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• Stainless-steel takeout container project coming to Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  11-09-2024 23:47 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s Roger Sloan using analytics to prepare for critical FedEx Cup Fall season

  11-09-2024 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The chase for the remaining PGA Tour cards for the 2025 season begins Thursday at the Procore Championship.
  Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., is one of the players hunting to stay on the tour in the FedEx Cup Fall mini-season, and he’s using every tool at his disposal to secure one of the 55 remaining full cards or 25 spots with conditional status for next year. That includes relying on analytics to help him better strategize on the course.
  “My focus is doing what I can possibly do, cont
  
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• Pizza franchise slated to open its 4th location in greater Chilliwack area

  11-09-2024 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Everywhere you look in Chilliwack, pizza eateries seem to abound.
  From mom-and-pop places like Jim’s Pizzeria & Spaghetti House in Chilliwack and Sardis, to franchises like Domino’s, Red Swan Pizza, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s, not to mention smaller operations like Ricardo’s Pizza or Pizza 64, Chilliwack residents have plenty of options from which to choose.
  For those frequenting the downtown Chilliwack area, another pizza establishment is on its way
  
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• Hurricane Francine strengthens into a Category 2 storm ahead of landfall in Louisiana

  11-09-2024 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Hurricane Francine strengthened Wednesday into a Category 2 storm and is expected to make landfall in Louisiana as forecasters raised threats of potentially deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds on the northern U.S. Gulf coast.
  Francine is drawing fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters. The storm is forecast to crash into a fragile coastal region that still hasn’t fully recovered from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020
  
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• Pizza franchise slated to open its 4th location in greater Chilliwack area - Fraser Valley Today

  11-09-2024 23:01 via news.google.com
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• Pizza franchise poised to open its 4th location in greater Chilliwack area

  11-09-2024 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Everywhere you look in Chilliwack, pizza eateries seem to abound.From mom-and-pop places like Jim’s Pizzeria & Spaghetti House in Chilliwack and Sardis, to franchises like Domino’s, Red Swan Pizza, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s, not to mention smaller operations like Papa Murphy’s or Pizza 64, Chilliwack residents have plenty of options from which to choose.For those frequenting the downtown Chilliwack area, another pizza establishment is on its way.
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• Two people found dead in Montreal apartment in apparent domestic dispute: police

  11-09-2024 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal police are investigating the deaths of two people in their 70s who died of gunshot wounds in an apartment.
  Const. Véronique Dubuc says the deaths of a 70-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman were tied to a domestic dispute.
  Dubuc says no other information was available as investigators continue their work.
  Earlier, police said emergency services were called to an apartment east of downtown Montreal around 9 a.m.
  Police found two bodies inside a unit, both decease
  
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• UPDATE: Person struck by vehicle suffers minor injuries in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  11-09-2024 21:50 via news.google.com
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• Man hiking near Fairy Creek, B.C., wrongfully arrested by Mounties, review finds

  11-09-2024 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP says police officers acted unreasonably when they arrested a man who was hiking in British Columbia’s Fairy Creek area in 2021 around the same time as old-growth logging protests.In a summary of its review of a public complaint, the commission says Mounties demanded to search the hiker at a checkpoint on a public road in September 2021, and arrested him after he refused to leave the area or to be searched.The commiss
  
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• B.C. family doctors call for sick days, pensions ahead of October election

  11-09-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Organizations representing family doctors in British Columbia say physicians need paid sick days, vacation coverage, extended health and dental benefits and a pension plan.
  The BC College of Family Physicians and BC Family Doctors published a series of requests for whoever forms the next government after this October’s provincial election.
  The groups say the province is in a “family doctor crisis” and those in power need to streamline paperwork, fund additiona
  
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• Another $240K earmarked for Mission Museum restoration project

  11-09-2024 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION – Joint funding from a non-profit and the city is set to contribute to the next phase of the Mission Museum restoration project, which is now in its third year.The Mission District Historical Society will benefit from $240,000 provided by Heritage BC and the City of Mission’s Forestry Legacy Reserve. This funding will be used for era-specific cedar shingle siding, restored windows, and exterior doors.
  Additionally, the money will facilitate repairs to the front entrance and t
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks look to return to CFL playoffs with road victory

