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• Former Quebec junior hockey players sentenced for sex assault to appeal sentences

  10-07-2024 23:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC CITY, Que. — Two former Quebec junior hockey players will appeal their prison sentences for sexually assaulting a minor at a hotel in June 2021 during a celebration of a Victoriaville Tigres championship win.
  On Monday, Quebec court Judge Thomas Jacques sentenced Nicolas Daigle to 32 months in jail and Massimo Siciliano to 30 months.
  A lawyer for Siciliano, 21, filed a motion to have his client instead be given a suspended sentence and bail while he awaits a decision.
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• B.C. war veteran John Hillman, dead at 105, raised thousands for children’s charity

  10-07-2024 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAK BAY — Second World War veteran John Hillman, who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity in the last years of his life, died Monday at the age of 105.In 2020, Hillman gained widespread attention for his fundraising efforts for Save the Children Canada’s COVID relief fund, raising $169,000 while walking around the courtyard of his Oak Bay retirement home.Save the Children Canada says Hillman’s annual walkabouts raised more than $440,000, and the charity’s p
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays looking to restock minor system at MLB Draft this weekend

  10-07-2024 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s time for the Toronto Blue Jays to restock their minor league system.
  Amateur scouting director Shane Farrell spoke with media on Wednesday ahead of this weekend’s Major League Baseball draft and said the Blue Jays’ minor league system, especially at the double and triple-A levels, needs to be refreshed with new prospects.“I think that’s been a byproduct of some of the moves that we’ve made to make our major league team as competitive as possible and to ma
  
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• Feds invest $15M in health-care AI development through Vancouver tech cluster program

  10-07-2024 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Canada is investing about $15 million toward the development of artificial intelligence in health care that Federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne calls a “game changer” for improving the industry’s ability to serve patients.
  Champagne says the funding will be invested through the ministry’s Vancouver-based technology cluster program in five medical tech companies, creating technology that automates certain tasks to enhance care.
  
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• Eels writhe on Vancouver airport’s tarmac after escaping from Air Canada cargo box

  10-07-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND — It was not quite the 2006 film “Snakes on a Plane” at Vancouver International Airport, but there were real eels — dozens of them — writhing on the tarmac during a recent incident captured on video.
  Air Canada Cargo says in a statement that it was handling a shipment of eels from Toronto to Vancouver on July 7 when one container box accidentally spilled during unloading.
  Video on social media shows the broken box on top of a stationary conveyor belt with h
  
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• House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point

  10-07-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration, a proposal Republicans have prioritized as an election-year talking point even as research shows noncitizens illegally registering and casting ballots in federal elections is exceptionally rare.
  The legislation, approved largely along partisan lines but with a few Democrats voting in favor, is unlikely to advance through the Democratic-led Senate. The Biden adm
  
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• Former Predators captain Johnson posthumously diagnosed with CTE

  10-07-2024 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — Former Nashville Predators captain Greg Johnson has been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy following a post-mortem brain tissue analysis.
  The diagnosis was released Wednesday by Johnson’s widow Kristin and daughters Carson and Piper through the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
  Johnson, from Thunder Bay, Ont., died by suicide five years ago at age 48 after a 14-season NHL career.
  He was the second-ever team captain for the Predators, where he played fr
  
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• Province bans all campfires in Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, and surrounding backcountry - Fraser Valley Today

  10-07-2024 23:26 via news.google.com
  
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• Province bans all campfires in Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, and surrounding backcountry

  10-07-2024 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The province isn’t taking any chances with campfires, especially after the number of active wildfires in British Columbia jumped by more than two dozen to about 130 amid a heat wave, creating prime conditions for fire, this week.According to a statement from B.C. Wildfire Service, all campfires will be banned throughout the Coastal Fire Centre covering Chilliwack and the surrounding Fraser Valley, Hope, Manning Park, Fraser Canyon, and forest service roads north of Agass
  
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• England reaches European Championship final by beating Netherlands 2-1 on Watkins late goal

  10-07-2024 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — England reached a second straight European Championship final by beating the Netherlands 2-1 thanks to substitute Ollie Watkins’ stoppage-time winner on Wednesday.
  Watkins, who came on for captain Harry Kane in a bold call by coach Gareth Southgate, turned and smashed a fierce shot into the bottom corner in the first minute of added-on time.
  England will play Lamine Yamal and Spain in Sunday’s final in Berlin. It will be the nation’s first title m
  
