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• B.C. to add 240 complex-care housing units in communities throughout the province

  15-04-2024 23:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — British Columbia is planning to add 240 new units to its complex-care housing program, providing homes for people with mental-health and addictions challenges that overlap with other serious conditions.
  The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says in a statement 200 of the units will be located in Abbotsford, Burnaby, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Prince George, Sechelt, Surrey, Vancouver and Victoria.
  The remaining 40 units will be Indigenous-led and th
  
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• A 9-year-old boy’s dream of a pet octopus is a sensation as thousands follow Terrance’s story online

  15-04-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus.The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.The child’s father, 36-year-old dentist Cameron Clifford, researched the possibility with a local aquarium store and before long Terrance the California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac, was living in a
  
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• Maple Leafs star Matthews soars towards rarefied air with 70-goal quest

  15-04-2024 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Auston Matthews is on the verge of entering rarefied air in pursuit of 70 goals this season.
  Matthews is currently one goal shy of the mark, with his Toronto Maple Leafs having two games remaining on the regular-season schedule. Toronto plays the Florida Panthers on Tuesday and the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday, both on the road.
  The 70-goal mark has been reached 14 times by eight different players, with three players having reached the threshold multiple times: Wayne Gretzky (four), Brett Hu
  
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• Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth

  15-04-2024 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts.
  The justices’ order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the
  
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• 'Striptease artist': Ex-Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld loses defamation suit - MSN

  15-04-2024 22:38 via news.google.com
  
  'Striptease artist': Ex-Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld loses defamation suit  MSN
  
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• Toothpicks offer calm, tranquillity for Argos veteran linebacker Wynton McManis

  15-04-2024 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s as much a part of Wynton McManis as his infectious smile and gregarious nature.
  No matter where the Toronto Argonauts veteran linebacker goes, he always has a toothpick. If it’s not in his mouth, it’s often tucked behind his ear.
  Some might think it’s to look cool, but McManis says a toothpick provides comfort and tranquillity.
  “I’m an outgoing, fun-loving, active guy and I think when I was younger that got me into trouble,” said McManis. “I h
  
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• Here’s what the Liberals have promised will be in the federal budget on Tuesday

  15-04-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to present the federal budget on Tuesday after a countrywide tour that teased many of the housing and affordability measures to be included in the document.Here’s what the federal Liberals have already promised.
  Housing plan
  On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government’s plan to tackle the housing crisis, which he promised will build nearly 3.9 million homes by 2031.The plan builds on a string of announceme
  
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• Canada beats Italy 72-60 to earn Paralympic men’s wheelchair basketball berth

  15-04-2024 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANTIBES, France — Patrick Anderson scored a game-high 23 points as Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team earned a spot for the Paris Paralympics with a 72-60 win over Italy at a repechage qualifying tournament Monday.
  Anderson added 12 rebounds for Canada.
  Colin Higgins had 14 points and 16 rebounds, while Vincent Dallaire and Nik Goncin added 11 points each in the wire-to-wire win.
  The repechage tournament was the final opportunity for teams who did not qualify for the Par
  
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• Red Sox LF Tyler O’Neill leaves game against Guardians after collision with teammate

  15-04-2024 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston left fielder Tyler O’Neill had to leave the game against the Cleveland Guardians on Monday in the eighth inning after colliding with third baseman Rafael Devers when the two were chasing a shallow pop-up.
  Devers made the catch as O’Neill collided with him. 
  The pair went to the ground. O’Neill, who hails from Maple Ridge, B.C., held his face as he sat up and Devers was face down as a trainer and Red Sox manager Alex Cora raced onto the field.
  Cor
  
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• Blue Jays reinstate Jansen from injured list, option fellow catcher Serven to minors

  15-04-2024 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have reinstated catcher Danny Jansen from the 10-day injured list and optioned catcher Brian Serven to Triple-A Buffalo.
  Jansen was active for the opener of a three-game series against the New York Yankees on Monday night at Rogers Centre, the Blue Jays said in a release. 
  The 29-year-old backstop missed the first 16 games of the regular season. He suffered a small fracture in the pisiform bone at the base of his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch o
  
