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• B.C. government targets ‘profiteers’ with legislation to bring in flipping tax

  03-04-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia has tabled legislation to enact the home-flipping tax, charging 20 per cent to those who sell their home within the first year.Finance Minister Katrine Conroy told the legislature that the tax is aimed at speculators who use housing only to turn a quick profit and it will make “profiteers think twice about a practice that inflates housing costs during a housing crisis.”
  The tax on income from the sale of property starts next year and will gradually d
  
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• Wilfrid Laurier’s Luke Brubacher impressing despite limited football experience

  03-04-2024 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WATERLOO, ONTARIO — As Wilfrid Laurier’s head football coach, Michael Faulds has seen many walk-ons.
  But never one like Luke Brubacher.
  The six-foot-six, 255-pound defensive end’s introduction to football came in 2021 with the Golden Hawks after he sent Faulds an email requesting a tryout. 
  Three years later, the former amateur boxer from Listowel, Ont., is projected as an early selection in the ’24 CFL draft on April 30.
  With the global pandemic forcing the cancella
  
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• Woodbine jockey Kimura earns second straight Kentucky Derby mount

  03-04-2024 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Woodbine jockey Kazushi Kimura will be riding in the Kentucky Derby for a second straight year.
  Kimura, who won a third straight Woodbine riding title last year, will be aboard T O Password, a Japanese colt that has won both lifetime starts.
  “I am very excited to be riding in the Derby again,” Kimura told Woodbine communications. “I’d like to thank the connections of T O Password for this great opportunity.
  “Hopefully, we can make this a memorable day for the entire
  
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• Check that check; PWHL players may have to rein in physicality at world championship

  03-04-2024 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UTICA, N.Y. — Coaches and players in the Professional Women’s Hockey League don’t expect the new league’s brand of hard-hitting hockey to continue into the world championship.
  The PWHL rule book released Jan. 1 and the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 2023-24 rule book carry identical language around body checking in women’s hockey, but similar to NHL players heading to the men’s world championship, an adjustment is expected.
  “It’s defin
  
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• Canada’s Kim calm, cool and collected ahead of Augusta National Women’s Amateur

  03-04-2024 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  If Lauren Kim is intimidated by storied Augusta National Golf Club, it doesn’t show.
  The 19-year-old collegiate golfer from Surrey, B.C., is the lone Canadian in the field at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur this week. She said that her strategy at the elite amateur event is to take the tournament one shot at a time, a strategy that paid off as she had an even-par 72 in Wednesday’s opening round.
  Kim was in an 11-way tie for 29th, six shots behind leader Hannah Darling of S
  
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• BC Hydro wants more clean power to help meet demand, clean energy targets

  03-04-2024 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — BC Hydro is looking for more clean power to add to its grids as electricity demands are expected to increase by 15 per cent in the next six years.
  The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation says the Crown power utility has issued its first call in 15 years and is looking to acquire about 3,000 gigawatt hours per year. 
  The ministry says in a statement that it would add about five per cent to its current supply, which would provide clean electricity to 270,000 h
  
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• Woman faces second-degree murder charge in death of child at Quebec City daycare

  03-04-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The Crown says two people have been charged in the killing of a 14-month old girl last month at a home daycare in Quebec City. 
  Guenuite Kiwangala Mubwaka, 25, was charged today with second-degree murder in the death of the toddler in Quebec City’s Beauport borough.
  The woman appeared today along with co-accused Josaphat Mayuba Ndele, 30, who was charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder.
  Last week, Quebec City police announced the pair had been arrested
  
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• Chilliwack council approves street-cleaning funds despite mess - Chilliwack Progress

  03-04-2024 22:17 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack council approves street-cleaning funds despite mess  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Driver still in hospital days after rollover crash in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  03-04-2024 21:45 via news.google.com
  
  Driver still in hospital days after rollover crash in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Former Chilliwack NDP MLA to switch parties and run for B.C. Conservatives this year

  03-04-2024 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A familiar name within the Chilliwack political landscape will be crossing the political aisle to run for provincial office.Fraser Valley Today has learned that former NDP MLA Gwen O’Mahony, who served Chilliwack as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 2012-2013, will run for MLA with the B.C. Conservative Party in the Nanaimo-Lantzville riding in this year’s provincial election
  According to an online biography about her, O’Mahony became the first NDP ca
  
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• Chiefs play Rivermen in first round of BCHL playoffs

