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• Olympic roundup: Canada’s soccer team advances, swimmer Kharun wins bronze

  31-07-2024 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — When Canada’s women’s soccer team was stripped of six points by FIFA for its involvement in a drone spying scandal, the players rallied around a cry of “take away six (points), we go get nine.”
  After come-from-behind 2-1 wins over New Zealand and host France, Canada edged Colombia 1-0 on Wednesday to advance.
  Thanks to a second-half goal by Vanessa Gilles — also the stoppage time hero against France — Canada has earned a Saturday quarterfinal dat
  
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• Chiefs top early Proline pick to win third straight Super Bowl title

  31-07-2024 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  There’s no shortage of Proline bettors who see the Kansas City Chiefs winning a third straight Super Bowl title.
  According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., the Chiefs are the clear favourites to win yet another NFL title. Kansas City is the top Super Bowl favourite with 24 per cent of bettors picking the defending league champions to emerge victorious in 2024.
  The San Francisco 49ers, who lost 25-22 to the Chiefs in last year’s Super Bowl, are the second favourites (16 per ce
  
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• Hawaii Gov. Josh Green tells AP a $4 billion settlement for 2023 Maui wildfire could come next week

  31-07-2024 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The parties involved in Lahaina wildfire lawsuits against the state of Hawaii, Maui County and utilities are close to a global settlement of claims that will be worth a little over $4 billion, Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
  Green said he’s hoping to finalize the details in coming days, perhaps as soon as Aug. 6, which would be two days before the one-year anniversary of the fire that killed 102 people and wiped out historic Lahaina.
  “If
  
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• B.C. sailboat captain rescued after developing ‘severe’ hypothermia - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 23:30 via news.google.com
  B.C. sailboat captain rescued after developing ‘severe’ hypothermia  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Landslide sets off evacuation order for those living along B.C.’s Chilcotin River

  31-07-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A landslide blocking a river in British Columbia’s central Interior has injured a man and prompted the Cariboo Regional District to issue evacuation orders due to “immediate danger to life and safety” caused by flooding triggered by the slide.
  The two evacuation orders span 107 square kilometres along the Chilcotin River southwest of the City of Williams Lake.
  A spokesperson for the Central Cariboo Search and Rescue Team says the man was injured whil
  
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• Canada beats Colombia 1-0 in Olympic women’s soccer to advance

  31-07-2024 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NICE — The Canadian women’s soccer team is still alive at the Paris Olympics.
  Canada, with a second-half goal by Vanessa Gilles, defeated Colombia 1-0 on Wednesday to advance to the knockout stage of the tournament.
  The defending champions needed a win to avoid elimination.
  Canada has three points despite winning all three games in group play.
  FIFA deducted six points from the team last weekend due to a Canada Soccer drone spying scandal.Quarterfinal play begins Saturday.
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• Chilliwack Secondary student organizing low-cost wrestling camp - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 23:04 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Secondary student organizing low-cost wrestling camp  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Western Forest Products narrows loss in second quarter to $5.7 million

  31-07-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Western Forest Products Inc. says it lost $5.7 million during the second quarter, compared with a loss of $20.7 million a year earlier.The Vancouver-based company says revenues were $309.5 million, rising from $276 million during the same quarter last year.Diluted loss per share was one cent, compared with a loss of seven cents a year earlier.The results were also improved from the first quarter, when the company posted a net loss of $8 million.The company says its lumber shipm
  
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• Kelowna-based business helps launch opioid task force in U.S. - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 23:00 via news.google.com
  Kelowna-based business helps launch opioid task force in U.S.  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. battling mental health, addictions 'crisis' with 500 new workers - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 23:00 via news.google.com
  B.C. battling mental health, addictions 'crisis' with 500 new workers  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• $847K in contraband seized at Agassiz-area prison - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 22:49 via news.google.com
  
  $847K in contraband seized at Agassiz-area prison  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Park crews helping pets in Jasper as hot weather increases wildfire activity

  31-07-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A fire rampaging through Jasper National Park remains out of control as crews work to restore power to the townsite and track down lost pets of homeowners.
  Flames that destroyed one-third of the town’s structures last week have been extinguished, and Parks Canada says work continues to make sure fire doesn’t re-enter the community.
  The situation is expected to become more difficult in the coming days as hot, dry and windy weather is forecast.
  The 5,000 residents of t
  
