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• 4 Missouri prison guards charged with murder, and a 5th with manslaughter, in death of Black man

  28-06-2024 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was pepper sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate while in custody at a correctional facility, according to a complaint filed Friday.
  A group of guards making up the Department of Corrections Emergency Response Team was sweeping one of the housing units fo
  
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• Ore slide at Yukon’s Victoria Gold mine not the first failure: government officials

  28-06-2024 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — Yukon government mining officials say a recent slide of ore at a gold mine in the territory was the second such failure this year.Russell McDiarmid, the government’s head of major mines, says they’re hoping to get test results back next week to find out if the latest slide in a heap-leach facility at Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine led to a cyanide spill in nearby creeks.
  Work was stopped at the mine north of Mayo on Monday when the company said its heap-leach pad
  
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• Forbidden Door brings world of pro wrestling together with Canadian roots

  28-06-2024 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Tony Khan is bringing the world of professional wrestling together, and Canada has been an important part of that coalition.
  Khan was in Toronto last week for the Collision tech conference to speak about how his All Elite Wrestling promotion has been disrupting an industry dominated by World Wrestling Entertainment for the past 20 years. His strategy has been to focus on international markets, starting with his first show outside the United States at Toronto’s Coca-Cola Col
  
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• B.C. Review Board lets child killer Schoenborn keep eligibility for 28-day leave

  28-06-2024 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Review Board has ruled that Allan Schoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, will keep his eligibility for up to 28 days of unescorted leave from a Metro Vancouver psychiatric hospital.
  In a decision posted online by Dave Teixeira, a spokesman for the children’s relatives, the board says Schoenborn must not possess weapons, use alcohol or non-approved drugs or have contact with the relatives.
  The decision also acknowledges Schoenborn’s n
  
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• Lionel Messi to rest for Argentina’s final Copa America group match against Peru with leg injury

  28-06-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi will skip Argentina’s last Copa America group match against Peru on Saturday because of a right leg injury.
  Messi hurt his leg in Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Chile on Tuesday that clinched a quarterfinal berth for the defending champions. The Argentina superstar received treatment on his right thigh area after getting kicked by Chile defender Gabriel Suazo in the 24th minute, but he remained in the game.
  Argentina assistant coach Walter
  
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• Argentina coach Scaloni suspended for Copa America match vs. Peru for being repeatedly late

  28-06-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Florida (AP) — Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has been suspended for one match and will miss his team’s last Copa America group match against Peru on Saturday.
  Scaloni was suspended because Argentina was late returning for the second half in its two Copa America matches, a 2-0 win against Canada and a 1-0 triumph over Chile, the disciplinary commission of CONMEBOL said on Friday.
  Scaloni also can’t attend the post-match news conference.
  Defending Copa America cha
  
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• Stampeders look to end losing streak against struggling Bombers

  28-06-2024 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders won’t take the Winnipeg Blue Bombers lightly when the two teams play at McMahon Stadium on Saturday night.
  The Blue Bombers have surprisingly started the season with three straight losses, but Calgary quarterback Jake Maier doesn’t put much stock into Winnipeg’s sluggish start.
  “As players we have a ton of respect for them, even where they are right now in the standings and what their record is,” Maier said. “There’
  
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• Third time's a charm: Chilliwack sailing team finally finishes 1200-km race - Maple Ridge News

  28-06-2024 23:08 via news.google.com
  
  Third time's a charm: Chilliwack sailing team finally finishes 1200-km race  Maple Ridge News
  
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• Third time's a charm: Chilliwack sailing team finally finishes 1200-km race - Aldergrove Star

  28-06-2024 23:08 via news.google.com
  
  Third time's a charm: Chilliwack sailing team finally finishes 1200-km race  Aldergrove Star
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps hope to find calm seas with MLS win over St. Louis City SC

