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• Abbotsford Canucks announce training camp plans - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2024 23:36
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• Maple Leafs’ Berube says Auston Matthews’ upper-body injury is not too serious

  26-09-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said he does not think Auston Matthews’ upper-body injury is too serious and expects the captain to be fine.
  Matthews returned to practice Thursday after getting a couple of days off the ice for what Berube called maintenance. Matthews was not scheduled to play in Toronto’s home preseason game Thursday night against Montreal.
  “We don’t want lingering injuries and things like that going on,” Berube told repo
  
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• Canada’s Grenier aims for return to top form after injury: ‘I’m pretty resilient’

  26-09-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Valérie Grenier is confident she can return to top form after a serious injury early this year. After all, this isn’t her first time overcoming a major setback.
  The Canadian alpine skier hit the slopes at an Alpine Canada camp in Chillan, Chile, from Sept. 13-24. It marked her comeback after multiple surgeries and months of rehabilitation following a devastating crash during a World Cup super-G race in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, on Jan. 28.
  “I realized that I’m pret
  
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• Blue Bombers can clinch playoff spot for eighth straight season with win over Elks

  26-09-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Willie Jefferson doesn’t like to look too far ahead, but there is something he’d like to see happen after the Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Edmonton Elks on Friday.
  A victory by the Blue Bombers (8-6) in front of a third straight sellout at Princess Auto Stadium would clinch a playoff spot for the eighth consecutive season, one in which the team started 0-4.“We don’t necessarily worry about standings and all that stuff,” Jefferson said Thursday aft
  
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• Kings defenseman Drew Doughty undergoing testing for lower-body injury

  26-09-2024 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty is undergoing further testing because of a lower-body injury he sustained in a preseason game at the Vegas Golden Knights.
  Doughty hurt his left leg Wednesday when he slammed into the boards while engaged with Golden Knights forward Tanner Pearson in the first period of a 3-2 win. Doughty was in a protective boot and using a knee scooter to get around the team facility on Thursday.
  “You don’t want to have Drew
  
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• Tribal Police officer charged with voyeurism in Whistler, B.C.

  26-09-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHISTLER, B.C. — Mounties in the resort town of Whistler, B.C., say a Tribal Police officer has been charged with three counts of voyeurism for allegedly filming sexual acts with women without their consent.RCMP say the man charged is a member of the Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police Service, and the alleged offences happened when he was off duty in Vancouver and Pemberton between 2020 and 2022.Mounties say there’s a publication ban on details of the case to protect the alleged v
  
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• Killer who stabbed man 52 times in Chilliwack dies in Abbotsford prison - Mission City Record

  26-09-2024 22:43
  Killer who stabbed man 52 times in Chilliwack dies in Abbotsford prison  Mission City Record
  
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• Killer who stabbed man 52 times in Chilliwack dies in Abbotsford prison - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2024 22:43
  Killer who stabbed man 52 times in Chilliwack dies in Abbotsford prison  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Elite Series pros Gustafson, Gallant, part of Canadian team at Pan-Am fishing event

  26-09-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  They compete as individuals on the Elite Series, but professional anglers Jeff Gustafson and Cooper Gallant are teaming up to represent Canada.
  Gustafson, of Kenora, Ont., and Gallant, of Bowmanville, Ont., are members of the Canadian team competing in the 2024 Pan American Black Bass tournament on New Brunswick’s Saint John River.The two-day event, which begins Friday, involves anglers from eight countries (Canada, United States, China, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico an
  
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• Harris blasts proposals for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia during Zelenskyy meeting

  26-09-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said calls for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia were “dangerous and unacceptable” as she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday.
  The comments from the Democratic nominee for president were thinly veiled criticism of suggestions from Republican candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, that Ukraine should quickly cut a deal to end the war.“They are not proposals for peace,”
  
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• Toronto Raptors sign Jahmi’us Ramsey, finalize training camp roster

  26-09-2024 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed guard Jahmi’us Ramsey, the team announced Thursday.
  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  Ramsey averaged 6.7 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 17.3 minutes in seven games with Toronto last season.
  He also spent time in the G League, averaging 20.5 points in 32 games split between the Oklahoma City Blue and Raptors 905.
  The 23-year-old out of Texas Tech was selected 43rd overall by Sacramento in the 2020 NBA Draft.
  He has averaged 3.8 points, 1.2 reb
  
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• Man convicted in Chilliwack stabbing dies in custody - Fraser Valley Today

  26-09-2024 21:48
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• Man convicted in Chilliwack stabbing dies in custody

