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• Mother, child deceased after multi-vehicle collision Tuesday west of Chilliwack

  07-08-2024 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The BC Highway Patrol has confirmed that a mother and child died in Tuesday’s multi-vehicle collision Tuesday afternoon.According to a statement from police, BC Highway Patrol says a second child from the same vehicle is expected to survive after being taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police were called to the area of Vedder Canal at about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday (Aug. 6).The crash in Chilliwack involved six vehicles and 10 drivers and passengers, but Mounties say ther
  
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• Rinse and repeat: Calgarians back to water restriction as new pipe problems found

  07-08-2024 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Residents in Calgary and surrounding communities, fresh off having to conserve water for weeks due to a water main break, are soon going to have to do it all over again.
  Mayor Jyoti Gondek says extended tests on more than 10 kilometres of pipe have revealed 16 more problem spots that need to be fixed.
  Work on those spots is to begin in about three weeks, on Aug. 28.
  Gondek says that means as of Aug. 26 all residents in Calgary and surrounding communities will be urged to conserve
  
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• 'A year of tremendous growth': Chilliwack Stingrays impress at Fraser Valley Regionals - Chilliwack Progress

  07-08-2024 23:12 via news.google.com
  'A year of tremendous growth': Chilliwack Stingrays impress at Fraser Valley Regionals  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Redblacks aim to keep rolling against visiting Roughriders

  07-08-2024 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks are looking to pick up right where they left off.
  Coming off a bye week, the Redblacks (5-2) will look to extend their four-game home winning streak when they host the Saskatchewan Roughriders (5-3) on Thursday night at TD Place.
  The Redblacks were playing solid football before the bye and with a number of players returning from the injured list Ottawa could be even tougher to handle.
  DeVonte Dedmon will return to run back kicks and punts, but he had solid sup
  
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• B.C. parents demand fence or fill-in after child's drowning in Chilliwack - Times Colonist

  07-08-2024 23:00 via news.google.com
  B.C. parents demand fence or fill-in after child's drowning in Chilliwack  Times Colonist
  
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• Mother and son killed in six-vehicle crash in Chilliwack: B.C. Highway Patrol - Global News

  07-08-2024 22:53 via news.google.com
  Mother and son killed in six-vehicle crash in Chilliwack: B.C. Highway Patrol  Global News
  
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• Rafael Nadal withdraws from the US Open, the 3rd Grand Slam tournament he’ll miss this year

  07-08-2024 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Rafael Nadal pulled out of the U.S. Open on Wednesday, making it the third Grand Slam tournament he’s missed this season and raising more questions about his future in tennis at age 38.
  Nadal’s announcement on social media was not much of a surprise. Yes, he was on the official entry list released last month for New York, but that was more of a formality than anything and did not preclude the 22-time major champion from withdrawing at any point before competition begins Aug. 26.
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• Woman, child dead in Tuesday’s B.C. highway crash involving six vehicles

  07-08-2024 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Police in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley say the people who died in Tuesday’s multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 were a local woman and a child.
  A statement from RCMP Highway Patrol says a second child from the same vehicle is expected to survive after being taken to hospital with serious injuries.
  The crash in Chilliwack, in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, involved six vehicles and 10 drivers and passengers, but Mounties say there were no other injuries.
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• Mother, child dead following multi-vehicle accident on Hwy. 1 in Chilliwack - Western Standard

  07-08-2024 22:42 via news.google.com
  Mother, child dead following multi-vehicle accident on Hwy. 1 in Chilliwack  Western Standard
  
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• Woman and child dead after crash on Highway 1 in Chilliwack - CTV News Vancouver

  07-08-2024 22:28 via news.google.com
  Woman and child dead after crash on Highway 1 in Chilliwack  CTV News Vancouver
  
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• Obstruction in roadway likely led to fatal Chilliwack highway crash, say police - Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal

  07-08-2024 22:20 via news.google.com
  Obstruction in roadway likely led to fatal Chilliwack highway crash, say police  Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal
  
