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• Canada earns gold, bronze between the track and the pool on Day 6 of the Paralympics

  03-09-2024 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada bumped its medal count to 13 along with a second gold medal on Day 6 of the Paralympic Games.
  Victoria’s Cody Fournie struck gold on the track to give Canada its second consecutive day with a top spot on the podium. Canada went the first four days in Paris without gold, earning four bronze then four silvers.
  Katie Cosgriffe added a bronze in the pool later on Tuesday, Canada’s sixth swimming medal.
  Fournie won the men’s T51 200-metre race for Canada’s
  
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• Blue Jays all-star Bo Bichette’s recovery from calf strain continues

  03-09-2024 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — All-star shortstop Bo Bichette is progressing in his recovery from a strained calf.
  Bichette took batting practice and fielded groundballs with his Toronto Blue Jays teammates on Tuesday, a day after running the basepaths at Rogers Centre.
  The 26-year-old Bichette has not played since July 19 and has been recovering at the club’s spring training complex in Dunedin, Fla.It is the second time this season he has been placed on the injured list with a calf strain.
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• Federal judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to intervene in wake of hush money conviction

  03-09-2024 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president’s latest bid to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentencing.
  U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required for a federal court to take control of the case from the state court where it was tried.Hellerstein’s ruling came hours after Manhattan pros
  
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• Quebec man accused in March 2023 truck attack returns to court in December

  03-09-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Quebec man charged with killing three men with his truck will return to court in early December to learn when he will stand trial.
  Steeve Gagnon faces a total of 14 counts stemming from the alleged attack in Amqui, Que., on March 13, 2023, including three counts of first-degree murder.
  Gagnon’s case was before a judge on Tuesday and was postponed until Dec. 2, when a date will likely be set for trial sometime next year.
  He is also charged with nine counts of attempted murder and two coun
  
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• Shots fired, vehicles burned at Punjabi musician AP Dhillon’s Victoria-area home

  03-09-2024 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Police say someone set fire to two vehicles and fired multiple shots at a Greater Victoria home that property records show is owned by Indo-Canadian musician AP Dhillon.
  West Shore RCMP say they were called to the home in Colwood, B.C., early Monday and found evidence of shots being fired at or into the house.
  Police say they also found two vehicles on fire, and residents were evacuated from the home while the fires were extinguished.
  The statement comes after videos were circul
  
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• Canada’s Morel not done with wheelchair fencing after Paralympic swan song

  03-09-2024 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s “grande dame” of wheelchair fencing wants more for her sport.
  Ruth Sylvie Morel may have fenced her last Paralympic bout Tuesday in Paris, but the 68-year-old from Pincourt, Que., isn’t done agitating to increase her sport’s visibility.
  Morel, known as Sylvie, represented Canada when wheelchair fencing made its Paralympic debut in Sydney, Australia in 2000. She competed in her fourth Games on Tuesday.
  “Motivation, ambition, ego and plus,
  
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• US charges Hamas leader, other militants in connection with Oct. 7 massacre in Israel

  03-09-2024 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel.
  The criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City includes charges of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, resulting in death.
  “The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations,” Attor
  
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• Coca-Cola Coliseum to be primary venue for PWHL Toronto in 2024-25 season

  03-09-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Coca-Cola Coliseum will be the primary venue of the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s Toronto franchise this upcoming season, the club announced on Tuesday.
  Toronto played 11 of its 12 regular-season home games at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre during its inaugural 2024 campaign.
  The exception was a mid-February game held at Scotiabank Arena, home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, where they played in front of a sold-out crowd.
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• Canada’s Katie Cosgriffe earns Paralympic bronze in swimming

  03-09-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s Katie Cosgriffe has earned Paralympic bronze in the women’s S10 100-metre butterfly.
  The 18-year-old hailing from Burlington, Ont., finished the race in one minute 7.22 seconds.
  Great Britain’s Faye Rogers (1:05.84) and Callie-Ann Warrington (1:06.41) grabbed gold, and silver, respectively.
  Cosgriffe is making her Paralympic debut after only obtaining her international classification in April 2023.It’s the sixth medal in the pool for Canada in Paris
  
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• VIDEO: Police chase in Chilliwack ends in arrest of prolific offender - Chilliwack Progress

