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• Fast-moving brush fire in Northern California prompts evacuations in Oakland neighborhood

  18-10-2024 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fast-moving brush fire has prompted an evacuation of an Oakland neighborhood and damaged at least four structures.
  The fire comes as forecasters have issued red flag warnings for fire danger until Saturday from the central coast through the San Francisco Bay Area and into northern Shasta County, not far from the Oregon border.
  A California utility shut off power in 19 counties in the northern and central part of the state as a major “diablo wind” —
  
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• Lawyer for family members of Pickton’s victims wants copy of killer’s ‘tell all book’

  18-10-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he’ll be asking for a copy of a “tell all book” seized from Pickton’s cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison earlier this year.Jason Gratl says he and his clients, who have pending lawsuits against Pickton and his brother David in B.C. Supreme Court, were “surprised” when an RCMP search warrant document revealed the existence of a 2
  
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• Quarterback Adams, B.C. Lions look to reset against league-leading Montreal Alouettes

  18-10-2024 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Vernon Adams Jr. has watched the B.C. Lions’ struggles from a unique vantage point.And the quarterback’s assessment of what’s plagued the team is simple.“Just overall not being good enough,” he said Friday. “And that starts all the way upstairs to downstairs. So we just haven’t been good enough and we hope to turn that around going into playoffs.”
  Adams is set to make his first start in 79 days on Saturday as the Lions (8-9) cl
  
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• Canada’s Stefan Daniel wins sixth career world para triathlon title

  18-10-2024 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORREMOLINOS — Canada’s Stefan Daniel won his sixth career world triathlon para championship title Friday, calling his victory “redemption” after a heartbreaking crash at the Paris Paralympics.
  The 27-year-old from Calgary completed the sprint-distance test in 59 minutes 26 seconds to win the men’s standing classification.
  Australia’s Jack Howell was second in 1:00:14 and Portugal’s Filipe Marques was third in 1:00:43.
  Daniel’s win comes six weeks
  
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• Time running out for Chilliwack citizens to fill out budget survey - Chilliwack Progress

  18-10-2024 23:08 via news.google.com
  Time running out for Chilliwack citizens to fill out budget survey  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bill Henderson and Chilliwack are back in Edmonton this weekend - 89.3 The Raven

  18-10-2024 23:03 via news.google.com
  Bill Henderson and Chilliwack are back in Edmonton this weekend  89.3 The Raven
  
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• Anthony Stolarz relishing crease chance with Maple Leafs: ‘You want to be the guy’

  18-10-2024 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Anthony Stolarz saw an opportunity this summer in free agency.
  When fellow Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll went down injured ahead of the team’s regular-season opener, another chance materialized quicker than expected.“It’s the reason why you play the game,” Stolarz said. “You want to be the guy.”
  The 30-year-old has been exactly that so far with Toronto, starting three of the team’s four games to lift the curtain on the 2024-25 schedu
  
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• Ottawa says businesses can request tariff exemption on Chinese goods

  18-10-2024 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government says businesses can now request remission from newly announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products.
  Ottawa says the relief is aimed at offsetting challenges Canadian industries may face as they adjust their supply chains.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Aug. 26 that Canada will impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese EVs and a 25 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum.
  The tariff on Chinese EVs took effect Oct. 1, w
  
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• Five things on proposed landmark $32.5-billion tobacco deal

  18-10-2024 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Three tobacco giants are set to pay out roughly $32.5 billion in a landmark deal that would settle decades of litigation with provinces and individual smokers and their families. The proposal, which involves JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., is the result of a corporate restructuring process set off by a legal battle over the health effects of smoking.
  Here are five things to know about the proposed plan of arrangement, which h
  
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• Supreme Court tosses driving prohibition against Saskatchewan man in fatal crash

  18-10-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top court has struck down a driving prohibition handed to a Saskatchewan man convicted in a fatal highway crash.
  Braydon Wolfe was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway near Langham, Sask., when he crashed head-on into another vehicle, killing two people and seriously injuring another in 2017.
  The trial judge sentenced him to six years in prison and a 10-year driving prohibition for criminal negligence causing death and criminal negligence causing bodily ha
  
