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• Olympic roundup: McIntosh strikes gold again, Canada’s medal streak continues

  01-08-2024 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Summer McIntosh’s suitcase is getting heavier by the day.
  The Canadian swimming star won her third medal and second gold of the Paris Olympics with a victory in the women’s 200-metre butterfly Thursday.
  Her time of two minutes 3.03 seconds, in the event her mother Jill Horstead raced in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was an Olympic record.
  “It’s pretty cool winning the 200 fly because that, by far, was her main event. So to share that moment with her
  
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• Bookmaker to plead guilty in gambling case tied to baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter

  01-08-2024 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to running an illegal gambling business, U.S. authorities announced Thursday.
  Mathew Bowyer’s business operated for at least five years in Southern California and Las Vegas and took wagers from more than 700 bettors, including Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Ang
  
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• Eight arrested in major Langley drug trafficking bust - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 23:38 via news.google.com
  Eight arrested in major Langley drug trafficking bust  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Back-to-back: Chilliwack athlete wins provincials as player and coach - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 23:24 via news.google.com
  Back-to-back: Chilliwack athlete wins provincials as player and coach  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Eight people charged after drug-trafficking investigation in B.C.’s Lower Mainland

  01-08-2024 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland say a yearslong drug-trafficking investigation has led to charges against eight people, as well as the seizure of illicit drugs, drug-making supplies, and two guns with prohibited magazines.
  A statement from B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the investigation began in Langley in December 2022 and expanded as investigators determined the suspects were connected to “gang and organized crime activi
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays sign 2024 first-round pick Trey Yesavage

  01-08-2024 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have signed 2024 first-round pick Trey Yesavage, the club announced Thursday.The 21-year-old right-handed pitcher spent the past three seasons playing at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.A six-foot-four, 225-pound native of Pottstown, Pa., Yesavage went 11-1 with a 2.03 earned-run average and 0.87 WHIP in 93.1 innings this season to win the American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year award.Yesavage, who was selected 20th overall last month by
  
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• Canadian quarterback Nathan Rourke signs with NFL’s Atlanta Falcons

  01-08-2024 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA — Nathan Rourke is taking another crack at the NFL.
  Less than a week after getting released by the New York Giants, the Canadian quarterback signed with the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday.
  The 26-year-old from Victoria will be in tough, however, joining a roster that includes free-agent signing Kirk Cousins, first-round pick Michael Penix Jr. and Taylor Heinicke.
  New York claimed Rourke off waivers May 7, but he didn’t see much action during the first week of the Giants’ t
  
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• Environment Canada issues heat warning for Manning Park, South Fraser Canyon as daytime temps hit upper 30s

  01-08-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As the long weekend approaches, Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Manning Park and the South Fraser Canyon, including communities north of Hope, as daytime temperatures hover in the mid to upper thirties.Environment Canada says a strong ride of high pressure continues to grow over the region, leading to hot daytime temperatures and overnight temperatures that will only reach the high teens. The above average heat is expected to last through the B.C. Day long wee
  
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• York United manager says while spying in soccer is not unusual, it’s not for him

  01-08-2024 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Benjamin Mora’s coaching career has taken him from his native Mexico to Malaysia and now Canada, with the Canadian Premier League’s York United FC.
  As such, the drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics surrounding the Canadian women’s team does not come as a surprise to him.
  “What is spying?” Mora asked. “I mean, strategy in war, all over the world, has always been knowing what your opponent is going to do to you, knowing their shape, knowing who they are go
  
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• THE MOJ: Coaches are consumed by winning, not arrogance - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 22:07 via news.google.com
  THE MOJ: Coaches are consumed by winning, not arrogance  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Assault in downtown Chilliwack sends one to hospital: RCMP - Fraser Valley Today

  01-08-2024 22:00 via news.google.com
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• Assault in downtown Chilliwack sends one to hospital: RCMP

  01-08-2024 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP say one man has been hospitalized after police were called to the area of Yale Road and Williams Street for the report of an assault in progress with a possible weapon overnight.According to a news release from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police say one person is custody from an assault in which police responded just after midnight on Thursday, August 1. Officers found a man who had been physically assaulted and sustained serious injuri
  
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• Man taken to hospital after Yale Road assault in downtown Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 21:58 via news.google.com
  Man taken to hospital after Yale Road assault in downtown Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Crews install sprinklers on remaining Jasper buildings ahead of hot weather

