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• Italian man who bought Churchill portrait surprised by international art caper

  12-09-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An Italian lawyer who bought a portrait of Winston Churchill says he was surprised to learn five months later the answer to a puzzling, high-profile heist might be hanging on his living room wall.
  Nicola Cassinelli, a lawyer in Genoa, Italy, plans to attend a ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome next Thursday to mark the return of Yousuf Karsh’s signed 1941 photograph of the British leader.
  Police say the “The Roaring Lion” was stolen from Ottawa’s Chat
  
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• Ceiling high for Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Ahmed: Canada coach

  12-09-2024 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Jesse Marsch issued Canada’s men’s soccer squad a challenge — get physical.The edict came after the Canadians surprised many at this summer’s Copa America tournament, making it through to the semifinals. As his players departed for their professional clubs, the head coach wanted them thinking about continued growth.
  “I challenged them to be more physically present in the matches that they played in,” Marsch said. “I’ve tried to en
  
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• 300-bed long-term care home coming to Langley Hospital campus

  12-09-2024 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Fraser Health’s purchase of a parcel of land on the Langley Hospital campus is expected to add 300 beds via a long-term care home.
  A business plan for the new home, which will increase Langley’s stock of long-term care spots to five facilities, is expected this fall.
  The purchase is part of a $3.5 billion investment from the B.C. government to expand and improve the quality of care for seniors who can no longer live safely and independently at home.
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• Call her coach: Canadian basketball great Natalie Achonwa ready for next step

  12-09-2024 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Becoming a coach has always been in the cards for Canadian basketball great Natalie Achonwa.
  The four-time Olympian was named the assistant coach of player development for the Michigan Wolverines NCAA women’s basketball team on Tuesday. Achonwa said that although she’ll miss being an active player, she’s ready for the next step of her basketball career.
  “Anyone that’s been a part of this journey or known me for a long time knows that coaching is something that I&rsq
  
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• B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage

  12-09-2024 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses.
  Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says B.C.’s portion of the $1.5-billion national plan is estimated to be $195 million, and under the memorandum of understanding funding could begin by April once the legislation makes it through the senate.
  The coverage was to be for bir
  
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• New Chilliwack mill 'significant' milestone for feed industry - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2024 22:55 via news.google.com
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• New Chilliwack mill 'significant' milestone for feed industry - Abbotsford News

  12-09-2024 22:55 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s consul general in New York at House committee today about official residence

  12-09-2024 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s consul general in New York told members of a House of Commons committee on Thursday that he had nothing to do with the purchase of the country’s new official residence in New York City, and he doesn’t know when he will be moving in.Former CTV journalist Tom Clark was called before the House operations committee, which is studying the government’s decision to buy a $9-million condo on Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan.
  “I had no role whatso
  
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• CP NewsAlert: RCMP say three dead in targeted attack at home in Lloydminster, Sask.

  12-09-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LLOYDMINSTER, SASK. — RCMP say suspects are at large but the public is not at risk following a triple homicide at a home in Lloydminster, Sask.
  Staff Sgt. Brian Nicholl didn’t give details about the victims or why the public shouldn’t be worried.
  He says it appears the victims were targeted.
  The bodies were discovered after officers were asked to do a wellness check at the house on Wednesday afternoon.
  Multiple media reports from the scene show yellow police tape blocking off a
  
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• Dry conditions mean increased wildfire risk in B.C. through the fall

  12-09-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — An expert with the BC Wildfire Service says relentless drought conditions for much of British Columbia sets the stage for more fire activity this fall.
  Neal McLoughlin, superintendent of predictive services, says “aggressive fire behaviour” is ongoing in northern B.C., and wildfires there are expected to remain active possibly into next spring.
  He says slightly warmer and drier-than-normal conditions are expected across most of B.C. until the middle of October, with
  
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• Bad weather and boat modifications led to capsizing off Haida Gwaii, TSB says

  12-09-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — Poor weather and modifications to a passenger boat led to its capsizing and sinking off the coast of Haida Gwaii two years ago.A Transportation Safety Board report about the sinking of the 10-metre-long Island Bay on Sept. 10, 2022, says a combination of wind, waves and the tide caused the vessel to capsize, forcing seven people aboard to abandon ship.One person was swept away, but was rescued, while the other passengers and crew were taken on an inflatable boat to the nea
  