  03-09-2024 22:12 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Police chase in Chilliwack ends in arrest of prolific offender  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Receiver Tim White registers second straight 100-yard performance for Ticats

  03-09-2024 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Tim White enters the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ bye week on a nice roll.
  The fourth-year receiver had six catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns in Hamilton’s crucial 31-28 Labour Day win over the Toronto Argonauts on Monday. Bo Levi Mitchell found White on a 57-yard strike to open the scoring, and then the two combined on a 70-yard TD pass that put the Ticats ahead 21-3 later in the first quarter.
  It was White’s second straight 100-yard performance. He had seven receptions for 134
  
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• Online fundraiser for Matthew Gaudreau’s widow raises more than $550K as the sports world mourns

  03-09-2024 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More tributes are pouring in from around the hockey community after the deaths of NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew, who were killed last week by a suspected drunken driver while riding their bikes in their home state of New Jersey.
  Jaromir Jagr posted a video Tuesday on social media of Gaudreau assisting on his 766th and final goal in the league when they were teammates with the Calgary Flames in 2018.
  “It was a beautiful pass above all,” Jagr wrote in Czech. “Unf
  
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• McGill law professors on strike in protest of challenge to union certification

  03-09-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Law professors at McGill University were on the picket line Thursday, forcing the cancellation of classes during the first week of the fall semester in protest of the school’s challenge to their right to unionize.
  Kirsten Anker, a law professor and the union’s vice-president, participated in the demonstration outside the law faculty building on the university’s downtown campus. McGill said 67 classes have so far been cancelled, and Anker warned that the unlimit
  
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• Phoenix weathers 100 days of 100-plus degree temps as heat scorches western US

  03-09-2024 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Cam Ferguson gets to his spot on the street adjacent to Chase Field — home of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks — about four hours before first pitch to set up his usual display of cold water, sports drinks, peanuts and candy.
  By game time, it’s about 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.4 degrees Celsius) on this Labor Day afternoon in downtown Phoenix. Business is brisk.
  “Two for five, but it’s eight inside!” shouts another vendor
  
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• Mistrial declared after jury deadlocks in rape case of former New Hampshire youth center worker

  03-09-2024 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A mistrial was declared Tuesday in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal after a jury deadlocked in the case of a former youth detention facility staffer charged with raping a teenage girl.
  Victor Malavet, 62, was one of nine men charged in the 5-year-old investigation into abuse allegations at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, though unlike the others, he worked at a separate state-run facility in Concord.
  
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• Racial profiling a ‘systemic problem’ in Montreal police, judge rules in class action

  03-09-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has ruled that racial profiling is a systemic problem in the Montreal police force and has awarded damages to victims in a class-action lawsuit.
  The case was brought by the Black Coalition of Quebec, which was seeking $17 million — up to $5,000 per person who was racially profiled by police.
  In a ruling today, Quebec Superior Court Justice Dominique Poulin ordered the City of Montreal to pay $5,000 to certain members of the class, with others entitled to les
  
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• B.C. to open 13 new First Nation primary care clinics, 10 to open this fall

  03-09-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. — British Columbia is moving ahead with 13 new First Nations primary care centres in the province, with 10 scheduled to start operating this fall.
  The province’s First Nations Health Authority and the Health Ministry say in a joint statement that there will be a total of 15 such clinics in B.C. once the 13 new locations are all opened.
  Health minister Adrian Dix says in a statement that the expanded slate of First Nations primary care clinics is another step in &
  
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• B.C. Conservatives add, subtract candidates, as some complain of BC United moving in

  03-09-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A series of candidates for British Columbia’s upcoming provincial election have disappeared from the B.C. Conservatives’ online list of nominees, as some former BC United members move into the Conservative fold after last week’s reshaping of the province’s political landscape.
  Some former candidates complained that the Conservatives were being infiltrated by the Official Opposition — whose leader Kevin Falcon ended his party’s campaign last Wednesday — a
  
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• Pierre Fitzgibbon, Quebec political heavyweight, is stepping down as economy minister

  03-09-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon, a central figure in the Coalition Avenir Québec government, is stepping down.A government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, confirmed the news to The Canadian Press after it was first reported by La Presse.Rumours had circulated for some time that Fitzgibbon wouldn’t finish his mandate, with the next provincial election scheduled for 2026.The news broke
  
