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• Head of US aid agency says Israel has pledged to improve safety for humanitarian workers in Gaza

  11-07-2024 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ASHDOD, Israel (AP) — The head of the U.S. agency overseeing American humanitarian assistance worldwide on Thursday said she has received Israeli pledges to allow aid workers to move more quickly and safely throughout the war-battered Gaza Strip.
  In an interview with The Associated Press, Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that Israel has also taken new steps to increase the flow of aid through its port of Ashdod, just north of Gaza. The mo
  
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• Mark Carney would be ‘outstanding’ addition to federal politics, Trudeau says

  11-07-2024 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney would be an “outstanding addition” to federal politics, and that he has been trying to recruit him to join the political fray for years.
  Trudeau was asked about the possibility of replacing Chrystia Freeland by making Carney his new finance minister during a press conference at the NATO summit in Washington.
  Rather than deny the possibility, Trudeau is praising Carney and says Canadians need
  
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• Latest poll shows it’s all tied up between B.C. NDP & B.C. Conservatives; more would consider Rustad over Eby

  11-07-2024 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — It’s all tied up now in this year’s provincial election, at least from one polling firm in British Columbia.According to the latest poll from Mainstreet Research that surveyed 1,048 adults ages 18 or older between Thursday, July 4 and Saturday, July 6, 37 per cent of decided voters say they would select either the B.C. NDP, headed up by Premier David Eby, or the Conservative of Party of B.C., with John Rustad as its leader.The latest polling does not bode well for
  
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• Apparel retailer Aritzia reports $15.8M in Q1 earnings, net revenues $498.6M

  11-07-2024 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Aritzia Inc. says it earned $15.8 million in its first quarter, down from $17.5 million a year earlier.Net revenues for the Vancouver-based apparel retailer totalled $498.6 million, up from $462.7 million.Earnings per diluted share were 14 cents during the period ended June 2, down from 15 cents last year.Aritzia’s adjusted net income amounted to $25 million compared with $11.2 million a year prior.
  Its retail net revenue rose 9.2 per cent from a year before to $357.8 mil
  
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• Abbotsford man selflessly reaches the century mark as prolific Fraser Valley blood donor

  11-07-2024 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — All it took for Abbotsford resident Nikolas Venema to start giving blood as a young adult was a simple advertisement he heard one day from Canadian Blood Services.And when life got busy for Venema as he pursued an undergraduate degree, got married to his wife Marnie, and became a dad to his kids William and Maelle, he never wavered in his commitment to saving lives through the gift of donating blood.“I moved back to Canada in the summer of 2005 as an 18-year-old and bega
  
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• B.C. waters now home to Canada’s largest marine protected area

  11-07-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — First Nations along British Columbia’s coast have announced with the Canadian government the designation of the country’s largest marine protected area.
  A statement from Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the ecologically unique ocean area is located about 150 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
  It says the area spanning more than 133,000 square kilometres covers “extraordinary seafloor features,” including more than 47 underwater mountains,
  
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• Some Alaskan salmon fisheries lose Ocean Wise label amid concern for B.C.-bound stock

  11-07-2024 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver-based seafood sustainability group Ocean Wise has removed its recommended designation from southeast Alaskan salmon fisheries.
  It says there are questions about the impact of the fisheries on Chinook salmon as they head south towards British Columbia, and the effect on the southern resident killer whales that feed on the fish.
  The decision means Chinook salmon caught by purse seine, drift gillnet, and troll fishing in southeast Alaska can no longer carry the Ocean Wis
  
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• Canada Revenue Agency order to seize Saskatchewan money unusual, say experts

  11-07-2024 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Legal experts say the federal government has taken an extraordinary step in trying to take $28 million from Saskatchewan’s bank account for not paying carbon levy money, a case that is to be argued in court Friday.Rory Gillis, an assistant professor at Western University specializing in tax law and federalism, said it’s the first time he’s ever seen Ottawa try to force the collection of funds from a province.“It’s quite drastic, even in the context of
  
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• RCMP seeks assistance in locating a missing 29-year-old Fraser Valley man

  11-07-2024 22:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Mounties in Langley are appealing to the public for help in locating a missing 29-year-old man who was last seen in Langley about four days ago.
  According to a news release from Corporal Zynal Sharoom, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP detachment, police say 29-year-old Kyle James Bolwell was reported missing on Sunday, July 9. He was last seen Thursday, July 7.
  Bolwell is described as a Caucasian male, standing 6’2″ tall with a medium build, with blonde hair and haze
  
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• Thomas opens with 62 to lead Scottish Open by 1 with McIlroy 3 shots behind