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• NDP says Sask. Party’s Moe needs to answer for campaign comment on children

  18-10-2024 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party’s Scott Moe needs to provide answers after a candidate’s two children and their use of a school change room were brought up in the election campaign.
  Moe said this week his first order of business, if his party is re-elected Oct. 28, would be to ban “biological boys” from using school changing rooms with “biological girls.”
  The promise came after Moe said he learned of a complaint about two biological males ch
  
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• Harris and Trump seek Arab American votes in Michigan in effort to shore up battleground states

  18-10-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both sought support from Arab American voters Friday as they campaigned in Michigan, trying to lock down support in a battleground state that could decide the presidential race next month.
  Trump was expected to visit a new campaign office in Hamtramck, one of the nation’s only Muslim-majority cities, and he will be joined there by Mayor Amer Ghalib, a Democrat who has endorsed him. Meanwhile, three city council members in the
  
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• AFN votes on way forward after $47.8 billion child welfare reform deal is defeated

  18-10-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs have voted in favour of a new negotiation process to reform the child welfare system after a $47.8-billion deal with Canada was defeated Thursday evening at an Assembly of First Nations gathering in Calgary.
  It calls for the creation of a children’s chiefs’ commission comprised of leadership from all regions in the country, and for a new negotiation and legal team.
  The defeated deal was struck between Canada, the Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski N
  
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• Officer may face charges after alleged altercation with man during arrest in Abbotsford

  18-10-2024 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY – An Abbotsford police officer may face charges for using excessive force during a summer arrest near Mt. Waddington Avenue and Clearbrook Road.
  B.C.’s police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), suggests that an APD officer may have committed an offense during the arrest of a man accused of an indecent act.
  The incident occurred on July 31 around 7:30 p.m., when an APD officer in an unmarked vehicle was traveling along Clearbrook Avenue and stopped at Mt. Wa
  
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• Wodak chases national title in fifth separate event at Toronto Waterfront Marathon

  18-10-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Natasha Wodak already owns four Canadian titles in four different events.
  On Sunday at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, the 42-year-old from Surrey, B.C., will aim to add a fifth.
  Wodak is set to race among a strong field at the 35th edition of the event through the streets of Toronto. The marathon and half-marathon each begin Sunday at 8 a.m. ET near Nathan Phillips Square.
  Over the last 18 months, Wodak — who owns previous Canadian titles in the 5k, 10k (road and trac
  
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• Rain suspends play in BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea with Green in the lead

  18-10-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Rain washed out much of the second day of the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea on Friday with none of the players completing their rounds.
  Hannah Green of Australia, Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa and Jenny Shin of South Korea led after Thursday’s first round with scores of 8-under 64 at the Seowon Valley Country Club.Green stayed at the top of the leaderboard and was 4 under after nine holes — 12 under for the tournament — before play was s
  
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• Fire and Ice: New curling exec Sulsky makes early impression on Slam circuit

  18-10-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Change is in the air on the Grand Slam of Curling series, and The Curling Group CEO Nic Sulsky is leading the charge as the face of the circuit’s new ownership group.
  Early returns are in after the season-opening HearingLife Tour Challenge and one thing is clear: this is not your parent’s curling scene anymore.
  “The sport needs a promoter,” Sulsky said. “The sport needs somebody to help tell stories and help drive energy and ultimately that’s part of my job. S
  
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• Most Liberal MPs support Trudeau as leader: Freeland

  18-10-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is “absolutely confident” the majority of Liberal MPs still support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader.
  Her comments come ahead of what promises to be a tense meeting of the Liberal caucus in Ottawa next week as a growing number of MPs try to convince Justin Trudeau to step down.
  Several media reports have uncovered efforts by some Liberal MPs to confront the prime minister at the next caucus meeting.
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• Controlled burn southeast of Chilliwack attracts interest Friday morning

