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• Olympic sprinter Knighton allowed to run at US trials after contamination case

  19-06-2024 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sprinter Erriyon Knighton tested positive for a banned substance that an arbitration panel determined came from contaminated meat, a decision that keeps the 200-meter specialist eligible to run at the upcoming U.S. Olympic trials.
  The 20-year-old from Florida, who holds the under-18 and under-20 records in the 200 meters, tested positive for the performance enhancer trenbolone during an out-of-competition test in March, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which re
  
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• Kings acquire goaltender Darcy Kuemper from Capitals for forward Pierre-Luc Dubois

  19-06-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Kings acquired goaltender Darcy Kuemper from the Washington Capitals for forward Pierre-Luc Dubois in a trade of high-priced, underachieving players on Wednesday.
  Kuemper, who has three seasons remaining on a five-year $26.25 million contract he signed with Washington in 2022, ended up being the backup to Charlie Lindgren when the Capitals were swept in four games in the first round by the New York Rangers.
  The 34-year old Kuemper appeared in 33 games wit
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigating motorcycle collision that claimed the life of a 49-year-old

  19-06-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack say they are investigating a fatal collision that took the life of a 49-year-old motorcyclist last week.
  According to a news release from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police were dispatched last Thursday, June 13 at 7:40 p.m. for the report of a two-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle and an SUV on Camp River Road.
  Responding officers attended and located BC EHS paramedics tending to the rider, along with civilians who were first
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigating motorcycle collision that claimed the life of a 49-year-old - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 22:29 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack RCMP investigating motorcycle collision that claimed the life of a 49-year-old  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Canada’s Alena Sharp excited for major return at KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

  19-06-2024 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been three years since Hamilton’s Alena Sharp played in a major and she feels like her game has evolved to better suit the best-on-best women’s golf tournament.
  The 43-year-old Sharp joins Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., and Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Thursday. Sharp last competed in a major in 2021, playing in the Women’s PGA Championship and the Amundi Evian Championship that year.
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• Chilliwack Search and Rescue, 3rd busiest in all of B.C., works to erase $750000 shortfall for new facility - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 22:19 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack Search and Rescue, 3rd busiest in all of B.C., works to erase $750000 shortfall for new facility  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack Search and Rescue, 3rd busiest in all of B.C., works to erase $750,000 shortfall for new facility

  19-06-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A representative of Chilliwack Search and Rescue told Chilliwack City Council members Tuesday (June 18) that the non-profit organization is working diligently to address a $750,000 shortfall as it builds its new facility on Fifth Avenue, east of Young Road, in an industrial area of Chilliwack.Frank Van Nynatten, a 28-year member of Chilliwack SAR, said its new search and rescue facility under construction has seen ground densification completed, concrete footings and foundatio
  
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• Ottawa moves forward on threat to use federal powers to help Quebec caribou

  19-06-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he’s moving forward on his threat to invoke federal powers to protect Quebec’s declining woodland caribou herds.
  Guilbeault said today that he’s starting the process to obtain a federal decree to protect the herds in Val-d’Or, Charlevoix and Pipmuacan, after what he describes as Quebec’s failure to develop a plan to save them.
  The federal minister says his government will hold consultations to dete
  
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• Weather helping keep wildfire away from N.W.T community as residents remain out

  19-06-2024 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT GOOD HOPE, N.W.T. — A wildfire that has forced hundreds out of a community in the Northwest Territories is growing, but strong winds continue to force it away from the town.Fire officials say no structures in Fort Good Hope have been destroyed.The wildfire has expanded significantly, stretching to more than 40 square kilometres in size, since it started on the weekend.
  The weather forecast is favouring crews, with winds pushing flames further from the community.The fire forced out mos
  
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• Flashback: No Messi back in 2010 but Argentina firepower still too much for Canada

  19-06-2024 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada and Argentina, who meet in Thursday’s Copa America curtain-raiser in Atlanta, have history — albeit in the form of a lopsided 5-0 defeat in their only other meeting at the senior level.
  The Canadian men travelled to Buenos Aires in May 2010 to take on the powerful South American side on the eve of its departure for the World Cup in South Africa.
  Argentina was ranked seventh in the world at the time, 56 places above Canada, then coached by Stephen Hart.
  “I remember people
  
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• BC United Leader Kevin Falcon loses another candidate to Rustad’s Conservatives