  26-09-2024 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after he stabbed a Chilliwack man on Yale Road in Chilliwack in May 2016 has died in custody at an Abbotsford prison.
  According to a news release from Correctional Service Canada, 72-year-old Gerald Leslie Dolman died Tuesday (Sept. 24) at the Regional Treatment Centre (Pacific Institution). CSC says at the time of his passing, Dolman had been serving an indeterminate sentence since December 1, 2017.
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• X requests it be reinstated in Brazil after complying with judge’s orders, source says

  26-09-2024 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — In the high-stakes showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Elon Musk blinked.
  Musk’s social media site X has complied with Alexandre de Moraes’ orders and requested its service be reestablished in the country, a source said Thursday.
  X complied with orders to block certain accounts from the platform, name an official legal representative in Brazil, and pay fines imposed for not complying with earlier court orders, h
  
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• Canadian musician K’naan charged with 2010 sexual assault in Quebec City

  26-09-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Canadian rapper K’naan, known for the global hit “Wavin’ Flag,” has been charged for an alleged sexual assault in Quebec City dating back more than 14 years.
  A charge sheet filed at the courthouse in Quebec City says the rapper, whose given name is Keinan Abdi Warsame, is charged with one count of sexual assault from July 2010.
  The arrest warrant alleges the assault took place between July 16 and July 17, 2010, dates that coincide with the musician&r
  
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• Wasp in fatal encounter with David Eby on B.C. campaign trail

  26-09-2024 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK, B.C. — British Columbia NDP leader David Eby has been upstaged by a wasp that flew down his shirt and stung him during a news conference.
  Eby was delivering remarks in Chilliwack on Thursday while on the election campaign trail when the insect interrupted him, prompting him to swat at his neck and identify it as a “bug.”
  But seconds later he was apparently stung, scrunching up his face in a grimace as he told reporters it was a bee that had made its way down his col
  
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• Quebec police arrest man after body of missing woman found southwest of Montreal

  26-09-2024 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec provincial police arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Watt, who was reported missing over the weekend southwest of Montreal.
  Police say they found a woman’s body today near Watt’s home in Hemmingford, Que., adding that an autopsy has been ordered.
  Later in the day, investigators with the crimes against persons unit arrested a man in his 30s in connection with her disappearance.
  Police say in a statement they are attempting to clarify the m
  
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• UFV professor emeritus to run again for the B.C. Green Party in Chilliwack

  26-09-2024 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A retired UFV professor who has given over 200 presentations on the science, economics and fundamentals of climate change plans to give it another go in next month’s provincial election.Dr. Tim Cooper, who was born in England and came to Canada to complete a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Alberta, before transferring to what is now the University of the Fraser Valley, will run for the B.C. Green Party in the Chilliwack North riding.Cooper taught for many yea
  
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• Louisiana prosecutors drop most serious charge in deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene

  26-09-2024 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Louisiana prosecutors on Thursday dismissed the most serious remaining charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, dropping a negligent homicide count against a veteran trooper seen on body-camera video dragging the Black motorist by his ankle shackles and forcing him to lie face down before he stopped breathing.The move coming just a month before Kory York’s trial marks only the latest withering of a case that began in 2022 with five officers indicted on a range of charges over the
  
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• Grand Forks, B.C., remains on alert due to Washington State wildfire

  26-09-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND FORKS, B.C. — The wildfire that prompted a now-rescinded evacuation order for the community of Grand Forks, B.C., has grown to about four square kilometres in size.
  That’s up from two square kilometres after the out-of-control fire was discovered Wednesday, south of the U.S. border.
  The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary had issued an evacuation order Wednesday afternoon, saying the Goosmus wildfire was moving north toward the Grand Forks area, and “tactical evacuatio
  
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• Police in small Mississippi city discriminate against Black residents, Justice Department finds

  26-09-2024 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in a majority Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against its critics, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report detailing findings of an investigation into civil rights abuses.The Lexington Police Department “has created a system where officers can relentlessly violate the law” in one of the poorest counties in America, according to the Justice Department. Investigators found that
  
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• Quebec seeks injunction against dumping of contaminated soil in Kanesatake

  26-09-2024 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is going to court to fight the dumping of contaminated soil along a shoreline in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, west of Montreal.The Environment Department is seeking an injunction in Quebec Superior Court to stop the dumping of soil and waste material, tree-cutting and the construction of new buildings on 17 properties along the banks of the Lake of Two Mountains.The injunction request names 17 defendants, mostly Kanesatake residents, and two companie
  
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• Rourke: Lions need ‘sense of urgency’ entering final stretch of CFL season

  26-09-2024 19:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Quarterback Nathan Rourke says the B.C. Lions “have to have a sense of urgency” as they prepare for their final four games of the CFL season.
  “There’s a lot of importance in these last four games,” Rourke said after practice this week. “We’ve got to get it going.”
  The Lions (7-7) want to get back on track when they face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (5-9) at B.C. Place Friday night. B.C. is coming off an embarrassing 33-17 loss at home
  