  03-04-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  By Ryleigh Mulvihill / Chilliwack Progress
  The Chilliwack Chiefs finished second in the Coastal Division and will play the Langley Rivermen in the first round of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) playoffs.
  The full schedule for the first round has also been released. With Chilliwack earning the second seed and Langley being the seventh seed the Chiefs will have home ice advantage in the series. In a best-of-seven series, the Chiefs will have game one, two, five and seven (if necessary) a
  
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• Lamborghini ‘joyride’ by 13-year-old ends in total write off: West Vancouver police

  03-04-2024 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in West Vancouver say a “joyride” by a 13-year-old in their parents’ Lamborghini set off a single-vehicle crash that resulted in a total write-off by the insurance company. 
  Police say in a news release issued Wednesday that they were called to a report of a crash last week and found the Lamborghini Huracan badly damaged in a ditch. 
  No one was at the scene, so officers began a search to ensure those inside during the crash weren’t hurt.
  
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• Underage West Vancouver youth crashes Lamborghini, resulting in multiple charges and a totaled sports car

  03-04-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WEST VANCOUVER — Mounties in West Vancouver say a 13-year-old crashed a Lamborghini sports car last week, resulting in multiple charges against the underage driver.
  According to a news release from the department, West Van police say they responded on Monday evening, March 25 at approximately 11 p.m. to the report of a single collision on Highway 1. Once on scene, police located a Lamborghini Huracan in a ditch with no inside the sports car.“Officers began an exhaustive search to ens
  
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• One-handed Calgary fighter Jake Peacock ready to entertain on One Championship stage

  03-04-2024 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary’s Jake (The One) Peacock is looking forward to putting on a show Friday in his Muay Thai debut in the One Championship promotion.
  It’s fair to say his opponent, Japanese bantamweight Kohei (Samurai Warrior) Shinjo, and the fans at the storied Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok will never have seen anything like it.
  The 30-year-old Peacock was born without a right hand. The amniotic band was wrapped around his arm in the early stages of development, which stopped it from growi
  
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• Two Canadians stranded by Taiwan earthquake, says firefighting agency

  03-04-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s firefighting service says two Canadians were among a group of people stranded by rock slides in a gorge after the island’s strongest earthquake in 25 years.
  The agency says in an overnight Facebook post that the Canadians were among 12 people stuck on a trail in Taroko National Park, a renowned hiking destination, and rescue efforts were ongoing.
  Other Canadians caught in the quake are describing scenes of chaos and violent shaking that shifted furnitu
  
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• Residents to return to Vancouver’s homeless encampment after city cleared the site

  03-04-2024 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Residents forced out of a Vancouver homeless encampment will be allowed back in this week after the city completed a cleanup of the site.
  The City of Vancouver says in a statement that residents can move back into the designated area at Crab Park starting Thursday, after crews removed more than 90,000 kilograms of debris and material, 20 propane tanks and six generators. 
  The city says it has clearly marked each nine-metre-squared shelter site for each of the 27 residents
  
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• NHLers on the evolution of power plays and penalty killing

  03-04-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mark Giordano has witnessed the NHL’s power-play evolution up close.
  The league’s oldest player this season at age 40, the Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman quarterbacked the Calgary Flames’ No. 1 unit in his Norris Trophy-winning 2018-19 season.
  By that time, many power plays had already morphed from the classic setup featuring two defencemen at the point and three forwards around the net to a 1-3-1 formation — usually with another centre or winger — that spread out t
  
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• Tigers and Mets postponed by rain for 2nd straight day, will play doubleheader Thursday

  03-04-2024 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For the second consecutive day, the scheduled game between the Detroit Tigers and New York Mets was postponed because of rain.
  Wednesday night’s game will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader beginning at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday, originally an off day for both teams before steady showers soaked New York City this week.
  When the undefeated Tigers and winless Mets were unable to play Tuesday night, a makeup game was initially set for Thursday at 1:10 p.m
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs play Langley Rivermen in first round of BCHL playoffs - Chilliwack Progress

  03-04-2024 20:00 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack Chiefs play Langley Rivermen in first round of BCHL playoffs  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sweden opens world women’s hockey championship with 3-1 win over Denmark

  03-04-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UTICA, N.Y. — Lina Ljungblom scored the winning goal as Sweden opened up the 2024 world women’s hockey championship with a 3-1 win over Denmark on Wednesday.
  Ljungblom’s goal came late in the second period with Sweden on a power play. Sofie Lundin’s shot pass found an unmarked Ljungblom, whose shot beat Danish goaltender Emma-Sofie Nordstrom.
  Lundin also set up Josefin Bouveng’s insurance goal in the third period.
  Sweden’s Felizia Wikner-Zienkiewicz opened the
  