  19-06-2024 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — BC United Leader Kevin Falcon has lost another member of his election team to British Columbia’s Conservative Party.
  Business leader and former District of Sechelt councillor Chris Moore announced he will no longer represent BC United in the October provincial election in the Powell River-Sunshine Coast riding and will instead run as a candidate for Leader John Rustad’s Conservatives.
  Falcon’s party has lost several high-profile candidates and members to the Co
  
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• Gilgeous-Alexander, Wiggins headline Canada men’s Olympic basketball roster

  19-06-2024 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — NBA stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Andrew Wiggins and Jamal Murray will lead the Canadian men’s basketball team at the Paris Olympics in July.
  Canada Basketball made the announcement Wednesday afternoon and said a training camp will be held from June 28 to July 7 in Toronto.
  The team is coming off a historic 2023 where it won its first-ever medal at a FIBA World Cup, defeating the United States for bronze last September in Manila, Philippines.
  Canada qualified for the Olymp
  
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• Alouettes focused on winning ahead of Grey Cup banner reveal against Redblacks

  19-06-2024 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Cody Fajardo knows watching the Grey Cup banner rise at Molson Stadium will stir up his emotions.
  But deep down, the Montreal Alouettes quarterback has one thing on his mind heading into the unveiling: winning a football game.
  After two games on the road to start the 2024 CFL season, the reigning champions host the Ottawa Redblacks in their home opener Thursday night. The Alouettes have sold more than 20,000 tickets, effectively selling out what’s expected to be a rowdy Mo
  
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• Orphaned B.C. sea otter pup in critical condition, receiving 24-hour care

  19-06-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Animal rescuers at the Vancouver Aquarium say an orphaned sea otter pup is receiving 24-hour care to “ensure her survival,” after it was found in critical condition.
  The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society says a member of the public found the otter near Tofino, B.C., and it was brought to the rescue facility in Vancouver on Tuesday night.
  Society executive director Martin Haulena says the female pup cannot swim, hunt or regulate body temperature on its
  
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• The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law

  19-06-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Lan
  
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• Natural gas expansion work proposed for the Fraser Valley

  19-06-2024 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Westcoast Energy, an Enbridge company that oversees and operates the primary natural gas transmission system in British Columbia, is proposing to expand sections of the southern part of this pipeline through the Fraser Valley.According to a statement from Rawnna Low, spokesperson for Enbridge, Westcoast Energy says this natural gas transmission system transports natural gas that ultimately heats homes, hospitals, businesses and schools throughout B.C. This same natural gas is
  
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• Coalition of drug user groups wants court to quash B.C. drug ‘recriminalization’

  19-06-2024 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A coalition of drug user advocacy groups is taking the federal government to court, claiming the decision to recriminalize public drug possession in British Columbia puts users at increased risk of death.The group of 13 non-profits, including the Matsqui-Abbotsford Impact Society and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, says in an application filed in Federal Court that the federal government recriminalized public drug possession in B.C. “with minimal justification o
  
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• Two-time Olympic medallist Dion retires from Canada’s short-track speedskating team

  19-06-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Pascal Dion has retired from Canada’s short-track speedskating team after a 10-year career that included two Olympic medals.
  The 29-year-old from Montreal announced his decision in a Speed Skating Canada release Wednesday.
  Dion helped Canada win gold in the men’s 5,000-metre relay at 2022 Beijing Olympics alongside teammates Charles Hamelin, Steven Dubois, Jordan Pierre-Gilles and Maxime Laoun.
  He was also a member of the relay team that won bronze at the Pyeongchang
  
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• CFL to begin augmented broadcasts of games Thursday on TSN+

  19-06-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — CFL broadcasts are going to look a little different now.
  Starting Thursday night, broadcasts of CFL games on TSN+ will be available as augmented live streams.Viewers will see locators to help them find the ball carrier and a timer that will indicate the length of time it takes a quarterback to get a pass off.
  There will also be calculations on just how fast a player ran on a play. Some passing routes — commonly referred to as a route tree — will be included, with line
  
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• Canada’s Raonic loses second-round match to Fritz at Queen’s Club

  19-06-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Canada’s Milos Raonic lost to fourth-seeded American Taylor Fritz 7-6 (5), 6-4 in second-round action Wednesday at the Queen’s Club Championships tennis tournament.
  The 33-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., came into the match following a first-round win over Cameron Norrie in which he set a record for aces in an ATP three-set match with 47.
  He was held to nine aces Wednesday, two fewer than Fritz, in the first meeting between the players.
  Raonic seemed poised to win the f
  
