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• Four-year-old girl drowns at Chilliwack water park - Vancouver Sun

  06-08-2024 23:56 via news.google.com
  Four-year-old girl drowns at Chilliwack water park  Vancouver Sun
  
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• UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 6-vehicle collision in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  06-08-2024 23:55 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 6-vehicle collision in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-08-2024 23:40 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack - Abbotsford News

  06-08-2024 23:40 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack  Abbotsford News
  
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• Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash - Chilliwack Progress

  06-08-2024 23:40 via news.google.com
  Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Tories reject allegation they are behind bot posts after Poilievre rally

  06-08-2024 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.
  The Conservative leader held a rally at a conference centre in Kirkland Lake on July 31, to what appears in a video to be a packed room of several hundred people.Three days later the platform formerly known as Twitter was awash in hundreds of posts from individuals claiming they “just
  
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• Summer McIntosh says she would return to Paris to be flag bearer at closing ceremony

  06-08-2024 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After landing back in Toronto, Summer McIntosh says she would return to Paris if selected as Canada’s flag bearer for the closing ceremony.
  The Toronto teenager who won four medals at the Paris Games, including three golds and a silver, says it would be “an honour” to carry the flag for Canada.McIntosh says that having returned home, she wants to take a break from swimming and plans to relax at her cottage with friends before likely coming back to Toronto to do some shopping.Bu
  
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• Veteran Canadian international winger Junior Hoilett signs with Scotland’s Hibernian

  06-08-2024 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDINBURGH — Veteran Canadian international winger Junior Hoilett has signed a one-year contract with Scotland’s Hibernian.
  The 34-year-old from Brampton, Ont., was with Scotland’s Aberdeen most recently, signing a short-term contact in February that lasted the remainder of the season.
  Hoilett has won 63 caps for Canada and saw action in all three games at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
  Before Aberdeen, Hoilett had been without a club since his contract with the Vancouver Whitecap
  
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• Canadians men’s doubles teams bounced at NBO Open in Montreal

  06-08-2024 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — It was double trouble for a pair of Canadian men’s doubles combos on Tuesday at the National Bank Open at IGA Stadium.
  Denis Shapovalov and Vasek Pospisil lost 6-4, 6-3 to Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori of Italy in 62 minutes, while Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alexis Galarneau lost 6-0, 6-1 in 46 minutes to Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell of Australia.
  Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Pospisil of Vancouver found themselves in an early 3-1 hole during the first set
  
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• Rogers’ hammer throw gold rescues the day for Canada at the Paris Games

  06-08-2024 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — With just two throws to go and trailing her American rival, Camryn Rogers stepped into the hammer throwing circle at Stade de France.
  The Canadian world champion let loose, hurling the hammer 76.97 metres and surging into the lead.
  Rogers’ throw stood, giving Canada a sweep of the hammer throw titles at the Paris Olympics and saving what was shaping up to be a disappointing day at the Games.
  “To be on that podium and to hear the national anthem, it’s something tha
  
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• IHIT identifies homicide victim in Langley to advance its investigation

  06-08-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Homicide investigators have released the identity of a 41-year-old man who was fatally shot last week in order to further its investigation.According to a statement from IHIT spokesperson Corporal Chase Smith, Mounties in Langley were dispatched to the 7000 block of 202B Street for the report of gun shots on Friday, August 2 at 12:46 a.m. Two men suffering from gun shot wounds were subsequently located at the hospital. One of the men succumbed to his injuries, while the second vi
  
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• Audit of BC Timber Sales program finds issues with road and bridge maintenance

  06-08-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The Forest Practices Board says an audit of the BC Timber Sales program and timber sales license holders in the Boundary region found “significant issues” with road and bridge maintenance.It says the board conducted a “full scope compliance audit” of all activities between June 2022 and June 2023 in the Kootenay Business Area in south-central B.C. along Highway 3.
  The watchdog says it found that the agency did not inspect any high or very high-risk roads
  
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• Four-year-old girl drowns in pond at Chilliwack, B.C., leisure centre - Castanet.net

  06-08-2024 22:06 via news.google.com
  Four-year-old girl drowns in pond at Chilliwack, B.C., leisure centre  Castanet.net
  
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• Senators sign Yakemchuk to three-year, entry-level deal

  06-08-2024 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defenceman Carter Yakemchuk, selected seventh overall in June’s NHL entry draft in Las Vegas, has signed a three-year, entry level contract with the Ottawa Senators.
  Steve Staios, the Senators’ president of hockey operations and general manager, confirmed the agreement on Tuesday.
  The 18-year-old Yakemchuk spent the past three seasons with the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen and established major junior career highs in goals (30), assists (41), points (71)
  