  11-07-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Justin Thomas dressed in tartan-patterned trousers and played the part Thursday in the Scottish Open with an 8-under 62, his lowest opening round on the PGA Tour since his 59 in the Sony Open seven years ago.
  Rory McIlroy was three shots behind with a 65 that he hopes will be a big step toward moving on from his U.S. Open collapse last month.
  Thomas, who had a one-shot lead over Sungjae Im, was playing so well in the more benign afternoon conditions that he e
  
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• OPINION: Thanks for paying for meal at Chilliwack Airport - Chilliwack Progress

  11-07-2024 21:30 via news.google.com
  
  OPINION: Thanks for paying for meal at Chilliwack Airport  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Yukon government directs mining company to implement ‘safeguard’ measures after spill

  11-07-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Yukon mines minister John Streicker says the Eagle Gold mine disaster has the territory’s residents “justly concerned” about the implications of the mining spill on Yukoners’ way of life “for generations to come.”
  Streicker says the government Department of Energy, Mines and Resources has directed Victoria Gold, the company that owns the mine, to stabilize the area where the slide happened and more closely monitor surface and groundwater near the slide site.Th
  
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• Former Quebec junior hockey players released as they appeal sentences for sex assault

  11-07-2024 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC CITY, Que. — Two former Quebec junior hockey players have been released as they appeal their prison sentences for sexually assaulting a minor at a hotel in June 2021 during a celebration of a Victoriaville Tigres championship win.
  Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam today granted Nicolas Daigle and Massimo Siciliano permission to appeal their sentences, which were for 32 and 30 months, respectively.The ex-players were each ordered to put up $2,000 bail and were released
  
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• Zelenskyy says to win the war, US needs to lift limits on striking military targets inside Russia

  11-07-2024 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky says that in order to win the war with Russia, the U.S. must lift limits on using its weapons to strike military targets in Russia.
  Zelenskyy made the comments Thursday while appearing alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in the final days of a NATO summit.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden reaffirmed his commitment to Ukraine’s defe
  
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• Philadelphia labor union powerbroker gets 6 years for bribery and theft

  11-07-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  READING, Pa. (AP) — A former Philadelphia labor leader who wielded significant clout in Pennsylvania politics was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison for bribing a City Council member and stealing nearly $600,000 from the union he ran for nearly three decades.
  John Dougherty, 64, was convicted in December of embezzlement, conspiracy and dozens of other counts in a 2019 indictment, which accused him of using the politically powerful electricians’ union as his “personal
  
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• BC United’s Michael Lee, once a leadership candidate, won’t seek re-election

  11-07-2024 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Opposition BC United is losing another elected member just ahead of the province’s fall election.
  Michael Lee, a former party leadership candidate and the Vancouver-Langara representative in the legislature for the past seven years, says he’s heading back to the private sector and will not seek re-election on Oct. 19.
  Lee says in a statement on social media he will take a job in October as the chief strategy officer at UrbanLogiq, an artifici
  
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• St. Louis Blues sign 39-year-old defenceman Ryan Suter to 1-year deal

  11-07-2024 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues have signed veteran defenceman Ryan Suter to a one-year contract.
  General manager Doug Armstrong announced the signing on Thursday, saying the 39-year-old who has spent the past three seasons in Dallas will make a base salary of $775,000.
  Suter had two goals and 15 assists in 82 regular-season games, and a goal and three assists in 19 post-season games with the Stars. Dallas bought out his contract roughly two weeks ago.
  Suter was originally drafted sev
  
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• With most campus pro-Palestinian encampments gone, protesters look to the future

  11-07-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The protest encampment at McGill University was the first of its kind in the country, and its dismantling this week has left activists and observers wondering what comes next for the pro-Palestinian movement in Canada.Protesters at McGill are promising to continue putting pressure on the university to end its investments connected to Israel’s military and cut ties with Israeli institutions in response to the war in the Gaza Strip.
  “We will make McGill divest. We will
  
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• US sanctions a Venezuela gang for spreading criminal activity across Latin America

  11-07-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday sanctioned Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a transnational criminal organization and offered a $12 million reward for the arrest of its leaders.The gang is accused of carrying out kidnappings, extortion and other violent crimes on the backs of migrants spreading across Latin America and the United States.
  “Tren de Aragua poses a deadly criminal threat across the region,” the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement, addi
  
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• Teck closes sale of coal business to Glencore in wake of federal approval

