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• Chilliwack's 2025 New Year's baby arrived 'fast and furious' - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 23:41 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack's 2025 New Year's baby arrived 'fast and furious'  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Pierre Poilievre outlines goals, strategy, key players in Jordan Peterson interview

  03-01-2025 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gave a lengthy interview to psychologist and media personality Jordan Peterson, touching on his vision for Canada and how he plans to implement it.
  Here’s what we learned from the interview, which was recorded on Dec. 21 and released Friday:
  Election now
  Poilievre has no qualms with a federal election taking place during a possible Liberal leadership race. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing increasing calls, including within his own
  
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• Two more charged in brazen killing of daughter-in-law of late Montreal Mafia boss

  03-01-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal police say two more people have been arrested in the brazen daytime killing of a 39-year-old woman in front of her beauty salon in May 2023.
  Claudia Iacono, 39, was the daughter-in-law of the late Moreno Gallo, a reputed mob boss who was killed in 2013 in Acapulco, Mexico, after being deported from Canada. Iacono was married to one of his sons.
  Kalial Nesfield, 28, was charged today with first-degree murder while Shaniqwa Parris, 31, was charged with manslaughter in con
  
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• New Orleans attacker had suspected bomb materials at home, reserved truck weeks ago, officials say

  03-01-2025 23:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man killed by New Orleans police after ramming a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
  Federal authorities searching the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar in Houston found a workbench in the garage and hazardous materials believed to have been used to make explosive dev
  
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• Yukon told of ‘potential leak’ from toxic pond at failed Eagle Gold mine

  03-01-2025 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says it has been told there is a “potential leak” in a containment pond holding toxic water at the Eagle Gold mine, where millions of tonnes of contaminated rock were spilled last year.
  It says that receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. informed the government and the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun about “irregularities in storage pond volumes” on Dec. 28.
  A statement from the government says regulatory and enforcement agencies have
  
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• B.C.’s multi-year drought continues despite 2024 drenching Vancouver - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 23:00 via news.google.com
  B.C.’s multi-year drought continues despite 2024 drenching Vancouver  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Soldier who died in Las Vegas explosion left note saying it was to be a wakeup for country’s ills

  03-01-2025 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was stunt to serve as “wakeup call” for the country’s ills, investigators said Friday.Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, apparently harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump, Clark County sheriff’s officials said.
  Livelsberger wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the live
  
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• Canada to host five IIHF women’s hockey tournaments in five years

  03-01-2025 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada will host five major international women’s hockey tournaments between 2026 and 2030, Hockey Canada and the International Ice Hockey Federation announced Friday.
  Canada will host the world women’s hockey championship in 2027 and 2023, and the world under-18 women’s championship in 2026, 2028 and 2030.
  It will be the first time a country hosts five women’s championships in as many years.
  Hockey Canada says the bid process for the 2026 U18 championship
  
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• Students deliver holiday cheer to Fraser Valley hospitals - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 22:25 via news.google.com
  Students deliver holiday cheer to Fraser Valley hospitals  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Soldier who died by suicide in Las Vegas told ex-girlfriend of pain and exhaustion after Afghanistan

  03-01-2025 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The highly decorated Special Forces soldier who died by suicide in a Cybertruck explosion on New Years Day confided to a former girlfriend — who had served as an Army nurse — that he faced significant pain and exhaustion that she says were key symptoms of traumatic brain injury.
  Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was a five-time Bronze Star recipient, including one with a V device for valor under fire. He was very private but shared images and texts with Alicia Arritt,
  
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• Judge sets Trump’s sentencing in hush money case for Jan. 10, but signals no jail time

  03-01-2025 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn’t be jailed.The development nevertheless leaves Trump on course to be the first president to take office convicted of felony crimes.Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, signaled in a written decision that he&r
  
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• Rise in number of unhoused people seeking shelter in Montreal ERs as temperatures dip

