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• 2024 in Chilliwack marked first snowless December in a decade - Chilliwack Progress

  10-01-2025 23:46 via news.google.com
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• Canada, G7 leaders, denounce Venezuela’s suppression of political opposition

  10-01-2025 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is joining its closest allies in denouncing Venezuela’s crackdown on democracy — the first G7 foreign policy statement since Canada began chairing the group this year.
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was inaugurated Friday for a third six-year term, after a July election widely seen as illegitimate.
  Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared at a Thursday rally and was briefly detained by security forces who coerced her into recording videos, according
  
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• Rebel News loses bid to quash fines for violating election law on third-party ads

  10-01-2025 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed Rebel News Network’s latest bid to quash $3,000 in fines levied against the right-wing media outlet by the commissioner of elections.
  The fines were imposed in 2021 after an investigation by the commissioner’s office into lawn signs erected by Rebel News during the 2019 federal election campaign, ostensibly to promote a new book by Rebel founder Ezra Levant.
  The signs urged people to buy the book, entitled “The Libranos:
  
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• Vancouver Canucks activate forward Elias Pettersson from injured reserve

  10-01-2025 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks activated forward Elias Pettersson from injured reserve before their road game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.
  Pettersson missed six games with an undisclosed injury. The team confirmed the move in a social media post.
  The 26-year-old Swede entered play Friday with 28 points (10-18) over 34 games.
  Pettersson signed an eight-year contract extension worth US$92.8 million last season.
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan.
  
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• OHL hands Flint Firebirds coach Paul Flache a five-game suspension

  10-01-2025 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Flint Firebirds head coach Paul Flache was given a five-game suspension by the Ontario Hockey League on Friday.He was also assessed a $2,500 fine as a result of actions detrimental to both the player safety and welfare of the league in a game last Saturday at Brampton, the league said.Flache was given a game misconduct late in the first period for making “inappropriate remarks” during the course of a review process after Steelheads defenceman Stevie Leskovar was penal
  
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• Feds issue new COVID vaccine guidance, says provinces now responsible for buying them

  10-01-2025 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Public Health Agency of Canada says federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines will stop this year and the provinces and territories will be responsible for buying them, as well as determining the timing of the vaccinations.The agency published the information online on Friday, along with the National Advisory Committee on Immunization’s COVID-19 vaccine guidance for 2025 through to the summer of 2026.The advisory committee says seniors who are 80 years and older, residents
  
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• Liberal leadership race: A look at the potential candidates

  10-01-2025 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade and their shortest in the party’s modern history to replace Justin Trudeau.
  He announced Jan. 6 that he will step down as soon as a national vote is completed to elect his successor.
  The party will announce the new leader after the vote on March 9. Candidates must declare by Jan. 23 and pay a $350,000 fee to enter the race.
  Here’s a quick look at who is in and out of the running.
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• Yankees fans who interfered with Mookie Betts during World Series banned from all MLB games

  10-01-2025 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has banned two fans who interfered with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium from attending any games at big league ballparks.
  MLB sent a letter to Austin Capobianco and John P. Hansen this week informing them of the decision.
  “On Oct. 29, 2024, during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, you interfered with play by intentionally and forcefully grabbing a player. Your conduct posed a se
  
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• Reports: Former San Diego coach Stoney to take over Canadian women’s soccer team

  10-01-2025 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada Soccer has settled on former San Diego Wave coach Casey Stoney as the new coach of its women’s team, according to multiple reports.
  The sixth-ranked Canadian women have been without a permanent coach since Bev Priestman was sent home during the Paris Olympics due to the drone-spying scandal.
  Priestman, assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joey Lombardi are all serving a one-year FIFA ban for their role in the scandal and are no longer with Canada Soccer.
  Asked about the Stoney
  
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• Judge holds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for continued lies about Georgia election workers

  10-01-2025 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Friday for continuing to spread lies about two former Georgia election workers after a jury awarded the women a $148 million defamation judgment.U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., is the second federal judge this week to find the former New York City mayor in contempt of court.Howell found Giuliani violated court orders barring him from defaming Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. S
  
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• Kings arrive in Winnipeg with thoughts for those in fire-ravaged Los Angeles