  11-07-2024 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. says it has completed the sale of its remaining 77 per cent interest in its steelmaking coal business to Glencore plc.
  The news comes as no surprise following the announcement last week by the federal government that it had approved the sale of the operation to the Swiss commodities giant.
  Vancouver-based Teck received US$7.3 billion from Glencore for its coal business, which it sought to off-load in order to focus more on critical minerals and the energy tr
  
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• Four family members dead in another multiple-fatality B.C. road crash

  11-07-2024 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KEREMEOS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a highway collision in the southern Interior, part of a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.
  RCMP say the crash involving two cars and a tractor trailer near Becks Road in Keremeos shut Highway 3 for eight hours on Wednesday.
  They say four members of the same extended family, all in the same vehicle, were found dead at the scene of the “terrible tragedy&rdquo
  
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• Canada, U.S. governments reach in-principle agreement to update Columbia River Treaty

  11-07-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Canadian and U.S. governments say they have reached an agreement-in-principle in the process to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, which regulates the waterway that flows from southeastern British Columbia into Washington state.
  In a statement issued from Washington, D.C., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the deal is a milestone that will enable officials to update the treaty to ensure continued flood-risk management and co-operation on hydropower on the river.
  
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• World No. 1 Jannik Sinner returns to National Bank Open to defend title in Montreal

  11-07-2024 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — World No. 1 Jannik Sinner will return to the National Bank Open this summer to defend his Canadian title.
  Sinner headlined the ATP Tour field announced by Tennis Canada on Thursday. Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, 24-time Grand Slam champion and world No. 2, will also be in the field at Montreal’s IGA Stadium.
  “We are extremely excited to see what this year’s National Bank Open has in store for us,” said Valerie Tetreault, tournament director of the Nation
  
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• Part of Vedder River trail closed in Chilliwack after log fire - Chilliwack Progress

  11-07-2024 19:23 via news.google.com
  
  Part of Vedder River trail closed in Chilliwack after log fire  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 2 miners are missing and 17 were injured after a coal mine accident in Poland

  11-07-2024 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish coal miners remained unaccounted for and at least 17 were injured when a tremor struck the Rydultowy coal mine deep underground on Thursday, officials said. An earthquake was registered in that part of Poland at the time.Seventy-six miners were brought to the surface, including 17 who were hospitalized immediately after the quake. One of them, with head injuries, was airlifted to a major hospital in the city of Katowice, officials said. Some of the injured
  
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• Human-caused fire breaks out east of Harrison Lake, considered out of control: BCWS

  11-07-2024 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON LAKE— BC Wildfire Service says a human-caused fire has erupted east of Harrison Lake and grown into one hectare in size.
  According to details on the BC Wildfire Service dashboard (website), the fire is two kilometres north of Slollicum Creek. It was first discovered Wednesday morning, July 10 at 9:43 a.m. BCWS last updated its website with details about the fire 8:29 a.m. Thursday morning.
  The suspected cause is human activity.Image: BCWS / Location of fire that has grown into one
  
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• How many doctors are there in Canada? Government announces projects to find out

  11-07-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement.
  The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workforce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.
  The largest sum, $22.5 million, is being given to the an arm of the Canadian Institute for Health Information to figu
  
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• Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa confirm $47.8-billion deal on child welfare reform

  11-07-2024 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The AFN’s national chief confirmed today that the organization finalized a deal with Ottawa late Wednesday night to put $47.8 billion towards child-welfare reform.Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak got cheers as she made the announcement on the floor of the annual general assembly in Montreal.
  Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu stood beside chiefs and shed a few tears in a subsequent news conference as Woodhouse Nepinak said what a monumental agreement they had reached.
  The dea
  
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• Shooting in Abbotsford hospitalizes 38-year-old man Thursday morning

  11-07-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say a 38-year-old male has been hospitalized after sustaining a gunshot wound from a shooting early Thursday morning in the 2000 block of Topaz Street.
  According to a statement from Constable Art Stele, Abby PD patrol officers were dispatched for a reported weapons complaint Thursday (July 11) at 5:06 a.m. at a residence on Topaz Street. When police arrived, a 38-year-old male was found to have sustained a gunshot wound. He was transported to hospital.Abby
  
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• Israeli army acknowledges Oct. 7 failures. But it says tank strike on home did not kill Israelis

  11-07-2024 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday that Israeli hostages held in a home struck by tank fire on Oct. 7 were likely killed by Hamas militants, not the Israeli shelling.
  The conclusions were part of the army’s first inquiry related to the events of that day.
  While the army cleared itself in the tank strike, it acknowledged a string of failures in its core mission to protect the country’s civilians.
  Hamas stormed communities across southern Israel on Oct. 7 in an a
  