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• Canada’s Camryn Rogers wins gold in women’s hammer throw

  06-08-2024 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Camryn Rogers has again etched her name into the history books.
  The 25-year-old from Richmond, B.C., claimed gold on Tuesday to become the first Canadian to ever medal in the women’s hammer throw at the Olympics.
  Rogers had a top throw of 76.97 metres at Stade de France.
  Annette Echikunwoke of the United States grabbed silver (75.48) and Zhao Jie of China took bronze (74.27).
  Rogers made history in her Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 2021 when she became the first Canadia
  
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• Four-year-old girl drowns in pond at Chilliwack, B.C., leisure centre

  06-08-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., say a four-year-old girl has drowned in a pond at a leisure centre.
  Police say they received a report of the drowning at the water park of the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre Monday night.They say emergency responders, including officers, paramedics and firefighters all responded to the call.
  Police say the girl had been pulled out of the water by family members and bystanders began CPR.
  They say the child was brought to the hospital, wher
  
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• Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil

  06-08-2024 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil, the Justice Department said Tuesday in disclosing what officials say is the latest murder-for-hire plot to target American public figures.
  Asif Merchant traveled to New York in April for the purpose of hiring hitmen, even paying a $5,000 advance to two would-be assassins who were actually undercover law enforcement officers. He was arrested last mont
  
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• Mission RCMP looks to ID female suspect who used fake ID to steal gold from Canada Post outlet

  06-08-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who used forged documents to steal a package of gold bars from a Canada Post store in Mission.
  According to a statement from police, Mounties say two gold bars were sent to the Canada Post outlet in Mission after a resident ordered them online from a virtual retail store. However, when the resident went to retrieve them from the Canada Post retail outlet, the female buyer learned the package had alr
  
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• 4-year-old girl drowns at Chilliwack leisure centre - Global News Toronto

  06-08-2024 21:17 via news.google.com
  4-year-old girl drowns at Chilliwack leisure centre  Global News Toronto
  
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• Shea Patterson, Royce Metchie named top offensive, defensive Honour Roll players

  06-08-2024 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Shea Patterson and Toronto Argonauts safety Royce Metchie were named the CFL Honour Roll’s top offensive and defensive players on Tuesday.
  Patterson earned a grade of 85.2 after competing 22-of-38 passes for 306 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-31 loss to the Edmonton Elks. He also ran four times for 30 yards and a TD.
  Metchie received a grade of 92.7 for his play in Toronto’s 27-23 setback to the Calgary Stampeders. He tied a care
  
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• 4-year-old girl dies after drowning in Chilliwack - CTV News Vancouver

  06-08-2024 21:04 via news.google.com
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• Young boy dead in northern Alberta after drowning while kayaking with father: RCMP

  06-08-2024 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Police in northern Alberta say a young boy has drowned while kayaking with his father.
  Slave Lake RCMP say the pair failed to return from their boating trip as scheduled Saturday evening.
  Mounties say they looked for the missing kayakers with drones, boats and a helicopter along with Slave Lake Fire and conservation officers.
  They say the father was found safe a few hours later near an overturned kayak.
  RCMP say both people were wearing life jackets at the time but couldn’
  
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• Irish-themed restaurant slated to open in September in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  06-08-2024 20:49 via news.google.com
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• Irish-themed restaurant slated to open in September in Chilliwack

  06-08-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An Irish-themed restaurant that’s been offering free birthday dinners to patrons for over 30 years is tentatively set to open next month on Luckakuck Way in Chilliwack.Kelly O’Bryan’s Restaurant and Carlos O’Bryan’s Pubs, a watering holewithin a restaurant, is slated to open sometime in September 2024 at 45610 Luckakuck Way, almost directly across from the Starbucks on the Cottonwood Centre mall property, according to its website.Kelly O’Bry
  
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• Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, as its new leader

  06-08-2024 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader.
  The choice of Sinwar, a secretive figure who leads Hamas’ hardliners and is close to Iran, was a defiant step. Sinwar is at the top of Israel’s kill list as it seeks to destroy Hamas and its leadership after the Oct. 7 attack in which militants killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and took about
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP: Girl drowns in leisure centre pond - CityNews Vancouver

  06-08-2024 20:36 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack RCMP: Girl drowns in leisure centre pond  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• Brown off to solid start as CFL starter with Ottawa Redblacks