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• Las Vegas hits record of fifth consecutive day of 115 degrees or greater as heat wave scorches US

  10-07-2024 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas baked Wednesday in a record fifth consecutive day of temperatures sizzling at 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46.1 Celsius) or greater amid a lengthening hot spell that is expected to broil much of the U.S. into the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
  The temperature climbed to 115 at 1:13 p.m. at Harry Reid International Airport, breaking the old mark of four consecutive days. On Sunday, the heat wave set Las Vegas’ all-time temperature record of 120 F (48
  
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• Wetlands restoration project begins near Vedder Rotary Trail in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  10-07-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  
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• Wetlands restoration project begins near Vedder Rotary Trail in Chilliwack

  10-07-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Construction activities have begun on a project just north of the Vedder Rotary Trail that will transform invasive plants, primarily reed canary grass and Himalayan blackberry, into an off-channel wetland connecting to Peach Creek and the Vedder River in Chilliwack.According to a statement from the Fraser Valley Watersheds Coalition, the restoration project in this area will enhance a culturally significant area for the Ts’elxwéyeqw tribe and reconnect people to n
  
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• CF Montreal boss Gabriel Gervais expects more from his players

  10-07-2024 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Gabriel Gervais has equipped himself with the tools to help CF Montreal climb the standings, but he believes the players must also do their part.
  The club’s president and chief executive said his team has experienced some bad luck as part of their 5-9-8 record this season but is putting the onus on the players to improve their consistency.
  “A serious awareness, both individual and collective, is needed to find more consistency,” Gervais said Wednesday during hi
  
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• Police say speed, intoxication contributed to crash that killed 3 in southeast B.C.

  10-07-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILMER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A single-vehicle crash in southeastern British Columbia has killed three passengers and injured the driver.RCMP say it happened Tuesday night in the community of Wilmer, north of Invermere.
  Police say the car left the road and crashed down an embankment.
  The Mounties say the three passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.They say in a statement that speed along with intoxic
  
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• Longtime Liberal MP representing Northwest Territories not seeking re-election

  10-07-2024 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal MP Michael McLeod says he has made the “bittersweet” decision to not seek a fourth term in the next federal election.
  McLeod was first elected as the MP for Northwest Territories in 2015 and currently serves on the House Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee.
  He says he will remain an MP until the next election, which must happen before fall of 2025, and will continue to advocate for the territory until his term is up.
  McLeod says now is the time to cut dow
  
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• Marsch sees plenty of positives in Copa campaign but says more work needs to be done

  10-07-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Seven games into his tenure as Canada coach, Jesse Marsch sees plenty of positives.
  “Incredible strides,” he summed up. “But there’s still a lot to do … We’re establishing things at some high levels but in order to be a real team that can hold up to the biggest moments and biggest matches, there’s more work to be done. But certainly we’re on a good path.”
  That path takes the team to Charlotte on Saturday for the Copa America third-place game
  
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• Canada’s Brooke Henderson geared up for demanding four-week stretch of golf

  10-07-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Brooke Henderson is geared up for the most important four weeks of her year.
  The winningest professional golfer in Canadian history will tee it up in the featured group of the Amundi Evian Championship on Thursday, the fourth major of the women’s season. She’ll then play in the CPKC Women’s Open — the Canadian national championship — at Calgary’s Earl Grey Golf Club before heading back to France for the Paris Olympics, all in the span of a month.
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• ‘Keep doubting me’: Argos QB Dukes looks to bounce back against undefeated Alouettes

  10-07-2024 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Cameron Dukes is used to proving his skeptics wrong.
  After a couple subpar outings, the Toronto Argonauts quarterback is eager to do it again when his team visits the undefeated Montreal Alouettes on Thursday at Molson Stadium.
  “Hell, I was doubted my whole life,” Dukes said. “Out of high school everybody doubted me, in college everybody doubted me, when I first came in the league everybody doubted me again. Starting the year everybody doubted me.
  “So jus
  
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• Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure

  10-07-2024 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas election officials on Wednesday rejected petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters this fall in a predominantly Republican state.
  The secretary of state’s office rejected the petitions submitted on Friday by supporters of the proposal, saying the group didn’t submit statements required regarding paid signature gatherers.
  Organizers on Friday submitted more than 101,000 signatures. They
  
