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• B.C. wildfires holding steady at about 350 with lightning in the forecast

  08-08-2024 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Okanagan Indian Band in British Columbia’s southern Interior says an out-of-control wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders and alerts has seen recent “slow” growth, but fire behaviour could intensify along with rising temperatures.A statement from the First Nation outside Vernon on Thursday says BC Wildfire Service personnel were working to maintain guards around the seven-square-kilometre Hullcar Mountain blaze while helicopters douse it with water.
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• Quebec hotel workers in three cities strike over lagging contract talks

  08-08-2024 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — About 2,600 unionized employees from hotels in some of the province’s largest cities walked off the job Thursday, protesting an impasse in contract talks.
  The 24-hour strike hit 23 hotels in Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke.Éric Hamel, general manager of an association representing Montreal hotels, said that despite the strike it was business as usual in the city.
  Negotiations between hotel owners and the workers’ union — Confédération
  
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• CFLPA executive director Brian Ramsay to leave union by end of next month

  08-08-2024 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Brian Ramsay is stepping down as executive director of the CFL Players’ Association, the union announced Thursday.
  The CFLPA said Ramsay “is pursuing a new opportunity,” and will leave the organization at the end of September. There was no indication given regarding what’s next for Ramsay.
  The union added its board of directors will be naming an interim executive director shortly.
  Ramsay has been with the CFLPA since 2015. The 44-year-old Victoria native s
  
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• Road closed following 'high-velocity' crash in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  08-08-2024 22:40 via news.google.com
  Road closed following 'high-velocity' crash in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fight brewing at CRTC over first Online News Act payment by Google

  08-08-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new fight is playing out at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over the first $100-million annual payment Google agreed to pay Canadian news outlets.The group tasked by Google to distribute the money to news outlets has submitted plans for its governance structure to the CRTC.
  If the regulator is satisfied with those plans, it will grant Google an exemption from the Online News Act, which will trigger the payments.
  But some news outlets say the plan
  
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• Residential school doc ‘Sugarcane’ about ‘survival against all odds,’ says director

  08-08-2024 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Julian Brave NoiseCat initially didn’t want “Sugarcane” to be such a personal film.
  The Indigenous filmmaker says he intended to remain behind the camera for the Sundance prize-winning documentary, which he co-directed with Toronto’s Emily Kassie.The film is a quietly haunting account of deaths, rapes, suicides and missing children at the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School, a Catholic-run facility near Sugar Cane reserve in Williams Lake, B.C.
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• Minister for women won’t comment on committee drama as Liberal MP defends actions

  08-08-2024 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal minister for women won’t comment after a House of Commons committee that was supposed to discuss violence against women last week instead dissolved into political chaos.Witnesses Megan Walker and Cait Alexander, who walked out of the meeting, wrote to federal party leaders this week to decry MPs’ behaviour and demand concrete action on the issue.
  They directed ire at Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld, who instigated a procedural fight at the committee by moving a
  
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• B.C. appoints new chief coroner, while overdose health emergency lingers

  08-08-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has appointed Dr. Jatinder Baidwan as the province’s new chief coroner following the retirement of Lisa Lapointe earlier this year.The Ministry of Public Safety says in a statement that Baidwan takes on the role after serving as the chief medical officer for the BC Coroners Service since 2017.
  It says Baidwan aims to “enhance” the role of the service, providing data to better inform policymakers and prevent future deaths.
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• Vancouver Whitecaps acquire Colombian youth international wingback Edier Ocampo

  08-08-2024 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Colombian youth international wingback Edier Ocampo in a transfer from Colombia’s Atletico Nacional.
  The acquisition of Ocampo, who has made 25 appearances for Colombia’s under-19, U-20, and U-23 teams, was announced Thursday on the final day of the secondary transfer window in Canada. The transfer fee was reportedly US$1.75 million.
  The 20-year-old has signed a contract through 2027, with a club option for 2028, and will occupy
  
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• Calgary builders hope to work with city to reduce impact of new water restrictions