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• Obstruction in roadway likely led to fatal Chilliwack highway crash, say police - Chilliwack Progress

  07-08-2024 22:18 via news.google.com
  Obstruction in roadway likely led to fatal Chilliwack highway crash, say police  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Newman wins bronze in Olympic women’s pole vault

  07-08-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Alysha Newman has won Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in women’s pole vault, claiming bronze on Wednesday with a Canadian-record height of 4.85 metres.
  Newman, from Delaware, Ont., finished at the same height as silver medallist Katie Moon, but had one more missed attempt than the American.
  Nina Kennedy of Australia cleared 4.90 metres to win gold.
  Newman is the first Canadian pole vaulter to win a medal since William Halpenny took bronze in the men’s competitio
  
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• Federal government reviewing how Toronto terror suspects arrived to Canada

  07-08-2024 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says federal departments are reviewing how two men with suspected links to a terrorist group abroad were allowed into Canada.
  Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his son, Mostafa Eldidi, 26, 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 relate to activities allegedly occurring in C
  
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• Buoyed by three straight wins, a confident Toronto FC looks to extend Leagues Cup run

  07-08-2024 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been three weeks and three wins for Toronto FC since a 3-1 loss at Inter Miami CF in MLS play.
  The teams renew acquaintances Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in round-of-32 Leagues Cup action, with Toronto arriving in a far different state of mind.
  TFC had won just one of 11 games (1-8-2) across all competitions leading up to the July 17 matchup with Miami. Toronto has not lost since, dispatching Mexico’s Pachuca 2-1 most recently in cup play, while allowing just one goal in t
  
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• WestJet says 10 per cent of fleet grounded after Calgary pummelled by hail

  07-08-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — WestJet says 16 of its planes have been grounded after a massive hailstorm hit Calgary earlier this week.The Calgary-based airline says those aircraft — 10 per cent of its fleet — need substantial repairs and inspections before they can fly again.The carrier also says 84 of its flights were cancelled Wednesday, with 106 cancelled Tuesday and 58 on Monday.The Calgary International Airport was pummeled by hail on Monday evening, forcing parts of its domestic terminal to
  
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• More than 2,000 Quebec hotel workers set to strike for one day on Thursday

  07-08-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Hotel workers in three of Quebec’s largest cities are set to walk off the job Thursday in the middle of the busy summer tourist season.The one-day strike will affect 23 hotels in the Montreal region, Quebec City and Sherbrooke, and will include more than 2,600 workers.Negotiations between hotel owners and the workers’ union, the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), have stalled since the union first threatened a provincewide strike last week.
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• Jake Dolegala to start for Lions in game against Edmonton Elks

  07-08-2024 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Jake Dolegala will be tasked with ending the B.C. Lions losing ways.
  Dolegala gets the start Sunday when B.C. (5-3) visits the Edmonton Elks (1-7). He replaces veteran Vernon Adams Jr., who suffered a lower-body injury in last week’s 25-0 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  B.C. will look for its first win in three games and faces an Edmonton squad coming off a 42-31 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Canadian Tre Ford’s first start of the season.
  Dolegala ha
  
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• After 16-year useful life, City of Chilliwack poised to replace artificial turf at Exhibition Field - Fraser Valley Today

  07-08-2024 21:19 via news.google.com
  After 16-year useful life, City of Chilliwack poised to replace artificial turf at Exhibition Field  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• After 16-year useful life, City of Chilliwack poised to replace artificial turf at Exhibition Field

  07-08-2024 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council has approved a plan that will replace the synthetic turf at Exhibition Field and facilitate space for a new pickleball facility next to it at a cost of a little over a million dollars.According to agenda item 7.4 of Tuesday’s council meeting, Chilliwack councillors approved a motion that moves forward with the partial removal and replacement of the synthetic turf this year, providing extra space for a new pickleball facility, and replaces the synt
  
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• Americans Paul, Shelton move on to second round at National Bank Open