  01-08-2024 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JASPER, ALTA. — A wildfire rampaging through Jasper National Park remains out of control as crews work to reduce the risk of it spreading.
  Parks Canada says sprinklers have been installed on some buildings north of the park’s townsite, as fire activity is expected to increase.
  Power has been restored to the downtown and crews are working to clean up debris.
  Highway 16 is now open to trucks, tractors and trailers during certain hours of the day.
  Thousands of people fled the town and p
  
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• Man taken to hospital after Yale Road assault in downtown Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  01-08-2024 21:57 via news.google.com
  Man taken to hospital after Yale Road assault in downtown Chilliwack  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Chargers QB Justin Herbert will miss at least next 2 weeks because of a right foot injury

  01-08-2024 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert will miss at least the next two weeks because of an injury to the plantar fascia in his right foot.
  The injury was diagnosed following Wednesday’s practice. Doctors expect that the fifth-year quarterback will be ready for the regular-season opener on Sept. 8 against the Las Vegas Raiders.
  Herbert will spend two weeks in a walking boot followed by what the Chargers termed “a graduated return to play protoc
  
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• Off-site water tests show uptick in cyanide in water downstream from Yukon mine slide

  01-08-2024 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — Yukon government officials say some water samples taken downstream from the site of the Eagle Gold mine show cyanide levels that “significantly exceed” guidelines for aquatic life.Brendan Mulligan, a senior scientist with the Yukon’s Department of Environment, says there’s been a “pattern of increasing cyanide levels” in water samples taken close to the site of the mine since a slide of contaminated ore in June.He says samples taken further
  
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• York United on a roll, climbing the CPL standings under Mexican coach Benjamin Mora

  01-08-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  York United FC has been on a roll since Benjamin Mora took charge in early June.
  The Toronto-based CPL team has lost just once in eight games (5-1-2) under the Mexican coach, with the lone defeat a 1-0 decision at Valour FC on June 27. The run has moved York (8-5-3, 27 points) into second place in the eight-team Canadian Premier League behind Atletico Ottawa (8-3-5, 29 points).
  And York defeated Ottawa 4-1 when the teams met last Friday at York Lions Stadium, scoring four straight goals after fa
  
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• Landslide blocking B.C. river could give way, flood areas downstream - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 21:09 via news.google.com
  Landslide blocking B.C. river could give way, flood areas downstream  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh wins gold in 200-metre butterfly at Paris Olympics

  01-08-2024 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh won her second Olympic gold medal in Paris with a victory in the women’s 200-metre butterfly.
  McIntosh also won the 400-metre individual medley and was a silver medallist in the 400-metre freestyle.
  The 17-year-old from Toronto joined George Hodgson in 1972 and Alex Baumann in 1984 among Canadian swimmers who achieved double gold at an Olympic Games.
  McIntosh’s time of two minutes 3.03 seconds was an Olympic record.Regan Smith of the Uni
  
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• B.C. premier's call to lift publication ban ignites concern - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 20:47 via news.google.com
  B.C. premier's call to lift publication ban ignites concern  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from National Bank Open in Montreal

  01-08-2024 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Carlos Alcaraz won’t be taking part in this year’s National Bank Open.
  The world’s No. 3-ranked men’s tennis player withdrew from Canada’s national tournament Thursday due to fatigue.
  The French Open and Wimbledon winner is representing Spain at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he’s made the semifinals.
  Novak Djokovic, who sits No. 2 in the world behind Italy’s Jannik Sinner, is also skipping the NBO in Montreal. The Serbian previously cit
  
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• Penticton teacher reprimanded again for conduct toward students - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 20:29 via news.google.com
  Penticton teacher reprimanded again for conduct toward students  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Abbotsford Agrifair features full lineup of displays and entertainment - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 20:26 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford Agrifair features full lineup of displays and entertainment  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. warns of increasing wildfire risk with the return of hot, dry weather

  01-08-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The number of active wildfires in British Columbia is holding steady at just under 340 as the provincial government warns of increasing fire risk this weekend.
  A statement from the government says people in wildfire-prone areas are “strongly urged” to be vigilant, adhere to fire bans, and be prepared with an emergency plan.
  Environment Canada is forecasting a return of hotter temperatures over the long weekend, particularly in the southern Interior, where campfires a
  
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• Parole board ignored trauma of Indigenous man convicted of murder, court rules