  03-01-2025 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal health authorities say a growing number of people experiencing homelessness are taking refuge in the city’s emergency rooms to stay out of the freezing cold.
  Officials say the city’s downtown superhospital known as the CHUM, and hospitals in the southwest are reporting a rise in homeless people in their ERs.The CHUM and the McGill University Health Centre say they have deployed more social workers and security to assist homeless people.
  Marie-Pier Therrien w
  
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• Alex Ovechkin is on track to break Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record

  03-01-2025 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL career goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky.
  Ovechkin has 871 goals and needs 24 to set a new record.
  Ovechkin entered the season 42 short of breaking a record by “The Great One” that long seemed unapproachable. The 39-year-old Russian is in his 20th NHL season and was on pace to get to 895 in February before breaking his left leg in a shin-on-shin collision in November. He missed 16 games but resumed his pursuit
  
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• Want to cut back on alcohol? You may see conflicting advice on low-risk drink limits

  03-01-2025 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — As some people try to cut down their drinking and embrace Dry January, they may look to Canada’s health agencies for guidance — and find some conflicting advice.This week, the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research launched a website where users can calculate their health risks — including cancer, heart disease and stroke — based on the amount of alcohol they consume.The website is built on guidelines issued two years ago by the government-supported
  
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• Vernon, B.C. rink knocked out of Canadian Curling Trials - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 21:39 via news.google.com
  Vernon, B.C. rink knocked out of Canadian Curling Trials  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• PWHL suspends Montreal Victoire forward Dubois one game for hit on Fleet’s Keller

  03-01-2025 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Professional Women’s Hockey League has suspended Montreal Victoire forward Catherine Dubois one game for an illegal hit to the head.
  The league announced the ban Friday after Dubois received a major penalty and game misconduct for checking Boston’s Megan Keller during Montreal’s 3-1 win over the Fleet last Monday.
  Keller fell hard to the ice after Dubois clipped her near the boards at the end of the second period. The Fleet defender returned to play the thir
  
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• Woman killed by train in early-morning collision in Chilliwack - Kitimat Northern Sentinel

  03-01-2025 21:27 via news.google.com
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• Homan/Bottcher to face Tran/Kleiter in Page 3v4 game at mixed doubles curling trials

  03-01-2025 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIVERPOOL, N.S. — Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher were set to face Brittany Tran and Rylan Kleiter in the Page 3 versus 4 playoff game at the Canadian mixed doubles curling trials after the two teams picked up wins in Friday’s early draw.
  Homan and Bottcher advanced with a 9-6 win over the father-daughter team of Jim and Jaelyn Cotter.
  Bottcher and Homan had four-point ends in the second and fourth to cruise to a comfortable win.
  Tran and Kleiter needed an extra end to defeat Jenni
  
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• Woman killed by train in early-morning collision in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 21:19 via news.google.com
  Woman killed by train in early-morning collision in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - Delta Optimist

  03-01-2025 21:10 via news.google.com
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• ‘We’ve done the impossible’: Calgarians get back personalized 1988 Olympic bricks

  03-01-2025 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Some people say it with flowers. Some with an engagement ring.
  For Keith Beggs, it was a brick surrounded by mortar and placed at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza that showed his true intent for the woman who would become his wife.“She was saying, ‘Are we serious or not?’ So I said, ‘I know, I’ll buy a brick,'” Beggs recalled Friday as he and his wife, Barb, picked up the brick inscribed with their names.
  Looking back, he said, there’s only
  
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - Powell River Peak

  03-01-2025 21:06 via news.google.com
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - Energeticcity.ca

  03-01-2025 20:57 via news.google.com
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• Calgary Wild name Lydia Bedford the women’s pro soccer’s team’s first head coach

  03-01-2025 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Wild women’s pro soccer team has named Lydia Bedford the team’s first head coach.
  The Wild are part of the six-team Northern Super League starting its inaugural season in April.
  Bedford was manager of Leicester City’s women’s team and also a former assistant manager of Arsenal’s women.
  The 37-year-old from England was coach of Brentford’s men’s under-18 men’s team last season, which made her among few women to hold a coa
  
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• Republican Mike Johnson reelected House speaker vote after dramatic floor vote

  03-01-2025 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.
  A collection of hardline Republicans convened in the back of the House chamber during a tense roll call on the first day of the new Congress, one by one declining to vote or choosing another lawmaker. The standoff sparked fresh turmoil signaling trouble ahead under unified GOP con
  
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C.

