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• Supreme Court rejects request to block Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution

  18-03-2025 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANGOLA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, which is scheduled for Tuesday evening.
  Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is to be put to death for the 1996 murder of advertising executive Mary “Molly” Elliott in what would be Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years. The court, on a 5-4 vote, refused to intervene.
  Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person in the United S
  
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• B.C.’s Forests Ministry told to protect cultural sites, First Nation’s water source

  18-03-2025 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Forest Practices Board says the British Columbia government “did not follow the law” when it approved range use plans that near the Halfway River First Nation’s watershed and at its culturally significant sites.
  The nation complained to the board in 2023 about grazing livestock being allowed to damage the sites, while displacing wildlife in its territory in northeastern B.C.The board says in a statement that it also found problems with the govern
  
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• Politics hard to escape for coaches ahead of CONCACAF Nations League Finals

  18-03-2025 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The stakes are high for the United States on and off the soccer pitch with all three of the other teams at the CONCACAF Nations League Finals.
  U.S. President Donald Trump has talked of taking over the Panama Canal, has renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada — among other countries — and discussed ad nauseam the merits of Canada becoming the 51st state.
  U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino, an Argentine native, took the high road Tuesday when as
  
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• B.C. doles out grant funding to bolster food manufacturing sector

  18-03-2025 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — The B.C. government is contributing $6.6 million in grant funding to food manufacturing firms across the province, saying it will help create jobs and bolster domestic food security.Jobs Minister Diana Gibson says money from the province’s manufacturing jobs fund will go to seven B.C. companies, including $2 million to Kelowna-based Farming Karma Fruit Co. for a new processing facility and equipment.
  Gibson says the funding will help create 32 jobs in Kelowna, while o
  
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• Canucks sign goaltender Aku Koskenvuo to entry-level contract

  18-03-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Aku Koskenvuo to a two-year, entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Tuesday.
  The 22-year-old from Espoo, Finland, had an 8-9-1 record with a 2.81 goals-against average, a .902 save percentage, and one shutout in 20 games with Harvard University this NCAA season.
  The six-foot-four, 173-pound goaltender has appeared in 39 career games over three seasons with Harvard, registering a record of 14-16-5, along with three shutouts.
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• Conservatives say there will be no media seats on Poilievre’s election campaign

  18-03-2025 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservative party is breaking from tradition and will not be allowing media onboard planes and buses for Pierre Poilievre’s election campaign.
  In an email Tuesday, national campaign director Jenni Byrne says costs for travel have “risen considerably,” as has the capacity for digital and remote access to public events.
  Byrne also says in recent years, media outlets have chosen to tag staff from local bureaus to cover events rather than fly journalists from Ot
  
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• B.C. geoduck exports facing possible devastation as Chinese tariffs loom

  18-03-2025 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia seafood producers are bracing for impact as China is slated to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on geoduck clams, a move that could devastate the multimillion-dollar export industry that is built almost exclusively on Chinese markets.
  Christina Burridge, executive director with the BC Seafood Alliance, says about 95 per cent of Canada’s geoduck exports go to China, with exports of the clam to the country valued at about $75 million a year, all of which coming f
  
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• Canada’s Diallo falls short in Miami Open qualifying with loss to Holt

  18-03-2025 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo fell just short of qualifying for the main draw of the Miami Open tennis tournament with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 loss to American Brandon Holt on Tuesday.
  The six-foot-eight Diallo hammered 15 aces in the match but gave up a crucial break to Holt in the 11th game of the third set.
  Up 6-5 and serving for the match, Holt completed the win with an ace on match point.
  The 23-year-old Diallo was looking to advance to his second straight Masters-level main draw. H
  
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• Sceptres’ Carter learned plenty while rehabbing in becoming steady blueline presence

  18-03-2025 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Megan Carter didn’t have an ideal start to her Professional Women’s Hockey League career, but she picked up valuable learning experience from it.
  The 23-year-old defender, who was a second-round pick (12th overall) of the Toronto Sceptres in the 2024 PWHL draft out of Northeastern University, was placed on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury on Nov. 13, a couple of weeks before the regular season began.She spent a lot of time rehabbing, and learning fro
  