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• Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner’s wife gives birth to stillborn baby, the couple says

  03-04-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner’s wife, Maggie, delivered a stillborn baby on Sunday, the couple said in a statement released by the club.
  The Jenners said Wednesday they are at a loss for words over the pain that’s nothing like they’ve experienced before after the death of their son, Dawson.
  “As heartbroken as we are, we are incredibly grateful to be his parents and look forward to holding him again one day in heaven,” they sa
  
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• Speed limiting devices to become mandatory on heavy B.C. commercial trucks

  03-04-2024 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia Transportation Ministry says commercial trucks above a certain weight will soon be required to be fitted with technology to limit how fast they travel on provincial roadways. 
  The ministry says the “speed-limiter devices” will be mandatory on April 5 for commercial trucks weighing more than 11,793 kilograms and if they were built after 1994. 
  An information bulletin from the Transportation Ministry says the technology will limit vehicle
  
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• Anger and anxiety in Newfoundland after abrupt end to Growlers hockey team

  03-04-2024 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The sudden end of the Newfoundland Growlers has left sports fans crushed and business owners anxious in a capital city spurned before by professional hockey teams.
  John Riche, a Realtor known for being a dedicated Growlers fan, says he’s frustrated and “teed off” after Tuesday’s end-of-day announcement that the ECHL was terminating the team’s membership in the league.
  Riche has watched three other hockey franchises come and go in St. J
  
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• Fraser Valley home inventory growing but benchmark single-family home prices continue to rise

  03-04-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — The supply of available homes for sale continues to grow throughout the Fraser Valley, according to the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.The real estate association representing realtors from Abbotsford to White Rock says prospective home buyers in the Fraser Valley have more choice heading into the spring market.The FVREB says home sales were slower than expected in March 2024 as real estate transactions totaling 1,395 were recorded in the Multiple Listing Service, a 13 per
  
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• Show and sale this weekend for 94-year-old Chilliwack artist - Maple Ridge News

  03-04-2024 19:17 via news.google.com
  
  Show and sale this weekend for 94-year-old Chilliwack artist  Maple Ridge News
  
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• Show and sale this weekend for 94-year-old Chilliwack artist - Chilliwack Progress

  03-04-2024 19:13 via news.google.com
  
  Show and sale this weekend for 94-year-old Chilliwack artist  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Advocacy groups decry federal government’s shutdown of mental health website, app

  03-04-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mental health and addictions experts are slamming the federal government’s decision to shut down an online service where people could find free counselling and peer support over the last four years.Health Canada announced in February that it would stop funding the Wellness Together Canada website and PocketWell app on April 3.Despite a public plea from an alliance of 18 mental health and addictions organizations for the government to reconsider, the service ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT Wednesday
  
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• Toronto Raptors sign centre Malik Williams to 10-day contract

  03-04-2024 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Centre Malik Williams has signed a 10-day contract with the Toronto Raptors.
  Per team policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  The six-foot-11 Williams averaged 11.1 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 23.2 minutes in 33 regular-season games this year with the Sioux Falls Skyforce, the G League affiliate of the Miami Heat.
  Williams scored in double figures 21 times for the Skyforce including a career-high 29 points Jan. 19 against the Maine Celtics.
  He went undra
  
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• Vancouver FC looks to make a mark, help make a difference with new jersey

  03-04-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver FC is thinking pink this year, thanks to its new “Cherry Blossom Kit.” And hoping to look good while helping make a difference.
  The away uniform, inspired by the blossoming of the approximately 40,000 cherry trees found in the Vancouver area, is the brainchild of Stephanie Wood, the Canadian Premier League club’s vice-president of marketing and business development.
  A portion of the jersey sales this season will be donated to the Pink Shirt Day campaign, which raises
  
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• Federal budget to include more money for apartment construction loans

  03-04-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government has revealed another glimpse of what it will present in next week’s federal budget, announcing it’s setting aside another $15 billion for an apartment construction loan program.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the initiative is being called “Canada builds” and is meant to “turbocharge affordable apartment construction.” 
  The new money will bring the loan program’s available funding to $55 billion, the governm
  
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• Buffalo Bills agree to trade receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans, AP source says

  03-04-2024 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills are trading their top receiving threat, Stefon Diggs, to the Houston Texans in a deal that was agreed to on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press.
  The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade has not been announced. It was first reported by ESPN.com.
  As part of the deal, the Bills acquired the Texans’ second-round pick in the 2025 draft, which Houston acquired in a trade with Minneso
  
