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• Heavy rain leads to flood warning for British Columbia’s north coast

  07-11-2024 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KITIMAT, B.C. — British Columbia’s River Forecast Centre has issued a flood warning for a stretch of the north coast that has been soaked with heavy rain since Wednesday.
  An advisory from the centre says rivers around communities including Stewart, Terrace, Prince Rupert and Kitimat have been rising rapidly and forecasts suggest the potential for water to reach or exceed the 20-year flow in some areas on Thursday.
  It says the focus is on rivers and tributaries around Kitimat, but sim
  
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• President-elect Trump names Susie Wiles as chief of staff

  07-11-2024 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff.
  Wiles is widely credited within and outside Trump’s inner circle for running what was, by far, his most disciplined and well-executed campaign. She largely avoided the spotlight, even refusing to take the mic to speak as Trump celebrated his victory early Wednesday morning.
  “Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired
  
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• Paramount Alley officially opens in downtown Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  07-11-2024 23:56 via news.google.com
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• Paramount Alley officially opens in downtown Chilliwack

  07-11-2024 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — City leaders welcomed the newest addition to downtown Chilliwack Thursday morning (Nov. 7), calling it another key improvement to an ever evolving landscape.The City of Chilliwack says it is excited to announce the official opening of a new downtown breezeway called Paramount Alley. The 370-square metre public gathering space extends from Yale Road to the Victoria Avenue parking lot.
  Paramount Alley becomes home to the replica marquee P sign, located at the Yale Road entrance,
  
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• A handful of Christmas events are set to take over Chilliwack - The Georgia Straight

  07-11-2024 23:46 via news.google.com
  A handful of Christmas events are set to take over Chilliwack  The Georgia Straight
  
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• What the U.S. election says about how American women cast their ballots

  07-11-2024 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — As Kamala Harris made her final speech of the U.S. election campaign, conceding the race to president-elect Donald Trump, many women in the crowd at her alma mater in Washington had tears running down their faces.The disappointment was palpable. Supporters talked about feeling betrayed by an American population who they believe voted against bodily autonomy and dismayed that another woman could lose to Trump.“Lining up to give up their rights,” Nadine Seiler, 59, s
  
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• First-year standout Ralph Holley anchors Argos’ sack-happy defence

  07-11-2024 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ralph Holley has been a very pleasant find for the Toronto Argonauts.
  The first-year defensive tackle began the season on Toronto’s practice roster before injuries landed him on the active roster and then the starting lineup. And Holley has responded, finishing the regular season tied for the league lead in sacks.“You have to stay ready so you don’t have to get ready,” Holley said Thursday. “Maxie (defensive-line coach Demetrious Maxie) prides himsel
  
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• Aggressive play a double-edged sword for Toronto Raptors

  07-11-2024 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Coming into the new season the Toronto Raptors emphasized that they were going to play hard, fast, aggressive basketball.
  Nine games in, that style of play has become a double-edged sword for Toronto. Despite their 2-7 record, the Raptors lead the NBA with 30.6 assists per game and have the eighth-best offence with 118 points per game.
  Toronto is also allowing a league-worst 124.7 points per game, but has lost five of its past six games by six or fewer points.Their suffocating transition defence
  
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• Joly says Canada’s immigration plan stands in face of Trump deportation threats

  07-11-2024 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada will stand firm on its plan to rein in the number of newcomers entering the country, despite concerns that Donald Trump’s re-election could spur an influx of migrants from the U.S.
  Trump’s decisive win this week immediately launched discussions about the border because he has promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
  Anti-immigration policies and rhetoric during his first administration prompted a surge o
  
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• Family of missing woman says RCMP and SAR believe she ‘likely fell’ into a swollen creek

  07-11-2024 23:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON — The daughter of Jane Whitehouse says the search for the missing 82-year-old woman has been suspended, but the case itself remains active, roughly two weeks after she went missing.According to a statement from Eileen Antosh that was released by Melanie Sora through a Facebook group entitled “Missing: Jane Whitehouse”, the family of Jane Whitehouse met with search and rescue personnel and Langley RCMP yesterday for what is being described as an “in-depth” r
  