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• Former aide to 2 New York governors is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government

  03-09-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A former New York state government official who worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors revealed in a sprawling indictment.Linda Sun, who held numerous posts in New York state government before rising to the rank of deputy chief of staff for Hochul, was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband, Chris Hu, at their $3.5 million home on Long Island.Prosecutors said
  
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• City of Chilliwack moves forward with new parking lot at the site of a former single-family home

  03-09-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council is set to consider a recommendation from city staff at its meeting today (Tuesday, September 3) that would see a civil construction firm awarded with a $222,910 contract to build a parking lot on the site of a former single-family home directly across from City Hall.
  According to item 7.4 on today’s council agenda, city staff selected B.A. Blacktop as the leading proponent based on its low bid and its shortest working window of the three submissio
  
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• City of Chilliwack moves forward with new parking lot at the site of a former single-family home - Fraser Valley Today

  03-09-2024 20:36 via news.google.com
  City of Chilliwack moves forward with new parking lot at the site of a former single-family home  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Sharapova, Bryan brothers on the ballot for 2025 tennis Hall of Fame

  03-09-2024 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, and the doubles team of brothers Mike and Bob Bryan are on the ballot for International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2025.
  Daniel Nestor, a 12-time major doubles champion from Canada, also returns to the ballot that was announced Tuesday.
  Sharapova is one of 10 women to complete the career Grand Slam, winning her first major at Wimbledon in 2004 at 17. The Russian twice won the French Open, captured titl
  
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• Rise in popularity of marathons across Canada attracting scammers online

  03-09-2024 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Leila Mekki Berrada, new to marathon running, had set her sights on Montreal’s big race at the end of September. But she wasn’t prepared to get swindled — twice — before securing a spot in the sold-out marathon.
  As marathon running increases in popularity across the country, scammers are seeing an easy way to make money from people who are inexperienced with the system to transfer bibs — the name for the official number that identifies each racer.
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• Online fundraiser for Matthew Gaudreau’s widow raises more than $500K as the sports world mourns

  03-09-2024 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More tributes are pouring in from around the hockey community after the deaths of NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew, who were killed last week by a suspected drunken driver while riding their bikes in their home state of New Jersey.
  Jaromir Jagr posted a video Tuesday on social media of Gaudreau assisting on his 766th and final goal in the league when they were teammates with the Calgary Flames in 2018.
  “It was a beautiful pass above all,” Jagr wrote in Czech. “Unf
  
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• Blues defenseman Torey Krug will have ankle surgery and miss the 2024-25 season

  03-09-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues defenseman Torey Krug is set to have ankle surgery and is expected to miss the 2024-25 season.
  President and general manager Doug Armstrong announced the prognosis Tuesday. Krug was diagnosed earlier this summer with pre-arthritic changes in his left ankle, what the Blues called a cumulative result of a bone fracture earlier in his career.
  The team said at the time he would attempt to rehab the injury for six to eight weeks before resorting to season-ending
  
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• Pendrith, Conners, Hughes named to International Team for upcoming Presidents Cup

  03-09-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadians Taylor Pendrith, Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes have been named to the International Team’s for the upcoming Presidents Cup in Montreal.
  It’s the first time three Canadians have played in the prestigious international event at the same time.
  Canadian golf legend Mike Weir used three of his six captain’s selections on Pendrith, Conners and Hughes. He also picked South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout, South Korea’s Si Woo Kim and Australia’s Min W
  
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• Resource crunch at federal emergency centre caused ‘significant staff exhaustion’

  03-09-2024 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An internal government memo reveals budget and staff challenges have exhausted employees and sapped morale at the federal nerve centre for managing forest fires and other emergencies.
  The memo also says the Government Operations Centre lacks both the capacity to fully modernize and the money for new digital tools.
  The Canadian Press used the Access to Information Act to obtain the May memo, prepared for the deputy minister of Public Safety Canada.
  It says the last four years have
  
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• Agassiz-area First Nation removes chief for ‘serious misconduct’