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• B.C. should explore non-prescribed alternatives to fentanyl to combat crisis: Henry

  11-07-2024 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A report from B.C.’s provincial health officer recommends the province expand its “safer supply” program to prevent overdoses, including allowing access to alternatives to unregulated drugs without a prescription.Dr. Bonnie Henry says in her latest report on the overdose crisis that efforts centred on drug prohibition have not only failed to control access to controlled substances but have also created the toxic unregulated drug supply that has killed thousands
  
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• Hockey Canada introduces new junior-level rules in western pilot project

  11-07-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Hockey Canada is trying out a series of changes in the western provinces in an attempt to streamline the development of junior players.
  That includes mandating that junior A players under the age of 18 must continue to wear full-face protection, in line with the International Ice Hockey Federation.
  Players over 18 may now choose to wear half-face protection.
  The pilot project also allows Western Hockey League teams to have up to nine 15-year-old players play up to 10 games in a s
  
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• B.C. heat triggers burst of fire activity, new evacuation order in central Interior

  11-07-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s wildfire service says forest fuels are more susceptible to fire starts after seven consecutive days of extreme heat, with new blazes prompting two new evacuation orders in recent days.
  The latest spans a portion of the District of Wells, about 80 kilometres east of Quesnel in the province’s central Interior, where the BC Wildfire Service map shows a cluster of more than two dozen new fires in the area.
  The district issued the order at 10 p.m. Wednesday night, sayin
  
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• Biden confronts decisive day in his campaign, as his team says no Democrat would do better

  11-07-2024 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden campaign is laying out what it sees as its path to winning the White House in a new memo sent to its staffers Thursday, saying that winning the Blue Wall states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan is the “clearest pathway” to victory.
  Though senior aides write in the memo that they could clinch 270 electoral votes in a number of ways, the new memo, obtained by the Associated Press, says those three states are critical and why President Joe Biden
  
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• Jasmine Paolini reaches her second consecutive Grand Slam final by beating Donna Vekic at Wimbledon

  11-07-2024 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Jasmine Paolini reached her second consecutive Grand Slam final with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) victory over unseeded Donna Vekic at Wimbledon on Thursday in a rollicking match that lasted 2 hours, 51 minutes.
  Paolini kept coming back, coming back, coming back — after dropping the opening set, after being two games from defeat at 4-all in the second, after twice trailing by a break in the third at 3-1 and 4-3 at Centre Court.
  But the No. 7-seeded Paolini never went away, ev
  
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• PHOTOS: The Rain holds off for Chilliwack’s Peterborough Musicfest show - The Peterborough Examiner

  11-07-2024 17:00 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: The Rain holds off for Chilliwack’s Peterborough Musicfest show  The Peterborough Examiner
  
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• Rescue team frees entangled North Atlantic right whale in St. Lawrence

  11-07-2024 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A whale rescue team has successfully disentangled a young right whale that was wrapped in fishing gear in the St. Lawrence estuary near Rimouski, Que.The federal Fisheries Department says the Campobello Whale Rescue Team was able to reach the young animal on Wednesday and remove most of the rope that was hindering it.The department and marine rescue groups had been working for more than two weeks to disentangle the animal, which was first spotted June 22 off the coast of New Bru
  
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• MLSE parts ways with Toronto FC, Argonauts president Bill Manning

  11-07-2024 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has parted ways with Bill Manning, president of Toronto FC and the Toronto Argonauts.
  MLSE says Manning’s exit was by mutual decision.
  Toronto FC (7-13-3) is sliding down the MLS Eastern Conference standings having lost six straight in league play and is winless in nine (0-7-2). News of Manning’s departure comes the morning after a 2-1 loss to CPL champion Forge FC in the first leg of the Canadian Championship semifinal.
  The Toronto
  
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• Kenyan president dismisses Cabinet ministers after weeks of protests over taxation, poor governance

  11-07-2024 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers and promised to form a new government that will be lean and efficient following weeks of protests over high taxes and poor governance.
  In a televised address, the president also dismissed the attorney general and said ministries will be run by their permanent secretaries.
  Ruto said he made the decision after listening to the people and that he would form a broad-based government af
  
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• Canada to work with Finland, U.S. on ‘ice pact’ to build icebreakers

  11-07-2024 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Senior officials from the Canadian and U.S. governments say a new trilateral agreement with Finland will help allies build icebreakers to safeguard the Arctic.
  The “ice pact,” as it’s being called, is aimed at bolstering shipbuilding capabilities in the three countries to deter Russian and Chinese ambitions in the far North.
  The deal was signed on the sidelines of the NATO summit, which is wrapping up today in Washington, D.C.Finland is one of NATO’s newest
  