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• Lower Mainland robbery spree results in 9-year sentence - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2024 23:12 via news.google.com
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• Reporter accused of being Russian spy tells MPs they fell for disinformation

  07-11-2024 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A veteran Ottawa Citizen journalist who was accused of being a Russian asset by a former cabinet minister says it is the “height of irony” that a committee studying disinformation has fallen for it.David Pugliese told the House of Commons security committee today he found it astonishing that none of the MPs on the committee challenged the allegations when they were made last month.Chris Alexander, a former Conservative cabinet minister and ambassador to Afghanistan, ma
  
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• Business groups say Canada needs to plan differently to deal with Trump’s second term

  07-11-2024 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Donald Trump’s mandate to get tough on trade is expected to be stronger in his second term as U.S. president, posing different challenges for Canada than his first four years in the White House.
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland projected calm on Wednesday after the election, reassuring Canadians that the government is well-equipped to work with a Trump administration again.
  But Goldy Hyder, president of the Business Council of Canada, is warning the past might not offer a
  
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• Alouettes hope Argos QB Chad Kelly relives nightmares in East final

  07-11-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Chad Kelly had a game — and performance — to forget 12 months ago.
  The Montreal Alouettes are hoping the Toronto Argonauts quarterback lives a similar nightmare this week.
  Montreal hosts the CFL’s East Division final Saturday in a rematch of last year’s showdown that saw Kelly, later named the league’s Most Outstanding Player, throw four interceptions in a stunning 38-17 upset at BMO Field.
  “I’m very motivated,” Montreal linebacker
  
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• Republican David McCormick flips pivotal Pennsylvania Senate seat, ousts Bob Casey

  07-11-2024 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting policies that led to inflation, domestic turmoil and war.
  The battleground state contest pads Republicans’ majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week.
  McCormick, 59, recaptured a
  
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• New faces relish time in training camp under Canada head coach Jesse Marsch

  07-11-2024 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Shola Jimoh was headed out to buy some food when he got a text from a number he didn’t recognize.
  “I opened it and I saw (it from) Jesse Marsch. I was shocked,” said the 16-year-old York United FC winger.
  The Canada coach was inviting the diminutive teen to this week’s training camp in Toronto, ahead of the full national team gathering in Florida next week to prepare for the two-legged CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal against Suriname.
  Canada, ranked 3
  
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• NCAA lifts eligibility ban in allowing Canadian Hockey League players to compete at US colleges

  07-11-2024 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The NCAA Division I Council on Thursday approved a rule allowing players with Canadian Hockey League experience to compete at U.S. colleges starting next season, a landmark decision that has the potential of shaking up the NHL’s two largest sources of developmental talent.
  The decision, effective Aug. 1, lifts the NCAA’s longstanding ban on CHL players who were previously deemed to be professionals because they received a stipend of up to $600 per month for living expenses.
  The appro
  
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• Republican David McCormick flips pivotal Pennsylvania Senate seat

  07-11-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting policies that led to inflation, domestic turmoil and war.
  The battleground state contest pads Republicans’ majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week.
  McCormick, 59, recaptured a
  
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• B.C. gender justice groups call for repeal of Name Act changed over child killer

  07-11-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Gender justice groups in British Columbia are calling for the repeal of recent provincial legislation that prevents people convicted of serious Criminal Code offences from changing their names.
  The call for the repeal of the Name Amendment Act comes from groups that include the Gender-Affirming Healthcare, the Canadian Bar Association’s BC branch and the Trans Legal Clinic.The groups say the legislation was not necessary to protect the public and harms people most in need of legal name cha
  
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• Africa strategy back on the table, as Ottawa heralds new embassies, security projects

  07-11-2024 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have revived their plan to launch an Africa strategy, and are announcing new embassies and anti-terrorism projects on the continent.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Ottawa is earmarking $54.4 million for initiatives aimed at peacebuilding in war-torn Sudan, counterterrorism in West Africa and combating biological threats.
  Joly also says Ottawa will also open a new embassy in Benin and a high commission in Zambia, while announcing a special en
  
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• Vacant homes abound in Chilliwack Proper, including Fairfield Island - Fraser Valley Today