  28-06-2024 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — If you are a team trying to navigate out of stormy waters, playing St. Louis City SC might be a good course to plot.
  The Whitecaps (7-7-4) look to end a two-game losing streak against St. Louis (3-6-10) in Saturday night’s MLS Western Conference match at BC Place Stadium. St. Louis is winless in its last six games (0-3-3) and have a 0-3-5 road record this season.
  Vancouver head coach Vanni Sartini said the Whitecaps can’t simply lace up their cleats and expect to wa
  
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• Biden administration extends temporary legal status to 300,000 Haitians, drawing a contrast to Trump

  28-06-2024 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 300,000 Haitians already in the United States will now be eligible for temporary legal status allowing them to remain in the U.S. and work because conditions in the strife-torn Caribbean nation are considered unsafe for them to return, the Homeland Security Department said Friday.
  The decision marks a major expansion of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and won praise from many in the Haitian and immigration advocacy community.
  The TPS designation was created b
  
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• Defenceman Nikita Zadorov to test free agent market: Canucks GM

  28-06-2024 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov appears to be headed to the free agent market.Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin says the team tried its best to sign the six-foot-six, 248-pound Russian blue liner to a new deal, but he has decided to go elsewhere.
  The NHL’s free agency period begins Monday.
  Vancouver acquired Zadorov from the Flames on Nov. 30, sending Calgary a fifth-round pick in this year’s draft and a third-round selection in 2026 in exchange.The
  
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• Jim Pattison Group acquires U.S. grocery chain owner Save Mart Companies

  28-06-2024 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — U.S. grocery chain owner, the Save Mart Companies, says it has been acquired by the Jim Pattison Group.
  Save Mart spokesperson Jennifer Shelton confirmed the acquisition by the Vancouver-based holdings company, but declined to share financial details, including the value of the deal.
  Save Mart’s website says it operates about 200 grocery stores across California and Nevada.
  Its store banners include Save Mart, Lucky, Lucky California, FoodMaxx, and Maxx Value Food.
  Under
  
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• B.C. finishes merging health-profession colleges in plan for better oversight

  28-06-2024 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government has amalgamated 11 health-professional colleges into two, setting the foundation for what it says is stronger oversight.Health Minister Adrian Dix says merging the colleges is part of the government’s plan to ensure health professionals are regulated more consistently and robustly.The new College of Health and Care Professionals of BC will oversee roles including dietitians, occupational and physical therapists, optometrists and optician
  
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• Veteran Ellie Black leads Canadian gymnastics team into Paris Olympics

  28-06-2024 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ellie Black is heading to a fourth Summer Games as part of Canada’s gymnastics team competing at the Paris Olympics.
  The 28-year-old from Halifax, who becomes the first Canadian artistic gymnast to appear at four Games, headlines the roster announced Friday by Gymnastics Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
  Black placed fourth in the balance beam final at the Tokyo Games in 2021 for Canada’s best Olympic result in any women’s artistic gymnastics event.
  She
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to delay prison sentence

  28-06-2024 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to delay a prison sentence for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon as he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol insurrection.Bannon filed an emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison July 1 for a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The court previously denied a similar request f
  
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• Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count

  28-06-2024 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has dipped slightly, decreasing by about 0.3% since last year as California continues to struggle with the long-running crisis of tens of thousands of people sleeping in cars and encampments.
  Results released Friday from a federally required tally conducted in January found 75,312 people were homeless on any given night across the county, compared with 75,518 in 2023. About 45,252 were within the city of Los
  
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• Ontario man charged with slaying B.C. woman Tori Dunn was already facing assault case

  28-06-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — A 40-year-old Ontario man with a long criminal history has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Tori Dunn in Surrey, B.C., earlier this month.The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Adam Mann is facing the murder charge after Surrey police found him while they were on their way to Dunn’s home on June 16.At the time of Dunn’s killing, Mann was facing an unrelated aggravated assault charge for an alleged attack in Surrey
  
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• New exhibit on the refugee experience opens at the Chilliwack Museum - Chilliwack Progress

  28-06-2024 19:57 via news.google.com
  
  New exhibit on the refugee experience opens at the Chilliwack Museum  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadiens trade three draft picks to get 21st-overall selection from Kings

