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• Canada again supports UN motion critical of Israel, citing two-state solution

  03-12-2024 23:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada has again breached its years-long policy and voted in support of a United Nations motion critical of Israel, based on concerns about the viability of a two-state solution.
  For years, Canada backed Israel in votes at the international body, but the federal Liberals changed that policy a year ago amid concerns over the latest Israel-Hamas war.
  The motion voted on today reaffirms the illegality of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories and condemns the use of
  
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• Canadians warned to use caution in South Korea after martial law declared then lifted

  03-12-2024 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Global Affairs Canada is warning Canadians in South Korea to avoid demonstrations and exercise caution after the country’s president imposed an hours-long period of martial law.The situation in South Korea arose after President Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law on Tuesday, vowing to eliminate what he described as “anti-state” forces from the opposition that controls parliament.
  Yoon’s declaration triggered tense political drama, as troops surrounded the
  
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• Vancouver Canucks defenceman Hronek out eight weeks with lower-body injury

  03-12-2024 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks defenceman Filip Hronek is expected to be out until the end of January as he recovers from a lower-body injury.General manager Patrik Allvin issued a statement Tuesday saying Hronek underwent a successful procedure for the undisclosed ailment and is expected to miss about eight weeks.He says the 27-year-old Czech blueliner will not require surgery for an upper-body injury.Hronek hasn’t played since going into the endboards hard late in Vancouver’s
  
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• New farm-to-table restaurant to occupy Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission

  03-12-2024 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Following the closure of Blackberry Kitchen and its 14-year run, the City of Mission says residents and visitors alike will have a new option for dining at Fraser River Heritage Park as the Sunflower Lodge establishes itself in Mission.According to a news release from the municipality, the change in operation comes as the owners of Blackberry Kitchen, Kerry Martin and Laurel Exner, closed their doors in late November for a well-deserved retirement.The municipality says Sunflower
  
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• Blue Jays GM Atkins says there is a great deal of opportunity for the club

  03-12-2024 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins wouldn’t tip his hand on off-season plans Tuesday and instead spoke in generalities ahead of what should be an interesting few weeks on baseball’s free agency scene.Atkins, who held a 25-minute availability during a meeting of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Toronto chapter, said he thinks there is still “a great deal of opportunity” for the club.
  “We feel confident there are several wa
  
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• Quebec public security minister says no indication so far of migrant influx from U.S.

  03-12-2024 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s public security minister says the situation at the province’s border with the United States is “under control” and that there is no indication so far of an influx of migrants trying to enter Canada.François Bonnardel spoke to reporters after meeting in Montreal with representatives of Canadian and American law enforcement agencies, including the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency, the United States Border Patrol, and the Department of
  
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• B.C. Lions name former quarterback Buck Pierce as head coach

  03-12-2024 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions have named Buck Pierce as their new head coach.
  It’s the first head coaching job for Pierce, who spent the last nine seasons on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ staff. He had been the team’s offensive co-ordinator since 2020.
  Pierce helped the Bombers win Grey Cup titles in 2019 and ’21 and presided over an offence that included star quarterback Zach Collaros and Canadian rushing leader and 2024 most outstanding player Brady Oliveira.
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• ‘Sleeping with the enemy’: Mistrial in B.C. sex assault over Crown dating paralegal

  03-12-2024 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexual assault after he learned his defence lawyer’s paralegal was dating the Crown prosecutor during his trial.Justice Veronica Jackson ruled last week in Courtenay, B.C., that Cameron Gagne should get a new trial because his lawyer, Eric Chesterley, and prosecutor Nicholas Grabe failed to tell the court about the relationship.Gagne was found guilty of sexual assault by a jury in November 2023, and the judge’s rul
  
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• IBL’s Maple Leafs sign Ayami Sato, widely considered baseball’s top female pitcher

  03-12-2024 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League have signed Ayami Sato, making the Japanese pitcher the league’s first female player.
  The team announced the signing in a release Tuesday.
  Widely considered the top female pitcher in baseball, the 34-year-old Sato helped Japan win five of its seven consecutive Women’s Baseball World Cup titles (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018).
  She was named the most valuable player of the 2014, ’16 and ’18 tournament
  
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• Adopt-A-Senior delivers Christmas gifts to 1,300 Chilliwack residents - Chilliwack Progress