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• Health firm settles with B.C. medical commission on extra-billing for health services

  19-06-2024 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Medical Services Commission says it has reached an agreement with a Vancouver company over allegations that it was extra-billing for health care paid for by the public system.The commission filed a petition to B.C. Supreme Court last year against Harrison Healthcare asking for an injunction, saying a reasonable person would believe they could obtain priority access to health benefits by paying $4,500 a year for a premium service.
  The commission says in a
  
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• Extreme heat deaths higher among seniors and in cities with more renters, study says

  19-06-2024 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A new report by Statistics Canada says deaths in the country’s 12 highest-population cities go up on days when there is extreme heat.The study says people aged 65 and older are the hardest hit.Cities with larger proportions of people renting their homes had higher risks of death during extreme heat events.Seniors in both Montreal and Toronto had higher rates of deaths due to respiratory causes on extremely hot days.
  The study also found that the risk of heat-related deaths
  
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• Vancouver Canucks sign defenceman Mark Friedman to one-year deal

  19-06-2024 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have signed defenceman Mark Friedman to a one-year contract worth US$775,000, the NHL club announced Wednesday.
  The 28-year-old from Toronto had an assist, 21 penalty minutes and a plus-4 rating over 23 games with the Canucks last season.
  He added a goal and three assists in four games with the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Canucks.
  The five-foot-11, 185-pound defenceman has 13 points (four goals, nine assists) and 70 penalty minutes over 88 ca
  
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• Off-duty Chilliwack firefighter prevents blaze from spreading to house - Chilliwack Progress

  19-06-2024 20:02 via news.google.com
  
  Off-duty Chilliwack firefighter prevents blaze from spreading to house  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terror group

  19-06-2024 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so.
  Members of Parliament voted unanimously in May to list the IRGC, a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces, as a terrorist entity.The Liberals have said in the past that doing so could affect a number of people who had no choice but to be drafted into the organization.
  The federal government had al
  
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• Fernandez through to quarterfinals in Birmingham with win over Golubic

  19-06-2024 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BIRMINGHAM — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez moved on to the quarterfinals of the Rothesay Classic grass-court tennis tournament with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 win over Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic on Wednesday.
  Fernandez, from Laval, Que., claimed the only break point on offer in the third set to win the match in two hours 21 minutes.
  Golubic went ahead after winning a similarly clean set in the first when she converted the only available break point.
  Both players had struggles holding ser
  
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• Off-duty Chilliwack firefighter pitches in to stop garage fire at Chilliwack home from spreading

  19-06-2024 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An off-duty Chilliwack firefighter is being credited with intervening quickly after a fire started in a garage at an Eastern Hillsides home Tuesday afternoon (June 18) in Chilliwack.
  According to a news release from Assistant Fire Chief Krista Minar, Chilliwack firefighters were dispatched just before 5 p.m. to a possible structure fire originating from a garage in the 50000 block of Ledgestone Place. Minar says approximately 24 firefighters from Halls 1 (Cheam Avenue), 2 (Ros
  
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• Off-duty Chilliwack firefighter pitches in to stop garage fire at Chilliwack home from spreading - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 19:34 via news.google.com
  
  Off-duty Chilliwack firefighter pitches in to stop garage fire at Chilliwack home from spreading  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Flames trade goaltender Markstrom to Devils for Bahl, first-round pick

  19-06-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary has traded goaltender Jacob Markstrom to the New Jersey Devils, the Flames announced Wednesday.
  The Flames receive defenceman Kevin Bahl and a 2025 first-round pick in return.Calgary retained 31.25 per cent of Markstrom’s remaining contract, which has two years left on the US$36-million ($6-million average annual value) deal he signed Oct. 9, 2020.
  The 34-year-old Swede posted a 23-23-2 record with a .905 save percentage and a 2.78 goals-against average this season.
  