  18-10-2024 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says a visible fire is underway in the mountains southeast of Chilliwack Friday morning, but there’s no reason for alarm.
  In a social media post, the city says the blaze is a controlled slash burn and regulated by the provincial government. Burning operations are expected to end sometime later in the day, but smoke may remain visible to Chilliwack residents.
  The city says Chilliwack Fire Department personnel are in regular contact with both the Min
  
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• Struggling Vancouver Whitecaps look to regain form against Real Salt Lake

  18-10-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Brian White hopes the soccer gods will be a little kinder this weekend.The Whitecaps striker saw several prime chances bounce the wrong way on Sunday as Vancouver dropped a 2-1 decision to Los Angeles FC — a result that extended the club’s winless stretch to six straight Major League Soccer games (0-4-2).“I think the soccer gods weren’t particularly on our side that day. It’s a bit cruel,” he said. “But I think we can take a little bit
  
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• Canadiens call up Mallioux ahead of Islanders tilt as team struggles with injuries

  18-10-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROSSARD, Que. — The Montreal Canadiens recalled defenceman Logan Mailloux from the American Hockey League as the NHL team deals with a number of injuries.
  Top-pairing blueliners Kaiden Guhle and Mike Matheson missed Friday’s practice with upper-body injuries, while forward Juraj Slafkovsky left the session early while favouring his left shoulder.
  Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis said Guhle is being evaluated daily and will not travel with the team when it faces the New York Isl
  
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• Hope firefighters contain semi truck fire overnight before it spreads

  18-10-2024 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Hope Fire Department says the work of seven firefighters on three apparatus worked to contain a semi truck on fire just east of Hope early Friday (Oct. 18).
  According to a post from the department, Hope fire crews were called to Highway 3/5 just east shortly after 1 a.m. Friday morning. The department says seven firefighters attached to three units contained the fire to the vehicle of origin so that it didn’t spread to the nearby grass and wildland.No injuries to either the dr
  
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• Controlled burn southeast of Chilliwack attracts interest Friday morning - Fraser Valley Today

  18-10-2024 19:38 via news.google.com
  Controlled burn southeast of Chilliwack attracts interest Friday morning  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Laugh, blush, relate with romcom 'Sexy Laundry' in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  18-10-2024 19:27 via news.google.com
  Laugh, blush, relate with romcom 'Sexy Laundry' in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Defence minister announces nearly $65 million in aid to Ukraine

  18-10-2024 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — National Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada is sending $64.8 million in military aid to Ukraine.Blair made the announcement at a NATO defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels where Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia was a key topic.
  More than $50 million will go towards arms, ammunition and military drones as well as uniforms and personal protective equipment for Ukrainian soldiers.
  The remaining funding is to support military training for those soldiers and to stren
  
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• Montreal’s Diallo through to first ATP semifinal with upset of Tabilo at Almaty Open

  18-10-2024 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALMATY — Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo advanced to his first career ATP Tour semifinal with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, upset of Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo on Friday at the Almaty Open tennis tournament.
  The 23-year-old, currently ranked 118th on the ATP Tour, had six aces without committing a double fault and was broken just once in the match that lasted just under two hours.
  Diallo took control of the match when back-to-back unforced errors by Tabilo gave him a break to go up 2-1 in the third
  
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• Rain, Wind Warnings Issued for Lower Mainland, Including Parts of Fraser Valley

  18-10-2024 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA – Canada’s weather agency issued storm warnings and advisories across much of B.C.’s south coast early Friday, indicating that rain and gusty winds will disrupt activities throughout the weekend.Environment Canada’s rainfall warning for the Lower Mainland extends from Vancouver on the coast to the Fraser Valley, including Abbotsford and Mission.
  The warning also covers Howe Sound and sections of the Sea-to-Sky Highway south of Whistler.“Rain will begin this
  
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• House committee to summon RCMP, ministers over allegations of Indian interference

  18-10-2024 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The head of the RCMP and Canada’s ministers of foreign affairs and public safety will be summoned to testify at a House of Commons committee about the bombshell allegations made this week about Indian state-sponsored interference in Canada.
  The national security committee agreed to call RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme along with Mélanie Joly and Dominic LeBlanc in a special meeting this morning.
  NDP MP Alistair MacGregor put forward the motion days after Canada expelled
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime ousted in quarterfinals of European Open