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• BC Hydro closes Vedder Mountain Road Thursday morning- without a permit from City of Chilliwack

  12-09-2024 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A City of Chilliwack spokesperson says BC Hydro closed Vedder Mountain Road, which connects Chilliwack residents with Cultus Lake and Yarrow, Thursday morning (Sept. 12) without the necessary authorization.
  According to a statement from Alexandra Carter Page, communications coordinator for the City of Chilliwack, BC Hydro closed Vedder Mountain Road west of the Vedder Bridge without a permit from approximately 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday.That apparently didn’t sit well
  
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• Trouw unveils state-of-the-art Feed mill in Chilliwack

  12-09-2024 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A state-of-the-art livestock feed facility, boasting increased storage and production capacity, is now operating in Chilliwack.
  Trouw Nutrition opened its largest North American mill on Chilliwack Central Road Wednesday and says the new 40,000-square-foot outlet has 50 percent more production capacity than its old facility, which dates back to the 1960s.
  “This facility not only enhances our production capabilities but also demonstrates our commitment to innovation and su
  
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• Blue Jays pick up de Geus off waivers from Marlins, option him to triple-A Buffalo

  12-09-2024 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Right-handed pitcher Brett de Geus has claimed off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays from the Miami Marlins.
  He was immediately optioned to the Blue Jays’ triple-A affiliate in Buffalo, N.Y.Righty Yerry Rodríguez was also designated for assignment.
  The 26-year-old de Geus, has appeared in 11 games between Miami and Seattle this season, spending the majority of the campaign at triple-A Jacksonville and Tacoma.He has a 5.60 earned-run average between the majors and triple-A this season
  
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• Canadiens’ Hutson, Mailloux, Reinbacher battle for NHL roster spots at rookie camp

  12-09-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROSSARD — The Montreal Canadiens made room for their young defensive talent this summer by moving two established players.
  But blue-line prospects Lane Hutson, Logan Mailloux and David Reinbacher are trying not to look too far ahead, even though they all dream of seizing this opportunity to make the NHL roster.
  The Canadiens traded Johnathan Kovacevic to the New Jersey Devils and sent Jordan Harris to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the deal that brought forward Patrik Laine to Montreal.
  Dav
  
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• FVRD to continue residential radon testing despite only half of free kits being returned

  12-09-2024 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) has once again approved a potential $10,000 expenditure for a winter residential radon-testing program.Despite only around half of the 500 test kits being returned to the region’s environmental services from a similar initiative this past year, the Regional and Corporate Committee has decided to renew the project.
  With radon characterized as a potential health hazard by Fraser Health, the 90-day kits were distributed in late 202
  
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• A timeline of harassment claims at Canada’s spy agency

  12-09-2024 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has recently faced a series of revelations about allegations of workplace harassment and assault. Here is a timeline about the situation.
  July 2019: A B.C.-based CSIS officer later identified as “Jane Doe” in court documents begins to suffer what she says were a series of sexual assaults at the hands of a senior colleague. She says the assaults continue until February 2020
  Spring 2021: A second B.C.-based officers says she suffers sexual ass
  
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• Documents show dozens of harassment, violence cases at CSIS. It deemed only 8 founded

  12-09-2024 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — When Canada’s spy chief wrote a secret letter to the public safety minister last December — the week after a report emerged that two young women in the service had been sexually assaulted by a senior colleague — it came with a warning.
  David Vigneault, then director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told Dominic LeBlanc that he expected “more cases to surface in the coming weeks,” and that he had to be “transparent” about t
  
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• Man arrested in Denver-area shooting and taken to hospital along with female victim, police say

  12-09-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A suspect in a shooting at an apartment complex near Denver was taken into custody Thursday and transported to a hospital along with a female victim after a four-hour standoff during which gunfire hit cars, other buildings and apartment units, police said.
  After officers negotiated with the suspect for 3 1/2 hours, they forced their way into the apartment at the Arista Flats complex in Broomfield where he was holding a woman hostage and arrested him, said Rachel Ha
  
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• Prest Road construction delayed due to discovery of 3,500 fish: Mayor Popove