  03-01-2025 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., say a person was struck and killed by a train near an overpass in the city early this morning.
  They say officers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck near the Yale Road Overpass and McIntosh Drive around 3:19 a.m.
  Police say first responders at the scene found the body and have determined the victim was female.
  They say she has not yet been identified.
  The RCMP say the incident does not appear to be suspicious, but police are working
  
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - BC News - Castanet.net

  03-01-2025 20:38 via news.google.com
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• Museum of whale skeletons, painstakingly rebuilt over years, consumed by B.C. fire

  03-01-2025 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It takes years to rebuild a whale.
  Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island.
  “When we find a dead whale somewhere, especially a larger one, it’s a massive job to take that animal from a whole, complete dead whale, to get it to its point where all the bones are cleaned and re-articulated and then hung up,” said Borrowman.
  In the case of Finny, a 20-metre
  
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• Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - Waterloo Region Record

  03-01-2025 20:35 via news.google.com
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• CF Montreal signs German midfielder Fabian Herbers to two-year contract

  03-01-2025 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal has signed German midfielder Fabian Herbers to a contract for the next two seasons.
  The Major League Soccer club announced the deal Friday after Herbers spent the last six seasons with Eastern Conference rival Chicago Fire.
  Herbers recorded 15 goals and 15 assists in 152 games in Chicago, including 105 starts.
  The 31-year-old was the Philadelphia Union’s sixth overall pick in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft.
  The six-foot, 165-pound Herbers produced four goals and nine
  
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• Pedestrian hit by vehicle on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 20:16 via news.google.com
  Pedestrian hit by vehicle on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fundraiser for Maple Ridge senior injured in pool-cue attack - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 20:16 via news.google.com
  Fundraiser for Maple Ridge senior injured in pool-cue attack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Team Einarson adds Karlee Burgess to lineup after her departure from Team Carey

  03-01-2025 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Team Kerri Einarson is adding three-time world junior champion Karlee Burgess to its lineup.
  Burgess will fill in for second Shannon Birchard, who will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury.
  The team says Curling Canada granted the four-time national champions an injury exemption, which allows them to use a replacement player and maintain eligibility for the upcoming Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  The team also includes vice Val Sweeting and fifth Krysten Karwacki, who has been fillin
  
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• Cable ferries in B.C. Kootenays sailing on schedule despite escalating strike threat

  03-01-2025 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Cable ferries serving tiny communities in British Columbia’s Kootenay region are providing regular scheduled service today despite the threat of an escalating strike that could cut sailings.
  The B.C. General Employees’ Union, representing ferry workers who have been on strike since Nov. 3, and employer Western Pacific Marine both say service on Kootenay Lake to the communities of Harrop, Procter and Glade is operating without service disruption.
  Western Pacific Marin
  
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• Hockey Canada picks up the pieces after another quarterfinal exit at world junior

  03-01-2025 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Hockey Canada executive Scott Salmond says “the buck stops” with him.
  The country’s men’s under-20 team was eliminated from the world junior hockey championship in the quarterfinals for a second straight year Thursday.
  Salmond, the program’s senior vice-president of high performance and hockey operations, added he’s “incredibly disappointed” and “apologetic” after Canada lost 4-3 to Czechia.
  The defeat came after the coun
  
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• Kelowna RCMP, international agencies charge man with child exploitation - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 19:45 via news.google.com
  Kelowna RCMP, international agencies charge man with child exploitation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec emergency rooms reporting major overcrowding, some at more than 200% capacity

