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• Canada is pausing private refugee sponsorship applications until 2026

  29-11-2024 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is pausing private refugee sponsorships from groups of five or more people and community organizations to help clear a backlog of applications.The notice was published on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada website today.The pause is effective immediately and runs until Dec. 31, 2025.The government says applications received annually far outpace the number of spaces for private refugee sponsorships.The government has set a target of admitting 23,000 privately s
  
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• RCMP looks to redeploy 25 per cent of eastern region workforce, including to border

  29-11-2024 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The RCMP says it’s looking to redeploy up to one-quarter of its eastern region workforce to areas considered an operational priority, including to the U.S. border.U.S. president-elect Donald Trump pledged this week to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports until more is done to stem illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.
  The threat spurred calls from premiers and opposition leaders for the federal Liberal government to do more to secure Canada&rsq
  
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• Scepters prepare to enter second PWHL season without MVP and top scorer Spooner

  29-11-2024 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Sceptres have new jerseys, a fresh roster, a new home rink and, unfortunately, a new problem.The Professional Women’s Hockey League regular-season champions begin their second year without Billie Jean King MVP Natalie Spooner.The 34-year-old Spooner, who led the PWHL in its inaugural season with 20 goals in 24 games, has been reduced to skating after her teammates as she recovers from left knee surgery.
  “It’s not something you never wish upon any tea
  
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• Oath to monarch now optional in the Yukon after council refuses to pledge allegiance

  29-11-2024 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAWSON CITY, Y.T. — Municipal leaders in the Yukon now have the option of taking an oath to the Constitution or to King Charles during their swearing-in ceremonies, after a new council in one community refused to pledge allegiance to the monarch.
  Minister of Community Services Richard Mostyn says the territory has amended its Municipal Act after Dawson City’s mayor-elect and four new councillors refused to swear an oath to the King during their Nov. 5 investiture ceremony.
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• Judge hears from ex-employees of Montreal billionaire in sex abuse lawsuit

  29-11-2024 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court justice will deliberate before deciding whether to authorize a class-action lawsuit against Quebec electronics billionaire Robert Miller, accused of paying minors for sex.
  On the final day of a three-day hearing, Justice Catherine Piché heard from lawyers for Sam Joseph Abrams, Raymond Poulet and Helmut Lippmann — all ex-employees of the company Miller founded and recently sold, Future Electronics.
  According to the class action, Miller, 81, t
  
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• Poulin hungry for championship glory as Montreal Victoire enter second PWHL season

  29-11-2024 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Marie-Philip Poulin’s trophy chest is brimming with awards and medals, but there’s one big piece missing now that the Professional Women’s Hockey League is established.
  Aware she’s in the later stages of her career, the Montreal Victoire captain is fired up for PWHL championship glory after an early playoff exit in the inaugural season.
  “The fire is quite there,” the 33-year-old Poulin said Friday at Verdun Auditorium. “I still love what
  
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• Abbotsford Coun. Ross, Chilliwack’s Kloot elected as Chair and Vice-Chair of FVRD - Fraser Valley Today

  29-11-2024 22:10 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford Coun. Ross, Chilliwack’s Kloot elected as Chair and Vice-Chair of FVRD  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Abbotsford Coun. Ross, Chilliwack’s Kloot elected as Chair and Vice-Chair of FVRD

  29-11-2024 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK – Abbotsford Coun. Patricia Ross is returning to the post of Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) Board Chair.
  Ross was elected to the position during a board meeting Thursday afternoon and had been serving as Vice-Chair since 2012.
  She also previously held the Board Chair post between 2009 and 2011.
  Ross replaces Chilliwack Coun. Jason Lum as FVRD Chair after he announced in late September he would be stepping down after eight years.
  Popkum, Bridal Falls Director Bill Dickey
  
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• CP NewsAlert: John Herdman resigns as head coach of Toronto FC

  29-11-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — John Herdman has resigned as head coach of Major League Soccer club Toronto FC.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Conservatives plan to use Jagmeet Singh’s words in latest non-confidence motion