  08-08-2024 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary builders say they’re glad the city has given them advance notice of a renewed water shutdown to help them cope with what has been a summer of setbacks that have cost millions of dollars.
  The Calgary Construction Association says it’s working with the city on ways to mitigate the impact of new water restrictions, which are set to begin in less than three weeks, on Aug. 26.
  Association president Bill Black says municipal water restrictions have disrupted concret
  
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• Toronto Argonauts looking to even home-and-home series with Calgary Stampeders

  08-08-2024 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — There’s no place like home for Ryan Dinwiddie and the Toronto Argonauts.
  Toronto (4-4) faces Calgary (4-4) at BMO Field on Friday night. The Stampeders outscored the Argos 21-0 in the fourth quarter Sunday night at McMahon Stadium for a 27-23 win that improved their home record to 4-0.
  However, Calgary is 0-4 on the road while Toronto sports a 3-1 home record. The Stampeders have just one win in their last 10 games away from McMahon Stadium and haven’t recorded a back
  
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• Court hears arguments in civil suit filed by Frank Stronach’s granddaughter

  08-08-2024 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An Ontario Superior Court is hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by the granddaughter of billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who is seeking an order compelling the family business to disclose any documents that might exist related to complaints of sexual misconduct against him and settlements involving complainants.Lawyers representing Selena Stronach are arguing that media coverage of the sexual assault allegations against her father suggest misconduct occurred in a corporate setting and t
  
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• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of trucker convicted in Edmonton hotel killing

  08-08-2024 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Canada’s highest court won’t hear a conviction appeal from a former Ontario truck driver in the death of a woman at an Edmonton hotel.
  Bradley Barton was sentenced to 12 1/2 years for manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue.
  The 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman bled to death in a hotel bathtub in 2011.
  As is usual, the Supreme Court of Canada did not provide reasons in dismissing the application for leave to appeal.
  Barton’s lawyer Peter Sankoff says h
  
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• Chilliwack locals call for action after girl's drowning - CityNews Vancouver

  08-08-2024 21:14 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack locals call for action after girl's drowning  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• B.C. landslide and flood damages cultural sites, says Williams Lake First Nation

  08-08-2024 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The Williams Lake First Nation says two and possibly three Indigenous cultural heritage sites sustained extensive damage when a torrent of water breached a landslide that had blocked the Chilcotin River in British Columbia’s central Interior.
  The nation says two of the sites were located along the banks of the Chilcotin River near the Farwell Canyon Bridge and the third site was downstream at the confluence of the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers.
  A landslide south o
  
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• Ottawa calls $8-million price tag for animal captivity bill speculative, premature

  08-08-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says a proposed law to prohibit keeping elephants and great apes in captivity could cost up to $8 million to administer over the first five years.
  The federal government is questioning that conclusion, calling it speculative and noting it is based on legislation that hasn’t even passed yet.
  The government introduced Bill S-15 in the Senate last November, but it hasn’t passed there or in the House of Commons yet.
  The PBO says the $8-mill
  
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• Canada’s Skylar Park wins bronze medal in taekwondo at Paris Olympics

  08-08-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s Skylar Park has won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the Olympic Games in Paris.
  The 25-year-old from Winnipeg defeated Lebanon’s Laetitia Aoun 2-0 in the women’s 57-kilogram division.
  Park lost her quarterfinal to Kim Yujin of South Korea.
  Kim reaching the final gave Park another chance at a medal via repechage.
  The Canadian defeated Turkey’s Hatice Kubra Ilgan 2-0 in the repechage to advance.
  Park beat Dominika Hronova of Czechia 2-0 in her opening
  
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• ABC says Trump and Harris have agreed to participate in a presidential debate on Sept. 10

  08-08-2024 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — ABC says both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate, setting up a face-off between the Republican and Democratic nominees.
  The announcement Thursday came shortly after Trump told a news conference that he had proposed three presidential debates with three television networks, saying he agreed on certain dates in September.Trump is rejoining the ABC debate days after posting on his social media network that he would not appear o
  
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• Canada’s Marina Stakusic ousted in second round of National Bank Open