  12-09-2024 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove says the reopening of Prest Road between Bailey Road and McGuire Road has been delayed after the discovery of roughly 3,500 Salish Suckers.Mayor Popove told 89.5 JR Country Morning show host Glen Slingerland Thursday (Sept. 12) that construction delays on a culvert crossing are due to the Salish Sucker, which has been listed as endangered under the auspices of the federal Species at Risk Act. Prest Road had been projected to reopen on September 12,
  
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• Shapovalov, Auger-Aliassime lift Canada over Finland 3-0 in Davis Cup tie

  12-09-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANCHESTER — Canada’s top male tennis players have defeated Finland 3-0 at the Davis Cup.
  Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., beat Eero Vasa 7-6 (2), 6-2 in the day’s first singles match.
  Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime then dispatched Otto Virtanen 6-2, 6-3 in the second singles match.
  Finally, Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime teamed up to best Virtanen and Harri Heliovaara 6-2, 7-5 in doubles play.
  There was an element of revenge after Canada lost to Finland in last
  
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• Alberta First Nation suing federal government over right to clean drinking water

  12-09-2024 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — An Alberta First Nation has revived a lawsuit it launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water.The Ermineskin Cree Nation says Ottawa’s proposed legislation on First Nations drinking water fails to recognize that people on reserves have the same right to trust what comes out of their tap as every Canadian.“People can’t even bathe in it,” Chief Joel Mykat said in an interview.
  “We h
  
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• Lawyer Dan Grice to run as independent in Chilliwack North - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2024 19:18 via news.google.com
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• Nova Scotia NDP tables opposition bill to declare domestic violence an epidemic

  12-09-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s opposition New Democrats have tabled legislation to declare domestic violence an epidemic in the province.
  Leader Claudia Chender says the bill would legislate a recommendation to all levels of government from the commission of inquiry that investigated the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
  Chender says formally designating intimate partner violence as an epidemic in legislation would underscore the seriousness of the issue, while validating survivors.
  She says
  
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• Conservatives say they have solution for online harassment after Liberals ‘failed’

  12-09-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her party will introduce a bill in the House of Commons next week to protect people from online harassment.
  Rempel Garner says the Liberals have had “almost 10 years” and tried to pass two bills to address the growing problem of online criminal harm and have “failed.”
  Her bill will modernize the existing law against criminal harassment so a victim can ask a judge to force social media companies to identify someone
  
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• North Dakota judge strikes down the state’s abortion ban

  12-09-2024 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.
  In his ruling, state District Judge Bruce Romanick also said that the law violates the state constitution because it is too vague.
  Romanick was ruling on a request from the state to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the ban in 2022 by what at the time was the sole abortion clinic in North Dak
  
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• New York City police commissioner resigns after his phone was seized in federal investigation

  12-09-2024 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned Thursday, one week after it emerged that his phone was seized as part of a federal investigation that touched several members of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle.
  Caban said he made the decision to resign after the “news around recent developments” had “created a distraction for our department,” according to an email to the police department obtained by The Associated Press.“I am unwil
  
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• Ski resort in owl territory near Chilliwack should be denied, say foes - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2024 18:38 via news.google.com
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• ‘Largely fictitious.’ Immigration minister criticizes New Brunswick premier’s claims

  12-09-2024 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says claims by New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs that Ottawa wants to force the province to take in 4,600 asylum seekers are “largely fictitious.”
  Miller says the federal government won’t force provinces to accept asylum seekers without compensation or their consent.
  Late Wednesday, Higgs posted a message on social media saying New Brunswick is a welcoming province, but he said accepting so many asylum seekers would stretch
  
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• Hedman on Stamkos leaving Lightning: ‘His legacy speaks for itself’

  12-09-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Victor Hedman has had some time to digest a seismic summer for the Tampa Bay Lightning.That doesn’t make seeing his former teammate — a friend he sat beside on the plane and shared road meals with for 15 NHL seasons — sporting yellow threads any less strange.Steven Stamkos signed with the Nashville Predators in unrestricted free agency July 1 after the now-former Lightning captain was unable to agree on a deal with the club that drafted him first overall in 20
  
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• Man who drowned at Cultus Lake leaves behind loving wife, 2 young kids