  29-11-2024 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives plan to bring forward a non-confidence motion next week that is focused on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s own words, as they try to convince the New Democrats to bring down the minority Liberal government.The proposed motion quotes Singh as saying the Liberals caved to corporate greed when they ordered binding arbitration in the labour dispute involving the country’s two largest rail yards.The motion concludes with a call for members to declare they agree
  
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• Leafs star Matthews says he’s ready to play after missing nine games with injury

  29-11-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE — Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews says he is ready to return to the lineup ahead of Toronto’s road game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.
  Matthews told reporters after practice on Friday that he is back and excited to play.
  The star centre has missed nine games with an undisclosed upper-body injury that led to him seeing a specialist in Munich, Germany. He returned to skating last weekend.
  The Maple Leafs won seven of the nine games that Matthews missed.
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• Canada and Iceland draw 0-0 in women’s international soccer friendly in Spain

  29-11-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MURCIA — Canada and Iceland played to a scoreless draw in a women’s international soccer friendly Friday.
  The sixth-ranked Canadian women now turn their attention to No. 19 South Korea on Tuesday, also at the Pinatar Arena.
  Neither side produced much offence Friday in a game short on entertainment value. The few shots that were on target offered little challenge.
  Canada had more of the ball and territory in the first half, with Vanessa Gilles and Jayde Riviere providing some accurate
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protesters block Metro Vancouver container port

  29-11-2024 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DELTA, B.C. — Police in British Columbia say demonstrators have disrupted access to a major Metro Vancouver container port terminal, with the protesters calling for an end to what they call “Canada’s weapons trade with Israel.”
  Delta Police say on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that officers at Deltaport are “working to resolve” the protest’s impact.
  Police ask motorists to avoid the area of the protest, which coincides with the Inte
  
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• Manitoba Métis Federation to be first Métis group with modern treaty with Canada

  29-11-2024 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Manitoba Métis Federation will be the first Métis group to sign a modern treaty with the federal government.
  The signing ceremony is set to happen on Saturday afternoon, and will recognize the Manitoba Métis Federation as the government of the Red River Métis.
  An agreement was signed in 2021 to recognize the Manitoba Métis Federation’s self-government, and its members voted yes to the treaty last year during an assembly.
  The Manitoba M&
  
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• Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024 - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  29-11-2024 20:35 via news.google.com
  Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Trudeau says no question incoming U.S. president Trump is serious on tariff threat

  29-11-2024 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s threats on tariffs should be taken seriously.
  President-elect Trump threatened on social media this week to impose a 25-per-cent import tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico over concerns about border enforcement.
  Trudeau says when Trump makes statements like that, there is no question he plans to carry them out.
  He adds that Canada can take the same approach to working with Trump as it did dur
  
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• Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024 - Hope Standard

  29-11-2024 20:31 via news.google.com
  Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024  Hope Standard
  
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• Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024 - Chilliwack Progress

  29-11-2024 20:31 via news.google.com
  Memorial will honour Chilliwack's homeless who died in 2024  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Special ‘Midnight Train’ to run from Mission to Taylor Swift concert at BC Place: Translink

  29-11-2024 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER – B.C.’s transit authority says it will be operating a “special midnight train” between Mission and Vancouver ahead of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” show next Saturday at B.C. Place.
  Translink says the Dec. 7 route will see the train depart Mission City Station at 4 p.m. with the return trip leaving Waterfront Station at 12:15 a.m.
  The extra service comes amid Translink’s travel advice for concertgoers, which suggests using their o
  
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• Family says B.C. man’s cremated remains in limbo due to Canada Post strike

  29-11-2024 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Quebec woman whose father died in British Columbia last month says her family has be unable to properly grieve because the Canada Post strike has left his remains in limbo.Emily Walstrom said her father’s cremated remains were put into the mail before Canada Post employees walked off the job on Nov. 15.That day, Walstrom received a notification from Canada Post that there would be a delay in receiving her father’s remains due to a “labour disruption.”
  She said a convers
  
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• Canada pledges $50M for Palestinian humanitarian needs ahead of Gaza aid conference