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• Fisher protest interrupts environment ministers’ press conference

  10-07-2024 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The union representing inshore fishers and fish plant workers Newfoundland and Labrador interrupted a press conference of the country’s environment ministers in St. John’s today.
  They are demanding the federal government reinstate a 32-year moratorium on commercial cod fishing in the province.
  Ottawa announced last month that it would re-establish a commercial cod fishery with a total allowable catch of 18,000 tonnes for the 2024 season.
  About a dozen p
  
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• AFN calls for independent inquiry into killings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg

  10-07-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Assembly of First Nations passed a resolution today calling for an independent inquiry into the killings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg.
  Chiefs supported the bid by Betsy Kennedy of War Lake First Nation calling on Manitoba’s lieutenant governor to establish a commission of inquiry and assess the police and provincial response to the case.
  Jeremy Skibicki admitted to killing Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman an Indigenous gr
  
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• Jay Herdman, son of John Herdman, to play for New Zealand at Paris Olympics

  10-07-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jay Herdman, son of Toronto FC coach John Herdman, has been named to New Zealand’s Olympic soccer team for the Paris games.
  The 19-year-old Herdman captains the Whitecaps FC 2, Vancouver’s entry in the MLS Next Pro league.
  Herdman has five goals and three assists in 15 appearances for the Whitecaps’ second team this season. He made his MLS debut April 20, coming off the bench in a 2-0 Vancouver win at the Seattle Sounders.
  Herdman, who entered the Whitecaps academy as a 13-year
  
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• Dabrowski, Routliffe advance to Wimbledon women’s doubles semifinals

  10-07-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand moved closer to another Grand Slam title Wednesday with a 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4 win over Barbora Krejcikova and Laura Siegemund in women’s doubles quarterfinal action at Wimbledon.
  Dabrowski and Routliffe, seeded second at the All England Club, broke to love to go up 5-4 in the third set, then finished off the match on serve.
  The eighth-seeded team of Krejcikova and Siegemund had kept the match alive by
  
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• Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island) urges people to come forward with information about woman’s death

  10-07-2024 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island) First Nation in Agassiz believes there are people from the community who may have more information about a woman connected to the band who sadly passed earlier this year.
  According to a Facebook posting on Monday, July 8, Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island) urges anyone from its First Nation community to come forward and speak with police about the passing of Vanessa “Ness” Terry, who died in April 2024.Seabird Island did not
  
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• 60 years of road salt has destroyed Ottawa’s Alexandra Bridge: officials

  10-07-2024 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal officials say six decades of road salt has spelled the end for a 123-year old interprovincial bridge in Ottawa.The Alexandra Bridge has to be taken down because of rust, officials from the Procurement Department say.
  The procurement process for a new bridge will start in the fall, when the public will have a chance to weigh in on three design options.Officials refused to say how much they think it will cost, but a 2018 assessment suggested a new bridge would come to $800,0
  
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• Active wildfires tick up in central B.C., risk of lightning coming to the north

  10-07-2024 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The number of active wildfires in British Columbia has jumped by more than two dozen to about 130 amid a heat wave, creating prime conditions for fire.There are two wildfires of note, meaning they are either highly visible or pose a threat to public safety, located in northwestern B.C.
  The BC Wildfire Service says smoke from the 130-hectare Little Oliver Creek fire will be visible from Highway 16 and the Terrace, B.C., area, while the 240-hectare Hook Creek fire is burning out of control to the
  
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• Lorenzo Musetti reaches his first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon and will face Novak Djokovic

  10-07-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Lorenzo Musetti reached his first Grand Slam semifinal by eliminating Taylor Fritz 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 at Wimbledon on Wednesday and will take on Novak Djokovic next.
  The 25th-seeded Musetti, a 22-year-old from Italy, had never been past the third round at the All England Club — or the fourth round at any major tournament — until now.
  His victory over the 13th-seeded Fritz was the 37th five-setter at the All England Club this year, the most at any Grand Sl
  
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• Rays shortstop Wander Franco is formally charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl

  10-07-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was formally charged Tuesday with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic.
  Prosecutors charged Franco six months after a judge ordered that he be investigated in connection with sexual and psychological abuse of the girl.
  Nairobi Viloria, the attorney general’s office spokesperson, confirmed to The Associated Press that prosecutors presented before a judge the final and formal accusa
  