  10-01-2025 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Los Angeles Kings were thinking about friends and family in wildfire-ravaged California as they embarked on an eight-day road trip that kicked off Friday in Winnipeg.It has been tough for players to concentrate on hockey with four major fires tearing through neighbourhoods in the greater Los Angeles area.“It’s hard to be away right now,” Kings forward Trevor Moore said after the team’s morning skate. “It’s the worst fire I have ever seen i
  
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• CF Montréal president Gabriel Gervais wants a trophy in 2025

  10-01-2025 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal president and chief executive officer Gabriel Gervais is setting a clear objective for the upcoming season.
  “Win a trophy,” Gervais said Friday at Montreal’s training complex. “Whether that’s the Canadian Championship, the Leagues Cup, the MLS Cup. By winning a trophy, we return to the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
  “We haven’t participated since 2022. That competition is in our DNA, and we want to get back there.”
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• Heart Healthy event to support Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation

  10-01-2025 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation says there is still time to join its annual Step Up 4 Cardiac Health event on Sunday, February 9 at Abbotsford Centre.Participants of all fitness levels are welcome, whether they’re seasoned athletes or someone who simply prefers a casual stroll. Options include ascending and descending the stairs at your own pace or walking the concourse. Yoga mats are welcome for a calming morning stretch for those seeking a gentler activity.
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• Luckakuck Way project work pushing forward

  10-01-2025 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says safety and traffic improvements are underway along Luckakuck Way with work expected to be complete this spring.The project was spawned out of safety concerns for the stretch of Luckakuck Way from Vedder Road to the Southern Railway bridge.According to city officials, members of the public and ICBC expressed concerns about the road design, specifically driveway access to Luckakuck Way, saying it leads to poor driving behaviours. The improvements are
  
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• Man dies after falling into a sinkhole while skiing at resort in southeast B.C.

  10-01-2025 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FERNIE, B.C. — A skier has died after falling into what police say was a snow sinkhole at the Fernie Alpine Resort in British Columbia’s East Kootenay region.RCMP say in a statement that an ambulance was called for the 67-year-old man on Wednesday when he was found buried in snow in a natural terrain trap.The statement says the six-by-nine-metre trap was under one of the lift towers of the Polar Peak ski lift and was filled with loose undisturbed snow.Police say “tremendous eff
  
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• Canada leaves for Perth HSBC SVNS stop bolstered by return of former captain

  10-01-2025 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian women’s rugby sevens team was scheduled to leave late Friday for Australia and the HSBC SVNS Perth, bolstered by the return of veteran Olivia Apps and fellow Olympian Florence Symonds.
  Coach Jocelyn Barrieau, who had seven new faces in her squad for the first two stops of the HSBC SVNS season, has included newcomers Olivia Sarabura and Larah Wright in her 14-player travelling roster as well as 15s veteran Gabrielle Senft.
  For Barrieau, roster selection is a juggling act &mdash
  
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• Star running back William Stanback signs one-year deal with Redblacks

  10-01-2025 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks have signed star running back William Stanback to a one-year deal, the CFL team said Friday.
  He had 1,175 rushing yards last season for the B.C. Lions, good for second on the CFL list behind Winnipeg’s Brady Oliveira (1,353). Stanback, who had five touchdowns last year, also had 46 receptions for 413 yards.
  “William has been one of the league’s most consistently productive backs since joining the CFL,” Redblacks general manager Shawn Bu
  
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• Delta Air Lines says 4 passengers injured after flight was aborted at Atlanta airport

  10-01-2025 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Four passengers were injured after a Delta Air Lines plane bound for Minneapolis aborted takeoff on Friday morning.Passengers left the plane using emergency inflatable slides and were taken to an airport concourse. That is according to a statement by officials at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
  One passenger was taken to a hospital for treatment, while three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries, officials said.The incident contribut
  
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• Edmonton Oilers forward Evander Kane undergoes successful knee surgery