  28-06-2024 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Montreal Canadiens have acquired the 21st-overall pick in Friday’s NHL draft from the Los Angeles Kings.
  Los Angeles gets the 26th-overall pick as well as picks in the second round (57th), and seventh round (198th).
  The Canadiens had acquired the 26th pick from Winnipeg in the trade that sent forward Sean Monahan to the Jets.
  The Canadiens have 10 picks remaining in the draft after the swap, including the fifth-overall selection.
  Montreal was given the fifth-overall p
  
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• Prosecutors rest in seventh week of Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial

  28-06-2024 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors rested on Friday after presenting evidence for seven weeks at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, enabling the Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen to begin calling their own witnesses next week to support defense claims that no crimes were committed and no bribes were paid.
  Before resting, prosecutors elicited details about the senator’s financial records by questioning an FBI forensic accountant.Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press
  
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• Texas jury convicts driver over deaths of 8 people struck by SUV outside migrant shelter

  28-06-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday found a driver guilty of intoxication manslaughter over the deaths of eight people who were struck by an SUV that plowed into a crowded bus stop outside a migrant shelter on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  The verdict was handed down by a Cameron County jury more than a year after authorities say George Alvarez lost control of the vehicle after running a red light. The deadly scene happened in Brownsville, which has long been an epicenter for migration.
  
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• Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson team up in Paris as part of Olympic beach volleyball team

  28-06-2024 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — After competing with different partners at the Tokyo Games, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson are joining forces this summer at the Paris Olympics.
  Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson, both from Toronto, were part of Canada’s Olympic beach volleyball team announced Friday by Volleyball Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
  Heather Bansley of Waterdown, Ont., Toronto’s Sophie Bukovec, Samuel Schachter of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Toronto’s Daniel Dearing
  
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• Chilliwack teen becomes youngest rider to win Pro Sport class of Bridgestone Canadian championship - Fraser Valley Today

  28-06-2024 19:21 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack teen becomes youngest rider to win Pro Sport class of Bridgestone Canadian championship  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Yellowstone officials: Rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans not seen since June 4 birth

  28-06-2024 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Yellowstone National Park officials said Friday a rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen since its birth on June 4.
  The birth of the white buffalo in the wild, which fulfilled a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, was the first recorded in Yellowstone history and is a landmark event for the ecocultural recovery of bison, said park officials in confirming the birth for the first time.
  It is an extraordinarily rare occurrence: A white buffalo is born once in every
  
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• Chilliwack teen becomes youngest rider to win Pro Sport class of Bridgestone Canadian championship

  28-06-2024 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON, ALBERTA— Making history and shattering records comes naturally to Chilliwack teenager Andrew (AJ) Van Winkle, a 17-year-old motorcycle rider.Van Winkle outdid himself on Sunday, June 23, when he became the youngest rider ever to win the Pro Sport Bike class of the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike (CSBK) Championship.Not only did he capture the championship title, Van Winkle tied another record and became one of only two Sport Bike riders to ever win a race in this championship clas
  
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• Military was following ‘legal orders’ to try to rescue Afghan Sikhs, Gen. Eyre says

  28-06-2024 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces was following “legal orders” when it tried to rescue a group of Afghan Sikhs during the fall of Kabul three years ago, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre said.
  Eyre’s comment came as former defence minister Harjit Sajjan explained his decision to intervene on behalf of a group of around 200 Afghan Sikhs who were trapped along with thousands of others in August 2021.
  Sajjan said in a statement that he passed along information through
  
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• B.C. Premier David Eby welcomes birth of new daughter, Gwendolyn

  28-06-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia Premier David Eby’s special pre-election countdown has ended with the announcement of the arrival of his newborn daughter on Thursday.
  The premier says Gwendolyn Kay Eby was born happy and healthy at nine pounds six ounces.He posted a photo with wife Dr. Cailey Lynch and baby Gwendolyn on social platform X, saying their third child’s name comes from her great-grandmother, who he called a “longtime Victoria resident, born on the Prairies.”
  Eby thanked the
  
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• US will remove Gaza aid pier due to weather and may not put it back, officials say