  03-12-2024 22:58 via news.google.com
  Adopt-A-Senior delivers Christmas gifts to 1,300 Chilliwack residents  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. woman on the lam in $60,000 Alberta meat scam arrested in Ontario

  03-12-2024 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THREE HILLS, Alta. — A B.C. woman charged in connection with a 60-thousand-dollar meat scam last year has been arrested in Ontario.
  RCMP say Krysta-Lyn Williams of Penticton, was arrested in Picton, Ontario, last week with the assistance of Ontario Provincial Police.
  Williams, who is 36, was charged Nov. 20 and had a warrant issued for her arrest on a charge of fraud over $5,000.
  She is being transported back to Alberta and is scheduled to appear in court in Airdrie this week.
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• Crash on Trans Canada Highway kills two, seriously injures third near Ashcroft, B.C.

  03-12-2024 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ASHCROFT, B.C. — Two people are dead and a third is in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on the Trans Canada Highway in British Columbia.
  The RCMP in Ashcroft, west of Kamloops, say they were called to the scene Sunday at around 10:15 p.m.
  Police say in a statement that the SUV appears to have been going “far above the speed limit” when it veered off the road, hit a culvert and overturned.
  The statement says the driver and one of the two passengers were pronounced
  
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• President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urge judge to toss his hush money conviction

  03-12-2024 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers formally asked a judge Monday to throw out his hush money criminal conviction, arguing continuing the case would present unconstitutional “disruptions to the institution of the Presidency.“
  In a filing made public Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan that dismissal is warranted because of the extraordinary circumstances of his impending return to the White House.
  “Wrongly continuin
  
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• Trump team signs agreement to allow Justice to conduct background checks on nominees, staff

  03-12-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Tuesday signed an agreement to allow the Justice Department to conduct background checks on his nominees and appointees after a weeks-long delay.
  The step lets Trump transition aides and future administration staffers obtain security clearances before Inauguration Day to access classified information about ongoing government programs, an essential step for a smooth transiton of power. It also allows those nominees wh
  
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• Saskatchewan introduces legislative amendment to keep carbon levy off home heating

  03-12-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan has introduced a promised legislative amendment that would continue to see residents no longer pay federal carbon levies for home heating.The province says the measure is expected to save the average family about $480 next year.
  The amendment would ensure the province remains the sole registered distributor of natural gas throughout 2025 and beyond.
  The province made changes last year to designate itself in the role to protect SaskEnergy, the Crown gas utility, from p
  
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• Taylor Swift fans flock to BC Place, days before Eras Tour lands in Vancouver

  03-12-2024 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Security fencing is going up around BC Place stadium in preparation for the final days of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour this weekend, while dozens of Swifties gather near by to feel the vibe and “breathe the same air as Taylor Swift.”
  Staff wearing security jackets are busy off-loading fencing and installing it around the stadium for the Swift shows from Dec. 6 to 8.Fans are posing for photos in front of Swift-themed decorations on the stadium grounds, including po
  
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• Trump signs agreement to allow Justice Department to conduct background checks on nominees, staff

  03-12-2024 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Tuesday signed an agreement to allow the Justice Department to conduct background checks on his nominees and appointees after a weeks-long delay.
  The step lets Trump transition aides and future administration staffers obtain security clearances before Inauguration Day to access classified information about ongoing government programs. It also allows those nominees who are up for Senate confirmation to get the backgro
  
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• Quebec doctors who refuse to stay in public system for 5 years face 200K fine per day

  03-12-2024 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec’s health minister has tabled a bill that would force new doctors trained in the province to spend the first five years of their careers working in Quebec’s public health network.
  Doctors who enter the private sector or move outside the province within that period would face fines up to $200,000 per day.
  Health Minister Christian Dubé says his bill addresses the rising number doctors who are leaving the public system for the private one.
  He says tra
  
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• Pancake franchise to return to Chilliwack in 2025 - Fraser Valley Today

  03-12-2024 22:11 via news.google.com
  Pancake franchise to return to Chilliwack in 2025  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Terrorism suspect Mohamed Harkat a ‘passive actor,’ his lawyer tells judge

  03-12-2024 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A lawyer for terrorism suspect Mohamed Harkat told a judge today the Algerian-born refugee is a “passive actor” who has been linked to extremists through speculation, not hard evidence.
  Harkat, 56, was arrested in Ottawa in December 2002 on suspicion of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent.He denies any involvement in terrorism.The federal government is trying to deport the former gas-station attendant using a security certificate — a legal tool for removing non-citizens suspected o
  