  07-11-2024 21:47 via news.google.com
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• Vacant homes abound in Chilliwack Proper, including Fairfield Island

  07-11-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — If it seems like there’s been an abundance of incidents at vacant or abandoned homes in some of the older parts of Chilliwack the past couple years, you’re not alone.Just days after a detached garage caught fire on the property of a vacant home on Nowell Street earlier this week, not to mention a fire at an abandoned home on McGuire Road just last week, a City of Chilliwack spokesperson has confirmed there are roughly 100 vacant homes in Chilliwack Proper.“At
  
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• Storm tracker group confirms rare tornado touchdown on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast

  07-11-2024 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A resident of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says a rare tornado that she saw touch down on Monday was like a scene out of a movie with trees coming down “like dominoes” in the high winds.
  Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project, which tracks storm events across Canada, has confirmed that what Lynn Smith captured on video during the windstorms that hit much of the B.C. coast was a tornado, with wind speeds of 115 km/h.
  Smith says she turned on the camera hoping
  
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• Expert says silence in B.C. port lockout unusual while retailers call for urgency

  07-11-2024 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Canadian retailers say their frustration is growing with the lack of movement to resolve disruptions at Canada’s two largest ports, including silence surrounding a lockout at British Columbia ports that is into its fourth day.Matt Poirier with the Retail Council of Canada says there “doesn’t seem to be any urgency” in resolving the disputes in B.C. and Quebec and it may result in empty shelves as the holiday season approaches.
  Poirier describes the situa
  
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• Quebec man’s acquittal in 1978 double murder ‘historic and exceptional,’ lawyer says

  07-11-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — One of the lawyers for a Quebec man who was acquitted Wednesday of a decades-old double murder hopes her client’s case will convince other wrongfully convicted people not to lose hope.
  For the first time in more than 40 years, Claude Paquin woke up today as a completely free man after Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office declined to try him for a second time for the 1978 murders of Ronald Bourgouin and Sylvie Revah.
  Lawyer Julie Harinen describes the result as &l
  
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• Housing minister announces applications open for $1B critical infrastructure program

  07-11-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Applications opened Thursday for a $1-billion federal program to help municipalities and Indigenous communities build critical infrastructure.
  The Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund set aside $1-billion in direct funding to communities to build or improve infrastructure to support drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste.
  Applications opened online today, with municipalities and Indigenous communities able to apply.Those applicants will need to demonstrate how their
  
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• Democratic incumbent Don Davis wins reelection in North Carolina’s only toss-up congressional race

  07-11-2024 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic freshman Rep. Don Davis has won reelection, defending his seat from a challenge by Republican opponent Laurie Buckhout in North Carolina’s only toss-up congressional race.
  Davis faced an uphill battle this year compared to 2022, when he first won the 1st Congressional District, largely because redistricting by the GOP-controlled state legislature last year left the district less blue than it once was. The race attracted millions of advertising dollars
  
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• Cement truck rolls over at Lickman Road roundabout in Chilliwack

  07-11-2024 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A cement truck rolled over at the Lickman Road roundabout just south of Highway 99 Thursday morning.
  According to a news tip from Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, a concrete truck crashed sometime after 11:15 a.m. Chilliwack RCMP, Chilliwack Fire and B.C. Emergency Health Services attended.
  The driver was out of the vehicle when Chilliwack Fire Department crews arrived. Engines 1 (Cheam Avenue) and 4 (South Sumas Road) attended, according to scanner traffic.
  The truck belong
  
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• GOP flips 2 US House seats in Pennsylvania, as Republican Scott Perry wins again

  07-11-2024 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans knocked off Democrats in two perennially contested U.S. House seats in eastern Pennsylvania while U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, one of the hardest right members of the chamber, survived a challenge in a southern Pennsylvania district with more moderate politics.
  The defeats of sixth-term Rep. Matt Cartwright and three-term Rep. Susan Wild came as the GOP’s U.S. House majority hung in the balance and Democrats seek a last line of resistance to Donald Trump&
  
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• Health minister wants all Quebecers to have access to a health professional by 2026

