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• Canada pledges nearly $100M for Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

  20-03-2025 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are announcing nearly $100 million in humanitarian relief and governance support for Palestinians, days before a widely expected election.Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who took on the file of international development last week, is announcing funding for major agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territories.
  The announced funding includes $30 million for recovery and governance support in the West Bank, where there has been escalating
  
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• Western star Findlay to pursue CFL career before pursuing medical school

  20-03-2025 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jackson Findlay can see medical school in his future, but he’s looking forward to concentrating on football first.
  The six-foot-three, 203-pound Western Ontario safety will command much attention at the CFL combine, which begins Friday in Regina. The All-Canadian and 2024 President’s Trophy finalist ended last season ranked No. 8 among the top-20 prospects for the league’s draft April 29.
  “I plan on doing both at some point but fully committing to one or the other,”
  
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• No. 12 seed McNeese holds off late Clemson charge to earn first March Madness victory

  20-03-2025 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — McNeese coach Will Wade and his boombox-toting manager are moving on in March Madness after the 12th-seeded Cowboys held off late-charging No. 5 seed Clemson 69-67 on Friday in the first bracket buster of the NCAA Tournament.
  Brando Murray scored 14 of his 21 points in a stifling first half, when the Southland Conference school from Lake Charles, Louisiana, held Clemson to 13 points. After falling behind by as many as 24, the Tigers rallied, erasing most of a 12-poi
  
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• World Happiness Report lists Canada as happiest G7 country

  20-03-2025 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada may be the happiest member of the G7, according to the recently released World Happiness report, but it’s taken quite a tumble over the past couple of decades.
  The report, edited by a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has Canada at No. 18, with the next closest G7 nation being Germany at No. 22.
  The United Kingdom and United States follow in 23rd and 24th place respectively, the lowest position for the U.S. since the report started. Finland finished first for the ei
  
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• B.C. Wildfire Service sees record number of applications for 2025 season: province

  20-03-2025 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia Wildfire Service has recorded its highest-ever number of applicants ahead of the 2025 season while expanding First Nations recruitment.
  A statement from the Forests Ministry says the service has received more than 1,700 applications since October, the highest number ever received.
  Nearly 580 of those came in January, the highest number in a single month.
  There are about 200 openings for new crew members each year, with about 1,300 wildland firefighters in to
  
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• Liberals vow to cut GST for first-time homebuyers purchasing homes for $1M or less

  20-03-2025 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will scrap the GST for first-time homebuyers who purchase a home with a sale price at or below $1 million.
  Carney promised the measure during his leadership campaign and it also matches a similar promise made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre last fall.
  Carney made the announcement in Edmonton just three days before he is widely expected to call a federal election.
  Carney says the commitment will save Canadians up to $50,000 on
  
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• Poll suggests Canadians are growing more alarmed by U.S. tariffs and aggression

  20-03-2025 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression.
  The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing threats facing Canada today — a 13 point spike since the March 3 survey.
  The poll also suggests that people in Quebec are most concerned about tariffs, Trump and U.S. aggre
  
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• Ottawa lands Chignecto Isthmus deal with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

  20-03-2025 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces.
  Ottawa announced Thursday it will contribute $325 million to the project, while the two provinces committed to spending $162.5 million each.
  A key transportation corridor, the isthmus includes a section of the Trans-Canada Highway and a Canadian National railway line. An
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP turn to public to help find missing 51-year-old man - The Abbotsford News

  20-03-2025 22:23 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack RCMP turn to public to help find missing 51-year-old man  The Abbotsford News
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP turn to public to help find missing 51-year-old man - Chilliwack Progress

  20-03-2025 22:22 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack RCMP turn to public to help find missing 51-year-old man  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: Missing 51-year-old Chilliwack man found 'safe and sound' - Chilliwack Progress

  20-03-2025 22:20 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Missing 51-year-old Chilliwack man found 'safe and sound'  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Northern Super League’s six clubs unveil kits, league prepares for launch