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• District of Hope to use $500,000 grant for multi-use pathway from Silver Creek to ‘essential amenities’

  03-04-2024 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Multi-use pathways seem to be the wave of the future when it comes to active transportation initiatives in communities throughout B.C.
  The District of Hope plans to parlay a $500,000 funding grant from the provincial government into a multi-use pathway connecting one of its residential neighbourhoods south of Highway 1 to essential amenities in the city of 6,700.The district announced Wednesday (Mar. 27) it has received a half-million dollar grant under the B.C. Active Transportatio
  
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• Broadcast future for Canada soccer appears brighter with CSB, Mediapro nearing deal

  03-04-2024 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It appears Canadian Soccer Business and Mediapro have solved their broadcast differences
  The two partners appeared headed to court in January, both wanting out of a 10-year agreement struck in 2019, saying the other failed to live up to the deal. And both wanted the other to pay for it.
  Canadian Soccer Business, whose investor group and board includes the Canadian Premier League owners, looks after marketing and broadcast rights for both the CPL, which is entering his sixth seaso
  
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• World Central Kitchen founder pleads with Israel to start ‘journey to peace’

  03-04-2024 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The founder of the global relief charity whose workers were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday is pleading with Israel to start the “long journey to peace.”
  José Andrés, a Spanish chef who founded the World Central Kitchen in 2010, penned an essay published in the New York Times today. 
  He says the deaths of his seven colleagues are “the direct result” of Israeli policy, which “squeezed humanitarian aid to des
  
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• Police, border services seize 598 stolen vehicles at Montreal port, most from Ontario

  03-04-2024 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Ontario Provincial Police and the Canada Border Services Agency say they’ve recovered 598 stolen vehicles destined for export at the Port of Montreal.
  Police say 75 per cent of the seized vehicles, with an estimated value of $34.5 million, were stolen in Ontario.
  OPP deputy commissioner Marty Kearns says no arrests were made but the investigation is ongoing. 
  Police say 390 containers at the port were searched during a joint operation involving border services, police
  
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• Family displaced by Cultus Lake fire has found temporary housing as community support pours in

  03-04-2024 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The neighbour who organized an online fundraising drive for a single mother of two boys whose home was completely destroyed by a fire on Easter Sunday says the family has found temporary housing.
  According to an update from Ainsley Murdock, Serena and her two sons have found a place to live until the end of June. Their Spruce Street home was destroyed when their dryer caught fire and spread throughout the home. Less than 24 hours after the terrible ordeal for the family, Murdo
  
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• Banff bus fire strands U.K. students on ski trip; no injuries

  03-04-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Two dozen youth visiting from the United Kingdom were shuttled to safety after their tour bus caught fire on a scenic highway in Banff National Park. 
  At about 5 p.m. yesterday, R-C-M-P in Lake Louise were called to the fire on the Icefields Parkway.
  Mounties say there were 60 stranded passengers at the scene, including 48 youth on a school ski trip from Tonbridge, U.K. 
  Police, firefighters, paramedics and Parks Canada responded and confirmed everyone got ou
  
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• Steve Clifford is stepping down as Hornets coach and will take on an advisory role

  03-04-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Steve Clifford is stepping down as coach of the Charlotte Hornets after the season, the team announced.
  Clifford informed the team of his decision on Wednesday. He plans to remain on in an advisory role.
  Clifford is 45-112 in his two seasons of his second stint as coach of the Hornets and just 18-57 this season.
  He is 337-457 in parts of 10 seasons as a head coach, most of them in Charlotte. He started as a head coach in Charlotte in 2013, then spent three seasons as
  
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• Greater Vancouver home sales down nearly 5% in March as prices rise: board

  03-04-2024 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Greater Vancouver’s real estate board says the number of homes that changed hands in March fell from the previous year, as total sales were nearly one-third lower than the 10-year average.
  Greater Vancouver Realtors says there were 2,415 home sales in the region last month, a 4.7 per cent decrease from the 2,535 sales recorded in March 2023.
  That came as the total number of Metro Vancouver homes listed for sale rose 22.5 per cent year-over-year to 10,552, which is 6.3 per
  
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• Canadian referee Drew Fischer appointed to work Paris Olympic football tournament

  03-04-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian Drew Fischer is one of 21 FIFA referees appointed to work the football tournament at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
  The 43-year-old from Calgary will be joined by Canadians Lyes Arfa and Micheal Barwegen, his normal assistant referee cohorts.
  Fischer, who has served on the FIFA refereeing panel since 2015, previously worked the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France and 2022 Men’s World Cup in Qatar as a video assistant referee.
  He has worked both in the Canadian Premier
  