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• Collaros, Bombers look to snap dismal start to 2024 CFL season

  19-06-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s only the third game of the season but it is an important one for Zach Collaros and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  Winnipeg (0-2) hosts the B.C. Lions (1-1) on Friday night following an uncharacteristic slow start to the 2024 campaign. Not since 2016 have the Blue Bombers — who’ve reached the Grey Cup four straight years — been two games below .500.
  Again, it’s early, but what’s been very surprising has been the lack of production from a Winnipeg offence that
  
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• Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner steps up after playoff benching: ‘It pissed me off’

  19-06-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE — Stuart Skinner wasn’t happy — with himself or the situation.
  The Oilers goaltender had been pulled after surrendering four goals on just 15 shots as part of a 4-3 loss to the Canucks in Game 3 of the teams’ second-round playoff series.
  Skinner and his .793 save percentage through three outings against Vancouver took a seat two nights later with the club trailing the best-of-seven matchup 2-1.
  Calvin Pickard — a dependable, journeyman backup — would s
  
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• Calgary marks two weeks of water restrictions; pipe pieces arrive from San Diego

  19-06-2024 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — It has been two weeks since a massive pipe ruptured in Calgary, leaving residents under water restrictions.
  Mayor Jyoti Gondek says it’s also the fourth day in a row Calgarians have used less water than the city produces, avoiding the risk of the taps going dry.
  She says two new pieces of pipe trucked in from San Diego have arrived and engineers are to begin work to replace defective ones.
  It could take until mid-July to make the repairs and get water flowing through the pi
  
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• LNG company plans to use ‘floatel’ near Squamish, B.C., without local permit

  19-06-2024 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — The company behind a natural gas project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a local permit to house workers in a converted cruise ship, and is instead pressing ahead on the basis of a provincial order.
  The District of Squamish had yet to issue a temporary use permit authorizing the so-called floatel, which has been the subject of debate in council meetings in recent months.
  But Woodfibre LNG’s president Christine Kennedy says the terms of the prop
  
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• Caeli McKay leads young Canadian diving team into Paris Olympics

  19-06-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — After just missing out on a medal at the Tokyo Games, Caeli McKay will look to stand on the Olympic podium for the first time when she leads a young Canadian diving team this summer in Paris.
  The 24-year-old from Calgary was among five athletes named to the team Wednesday by Diving Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
  McKay and partner Meaghan Benfeito finished fourth in the 10-metre synchro event in Tokyo.
  It was a comeback performance from McKay, who sustained a serious a
  
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• Chilliwack parent hoping to address school board gets asked to leave meeting - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 17:41 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack parent hoping to address school board gets asked to leave meeting  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack parent hoping to address school board gets asked to leave meeting

  19-06-2024 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — By speaking in the public participation portion of last week’s school board meeting, Chilliwack resident Judi Chalmer was hoping to provide feedback to the Chilliwack Board of Education about its policies and the rating trustees gave themselves in its board performance review report.What Chalmer got instead was a request to leave the meeting from Chilliwack school board chair Willow Reichelt, who repeatedly cut Chalmer’s microphone after Chalmer continued to speak.
  
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• After rough season, Canadian men look to last-chance Olympic rugby sevens qualifier

  19-06-2024 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Not much has gone right for the Canadian men’s rugby sevens team this season.
  Relegated from the elite HSBC SVNS series earlier this month in Madrid after a 3-36-0 campaign that ended with 29 straight losses, Canada will now have to battle other second-tier sides to reclaim its spot among the world’s top 12 teams.
  The Canadian men, who finished eighth at the Tokyo Olympics, have been a core team on the top sevens circuit since 2012-13 and lifted the trophy in Singapore in 2017.
  But t
  
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• Health minister says he aims to launch national pharmacare program by next April

  19-06-2024 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland says he hopes to launch a national pharmacare program by April 1, 2025.A pharmacare bill drafted by the Liberals and the NDP has made its way through the House of Commons, but still needs to be studied by the Senate.
  The idea is to make birth control and diabetes medication available to anyone with a health card as part of a universal, single-payer program.The Liberals budgeted $1.5 billion for the program over five years.Once the bill receives royal a
  
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• Canada’s population grew to top 41 million in the first quarter: StatCan

  19-06-2024 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 41 million people in the first quarter of this year as it grew by 0.6 per cent.
  The agency says the population reached 41,012,563 on April 1, a gain of 242,673 people in the first three months of the year.
  Statistics Canada said the increase came as the country welcomed 121,758 immigrants in the first quarter.
  Net emigration amounted to 12,613 people for the quarter.
  Canada also added 131,810 non-permanent residents to t
  
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• Ontario’s open single-game sports-betting industry continues to thrive.