  20-03-2025 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — As the clock ticked down to the Northern Super League’s launch,president Christina Litz made the rounds to check in on its clubs’ final preparations.
  The reveal of each of the six clubs’ kits Thursday was another signpost on the road to the Canadian women’s professional soccer league that opens April 16 when Calgary’s Wild FC visit Vancouver Rise FC at BC Place.
  “It’s amazing going to these different markets and seeing how much things hav
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek public assistance to locate missing man - Fraser Valley Today

  20-03-2025 22:17 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek public assistance to locate missing man

  20-03-2025 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Jeffery Charles Zehr, 51, who was reported missing on March 11.
  Zehr, who also goes by Charlie, is described as a Caucasian man, five-foot-eight with a grey beard.
  Police and family are concerned for his well-being.
  Anyone with information on Zehr’s whereabouts is asked to call Chilliwack RCMP at 604-792-4611 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
  
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• One of 126 urban deer tests positive for wasting disease in B.C.

  20-03-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — One of 126 urban deer culled in southeastern British Columbia to determine if they were sick has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.The government culled the animals in Cranbrook and Kimberley last month to determine if the disease was spreading in the urban deer population.Five other cases of chronic wasting have been confirmed in the southeast corner of the province in the last year.The province says chronic wasting disease is a fatal infection that spreads in deer, e
  
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• Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to assassinate an Iranian American journalist in New York

  20-03-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by the Iranian government.
  The verdict was returned at a federal court in New York on Thursday, ending a two-week trial that featured dramatic testimony from a hired gunman and Alinejad, an author, activist and contributor to Voice of America.
  Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat A
  
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• Georgetown scholar detained over American wife’s Palestinian ties, lawyer says

  20-03-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule.
  U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered that Badar Khan Suri “shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order.”
  Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University and citizen of India, was arrested Monday nig
  
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• Artists of all skill levels wanted for anonymous art show in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  20-03-2025 22:01 via news.google.com
  Artists of all skill levels wanted for anonymous art show in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ex-PM Stephen Harper says he’s perplexed, heartbroken by Canada-India tensions

  20-03-2025 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper told a conference in India last month that he doesn’t “entirely understand” why Canada has such a poor relationship with India, and suggested the Liberal party has become infiltrated by Sikh activists who want to carve a separate state out of India.
  “Frankly, I have been heartbroken to watch the steady deterioration of this relationship under my successor. I don’t think I entirely understand why that is,” Har
  
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• Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions

  20-03-2025 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.
  Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979.
  And the White House says the dep
  
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• Trade war windfall for B.C. food bank — hundreds of kilograms of unsold U.S. produce

  20-03-2025 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The trend toward buying Canadian has created a silver lining for a food bank in Nanaimo, B.C., which has been flooded with hundreds of kilograms of American produce.Peter Sinclair, executive director of Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, says a food recovery program allows them to accept surplus or unsold items from their grocery store partners and wholesalers.
  He says when the talk of tariffs between Canada and the United States started, they saw a jump in donations of American produce of
  
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• Francis enjoys solid start, Santander drives in three as Blue Jays beat Rays 4-1

  20-03-2025 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN — Bowden Francis earned a win with by far his best outing this spring, Anthony Santander drove in three runs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Thursday.
  Francis, who entered the game with a 9.00 earned-run average, pitched 4 1/3 innings of no-hit ball until giving up a single to Tanner Murray.
  He finished his day allowing three hits, including Jonathan Aranda’s solo home run in the sixth, two walks, and four strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
  Four Toronto re
  
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• Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher announces mother’s death: ‘Proud of her and her fight’

  20-03-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GARDEN CITY — Brendan Gallagher pounded his heart and looked skyward after scoring a goal earlier this week.
  The Montreal Canadiens forward revealed why Thursday.
  Gallagher said he’s been playing through an emotional time since his mother, Della, died earlier this month after a long battle with brain cancer.
  “Really proud of her and her fight and her courage and everything she taught,” Gallagher told reporters. “Everything I am is from her, so it’s a special r
  