  29-11-2024 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $50 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
  International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says the money will provide life-saving help such as medical assistance, food, water and protection services.
  He says the funding will be delivered through partners such as the United Nations and the Red Cross.
  His office did not immediately say how much of the funding will go to each territory, and h
  
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• Comedian Jerry Seinfeld returning to Abbotsford in 2025 - Chilliwack Progress

  29-11-2024 19:35 via news.google.com
  Comedian Jerry Seinfeld returning to Abbotsford in 2025  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Prime Minister Trudeau adds $7.1 million to P.E.I. school food program

  29-11-2024 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOUNT STEWART, P.E.I. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Prince Edward Island today where he announced $7.1 million over three years to support that province’s school food program.The money is from the federal government’s $1-billion, five-year universal, national school food program that was promised during the 2021 election campaign.
  P.E.I. is the fourth province to sign on to the program, joining Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba and Ontario.
  Trudeau says the fun
  
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• Vancouver Canucks defenceman Hronek being evaluated for undisclosed injury

  29-11-2024 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO — Vancouver Canucks defenceman Filip Hronek has been sidelined by an undisclosed injury.
  Head coach Rick Tocchet says the Czech blue liner is still being evaluated for an after he went into the endboards hard late in Vancouver’s 5-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday.
  Tocchet says he doesn’t know how long Hronek will be missing from the lineup, but he won’t be available for Friday’s game against the Sabres in Buffalo.The Canucks (11-7-3) recalled d
  
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• Bears fire coach Matt Eberflus with free-falling team last in NFC North

  29-11-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Matt Eberflus was fired by the Chicago Bears on Friday, one day after botching a timeout in a loss to Detroit.
  Offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will serve as interim coach, the Bears said in a statement.
  “This morning … we informed Matt of our decision to move in a different direction with the leadership of our football team and the head coaching position,” Bears General Manager Ryan Poles said. “I thank Matt for his hard work, professionalism and
  
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• Hit man offered $100,000 to kill Montreal crime reporter covering his trial

  29-11-2024 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal news outlet La Presse says a hit man offered $100,000 to have one of its crime reporters assassinated.
  La Presse says convicted killer Frédérick Silva, who turned police informant in 2022, confessed to issuing the contract in 2021 on investigative reporter Daniel Renaud, but the hit was never carried out.
  Quebec Premier François Legault denounced the plot against Renaud, saying today “it doesn’t make sense” that in Quebec a journal
  
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• Trudeau noncommittal on expanding rebate beyond ‘working Canadians’

  29-11-2024 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not appear willing to budge on his plan to send a $250 rebate to “hardworking Canadians,” despite pressure from the opposition to give the money to seniors and people who are not able to work.
  The rebate is one of two affordability measures the Liberals announced this month, along with a plan to temporarily cut the federal sales tax on a list of items that are popular over the holidays.The GST holiday bill passed in the House of Commo
  
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• Nominations now open for Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Awards - Chilliwack Progress

  29-11-2024 18:08 via news.google.com
  Nominations now open for Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Awards  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Winter storm watch issued as snow, heavy rain expected for B.C. coast

  29-11-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A winter storm is moving over British Columbia’s coast, bringing strong winds, heavy snow and freezing rain as snowfall warnings continue for much of the province’s Interior.
  Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch for the north coast, saying a low-pressure system will approach the region as a ridge of high pressure builds over the province’s Interior.
  It says the storm is expected to start tonight and persist until Sunday.
  More heavy snow is expected i
  
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• Sami Zayn enjoys blurring fiction and reality ahead of Survivor Series in Vancouver

  29-11-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When Sami Zayn was 13, he went with one of his best friends to watch Canadian hero Bret Hart defend his WWE championship against American challenger Shawn Michaels at the Survivor Series in downtown Montreal.Sitting in the nosebleeds of the Montreal Canadiens’ arena, Zayn and his buddy passed binoculars back and forth so they could see the action as Hart apparently tapped out to the Sharpshooter, his own signature submission move.
  In reality, WWE owner Vince McMahon had ordered the bell to
  