  18-10-2024 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANTWERP — Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the European Open tennis tournament with a 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) loss to Spanish veteran Roberto Bautista Agut on Friday.
  Auger-Aliassime fired 19 aces in the match, but struggled to stay consistent after a dominant first set.
  Bautista Agut forced three errors from Auger Aliassime, including on the final two points, in the third-set tiebreaker to win the match in two hours 42 minutes.
  The Spaniard evened hi
  
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• Manitoba second province to sign onto federal school food deal

  18-10-2024 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The federal and Manitoba governments have signed a deal to expand food programs.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government set aside $1 billion over five years in the last budget to expand access to such programs across the country after pressure from federal New Democrats.Manitoba is to receive about $17.2 million over the next three years under the deal.Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the agreement builds on the province’s nutrition program tha
  
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• Tobacco settlement will not protect future generations from addiction: advocates

  18-10-2024 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Cancer Society says a proposed settlement that may see tobacco companies pay out billions of dollars would do little to prevent future generations from becoming addicted to smoking.More details are expected today on a proposed $32.5-billion deal filed in an Ontario court that would see three major companies financially compensate provinces and territories as well as some smokers and their families.Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst and lawyer at the Canadian Cancer Society, says
  
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• Fledgling Northern Soccer League expected to announce first player signings soon

  18-10-2024 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Northern Super League will likely start rolling out player signing announcements next week but its full schedule isn’t expected until early next year, according to co-founder Diana Matheson.
  The former Canadian international said the fledgling six-team women’s pro league, which is scheduled to kick off in April, is having to wait on others for the full schedule although an update on the start and end of the season plus transfer window information is expected soon.
  “The real
  
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• Weather warnings issued as atmospheric river approaches B.C. coast

  18-10-2024 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has issued several rainfall warnings for British Columbia, covering much of Vancouver Island and the coastal regions as the first atmospheric river of the season approaches.It says heavy rain is expected to reach inland sections of the central coast that will intensify throughout the day before peaking this afternoon, bringing up to 70 millimetres.
  The weather office says west and inland Vancouver Island will see rainfall amounts of about 100 millimetres, pos
  
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• Argos host Redblacks in important East Division contest

  18-10-2024 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — He’s chasing a career milestone, but Toronto Argonauts running back Ka’Deem Carey has his eye on a different prize.
  The Argonauts can clinch second in the East Division — and home field for the opening round of the playoffs — with a win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday afternoon at BMO Field. Carey is third in CFL rushing with 1,005 yards and needs just 84 to surpass the career-high 1,088 yards he recorded two years ago with the Calgary Stampeders.
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• Quebec nurses union votes in favour of new collective agreement

  18-10-2024 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s largest nurses union has reached a deal with the provincial government more than a year and a half after their collective agreement expired in March 2023.
  Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé, known as the FIQ, announced Thursday evening that two-thirds of union members had voted to adopt a new collective agreement recommended by a conciliator.
  The details of the deal were not disclosed, but a major sticking point had been the governmen
  
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• Friday - Oct. 18, 2024 - Clean campaign, messy election: the 1924 Chilliwack vote - Fraser Valley Current

  18-10-2024 14:55 via news.google.com
  Friday - Oct. 18, 2024 - Clean campaign, messy election: the 1924 Chilliwack vote  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Oct. 18 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  18-10-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Oct. 18 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hamas official confirms Sinwar’s death, as Hezbollah vows a new phase of war with Israel

  18-10-2024 14:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A top political leader of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya, on Friday confirmed the death of the group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar.
  Al-Hayyaa, in a televised statement, reiterated the Palestinian militant group’s stance that it will not release Israeli hostages captured in the group’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel until there is a cease-fire in the yearlong war in Gaza.
  “Those prisoners will not return to you before the end of the aggression on Gaza and the withdr
  
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• South Korean intelligence says North has sent troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine

  18-10-2024 12:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, a development that could bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North Korea and the West.The National Intelligence Service said in a statement that Russian navy ships transferred 1,500 North Korean special operation forces to the Russian port city of Vladivostok from Oct. 8 to Oct. 13. It said more North Kore
  