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• Coast Guard to end staffing at two B.C. lighthouses, following safety concerns

  31-07-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Safety concerns have prompted the Canadian Coast Guard to make what is says is the “difficult decision” to end staffing at two lighthouses along British Columbia’s coast.
  Fisheries and Oceans Canada says “aids to navigation” will continue operating at both the Carmanah Point and Pachena Point light stations located along the Vancouver Island coast that’s also home to the famed West Coast Trail.
  The light keepers will move out of the buildings
  
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• Jackson Holliday’s grand slam lifts the Orioles to a 10-4 victory over the Blue Jays

  31-07-2024 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Jackson Holliday returned to the major leagues with a flourish, hitting a fifth-inning grand slam for his first career home run to help the Baltimore Orioles to a 10-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday.
  Holliday, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft and baseball’s top-ranked prospect at the moment per MLB Pipeline, had been sent down after going 2 for 34 with 18 strikeouts for the Orioles earlier this season. In his first game back, he grounded out twice be
  
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• Hockey Canada names coaching staff for 4 Nations Face-Off

  31-07-2024 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Bruce Cassidy, Rick Tocchet and Pete DeBoer will join head coach Jon Cooper as assistants for Canada’s 4 Nations Face-Off team, Hockey Canada announced Wednesday.
  Cassidy is head coach of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, Tocchet coaches the Vancouver Canucks, and DeBoer is the bench boss for the Dallas Stars.
  Cooper, the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, was named Canada’s coach for the tournament and the 2026 Olympics in June.
  Hockey Canada also announced t
  
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• Canadian Tre Ford to make his first start of CFL season for Edmonton Elks

  31-07-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Different season, same situation for Tre Ford.
  The Canadian quarterback will make his first start of 2024 on Saturday night when Edmonton (0-7) visits the Saskatchewan Roughriders (5-2). Ford, of Niagara Falls, Ont., started his first game last season after the Elks had dropped eight straight and ended up leading the franchise to all four of its victories over his 10 starts.
  The six-foot-one, 195-pound Ford again showed his athleticism and dynamic ability in last week’s 44-28 home loss to
  
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• Dequoy, McInnis and Ward capture top spots in CFL’s monthly honour roll

  31-07-2024 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Montreal Alouettes safety Marc-Antoine Dequoy and B.C. Lions receiver Justin McInnis were the top-graded defensive and offensive players in the CFL’s honour roll for July, the league announced Wednesday.
  Dequoy earned a grade of 89.3 over Montreal’s three contests. He had five tackles and a pass knockdown over 79 total defensive snaps and captured a grade of 89.4 over 52 coverage snaps.
  McInnis achieved a grade of 89.1 over the Lions’ three games. He registered
  
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• Canadian swimmer Ilya Kharun wins bronze in men’s 200m butterfly

  31-07-2024 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Swimmer Ilya Kharun has won a bronze medal for Canada in the men’s 200-metre butterfly at the Olympic Games in Paris.
  The 19-year-old from Montreal, who grew up in Las Vegas, finished in a time of one minute 52.80 seconds.
  Leo Marchand, of France, captured the gold in an Olympic record time of 1:51.21, while Hungary’s Kristof Milak took silver in 1:51.75.
  Kharun is the first Canadian man to win an Olympic swim medal since 2012.
  More to come.The Canadian Press
  
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• Father, son facing terror charges allegedly planning violent Toronto attack: RCMP

  31-07-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A father and son who were allegedly planning a violent attack in Toronto and had links to the Islamic State group are facing terrorism related charges, the RCMP said Wednesday.The two were arrested at a hotel in Richmond Hill, Ont., on the weekend, and were in possession of an axe and a machete, the Mounties said.The RCMP said the 62-year-old father and his 26-year-old son were “in the advanced stages of planning a serious, violent attack in Toronto.”
  “The accus
  
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• Opposition BC United party looks to add former Liberal party name to election ballot

  31-07-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Opposition BC United says it wants to include the party’s previous Liberal name on the fall election ballot after internal polling shows up to 30 per cent of people didn’t know the party changed its name.BC United communications director Adam Wilson says the party is preparing to formally apply to Elections BC to have a phrase acknowledging that it was formally known as the B.C. Liberals included on the ballot for the election this fall.BC Un
  
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• BREAKING: Reports of landslide, 1 injured along Chilcotin River - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 20:23 via news.google.com
  BREAKING: Reports of landslide, 1 injured along Chilcotin River  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. couple partially victorious in bankruptcy fight with securities regulator