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• Former All-Star closer Fernando Rodney signs with Hamilton of Ontario’s Intercounty Baseball League

  29-11-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Former All-Star closer Fernando Rodney has signed to pitch for the Hamilton Cardinals of Ontario’s Intercounty Baseball League for the 2025 season.
  The team announced Rodney’s signing in a release posted online Thursday.
  Rodney recorded 327 saves over 17 seasons with 11 big league clubs. He led the AL with 48 saves for Seattle in 2014.
  The right-hander, known for his bow and arrow celebration after recording a save, last pitched in the majors in 2019, making thre
  
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• Masquerade Ball in Abbotsford raises $200K for ‘life-saving equipment’

  29-11-2024 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – Hospitals in the Eastern Fraser Valley will benefit from some $200,000 raised through a mid-November masquerade ball in Abbotsford.
  The event at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center was presented by the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF) and sought to collect dollars for life-saving equipment upgrades.
  “The night began with a stunning acrobatic performance by Abbotsford Dance Centre, setting the stage for an unforgettable evening,” FVHCF said in a Face
  
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• Mexico’s Manuel Vega named chief executive officer of CPL’s Atletico Ottawa

  29-11-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Manuel Vega has been named chief executive officer of Atletico Ottawa, succeeding Fernando Lopez who left earlier this year.
  The 33-year-old Mexican joins the Canadian Premier League team from Mexico’s Puebla FC, where he had been director of corporate relations since 2023. He previously was Puebla’s sporting co-ordinator and director of youth development.
  The former midfielder came through the Puebla academy, transitioning to an off-field role at the age of 25.
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• One woman killed, one hurt in armed robbery attempt southeast of Quebec City

  29-11-2024 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINT-ANSELME, Que. — One woman was killed and another was badly injured following an alleged armed robbery attempt at a clothing store southeast of Quebec City.
  Quebec provincial police say the suspect entered the business in St-Anselme, Que., at around 8 p.m. Thursday and wounded the two female employees before fleeing on foot.
  One of the victims, who was in her 30s, died of her injuries.
  The second victim, in her 20s, was seriously hurt but her life is not considered in danger.
  There we
  
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• Cucumbers recalled in Canada, U.S. over possible salmonella contamination

  29-11-2024 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling cucumbers across the country due to a potential salmonella contamination.All sizes of SunFed Produce whole fresh American cucumbers sold between Oct. 12 and Nov. 26 were recalled Thursday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration associated the product with reported salmonella cases.The cucumbers are packaged in bulk containers with the company label on it or in generic white or black plastic crates with a sticker that has the grower’s nam
  
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• Federal government posts $13B deficit in first half of the fiscal year

  29-11-2024 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Finance Department says the federal deficit was $13 billion between April and September.
  That compares to an $8.2 billion deficit over the same period last year.
  According to the monthly fiscal monitor released today, revenues were up $20.3 billion, or 9.6 per cent, compared with the first half of the 2023-24 fiscal year.Program expenses excluding net actuarial losses and gains increased $21.7 billion, or 11.2 per cent, due to higher direct program spending and transfers to pe
  
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• How changing catch-and-release fishing practices can boost salmon survival

  29-11-2024 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A study has found catch-and-release sportfishing practices that leave salmon with injuries, particularly to their eyes, cause higher mortality than earlier research suggested.
  Scott Hinch, who led the study by researchers at the University of British Columbia, said mortality among chinook salmon could be as high as 40 per cent, depending on environmental conditions and injuries sustained during capture and release.
  At the same time, the years-long research that was supported by
  
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• Canadian news publishers suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI

  29-11-2024 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.
  The coalition includes The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada.
  The outlets say in a joint statement that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.The statement says OpenAI is profiting from that content without permission or compensation to content
  
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• Supreme Court affirms constitutionality of B.C. law on opioid health costs recovery