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• Fourth deer in B.C. found with fatal chronic wasting disease

  03-12-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A fourth case of fatal chronic wasting disease has been found in a white-tailed deer in British Columbia’s Kootenay region.
  The provincial Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says federal inspectors confirmed the deer that was harvested in October is another in a cluster of cases found near Cranbrook.
  A statement from the ministry says the first two cases in B.C. were confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in January and the third was announced last month.
  Wasting di
  
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• Langley RCMP say two youth were stabbed early Tuesday morning

  03-12-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Mounties in Langley say two youth were reportedly stabbed early Tuesday morning near the 27400 block of 28 Avenue in Langley.
  According to a statement from Corporal Craig van Herk, Langley RCMP media relations officer, police were dispatched just before 4 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 for a 9-1-1 call involving a youth that had been stabbed. Responding officers arrived and located the youth with an injury consistent with being stabbed. Not long after, a second youth was located nearby, al
  
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• Hope firefighters extinguish trailer fire near homeless encampment

  03-12-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Firefighters in Hope were dispatched Tuesday morning (Dec. 3) just before 8 a.m. after a travel trailer went up in flames near a homeless encampment in the bush south of Highway 1 near exit 168 (Flood-Hope Road).In a social media post, Hope Fire says it was paged for the report of smoke and flames in a wooded area south of the highway. On arrival, firefighters witnessed a travel trailer that had been engulfed by fire near an encampment. Access was limited to four-wheel drive, and th
  
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• Singh won’t support Conservative non-confidence motion that uses his own words

  03-12-2024 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he won’t play Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s games by voting to bring down the government on an upcoming non-confidence motion.The Conservatives plan to introduce a motion that quotes Singh’s own criticism of the Liberals, and asks the House of Commons to declare that it agrees with Singh and has no confidence in the government.
  The motion is expected to be introduced on Thursday and the debate and vote are set for Monday.
  Si
  
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• PHOTOS: Chilliwack Crusaders fall to Kelowna in last game of 2024 - Chilliwack Progress

  03-12-2024 20:50 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: Chilliwack Crusaders fall to Kelowna in last game of 2024  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Namibia will have its first female leader after the VP wins presidential election for ruling party

  03-12-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner Tuesday of last week’s presidential election as the long-ruling party remains in power.
  The 72-year-old Nandi-Ndaitwah won with 57% of the vote, according to official results, defying predictions that she might be forced into a runoff. Her ruling SWAPO party has had a 34-year hold on power since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.
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• Man hurt in unprovoked stranger attack in Vancouver, police say

  03-12-2024 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police are investigating an assault in downtown Vancouver where a stranger hit a man in the face in an unprovoked attack.Vancouver Police say the attack happened over the weekend on West Georgia Street in front of the Hudson’s Bay store, where surveillance cameras caught the assault on video.
  The footage shows an identified suspect leaning near the store’s wall, then suddenly lunging at the 28-year-old victim as he walked by, striking him in the face with an elbow.
  
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• Private refugee sponsorship pause an ‘unfortunate reality’: minister

  03-12-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says that the recent pause in most private refugee sponsorships is because there is an “oversupply” of applications and they don’t want to give people fleeing war zones false hope.The government announced a pause on privately sponsored refugee applications from community organizations and groups of five or more individuals on Nov. 29. The pause took effect immediately and runs until Dec. 31, 2025.Immigration officials say there ar
  
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• Canadian women wrap up eventful year with lopsided 5-1 win over South Korea

  03-12-2024 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MURCIA — Marie-Yasmine Alidou and Olivia Smith scored to help the Canadian women’s soccer team wrap up a tumultuous year with a lopsided 5-1 win over 19th-ranked South Korea in an international friendly Tuesday.
  With sixth-ranked Canada leading 1-0 after a first-half Korean own goal, Alidou hammered a swerving shot just underneath the crossbar from well outside the penalty box in the 52nd minute. It was the second goal in five appearances (and third start) for Alidou, who plays her c
  
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• Man who was reported missing after fishing trip in November located deceased