  07-08-2024 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Seeded Americans got off to a good start at the men’s National Bank Open tennis tournament as Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton posted first-round wins Wednesday.
  Paul, seeded 10th in Montreal, fired nine aces in a 6-4, 7-6 (2) win over Italy’s Luciano Darderi.
  He is playing in his first tournament since teaming with Taylor Fritz to win men’s doubles bronze at the Paris Olympics.
  Paul will next face the winner of a match Wednesday afternoon between wild card Denis Sha
  
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• Listeria contamination of plant milks happened in Pickering, Ont. facility, CFIA says

  07-08-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recent Listeria contamination of several plant-based milks occurred in a Pickering, Ont., factory.It says the contamination happened on a “dedicated production line” at Joriki, which is a third-party beverage packaging facility used by plant-milk manufacturer Danone Canada.
  The agency says that the production line has been “completely disassembled while inspection at the facility is ongoing.”The Public Health Agency of Canada p
  
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• Former spy agency director David Vigneault joins U.S. strategic intelligence firm

  07-08-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The outgoing head of Canada’s spy agency is joining an American strategic intelligence firm that is waging war against intellectual property theft.
  Strider Technologies says in a press release that David Vigneault is the new managing director of its global intelligence unit.
  Vigneault said last month he was stepping down as director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service after seven years in the job.
  He said he was proud of the work he did to bring CSIS “out of
  
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• Global tech firm Concentrix to close its Chilliwack site this fall - Chilliwack Progress

  07-08-2024 20:28 via news.google.com
  Global tech firm Concentrix to close its Chilliwack site this fall  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ontario man charged after threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in online video

  07-08-2024 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Another person has been arrested after making threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau online.
  Police say a man made violent threats against Trudeau, the police and security personnel who might attempt to interfere with his plans in an online video.
  RCMP made the arrest with help from the York Regional Police in Ontario.Police charged Dawid Zalewski, 33, with two counts of uttering threats.
  The arrest comes weeks after two Alberta men were charged after they allegedly directed death threats
  
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• Ultrafine particles linked to 1,100 deaths per year in Montreal, Toronto: study

  07-08-2024 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Researchers at Montreal’s McGill University have found that ultrafine particles from vehicles and industry are linked to the deaths of an estimated 1,100 people per year in Canada’s two biggest cities.
  Their study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, finds that long-term exposure to the pollutants known as UFPs increases the risk of respiratory and coronary artery disease deaths in particular.
  Researchers tracked air pollution
  
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• Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands

  07-08-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.
  “This should have been done 32 years ago, maybe 40 years ago,” said Mikisew Cree First Nation Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro. “We know that there is something going on in this community. We can’t pinpoint it or anything in regards to
  
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• Boeing will spend $61M in B.C. as part of Canada’s military planes contract

  07-08-2024 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — Boeing Canada plans to invest $61 million in British Columbia for an aerospace manufacturing training facility as well as research and development.
  The announcement is the latest from the American aviation giant as part of a multibillion-dollar deal with Ottawa on the purchase of new military surveillance planes.
  Minister of National Defence Bill Blair welcomed the spending at the Boeing Canada facility in Richmond, B.C., saying that as the government invests more in defen
  
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• Fraser Health to provide harm reduction supplies free through an Amazon-like online portal – and free delivery

  07-08-2024 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Fraser Health Authority (FHA) announced Wednesday (August 7) it will provide free harm reduction products through an online shopping portal, similar to Amazon, to people living in the health authority’s region who may not be able to access overdose prevention sites or supervised consumption sites.
  In a statement from spokesperson Gurleen Dhessi, FHA says it is imperative that people have timely and equitable access to supplies that reduce the harms from toxic as the unre
  
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• Canadian featherweight Kyle Nelson gets new opponent for UFC Fight Night card

  07-08-2024 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  American Steve (Mean Machine) Garcia has replaced the injured Calvin (The Boston Finisher) Kattar as the opponent for Canadian featherweight Kyle (The Monster) Nelson on a Sept. 7 UFC Fight Night card.
  Garcia (16-5-0) has won his last four UFC bouts, all by stoppages, after losing two of his first three fights in the mixed martial arts promotion.
  The main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas pits Brazil’s Gilbert Burns, ranked fifth among welterweight contenders, against No. 8 Sean Brady of
  