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• Toronto Raptors looking forward to next season after 2023-24 ruined by ‘bad luck’

  15-04-2024 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — This was supposed to be Scottie Barnes’s season.
  Toronto made a series of trades through December and January that effectively made Barnes the face of the franchise and he was named to his first-ever NBA all-star game in February. The retooled Raptors started to click with Barnes at the centre of head coach Darko Rajakovic’s schemes, putting together a modest three-game win streak that put them within range of a play-in berth.But then he had season-ending surgery to r
  
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• Singh defends NDP carbon price position — without directly supporting a consumer levy

  15-04-2024 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal leader of the New Democrats is insisting his party’s position on carbon pricing remains unchanged.
  But Jagmeet Singh is refusing to say explicitly whether he supports Canadians having to pay it on consumer items like gasoline. 
  Singh met with reporters today for the first time since a speech last week created confusion about the NDP position on the federal consumer levy on fuel. 
  In it, Singh sang the praises of “affordable, low-carbon options&rdq
  
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• BC United announces candidate Dr. David Moniz for Chilliwack North - Chilliwack Progress

  15-04-2024 21:20 via news.google.com
  
  BC United announces candidate Dr. David Moniz for Chilliwack North  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Link to Canada’s security needed to bar suspected spies under immigration law: court

  15-04-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal says people can be barred from Canada under espionage-related provisions of the immigration law only when their activities have a clear link to Canadian security. 
  The finding comes today in a pair of rulings involving men from Ethiopia who were found inadmissible to Canada for being members of an organization that had engaged in spying.
  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act provisions bar permanent residents and foreign nationals who belonged to
  
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• Joly says she asked her Israeli counterpart to ‘take the win’ and not bomb Iran

  15-04-2024 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she’s urging Israel to de-escalate rising conflicts in the Middle East and not bomb Iran in retaliation for Sunday’s thwarted airstrikes.
  Joly says she told Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz to “take the win” of having stopped Iranian airstrikes and to not respond with a direct attack on Iran.
  Israel and Iran have been in a proxy war for years, with Israel accusing Tehran of empowering groups like
  
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• Israel’s military chief says that Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile attack

  15-04-2024 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military chief said Monday that Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike, but did not immediately elaborate on when and how.Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that Israel is still considering its steps, but he said that the Iranian strike of missiles and attack drones “will be met with a response.” Halevi spoke during a visit to the Nevatim air base, which Israel says suffered light damage in the Iranian attack.
  Prime Minister Benjamin
  
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• Chilliwack resident learns valuable lesson after his kids’ ringette gear was stolen – right in front of him

  15-04-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack resident Tony Gore wishes he had listened to his wife when they went shopping over a week ago at a Langley sporting goods store, only to have over $500 of his kids’ ringette gear stolen from right in front of him.Gore, a longtime Chilliwack resident affiliated with the Gore Brothers development company, says he and his wife were shopping for ringette gear for their son Wyatt at Sports Replay in Langley on Saturday, April 6. He says he was waiting for store sta
  
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• 190 decaying bodies were found at a Colorado funeral home. Owners charged with COVID fraud of $880K

  15-04-2024 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — The couple who owned a Colorado funeral home — where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year — have been indicted on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government, according to court documents unsealed Monday.
  The new federal charges against Jon and Carie Hallford add to charges in Colorado state court for abusing corpses. The 15 fraud charges filed against each of the Hallfords carry potential p
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protesters block access to container port in Metro Vancouver

  15-04-2024 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DELTA, B.C. — Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked access to a major container port terminal in Metro Vancouver.
  Terminal operator GCT Canada says “illegal protesters’ actions are causing an unsafe situation” as truckers that try to access the Deltaport facility are being held on the Roberts Bank causeway.
  GCT spokesman Marko Dekovic says in a statement that the company is calling on police to take action and return Deltaport to normal operations, as the protest is &ld
  
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• Dental-care double standard: hygienists ask for equal pay under federal plan

  15-04-2024 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association is calling out the Liberal government for what it says is a double standard in the payment of services under a new federal plan. 
  Last week, Health Canada released the reimbursement guide for the new federal dental-care plan, which is expected to provide oral health coverage for millions of low- and middle-income families. 
  The guides show the federal government plans to pay significantly less for a cleaning that happens at a pr
  