  10-01-2025 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Edmonton Oilers forward Evander Kane is recovering after undergoing successful knee surgery.
  The NHL team says he’s expected to need four to eight weeks of recovery time.Specifics on Thursday’s procedure, which was performed in Edmonton, were not provided.
  The club says Kane will pause his current rehabilitation from abdominal surgery last September to recover from the latest operation.Kane had 44 points (24-20) over 77 games for the Oilers last season.
  The 33-year-o
  
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• Chilliwack Christmas Bird Count saw record-breaking individual numbers - Chilliwack Progress

  10-01-2025 18:29 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Christmas Bird Count saw record-breaking individual numbers  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• US finds no link between ‘Havana syndrome’ and foreign power, but two spy agencies say it’s possible

  10-01-2025 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence has found no evidence linking a foreign power to the mysterious “Havana syndrome” injuries reported by some U.S. diplomats and other government personnel, though two agencies now say it’s possible a foreign adversary may have developed or even deployed a weapon responsible for the injuries.
  The conclusion, which echoes early investigations, comes from a review conducted by seven different intelligence agencies who examined cases of brai
  
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• Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 - Chilliwack school board by-election nominations open - Fraser Valley Current

  10-01-2025 18:03 via news.google.com
  Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 - Chilliwack school board by-election nominations open  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• Upgrades planned for Chilliwack Cultural Centre with donation from Chilliwack Players Guild

  10-01-2025 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Cultural Centre is celebrating a $10,000 donation from the Chilliwack Players Guild to fund seating upgrades at the Rotary Hall Studio Theatre. The improvements are expected to enhance comfort and accessibility for patrons.
  “We are delighted to give back to the Rotary Hall Studio Theatre, a space that has been integral to our productions and the development of local theatre in Chilliwack,” said Clint Hames, of the Chilliwack Players Guild.
  The Rotary
  
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• Winger Kris Twardek joins Valour FC from Atletico Ottawa in CPL transfer

  10-01-2025 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Valour FC has acquired winger Kris Twardek from Atlético Ottawa, looking to boost an attack that finished with the third-fewest goals in the Canadian Premier League last season.
  Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
  Valour subsequently signed Twardek to a one-year guaranteed contract, with an option for 2026. The 27-year-old from Kinburn, Ont., had joined Ottawa in January 2024 on a two-year contract.
  In other CPL news, the Halifax Wanderers signed captain Andre Rampers
  
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• Upgrades planned for Chilliwack Cultural Centre with donation from Chilliwack Players Guild - Fraser Valley Today

  10-01-2025 17:51 via news.google.com
  Upgrades planned for Chilliwack Cultural Centre with donation from Chilliwack Players Guild  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• School District to host information session for candidates planning to run in trustee byelection

  10-01-2025 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack School District will hold a candidate information session for individuals interested in running in the 2025 school trustee by-election. The session is scheduled for January 16 at 5:30 p.m. at the school district office.
  Superintendent Rohan Arul-Pragasam and Secretary Treasurer Simone Sangster will lead the session. Potential candidates who attend will receive an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a school trustee. Board of Education Chair David Swank
  
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• Prosecutors seek 15 years in prison for former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez after bribery conviction

  10-01-2025 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years, after the Democrat from New Jersey became the first to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first public official to be convicted of serving as a foreign agent.In papers filed late Thursday in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors called for the lengthy prison term for the 71-year-old Menendez when he is sentenced on Jan. 29.
  Menendez was convicted in July of 16
  
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• Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon reaches deal with SEC over undisclosed settlement agreements

  10-01-2025 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission says that it has settled charges against former WWE CEO Vince McMahon over his failure to disclose to the sports entertainment company’s board and others that he signed two settlement agreements worth $10.5 million with two women in order for them not to reveal potential claims against himself and WWE.McMahon resigned from WWE’s parent company in January 2024 after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executi
  
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• A look at the career of newly named Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser

  10-01-2025 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A look at Robin Fraser, Toronto FC’s new head coach:
  Age: 58.
  Background: Born in Kingston, Jamaica. Moved to Miami as a child.
  As a Player: Began his pro career in the American Soccer League before joining Major League Soccer for its 1996 inaugural season. Played for the Los Angeles Galaxy (1996-2000), Colorado Rapids (2001-03) and Columbus Crew (2004-05). Twice named MLS Defender of the Year (1999, 2004) and a five-time MLS all-star. Won Supporters’ Shield twice and
  