  07-11-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — The Quebec government says it wants every Quebecer to have access to a health professional by the summer of 2026 — just before the next provincial election.Health Minister Christian Dubé made the announcement in Quebec City on Thursday, as part of his effort to improve Quebecers’ access to health care.Quebec Premier François Legault campaigned in 2018 on a promise that all Quebecers would have access to a family doctor, but the government later con
  
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• Democrat Kim Schrier wins reelection to US House in Washington

  07-11-2024 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier won a fourth term Thursday in Washington, beating Republican Carmen Goers in a district made up of a mix of wealthy Seattle exurbs and central Washington farmland.
  The 8th District seat had always been held by the GOP before Schrier, a pediatrician, took office in 2019. She survived a series of somewhat close races since then before facing Goers this year.Schrier has combined progressive stances, such as protecting abortion rights, with an emphasi
  
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• Concrete-mixer truck rolls over at Lickman Road roundabout in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2024 20:33 via news.google.com
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• Judicial recount in Surrey-Guildford underway, starting with 28 unreported ballots

  07-11-2024 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Election officials filed into an industrial building in Surrey, B.C., to begin a judicial recount for the most narrowly won riding in British Columbia’s election, starting with 28 extra ballots found to have gone unreported days after the vote.The recount will decide if the NDP’s one-seat majority stands, after it claimed victory in Surrey-Guildford with a margin of 27 votes over the B.C. Conservatives, giving Premier David Eby’s party 47 seats in the legis
  
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• Leafs’ Matthews misses practice, remains day-to-day with upper-body injury

  07-11-2024 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews missed Thursday’s practice and his status for the team’s next two games is unclear.
  The star centre listed as day-to-day with an upper-body injury also sat out Tuesday’s 4-0 victory over the Boston Bruins.
  Head coach Craig Berube didn’t rule Matthews in or out of the lineup for Toronto’s upcoming home games — Friday against the Detroit Red Wings and Saturday against the Montreal Canadiens — when asked a
  
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• Putin congratulates Donald Trump on his election victory in first public comments on US vote

  07-11-2024 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory in the Russian leader’s first public comment on the outcome of the U.S. balloting.
  Putin’s comment came after a speech during an international forum conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
  ″I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election as president of the United States of America,” Putin said in a question-and-answer session.The Asso
  
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• Homan rolls to 9-3 win over Carey at Grand Slam of Curling’s Co-op Canadian Open

  07-11-2024 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NISKU, Alta. — Top-ranked Rachel Homan defeated Chelsea Carey 9-3 on Thursday to keep her perfect record intact at the Co-op Canadian Open.
  Homan, from Ottawa, scored three points in the second end and added three more in the seventh. She improved to 3-0 and secured a playoff spot with one more round-robin game to play.
  Carey, who succeeded Jennifer Jones as skip of her Winnipeg-based team, fell to 2-1. Lindsey Burgess is filling in this week at second for Emily Zacharias, who is playing a
  
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• NDP asks Speaker to examine social media influencer Lauren Chen’s refusal to testify

  07-11-2024 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A social media influencer who declined to answer questions about an alleged Russian plot to sow division among the public is a step closer to being sanctioned by Parliament.
  New Democrat MP Alistair MacGregor has asked House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to consider whether Lauren Chen’s refusal to answer questions at a Commons committee meeting amounts to a breach of privilege.
  Chen, who is Canadian, was summoned to appear at the public safety and national security committ
  
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• National rent prices decline year-over-year for first time since pandemic: report

  07-11-2024 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A new report says average asking rents declined nationally on a year-over-year basis for the first time in more than three years in October.
  The report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation finds average asking rents across Canada sat at $2,152 in October, down 1.2 per cent from the same month in 2023 — the first national decrease since July 2021.
  The decline is mainly concentrated in Canada’s major urban centres, with cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal seeing rent decrea
  
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• India halts some consular visits amid Sikh-Hindu clashes

  07-11-2024 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — India’s consulate in Toronto is suspending some of its diplomatic visits to process paperwork at places like religious temples after violence between Sikh and Hindu people.The violence started Sunday outside the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton, Ont., where police allege people in the crowd were carrying weapons and throwing objects.The next day there were tense protests outside the temple, leading to another police intervention and calls to ban protests at Brampton religious
  