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• Jays pitching prospect Tiedemann making strides after Tommy John surgery last summer

  18-03-2025 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nestled in a minor-league workout area away from the big-league training fields at the Blue Jays’ player development complex, Ricky Tiedemann lowers his six-foot-four 220-pound frame into a deep squat.Sporting a sleeve on his surgically repaired left arm, the highly ranked prospect is shifting weight, loosening his hips, and re-establishing pitching stances as he continues a slow buildup for what he hopes is a return to play in late summer.
  “I feel great. I feel brand new again,&rdqu
  
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• Canadian Jeff Gustafson in quest for second Bassmaster Classic title

  18-03-2025 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  He’s a Bassmaster Classic champion and among the Elite Series’ top competitors, but sometimes even Jeff Gustafson struggles to put fish into the boat.
  Gustafson, of Kenora, Ont., will be among 56 competitors participating in the US$1-million Classic, which begins Friday on Lake Ray Roberts in Fort Worth, Texas. But three mediocre practice sessions (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) haven’t really provided Gustafson with a solid gameplan for a second Classic title.
  “Every day i
  
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• Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says

  18-03-2025 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, according to the Kremlin.
  Moscow said in its recap of the call that Trump supported Putin’s idea to organize games in the U.S. and Russia involving players from the NHL and the KHL, and agreed to remain in contact on all issues raised on the call, which was scheduled to discuss the war in Ukraine. Th
  
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• Door may be opening for Insigne to return to action with TFC but it’s up to the coach

  18-03-2025 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The door may be opening for out-of-favour Italian star Lorenzo Insigne to return to the Toronto FC lineup.
  The 33-year-old winger, whose salary of US$15.4 million ranked second to Miami’s Lionel Messi last year in Major League Soccer, has not dressed this season.Club officials have said the former Napoli captain does not fit into TFC’s style of play under new coach Robin Fraser, who has said Insigne remains available for selection while opting not to pick him
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• Liberals lagging well behind other parties on nominating candidates as election looms

  18-03-2025 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party is trailing well behind its rivals on nominating candidates.
  The Conservatives have nominated 275 candidates out of 343 ridings, the NDP has 217 candidates and the Green Party has 208 — but the Liberal party has so far nominated just 185 candidates.
  The Bloc Québécois, which only runs candidates in Quebec, has 42 announced candidates and 11 confirmed by nomination and says it plans to have a c
  
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• Langley Mounties seize $150K in drugs and cash, possibly linked to organized crime

  18-03-2025 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Mounties in Langley say a special police response unit seized approximately $150,000 worth of illicit drugs, currency and a vehicle last week during a traffic stop of a suspicious vehicle.According to a statement from Sgt. Zynal Sharoom, Langley RCMP’s Special Response Team located a suspicious vehicle in the 20200 block of 66 Avenue on Thursday, March 13 at approximately 4 p.m. Police say that specific vehicle was known to authorities since it fled from police previously w
  
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• Telus, Nvidia announce plans to develop ‘sovereign AI factory’ in Quebec

  18-03-2025 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Canadian telecommunications giant Telus and U.S. artificial intelligence tech heavyweight Nvidia have announced plans to build what they call a “sovereign AI factory” in eastern Quebec.The companies say they will provide Canadian businesses and researchers with the supercomputers and software they need to train AI while keeping their data within the country’s borders.Telus plans to deploy Nvidia’s latest-generation AI semiconductors at its data centre in
  
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• Audit finds B.C.’s forest management hurt by flawed data without clear methodology

  18-03-2025 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — An audit has found that British Columbia’s government did not have a clear method for calculating the carbon being stored or released in provincial forests, which undermined the credibility in reporting from the Forests Ministry.
  The Office of the Auditor General of B.C. says in the report that defined methodologies to calculate forest carbon projections were not used for decisions such as the determining annual allowable timber cutting.The audit found that staff did devel
  
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• B.C. govt. refers Hope wastewater facility for administrative penalties due to alleged non-compliance