  03-12-2024 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP says a man who was reported missing after a fishing trip north of Agassiz in November has been located deceased.According to a statement Tuesday morning (Dec. 3) from Debbie Sargent, an RCMP communications staff member, 44-year-old Bradly Derbowski has been sadly located deceased.The cause of death is not considered suspicious, police said.“The RCMP offers its condolences to the family and friends of the deceased,” Sa
  
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• Health-care costs will rise significantly as population ages, says new report

  03-12-2024 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A new report says Canada needs to rethink its approach to health care to help manage rising costs as people age.CSA Group, an organization that helps policymakers develop standards around health and safety, says health care currently costs about $12,000 per year for each person 65 years and older, compared to $2,700 for each person younger than 65.Today’s report says seniors make up about 18 per cent of Canada’s population but account for about 45 per cent of health-c
  
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• Firefighters rescue 2 family pets after shop catches fire in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  03-12-2024 19:42 via news.google.com
  Firefighters rescue 2 family pets after shop catches fire in Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Firefighters rescue 2 family pets after shop catches fire in Chilliwack

  03-12-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Assistant Fire Chief Krista Minar says three family pets are safe and accounted for after a shop caught fire on McSween Road Monday afternoon in Fairfield Island.According to a statement from Assistant Fire Chief Minar, Chilliwack firefighters were dispatched for the report of a fire within a shop in the 10000 block of McSween Road just after 4 p.m. Monday. Responding firefighters observed a visible column of smoke emanating from the property. Firefighters from Hall
  
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• UPDATE: One person injured in Chilliwack shop fire while rescuing family pet - Chilliwack Progress

  03-12-2024 19:35 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: One person injured in Chilliwack shop fire while rescuing family pet  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: One person injured in Chilliwack shop fire while rescuing family pet - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  03-12-2024 19:35 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: One person injured in Chilliwack shop fire while rescuing family pet  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Jets place forward Ehlers on injured reserve, recall Lambert from AHL

  03-12-2024 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets placed have forward Nikolaj Ehlers on injured reserve with a lower-body injury, the NHL club said Tuesday.
  The move is retroactive to Friday, when Ehlers left Winnipeg’s 4-3 loss at Vegas after Golden Knights winger Pavel Dorofeyev stepped on his foot while Ehlers was delivering a hit. Jets coach Scott Arneil said after the injury that Ehlers was considered day-to-day.
  Ehlers’s absence will be felt for the Jets, who entered their game Tuesday agains
  
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• Jury deliberations begin in veteran Daniel Penny’s trial over using chokehold on Jordan Neely

  03-12-2024 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue a man whose behavior was alarming passengers on a New York subway train.The anonymous jury is weighing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a troubled street performer who was homeless. The veteran, Daniel Penny, has pleaded not guilty.Penny, 26, has said he was protecting fellow subway riders and intended only t
  
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• Defence argues evidence too thin in Ottawa neo-Nazi terrorism trial

  03-12-2024 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence lawyers for an Ottawa graphic designer facing terror charges over his alleged involvement with the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division say the evidence against their client is flimsy.
  Closing arguments are wrapping up in the trial of Patrick Macdonald, who pleaded not guilty to three charges of terrorism and hate speech.
  Crown prosecutors allege he helped make three recruitment videos for the listed terrorist entity and other hate propaganda.
  But his defence team argues the
  
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• Fraser Valley real estate sales drop double digits as slower buying trends emerge

  03-12-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board says home sales throughout the Fraser Valley dropped double digits in November compared to the month prior as slower seasonal buying trends surface.
  In a statement from the association Tuesday (Dec. 3), FVREB suggests more balanced market conditions emerged as it recorded 1,136 sales in November, down 15 per cent from October, but 28 per cent above November 2023 sales.
  “Buying and selling activity is typically quiet at this time of
  
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• Pancake franchise to return to Chilliwack in 2025

  03-12-2024 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — International House of Pancakes operated for years on the grounds of the Travelodge Hotel at 45466 Yale Road, just north of Highway 1, offering a central location for hungry diners in Chilliwack.
  That all changed in May 2021 when the B.C. government announced it had purchased the Travelodge Hotel to provide over 80 supportive homes for unhoused people in Chilliwack. That announcement heralded the closure of IHOP on May 19, 2021, after an eight-year run in Chilliwack, which cam
  
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• Alouettes sign defensive back Najee Murray for 2025 CFL season