  31-07-2024 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that people fined by provincial securities regulators can wipe out penalties through bankruptcy, but orders to pay back ill-gotten gains remain in place.The ruling handed down today says penalties imposed by “administrative tribunals or regulatory agencies” are not covered by a list of exceptions in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, which outlines specific types of debts that “survive bankruptcy.”
  The case involved a B
  
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• BC Highway Patrol seeks witnesses after pedestrian died from being struck on Hwy. 1 west of Hope Monday

  31-07-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — BC Highway Patrol says it is looking to speak with any witnesses who may have driven past the scene of a fatal pedestrian collision earlier this week.
  According to a statement from Corporal Melissa Jongema of BC Highway Patrol, police say Hope RCMP members received a report of a fatal pedestrian collision on Monday, July 29 at 12:59 a.m. west of exit 165, Flood Hope Road, on Highway 1. Although the collision was reported at 12:59 a.m., police suspect the collision happened sometime
  
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• Matsqui First Nation calls for Sumas Prairie flood study - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 19:43 via news.google.com
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• Two witnesses storm out of House committee in tears, decrying Liberal politicization

  31-07-2024 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two witnesses stormed out of a parliamentary committee meeting today after Liberals tried to steer the planned discussion away from violence against women.
  Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld was given the floor to ask questions shortly after witnesses began detailing graphic examples of domestic violence — but used that time to argue the committee should instead be discussing abortion rights.Cait Alexander, who heads advocacy group End Violence Everywhere, had just shared her perso
  
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• Senators hire longtime journalists Mendes, St-Laurent to communications department

  31-07-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have hired longtime local journalists Ian Mendes and Sylvain St-Laurent to their communications department.
  The Senators announced Wednesday that Mendes will join the team as vice president of communications while St-Laurent will serve as director of communications.
  Mendes has covered the Senators more than 20 years for Rogers Sportsnet, TSN 1200 and most recently as a senior writer for The Athletic.
  He returns to the Senators organization after working as the
  
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• Feds arrest ex-US Green Beret in connection to failed 2020 raid of Venezuela to remove Maduro

  31-07-2024 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who organized a failed crossborder raid in 2020 to remove President Nicolas Maduro has been arrested in New York.
  An unsealed federal indictment out of Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Alvarez, of violating U.S. arms control laws when they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammo and other defense equipment requiring a U.S. export license.
  Goudreau, 48, also was charged with c
  
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• B.C. sailboat captain rescued after developing ‘severe’ hypothermia

  31-07-2024 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A sailboat captain is recovering from severe hypothermia after spending several hours in the water off British Columbia’s coast.
  A statement from Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the rescue operation began Monday when the Coast Guard received a report of an unoccupied sailboat on the shore of Cortes Island, north of the Sunshine Coast community of Lund.
  The department says Coast Guard personnel confirmed the vessel appeared to have been recently occupied, but the captain w
  
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• Ukraine receives first F-16 fighter jets to bolster defenses against Russia, a US official tells AP

  31-07-2024 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ukraine has received the first F-16 fighter jets that it has sought for months to fight back against an onslaught of Russian missile strikes, a U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press.
  Ukraine has been pushing its Western allies for F-16s for Ukraine for months, saying they were critically needed to fight back against the onslaught of missiles Russia has fired against it. The F-16 is specialized in suppressing enemy air defenses.
  The U.S. has also been training Ukrainian pilots on how to
  
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• Governor calls on flood-weary Vermonters to ‘stick together’ with more thunderstorms on the horizon

  31-07-2024 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LYNDON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s governor said Wednesday that the latest storm to the hit the state was “much worse than a punch or a kick,” and he called on residents to “stick together” amid reports that more bad weather is on its way.
  Thunderstorms brought another round of heavy flooding Tuesday that caved in and washed away roads, crushed vehicles, pushed homes off their foundations and required at least two dozen boat rescues in northeastern Vermont. Some are
  
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• Conservatives launch attack ads on NDP, calling leader ‘Sellout Singh’

  31-07-2024 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservative party released two new ads this week attacking NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a “sellout,” blaming him for a national rise in crime, housing prices and costly living.
  The ads question why Singh is keeping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power at a time when his Liberal government is unpopular with Canadians.The New Democrats signed a political pact with the Liberals in 2022 to secure their support on key votes, in exchange for progress on shared prioriti
  