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• Liberals to explain how they will foot the bill for new spending in Tuesday’s budget

  15-04-2024 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland donned fresh footwear for the benefit of the cameras today — a long-standing tradition the day before the finance minister presents the federal budget.The Liberals have made no secret of their plans to focus on housing and affordability, so the only details left to disclose on Tuesday could well be how Ottawa plans to pay for everything.
  Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have spent the better part of the last three weeks doling out budget details i
  
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• 73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  15-04-2024 20:05 via news.google.com
  
  73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack - Abbotsford News

  15-04-2024 20:05 via news.google.com
  
  73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack  Abbotsford News
  
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• Chilliwack doctor set to run for MLA in this year’s provincial election

  15-04-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Fraser Valley Today has learned that Dr. David Moniz, a Chilliwack emergency physician and anesthetist who works at Chilliwack General Hospital, will run as a BC United MLA candidate in this year’s provincial election.
  Fraser Valley Today confirmed with Dr. Moniz this past week and Monday morning (Apr. 15) that he is set to run in the Chilliwack North riding where he’ll compete against BC NDP MLA Dan Coulter and B.C. Conservative candidate Heather Maahs.His X/Twitt
  
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• Edmonton captain McDavid set to return from injury as Oilers welcome Sharks

  15-04-2024 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Connor McDavid’s quest to become the fourth player in NHL history to record 100 assists in a season was set to resume Monday night.
  The Oilers said McDavid would be in the lineup for the their game against the visiting San Jose Sharks after Edmonton’s captain missed three games with a nagging lower-body injury.
  The Oilers went 1-1-1 in that span. 
  Edmonton entered the game second in the Pacific Division, five points behind the Vancouver Canucks.
  The Oilers enter
  
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• Leafs’ Matthews, Preds’ Josi, Flames’ Kadri named NHL’s three stars of the week

  15-04-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews, Nashville Predators defenceman Roman Josi and Calgary Flames centre Nazem Kadri have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Matthews led the league with five goals and added two assists in four games last week. He scored in all four of Toronto’s games to extend his goal streak to eight games and his point streak to 14.
  Matthews enters Toronto’s final two games of the season with 69 goals.
  No player has scored 70 goals in a seas
  
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• B.C. govt. announces 73 more housing units for unhoused, homeless residents of Chilliwack

  15-04-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The B.C. government announced Monday morning (Apr. 15) that 73 new temporary housing units will provide shelter to unhoused residents in Chilliwack.
  According to a statement from the provincial government, the B.C. government says the Homeless Encampment Action Response Temporary Housing program, or HEARTH, will aim to get people living in shelters or on the streets into temporary housing.
  “Through our HEARTH program, we are quickly developing these 73 units to move peop
  
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• B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop

  15-04-2024 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates.
  The B.C. Real Estate Association says the province saw 6,460 residential unit sales in the Multiple Listing Service systems last month, a 9.5-per-cent decline from March 2023.
  The overall dollar volume of home sales also fell 3.6 per cent from the same month last year, dipping to $6.6 billion.
  
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• More than 70 temporary housing units will open in Chilliwack - BC Housing

  15-04-2024 19:16 via news.google.com
  
  More than 70 temporary housing units will open in Chilliwack  BC Housing
  
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• Wild turkey breaks into Quebec long-term care home, no injuries reported

  15-04-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A wild turkey broke into a long-term care home south of Quebec City over the weekend by smashing through a third-floor window.
  The local health authority says the animal entered an empty office at the Beauceville, Que., facility around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday but didn’t injure anyone.
  Fast-acting staff members at de Beauceville long-term care home closed the office door to lock the animal inside.
  The health authority for the Chaudière-Appalaches region says that a few m
  
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• Need a player to root for? Pavelski, Burns, Giordano among veterans who haven’t won the Stanley Cup