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• Yvonne Jones, longtime Liberal MP for Labrador, retiring from federal politics

  10-01-2025 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — Yvonne Jones, Liberal member of Parliament for Labrador, says she won’t be running in the next federal election.
  Jones has been public about her past battles with breast cancer, and she told a crowd in Happy Valley-Goose Bay that she is cancer-free, healthy and ready for new adventures.
  She says she’ll stay on as Labrador’s member of Parliament for the remainder of her term.
  Jones was first elected to the House of Commons in 2013 and is the
  
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• Senators forward Nick Cousins fined for elbowing on Sabres defenceman Jacob Bryson

  10-01-2025 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Ottawa Senators forward Nick Cousins has been fined US$2,083.33 — the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement — for elbowing Buffalo Sabres defenceman Jacob Bryson, the NHL announced Friday.
  The incident occurred early in the third period of Buffalo’s 4-0 victory over Ottawa on Thursday.
  The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.Cousins was assessed a minor penalty for elbowing on the play.The 31-year-old, who’s in
  
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• Ottawa Senators sign forward Ridly Greig to four-year contract extension

  10-01-2025 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Ridly Greig to a four-year, US$13-million contract extension, the club announced Friday.
  The deal carries an average annual value of $3.25 million.
  Greig, 22, has appeared in 129 NHL games over parts of three seasons with the Senators.
  The Lethbridge, Alta., native set career highs with 72 games played, 13 goals, 13 assists and 26 points in 2023-24 — his first full NHL campaign.
  Greig was selected 28th overall by Ottawa at the 2020 dra
  
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• Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly off to Washington next week to talk tariffs

  10-01-2025 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly heads to Washington next week to press the incoming Trump administration not to impose damaging tariffs on Canada.
  President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico when he is inaugurated later this month.
  Ministers on the Canada-U.S. cabinet committee are meeting this morning to discuss the retaliatory measures they would deploy if those tariffs are applied.
  Jol
  
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• Source: Former assistant coach Robin Fraser returns to Toronto FC as head coach

  10-01-2025 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC has named Robin Fraser its new head coach, according to a source.
  The 58-year-old Fraser is a former assistant coach with the franchise, leaving Toronto in August 2019 to take over the Colorado Rapids.
  After initial success with the Rapids, he was fired in September 2023 with the injury-plagued club in last place in Major League Soccer at 3-13-10. More recently he served as an adviser to CT United FC, an MLS Next Pro expansion team in Bridgeport, Conn.
  Fraser, whose co
  
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• Human rights group asks Canada to join U.S. and declare another genocide in Sudan

  10-01-2025 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A prominent human rights group is calling on Ottawa to follow the U.S. and declare that recent actions by Sudan’s paramilitary force amount to genocide.
  The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights accused the Rapid Support Forces of carrying out a genocide in the Darfur region months ago, during Sudan’s brutal civil war.
  In April, the advocacy group released a detailed report arguing that Sudan’s paramilitary force had been targeting ethnic groups while using ar
  
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• Tennis star Jannik Sinner gets April date at sports court for appeal hearing in doping case

  10-01-2025 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner will go to sport’s highest court in April for the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal that seeks to ban him from the sport for at least one year.
  The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Friday it scheduled a closed-doors hearing on April 16-17 at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.WADA is challenging a decision last year by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) not to suspend Sinner for what it
  
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• Biden administration extends temporary status for more than 200,000 from El Salvador for 18 months

  10-01-2025 16:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — More than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Homeland Security Department said Friday in one of the Biden administration’s final acts on immigration policy.
  The decision is the Biden administration’s latest in support of Temporary Protected Status, which he has sharply expanded to cover about 1 million people. TPS faces an uncertain future under Donald Trump, who tried to sharply c
  
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• Mélanie Joly will not run for Liberal party leadership, source confirms

  10-01-2025 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is out of the running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader, a Liberal source confirms to The Canadian Press.
  Joly is expected to talk to media today outside a Canada-U.S. relations cabinet committee meeting on Parliament Hill.
  The Liberal leadership race is fully underway, now that the party has set a date for the race. More big-name candidates are expected to announce soon whether they intend to run or sit this one out.
  Leadersh
  