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• Canada’s Sarah Mitton aims to cement shot put legacy at world indoor championships

  20-03-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Sarah Mitton has her sights set on legacy heading into the world indoor track and field championships.
  The 28-year-old from Brooklyn, N.S., enters the event, which runs from Friday to Sunday in Nanjing, China, as the reigning champion in the women’s shot put. Last year, she won gold throwing 20.22 metres in Glasgow, Scotland, for her first world title.
  “It’s funny, I’ve never gone into a championship as the defending champion,” Mitton said. “World indoors last
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advances to third round at Miami Open

  20-03-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Leylah Fernandez advanced to the third round of the Miami Open tennis tournament with a 7-6 (1), 6-3 win over Alycia Parks of the United States on Thursday.
  After dominating the first-set tiebreaker, Fernandez carried that momentum into the second set where she scored three breaks while surrendering one and earned 59.3 per cent of total points.
  Fernandez improved to 2-0 against Parks, with their only other meeting coming at the 2024 Australian Open.
  The 22-year-old from Laval, Que.
  
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• Who is Kirsty Coventry, the next president of the International Olympic Committee?

  20-03-2025 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political opposition.
  Kirsty Coventry, 41, was elected to one of the most powerful jobs in sports on Thursday, becoming the first woman and first African to lead the Olympic movement.
  She will begin her eight-year term in charge of the IOC in June.
  Coventry was the back-
  
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• Ex-student activist Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, with Québec solidaire, to leave politics

  20-03-2025 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of the left-wing Québec solidaire party who rose to prominence during the 2012 student strike, says he is stepping down from the party’s leadership team.
  He resigned today as co-spokesperson and House leader, and says he will stay on as a member of the legislature for his Montreal riding until the next election, scheduled for October 2026.
  Nadeau-Dubois, 34, told reporters today he feels “worn out” from internal cri
  
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• Injured Draisaitl doubtful against Jets as Oilers opt for caution

  20-03-2025 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — It appears Leon Draisaitl’s drive for 50 goals will have to wait.
  Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said the star forward was doubtful for their game Thursday against the Western Conference-leading Winnipeg Jets as Edmonton pushes for top spot in the Pacific Division.
  Draisaitl sustained an undisclosed injury in Edmonton’s 7-1 win over Utah on Tuesday and is considered “game-to-game.”Knoblauch says it’s better to give star players some rest so injuri
  
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• Former Michigan assistant coach charged with hacking computer accounts for athlete’s intimate photos

  20-03-2025 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A former NFL and University of Michigan assistant football coach hacked into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes seeking intimate photos and videos, according to an indictment filed Thursday.
  Matt Weiss, who worked for the Baltimore Ravens before joining the University of Michigan in 2021, was charged with 14 counts of unauthorized computer access and 10 counts of identity theft.
  The indictment was filed in federal court in Detroit.
  Weiss was fired in 2023
  
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• Sweet Spring festival kicks off the season at Greendale Acres

  20-03-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Spring is set to bloom in Chilliwack as Greendale Acres Farm kicks off its seasonal festivities with the return of the Sweet Spring Flower and Animal Festival.
  The festival, running from March 27 to May 11, will welcome visitors of all ages to the farmto celebrate the beauty and bounty of spring.
  Visitors can look forward to a Tulip Pyramid, Daffodil Gardens, Dutch-inspired displays and a U-Pick Tulip field. Returning favourites include the Greendale Express train, Jumping Pil
  
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• Loutitt leaps to bronze at final women’s World Cup ski jump stop