  29-11-2024 15:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top court has affirmed the constitutionality of a law that would allow British Columbia to pursue a class-action lawsuit against opioid providers on behalf of other provinces, the territories and the federal government.
  The Supreme Court of Canada decision today is another step toward a potential cross-country action by governments that paid to treat patients who took the addictive drugs.
  Section 11 of B.C.’s Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act a
  
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• British lawmakers give initial approval to a bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives

  29-11-2024 15:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.
  After an impassioned and debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of XXX to XXX.
  The vote signals lawmakers’ approval in principle for the bill and sends it on to further scrutiny in Parliament. Similar legislation failed to pass that important first test in 2015.
  The vote came after hours of debate &mdash
  
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• 'Notes on Christmas': One Chilliwack family's holidays through the years - Fraser Valley Current

  29-11-2024 15:06 via news.google.com
  'Notes on Christmas': One Chilliwack family's holidays through the years  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Nov. 29 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  29-11-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Nov. 29 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Syria insurgents breach second largest city of Aleppo, fighters and a war monitor say

  29-11-2024 14:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian insurgents have breached Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo, after blowing up two car bombs and were clashing with government forces on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters.
  Insurgents have been approaching Aleppo city for days and have seized several towns and villages along the way.
  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said the insurgents blew up two car bombs at the city’s western edge on Friday.
  An insurgent commande
  
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• Three Chilliwack speed skaters achieve personal bests at B.C. Cup - Chilliwack Progress

  29-11-2024 14:00 via news.google.com
  Three Chilliwack speed skaters achieve personal bests at B.C. Cup  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire

  29-11-2024 10:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019.
  Images broadcast live of a site visit by French President Emmanuel Macron showed the inside of the iconic cathedral as worshippers might have experienced it back in medieval times, its wide, open spaces filled with bright light on a crisp
  
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• In the news today: Liberals, NDP pass GST bill in House of Commons

  29-11-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Liberals, NDP pass GST bill in House of Commons
  The Liberals’ GST holiday bill is one step closer to becoming law after it was passed by a majority of the House of Commons late Thursday night.The two-month tax break covers dozens of items, including children’s clothes and toys, video games and consoles, Christmas trees, restaurant and catered meals, wine, beer, candy and snacks. It would ta
  
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• LGBTQ+ Africans look to Canada for help as anti-gay laws expand

  29-11-2024 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOMBASA — Astraeus O’Levin is tired of strangers telling her they want to kill her.
  In 2015, as a transgender woman, she left the scrutiny of her family in western Kenya, seeking peace and new opportunities in the tourism sector in the eastern coastal city of Mombasa.
  Instead she was greeted by children pelting rocks and religious leaders using loudspeakers to blame gay people for everything from bad weather to soccer losses. Men would insult and beat her in the street, only to messa
  
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• Ex-mayor has no regrets as Surrey Police take over from RCMP after six-year saga

  29-11-2024 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Surrey Police Service took over from the RCMP and became the city’s force of jurisdiction Friday, after a six-year saga set in motion by former mayor Doug McCallum.
  Along the way, there were court challenges, a change of municipal government and accusations of bullying, but McCallum says he has no regrets about the troubled transition for the community southeast of Vancouver.
  He only wishes it could have happened sooner.
  “We did it because we felt that we wanted to have a lot mor
  
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• Statistics Canada to release third quarter GDP report today

  29-11-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to release third quarter gross domestic product figures this morning.
  The agency’s preliminary estimate pointed to one per cent annualized growth over the three-month period.That would be below the Bank of Canada’s October forecast of 1.5 per cent.RBC says although the economy likely continued to grow in the third quarter, real GDP per capita is expected to have declined.The GDP report comes ahead of the Bank of Canada’s interest rate ann
  
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• As Australia bans social media for children, Quebec is paying close attention

  29-11-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — As Australia moves to ban social media for children under 16, Quebec is debating whether to follow suit.The provincial government decided last spring to study the possibility of setting a minimum age for social media accounts, following a push from the youth wing of the governing Coalition Avenir Québec.
  But a committee examining the issue has been hearing mixed opinions on the idea, with some experts suggesting a ban would be difficult to enforce and could do more harm t
  
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