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• Chilliwack Museum & Archives recruiting for new executive director - Fraser Valley Today

  26-09-2024 19:34
  Chilliwack Museum & Archives recruiting for new executive director  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack Museum & Archives recruiting for new executive director

  26-09-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Museum & Archives has posted an open job position stating it is recruiting for a new executive director.According to the text of a job that appears on its website (www.chilliwackmuseum.ca), the non-profit organization is offering a compensation range of $90,000 to $100,000 with extended benefits for the next ED. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is secured.The museum’s current executive director, Shawna Dwyer, moved to Chilliwack in
  
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• B.C. Premier Eby visits Chilliwack Thursday to pledge additional funding for trade apprentice seats

  26-09-2024 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As a way of encouraging more people to enter the skilled trades industry and connect people with high-paying jobs to fight rising costs, Premier David Eby paid a visit to Chilliwack Thursday morning (Sept. 26) to announce a $150 million investment over three years to double trade apprentice seats in British Columbia.According to a news release from the B.C. NDP communications team, Eby made the multi-million dollar pledge at the new LiUNA (Labourers International Union of Nort
  
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• Eby announces plan in Chilliwack to double B.C. trades-training seats - Peace Arch News

  26-09-2024 18:23
  Eby announces plan in Chilliwack to double B.C. trades-training seats  Peace Arch News
  
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• Eby announces plan in Chilliwack to double B.C. trades-training seats - Oak Bay News

  26-09-2024 18:23
  Eby announces plan in Chilliwack to double B.C. trades-training seats  Oak Bay News
  
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• Eby chooses Chilliwack to announce plan to double B.C. trades-training seats - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2024 18:21
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• NDP MP introduces bill to criminalize residential school denialism

  26-09-2024 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An NDP MP has introduced a bill that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying it would help stop harm caused toward survivors, their families and communities.
  If the bill is passed, people could be charged under the Criminal Code for promoting hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, justifying or downplaying the historical and lasting impact of residential schools.
  NDP MP Leah Gazan says the purpose of the schools was to extinguish Indigenous cultures and lan
  
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• Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil announces retirement from swimming

  26-09-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil has retired from swimming.
  The gold medallist in the women’s 100-metre butterfly at Tokyo’s Summer Games in 2021 made the announcement in a social media post.
  The 24-year-old from London, Ont., earned a complete set of medals in Tokyo after helping relay teams to silver and bronze medals.
  Mac Neil’s five gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, were the most by a Canadian athlete at a single Pan Am Games.
  She was fifth in b
  
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• MPs debate another Tory non-confidence motion after Liberals survive first vote

  26-09-2024 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Less than 24 hours after the Conservatives lost their first attempt to topple the government the Tories are trying again.
  A new motion being debated this morning states that the House of Commons has lost confidence in the Liberal government and “offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.”That’s the list of slogans the Tories have been using for months.
  On Wednesday, the majority of MPs voted against the first n
  
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• Oklahoma executes a man for a 1992 killing despite board recommending his life be spared

  26-09-2024 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the governor rejected a recommendation from the state’s parole board to spare his life.
  Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. His execution came the state parole board recommended Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt spare his life. There was no announcement from the governor&rs
  
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• Mission City Outlaws fall to Langley Trappers, Chilliwack Jets - Mission City Record

  26-09-2024 16:57
  Mission City Outlaws fall to Langley Trappers, Chilliwack Jets  Mission City Record
  
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• Trudeau, French president Macron meet in Ottawa as trade deal challenges continue

  26-09-2024 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — French President Emmanuel Macron is in Canada for a brief visit to Ottawa and Montreal.
  Macron arrived last night from New York and had an informal dinner at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s home at Rideau Cottage.
  The two are having a formal meeting on Parliament Hill this morning before travelling to Montreal, where Macron will visit Quebec dignitaries and see the Port of Montreal.
  The visit comes as both leaders face a rise in populist movements and discontent that has cha
  
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• Disability rights groups launching Charter challenge against MAID law

  26-09-2024 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying.
  The group, which also includes two individual plaintiffs, argues that what’s known as track two of the MAID law has resulted in premature deaths.Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.
  The coalition
  
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• Canada and allies call for immediate 21-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel

  26-09-2024 15:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has issued a joint statement with its allies calling for “an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border,” citing an “unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation.”
  The statement, issued along with the United States, Australia, European Union, United Arab Emirates and eight other countries, calls on the governments of Lebanon and Israel and all parties involved to endorse the temporary ceasefire and “give a real chance to a diplomatic se
  
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• Sharks’ Celebrini and Smith and Canadiens’ Slafkovsky headline the NHL’s next generation of stars