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• Chilliwack Fair: Rodeo returns for 36th year - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 18:43 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack Fair: Rodeo returns for 36th year  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• North Vancouver Mounties, firefighters warn public about deadly cliff jumping in Lynn Canyon Park

  31-07-2024 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER — Mounties from the North Vancouver RCMP detachment have teamed up with North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services to urge Lynn Canyon parkgoers to think twice about cliff jumping as they look for ways to cool off this summer ahead of a heat wave the next 3-5 days.According to a joint news release from police and fire personnel, Mounties say Lynn Canyon Park is a very popular spot for visitors, receiving over half a million visitors per year. While placid and picturesque, how
  
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• Amnesty International names Wet’suwet’en chief Canada’s first prisoner of conscience

  31-07-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Amnesty International is calling for the release of a First Nations chief who was convicted of criminal contempt, and is calling him Canada’s first prisoner of conscience.
  Chief Dsta’hyl, who represents one of the clans within the Wet’suwet’en Nation, also goes by the name Adam Gagnon.
  He was arrested in 2021 for breaching a court order not to impede construction of the Coastal GasLink liquefied natural gas pipeline, and is currently confined to house arres
  
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• Former CF Montreal midfielder Sean Rea signs with CPL’s Halifax Wanderers

  31-07-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Halifax Wanderers FC have signed former CF Montreal midfielder Sean Rea, who was named the Canadian Premier League’s Best Canadian U-21 Player in 2022 while on loan to Valour FC.
  Rea’s contact with Halifax, which currently stands last in the eight-team CPL at 3-7-4, runs through the 2025 season.
  “I’m super-excited,” Rea said in an interview. “I’ve heard a lot of great things about Halifax. I’ve spoken to the coach (Patrice Gheisar) and he seems to
  
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• Canadian cricketer Dilpreet Singh Bajwa scores century at Global T20 Canada

  31-07-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRAMPTON, Ont. — Dilpreet Singh Bajwa has entered the Global T20 Canada record book, becoming the first Canadian cricketer to score a century at the tournament.
  Bajwa slammed 10 fours and six sixes Tuesday in going 100 not out for the Montreal Tigers in their 42-run win over the Brampton Wolves. His century came off 55 balls, as Montreal, which won the toss and elected to bat, ended its innings at 166 for seven.In response, Brampton was all out at 124 in the final over.
  “It was my fi
  
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• Amnesty International names Wet’suwet’en chief Canada’s fist prisoner of conscience

  31-07-2024 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Amnesty International is calling for the release of a First Nations chief who was convicted of criminal contempt, and is calling him Canada’s first prisoner of conscience.
  Chief Dsta’hyl, who represents one of the clans within the Wet’suwet’en Nation, also goes by the name Adam Gagnon.
  He was arrested in 2021 for breaching a court order not to impede construction of the Coastal GasLink liquefied natural gas pipeline, and is currently confined to house arres
  
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• ‘A moving monster’: How did the Jasper fire get so bad, so fast?

  31-07-2024 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The fast-moving Jasper, Alta., wildfire was fuelled by a web of extreme conditions that converged into what experts described as a monstrous fire, serving as a disastrous example of what’s become increasingly common across Canada’s boreal forest.What has happened in Jasper National Park is a “microcosm of what we’re seeing across Western Canada,” said wildfire risk expert and former Parks Canada wildland firefighter Mathieu Bourbonnais.
  More than 20,000 people in an
  
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• Liberal donations up, but Conservatives again outpace all parties on fundraising

  31-07-2024 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberals saw their donations rise in the second quarter of this year, showing the sole increase among federal parties, though Conservatives continue to dominate.
  Elections Canada released parties’ financial returns for the period from April to June this year.The Liberals raised nearly $3.8 million in the second quarter, an increase from the nearly $3.1 million raised in the first quarter.Most of those donations came in before the Liberals’ stunning late-June byelection
  
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• Toronto Raptors to hold training camp in Montreal ahead of NBA season

  31-07-2024 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors will hold their training camp in Montreal ahead of the upcoming NBA season.
  The Raptors announced Wednesday that the camp runs from Oct. 1 through Oct. 5 at Université du Québec à Montréal’s sports centre.
  It will be the Raptors’ first training camp in Montreal and its second in Quebec after gearing up for the 2019-20 season in Quebec City.
  To wrap up the week in Montreal, Toronto hosts the Washington Wizards on Oct. 6 a
  