  15-04-2024 18:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns made the playoffs seven times together as teammates in San Jose, reaching the conference finals and getting all the way to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016 under Peter DeBoer. Zach Parise captained New Jersey to the final in 2012.
  All those runs ended in defeat.
  Pavelski and Ryan Suter are now teammates playing for DeBoer all over again, now with Dallas, Parise, after several years alongside Suter in Minnesota, is now with rival Colorado and Burns is the No. 1 defensema
  
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• Judge orders Alberta to produce massive trove of coal documents after four-year fight

  15-04-2024 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A judge is ordering the Alberta government to produce a massive trove of documents concerning its efforts to encourage coal mining in the province’s Rocky Mountains.
  The ruling comes in response to an attempt by the United Conservative government to block the release of the documents to a group of southern Alberta ranchers. 
  In his decision, the judge sharply criticizes the government’s secrecy, saying its approach makes the public’s right to information o
  
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• French president says world donors pledge more than 2 billion euros in aid for war-stricken Sudan

  15-04-2024 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that world donors are pledging more than 2 billion euros in aid for Sudan after a year of war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine.
  Macron spoke at the end of an international conference in Paris aimed at drumming up support for Sudan’s people. He did not give a detailed timeline or breakdown of the funding.
  In a final statement, top diplomatic envoys, U.N. officials and aid agencies gathered at the confe
  
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• Urban firefighters to get additional training to also battle wildfire blazes

  15-04-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is doubling its investment to train urban firefighters to battle wildfires — a growing threat to Canada’s cities and towns.
  Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the government is giving $800,000 to the International Association of Fire Fighters to conduct additional training.
  That’s twice the sum spent last year on 25 instructors who then trained more than 300 firefighters in Chilliwack and Kamloops, B.C, and Grand Prairie, Al
  
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• Canada announces more sanctions on Belarus as opposition leader visits Ottawa

  15-04-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is imposing more sanctions on officials in Belarus as the country’s exiled opposition leader visits Ottawa.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has laid sanctions on 21 people accused on human-rights violations in Belarus since its 2020 presidential election, which was widely denounced as fraudulent.
  The eastern European country has maintained many Soviet Union-era restrictions and policies and is often dubbed the continent’s last dictatorship.
  The Libe
  
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• Missing Kansas women confirmed dead, kids safe, 4 charged with kidnapping and murder

  15-04-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities on Monday confirmed the deaths of two Kansas women who went missing on a trip to Oklahoma to pick up children for a birthday party.Two bodies were recovered in rural Oklahoma, a day after four people were charged with murder and kidnapping. Authorities say 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley, of Hugoton, Kansas, were driving through the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler’s children for a March 30 birthday party in Kansas. They
  
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• Coroner’s inquest opens into Quebec firefighter flood deaths in May 2023

  15-04-2024 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LA MALBAIE, Que. — A coroner’s inquest is underway into the deaths of two volunteer Quebec firefighters who perished during a flood rescue last May in the Charlevoix region.
  Coroner Andrée Kronström is hearing from witnesses at the courthouse in La Malbaie, Que., during the inquiry that will take place over several days in April and May.
  Kronström says the goal is not to assign blame but to better understand what happened when Christopher Lavoie, 23, and Régis
  
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• Bureau of Prisons to close California women’s prison where inmates have been subjected to sex abuse

  15-04-2024 16:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it is planning to close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
  Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging i
  
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• Months after its peers, Canada sanctions Sudanese linked to year-long civil war

  15-04-2024 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is announcing sanctions against those it blames for perpetuating Sudan’s civil war, as the conflict enters its second year.
  For months, Africa experts and the NDP have criticized the Liberals for not following peer countries such as the U.S. in laying sanctions against those empowering warlords.
  Those sanctioned include Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo as well as former foreign minister Ali Karti, who led an Islamist group that opposes democrat
  
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• Switzerland’s Hug recovers from crash to win 7th men’s wheelchair race at Boston Marathon

  15-04-2024 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Switzerland’s Marcel Hug righted himself after crashing into a barrier when he took a turn too fast and still coasted to a course record in the Boston Marathon on Monday, winning the men’s wheelchair race for the sixth time.
  Hug already had a four-minute lead about 18 miles in when reached the landmark firehouse turn in Newton, where the course heads onto Commonwealth Avenue on its way to Heartbreak Hill. He spilled into the fence, flipping sideways, but quickly r
  