  03-09-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STS’AILES (AGASSIZ) — A First Nation band west of Agassiz has removed its chief after evidence of serious misconduct emerging, prompting band council members to take immediate action last week.According to a statement from Sts’ailes First Nation, council members at Sts’ailes were advised in early August that Chief Ralph Leon Jr. had engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, including matters pertaining to his unauthorized or unverified spending, pay advances, excessive tech
  
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• China retaliates over EV tariffs with anti-dumping probe into Canadian canola imports

  03-09-2024 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — China has announced an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola imports today in response to Canada planning to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum.
  In a news release, China’s Ministry of Commerce says it is launching an anti-discrimination investigation into the tariffs and an anti-dumping probe into Canadian canola imports as well as certain chemical products.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that Canada will impose a 100
  
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• Chilliwack thunderstorms, rain made for wettest August in years - Chilliwack Progress

  03-09-2024 18:51 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack thunderstorms, rain made for wettest August in years  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• NDP to have ‘tough conversations’ about its deal with Liberals at coming retreat: MP

  03-09-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat.
  Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next year in exchange for movement on key priorities.The New Democrats have used the deal to push forward items like dental care, pharma
  
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• Veteran MLA Jackie Tegart announces she will not run in provincial election

  03-09-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ASHCROFT — Veteran M.L.A. Jackie Tegart has announced she will not seek a fourth term in this fall’s provincial election. She had been expected to represent the BC United Party in the election in the riding of Fraser-Nicola.
  Tegart was first elected in the 2013 provincial election as a member of the BC Liberal Party in the riding of Fraser-Nicola. She was reelected in 2017 and again in 2020. Tegart also served three terms on the Ashcroft municipal council and sat as a school board tr
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP arrest 39-year-old man for multiple charges in dangerous driving incident Saturday night

  03-09-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson says police have arrested a 39-year-old man with an apparent history of criminal activity after he engaged in dangerous driving behaviours during a Saturday night incident in Chilliwack.
  According to a statement from spokesperson Martin Godart, a member of the Chilliwack RCMP traffic unit initiated a traffic stop under the Motor Vehicle Act at approximately 10 p.m. on Saturday night, August 31. Police say the driver fled the scene and subsequentl
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP arrest 39-year-old man for multiple charges in dangerous driving incident Saturday night - Fraser Valley Today

  03-09-2024 18:03 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack RCMP arrest 39-year-old man for multiple charges in dangerous driving incident Saturday night  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• A boat with dozens of migrants rips apart in the English Channel off France, killing 12

  03-09-2024 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — A boat carrying migrants ripped apart in the English Channel as they attempted to reach Britain from northern France on Tuesday, plunging dozens into the treacherous waterway and leaving 12 dead, authorities said.
  Many didn’t have life preservers in what one official called the deadliest migrant accident in the channel this year.
  “Unfortunately, the bottom of the boat ripped open,” said Olivier Barbarin, mayor of Le Portel near the fishing port of Boulogne-su
  
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• B.C.’s Lind prize for emerging artists gets $1 million donation from family

  03-09-2024 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A new donation is securing the future of one of Canada’s biggest awards for emerging visual artists.The family of Philip Lind has given $1 million to support the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, given since 2015 to British Columbia-based artists at the start of their careers.
  The donation for artists working in film, photography or video will allow the prize’s endowment fund to increase the award to $25,000 from $10,000.
  The award will also be given out every s
  
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• Edmonton Oilers sign centre Leon Draisaitl to eight-year extension

  03-09-2024 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed star centre Leon Draisaitl to an eight-year contract extension, the club announced Tuesday.
  The contract has an average annual value of US$14 million, the highest in NHL history.
  Draisaitl, 28, played 81 games last season, scoring 41 goals and 65 assists for 106 points. He added another 10 goals and 21 assists through 25 playoff games, helping propel Edmonton to its first Stanley Cup final appearance since 2006.
  He was set to become an unrestricte
  
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• Canada’s Cody Fournie captures wheelchair racing Paralympic gold medal

  03-09-2024 15:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — When Cody Fournie was at a crossroads in his athletic career, he headed for the track.
  The former national wheelchair rugby team player captured wheelchair racing gold Tuesday at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
  The 35-year-old from Victoria won the men’s T51 200 metres for Canada’s second gold medal in Paris after Nicholas Bennett’s swimming gold the previous evening.
  “During COVID I was in a transition period and not really knowing what I was going to do,&rd
  
