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• Convicted drug trafficker from Chilliwack arrested after allegedly breaching parole

  10-12-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack say a 42-year-old man who was convicted of drug trafficking but allegedly breached conditions of his supervision order has been taken into custody.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP Corporal Carmen Kiener, officers from the Chilliwack RCMP Drug Section teamed up with the assistance of the BC Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit to arrest Clayton Eheler, who was found to have allegedly breached the conditions of his parole. Eheler, a 42-ye
  
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• Convicted drug trafficker from Chilliwack arrested after allegedly breaching parole - Fraser Valley Today

  10-12-2024 23:54 via news.google.com
  Convicted drug trafficker from Chilliwack arrested after allegedly breaching parole  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Juan Soto agrees to record $765 million, 15-year contract with Mets, AP source says

  10-12-2024 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Star outfielder Juan Soto and the New York Mets have agreed to a record $765 million, 15-year contract, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
  The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement, first reported by the New York Post, was subject to a successful physical.
  Soto’s deal is the largest and longest in Major League Baseball history, topping Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a deal
  
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• TikTok files legal challenge of federal government’s shutdown order

  10-12-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada.
  The company filed documents in Federal Court in Vancouver last Thursday.
  In November, Ottawa ordered the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business after a national security review of the Chinese company behind the social media platform.
  That means TikTok must “wind down” its operations in Canada, though the app will continue to be available to Canadians.
  TikTok is as
  
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• Alouettes sign Canadian defensive end Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund to one-year extension

  10-12-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes signed Canadian defensive end Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund to a one-year extension Tuesday.
  The move keeps Adeyemi-Berglund with the CFL club through the 2026 season.
  The six-foot-two, 248-pound Adeyemi-Berglund was the East Division’s top Canadian last season.He registered 36 tackles, including a league-leading nine for loss, five special-teams tackles, a team-high seven sacks, and a forced fumble over 17 regular-season games.
  Adeyemi-Berglund, a native o
  
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• Settlement in Quebec minor hockey coach abuse class action

  10-12-2024 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec Superior Court has approved a class action settlement that could provide as much as $10.25 million to victims who were sexually abused by a minor hockey coach in a Montreal suburb.
  François Lamarre, a former Montreal police officer who retired in 1994 and died in 2020, was a boys hockey coach in Greenfield Park for about 30 years until 2001.
  The former town is now a part of Longueuil, just south of Montreal.
  Lamarre died in July 2020, about seven months after havin
  
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• Chilliwack restaurant closes its doors - Fraser Valley Today

  10-12-2024 22:48 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack restaurant closes its doors  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack restaurant closes its doors

  10-12-2024 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack restaurant serving Korean-style fried chicken just off Vedder Road in Sardis appears to have closed for good.
  Kim’s Fried Chicken, a once-popular destination serving honey garlic chicken and soy garlic chicken at 5725 Vedder Road in the Vedder Village shopping centre, had a dark interior inside its restaurant Tuesday (Dec. 10) around noontime. All interior signage, front counters and refrigerated coolers used to sell soft drinks and other cold drinks had bee
  
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• Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000 - Today In BC – Today In BC

  10-12-2024 22:37 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000  Today In BC – Today In BC
  
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• Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000 - Chilliwack Progress

  10-12-2024 22:37 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000 - Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal

  10-12-2024 22:37 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack school board byelection could cost $100,000  Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal
  
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• Ex-minister cites ‘threat to security’ for denying emergency passport to Abdelrazik

  10-12-2024 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former foreign minister Lawrence Cannon says he denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik in 2009 because he considered the Montreal man a possible threat to national security.
  Cannon told a Federal Court hearing today he did not want Abdelrazik to return to Canada from Sudan and “put any Canadians in jeopardy.”The Sudanese-born Abdelrazik settled in Montreal as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in 1995.During a 2003 visit to his native country to see
  
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• Passenger from B.C. had 10 kg of Christmas-wrapped meth: New Zealand border agency

  10-12-2024 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — New Zealand’s border agency says a woman is in custody after arriving on a flight from Vancouver with more than 10 kilograms of methamphetamine wrapped as Christmas presents.
  The New Zealand Customs Service says in a news release that the woman arrived in Auckland on Sunday, where she was questioned by officers.
  It says they conducted a bag search and found the 10.2 kg of drugs, which the release shows as five parcels in red wrapping paper decorated with snowflakes.
  It sa
  