  01-08-2024 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — An Indigenous man convicted of murder and attempted murder could get parole after the Federal Court ruled the parole board failed to consider his traumatic past when it denied his release.
  Jeffrey George Ewert, 61, was convicted in 1984 after he sexually assaulted and strangled two women in British Columbia in two separate incidents while highly intoxicated, killing one and leaving the other disabled.
  The Parole Board of Canada denied his application for day parole in 2022, conc
  
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• B.C. Conservatives gain another MLA, more ground on B.C. NDP - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 19:51 via news.google.com
  B.C. Conservatives gain another MLA, more ground on B.C. NDP  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 14-month-old boy rescued after falling down narrow pipe in the yard of his Kansas home

  01-08-2024 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Emergency crews have rescued a terrified and screaming toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck around a dozen feet (about 3.7 meters) below ground in the yard of his Kansas home.
  “There we go,” Officer Ronnie Wagner of the Moundridge Police Department can be heard saying on body camera video, clearly relieved, as crews pulled the uninjured 14-month-old boy from the hole Sunday. “All right.”
  Wagner had arrived at the home just 15 minutes earlier. The toddler
  
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• Two in custody after male injured in Chilliwack shooting - Voiceonline.com

  01-08-2024 19:36 via news.google.com
  Two in custody after male injured in Chilliwack shooting  Voiceonline.com
  
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• Chilcotin River rises 20 feet overnight upstream of landslide - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 19:15 via news.google.com
  Chilcotin River rises 20 feet overnight upstream of landslide  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• NFL’s revamped kickoff making its debut in the Hall of Fame game

  01-08-2024 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The NFL’s new kickoff rule will make its debut when the preseason opens Thursday night with the Chicago Bears facing the Houston Texans.
  While both teams are expected to sit starters, all eyes will be on the overhauled kickoffs during the annual Hall of Fame game at Tom Benson Stadium.NFL owners approved a radical change for kickoffs in order to revive a “dead play” that saw a record-low returns last season.For a standard kickoff, the ball will be kick
  
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• Penticton City Councillor James Miller arrested for historic sex crimes - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 19:01 via news.google.com
  Penticton City Councillor James Miller arrested for historic sex crimes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 1 seriously injured, 2 arrested in Chilliwack shooting: RCMP - CTV News Vancouver

  01-08-2024 18:55 via news.google.com
  1 seriously injured, 2 arrested in Chilliwack shooting: RCMP  CTV News Vancouver
  
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• Chilliwack shooting sends 1 to hospital: RCMP - CityNews Vancouver

  01-08-2024 18:52 via news.google.com
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• White Sox sending Orioles $4 million as part of Eloy Jiménez trade

  01-08-2024 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Chicago White Sox are sending Baltimore $4 million as part of Tuesday’s trade of outfielder Eloy Jiménez to the Orioles, among 11 deals in the two days before the deadline that included cash transactions.
  Jiménez had $4,263,441 remaining of his $13 million salary, part of a deal that includes a 2025 team option with a $3 million buyout. The trade includes a conditional $1.5 million payment that would be made if the option is declined, leaving the net
  
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• New Toronto FC defender Henry Wingo happy to be back in North America

  01-08-2024 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — After winning titles in Hungary with Ferencvarosi TC, Henry Wingo wanted to return to North America. And Toronto FC was delighted to welcome the American defender.
  “He’s going to offer a lot to the team,” said Toronto coach John Herdman, happy to answer a question that wasn’t related to the Olympic drone scandal in which he, as a former Canada coach, has found himself entangled. “He’s going to offer an energy, a verve to that right-hand side.&r
  
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• Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander to make first CFL start against Tiger-Cats

  01-08-2024 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Davis Alexander will make his first CFL start Friday night when the Montreal Alouettes visit the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.Alexander was listed atop Montreal’s quarterback depth chart Thursday, ahead of veteran Caleb Evans and first-year player James Morgan.The Portland State product replaced Evans in last week’s 20-16 win over Saskatchewan, completing 15-of-18 passes for 178 yards and two touchdowns in rallying Montreal (6-1) to the victory.
  Evans got the start ahead of i
  
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• Liberal MP says she regrets ‘distress’ caused to witnesses who left meeting in tears

  01-08-2024 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld fell short of an apology today after instigating a fracas that led two witnesses to storm out of a parliamentary committee hearing.Vandenbeld only says that she deeply regrets the “distress that this meeting caused the witnesses” on Wednesday.The MP had steered the rare summer meeting of the House of Commons status of women committee away from the planned topic of domestic violence, accusing Conservatives of putting together the agenda in ha
  