  03-01-2025 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec is experiencing serious overcrowding in its emergency rooms after the holidays, with some major hospitals in Montreal operating at more than 200 per cent capacity.
  Around midday, Montreal General Hospital was at 213 per cent ER capacity; the Jewish General Hospital was reporting 209 per cent capacity; and the Royal Victoria Hospital, part of the McGill University Health Centre, was listed at 203 per cent.
  The data is tracked by the Index Santé website, operated by
  
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• Snowfall warning issued for Fraser Valley - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 19:16 via news.google.com
  Snowfall warning issued for Fraser Valley  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• VIDEO: Car fire spreads into Vernon apartment - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 19:00 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Car fire spreads into Vernon apartment  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Naramata Inn closing doors 'indefinitely' - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 18:51 via news.google.com
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• Woman dies after being struck by train in Chilliwack

  03-01-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A woman was struck and killed by a train early Friday morning near the Yale Road Overpass and McIntosh Drive in Chilliwack.
  Chilliwack RCMP say officers responded to the scene at approximately 3:19 a.m. after receiving a report of the collision. Upon arrival, officers found a deceased female in the area. Authorities have not yet identified the victim.
  Mounties say the incident does not appear to be suspicious, though an investigation is ongoing.
  The RCMP is conducting the inve
  
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• Woman dies after being struck by train in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  03-01-2025 18:29 via news.google.com
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• Google sends funds to journalism collective in exchange for Online News Act exemption

  03-01-2025 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to disperse the funds.
  The U.S. tech giant confirmed it has transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization led by independent publishers and broadcasters.
  The collective said in mid-December that it was working to distribute the first tranche of funds by the end of January
  
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• Maple Leafs sign veteran defenceman Philippe Myers to two-year extension

  03-01-2025 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Philippe Myers to a two-year contract extension, the NHL team announced Friday.
  The contract carries an average annual value of US850,000.
  The 27-year-old from Moncton, N.B., has two assists over 11 games for the Maple Leafs this season while averaging 17:08 of ice time.Myers has eight goals and 30 assists over 169 career NHL games with Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and Toronto.
  The six-foot-five, 219-pound blueliner was signed as a free a
  
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• Trudeau attending U.S. relations cabinet committee meeting amid calls for resignation

  03-01-2025 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking part in a virtual meeting of the Canada-U.S. relations cabinet committee, as people inside and outside the Liberal caucus call for him to resign as leader.The committee meets as president-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration quickly approaches.Trump promised to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports unless both countries meet his demand to beef up security at the American border.He’s also been taunting Tru
  
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• Uptick in Vancouver home sales last month caps ‘pivot year’ for market: board

  03-01-2025 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Greater Vancouver home sales rose 31.2 per cent on a year-over-year basis in December, capping a “pivot year” for the market where the number of homes that changed hands in the region ticked higher.
  Greater Vancouver Realtors says the 1,765 home sales last month were still 14.9 per cent below the 10-year seasonal average for December.
  It says there were 1,676 newly listed properties, up 26.3 per cent from December 2023.
  The composite benchmark price was $1,171,500,
  
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• Snowfall warning issued for Hope region

  03-01-2025 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the eastern region of the Fraser Valley including Hope.
  The national weather agency is expecting up to 5 centimetres of snow to fall Friday afternoon through Friday evening.
  It says easterly winds will keep surface temperatures at or below freezing today, allowing the incoming precipitation to fall as snow or wet snow. That in turn could produce slippery conditions on roads and highways through the area.
  The snowfall warning does
  
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• Woman struck, killed by train in Chilliwack, B.C. - CTV News Vancouver

  03-01-2025 16:59 via news.google.com
  Woman struck, killed by train in Chilliwack, B.C.  CTV News Vancouver
  
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• New B.C. website serves alcohol drinkers a personal risk calculator - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 16:54 via news.google.com
  New B.C. website serves alcohol drinkers a personal risk calculator  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 2024 Vancouver’s wettest year since 1999: Environment Canada - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2025 16:40 via news.google.com
  2024 Vancouver’s wettest year since 1999: Environment Canada  Chilliwack Progress
  
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