  11-09-2024 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Dru Brown can take the Ottawa Redblacks somewhere they haven’t been since 2018 on Saturday afternoon.
  Ottawa (8-3-1) visits the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (3-9) needing a victory to clinch a playoff berth. The Redblacks haven’t been to the CFL post-season since losing 27-16 to Calgary in the ’18 Grey Cup game.
  Ottawa entered 2024 having posted four straight fourth-place finishes in the East Division and a combined 14-54 record. But this season the Redblacks have the CFL’s second
  
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• ‘Concerning’ number of impaired drivers arrested in roads in Saanich, B.C.: police

  11-09-2024 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAANICH, B.C. — Police on southern Vancouver Island say they’ve arrested almost as many impaired drivers in the first eight months of this year than they did in 2023 in a concerning trend of people getting behind the wheel while drunk or on drugs.
  Statistics released by Saanich police show that officers stopped 464 impaired drivers up until the end of August compared with 468 arrests for the same problem in all 12 months of last year.
  Police say almost a third of those arrests this y
  
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• Canada’s Charles (Air) Jourdain moves down to bantamweight on UFC Edmonton card

  11-09-2024 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian Charles (Air) Jourdain is moving down to bantamweight to take on Victor (La Mangosta) Henry on the UFC’s Nov. 2 Fight Night card in Edmonton.
  The five-foot-nine Jourdain (15-8-1) has been fighting at 145 pounds as a featherweight but is dropping down to 135 after back-to-back losses to Sean (The Sniper) Woodson at UFC 297 in January and Brazil’s Jean (Lord) Silva at UFC 303 in June.
  The 27-year-old from Beloeil, Que., is 6-7-1 in the UFC.Henry (24-6-0 with one no-contest) is
  
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• Violinist Dyck, wrestler Phulka to receive Abbotsford civic awards

  11-09-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – A renowned concert violinist and a freestyle wrestler are set to receive honours from the city of Abbotsford.
  Dr. Calvin Dyck and Jasmit Singh Phulka will be recognized with a pair of awards highlighting their achievements and dedication to the local community.
  Dyck will receive the Order of Abbotsford for nearly 25 years of contributions to the city’s cultural sector as a music teacher, performer, and conductor.
  With a doctorate in violin performance from the University
  
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• Social media comments blocked: Montreal mayor says she won’t accept being insulted

  11-09-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is defending her decision to turn off comments on her social media accounts — with an announcement on social media.She posted screenshots to X this morning of vulgar names she’s been called on the platform, and says comments on her posts for months have been dominated by insults, to the point that she decided to block them.Montreal’s Opposition leader and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association have criticized Plante for li
  
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• All nine CFL teams unveil 10 players from their respective negotiation lists

  11-09-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — He’s currently a senior at Purdue but quarterback Hudson Card now has a second option at a pro football career.
  Card was one of 10 negotiation-list players revealed Wednesday by the Edmonton Elks. All nine CFL teams unveiled players Wednesday in the first of two revelations this year.
  Card, a six-foot-three, 210-pound Texan, is in his second season at Purdue after starting his collegiate career at Texas. He completed 24-of-25 passes for 273 yards and four TDs in the Boilerm
  
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• PM, senior security officials slated to return to foreign interference inquiry

  11-09-2024 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of his inner circle are slated to return to a federal inquiry into foreign interference in coming weeks.
  A newly published provisional witness list for the next phase of the inquiry’s public work indicates senior government bureaucrats and members of national security agencies will also testify.
  Trudeau and key government officials took part in the commission’s initial hearings earlier this year on allegations of foreign interf
  
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• Take 'impaired goggles' challenge at Chilliwack RCMP Open House - Chilliwack Progress

  11-09-2024 19:30 via news.google.com
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• Fraser Valley man arrested for pointing a firearm, uttering threats inexplicably released from custody