  08-08-2024 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Marina Stakusic’s first foray into the National Bank Open main draw has come to a screeching halt.
  The 19-year-old wild-card entry from Mississauga, Ont., was thumped 6-0, 6-2 by Taylor Townsend of the United States in the second round of the Canadian tennis championship Thursday.
  Ranked 160th in the world, Stakusic advanced after coming back to beat Russia’s Erika Andreeva in three sets less than 24 hours earlier.No. 15 seed Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que. — th
  
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• A competitor in the CrossFit Games has died during a swimming event at a Texas lake

  08-08-2024 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A competitor in the CrossFit Games has died while competing in a swimming event Thursday morning on a Texas lake.
  CrossFit CEO Don Faul said during a news conference that they were “deeply saddened” by the death of one of their athletes, and they were working with authorities on the investigation into the death.
  An official with the Fort Worth Fire Department said they got called out around 8 a.m. to assist police because there “was a participant
  
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• Medvedev, Tsitsipas upset in second round of National Bank Open

  08-08-2024 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Tennis stars Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas are out of the National Bank Open.
  Medvedev, the tournament’s third seed, lost 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in the second round Thursday at IGA Stadium.
  The 2021 U.S. Open champion from Russia hit 17 unforced errors and won just 32 per cent of second-serve points in the loss.
  Tsitsipas, the eighth seed from Greece, lost 6-4, 6-4 to former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori of Japan.
  World No. 1 Jannik Sinn
  
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• Liberal MPs say Quebec French-language health directive sows confusion

  08-08-2024 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Two Montreal-area Liberal MPs are raising concerns about a controversial Quebec directive that outlines when health-care providers can offer services in a language other than French.
  Anna Gainey, the federal MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, says the choice of language should belong to patients, and the directive is causing confusion and uncertainty.
  Gainey posted a statement to the X social media platform Wednesday evening saying she’s spoken with federal
  
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• Flash flooding risk in Ontario, Quebec as remnants of tropical storm Debby on the way

  08-08-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Up to 100 millimetres of rain is forecast to hit parts of Eastern Canada by the weekend as the remnants of tropical storm Debby make their way to the region.
  Environment Canada is warning of heavy rain and risks of flash flooding and sewer backups across a swath of the country from Cornwall, Ont., to Quebec City.
  Meteorologist Jennifer Smith told a news conference that a low-pressure system over the Great Lakes will bring rain and possible thunderstorms in Eastern Ontario and so
  
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• Abbotsford PD seeks help locating a 48-year-old suspect who was previously charged with assault by choking

  08-08-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department says it is appealing for help in determining the location of a 48-year-old male who is wanted by their department on a province-wide warrant.
  AbbyPD says 48-year-old Cory Michael Swan is being sought by authorities on a BC-wide warrant in connection to a breach and uttering threats investigation.Swan is known to frequent Abbotsford and Vancouver. Police describe Swan as 5’11” tall, weighing 170 pounds.
  Police say people should not a
  
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• Chilliwack real estate sales increase in July as single-family benchmark home prices actually drop - Fraser Valley Today

  08-08-2024 19:10 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack real estate sales increase in July as single-family benchmark home prices actually drop  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack real estate sales increase in July as single-family benchmark home prices actually drop

  08-08-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB) says cumulative sales of single-family homes, townhouses and apartments increased nearly six per cent in July 2024 year over year, even as benchmark prices of single-family home have dropped from a year ago at this time.According to a Thursday morning (August 8) news release from Steve Lerigny, executive director of CADREB based in Chilliwack, the number of homes sold through the Multiple Listing Service system of CADREB e
  
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• Childhood abuse survivor agency sees surge in calls since Alice Munro revelation

  08-08-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A support agency for survivors of childhood sexual abuse says it’s seen a surge in calls since Alice Munro’s daughter went public with her story a month ago.The intake coordinator for The Gatehouse in Toronto says 81 survivors reached out for support after Andrea Skinner’s essay appeared July 7 in the Toronto Star.
  Karen MacKeigan says a large proportion of them specifically referred to Skinner’s story and the surrounding media coverage.
  Skinner’s es
  
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• CF Montreal acquires midfielder Caden Clark from Minnesota United FC