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• Canadian plane fighting L.A. fires out of service after colliding with civilian drone

  10-01-2025 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Authorities in Los Angeles say a Quebec water bomber is out of service after colliding with a drone while fighting wildfires Thursday.
  A pair of Quebec water bombers and their crews have been helping since Tuesday to fight the massive fires north of downtown L.A., which have killed at least 10 people and burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures.
  The L.A. County Fire Department says the plane known as Quebec 1 was struck by a civilian drone at 1 p.m., sustaining wing damage.
  There were
  
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• Fraser Valley Express adds buses as demand mounts on Chilliwack-Burnaby route - CBC.ca

  10-01-2025 15:00 via news.google.com
  Fraser Valley Express adds buses as demand mounts on Chilliwack-Burnaby route  CBC.ca
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime downs top-seed Paul to reach final at Adelaide International

  10-01-2025 14:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ADELAIDE — Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the final of the Adelaide International on Friday, defeating top-seeded American Tommy Paul in the semifinals.
  The fifth-seeded Auger-Aliassime of Montreal won in a gruelling three-set battle, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4, that lasted two hours and 45 minutes.
  Auger-Aliassime won 74 per cent of his first-serve points to Paul’s 69 per cent and earned his second career win over the 12th-ranked American, having also beaten him at I
  
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• In the news today: Analysts expect jobless rate edged up in December

  10-01-2025 14:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Analysts expect jobless rate edged up in December
  Statistics Canada will release the country’s job report for December this morning.
  November saw Canada’s unemployment rate rise to 6.8 per cent — the highest jobless rate since January 2017 outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Analysts at RBC and BMO believe that number will have edged up again in December to 6.9 per cent, as the country&
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Jan. 10 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  10-01-2025 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Jan. 10 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Americans have dimmer view of Biden than they did of Trump or Obama as term ends, AP-NORC poll finds

  10-01-2025 13:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second, a new poll finds.
  Around one-quarter of U.S. adults said Biden was a “good” or “great” president, with less than 1 in 10 saying he was “great,” according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.It’s a stark illustrat
  
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• Provincial health plans to cover primary care by nurse practitioners: health minister

  10-01-2025 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says provincial and territorial health plans will cover primary care provided by nurse practitioners, pharmacists and midwives.Holland says regulated health-care professionals who aren’t doctors will be able to bill the government for medically necessary services that would otherwise be provided by a physician.The minister says the changes are part of a new interpretation of the Canada Health Act that takes effect on April 1, 2026.He say
  
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• How to improve climate predictions? McGill researchers turn to 19th century letters

  10-01-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A team led by McGill University researchers came up with a method they hope could improve climate models over Africa by combining them with 19th century missionary records, refashioning dubious documents in a bid to better inform projections of global warming’s impact.
  Models are an important way for scientists and decision-makers to understand how human influence is changing the climate. To come up with those projections, climate models depend on historical baselines – temperature a
  
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• Civil society groups push to ensure effectiveness of coming border agency watchdog

  10-01-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The fight for an independent review body to keep an eye on Canada’s border agency may be over, but there are lingering concerns in civil society circles about how much bite the new watchdog will have.
  Travellers, immigration detainees and others who feel they have been mistreated by the Canada Border Services Agency will be able to complain to the Public Complaints and Review Commission once it begins operating.
  The border agency’s thousands of employees manage the flo
  
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• South Korea’s acting leader accepts resignation of presidential security chief

  10-01-2025 09:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s acting leader on Friday accepted the resignation of the chief of the presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, as he faced police questioning over how his forces blocked law enforcement efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol last week.
  The acting leader, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok, also expressed regret over the clashes between law enforcement officials and the presidential security service over the attempts to detain
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Jan. 10 onward - The Chilliwack Progress

  10-01-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Jan. 10 onward  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ukrainian Orthodox church in Chilliwack listed for sale, prompts petition to save it - CTV News

  10-01-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Ukrainian Orthodox church in Chilliwack listed for sale, prompts petition to save it  CTV News
  
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