  06-08-2024 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s back to the grind for Dru Brown and the Ottawa Redblacks.
  Ottawa (5-2) comes off its bye week hosting Saskatchewan (5-3) on Thursday night. The Redblacks should be the fresher team given the Riders lost 42-31 to Edmonton on Saturday.
  Ottawa also boasts a 4-0 home record and has won three straight overall as it chases its first CFL playoff berth since 2018.
  Players readily welcome down time during an 18-game regular season. However, there’s always the danger of a team losing its
  
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• RCMP confirms death of a 4-year-old girl at Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre

  06-08-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP has confirmed that a 4-year-old girl died after drowning in a pond Monday night at the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre.
  According to a statement from police, Mounties were dispatched at 8 p.m. Monday for the report of a drowning incident at the water park outside the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre. Emergency responders, including the Chilliwack RCMP, BC Emergency Health Services, and Chilliwack Fire Department all attended the scene.
  The young girl had bee
  
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• RCMP confirms death of a 4-year-old girl at Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre - Fraser Valley Today

  06-08-2024 20:26 via news.google.com
  RCMP confirms death of a 4-year-old girl at Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Canada out of men’s Olympic basketball tournament after quarterfinal loss to France

  06-08-2024 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s men’s basketball team is out of the Paris Olympics after losing 82-73 to host France in the quarterfinals Tuesday.
  Shai Gilgeous-Alexander put up 27 points for a Canada side that hit just 25 of 66 shots from the floor.France got 22 points from Guerschon Yabuselle and 20 from Isaia Cordinier in front of an enthusiastic crowd that cheered and jeered and jumped and drummed for much of the game.Canada trailed from the first minute of play and couldn’t catch u
  
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• Body of missing woman found in Saskatoon landfill, police say suspect dead

  06-08-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON, Sask. — Saskatoon police say they have found the remains of a missing woman in a city landfill and that a suspect in her death has since died.
  Officers began searching the landfill in May for 22-year-old Mackenzie Lee Trottier, who was reported missing in December 2020.
  Police said at the time they had collected evidence from electronic devices that led them to the landfill.
  Chief Cameron McBride says an autopsy could not determine the cause of the woman’s death.
  But he sa
  
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• Ottawa considers changes to reduce number of temporary foreign workers in Canada

  06-08-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says the federal government is considering new regulations that could make fewer employers eligible to hire temporary foreign workers.
  It’s part of a suite of changes the minister is announcing in an effort to reduce the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada.He says he told a group of large business associations today that the program cannot be used to circumvent hiring Canadian workers.
  Boissonnault told them the government is
  
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• Canada’s poor record predicting tornadoes must be improved to save lives: researchers

  06-08-2024 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — On July 24, Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for the area around Lachute, Que., northwest of Montreal, urging people to take shelter. The warning was accurate: a tornado touched down outside Lachute about an hour after the alert. But three other twisters that day slipped past forecasters.
  In the following days, the department confirmed that tornadoes had also formed on July 24 over the municipalities of Brossard and Boucherville, both located on Montreal’s South
  
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• Saskatchewan latest province to restrict cellphone use in school classrooms

  06-08-2024 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan government says students won’t be allowed to use cellphones in class in the upcoming school year.
  The move, announced Tuesday, applies to all kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms.Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill said in a news release that too often phones are taking students’ attention away from what they should be learning.
  “This new policy will allow students to be more engaged with their teachers and focused on learning the skills and knowle
  
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• Whitecaps Girls Elite squad looks to defend national title, then face CONCACAF’s best

  06-08-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Vancouver Whitecaps women are headed to the new Northern Super League next year. But there are more immediate matters at hand.
  It starts this week with the League1 Canada Inter-Provincial Championship in Hamilton. Then it’s on to San Salvador for an Aug. 15 playoff against El Salvador’s Alianza Women FC to determine the final berth in the inaugural CONCACAF W Champions Cup.
  The Whitecaps FC Girls Elite squad starts defence of its Canadian pro-am title on Friday against the Calgar
  
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• Veteran quarterback Dominique Davis signs on with Montreal Alouettes

  06-08-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes signed veteran American quarterback Dominique Davis on Tuesday.
  The move comes after veteran backup Caleb Evans suffered a knee injury in Montreal’s 33-16 road win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night. The Alouettes announced Tuesday that Evans’ injury was season-ending.
  The six-foot-four 215-pound Davis in in his ninth CFL season and second stint with Montreal. He played for the team in 2022, rushing for 13 TDs.
  Davis, 35, spent last s
  
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• Conservatives demand government explain how terror suspects immigrated to Canada

  06-08-2024 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer says Canadians have a right to know how a man with links to a foreign terror group evaded Canada’s screening process to immigrate to Canada and become a citizen.
  Sixty-two-year-old Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and his adult son, Mostafa Eldidi, were arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont. last week and face nine different terrorism charges, including conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
  Most charges re
  