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• Trump arrives at court for the start of jury selection in his historic hush money trial

  15-04-2024 15:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived Monday at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush money trial, marking a singular moment in U.S. history.
  It’s the first criminal trial of any former U.S. commander-in-chief and the first of Trump’s four indictments to go to trial. Because he is also the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican ticket, the trial will produce the head-spinning split-screen of a presidential candidate spending his days in court
  
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• Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games

  15-04-2024 14:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — In Paris’ outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end.
  That’s because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris’ high-rise business district to Sevran, a Paris-area town with less glitter and wealth. There, the pieces will be bolted back together and — voila ! — Kebbi and her
  
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• Winning bidder of classic hockey cards looks to find owner who cares more about them

  15-04-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The winning bidder of more than a dozen unopened boxes of classic hockey cards uncovered in a Regina home says he’s feeling remorse over his $3.7-million-dollar purchase after hearing how sad the runner-up was upon losing out.
  “When I heard the runner-up bidder was literally devastated by missing out on acquiring this, I felt real empathy for him,” Jack Arshawsky of Thornhill, Ont. said in an interview, adding he’s hoping someone famous, perhaps even Wayne Gretzky, might
  
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• PWHL hits its home stretch after women’s world hockey championship

  15-04-2024 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Professional Women’s Hockey League enters the home stretch of its inaugural season Thursday when it resumes following the world championship break.
  Montreal is at home to Minnesota and Toronto visits Boston on Thursday.
  Each of the six clubs has five games remaining in the regular season that concludes May 5 with Toronto hosting Ottawa. The playoffs start the week of May 6.
  Toronto (10-3-0-6), Minnesota (8-4-3-4), Montreal (7-3-4-5) and Ottawa (7-0-6-6) were in playoff position. Boston
  
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• In the news today: Life returns to normal in Israel after Iran attack

  15-04-2024 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…
  ‘Fire in the sky:’ Canadian family in Israel says it’s business as usual after attack
  The rumbles and tremors rattling Leah Appel’s Jerusalem apartment building jolted her from sleep at around 1:45 on Sunday morning. Iran had just unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles at targets inside Israel. Appel, a Montreal native who moved to Israel with
  
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• Quebec employers group worried ‘politicized’ immigration debate will hurt jobs

  15-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The latest spat between Quebec and Ottawa over immigration is based on politics and not the reality of the labour market, says the head of a major employers group.
  “In some ways, it’s deplorable,” said Karl Blackburn, president and CEO of the Conseil du patronat du Québec.
  His comments come as Quebec Premier François Legault is threatening to hold a “referendum” on immigration if the federal government doesn’t take rapid action t
  
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• Insurance is high on frequently stolen vehicles. Here’s how to reduce your premiums

  15-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Looking for a break on car insurance premiums is often top of mind for drivers. 
  And finding ways to reduce that figure is especially important now, when rampant thefts have led to higher insurance costs.
  Experts say installing a tracking device and parking in a garage are among the actions that could help lower insurance costs.
  Generally, a whole host of factors determine insurance premiums — driving history, type of vehicle and location, among others, said Matt Hands
  
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• First 2024 Canada carbon rebates will be deposited today for some Canadians

  15-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians today as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March.
  Canadians living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and all four Atlantic provinces will receive the first of four instalments today if they filed their 2023 taxes by March 15.
  Those who filed their taxes since March 15 will see their first instalment on May 15, while those who file after today will wait until June or J
  
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• ‘Fire in the sky:’ Canadian family in Israel says it’s business as usual after attack

  15-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The rumbles and tremors rattling Leah Appel’s Jerusalem apartment building jolted her from sleep around 1:45 on Sunday morning.
  Unbeknownst to her at the time, Iran had just unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles at targets inside Israel in what observers around the world fear could mark a dramatic escalation of regional tensions already at a boiling point due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
  Appel, a Montreal native who moved to Israel with her husband after the Oct. 7 att
  
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• 73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  15-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  73 new housing spaces coming for those living rough in Chilliwack  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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