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• Bringing awareness to Black Canadian men’s health important to Ogbongbemiga

  10-12-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s a cause near and dear to Amen Ogbongbemiga and his family.
  When the Chicago Bears linebacker had an opportunity to participate in the NFL’s My Cause, My Cleats program, he took it to promote the Walnut Foundation, a Brampton, Ont., organization dedicated to the wellness of Black Canadian men with a focus on prostate health.That’s very important to Ogbongbemiga — whose name is pronounced AY’-men awg-BONG’-beh-MEE’-guh — as his father and grandf
  
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• Task force probing attempts to kill Trump urges Secret Service to limit protection of foreigners

  10-12-2024 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service, including protecting fewer foreign leaders during the height of the election season and considering moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security.
  The 180-page report by the bipartisan congressional task force released Tuesday is one of the most detailed looks so far into the July assassination attempt aga
  
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• Parkland produces first batch of low carbon jet fuel made in Canada

  10-12-2024 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The first commercial batch of made-in-Canada low-carbon aviation fuel sourced from non-food grade canola and tallow has been produced and quickly purchased.Fuel retailer Parkland Corp. says it has successfully produced about 100,000 litres of the fuel at its refinery in Burnaby, B.C. “using existing infrastructure.”
  Parkland senior vice-president Ferio Pugliese says they began trying to develop the fuel since 2017 and the entire batch has already been bought by Air
  
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• Lions’ Teuhema suspended for two games after positive drug test

  10-12-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The CFL suspended defensive lineman Sione Teuhema of the B.C. Lions for two games Tuesday after he tested positive for a banned substance.
  In a statement, the CFL said Teuhema tested positive for amphetamine, a stimulant. This marks Teuhema’s first violation of the league’s drug policy, thus resulting in a two-game suspension.
  Under terms of the policy, suspended players can’t participate in regular-season or playoff games. It will be up to B.C. whether to allow
  
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• Eight-year-old killed after crash with snowplow near Castlegar, B.C.

  10-12-2024 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CASTLEGAR, B.C. — Police in British Columbia’s southern Interior say a crash between an SUV and a snowplow dump truck has killed an eight-year-old boy.
  A statement from the RCMP’s highway patrol division says the collision happened on Highway 3 near Castlegar, B.C., on Saturday around 8 a.m., when road conditions were “cold and icy with freezing rain.”
  They say investigators are asking anyone who may have seen the crash or has dash cam footage to contact them to hel
  
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• Former Just for Laughs employee testifies about alleged 1987 assault by Gilbert Rozon

  10-12-2024 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A second accuser is on the stand today at the civil trial involving allegations of sexual assault against former Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon.
  Guylaine Courcelles alleges that Rozon sexually assaulted her in 1987 at his home in the Montreal suburb of Outremont when she was 22 years old and Rozon was in his 30s.
  Courcelles testified that she was supposed to meet with Rozon about the possibility of a long-term job at his Just for Laughs entertainment company.
  The court he
  
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• Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko set to make first start of the season

  10-12-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet says all-star goalie Thatcher Demko will make his first start of the season Tuesday when Vancouver hosts the St. Louis Blues.Demko last played on April 24 when the Canucks bested the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of a first-round playoff series.The 28-year-old netminder from San Diego, Cali., suffered an injury to the popliteus muscle in his knee during the game and has been working his way back ever since.
  He had a 35-14-2 record with a .918 sav
  
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• Chloe Primerano among Canadians named to women’s under-18 hockey team

  10-12-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Chloe Primerano will lead Canada into the women’s world under-18 hockey championship.
  The 17-year-old defender from North Vancouver, B.C., was among 24 players announced Tuesday by Hockey Canada for the Jan. 4-12 tournament in Vantaa, Finland.
  Primerano made her national team debut in November’s Rivalry Series between Canada and the U.S. She scored the shootout winner in the second of three games.Primerano returns to the under-18 championship in which she set a tourna
  
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• Vehicle crashes into Chilliwack slough as coho salmon are spawning - Chilliwack Progress