  28-06-2024 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday.While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where
  
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• New charges against Frank Stronach involve 7 additional complainants: court documents

  28-06-2024 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Court documents show billionaire businessman Frank Stronach stands accused of sexually assaulting seven additional complainants from 1977 to as recently as February.The documents filed today provide additional information about eight new charges police recently laid against 91-year-old Stronach, after he was initially arrested in early June on five charges involving three different complainants.The documents say Stronach is accused of attempting to have sexual intercourse with a woman without he
  
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• Putin calls for resuming production of intermediate missiles after scrapping of treaty with US

  28-06-2024 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for resuming production of intermediate-range missiles that were banned under a now-scrapped treaty with the United States.
  The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, which banned ground-based nuclear and conventional missiles with a range of 500-5,500 kilometers (310-3,410 miles), was regarded as an arms control landmark when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed it in 1988.
  The United Sta
  
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• Raptors draft picks Ja’Kobe Walter, Jonathan Mogbo introduced to Toronto

  28-06-2024 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Years before Jonathan Mogbo was drafted by the Toronto Raptors, he got used to stopping and posing for photos with local fans.
  Mogbo visited his childhood best friend Scottie Barnes in Toronto after Barnes was drafted to the Raptors. Toronto they rode scooters around the city and stopped in a convenience store for a snack.A Raptors fan recognized Barnes and assumed that the six-foot-six Mogbo was former Toronto forward Precious Achiuwa, and asked for a photo with the two of them.
  
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• Peters, Chénier named to Canada’s archery team for Paris Olympics

  28-06-2024 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Eric Peters and Virginie Chénier have been named to Canada’s Olympic archery team.
  Archery Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the roster Friday. Both athletes are set to make their Olympic debuts.
  Peters, 27, from Kitchener, Ont., won silver in the men’s individual recurve event at the 2023 world archery championships, Canada’s best-ever result in the event.
  The 29-year-old Chénier lost to Kristine Esebua in an all-Canadian final a
  
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• Poilievre’s office silent on leader’s Pride plans, other party chiefs look to attend

  28-06-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre is the only federal leader whose staff would not answer questions about whether their chief intends to participate in Pride events this summer.
  Instead, his office is pointing to Melissa Lantsman, the party’s deputy leader, who attended a Pride flag-raising ceremony on Parliament Hill earlier this month.Poilievre has not publicly observed Pride month during cross-country June travels to meet community groups while marking St-Jean-Baptiste Day, Italian Herita
  
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• Crews respond to 2nd vacant-house fire in a week in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  28-06-2024 18:11 via news.google.com
  
  Crews respond to 2nd vacant-house fire in a week in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Current immigration levels could lead to ‘overreaction,’ Quebec premier says

  28-06-2024 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec Premier François Legault says there’s a risk of overreaction against newcomers if current immigration levels continue.The premier made the comments today to reporters on the Gaspé Peninsula, in response to a question about whether he feared a rise of the “right” in Quebec and Canada.
  He says he doesn’t want to see the province end up like the United States or France, where immigration has become a toxic political debate.Legault says t
  
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• As end looms for Calgary water restrictions, mayor warns daily usage way too high

  28-06-2024 17:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary’s mayor says residents have blown past the daily threshold the city has set to keep water service going amid a conservation crisis.
  Jyoti Gondek says Calgarians used 500 million litres of water on Thursday.
  It is 20 million litres more than the daily limit the city says is needed to ensure enough water is available for firefighting and health-care services.
  It is also the highest amount reported since the city imposed a mix of voluntary and mandatory water restricti
  
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• McDavid, MacKinnon, Crosby among six players named to Canada’s 4 Nations team

  28-06-2024 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canada’s team for the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off will include the NHL’s most valuable player and its playoff MVP.
  Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon and Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid were among the six players announced Friday by Hockey Canada, along with Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, Colorado defenceman Cale Makar, Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand and Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brayden Point.
  MacKinnon was awarded the NHL’s H
  
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• Biden tries to quell concerns after an unsteady debate showing as he and Trump head to swing states