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• Chilliwack's weekend weather forecast: Heavy rain expected throughout the weeken - The Weather Network

  18-10-2024 11:01 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack's weekend weather forecast: Heavy rain expected throughout the weeken  The Weather Network
  
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• In the news today: Testy B.C. election campaign reaches final day

  18-10-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Testy B.C. election campaign reaches final day
  British Columbia’s election campaign enters its final day in what is viewed as a too-close-to-call contest where David Eby’s New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad debated big issues of housing, health care, affordability and the overdose crisis, but also tangled over plastic straws and a billionaire’s billboards.
  The
  
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• Testy B.C. election campaign sees leaders attacking each other more than policy

  18-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s election campaign enters its final day in what is viewed as a too-close-to-call contest where David Eby’s New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad debated big issues of housing, health care, affordability and the overdose crisis, but also tangled over plastic straws and a billionaire’s billboards.
  The two main party leaders spent a lot of time telling voters why they shouldn’t vote for the other rather than presentin
  
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• More details expected on proposed deal that would see tobacco giants pay billions

  18-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More details are expected today on a proposed deal that would see the three major companies pay out billions of dollars to provinces and territories as well as smokers and their loved ones.
  The companies — JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. — sought creditor protection in Ontario in 2019 after Quebec’s highest court upheld a ruling ordering them to pay nearly $15 billion in two class-action lawsuits.
  All legal proceedings against
  
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• Housing, health, and plastic straws: Here’s how B.C. politicians are wooing voters

  18-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of living and the environment.
  Here is a look at some of the top promises made by each major party ahead of election day on Saturday:
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  — Leader David Eby says his party’s housing plan will build 300,000 more homes for the middle class. There’s also a pledge to increase the
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs defend home ice on final day of BCHL Showcase - Langley Advance Times

  18-10-2024 09:12 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Chiefs defend home ice on final day of BCHL Showcase  Langley Advance Times
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs defend home ice on final day of BCHL Showcase - Hope Standard

  18-10-2024 09:12 via news.google.com
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• Capitals 3-2 win ends Stars’ winning streak

  18-10-2024 07:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Wilson, Dylan Strome and Taylor Raddysh scored to help the Washington Capitals end the Dallas Stars’ season-opening winning streak at four with a 3-2 victory Thursday night.
  Wilson’s goal was his third in three games, Strome his second of the season and Raddysh his first since joining the team in free agency last summer. Charlie Lindgren made 22 saves as the Capitals wrapped up this early homestand with back-to-back wins.
  The Stars fell from the ranks of t
  
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• Senators looking to take learning experience from loss to Devils

  18-10-2024 05:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Travis Green might not have liked the end result, but he’s counting on his team learning from the effort.
  Green’s Ottawa Senators were handed a 3-1 loss by the New Jersey Devils Thursday night in a game that highlighted the importance of sticking with things.
  “I thought both teams played pretty well,” said Green. “I thought we had a lot of the game that I liked, but I thought there’s a few moments where it got away. We got away from our game, an
  
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• Kulak scores twice and McDavid gets first goal of season as Oilers beat Predators 4-2

  18-10-2024 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brett Kulak scored twice and Connor McDavid added his first goal of the season to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-2 victory over the reeling Nashville Predators on Thursday night.
  Jeff Skinner also scored and Calvin Pickard made 25 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who have won consecutive games after beginning the season with a three-game skid.
  Filip Forsberg and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Juuse Saros made 32 saves for Nashville (0-4
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski, New Zealand’s Routliffe out of Japan Women’s Open after walkover

  18-10-2024 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OSAKA — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe are out of the Japan Women’s Open tennis tournament.
  Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Romania’s Monica Niculescu advanced to the final on Thursday by way of walkover.The fourth seeds were supposed to play the top-seeded Dabrowski and Routliffe in the semifinals.
  Bucsa and Niculescu will next face third-seeded Ena Shibahara of Japan and Laura Siegemund of Germany in the final.
  Dabrowski and Routliff
  
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