  10-12-2024 20:27 via news.google.com
  Vehicle crashes into Chilliwack slough as coho salmon are spawning  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Swimmer Summer McIntosh wins Northern Star Award after dominant Paris Olympics

  10-12-2024 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Swimmer Summer McIntosh has won the Northern Star Award as Canada’s athlete of the year after a dominant performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  The 18-year-old from Toronto won three gold medals in Paris, becoming the first Canadian athlete to accomplish that feat at an Olympic Games, summer or winter.
  She set Olympic records in both the 200-metre medley and 200 butterfly and also won gold in the 400 medley. She added a silver in the 400 freestyle.
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• Chilliwack-based Slow Studies elevates Indigenous culture using art and technology - BCBusiness

  10-12-2024 20:09 via news.google.com
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• AFN says it’s not prepared to implement chiefs’ child welfare direction

  10-12-2024 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations is warning it’s not equipped to implement the direction it received from chiefs at two recent assemblies on child welfare reforms.
  Chiefs passed resolutions in October and December saying the AFN should no longer represent the interests of First Nations when it comes to issues relating to reforming the child welfare system as an ongoing human rights case argues Canada is failing to implement a legal rule.
  They called for the creation of a new Ch
  
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• Scottie Barnes wearing air cast boot to protect sprained right ankle

  10-12-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have confirmed that Scottie Barnes has a sprained right ankle.
  Barnes was wearing an air cast boot and walking with a cane at Scotiabank Arena during practice this morning.
  A team spokesperson says the boot is just for protection.
  Head coach Darko Rajakovic says that X-rays after Toronto’s 113-108 loss to the New York Knicks were negative and that the Raptors will do further imaging later today.
  Barnes is averaging 20.6 points, 8.4 rebounds and 7.4 assis
  
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• National rent prices decline year-over-year to 15-month low: report

  10-12-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A new report says average asking rents fell nationally on a year-over-year basis to $2,139 in November, marking a 15-month low.
  The monthly report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation finds average asking rents across Canada were down 1.6 per cent from the same month last year, as rents dropped for the second month in a row after more than three years of increases.
  The report says that despite those declines, average rents in Canada are still 6.7 per cent higher than two years ago and
  
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• A look at Environment Canada’s top 10 weather events for 2024

  10-12-2024 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Environment Canada has released its annual list of top 10 weather events. Here’s the list for 2024:
  — Arctic communities face unusual heat wave
  — Central Canada bears the brunt of the 2024 hurricane season
  — Billion-dollar hailstones: Calgary’s costliest weather disaster
  — Western Canada plunged into January deep freeze
  — Wildfires and evacuations in western Labrador
  — Southern Ontario’s summer of floods
  — Cape Breton’s winter wal
  
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• Chilliwack Shred-A-Thon brings in $13,700 in cash, food donations - Chilliwack Progress

  10-12-2024 19:44 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Shred-A-Thon brings in $13,700 in cash, food donations  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Toronto FC’s Insigne made available in MLS expansion draft but unlikely to be taken

  10-12-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC has left designated player Lorenzo Insigne unprotected in the MLS expansion draft, knowing the Italian star’s big-ticket salary will likely deter expansion San Diego FC.
  MLS teams are allowed to protect 12 players from their senior and supplemental rosters for Wednesday’s draft. San Diego can select up to five players from the eligible pool of players, but can only take one from any one club.
  Insigne is the biggest name on the list — and the biggest paycheque.
  The 33
  
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• Jasper wildfire, flooding, hail among top weather events of 2024: Environment Canada

  10-12-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A wildfire that left a third of a popular Rocky Mountain tourist town in ashes, remnants of a hurricane season that led to record-breaking rainfall and a hailstorm that grounded airplanes are among the top weather-related events of 2024.
  Environment and Climate Change Canada released Tuesday its annual top 10 list of the country’s most impactful weather stories.
  The agency did not rank the stories.
  In Alberta, a devastating wildfire hit Jasper National Park and the town of Jasper, making i
  
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• DA suggests judge could permanently halt Trump’s hush money case while upholding his conviction

  10-12-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money criminal conviction but suggesting a willingness to end the case in a way that would preserve the verdict while avoiding punishment or a protracted legal fight.
  In court papers made public on Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books, including asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to consider trea
  
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• Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.