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• Walls of 70-year-old Chilliwack church start to come down - Chilliwack Progress

  10-07-2024 19:38 via news.google.com
  
  Walls of 70-year-old Chilliwack church start to come down  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• PHOTOS: Walls of 70-year-old Chilliwack church start to come down - Chilliwack Progress

  10-07-2024 19:37 via news.google.com
  
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• Gilgeous-Alexander, Murray headline Canada’s Olympic men’s basketball team

  10-07-2024 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray headline a Canadian men’s basketball team heavy with NBA experience that will compete at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
  Canada Basketball and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the roster Wednesday, with 11 of the 12 players named boasting playing time in the world’s premier basketball league.
  Hamilton’s Gilgeous-Alexander starred as Canada qualified for the Olymp
  
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• Head-on crash kills family of three, including infant, in Agassiz, B.C.

  10-07-2024 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ, BRITISH COLUMBIA — RCMP say a family of three, including a baby, has been killed in a head-on crash with a tractor trailer in Agassiz, B.C.Police say it happened early Tuesday morning on Lougheed Highway just outside the community.The two adults in the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene, and the infant was airlifted to hospital but died a few hours later.Police say alcohol or drugs are not suspected as a cause and they are working with a collision reconstruction team to det
  
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• Local family used swastikas to accuse Quebec municipality of racism

  10-07-2024 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A small Quebec community has been locked in a drawn-out battle for the last two years with a local family that accuses it of being “the most racist city in the world.”
  Last month, a Quebec Superior Court judge ordered Yahia Meddah to take down signs featuring swastikas that he had hung on his property in the municipality of St-Barnabé-Sud, a community of roughly 1,000 people northeast of Montreal.The signs accused the municipality of racism and directed people
  
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• MS-13 leader pleads guilty in case involving 8 murders, including deaths of 2 girls on Long Island

  10-07-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A leader of an MS-13 gang clique in New York pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and firearms charges in a case involving eight murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls who were hacked and beaten to death as they strolled through their leafy, suburban neighborhood on Long Island.
  Alexi Saenz entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Central Islip. Prosecutors previously withdrew an attempt to seek the death penalty in his case.
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• Canada warns of Russian ‘bot farm’ powered by AI spreading online disinformation

  10-07-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian security officials are warning of a Russian propaganda campaign that is spreading online disinformation on social-media site X.The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says individuals affiliated with RT, formerly known as Russia Today, have been using a social-media bot farm at the direction of the Russian government.Officials say fake social-media users create to spread disinformation often posed as Americans and promote messages in support of Russian government objective
  
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• Record heat in Chilliwack as temperature rises to 36C - Chilliwack Progress

  10-07-2024 18:39 via news.google.com
  
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• Family of 3 deceased after fatal accident on Highway 7 in Agassiz

  10-07-2024 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Three people have died, including an infant, after a vehicle and tractor trailer collided on Lougheed Highway in Agassiz earlier this week.
  According to a statement from Sgt. Andy Lot, Agassiz RCMP, Emergency Health Services and Agassiz Fire were dispatched on Tuesday, July 9 at 3:27 a.m. for the report of a serious motor vehicle incident. Police say a vehicle and tractor trailer collided head on, causing the highway to be shut down. Lougheed Highway re-opened Tuesday night at ap
  
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• Jewish community takes food inspection agency to court over slaughter guidelines

  10-07-2024 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A group of agencies that certify Kosher meat are in court today to ask for an injunction against Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidelines for the ritual slaughter of animals.
  Kosher meat calls for animals to be slaughtered without first being stunned.While the Kosher method of slaughtering animal for meat is allowed in Canada, the food inspection agency posted guidelines in 2021 outlining how abattoirs must determine if an animal is unconscious and can no longer feel pain.The Ko
  
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• Family of 3 deceased after crash on Lougheed Highway in Agassiz

  10-07-2024 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Three people have died, including an infant, after a vehicle and tractor trailer collided on Lougheed Highway in Agassiz earlier this week.
  According to a statement from Sgt. Andy Lot, Agassiz RCMP, Emergency Health Services and Agassiz Fire were dispatched on Tuesday, July 9 at 3:27 a.m. for the report of a serious motor vehicle incident. Police say a vehicle and tractor trailer collided head on, causing the highway to be shut down. Lougheed Highway re-opened Tuesday night at ap
  