  18-03-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — The B.C. Ministry of Environment and Parks has referred the District of Hope for administrative penalties over alleged non-compliance of its wastewater treatment facility on Tom Berry Road in Hope.
  According to a B.C. government report dated March 7, 2025, involving file number 4125 and report number 238081, an environmental protection officer, Michael Jeffery, visited the facility at 63701 Tom Berry Road on February 5, 2025, to conduct a scheduled on-site inspection of the wastewat
  
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• Presidents of Congo and Rwanda meet in Qatar to discuss insurgency in eastern Congo

  18-03-2025 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year, the three governments said.
  The meeting between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to discuss the insurgency was mediated by Qatar, the three governments said in a joint statement.The summit came as a previous attempt to bri
  
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• Manitoba Bisons star Jackson Tachinski to pull double duty at CFL’s national combine

  18-03-2025 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Once again, Jackson Tachinski will pull double duty.
  The Manitoba Bisons star will perform at quarterback and receiver at the CFL’s national combine, which begins Friday in Regina. Tachinski’s prowess under centre is well known as he was Canada West’s top player last season after passing for 1,842 yards and rushing for 637 yards.
  But Tachinski also lined up at receiver during last month’s invitational combine in Waterloo, Ont., faring well at both positions to garner an i
  
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• Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

  18-03-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts.U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those who were placed on administrative leave.
  The lawsuit singled out Musk as a defendant c
  
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• No charges for Vancouver officer involved in fatal 2022 shooting: prosecutors

  18-03-2025 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A Vancouver Police officer will not be charged over a fatal shooting in a city rooming house in May 2022.The British Columbia Prosecution Service says in a statement the shooting happened at the Patricia Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside shortly after staff called 911 to report a resident assaulting others with a stick.
  The service says the man appeared to be experiencing drug or mental health issues and he later produced a knife, information that was relayed to the t
  
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• Axworthy calls on Poland, Baltic states to abide by treaty banning landmines

  18-03-2025 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy says Canada should work to convince eastern European countries alarmed by Russian aggression to abide by a treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines.
  Poland and the three Baltic nations say they want to withdraw from the international treaty banning landmines due to the threat Moscow poses to front-line NATO states.
  In a joint statement issued today, the defence ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia say they &ldq
  
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• List of nominations announced by the National Newspaper Awards

  18-03-2025 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Finalists for the National Newspaper Awards include four nominations for the national news agency The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne. Here’s look at the categories and contenders:
  ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
  -Richie Assaly, Toronto Star, for his portfolio of stories about musicians Mustafa, John Kameel Farah and Elisapie
  -Charles-Éric Blais-Poulin et Jean Siag, La Presse, for their investigation of Quebec’s television production industry
  -Tavia Grant, the Globe
  
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• Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track slated for test runs by 60 athletes next week

  18-03-2025 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — The track’s essential structure is done. The ice is being prepared. And next week, 60 athletes are slated to test the controversial sliding center for next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics.
  “The track’s structure is done. We had it in our calendars to finish by March 16 and that’s when it was finished,” Fabio Saldini, the government commissioner in charge of rebuilding the century-old track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, told The Associated Press o
  
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• Chilliwack’s Farewell to Friends tour coming to Vernon - The Daily Courier

  18-03-2025 20:03 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack’s Farewell to Friends tour coming to Vernon  The Daily Courier
  
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• Carney hopes recovering remains from Winnipeg landfill bring families closure

  18-03-2025 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families.
  RCMP have confirmed two sets of remains discovered at the Prairie Green landfill in the past month belong to Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
  A search of the Winnipeg-area landfill began in December in the hopes of finding the two women killed in 2022 by Jeremy Skibicki.
  He was convicted last year of fir
  
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• Assault charges for man accused of bear-spraying Mounties in Nanaimo, B.C.