  10-12-2024 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of waste water into B.C. Interior waterways.A statement from the B.C. Conservation Officer Service says it worked with the Department of Fisheries and Environment and Climate Change Canada to investigate possible contraventions of the act.It says both federal and B.C.&rsqu
  
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• Sturko refuses to meet former police board vice-chair, defying B.C. Opposition leader

  10-12-2024 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — B.C. Conservative public safety critic Elenore Sturko is refusing to meet a former Vancouver Police Board vice-chair in defiance of the wishes of party leader John Rustad and a group of colleagues, who have backed the woman over controversial social media posts.
  Sturko says in an interview she’s not “challenging” Rustad, but it’s “disappointing” he didn’t tell her he was going to publicly post on social media that he met Comfort Sakoma-
  
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• Curling Canada unveils 16 mixed doubles teams vying to wear Maple Leaf in 2026

  10-12-2024 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIVERPOOL, N.S. — The field for the Olympic mixed doubles curling trials includes a who’s who of Canadian curling.
  The 16 teams announced Tuesday compete Dec. 30, 2024, to Jan. 4, 2025, in Liverpool, N.S., for the right to represent Canada at the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
  Mixed doubles made its Olympic debut in 2018, when Canada’s Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris claimed the first gold medal in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  The 2025 trials winner must help qualify Ca
  
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• Premiers to meet with Trudeau Wednesday about trade and tariffs, Ford says

  10-12-2024 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the country’s premiers are meeting virtually Wednesday with the prime minister to discuss the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports.It comes two weeks after the premiers’ last meeting with Justin Trudeau, where they discussed how to respond to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s warning that he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico when he takes office next month.
  Ford says the federal government pro
  
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• Collision between snow plow dump truck, Kia SUV kills 8-year-old boy: B.C. Highway Patrol

  10-12-2024 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CASTLEGAR — BC Highway Patrol officers are investigating a fatal collision between a snow plow dump truck and a Kia SUV that resulted in the death of an 8-year-old boy just outside Castlegar over the weekend.According to a statement from BC Highway Patrol spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin, police are asking for witnesses and dashcam video to help learn exactly what happened.
  The fatal collision occurred on Saturday morning, Dec. 7 at just after 7 a.m. on Highway 3 just outside Castl
  
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• Abbotsford PD warns public about fake taxi scam

  10-12-2024 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford are warning the public about a black Hyundai Elantra with a taxi sign on its roof that appears to be complicit in a scam circulating within the community.
  According to a statement from the Abbotsford Police Department, authorities say the fake Elantra taxi was seen last week in Abbotsford. Two males are associated with the taxi scheme in which one male pretends to be a customer struggling to cover his taxi fare. The male approaches several people within la
  
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• McIntosh sets world record in 400 freestyle at short-course swimming championships

  10-12-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST — Summer McIntosh won the women’s 400-metre freestyle in a world-record time Tuesday at the world short-course swimming championships.
  The 18-year-old from Toronto swam to victory in three minutes 50.25 seconds, well ahead of Australia’s Lani Pallister (3:53.73).
  Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivières, Que., was third in 3:54.88 to pick up her first international medal.
  McIntosh continued her fantastic year that saw her win three gold medals and a silver at the 20
  
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• FIFA economic assessment sees positive numbers arising from 2026 World Cup

  10-12-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The 2026 FIFA World Cup will contribute up to $3.8 billion in “positive economic output” for Canada as a host nation, according to a FIFA economic impact assessment.
  That amount is split between Canadian gross domestic product, labour income and government revenue with GDP ($2 billion) and labour income ($1.3 billion) getting the biggest chunk. The assessment also foresees “the creation and preservation” of 24,100 jobs across the country over the period fr
  
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• Federal govt. agrees to tentative labour deal with correctional officers

  10-12-2024 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The federal government says it has reached a tentative labour deal with the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) covering approximately 7,000 employees across the country.
  According to a statement Tuesday (Dec. 10) from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the four-year renewed collective agreement, if ratified by members, provides wage enhancements and other benefits for employees and will expire on May 31, 2026.
  The government says it cannot divulge f
  