  20-03-2025 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAHTI — Canada’s Alex Loutitt won the bronze medal in the large hill competition at the final World Cup women’s ski jumping event of the season.
  The 21-year-old from Calgary, who was ninth in qualifying, reached her third podium of the season with a combined distance of 275.1 metres over her two jumps.
  Nika Prevc of Slovenia finished comfortably in first with a total of 302.8 metres. Selina Freitag of Germany took silver with 277.4 metres.
  Loutitt won the large hill event at a
  
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• PM Carney returns to Edmonton, meets with Premier Smith, skates with Oilers

  20-03-2025 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — With reports swirling of a weekend election call, Prime Minister Mark Carney came to Edmonton on Thursday to meet with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, announce more money to rebuild fire-ravaged Jasper and go for a skate with the Edmonton Oilers.
  Canada’s 24th prime minster, wearing a blue Oilers jersey with 24 and Carney on the back, took to the ice with the National Hockey League team for its morning skate at Rogers Place.
  He spoke to coaches, joined players in a passing
  
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• Hospital cafe now offering hot $5 meals to Chilliwack seniors - Chilliwack Progress

  20-03-2025 19:09 via news.google.com
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• Injured Toronto FC fullback/wingback Richie Laryea in England to see a specialist

  20-03-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC has sent fullback/wingback Richie Laryea to England to see a specialist to get a handle on his hamstring injury.
  Laryea, 30, has not played since March 1 when he was forced to leave Toronto’s 4-2 loss at Orlando in the 22nd minute. The Canadian international missed three months last season after going down in the season opener, subsequently undergoing surgery in March 2024 to repair the same hamstring in London, England, by Dr. Fares Haddad.“There are a cou
  
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• Air raid sirens sound in Jerusalem after a missile launch from Yemen, Israeli army says

  20-03-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Air raid sirens have sounded in central Jerusalem and other parts of Israel after a missile launch from Yemen, the Israeli army announced.
  The launch came hours after Israel said it intercepted another missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group.
  The Iranian-backed Houthis resumed attacks on Israel this week following the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  DEIR-AL-BALAH, Gaza
  
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• MP Strahl awards King Charles III Coronation Medal to 20 local residents

  20-03-2025 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl has awarded 20 residents of the region with the King Charles III Coronation Medal, recognizing their leadership, service and dedication to the community.
  The award, created to mark the King’s coronation, is being given to 30,000 Canadians. Each MP could nominate 20 recipients, and Strahl received hundreds of community nominations.
  “The King’s Coronation Medal offers a meaningful way to recognize individuals from across Canada wh
  
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• Groundbreaking ceremony heralds 56-bed supportive housing project in Hope - Chilliwack Progress

  20-03-2025 18:14 via news.google.com
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• Federal union concerned about planned cuts to Translation Bureau

  20-03-2025 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A major federal union says it’s worried about a plan to eliminate more than 300 positions at Canada’s Translation Bureau.
  In a news release, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees says it’s condemning a five-year business plan that would shrink the bureau’s workforce by almost 25 per cent.
  The Translation Bureau is a federal service under Public Services and Procurement Canada that provides translation and interpretation to government department
  
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• Bank of Canada signals shift in how it sets rates amid tariff uncertainty

  20-03-2025 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The head of the Bank of Canada is signalling a shift in how the central bank sets its key interest rate as trade uncertainty with the United States makes long-term forecasting much more difficult.
  Tiff Macklem says that means monetary policymakers may be “acting quickly” when it comes to setting interest rates, rather than looking far into the horizon to stay “flexible and adaptable.”
  Macklem is in Calgary today speaking to the city’s economic develop
  
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• Oilers fan Carney practices with team before game against visiting Jets

  20-03-2025 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney joined the Edmonton Oilers on the ice Thursday as the NHL team prepared for a game against the Western Conference-leading Winnipeg Jets.
  Carney took the ice wearing No. 24. He was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Canada on March 14 after winning the Liberal leadership race to replace outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau.
  The 60-year-old Carney grew up in Edmonton during the Oilers’ glory days in the 1980s.
  He said during the Oilers’
  