  11-09-2024 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — A man with no fixed address who was inexplicably released from custody in early August after being arrested for pointing a firearm and uttering threats, among other dangerous offences, is now being sought by authorities for breaching his “strict” conditions.According to a news release from police, Mounties in Surrey say they are appealing to the public for help in locating a 59-year-old man who has outstanding arrest warrants.Corporal Sarbjit K. Sangha, media relations
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP invite community to open house event - Fraser Valley Today

  11-09-2024 19:01 via news.google.com
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• Two Quebec real estate brokers suspended for using fake bids to drive up prices

  11-09-2024 18:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Two Quebec real estate brokers are facing fines and years-long suspensions for submitting bogus offers on homes to drive up prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.Christine Girouard has been suspended for 14 years and her business partner, Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, has been suspended for nine years after Quebec’s authority of real estate brokerage found they used fake bids to get buyers to raise their offers.Girouard is a well-known broker who previously starred on a Quebec
  
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• Soyuz craft heads to space station with 2 Russians and 1 American

  11-09-2024 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off Wednesday for an express trip to the International Space Station.
  The space capsule atop a towering rocket set off at 1623 GMT from Russia’s manned space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and was scheduled to dock with the space station three hours later, in contrast to some missions that last for days.
  The mission commander is Alexei Ovchinin, with Russian compatriot Ivan Vagner and American Do
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP invite community to open house event

  11-09-2024 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties with the Chilliwack RCMP detachment are inviting the community to get to know their local police officers and participate in a variety of family-friendly activities later this month.
  The open house event will be held Saturday, September 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 45924 Airport Road in Chilliwack. Attendees will have a chance to see and experience the following activities and attractions:Police Dog Services
  Tactical troop
  Cops for Cancer
  Detachment/jail tour
  Recruiti
  
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• Chilliwack Youth Health Centre location re-opens at Ch'íyáqtel - Chilliwack Progress

  11-09-2024 18:42 via news.google.com
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• Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza, killing at least 34 people, hospitals say

  11-09-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said.
  The deadliest strike came Wednesday afternoon, targeting the U.N.’s Al-Jaouni Preparatory Boys School in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas militants planning attacks from in
  
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• Speaker Johnson pulls a vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown

  11-09-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1.
  The move comes as it was becoming clear the measure lacked the votes to pass. The legislation includes a measure that would require people registering to vote to provide proof of citizenship. Johnson, R-La., signaled that he was not backing off linking the two main pillars of the bill.
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• 2018 world junior appeal adjourned by independent panel until criminal trial complete

  11-09-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — An appeal made by members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team to an independent board has been adjourned until the criminal trial involving those players has ended.
  A London, Ont., court has heard legal arguments in the sexual assault case of five former members of Canada’s world junior team. The trial is set to take place next year.Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton were charged earlier this year in connection with an alleged
  
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• Harris-Trump US presidential debate offers different visions for America’s future

  11-09-2024 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their case to American voters during a debate in Philadelphia, during which the Democratic vice president and former Republican president laid out different visions for America’s future.
  Tuesday’s matchup saw Harris push forcefully against the former president on his record, while also prodding at Trump’s crowd sizes and 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.While Trump said he thought it was his best debate performance, Harri
  
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• Canada working on military AI; Blair says as he endorses international agreement

  11-09-2024 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada is working on incorporating artificial intelligence in its military, but the technology won’t replace humans.
  Blair made the remarks at a summit in Seoul, South Korea where Canada was among 61 countries that endorsed a new document on responsible military use of AI.
  Canada is working on making the Canadian Armed Forces an “AI-enabled” organization by 2030 under a strategy launched earlier this year, Blair said.
  He said it&r
  
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• Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting

  11-09-2024 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
  In an alarming letter, the officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were receiv
  
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• Chilliwack home where police incident occurred no stranger to bylaw complaints, as registered owners live out of town - Fraser Valley Today

  11-09-2024 17:56 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack home where police incident occurred no stranger to bylaw complaints, as registered owners live out of town