  19-06-2024 15:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ontario’s single-game sports betting industry is on a winning streak.On Wednesday, iGaming Ontario (iGO) released a report that states the industry contributed $2.7 billion to Ontario’s gross domestic product in 2023. That’s up roughly 70 per cent from $1.58 billion in 2022, its initial year of operation.
  The industry opened up fully in Ontario on April 4, 2022. Ontario remains the only province in Canada to have an open, regulated igaming market.
  The report, wh
  
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• Neighbourly Pharmacy acquires six pharmacies across Canada

  19-06-2024 15:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Neighbourly Pharmacy Inc. says it has acquired six pharmacies across Canada. Financial terms of the deals were not immediately available.
  The company says it has acquired five locations in Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and British Columbia in separate transactions.
  The sixth deal is for another location in B.C. and is expected to close later this month, pending customary regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
  Neighbourly chief executive Skip Bourdo says the company re
  
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• Environment Canada says the extreme heat is continuing today in Ontario and Quebec

  19-06-2024 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Central and southern Ontario and much of western Quebec are forecast to experience another day of sweltering weather.
  Environment Canada’s heat warnings say daytime highs are expected to hit 30 to 35 degrees Celsius, with the humidex making it feel closer to 40.
  And while the daytime hours are expected to be steamy, there may be some relief during the overnights.
  The agency says the lows can vary between 18 to 23 Celsius.
  However, any benefit from the roughly 10-degree difference could ver
  
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• Inquest starts 'healing' in wake of Chilliwack man's Taser death - Chilliwack Progress

  19-06-2024 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  Inquest starts 'healing' in wake of Chilliwack man's Taser death  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• In the news today: NATO head to visit Ottawa and Fans on edge as Oilers remain alive

  19-06-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed tobring you up to speed…
  NATO secretary-general visiting Ottawa
  The head of the NATO alliance is set to meet with the prime minister in Ottawa today.
  Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is also slated to give a speech at an event hosted by the NATO Association of Canada this evening.
  His last visit to Canada was in August 2022, when he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent time in the Arctic.
  That region is the highlight of Ca
  
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• Federal government decision expected on controversial B.C. fish farms

  19-06-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is expected to announce the way forward for fish farms along British Columbia’s coast.The ocean-pen aquaculture operations have been a flashpoint between First Nations, the industry, wild salmon advocates and environmentalists for several years.Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier will make the announcement in Ottawa this afternoon, while Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is expected to make the same announcement in Vancouver.Lebouthillier has been
  
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• NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to meet with prime minister in Ottawa

  19-06-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The head of the NATO alliance is set to meet with the prime minister in Ottawa today.
  Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is also slated to give a speech at an event hosted by the NATO Association of Canada this evening.
  His last visit to Canada was in August 2022, when he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent time in the Arctic.That region is the highlight of Canada’s new defence strategy, released earlier this spring, and it’s seen as being of increasing importance
  
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• Update: Cause of Chilliwack mill fire under investigation - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Update: Cause of Chilliwack mill fire under investigation  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Down and stressed after early losses, Oilers fans getting their confidence back

  19-06-2024 08:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — When your team is already down three games in the Stanley Cup final series and a single loss would mean the dream of a championship victory parade is over, it’s understandable that anxiety for Edmonton Oilers fans is through the roof.
  “It’s up here! I’m telling you it is so high!” said Ethan Newman, 17, who was among a large and exuberant crowd watching on a big screen outside Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton as the Oilers took an early lead agains
  
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• Cooler temps and rain could help corral blazes that forced thousands to fee New Mexico village

  19-06-2024 07:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Cooler weather — and the chance of rain — could bring some relief this week to firefighters battling blazes in southern New Mexico that killed one person, damaged hundreds of structures and forced thousands to evacuate.Strong wind pushed the larger of two wildfires into the mountain village of Ruidoso, forcing residents to flee immediately with little notice. Weather patterns are expected to shift by Wednesday morning with moisture from a tropical wave in t
  
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• Updated: Proposed 64-unit residential building near industrial area of Chilliwack sent back to city staff to review - Fraser Valley Today

  19-06-2024 07:14 via news.google.com
  
  Updated: Proposed 64-unit residential building near industrial area of Chilliwack sent back to city staff to review  Fraser Valley Today
  
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