  03-12-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes have signed American defensive back Najee Murray for the 2025 season, the CFL team announced Tuesday.
  Murray recorded 44 defensive tackles in 11 games last season and had an interception in the Alouettes’ loss to Toronto in the East Division final.
  The 30-year-old from Steubenville, Ohio, returned to action in 2024 after a torn pectoral muscle limited him to six games the previous year and forced him to watch Montreal’s win over Winnipeg in the
  
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• GivingTuesday: Food banks need help, but charity won’t end hunger, advocates say

  03-12-2024 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — It’s GivingTuesday, and some directors of food banks and anti-poverty groups say the day underlines a conundrum for their organizations.
  Josh Smee of Food First Newfoundland and Labrador says that on one hand, demand for food banks is surging to historical heights, stretching resources thin and putting these facilities in desperate need of donations.
  On the other hand, he says food banks were introduced in the 1980s as a temporary measure during an economic d
  
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• Joly touts ‘private’ diplomacy as Mexico criticizes Canada’s culture, trade

  03-12-2024 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is not escalating a war of words with Mexico, after the Mexican president criticized Canada’s culture and its framing of border issues.
  The rift between trading partners started with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s declaration that he plans to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods from both countries unless they stop the flow of migrants and illegal drugs into the U.S.
  Several federal and provincial officials in Canada
  
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• Anti-Israel war protesters arrested following sit-in at parliamentary building

  03-12-2024 17:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Fourteen people were arrested on Parliament Hill this morning after staging a sit-in demanding Canada immediately stop sending any weapons to Israel.
  The protesters from Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the entrance to the Confederation Building which contains dozens of offices for members of Parliament.
  The group filled the inner entryway and stairs as parliamentarians and staff arrived for work and organizers say the location was chosen to take the m
  
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• Quebec to investigate two colleges over safety complaints around Middle East conflict

  03-12-2024 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is launching an investigation of two English-language junior colleges in Montreal over complaints about student safety in the context of the conflict in the Middle East.Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry says her department has received several reports about students feeling “uneasy and even unsafe” on campus.Déry said on social media today she’s asked her department to investigate the governance at Dawson and Vanier coll
  
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• Canada Post strike nears three-week mark amid pressure for government intervention

  03-12-2024 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The strike by more than 55,000 Canada Post workers entered its 19th day as the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping weekend came to a close.Canada Post said Monday it was waiting for the union to respond to a framework it presented over the weekend for reaching negotiated agreements.
  The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has said it’s reviewed the proposal.
  It said Canada Post has moved closer to the union’s position on some issues, but the framework “still remains far from so
  
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• Liberal minister says Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become 51st state

  03-12-2024 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says president-elect Donald Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become the 51st U.S. state during a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida on Friday.
  Fox News reported on Monday that Trump made the comment in response to the Canadians raising concerns that tariffs would hurt their economy.
  LeBlanc, who attended the dinner with Trudeau, says the incoming president’s suggestion was “in no way a serious comment.&r
  
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• Patrik Laine to return from knee injury, make Canadiens debut against Islanders

  03-12-2024 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Patrik Laine’s long-awaited Montreal Canadiens debut — and first game in nearly a year — has arrived.
  The Finnish winger is back from a knee injury as the Canadiens host the New York Islanders on Tuesday night.
  Laine, who has practised with the team for two weeks, took rushes on Montreal’s second line with Kirby Dach and Juraj Slafkovsky during Tuesday’s morning skate at the Bell Centre.
  The Canadiens sent forward Joshua Roy down to minor-league aff
  
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• Canada Post removes deadline for Santa letter program amid strike

  03-12-2024 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada Post says it has removed the deadline for its Santa Claus letter program amid an ongoing national workers’ strike that has halted mail delivery leading up to the holiday season.
  Some 55,000 workers walked off the job more than two weeks ago, suspending mail service — and a program that helps deliver up to 1.5 million letters from Canadian kids to the North Pole each year.The postal service says in a statement that while the initial deadline to mail a letter to Santa with the i
  
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• Dense fog from high-pressure system creates near-zero visibility in Vancouver area

  03-12-2024 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada is warning of near-zero visibility in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley areas of British Columbia as a high-pressure system brings dense fog.
  The weather agency says the ridge of high pressure over southern parts of the province has created favourable conditions for low clouds and fog.
  It is warning that travel may be hazardous as visibility can suddenly be reduced to zero for drivers commuting to work.
  The forecast says the fog is expected to lift slowly
  
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