  18-03-2025 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — RCMP have arrested a man who allegedly bear-sprayed two officers in Nanaimo, B.C.
  Police say they were called out Saturday afternoon to a report of a man throwing an axe into the back of a passing truck.
  They say officers who arrived at the scene recognized the suspect as someone with outstanding warrants, and he fled when officers approached him.
  Police say that officers were bear-sprayed during the brief foot chase, before taking the man into custody.
  The 40-year-old man
  
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• Impairment not a factor in Saturday night’s roundabout crash: Chilliwack RCMP

  18-03-2025 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson says impairment did not contribute to Saturday night’s vehicle crash at the Tyson Road-Watson Road roundabout in Sardis.
  According to an email from RCMP spokesperson Debbie Sargent to Fraser Valley Today, Chilliwack RCMP received a call from B.C. Emergency Health Services Saturday night advising of a single-vehicle collision at 11:30 p.m. at the Tyson/Watson roundabout.
  Police attended and spoke with the driver who was uninjured. Driver fat
  
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• Ford says energy surcharge remains on table but he won’t ‘antagonize’ U.S. in talks

  18-03-2025 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is keeping the possibility of reintroducing a surcharge on electricity exported to the United States in his back pocket, but for now he doesn’t want to “antagonize” American officials.
  Ford was speaking today about the meeting he had last week with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, calling it productive and saying Lutnick is not interested in President Donald Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st state.
  The premi
  
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• Two years after fatal fire, Montreal tightens rules on short-term rentals like Airbnb

  18-03-2025 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal has passed tighter restrictions for short-term rentals on platforms like Airbnb in a bid to ease the city’s housing crisis.City council adopted a new bylaw today to allow people to rent their homes for short stays only between June 10 and Sept. 10.The new rules come two years after seven people died in a fire in an Old Montreal building that had listed illegal short-term rentals on Airbnb.
  Quebec has taken steps to curb illegal rentals since then, but the city sai
  
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• Impairment not a factor in Saturday night’s roundabout crash: Chilliwack RCMP - Fraser Valley Today

  18-03-2025 19:22 via news.google.com
  Impairment not a factor in Saturday night’s roundabout crash: Chilliwack RCMP  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Pentagon aims to cut up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations

  18-03-2025 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation plan are leaving in the coming months, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday.
  To reach the goal of a 5% to 8% cut in a civilian workforce of more than 900,000, the official said the department aims to slash about 6,000 positions a month by simply not replacing workers who routinely leave.A key concern is that service membe
  
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• New attractions at Chilliwack tulip festival this spring - Fraser Valley Today

  18-03-2025 18:13 via news.google.com
  New attractions at Chilliwack tulip festival this spring  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Tulip festival returns to Chilliwack in just over 3 weeks

  18-03-2025 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Spring is set to blossom in an array of dazzling colours in Chilliwack as the Botanica Tulip Festival gears up fora return to the Fraser Valley.Nearly two million bulbs spread across 14 acres of spectacular blooms await visitors to the second annual Botanica Tulip Festival, tentatively slated to open on Friday, April 11.Building on the success of its debut season last year, the 2025 festival will introduce a newly planted display garden, a whimsical sun-shaped planting of alli
  
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• Four to be charged after organized crime-related police operation in Kanesatake

  18-03-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKA, Que. — Quebec provincial police say four people are expected to appear in court this afternoon following a police operation linked to organized crime in a Mohawk settlement outside Montreal.
  Sgt. Marc Tessier says police arrested three men in their forties along with a 31-year-old woman and seized drugs and weapons in Kanesatake, about 40 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
  Tessier says a fifth person detained by police was released.
  Provincial police say the investigation into alleged
  
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• Canadian women to open Pacific Four Series title defence in Kansas City in May

  18-03-2025 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian women’s rugby team will open defence of its Pacific Four Series title on May 2 against the ninth-ranked United States at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City.
  Second-ranked Canada will then fly to Christchurch to face the third-ranked New Zealand Black Ferns on May 17 at Apollo Projects Stadium. The final game of the series is against the fifth-ranked Wallaroos on May 23 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
  The Canadian women scored a historic win over New Zealand last May in Chr
  
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• Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

  18-03-2025 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching federal judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans.
  “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a rare statemen
  
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• The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne nab four nominations for National Newspaper Awards

  18-03-2025 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne is nominated for four National Newspaper Awards, including one for a photo of people giving former prime minister Justin Trudeau the finger while posing for a selfie.
  CP freelance photographer David Lipnowski is nominated in the feature photo category for his shot of a trio making the rude gesture while taking a selfie with a smiling Trudeau at the Folklorama Festival in Winnipeg.
  The Globe and Mail garnered a leading 16 nominations, follow
  