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• Canada soccer coach Jesse Marsch says he has no interest in vacant U.S. position

  11-07-2024 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada coach Jesse Marsch says he has no interest in the open U.S. coaching job.
  The 50-year-old American was a candidate for the vacant U.S. position last year but U.S. Soccer ultimately opted to rehire Gregg Berhalter. The job became open again Wednesday when Berhalter was fired in the wake of the 11th-ranked U.S. failing to advance out of the group stage at Copa America.
  Marsch, who was hired May 13 by Canada Soccer, has led the 48th-ranked Canadian men to Saturday’s Copa America third-
  
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• Fatality overnight in Surrey closes Hwy. 99 north of King George Highway

  11-07-2024 15:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Mounties in Surrey say northbound Highway 99 from King George Highway to Highway 91 is currently shut down  Thursday morning to a serious vehicle collision that resulted in a fatality.
  On Thursday, July 11, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Surrey RCMP members were dispatched for the report of a single-vehicle collision on Highway 99 North of King George Highway.
  According to a statement from Sgt. Alan Windover, watch commander for Surrey RCMP frontline offficers, police say one of
  
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• Carlos Alcaraz faces Daniil Medvedev, and Novak Djokovic plays Lorenzo Musetti in Wimbledon’s semis

  11-07-2024 15:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz’s ability to hit any type of shot, from any position on the court, on any surface, keeps fans on the edge of their seats.
  Keeps other players guessing, too.
  Alcaraz delights in all of that — he loves putting on a show just as much as he enjoys knowing he makes the guys on the other side of the net uncomfortable — and figures it can only help him in the Wimbledon semifinals against Daniil Medvedev on Friday.
  It’s beneficial, Alcaraz said,
  
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• Thursday - July 11, 2024 - Three new murals for Chilliwack festival - Fraser Valley Current

  11-07-2024 14:51 via news.google.com
  
  Thursday - July 11, 2024 - Three new murals for Chilliwack festival  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• Brush fire breaks out along Vedder River, near Chilliwack elementary-middle school, early Thursday morning

  11-07-2024 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A brush fire broke out along the Vedder River early Thursday morning (July 11), just south of Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Elementary-Middle School, prompting a significant response from the Chilliwack Fire Department.Engine 1, 4 and 3, Tenders 3, 4 and 6, Air Support 4, and the Chilliwack duty chief were all dispatched for an initial call that came in at about 4:49 a.m.Fraser Valley Today heard the initial recording thanks to Chilliwack resident Julie Hi
  
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• No boundaries in Chilliwack art show 'Anything Goes' - Chilliwack Progress

  11-07-2024 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  No boundaries in Chilliwack art show 'Anything Goes'  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hurricane Beryl’s remnants flood Vermont a year after the state was hit by catastrophic rainfall

  11-07-2024 13:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MARSHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl caused damaging flooding in Vermont on Thursday, a year after catastrophic flooding inundated parts of the state.
  Roads were flooded, washed out or covered with debris around Vermont after heavy rain moved through the state starting Wednesday. Rescues were reported Wednesday night, and some communities were under evacuation orders.
  Areas of central Vermont, which was hit hard by last July’s flooding, have suffered some of the hea
  
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• Fire breaks out in the spire of the medieval cathedral in the French city of Rouen

  11-07-2024 13:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a fire broke out Thursday on the spire of the medieval cathedral in the Normandy city of Rouen.
  Witnesses speaking on BFM television described smoke emanating from the spire, and recalled a devastating fire in 2019 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris that toppled its spire and collapsed its roof.
  Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol posted on the social media platform X that “the beginning of a fire is underway on the spire of the cathedral of Rouen. The ori
  
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• China tells NATO not to create chaos in Asia and rejects label of ‘enabler’ of Russia’s Ukraine war

  11-07-2024 11:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China accused NATO on Thursday of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia.
  The statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson came a day after NATO labeled China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
  “NATO hyping up China’s responsibility on the Ukraine issue is unreasonable and has sinister motives,” spokesperson Lin Jian said at a daily briefing. He m
  
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• 2 Australians and a Filipina killed in Philippine hotel, officials say

  11-07-2024 11:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — Two Australian nationals and their Filipina companion were killed in a hotel in a popular resort city south of the Philippine capital, and police were trying to identify and track down the suspects, officials said Thursday.
  A hotel worker found the bodies of the victims, whose hands and feet were tied, in a room at the Lake Hotel in Tagaytay city, south of Manila on Wednesday, according to a police statement.Police did not identify the victims or provide other
  
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