  08-08-2024 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal acquired midfielder Caden Clark from Minnesota United FC on Thursday.
  In return, the Major League Soccer club will send US$50,000 in general allocation money and a second-round pick in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft to Minnesota.
  Minnesota could receive $100,000 if Clark meets unspecified performance conditions. The club also retains a sell-on percentage should Clark be transferred out of MLS.
  Clark had one assist over 11 starts and 23 total appearances after joining Minnes
  
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• Powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minor

  08-08-2024 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A high-profile former North Dakota lawmaker who was one of the most powerful members of the Legislature pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, was indicted in October 2023 for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt and attempted receipt of child sexual abuse material. The Republican served more than 45 years in the North Dako
  
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• Canada will play for gold medal in beach volleyball at Paris Olympics

  08-08-2024 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — The Canadian women’s beach volleyball team will play for gold at the Paris Olympics after defeating Switzerland 14-21, 22-20, 15-12 in semifinal play at Eiffel Tower Stadium.After dropping the opener, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson saved a match ball against Tanja Hueberli and Nina Brunner in the second set before forcing a decider on extra points.The Canadians sealed the win on their second match point when Switzerland sent the ball long.
  Humana-Paredes and Wil
  
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• Bank of Canada names experts to assess its internal review of pandemic policy actions

  08-08-2024 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada has named three experts that will assess its internal review of the central bank’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The experts are Pablo Hernández de Cos, former governor of the Bank of Spain, Kristin J. Forbes, a former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee and Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary.
  Bank of Canada deputy governor Sharon Kozicki announced in June that the central bank w
  
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• Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash - Abbotsford News

  08-08-2024 17:52 via news.google.com
  Maple Ridge mom, boy killed in Chilliwack highway crash  Abbotsford News
  
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• Airfares could rise after Calgary hailstorm forces WestJet to cancel flights: expert

  08-08-2024 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An aviation expert says airfares may go up in the immediate aftermath of a hailstorm that tore through Calgary on Monday evening, damaging WestJet planes and upending travel plans.
  Hailstones as big as golf balls pummelled the tarmac, forcing the Calgary-based airline to ground 10 per cent of its fleet for major repairs and inspections.
  WestJet says it cancelled 248 flights between Monday and Wednesday, and will have to cut trips across its network for the “foreseeable future.”
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• Charron earns silver in weightlifting, Canadian relay teams are finals-bound at track

  08-08-2024 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Maude Charron lifted Canada to a silver medal Thursday in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Paris Olympics.
  The 31-year-old from Rimouski adds a second Olympic medal to her collection. She had previously won gold in Tokyo in 2021 in the 64 kg category, which has since been removed from the Olympic program.
  Charron lifted 106 kilograms in the snatch and 130 kilograms in the clean and jerk for a total of 236 kilograms to win Canada’s 20th medal at the Par
  
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• Chilliwack mom urges city to fence off pond where child drowned - Chilliwack Progress

  08-08-2024 17:33 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack mom urges city to fence off pond where child drowned  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Maude Charron wins silver in weightlifting at Paris Games

  08-08-2024 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s Maude Charron won a silver medal in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Summer Olympics on Thursday.
  She lifted 106kg in the snatch and 130kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 236kg to win Canada’s 20th medal at the Paris Games.
  China’s Luo Shifang, the reigning world champion, won gold with an Olympic-record total of 241kg (107 snatch and 134 clean and jerk), while Kuo Hsing-Chun of Taiwan, the defending Olympic champion at 59kg,
  
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• Top court nixes Jordan Peterson’s appeal of professional college’s remedial orders

  08-08-2024 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top court has closed the door on Jordan Peterson’s legal fight against an order that he enter a remedial coaching program.
  The author and University of Toronto professor has not had an active clinical practice since 2017 but remains a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
  In 2022, the professional body reviewed Peterson’s social-media conduct after hearing concerns about whether his posts met its standards.
  It determined that online comments
  
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• Former Chilliwack trustee files court appeal after losing defamation lawsuit to current SD33 trustee - Fraser Valley Today

  08-08-2024 16:51 via news.google.com
  Former Chilliwack trustee files court appeal after losing defamation lawsuit to current SD33 trustee  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Former Chilliwack trustee files court appeal after losing defamation lawsuit to current SD33 trustee