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• Ex-adviser with the Coalition Avenir Québec pleads not guilty to electoral fraud

  07-08-2024 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — A former Coalition Avenir Québec political adviser has been charged with electoral fraud by the province’s elections authority.
  Élections Québec says Étienne Boulrice helped or incited someone to take $100 that didn’t belong to them and donate it to the ruling party.
  In Quebec all political contributions must come from a contributor’s own funds.
  Boulerice was a political adviser to CAQ member Suzanne Tremblay, who represents the
  
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• Canada’s Haumana-Parades, Wilkerson a win away from women’s beach volleyball medal

  07-08-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson were staring down an early exit from the Paris Games. Now they are one win away from delivering Canada’s first-ever medal in women’s beach volleyball.
  With the iconic Eiffel Tower looming over the court that bears its name, the Toronto tandem advanced to the tournament semifinals with a 21-18, 21-18 win over Spain’s Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics.
  The Canadians will play for a chance
  
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• Yemen official says 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding

  07-08-2024 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thirty people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in Yemen’s southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains, the governor said Wednesday.
  Hodeidah Gov. Mugammad Qahim told Houthi-controlled Masirah TV that the floods displaced people from 500 houses. Five people also went missing, Qahim said.
  Hodeidah, the southwestern city of Taiz and the northwestern city of Hajjah were all hit hard by floods this week amid Yemen’s ongoing
  
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• Great Barrier Reef waters were hottest in 400 years over the past decade, study finds

  07-08-2024 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if planetary warming isn’t stopped.
  During that time, between 2016 and 2024, the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and one of the most biodiverse, suffered mass coral bleaching events. That’s when water temperatures get too hot and coral expel the al
  
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• Two former NHLers charged in world junior sexual assault case sign with KHL teams

  07-08-2024 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two of the five former Team Canada world junior hockey players awaiting trial for an alleged group sexual assault in 2018 have signed contracts with teams in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), according to the league.
  Dillon Dube is listed on the roster for Belarus-based Dinamo Minsk as being under contract through May 31, 2025, while Kazakhstan-based Astana Barys announced Friday that Michael McLeod has signed a one-year deal with the team.
  Dube, McLeod, Carter Hart, Cal Foote and Alex Formen
  
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• Ford ‘happy as punch’ about Walz as running mate pick, two months after meeting

  07-08-2024 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is “happy as punch” that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been chosen as Vice-President Kamala Harris’ running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
  His comments come just two months after the two met in Ford’s office at the Ontario legislature.
  The two discussed how to strengthen the economic ties between Ontario and Minnesota, including the agriculture and energy sectors, and Ford says there is a lot of common
  
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• Chipotle Mexican Grill coming to Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  07-08-2024 16:37 via news.google.com
  Chipotle Mexican Grill coming to Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chipotle Mexican Grill coming to Chilliwack

  07-08-2024 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An international food chain specializing in Mexican cuisine with over 3,500 restaurants spanning six countries is coming to Chilliwack.A spokesperson for California-based Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., Annie Gradinger, has confirmed to Fraser Valley Today via email that it will open in Chilliwack this coming winter at 7670 Vedder Road near the northeast corner of Vedder and Luckakuck Way.Gradinger did not have an official date or additional details, but urged Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Canada says travellers should exercise ‘high degree of caution’ in U.K. amid protests

  07-08-2024 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian government has updated its travel advisory for the United Kingdom amid a rash of ongoing demonstrations.It says visitors should “exercise a high degree of caution” in the country and takes note of demonstrations and violent clashes between protesters and police over the past week.The travel advice cautions that even peaceful demonstrations can turn violent at any time and can deteriorate quickly.
  Violent disorder has been driven in part by misinformation o
  
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• Turkey submits request to join genocide case against Israel in UN court