  26-09-2024 15:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Juraj Slafkovsky was an NHL draft pick, just like Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid and Connor Bedard. The spotlight, however, has not been quite as bright or the hype train as strong for him in Montreal.
  “I like it that way,” Slafkovsky said.
  Regardless of the attention or lack thereof, Slafkovsky is on the vanguard of hockey’s next generation of stars, along with the likes of San Jose’s Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith, Buff
  
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• Advocates say fate of B.C. public health hangs on election

  26-09-2024 15:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A health-care advocacy group wants to know where British Columbia politicians stand on six key issues ahead of an election it says will decide the future of public health in the province.
  The BC Health Coalition wants improved access to care for seniors, universal access to essential medicine, better access to primary care, reduced surgery wait times, and sustainable working conditions for health-care workers.
  It also wants pledges to protect funding for public health care, asking candidates to
  
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• Chief cyberspy among federal officials appearing at meddling inquiry today

  26-09-2024 14:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Caroline Xavier, the chief of Canada’s cyberspy agency, is slated to appear at a federal inquiry into foreign interference today.
  Xavier was appointed in 2022 to lead the Communications Security Establishment, which has a lead role in fending off online threats to Canada.
  Other senior officials from the CSE are also scheduled to testify along with representatives of the Privy Council Office and the Justice Department .
  The commission of inquiry’s latest hearings are lo
  
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• Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrike kills 20 in Lebanon

  26-09-2024 14:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nineteen Syrian refugees and a Lebanese national were killed in northeast Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building housing workers, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Thursday.
  State-run National News Agency earlier quoted the mayor of the village of Younine as saying that the bodies of 23 Syrian citizens were pulled out from under the rubble. It added that four other Syrians and four Lebanese were wounded in the same airstrike late Wednesday in the village.The strike came after
  
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• This old house: Chilliwack homeowners open doors for heritage tour - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2024 14:35
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• FBI seizes NYC mayor’s phone ahead of expected unsealing of indictment

  26-09-2024 14:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents entered the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and seized his phone early Thursday morning, hours before an indictment detailing criminal charges against the Democrat was expected to be made public.
  Adams was indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges that remain sealed, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter p
  
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• FBI agents seen entering NYC mayor’s residence ahead of expected unsealing of indictment

  26-09-2024 14:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents were seen entering the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams early Thursday morning, hours before an indictment detailing criminal charges against the Democrat was expected to be made public.
  Adams was indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges that remain sealed, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
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• Helene is upgraded to Category 2 hurricane as it barrels toward Florida

  26-09-2024 13:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Helene strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane Thursday as it barreled across the Gulf of Mexico on a path to Florida.
  The huge storm’s center is expected to make landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida’s northwestern coast as soon as late Thursday.
  The storm is so large that areas roughly 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of the Georgia-Florida line could expect hurricane conditions. States as far inland as Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana could see rai
  
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• Lebanese state media says an Israeli strike killed 23 Syrian workers

  26-09-2024 11:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon hit a building housing Syrian workers, killing 23 of them and wounding eight other people, Lebanon’s state-run news agency reported Thursday.
  The National News Agency said the strike late Wednesday occurred in the country’s northeast, near the ancient city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, which runs along the Syrian border.
  The agency quoted Ali Kassas, mayor of the village of Younine, as saying that the bodies o
  
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• In the news today: Leaders agree on Involuntary care for severe drug addictions

  26-09-2024 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  B.C., N.B. leaders seem to agree on drug treatment
  As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictions.
  Earlier this month, B.C. NDP Leader David Eby committed to providing involuntary care to those struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness and brain inju
  
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• Visual effects, animation studios unite to convince Quebec for better tax deal

  26-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds of their revenues next year.
  Last spring, the provincial government added in the budget a 65 per cent cap on tax credits that international film studios can claim when they subcontract work to VFX and animation companies operating in Quebec. The original subsidy, which had no cap, was introduce
  
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• Pride, sorrow mix for Franklin expedition descendant after DNA match with sailor

  26-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin’s disastrous expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.Now, after DNA analysis has identified the remains of Gambier’s predecessor and confirmed his relationship with James Fitzjames, there’s sorrow mixed in with the pride.
  “He’s a kinsman and I’m very proud of him,” said Gambier, a retired furniture importer from Bury St. Edmunds, Eng
  
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• How much have consumer costs risen in B.C. since 2017, the year NDP came to power?

  26-09-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s high cost of living has made it a pivotal issue in the provincial election on Oct. 19.Here is a look at changes in components of the consumer price index in British Columbia since 2017, the year the NDP came to power, with the index based on 2002 cost levels being set at 100 points.
  Overall the index was up 21 per cent in B.C., and 20.1 per cent in all of Canada.
  —Food: From 137.7 in 2017 to 177.1 in 2023. Up 28.6 per cent.
  Rented homes: From 118.5 in 2017 to 146.1
  
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