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• Senate committee makes major changes to Bloc Québécois supply management bill

  07-11-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A committee of senators voted to add a major caveat to a politically charged bill from the Bloc Québécois that’s intended to protect supply management.
  The private member’s bill seeks to protect Canada’s supply management system during international trade negotiations, and had broad support in the House of Commons from all parties.It has been at the centre of political machinations since September, when the Bloc announced its support of the governme
  
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• Inuk man shot dead by police a victim of systemic racism: Crown-Indigenous minister

  07-11-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s minister for Crown-Indigenous relations says the killing of an Inuk man by police in an Inuit village in Quebec’s Far North is an example of systemic racism.Gary Anandasangaree said today in a statement the death of Joshua Papigatuk earlier this week underscores the systemic racism Indigenous Peoples experience in the justice system.Papigatuk was shot and killed and his twin brother Garnet was seriously injured after the Nunavik Police Service responded to a
  
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• Democrat Laura Gillen wins US House seat on Long Island, unseating GOP incumbent

  07-11-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrat Laura Gillen has defeated U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito in a congressional race on Long Island, flipping a third House seat in New York for Democrats to partially reverse a red wave that washed over suburban and rural parts of the state during the last election.
  The Associated Press called the race on Thursday.Gillen had also run against D’Esposito in 2022 but narrowly lost in a district just outside New York City that President Joe Biden had won by
  
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• Chilliwack Mayor Popove defends Knight Road construction, stresses safety of road improvements - Fraser Valley Today

  07-11-2024 18:50 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack Mayor Popove defends Knight Road construction, stresses safety of road improvements

  07-11-2024 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove has defended changes to the layout of Knight Road east of Evans Road in Chilliwack, saying the public works improvements are meant to slow down motorists and protect pedestrians and cyclists alike.Mayor Popove told 89.5 JR Country Morning show host Glen Slingerland Thursday morning the issue around Knight Road construction emerged after a letter to the editor was recently published in a Chilliwack newspaper. Around the same time, people in Chilliwac
  
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• Chilliwack author launches novel about man trying to escape toxic family - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2024 18:36 via news.google.com
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• Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus keeps her seat in the US House

  07-11-2024 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — At least one of three U.S. House seats in Nevada will remain under Democratic control after incumbent Rep. Dina Titus won in her race.
  The Associated Press has declared Titus the winner Thursday. The races for the seats sought by Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford were still too early to call. Nevada’s lone Republican Congressman, Mark Amodei, cruised to victory Tuesday night.
  It was the second election in a row that Titus defeated Republican Mark Robertson, a retir
  
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• Republican Jeff Hurd wins Colorado US House seat in Lauren Boebert’s old district

  07-11-2024 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert left, fulfilling the congresswoman’s hope that her mid-election departure from the race would make it easier for a different Republican to retain the seat that she nearly lost in 2022.
  Hurd, a more mild-mannered conservative in an older GOP tradition, beat Adam Frisch, the Democrat who nearly unseated Boebert two years ago in the 3rd Congressional District that covers the state’s Rocky Mo
  
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• Former Liberal MP warns of tough times ahead with U.S. over NATO spending target

  07-11-2024 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Retired Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie says Canada will soon face a rough ride from the U.S. for failing to meet its defence spending targets after the dramatic political comeback of president-elect Donald Trump.
  Leslie, a former member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus, told the House of Commons defence committee that he sees “no sense of urgency” on the part of the Liberal government to put more resources into the Canadian Armed Forces and meet its NATO defence
  
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• California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency

  07-11-2024 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state’s progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency.The move — a day after the former president resoundingly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race — effectively reig
  
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• NDP calls on federal government to allow open work permits for temporary workers

  07-11-2024 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is calling on the government to change how it handles permits for temporary workers, after a UN report said the system creates “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”
  The citizenship and immigration committee released a report Wednesday calling on Ottawa to work with the provinces to establish permits that allow temporary workers to find work in a specific region or sector.Right now, most temporary workers have closed permits th
  
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