  08-08-2024 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Former Chilliwack School District trustee Barry Neufeld has filed an appeal after losing a defamation lawsuit brought by current SD33 trustee Dr. Carin Bondar.According to legal paperwork obtained by Fraser Valley Today, Neufeld’s appeal was filed Friday, August 2 with the British Columbia Court of Appeal.Neufeld was ordered in April 2024 to pay Dr. Carin Bondar, a current SD33 trustee, $45,000 by Justice K. Michael Stephens after losing a defamation lawsuit.Referring to
  
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• No Tsunami threat in B.C. after powerful Japan earthquake

  08-08-2024 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  There are no tsunami threats in British Columbia after a powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s southern coast, according to the U.S. based National Tsunami Warning Center.
  The Japan Meteorological Agency says Thursday’s quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centered in waters off the eastern coast of Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 30 kilometres.
  The quake most strongly shook Nichinan city and nearby areas in Miyazaki prefecture on Kyushu island, tr
  
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• City councillor questions approval process for 10 new murals in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  08-08-2024 16:35 via news.google.com
  City councillor questions approval process for 10 new murals in Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• City councillor questions approval process for 10 new murals in Chilliwack

  08-08-2024 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — When Chilliwack Councillor Bud Mercer learned during Tuesday’s meeting that council was being asked to approve a flood of new murals that were finished or nearing completion, his exasperation began to surface.
  In accordance with agenda item 7.5, Chilliwack councillors were tasked with approving the placement of 10 murals ahead of next week’s 2024 Chilliwack Mural Festival. However, Councillor Mercer sought clarification as to why council was being asked to approve
  
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• Chilliwack HWY 1 crash: fundraiser for only survivor passes goal - CityNews Vancouver

  08-08-2024 16:17 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack HWY 1 crash: fundraiser for only survivor passes goal  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• PHOTOS: 'Photoship' soars through Chilliwack days before Abbotsford Airshow - Chilliwack Progress

  08-08-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: 'Photoship' soars through Chilliwack days before Abbotsford Airshow  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• PHOTOS: 'Photoship' soars through Chilliwack days before Abbotsford Airshow - Abbotsford News

  08-08-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: 'Photoship' soars through Chilliwack days before Abbotsford Airshow  Abbotsford News
  
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• Mother who died in six-vehicle Chilliwack crash grew up in Nanaimo - Times Colonist

  08-08-2024 14:15 via news.google.com
  Mother who died in six-vehicle Chilliwack crash grew up in Nanaimo  Times Colonist
  
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• Toronto’s new WNBA franchise turns to fans for help in creating team’s name, identity

  08-08-2024 12:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto’s new WNBA team wants your help.
  The expansion franchise has issued a “call for inspiration,” asking fans from across Canada to “share ideas, hopes and suggestions” for everything from the team’s name to its colours and identity.
  “We don’t want to limit people,” team president Teresa Resch said in an interview. “Instead of just asking for a name, we want people to really share with us what this team is going to m
  
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• Yunus arrives in Bangladesh from an overseas trip to take over as the country’s interim leader

  08-08-2024 10:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s next leader Muhammad Yunus arrived home Thursday from an overseas trip and will take office later in the day, as he looks to restore calm and rebuild the country following an uprising that ended the 15-year, increasingly autocratic rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
  Yunus landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday afternoon and was welcomed by the country’s military chief, Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman, who w
  
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• A powerful earthquake hits off southern Japan; tsunami advisory issued

  08-08-2024 10:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s southern coast on Thursday, triggering a tsunami advisory.
  The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centered off the eastern coast of Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles).
  It issued a tsunami advisory, predicting waves of up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) along the southern coast of Kyushu and nearby island of Shikoku.
  Operators of nuclear plants
  
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• In the news today: New poll says Canadians split on soccer spy drone penalty

  08-08-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Canadians split on FIFA’s Olympics penalty for soccer drone spying, new poll says
  A new poll suggests Canadians are not exactly outraged about the punishment meted out to the Canadian women’s soccer team over its drone spying scandal. A member of the team’s coaching staff was caught flying a drone of a New Zealand team practice as the Olympics kicked off in Paris late last month. The
  
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