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• Ottawa warns more than 20,000 Canadians there is no guaranteed Lebanon evacuation

  31-07-2024 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada is warning more than 20,000 Canadians in Lebanon that they can’t rely on government evacuation flights if war engulfs that country.
  The department says 21,399 Canadians have officially registered as being in Lebanon, though it expects many more are present in the country.
  Canada has urged people for months to leave Lebanon and not travel there, though diaspora groups say many have gone ahead with travel plans, including visits to family.
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• South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal

  31-07-2024 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.
  All five justices agreed with at least part of the ruling, opening the door to restart executions in a state that hasn’t put an inmate to death since 2011. But two of the justices said they felt the firing squad was not a legal way to kill an inmate and one of them felt the electric
  
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• B.C. govt. orders City of Mission to comply with provincial housing targets through to 2029

  31-07-2024 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The City of Mission says it has received an order from Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon outlining the province’s five-year housing targets for the municipality.
  According to a statement on its website, the City of Mission says the five-year housing targets state the municipality must facilitate the construction of 1,798 units, at a bare minimum, over the next five years to comply with the Provincial Housing Target Order.In year 1, starting in 2025, Mission must have 211 housing
  
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• After previous coffee truck discontinues operations in Yarrow, a new outfit crops up to serve local residents

  31-07-2024 16:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YARROW/CHILLIWACK — Roughly a month after a Chilliwack-area coffee truck sadly discontinued its operations along Yarrow Central Road, a new coffee outfit has cropped up in the quaint enclave of Yarrow, giving residents there another venue for caffeine fixes bright and early.Bear Mountain Coffee, a mom-and-pop style coffee truck, launched sometime around Monday, July 22 in the parking lot of Yarrow General Store at 41924 Yarrow Central Road.
  After its opening date, likely on Monday, July 22
  
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• Federal judge tosses legal challenge from convicted murderer over the use of a musical instrument at Agassiz prison

  31-07-2024 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has thrown out a convicted killer’s challenge of a British Columbia prison warden’s decision not to allow the inmate to have an electric guitar in his cell.
  A decision handed down last week says Patrick Fischer is an inmate at Kent Institution, a maximum-security prison in Agassiz, B.C., but he bought the guitar while an inmate at the medium-security Mission Institution.
  The ruling says he was transferred back to the maximum security prison in Apr
  
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• Colombian President Petro calls on Venezuela’s Maduro to release detailed vote counts from election

  31-07-2024 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday called on his close ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to release detailed vote counts of the weekend election in which electoral authorities declared him the winner.
  Petro’s comments followed harsh criticism from the international community of Maduro and his ruling party-loyal National Electoral Council, which is yet to release any polling center-level results as it has done in previous elections.Maduro
  
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• Canadiens sign defenceman Kaiden Guhle to six-year, $33.3M extension

  31-07-2024 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens signed defenceman Kaiden Guhle to a six-year, US$33.3-million contract extension on Wednesday.
  The contract begins in 2025-26 with Guhle entering the final year of his entry-level contract at a $863,334 salary cap hit for the upcoming season.
  Guhle had six goals and 16 assists in 70 games last season, averaging 20:51 in ice-time.
  The 22-year-old from Edmonton also represented Canada at the world championship earlier this summer, producing one goal and four
  
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• Political Spin: Irresponsible forest management spawns catastrophic fires - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2024 13:16 via news.google.com
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• Critic of Arizona’s elections operations unseats incumbent election official in GOP primary

  31-07-2024 10:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — State Rep. Justin Heap, a critic of Arizona’s voting operations in 2020 and 2022 has unseated Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer in the Republican primary.Elsewhere, Primary Election Day in Arizona without many of the top races being decided. Ballot counting will continue Wednesday. Former Phoenix television news anchor and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in a Republican U.S. Senate primary that headlined the election stat
  
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• Sudan’s military says its top commander survived a drone strike that killed 5 at an army ceremony

  31-07-2024 10:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military said its top commander, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony that killed five people in the country’s east.
  The military said in a statement Wednesday that the attack by two drones took place in Gebeit, a town in eastern Sudan, after the ceremony was concluded. Military chief Burhan, who was attending, was not hurt, according to Lt. Col. Hassan Ibrahim, from the military spokesman’s office.
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