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• Catholic bishops in Quebec oppose premier’s suggestion to ban public prayer

  10-12-2024 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Catholic bishops have come out against Premier François Legault’s desire to end prayer in parks and other public places.Martin Laliberté, president of the assembly of Catholic bishops of Quebec, says a ban on public prayer would target minority religious groups that are perceived by some as threatening to Quebec’s identity, and it runs counter to the goal of peaceful coexistence.
  Legault raised the possibility of ending public prayer duri
  
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• Elderly man with dementia goes missing: Abbotsford PD

  10-12-2024 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police Department personnel are appealing to the public for help in locating an 81-year-old man who suffers from dementia.
  According to a statement from AbbyPD Sgt. Paul Walker, 81-year-old Colin Davies was last seen on Monday, Dec. 9 at 6:45 p.m., in the 31000 block of Westridge Place in Abbotsford. Mr. Davies was operating a 2009 grey Ford Escape SUV bearing a B.C. license plate of 063LKF, and had the family’s two dogs with him in the vehicle.
  Mr. Davies was
  
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• Israeli warplanes pound Syria as troops reportedly advance deeper into the country

  10-12-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy.
  Israel acknowledged pushing into a buffer zone inside Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad. But it remained unclear if its soldiers had gone beyond that area, which was established more than 50 years ago. I
  
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• Canada Post strike on day 26 as union sends new proposals

  10-12-2024 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  With the Canada Post strike nearing four weeks, the postal service says it doesn’t see an end in sight.
  On Monday, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers sent over its latest list of proposals, which include wage gains and job protections.But Canada Post said in a statement Monday that the proposals don’t bring the two sides any closer together in a dispute that’s brought millions of deliveries to a halt.
  It said it’s conducting a full review of the offers, but said the uni
  
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• Postal strike delaying delivery of medicine, necessities to remote areas: AFN chief

  10-12-2024 17:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations says the ongoing postal strike is delaying supplies of medicine and other necessities to rural and remote communities.
  National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is calling on Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to reach a resolution to the strike, which is nearing four weeks.
  Negotiations with a federal mediator were suspended nearly two weeks ago.
  The union is seeking wage increases, a cost of living allowance and more job protections.
  
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• Canada continues to review Syrian refugee claims as European nations pause intake

  10-12-2024 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada will continue evaluating the asylum claims of people who have fled Syria, even as some European countries are pausing those claims after the Assad regime’s fall.
  Miller says Canada’s asylum system isn’t seeing the same pressure as European counterparts such as Germany and Austria.Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, and is reportedly in Russia, after opposition forces seized the capital Damascus.
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• Jerry Seinfeld, Kumail Nanjiani among headliners at Just For Laughs Vancouver

  10-12-2024 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Jerry Seinfeld is among the big names set to headline Just For Laughs Vancouver.
  The comedy festival announced its lineup Tuesday morning.
  In addition to Seinfeld, who’s due to perform twice on Feb. 23, the slate includes American comedians Kumail Nanjiani, Tim Dillon and Margaret Cho.
  Canadian comedians on the schedule include Sugar Sammy and Laurent Paquin.
  This will be the first Just For Laughs festival to take place in Canada since the beleaguered organization declare
  
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• France flies out 2 Mirage fighter jets from Chad to signal beginning of military withdrawal

  10-12-2024 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — France flew out the two Mirage fighter jets it had stationed in Chad on Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the withdrawal of its military forces from the former French colony in Central Africa that last month broke off its defense cooperation agreement with Paris.The pair of Mirage 2000-D fighters took off after midday from a French base in the capital, N’Djamena, after Chadian military forces came to wish them farewell, and were returning to a French air force base in
  
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• A South Korean court issues arrest warrant for ex-defense minister over martial law imposition

  10-12-2024 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for the former defense minister in connection with last week’s martial law imposition.
  The Seoul Central District Court said it approved prosecutors’ request for an arrest warrant against Kim Yong Hyun.
  Kim faces allegations that he colluded with President Yoon Suk Yeol and others in imposing the Dec. 3 martial law, which brought armed troops to Seoul streets. Authorities investigate whether their acts
  
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