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• Former Saskatchewan Roughriders player, executive Jim Hopson dies at age 73

  03-04-2024 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Jim Hopson, the former Saskatchewan Roughriders player who later served as president of the CFL club, has died. He was 73.
  The Roughriders confirmed Hopson’s death Wednesday.
  Hopson battled colon cancer for three years.
  Hopson, a Regina native, was an offensive lineman with Saskatchewan from 1973 to 1976, playing with legendary Riders such as running back George Reed and quarterback Ron Lancaster.
  He returned to the franchise in 2005 as its first full-time president/CEO, a p
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: NDP’s revolving door of justice continues

  03-04-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Every British Columbian deserves to feel safe in their community.But for the past seven years under David Eby’s NDP government, violent crime rates have increased province-wide by over 37 percent. This uptick in crime is having a damaging impact on our communities. Many seniors no longer feel safe to walk in their neighbourhoods, parents are worried for the safety of their children, and business owners are being forced to grapple with vandalism, increasing security costs, and merchandise t
  
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• Police remove migrants from central Paris square ahead of the Olympics

  03-04-2024 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — French police on Wednesday removed dozens of migrants, including families with young children, from the forecourt of Paris City Hall as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games.
  Police arrived at dawn to remove about 50 people, mostly women and children aged 3 months to 10 years, who were bundled up in strollers, under blankets or covered with plastic sheets to shield against the rain while sleeping in the plaza. The migrants packed belongings an
  
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• Tech industry says barriers keep Canadian companies from selling to government

  03-04-2024 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Bureaucracy makes it too difficult for Canadian tech companies to sell to government, a new report from an industry group says — and all that red tape is keeping them from a bigger piece of the billions spent on procurement.
  In some cases, companies find it easier to sell to foreign governments, says Laurent Carbonneau, director of policy and research at the Council of Canadian Innovators, which represents the Canadian tech sector.
  Companies want to “sell a good produc
  
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• Canada’s Gushue downs the Netherlands to improve to 6-1 at world curling playdowns

  03-04-2024 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland — Canada’s Brad Gushue scored a 7-4 win over Wouter Goesgens of the Netherlands at the world men’s curling championship on Wednesday.
  Gushue scored a pair in the opening end and stole a single in the second to take an early lead he would never relinquish. He added a single in the sixth end, a deuce in the eighth and one more in the 10th to seal the win.
  With the victory, Gushue and his St. John’s, N.L.-based team of Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and
  
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• Bodies of 6 foreign aid workers slain in Israeli strikes are transported out of Gaza

  03-04-2024 14:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian state media say the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a series of Israeli strikes have been transported out of the Gaza Strip before their repatriation.
  Qahera TV said the bodies were driven across the Egyptian border at the Rafah crossing on Wednesday.
  The three British citizens, a Polish citizen, an Australian and a Canadian American dual citizen worked for World Central Kitchen, an international charity founded by celebrity chef José An
  
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• Opa and Boardwalk Burgers to join Cottonwood Centre - Chilliwack Progress

  03-04-2024 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  Opa and Boardwalk Burgers to join Cottonwood Centre  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Spanish police detain ex-soccer federation head Rubiales on return to country amid corruption probe

  03-04-2024 14:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish police detained former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales on his return to the country amid an ongoing corruption probe, Spain’s Civil Guard said Wednesday.
  The Civil Guard said that Rubiales is being questioned by police at Madrid’s airport after he was detained on exiting the plane that brought him back home from the Dominican Republic.
  Rubiales was returning to Spain amid a judicial probe into the business deal to hold the Spanish Super Cup in Sa
  
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• In the news today: Opening arguments at the Alberta blockade trial for trio of men

  03-04-2024 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…
  Opening arguments set for Coutts blockade trial
  Opening arguments are scheduled today in the trial for three men charged for their role in the blockade of the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts, Alta.
  The blockade over COVID-19 pandemic health restrictions paralyzed Alberta’s main border crossing with Montana for more than two weeks in 2022. 
  Marco Van Huigenbos, Ale
  
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• Rescuers launch feeding plan for killer whale calf stranded in remote B.C. lagoon

  03-04-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Plans to save a killer whale calf stranded in a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island for almost two weeks have been elevated to attempts to feed the young animal.
  Federal Fisheries Department rescue team members say they will now look to observe if the orca calf will eat harbour seal remains placed at areas of the lagoon where the young killer whale is known to frequent.
  Paul Cottrell, the department’s Pacific region marine mammal co-ordinator, says the
  
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