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• Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA to host office opening - Fraser Valley Today

  20-03-2025 17:53 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s deal to export hydrogen to Germany awaits more federal funding decisions

  20-03-2025 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A deal to send Canadian green hydrogen exports to Germany is awaiting Ottawa’s final decision on funding and a verdict from European regulators on whether the project has adequate competition.
  Canada and Germany made a big show of signing a hydrogen agreement in August 2022, and former prime minister Justin Trudeau and outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to the west coast of Newfoundland to finalize the deal.
  Last July, Canada and Germany jointly pledged $600 million
  
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• Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA to host office opening

  20-03-2025 17:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á’a:líya Warbus is inviting constituents to an open house at her new community office on March 26.
  The event runs from 4 to 6 p.m., giving residents a chance to meet Warbus and her team.
  “With so many new MLAs elected last October, it was no small task to get us all into offices,” Warbus said. “But I’m finally here with my team, and we’d all love to meet you.”
  Elected on Oct. 19, 2024, Warbus wa
  
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• Mark Carney will maintain oil and gas production cap, environment minister says

  20-03-2025 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Environment Minister Terry Duguid says a Mark Carney government will maintain a cap on oil and gas production.
  In an interview with The Canadian Press, Duguid says Canada wants the energy but not the pollution that comes with its production.
  The Liberals introduced draft regulations back in November that require producers to cut emissions by about one-third over the next eight years.
  The federal government also proposed a cap-and-trade system, although the plan was criticized by A
  
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• Top Canadian breeder says U.S. tariffs could cripple horse-racing industry

  20-03-2025 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  David Anderson doesn’t know what will happen April 2, but he is preparing for the worst.
  Earlier this month, United States President Donald Trump paused proposed 25 per cent tariffs on some Canadian and Mexican goods until April 2. Should the U.S. go ahead with its tariffs, Anderson said that would be catastrophic for Canada’s horse-racing industry.
  Anderson would know. He operates Anderson Farms — one of Canada’s leading thoroughbred and standardbred breeding operations
  
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• Minnesota state senator resigns after he was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution

  20-03-2025 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota state senator who was caught in a sting operation resigned under fire Thursday after he was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution.
  Republican Justin Eichorn, of Grand Rapids, submitted his resignation in a letter to Gov. Tim Walz, Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson said in a statement.
  “This is the right thing to do for his family and the Senate,” Johnson said. “We are ready to move on and do the important work that needs to
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Ontario sees another sharp increase in measles cases

  20-03-2025 16:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ontario has seen another sharp increase in measles cases over the last week as the highly infectious disease spreads among mostly unvaccinated people.Public Health Ontario is reporting 470 measles cases since an outbreak began in October. That’s an increase of 120 cases since March 14.
  More coming.Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs sign defenceman John Prokop to one-year contract

  20-03-2025 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman John Prokop to a one-year contract, the NHL club announced Thursday.
  His contract will begin in the 2025-26 season.Prokop will join the American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies for the remainder of this season on an amateur tryout.
  The 23-year-old from Wausau, Wis., has posted 27 points (eight goals, 19 assists) in 36 games with Union College this NCAA season.Prokop, a six-foot-three, 195-pound rearguard, was named to the NCAA
  
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• Oklahoma executes a man who killed a woman 20 years ago in a random home invasion and robbery

  20-03-2025 16:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago.
  Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m., a prison official told The Associated Press. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025.
  Grissom and a co-defendant, Jessie Floyd Johns, were convicted of killing of Amber Matthews, 23, and wounding her friend, Dreu Kopf, at Kopf
  
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• American man held by the Taliban for more than 2 years has been released, the State Department says

  20-03-2025 15:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal brokered by U.S. and Qatari negotiators, the State Department said Thursday.
  George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January. He was seized by the Taliban’s intelligence services in December 2022 and was designated by the U.S. government as wr
  
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