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• Privy Council Office changes vetting process after human rights chief appointment

  10-07-2024 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The administrative wing of the Prime Minister’s Office says it has new procedures for vetting federal appointees following concerns it failed to search online posts made by the incoming head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
  Birju Dattani was appointed chief commissioner in June and is to take up the role in August.
  After his appointment was announced Jewish organizations raised concerns about the screening process and posts he had made about Israel while he was atten
  
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• Canada names Olympic women’s rugby sevens squad looking to return to the podium

  10-07-2024 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGFORD, B.C. — Team captain Olivia Apps will lead a Canadian women’s rugby sevens team looking to return to the podium at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
  Rugby Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the roster Wednesday as Canada looks to improve on its ninth-place showing at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
  Apps, from Lindsay, Ont., is one of three players returning from the Tokyo squad along with Toronto’s Charity Williams and Keyara Wardley of Vulcan, Alta.
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• Tackling 'greatest salmon habitat issue' on the lower Fraser River - Chilliwack Progress

  10-07-2024 18:09 via news.google.com
  
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• Canadian men’s rugby team continues learning curve as it hosts physical Romania

  10-07-2024 17:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The learning continues for the Canadian men’s rugby team as it turns its focus to 20th-ranked Romania on Friday after being battered 73-12 by sixth-ranked Scotland.
  The heavy defeat in front of an announced crowd of 11,447 at Ottawa’s TD Place dropped Canada one spot to No. 22 in the world rankings, sandwiched between Chile and Namibia. On the plus side, six players won their first caps for Canada and another four could make their test debut Friday at the same venue.
  Such experience
  
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• Chilliwack auto dealership looks to ID burglary suspects - Fraser Valley Today

  10-07-2024 17:44 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack auto dealership looks to ID burglary suspects

  10-07-2024 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An auto dealership in Sardis is hoping to identify two suspects who broke into their business earlier this week and made off with a Jeep Cherokee SUV.According to a social media post from the business, Atwals Auto, located at 7131 Vedder Road in Chilliwack near the Canco gas station, said two individuals, presumably men, broke into their business on Monday, July 8.Video shared by the auto dealer depicts two men approaching the front door of the business at 4:43 a.m., one with
  
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• Centre Ulrich Chomche signs two-way deal with Toronto Raptors

  10-07-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Centre Ulrich Chomche has signed a two-way contract with the Toronto Raptors.
  Chomche was selected 57th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in last month’s NBA Draft.
  Media reports had that draft pick actually traded to Toronto before Minnesota took Chomche.
  The Raptors confirmed the deal was done on Saturday, with cash considerations sent to the Timberwolves in return.
  Per team policy, the financial terms of Comche’s deal were not disclosed.
  The six-foot-10, 232-po
  
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• Hope RCMP arrests man for scamming people with fake gold jewelry in business parking lot

  10-07-2024 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Stories abound on social media about people being approached in gas station or big box supermarket parking lots by scam artists offering gold for sale.
  Case in point, one man is facing charges for his alleged role in selling fake gold jewelry at a commercial business on Flood Hope Road in Hope.
  According to a news release from Hope RCMP spokesperson S/Sgt. Michael Sargent, Hope RCMP were alerted on Friday, July 5, at approximately 2 p.m., that an individual was reportedly selling fa
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez among star-studded NBO field

  10-07-2024 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Leylah Fernandez will have plenty of competition at the National Bank Open.
  “Tennis Canada unveiled a star-studded entry list Wednesday, which included the 21-year-old from Laval, Que., for the women’s side of the national tournament set to run Aug. 4 to 12 in Toronto.
  Currently ranked No. 25 on the WTA Tour, Fernandez will be joined by world No. 1 and five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek, 2023 US Open singles and 2022 NBO doubles champion Coco Gauff, and back-to
  
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• Supreme Court justice withdraws from Bill 21 challenge after Quebec complains

  10-07-2024 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Supreme Court of Canada justice says he will not participate in deliberations about whether the high court will hear an appeal to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21.
  Justice Mahmud Jamal says in a letter issued Tuesday by the court registrar that while there’s no legal basis for him to recuse himself, he has decided to withdraw to avoid being a distraction.
  Last week, Quebec’s attorney general and other groups called on Jamal to step away from the case b
  
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