  11-09-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A spokesperson for the City of Chilliwack says a Fairfield Island home where RCMP attended Monday morning for an apparent police incident was the subject of three bylaw complaints over a roughly 14-month span.According to information provided by Jamie Leggatt, director of communications and legislative services for the City of Chilliwack, a residence on Kent Road in Fairfield Island generated three bylaw complaints between October 2022 and December 2023.The first bylaw complai
  
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• Leafs sign forward Max Pacioretty to professional tryout

  11-09-2024 17:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Max Pacioretty to a professional tryout.
  The 35-year-old played in 47 games last season with the Washington Capitals, scoring four goals and dishing out 19 assists.
  Pacioretty returned to action last season after suffering a second achilles tear in January 2023, having only played five games for Carolina in 2022-23.His first achilles tear came in the summer of 2022, a short time after being traded to the Hurricanes from the Vegas Golden
  
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• Legislature member Frédéric Beauchemin to announce run for Quebec Liberal leadership

  11-09-2024 17:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC CITY — Quebec Liberal Frédéric Beauchemin has decided to enter the race for his party’s leadership.Beauchemin has an announcement planned for Friday in Trois-Rivières, Que. The Canadian Press has confirmed Beauchemin intends to run, after the news was first reported by Radio-Canada.He will become the fourth contender vying to succeed Dominique Anglade, joining ex-Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, lawyer Marc Bélanger and Charles Milliard, the former pre
  
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• MacKinnon backs underfire Marner: ‘One of the best players in the league’

  11-09-2024 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Nathan MacKinnon got his first up-close look at Mitch Marner back in 2017.The former was an established NHLer. The latter had just completed his rookie season. The pair were poised to suit up for Canada at that year’s world hockey championship in Germany.“Hit it off on and off the ice,” recalled MacKinnon, a star centre with the Colorado Avalanche. “Great chemistry.”Nothing, it seems, has really changed.MacKinnon and Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sid
  
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• New Chilliwack park has chess, bike repair, fitness equipment - Chilliwack Progress

  11-09-2024 17:02 via news.google.com
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• Most of Canada is predicted to have a warmer-than-normal fall: The Weather Network

  11-09-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Don’t put away your summer wardrobe just yet – The Weather Network says most Canadians are in for a warm fall.
  The network predicts that the majority of Canadians will see a slow transition into autumn as temperatures in most regions are expected to be above normal in the coming weeks.“We’re not going to have a big plunge off a cliff and get too cold anytime soon,” Chris Scott, The Weather Network’s chief meteorologist, said in an interview. &l
  
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• Blinken and Lammy arrive in Kyiv as Ukraine pushes for long-range strikes against Russia

  11-09-2024 10:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on a joint visit Wednesday, as Ukraine presses the West to allow it to use long-range missiles against Russia.
  The top diplomats reached the Ukrainian capital by train hours after the U.S. presidential debate during which Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump sparred over the 2 1/2-year war in Ukraine.Blinken traveled from London, where he accused Iran of
  
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• In the news today: NDP and Liberals prepare for fall sitting, US presidential debate

  11-09-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  NDP MPs to talk Parliament strategy
  New Democrat MPs are heading into a second day of meetings in Montreal as they nail down a plan for how to navigate the minority Parliament this fall.
  Leader Jagmeet Singh signalled on Tuesday that he will have more to say today about the party’s strategy for the upcoming sitting.
  The caucus retreat comes one week after Singh announced the party had left the su
  
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• One jellyfish arrived in B.C. decades ago. Thousands of clones spread to 34 waterways

  11-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Some time more than 30 years ago, a single Chinese peach blossom jellyfish made its way into a lake in British Columbia.
  Exactly how it arrived is not clear, researchers say — perhaps it was in aquarium water — but decades later, thousands of genetic clones of the same organism have been spotted in 34 waterways around the province.
  Scientists are now trying to understand the impact of the gelatinous invaders, that are about the size of a quarter.
  Evgeny Pakhomov, a
  
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• Liberals put up united front after fractious summer at Nanaimo retreat

  11-09-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — Liberal MPs will have one last chance to tell their leader how they think their party can improve their political prospects before they return to Ottawa to face off against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the House of Commons.
  The three-day retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., was the first chance for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s team to address him as a group since they lost a long-held Liberal riding in Toronto to Poilievre’s Conservatives.The loss led to a fr
  