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• LETTER: Chilliwack voters need to engage more, and so do our MLAs - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2025 16:58 via news.google.com
  LETTER: Chilliwack voters need to engage more, and so do our MLAs  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Police execute search warrant at Chilliwack home Monday

  18-03-2025 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A heavy police presence surrounded a Third Avenue home in Chilliwack Monday around noontime as authorities executed a search warrant at a residence.
  According to a statement from RCMP spokesperson Deborah Sargent, Chilliwack RCMP, with help from the Lower Mainland Integrated Emergency Response Team (IERT) and Police Dog Service (PDS), executed a search warrant in the 46000 block of Third Avenue as part of an ongoing investigation. Police were not able to release any further de
  
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• Tracy Morgan says he’s OK, food poisoning caused incident at Knicks-Heat game

  18-03-2025 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tracy Morgan says food poisoning was to blame for his taking ill during Monday’s Knicks-Heat game, and that he’s “doing OK.”
  The actor-comedian posted an update on Instagram Tuesday morning, along with a smiling photo from a hospital bed, thanking fans for their concern. He also suggested humorously that perhaps his health episode spelled good luck for the Knicks.“I’m doing ok now and doctors say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG f
  
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• Police execute search warrant at Chilliwack home Monday - Fraser Valley Today

  18-03-2025 16:43 via news.google.com
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• White House says Trump and Putin hold call as US seeks Russian sign-off on plan to end Ukraine war

  18-03-2025 16:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun a highly anticipated call as the U.S. administration looks to persuade the Russian leader to sign-off on a 30-day ceasefire proposal as a possible pathway to end the war.
  Tuesday’s call comes after Ukrainian officials last week agreed to the American proposal during talks in Saudi Arabia led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, however,
  
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• Canada-Namibia T20 cricket game abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain

  18-03-2025 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINDHOEK — Canada’s T20 cricket match against Namibia was called off without a ball bowled due to rain Tuesday.
  The game was supposed to be the first of five 20-over contests between the two. The teams will try again Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, all in the Namibia capital.
  Namibia is ranked 15th in the world in T20 play by the International Cricket Council (ICC) while Canada is No. 21.
  Weather was also a factor in the recent ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series hosted
  
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• Canadian men look to showcase world-class speed, athleticism against Mexico

  18-03-2025 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser admits he was “blown away” when he watched Canada beat the U.S. 2-1 in Kansas City in a September friendly.
  “I have to think Canada’s back four is among the most athletic in the world,” Fraser marvelled. “And when you have athleticism like that, you have confidence to be aggressive.“And it seems to have made its way through the team. They also have athletic wide guys. And so when they go to close, they close incredibly well.
  
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• Want to get into cycling? Start slow before shifting into high gear, experts say

  18-03-2025 15:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When people decide to start cycling to work, they sometimes go overboard. They think they need to buy excessive gear, specific clothes, the perfect bike — they commit to five days a week, no matter what.
  “I mean, you don’t even have to buy a bike to get started,” said Yvonne Bambrick, author of The Urban Cycling Survival Guide.
  “Depending on what city you’re in, there may be a bike share program. And the other option, of course, is to borrow a bike from someon
  
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• Canada’s Homan beats United States and Turkey at world women’s curling championship

  18-03-2025 14:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UIJEONGBU-SI — A two-win day for Rachel Homan has her Canadian team in a second-place tie at the midway point of round-robin play at the LGT world women’s curling championship.
  The Ottawa-based rink of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes posted an 8-4 victory over American Tabitha Peterson before picking up an 8-3 win over Turkey’s Dilsat Yildiz.Canada has a 5-1 record after 11 draws at Uijeongbu Arena.Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni beat Italy’s Stefa
  
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• Hungary’s parliament passes a law banning Pride events, in a new assault on LGBTQ+ rights

  18-03-2025 14:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-wing populist party on the country’s LBGTQ+ community.
  The measure passed in a 136-27 vote. The law, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, was pushed through parliament
  
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• 'Substantial' decline in Chilliwack-area home sales linked to tariff concerns, says board - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2025 13:16 via news.google.com
  'Substantial' decline in Chilliwack-area home sales linked to tariff concerns, says board  Chilliwack Progress
  
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