  12-09-2024 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CULTUS LAKE — The man who tragically drowned last weekend at Cultus Lake has been described as a loving husband and father of two young children.
  According to an online fundraiser started in his name, the victim of Saturday’s drowning at Cultus Lake has been identified as Langley resident Wilson Dargbeh. The tragedy unfolded in front of his family during his daughter’s 5th birthday party when he entered the lake where it was reportedly 52 feet deep.
  In a statement from the Chil
  
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• Tipping point: Quebec consumer rights bill to regulate how merchants can ask for tips

  12-09-2024 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec wants to curb excessive tipping.
  Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, has tabled a bill to force merchants to calculate tips based on the price before tax.That means on a restaurant bill of $100, suggested tips would be calculated based on $100, not on $114.98 after provincial and federal sales taxes are added.The bill would also increase the rebate offered to consumers when the price of an item at the cash register is higher than the s
  
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• Hwy. 3/5 closed eastbound in Hope due to vehicle incident

  12-09-2024 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — DriveBC says a vehicle incident has closed eastbound Highway 3 and Highway 5 in Hope Thursday morning.
  According to a post at 8:29 a.m., and a follow-up post at 8:46 a.m., DriveBC says a vehicle incident at exit 173, Old Hope Princeton Way, has closed the westbound lanes.Eastbound traffic is flowing.A picture shared by DriveBC shows multiple emergency first responders on scene.
  
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• Canada’s Michael Woods rethinks retirement, targets Montreal win after Vuelta triumph

  12-09-2024 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Michael Woods thought Father Time had finally come calling.
  Instead, he’s winning Grand Tour stages — and hungry for a big result at home.
  The 37-year-old from Ottawa rides into this weekend’s Montreal cycling Grand Prix as a recent Spanish Vuelta stage winner despite dealing with an early-season illness that had him struggling at the Giro d’Italia and considering calling it quits.
  “I thought I was just getting old, and that’s why I wasn’t going as well
  
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• A 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattles the Los Angeles area

  12-09-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area Thursday morning, swaying lamps and jolting some people from bed. No injuries or damages were immediately reported.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was centered 4 miles (7 kilometers) north of Malibu and was about 7 miles (11 kilometers) below the surface.The jolt was felt as far as 45 miles (72 kilometers) away in Orange County, where people reported items moving in their homes.Los Angeles Mayor Karen
  
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• French league’s legal board orders PSG to pay Kylian Mbappé 55 million euros of unpaid wages

  12-09-2024 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The French league’s legal commission has ordered Paris Saint-Germain to pay Kylian Mbappé the 55 million euros ($61 million) in unpaid wages that he claims he’s entitled to, the league said Thursday.
  The league confirmed the decision to The Associated Press without more details, a day after the France superstar rejected a mediation offer by the commission in his dispute with his former club.
  PSG officials and Mbappé’s representatives met in Paris on Wednesday afte
  
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• Canadian men expect physical challenge from hard-hitting Tonga in Tokyo rugby test

  12-09-2024 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s rugby test against Tonga on Saturday in Tokyo comes with a modest prize — fifth place at the six-team Pacific Nations Cup.
  But next year, such a game could mean World Cup qualification.
  World Rugby says the top three teams from next year’s Pacific Nations Cup will book their ticket to the 2027 World Cup in Australia. But given No. 10 Fiji and No. 14 Japan have already qualified by virtue of their performance at last year’s World Cup, a top-five finish would do it
  
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• Singh says NDP drafting climate plan, won’t say if it’ll include consumer carbon tax

  12-09-2024 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won’t say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government at the next election.
  Singh told reporters in Montreal today that he wants to see big polluters pay, but rejected the idea that workers should shoulder the cost of fighting climate change.
  The NDP leader says his party will release its climate plan in the coming months, but wouldn’t say whether it would include a consumer carbon price.
  Conservative Leader
  
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• Tensions mount as clock ticks down on Air Canada contract talks

  12-09-2024 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Tensions are mounting as a potential pilot strike or lockout at Canada’s largest airline is only days away with no signs of a breakthrough in talks.Numerous business groups including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce are set to hold an event in Ottawa today to urge the government to intervene after calling for binding arbitration in an open letter.Air Canada said earlier this week that it’s increasingly likely that there will be a work stoppage as talks with the union
  
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• US sanctions 16 allies of Venezuela’s president over accusations of obstructing the election