  28-06-2024 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden strained to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with former President Donald Trump, as each candidate on Friday sought to expand his appeal in states he lost four years ago.
  Thursday night’s faceoff appeared set to reinforce the public’s deep-seated concerns about both men before perhaps the largest audience they will garner before ballots are cast.
  Biden’s halting delivery and meandering comments, parti
  
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• Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

  28-06-2024 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children.
  The ruling from the all-Republican court leaves in place a law that has been in effect since Sept. 1, 2023. Texas is the largest of at least 25 states that have adopted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.Most of those s
  
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• Indictment accuses former Uvalde schools police chief of delays while shooter was “hunting” children

  28-06-2024 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The police chief for schools in Uvalde, Texas, failed to identify an active shooting, did not follow his training and made critical decisions that slowed the law enforcement response to stop a killer who was “hunting” victims and ultimately killed 21 people at Robb Elementary, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.
  Pete Arredondo was arrested and briefly booked into jail before he was released Thursday night on 10 state jail felony counts of abandoning
  
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• Fernandez, Auger-Aliassime lead Canadian contingent into Wimbledon

  28-06-2024 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Five Canadians — three women and two men — are part of the singles competition draw at Wimbledon, which was announced Friday.Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, the top Canadian seed in singles play at No. 17, opens the men’s draw against Australia’s Thanasi Kokkinakis, while Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces No. 19 Nicolas Jarry of Chile.
  Leylah Fernandez, of Laval, Que., seeded 30th in the women’s draw, opens against Italy’s
  
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• Once thought too cold for the marsupials, Montreal home to growing number of opossums

  28-06-2024 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — One evening last fall, Robert Carrière was putting away some gardening tools when he saw something scurry out from under the shed.At first, he thought it was a big rat. Then he thought maybe a muskrat.What it was, it turned out, was an opossum. It was hanging out near a collective garden at a college in northeastern Montreal, and Carrière, a volunteer at the garden, wasn’t the only person to see one that fall. A campus security guard managed to snap a photo i
  
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• Justice John Roberts says the Supreme Court’s last decisions of this term are coming on Monday

  28-06-2024 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday.
  Chief Justice John Roberts made the courtroom announcement on Friday. Four cases remain to be decided, including whether former President Trump has immunity from prosecution.The Associated Press
  
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• Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces

  28-06-2024 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Donald Trump.
  The justices ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp., must include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents. Only some of the people who violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6,
  
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• Reports: Immanuel Quickley signs five-year, US$175 million deal to stay with Raptors

  28-06-2024 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Immanuel Quickley will sign a five-year contract to stay with the Toronto Raptors, according to multiple reports.
  Quickley intends to ink the US$175 million contract when free agency officially opens on Sunday.
  The deal cements the 25-year-old point guard’s status as an integral part of the Raptors’ young core.
  He was acquired as part of a blockbuster deal with the New York Knicks on Dec. 30.
  Quickley and RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., were sent to Toronto for OG An
  
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• Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside

  28-06-2024 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking.The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.In a 6-3 decision, the high court reversed a ruling by a San Francisco-based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unu
  
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• Halifax shipyard cutting steel as navy aims for first new destroyer operating by 2035

  28-06-2024 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Irving shipyard in Halifax is cutting steel for Canada’s new destroyers, though the navy says it will be about a decade before the first 8,000-tonne vessel joins military operations.
  At an announcement today in Halifax, the 15 warships received their official designation as River class destroyers, named after the warships Canada used during the Second World War.On Thursday, federal procurement officials said the final, detailed contracts for the first three destroyers h
  
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• Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect

  28-06-2024 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect.In Friday’s ruling, the high court told the lower court to dissolve the temporary injunction and continue with further proceedings.
  The new law bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.
  The bench’s majority ruling F
  
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• Chilliwack fire crews battle overnight fire at home believed to be abandoned - Fraser Valley Today

  28-06-2024 15:01 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack fire crews battle overnight fire at home believed to be abandoned  Fraser Valley Today
  
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