  07-08-2024 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel, the foreign minister said.
  Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.Turkey, one of the fiercest critics of Israel’s actions in Gaza, becomes the latest nation to seek to participate in the case.
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• US abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds

  07-08-2024 15:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Abortion was slightly more common across the U.S. in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a report released Wednesday found.
  A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states enacted laws to protect doctors who use telemedicine to see patients in places that have abortion bans, according to the quarterly #WeCount report for the Society of Family Planning, which sup
  
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• Bangladesh’s interim government will take oath on Thursday, says the military chief

  07-08-2024 14:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s military chief said Wednesday that an interim government headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus would be sworn in on Thursday night as he returns from Paris to take over the administration amid struggle for restoring stability after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to step down and flee.Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman said in a televised address late Wednesday afternoon that the responsible for the violence since Hasina’s resignation wou
  
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• Chilliwack's Jordyn Huitema, Canadian women fall to Germany in quarterfinal - Chilliwack Progress

  07-08-2024 14:30 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack's Jordyn Huitema, Canadian women fall to Germany in quarterfinal  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Thai court dissolves progressive Move Forward Party, which won election but failed to take power

  07-08-2024 11:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which won national elections in 2023, saying it violated the constitution by proposing an amendment of a law against defaming the country’s royal family.
  The Constitutional Court said it voted unanimously to dissolve the party because its campaign to amend the law was considered an attempt to overthrow the nation’s constitutional monarchy.
  The Election Commission filed
  
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• In the news today: Second victim of Munro’s husband speaks out

  07-08-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Second alleged victim of Alice Munro’s husband says parents must protect their kids
  A second woman is speaking out about being targeted sexually as a child by Alice Munro’s late husband. Sixty-four-year-old Jane Morrey says she hopes her story will encourage parents to believe and protect their children. Morrey was nine when she says Gerald Fremlin exposed himself to her while he was stayin
  
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• Second alleged victim of Alice Munro’s husband says parents must protect their kids

  07-08-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The second woman to publicly accuse Alice Munro’s late husband of targeting her sexually when she was a child says she hopes her story will encourage parents to believe their children.
  Jane Morrey was nine years old when she says Gerald Fremlin exposed himself to her while he was staying at her family’s Toronto home, several years before he married Munro. Fifty-five years later, she was inspired to speak publicly about it for the first time after learning that Fremlin had later sexua
  
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• Health Minister Mark Holland to give an update on the federal dental-care program

  07-08-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland is expected to provide an update on the federal government’s dental-care program today.
  The government began accepting claims for dental services for seniors enrolled in the program in May, and has since expanded eligibility to qualifying children and people with a disability tax credit.
  But while patients have been quick to enroll, getting dentists on board to provide the care has been more challenging.
  Dental associations have been expressing c
  
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• Fraser River’s landslide waters to reach Hope, B.C., and Lower Mainland today.

  07-08-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — High waters that flowed over top of a massive landslide in British Columbia’s Chilcotin River are churning in the Fraser River towards British Columbia’s Lower Mainland today.Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says the fast-flowing waters are forecast to raise river levels by about a metre at Hope, B.C., located about 150 kilometres east of Vancouver.She says the river levels will be similar to spring runoff conditions on the Fraser River, but there is potentia
  
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• Global tech firm Concentrix to close its Chilliwack site this fall - Abbotsford News

  07-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Global tech firm Concentrix to close its Chilliwack site this fall  Abbotsford News
  
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• 1 person dead and 8 believed trapped after part of a hotel on Germany’s Mosel River collapses

  07-08-2024 07:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Part of a hotel in a winegrowing town on the Mosel River in western Germany has collapsed, leaving one person dead and another eight believed to be trapped in the wreckage, police said Wednesday.
  Fourteen people were in the hotel in Kroev when one story of the building collapsed at about 11 p.m. Tuesday. Police said five were able to get out of the building unhurt, but another nine were trapped.
  By early Wednesday morning, emergency services had established that one person wa
  
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