  12-09-2024 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday responded to Venezuela’s disputed July presidential election by imposing sanctions against 16 allies of President Nicolás Maduro, accusing them of obstructing the vote and carrying out human rights abuses.
  Those targeted by the Treasury Department include the head of the country’s high court, leaders of state security forces and prosecutors. The move came days after the departure into exile of Edmundo González Urru
  
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• Youri Chassin quits CAQ to sit as Independent, second member to leave this month

  12-09-2024 16:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin has announced he’s leaving the Coalition Avenir Québec government to sit as an Independent.He announced the decision shortly after writing an open letter criticizing Premier François Legault’s government for abandoning its principles of smaller government.
  In the letter published in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, Chassin accused the party of falling back on what he called the o
  
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• Parents look to save costs as youth sports programs get more expensive

  12-09-2024 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When Monisha Sharma looked into swim lessons for her daughter, she decided to take an unconventional route to save costs.
  Rather than enrolling in a formal program, the Toronto woman joined together with a group of neighbours who pooled funds to hire a private instructor at a recreation centre.
  Sharma figured swimming and soccer, which her four-year-old also recently picked up, would be “the two cheap programs” compared with other youth sports options like hockey. She has quickly lea
  
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• Recovering Chilliwack addict shares story ahead of cycling fundraiser - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
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• B.C. Lions lean on versatile offence to continue win streak against Toronto Argonauts

  12-09-2024 13:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A fresh face has been gracing the B.C. Lions’ highlight reels in recent weeks.Midway through his second CFL campaign, wide receiver Ayden Eberhardt has contributed touchdowns in two consecutive games.The 26-year-old wide receiver from Loveland, Colo., was the lone B.C. player to reel in a passing major in his team’s 37-23 victory over the league-leading Montreal Alouettes last Friday. The week before, he notched his first CFL touchdown in the Lions’ win over t
  
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• Northern Super League starts taking deposits for season tickets for 2025 kickoff

  12-09-2024 12:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The fledgling Northern Super League will get an early feel for its appeal Thursday when all six clubs start taking deposits for season tickets.
  The women’s pro soccer league, set to kick off next April, is offering fans a first crack at a season ticket if they put down $50 per seat. Seat selection priority, likely in October, will be determined by the order in which deposits are received.
  The deposit is not refundable but if not used for a season ticket, can be used for a credit for a sing
  
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• In the news today: Air Canada pilot strike looms, BC transit strike talks resume

  12-09-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Flying Air Canada next week? Read this first
  You’re packing your bags but still don’t know if Air Canada will be taking you to your planned destination.
  Calgary-based travel agent Lesley Keyter says she’s been fielding questions from people travelling this weekend and next week about whether to cancel their trip or change their flight as a potential work stoppage looms.
  “I have
  
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• Tidal power junk: N.S. village wants huge, abandoned moorings moved from fishing area

  12-09-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WALTON, N.S. — Four boxcars filled with concrete are sitting on the floor of the Bay of Fundy near Walton, N.S., where residents are worried the debris — abandoned by another failed tidal power project — has become a hazard to local fishers.
  In May 2023, massive air bags were used to float the rail cars to the mouth of Walton’s harbour, an area where about 20 to 30 recreational fishers pass through daily as they seek flounder and highly prized striped bass.
  An unusual sce
  
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• Talks on today over HandyDART strike affecting vulnerable people in Metro Vancouver

  12-09-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Mediated talks between the union representing HandyDART workers in Metro Vancouver and its employer, Transdev, are set to resume today as a strike that has stopped most services drags into a second week.No timeline has been set for the length of the negotiations, but Joe McCann, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1724, says they are willing to stay there as long as it takes, even if talks drag on all night.About 600 employees of the door-to-door transit service fo
  
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• Lawyer Dan Grice to run as independent in Chilliwack North - Abbotsford News

  12-09-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Vietnam death toll climbs to 197 as typhoon’s aftermath brings flash floods and landslides

  12-09-2024 06:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and more than 125 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll, state media reported Thursday.
  Vietnam’s VNExpress newspaper reported that 197 people have died and 128 are still missing, while more than 800 have been injured.The death toll spiked earlier in the week as a flash flood swept away the entire hamlet of Lang Nu in northern Vietnam’s Lao Cai province Tuesday. Hu
  
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