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• Man hospitalized with serious injuries after shooting in Chilliwack Wednesday night; two in custody

  01-08-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack say they are investigating a shooting Wednesday evening (July 31) that left one man with serious injuries.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police say they were dispatched Wednesday night at around 10 p.m. to the area of Avalon Avenue in Fairfield Island for a report of shots being fired. Police located a man with visible injuries who was transported to hospital by ambulance with non-life-threatening inju
  
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• Man hospitalized with serious injuries after shooting in Chilliwack Wednesday night; two in custody - Fraser Valley Today

  01-08-2024 18:22 via news.google.com
  Man hospitalized with serious injuries after shooting in Chilliwack Wednesday night; two in custody  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Labour leaders endorse NDP candidate, including the Conservative candidate’s manager

  01-08-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — More a dozen labour leaders are endorsing the NDP candidate in an upcoming federal byelection in Winnipeg, including the business manager of the Conservative candidate’s own union.
  The endorsements are part of the New Democrats’ efforts to maintain their stronghold in the riding of Elmwood-Transcona, where the parties are vying for support from union workers.The Conservative candidate Colin Reynolds has campaigned on the idea that the NDP does not represent union worke
  
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• Japan Osprey crash caused by cracks in a gear and pilot’s decision to keep flying, Air Force says

  01-08-2024 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying, instead of heeding multiple warnings that he should land, according to an Air Force investigation released Thursday.The CV-22B Osprey crash killed eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members and led to a monthslong military-wide grounding of the fleet. It’s among four fatal Osprey crashes in the last two years driv
  
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• Alberta meditation centre tent collapses in high winds, killing 1 and injuring dozens

  01-08-2024 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUSBY, Alta. — One person died and dozens were injured after a large tent collapsed at a Buddhist monastery northwest of Edmonton during powerful winds.RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said there were as many as 100 people in and around the tent at the Westlock Meditation Centre near Busby, Alta., on Wednesday afternoon.“Ultimately, we hope to determine exactly what circumstances may have led to this,” he said Thursday.“We do know, though, that extreme winds were a major contribu
  
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• Browns RB D’Onta Foreman suffers head injury during practice, air lifted to hospital in Virginia

  01-08-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland Browns running back D’Onta Foreman suffered a head injury during practice and was air lifted by helicopter to a hospital in Virginia on Thursday.
  The team said Foreman sustained a “direct blow to the head that resulted in neck pain” during a drill at The Greenbrier Resort. Foreman had movement in all of his extremities, according to a statement from the Browns.
  The 28-year-old Foreman was treated on the field by medical staff
  
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• Chilliwack brewery announces it will expand to Alberta - Fraser Valley Today

  01-08-2024 18:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack brewery announces it will expand to Alberta  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• B.C. couple partially victorious in bankruptcy fight with securities regulator - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 17:56 via news.google.com
  B.C. couple partially victorious in bankruptcy fight with securities regulator  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack brewery announces it will expand to Alberta

  01-08-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack craft brewer Old Yale Brewing announced Thursday (August 1) it will expand its operations and open a new location in Beaumont, Alberta in early spring 2025.In a news release from the company, Old Yale Brewing says the expansion represents a significant milestone as their third Craft Brewery + Kitchen branding, giving the company an even larger footprint for sharing their exceptional product with even more beer enthusiasts.
  The new venue will be situated in the new L
  
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• Abbotsford easily surpasses Chilliwack in toxic drug deaths thus far in 2024 - Fraser Valley Today

  01-08-2024 17:45 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford easily surpasses Chilliwack in toxic drug deaths thus far in 2024  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Australia beats Canada 70-65 in women’s Olympic basketball - Chilliwack Progress

  01-08-2024 17:44 via news.google.com
  Australia beats Canada 70-65 in women’s Olympic basketball  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Abbotsford easily surpasses Chilliwack in toxic drug deaths thus far in 2024

  01-08-2024 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The provincial government says at least 1,158 British Columbians have lost their lives to unregulated drug toxicity in the first half of 2024, including near four dozen fatalities in Abbotsford alone.
  According to preliminary data from the B.C. Coroners Service, 45 people in Abbotsford have died from unregulated drugs in 2024 alone, exceeding Chilliwack’s tally of 11 fatalities in 2024. The statistics account for deaths through June 30.Chilliwack saw 59 fatalities in 202
  
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