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• LETTER: Pension reduction leads senior to Chilliwack Salvation Army food bank - Chilliwack Progress

  03-09-2024 14:30 via news.google.com
  LETTER: Pension reduction leads senior to Chilliwack Salvation Army food bank  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• A Russian missile strike kills 41 people and wounds 180 others in the Ukrainian city of Poltava

  03-09-2024 14:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two Russian ballistic missiles struck an educational facility and nearby hospital in a central-eastern region of Ukraine, killing at least 41 people and wounding 180 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.
  The strike occurred in the city of Poltava, the capital of the region of the same name, officials said. Poltava is located about 110 kilometers (70 miles) from the border with Russia and about 350 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Kyiv.
  The st
  
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• In the news today: Concerns raised after Via Rail passengers stranded

  03-09-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Concerns raised after Via Rail passengers stranded
  A tourist visiting Canada is questioning the safety of Via Rail after he says his phone was snatched from him by an employee when he was documenting a train delay that left passengers stranded as they ran out of food, water and working toilets.
  Chip Malt was in Quebec over the long weekend to celebrate his father’s 70th birthday in the province&r
  
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• Unionized Metro Vancouver HandyDART employees plan strike rally after offer rejection

  03-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The union local for Metro Vancouver HandyDART workers says it will hold a rally in Vancouver today to mark the beginning of its strike after members voted down a final offer by employer Transdev Canada last week.The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1724 says the rally will begin at noon across from Pacific Central Station in Vancouver.The union local says the majority of its members are “frustrated,” and rejected the company’s offer after dealing with staffing
  
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• Move quickly on gun regulations, directives to stem domestic violence, Ottawa urged

  03-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Several civil society organizations, including women’s advocates, are calling on the Liberal government to swiftly flesh out firearm legislation passed last year by enacting crucial regulations and directives.
  In December, Parliament approved a government bill that includes new measures to keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers.
  It also cements restrictions on handguns, increases penalties for firearm trafficking and aims to curb homemade ghost guns.
  A detailed b
  
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• ‘Like being in prison’: Via Rail passenger says people stranded without food, water

  03-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A tourist visiting Canada is questioning the safety of Via Rail after he says his phone was snatched from him by an employee when he was documenting a train delay that left passengers stranded as they ran out of food, water and working toilets.Chip Malt was in Quebec over the long weekend to celebrate his father’s 70th birthday in the province’s capital, and said he boarded a Via Rail train from Montreal to Quebec City on Saturday.But the expected three-hour ride ended
  
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• Lessia Belsham (Yaroshuk) Obituary (2024) - Chilliwack, IL - Legacy.com

  03-09-2024 10:03 via news.google.com
  Lessia Belsham (Yaroshuk) Obituary (2024) - Chilliwack, IL  Legacy.com
  
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• It’s back to school for kids in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley - Fraser Valley Today

  03-09-2024 10:03 via news.google.com
  It’s back to school for kids in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in podcast appearance

  03-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad says British Columbia needs to have a “conversation” about nuclear power playing a role in the province’s energy future, and review educational materials that he says are designed for “indoctrination” of children.Speaking on an episode of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast released Monday, Rustad says he also wants to get rid of the carbon tax, which he says taxes people into poverty in “a vain attempt to
  
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• It’s back to school for kids in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley

  03-09-2024 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Classrooms across British Columbia will be filled with students this week as public schools resume classes. Nearly 600 thousand B.C. students will head to school Tuesday (Sept. 3) morning to kick off the new school year, while thousands more will begin their year at private schools.
  Public schools in the Chilliwack area, within School District 33, have their schedules listed on the district’s website. Start times for schools in Abbotsford are listed on the Abbotsford Sch
  
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• Russian leader Putin visits Mongolia, defying an international warrant for his arrest

  03-09-2024 08:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Mongolia on Tuesday with no sign that the host country would bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the invasion of Ukraine.
  The trip is Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal Court since it issued a warrant for his arrest about 18 months ago. Ahead of his visit, Ukraine called on Mongolia to hand Putin over to the court in The Hague
  
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