavian Airline medevac plane lands in Malaysian island, where Norwegian King is hospitalized

  01-03-2024 08:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated for an infection.
  King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell ill during a vacation, the royal palace in Oslo announced on Tuesday. There were no details of his illness. His son, Crown Prince Haakon, has said his father’s condition was improving and that he
  
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• Maple Leafs reacquire Russian defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin in three-team trade

  01-03-2024 07:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ilya Lyubushkin is back with the Maple Leafs. 
  Toronto acquired the bruising defenceman and the rights to forward Kirill Slepets in a three-team deal late Thursday night that also involved the Anaheim Ducks and Carolina Hurricanes.
  Leafs general manager Brad Treliving addressed a glaring need with Lyubushkin, adding a right shot to a blue-line corps in badly need of some balance.
  Toronto dressed six left-shot defenders for the second consecutive game in Thursday’s 4-2
  
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• Doughty, Fiala lead Los Angeles Kings to 5-1 road victory over Vancouver Canucks

  01-03-2024 07:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Drew Doughty and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and two assists as the Los Angeles Kings snapped a two-game losing streak with a 5-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.
  Anze Kopitar and Trevor Moore both had a goal and an assist for the Kings. Rookie Brandt Clarke scored his second career goal while Quinton Byfield also had two assists.
  Doughty now has 501 career assists.
  Brock Boeser scored on the power play for the Canucks.
  The Kings (30-19-10) were playing their t
  
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• Matthews scores his 53rd as Maple Leafs send Coyotes to 14th straight loss

  01-03-2024 06:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 53rd goal and the Toronto Maple Leafs topped Arizona 4-2 on Thursday night to send the Coyotes to their 14th straight loss.
  Matthew Knies had a goal and an assist, Tyler Bertuzzi also scored and William Nylander added an empty-netter to go with two assists for Toronto, which had its seven-game winning streak stopped Tuesday by Vegas. Joseph Woll made 30 saves in his return from a high ankle sprain that sidelined him 35 games.
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• Iran begins voting in first parliament election since 2022 protests as questions over turnout loom

  01-03-2024 05:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran began voting Friday in its first parliamentary elections since the mass 2022 protests over its mandatory hijab laws after the death of Mahsa Amini, with questions looming over just how many people will turn out for the poll.
  Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 84, will cast one of the first votes in an election that also will see new members elected to the country’s Assembly of Experts. The panel of clerics, who serve an eight-y
  
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• Sam Reinhart scores twice, Florida Panthers beat Montreal Canadiens in shootout, 4-3

  01-03-2024 04:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored twice and the Florida Panthers defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 in a shootout on Thursday night.
  Reinhart became the fourth player in Florida’s franchise history to reach the 40-goal mark with his second period tally, breaking an eight-game goal drought in the process.
  Aleksander Barkov also scored for the Panthers and Anthony Stolarz made 28 saves.
  Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky and Alex Newhook scored for the Canadiens while Samuel Montemb
  
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• Law to protect long-term funding of federal child care system passes final hurdle

  01-03-2024 04:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Legislation that commits the federal government to long-term funding of the national child care system is poised to become law.
  The bill aims to enshrine the system into law, making it harder for future governments to defund it. 
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced the creation of a national child care system in 2021 and struck deals with all provinces and territories to deliver day care for an average of $10 a day by 2026. 
  Provinces and territori
  
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