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• Palestinian envoy says Liberals ‘trying’ on statehood, urges more action

  11-09-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Palestinian ambassador to Canada believes Ottawa has stepped up its efforts for Palestinian sovereignty in recent weeks, but says the Liberals must do more if they’re serious about a two-state solution.
  Mona Abuamara has also presented an invitation for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to visit the Gaza Strip, though she admits such a trip is unlikely to happen.
  “I still give credit to the prime minister and to Minister
  
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• New Democrats expected to talk strategy for fall House sitting at caucus retreat

  11-09-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — New Democrat MPs are heading into a second day of meetings in Montreal as they nail down a plan for how to navigate the minority Parliament this fall.
  Leader Jagmeet Singh signalled on Tuesday that he will have more to say today about the party’s strategy for the upcoming sitting.
  The caucus retreat comes one week after Singh announced the party has left the supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals.
  Singh is hoping to convince Canadians that his party can defeat t
  
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• A wrongful death settlement doesn’t end an investigation into a toddler’s disappearance

  11-09-2024 06:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — A settlement that led to the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit hasn’t ended a criminal investigation into a toddler’s disappearance from her father’s home in Maine where blood was found more than a decade ago.
  Trista Reynolds, who is the mother of Ayla Reynolds, reached a settlement that brought her civil lawsuit against the girl’s father, Justin DiPietro, and his sister and mother to a conclusion last month. Terms were not disclosed.
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• Canadian flyweight Corinne Laframboise misses out on UFC contract again

  11-09-2024 06:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Brazilian Nicolle Caliari submitted Canadian flyweight Corinne Laframboise for a first-round win Tuesday on Dana White’s Contender Series.
  The Contender Series, held at the UFC’s Apex production facility, offers fighters a chance to impress UFC president Dana White — and possibly earn a UFC deal.
  Caliari, showing no fear of Laframboise’s black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, took the Canadian down twice in the first round. Laframboise worked her way out fro
  
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• Flash flood sweeps away hamlet as Vietnam storm toll rises to 141 dead

  11-09-2024 05:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 16 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 141 on Wednesday.
  Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV said the torrent of water gushing down from a mountain in Lao Cai province Tuesday buried Lang Nu hamlet with 35 families in mud and debris.
  Only about a dozen are known so far to have survived. Rescuers have recovered 16 bodies and are continuing the search
  
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• Canada and Mexico draw 0-0 in chippy international men’s soccer friendly

  11-09-2024 05:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON — Canada and Mexico played to a scoreless draw Tuesday in a men’s soccer game that was an international friendly in name only.
  Mexico, ranked 17th in the world, played a physical game from the start, bundling over the 40th-ranked Canadians at will. But while there were far more fouls (41 in total with Mexico called for 23) than scoring chances, each goalkeeper had to make a highlight-reel save to keep a clean sheet.
  Not many were on hand to see the drab game. Attendance was
  
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• Judge allows a man serving a 20-year prison sentence to remain on Alaska ballot

  11-09-2024 04:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man who is serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on Alaska’s ranked choice general election ballot in the race for the state’s only U.S. House seat, a judge ruled Tuesday.State Superior Court Judge Ian Wheeles in Anchorage rejected a request by the Alaska Democratic Party to remove Eric Hafner from the November ballot. Hafner, who has no apparent ties to Alaska, pleaded guilty in 2022 to charges of making threats against police officers, judges an
  
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• Four-run third inning powers Blue Jays to 6-2 victory over Mets

  11-09-2024 04:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Chris Bassitt threw six strong innings and Davis Schneider hit a two-run triple to help the Blue Jays to a 6-2 win over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.
  Schneider keyed Toronto’s four-run third inning by driving a David Peterson pitch to the wall in right-centre field to bring home Ernie Clement and Alejandro Kirk.
  The frame provided more than enough support for Bassitt (10-13), who allowed one earned run and five hits for his first victory in seven starts.
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