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• Drowning incident outside Chilliwack pool raises safety questions - Chilliwack Progress

  06-08-2024 17:34 via news.google.com
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• Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, hails from state with close ties to Canada

  06-08-2024 16:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON, D. C. — Vice President Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, marking a major milestone since her move to the top of the Democratic ticket ahead of the November presidential election.They are expected to appear together at a rally this evening after Harris formally clinched the nomination on Monday.The search for a running mate began just two weeks ago, after President Joe Biden removed himself as the nominee amid concerns over his age and endo
  
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• Valley Huskers suffer humbling defeat vs. the Okanagan Sun Saturday night in Chilliwack

  06-08-2024 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Valley Huskers were no match for the surging, undefeated Okanagan Sun Saturday night as they suffered a humbling 26-0 shutout defeat at Exhibition Stadium in Chilliwack.The Huskers came into the game riding high from their season debut a week prior in which they clobbered the Kamloops Broncos 51-7 behind 332 passing yards from QB Tyran Duval and 127 rushing yards and a pair of scores from running back Jawad Harb.
  But they ran into a buzzsaw against the Sun, who limited the
  
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• Canadian Olympic Committee pulls accreditation from De Grasse coach Rana Reider

  06-08-2024 16:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — The Canadian Olympic Committee says it has revoked accreditation from the coach of six-time Olympic medal-winning sprinter Andre De Grasse. The COC says “new information” has come to light about the appropriateness of accrediting Rana Reider, but did not specify the nature of that information.
  The organization says Reider was on probation with the U.S. Center for SafeSport until May of this year, and the decision to accredit him was based on the understanding that he ha
  
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• Parts of Calgary airport closed due to damage from hail and heavy rainfall

  06-08-2024 15:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary International Airport says parts of its domestic terminal building are closed due to damage caused by hail and heavy rainfall.
  The airport says in a post on social media the work has started to clean up the water and assess the damage.
  However, parts of the domestic terminal will remain closed until further notice.
  The airport is telling passengers to check with their airline for flight updates.
  Environment Canada had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of
  
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• Harris is ready to rally with her running mate but the choice is unknown

  06-08-2024 14:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will introduce her new running mate at a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia — but with the event mere hours away, her choice remains a mystery.In recent days, she has zeroed in on a trio of potential finalists: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, but decisions beyond that aren’t yet publicly known.Harris’ campaign planned to make the announcement via video message before the
  
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• In the news today: B.C. to monitor water flow downstream from slide

  06-08-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Modelling shows water from dam caused by B.C. slide to reach Fraser River Tuesday
  The B.C. government says it’s keeping a close eye on river flows as a “big pulse” of debris and sediment-laden water is expected to work its way down to the Fraser River after a massive landslide dammed the Chilcotin River last week. Connie Chapman with the province’s water management branch says t
  
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• Modelling shows water from dam caused by B.C. slide to reach Fraser River Tuesday

  06-08-2024 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. government says it’s keeping a close eye on river flows as a “big pulse” of debris and sediment-laden water is expected to work its way down to the Fraser River after a massive landslide dammed the Chilcotin River last week.Connie Chapman with the province’s water management branch says the pulse of water after the dam breached yesterday morning will make its way toward the Fraser River, and modelling shows it will reach the community of Hope so
  
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• Is Singapore’s housing model a realistic solution for Canada’s affordability woes?

  06-08-2024 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Urban planner Louisa-May Khoo says she got a sense of deja-vu when British Columbia Premier David Eby announced the BC Builds housing program earlier this year.
  Khoo, a University of British Columbia public scholar, was a veteran of Singapore’s planning and development sector starting in 1996 before arriving in Vancouver in 2018.
  When Eby unveiled BC Builds in February, Khoo said many Singaporean philosophies were instantly recognizable in the provincial program, right do
  
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• UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack - Saanich News

  06-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Hwy. 1 closed eastbound following fatal 5-vehicle collision in Chilliwack  Saanich News
  
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• Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash - Maple Ridge News

  06-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash  Maple Ridge News
  
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• Chilliwack 4-year-old drowns in pond outside pool facility - Castlegar News

  06-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack 4-year-old drowns in pond outside pool facility  Castlegar News
  
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• Bangladesh protesters want Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yunus to lead country after Hasina’s departure

  06-08-2024 06:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was their choice as head of an interim government a day after the longtime Prime Minister Sheik Hasina resigned.The country’s figurehead president and the military chief said Monday that an interim government would be formed soon.
  Nahid Islam, the organizer, in a video post in social media said the student protest leaders have already talked with Yunus, who c
  
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