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• Iowa law banning school library books that depict sex acts on hold again after a new federal ruling

  25-03-2025 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa cannot, for now, continue to enforce part of its book ban law, a federal judge said Tuesday, giving major publishers that sued the state the second temporary reprieve they requested.
  The new decision from U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher again temporarily blocked the part of the law that prohibits school libraries and classrooms from carrying books that depict sex acts.
  The law was first approved by Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Rey
  
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• Defending champion Argentina qualifies for the 2026 World Cup after Bolivia fails to beat Uruguay

  25-03-2025 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Defending champion Argentina qualified for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday when Bolivia failed to beat Uruguay.
  Argentina leads South American qualifying and hosts archrival Brazil at the Monumental de Nunez Stadium later Tuesday.
  South America has six direct berths in the next World Cup, a 48-team tournament to be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
  Argentina was assured of one of the six spots when seventh-place Bolivia drew 0-0 with Uruguay in El
  
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• WHL apologizes for past Chilliwack mistakes, pledges future loyalty - Chilliwack Progress

  25-03-2025 23:09 via news.google.com
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• WHL apologizes for past Chilliwack mistakes, pledges future loyalty - Abbotsford News

  25-03-2025 23:09 via news.google.com
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• B.C. to bring in legislation to end its carbon tax on consumers starting April 1

  25-03-2025 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government says it will table legislation on Monday that eliminates the consumer carbon tax in the province.
  It says in a statement that the tax will be removed April 1, and it is notifying fuel sellers and natural gas retailers now so they stop collecting the tax as of that date.B.C. Premier David Eby said earlier this month that the province would kill the consumer tax after Prime Minister Mark Carney made the same announcement about the federal tax.Th
  
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• Trump signs sweeping action overhauling US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

  25-03-2025 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.
  The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to p
  
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• B.C. carbon tax to be axed effective April 1

  25-03-2025 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The provincial government announced Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 25) that the consumer carbon tax will be eliminated on April 1.
  According to a news release, the province says people will see immediate savings through the elimination of the consumer carbon tax in British Columbia.
  With the federal government removing the federal carbon tax on consumers, the B.C. government claims it is not only halting the scheduled tax increase, it is tabling legislation on Monday, March 31, 2025, t
  
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• AbbyPD investigates sexual assault at Mill Park

  25-03-2025 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department says police are investigating a sexual assault that occurred Monday night (Mar. 24) at Mill Lake Park in Abbotsford.
  According to a statement from Sgt. Paul Walker, AbbyPD patrol officers responded to a report of a sexual assault at Mill Lake Park that happened at about 6:40 p.m. A female victim told police she was walking westbound on the path beside the lack between Ashley Way and Alta Avenue. She was alone when an unknown
  
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• Update: Power restored after single-vehicle collision on Luckakuck Way in Chilliwack

  25-03-2025 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UPDATE 2:32 p.m., TUESDAY: Power has now been restored to the Cottonwood Centre mall and surrounding businesses after the power outage at 11:36 a.m.
  Original story below: 
  CHILLIWACK — A motor vehicle accident on Luckakuck Way near Envision Financial has led to a power outage involving more than 550 customers in Chilliwack, including the Cottonwood Centre mall.
  According to scanner dispatch, Chilliwack Fire, B.C. Ambulance and Chilliwack RCMP were dispatched shortly before noon Tuesda
  
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• Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

  25-03-2025 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, a Texas prosecutor said Tuesday.The announcement by El Paso County District Attorney James Montoya is a significant turn in the criminal case of Patrick Crusius, 26, who was already sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty in 2023 to federal hate crime charges.
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• Record deficit, economic stimulus and other highlights of Quebec’s 2025-26 budget

  25-03-2025 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard introduced his budget on Tuesday, under a cloud of possible U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods that he forecasts will average 10 per cent in the next two years. Here are some highlights:
  — Deficit of $13.6 billion, or 2.2 per cent of GDP, including payments of about $2.2 billion into a fund dedicated to paying down debt.— Return to a balanced budget by fiscal year 2029-30.
  — Total spending on government operations of $156.1
  
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• Blue Jays sign catcher Alejandro Kirk to US$58-million, five-year extension

  25-03-2025 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have signed catcher Alejandro Kirk to a US$58-million, five-year extension, the team announced Tuesday.
  The 26-year-old from Tijuana, Mexico, hit .253 last season with five home runs and 54 runs batted in. Twenty-eight of his RBIs came over the last two months of the season.
  Defensively, threw out a career-high 27 attempted base stealers, fifth-most among catchers in Major League Baseball.
  Kirk was an all-star and a Silver Slugger in 2022 when he batted .285
  
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• Update: Power still out at 1:40 p.m. after vehicle strikes hydro pole on Luckakuck

  25-03-2025 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UPDATE 1:40 p.m., TUESDAY: Power is still out for over 550 customers as of 1:40 p.m. Tuesday due to the single-vehicle collision near Envision Financial. The vehicle is a City of Chilliwack operations work van.
  Original story below: 
  CHILLIWACK — A motor vehicle accident on Luckakuck Way near Envision Financial has led to a power outage involving more than 550 customers in Chilliwack, including the Cottonwood Centre mall.
  According to scanner dispatch, Chilliwack Fire, B.C. Ambulance
  
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• US Vice President Vance to join his wife on Friday trip to Greenland

  25-03-2025 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake.
  “We’re going to check out how things are going there,” Vance said in a video posted to social media. “Speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it’s important to protecting the security of the entire world.&
  
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• Gilles, Poirier sticking to their plan with gold in sight at figure skating worlds

  25-03-2025 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  With the top of the podium closer than ever, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are keeping to the same tried and true script.
  Canada’s top ice dancers head into this week’s world figure skating championships in Boston with momentum following a breakthrough victory over their American rivals at last month’s Four Continents Championships.
  Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier, from Unionville, Ont., edged two-time reigning champions — and 2022 Olympic gold medallists — Madis
  
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• B.C. drug decriminalization and safer supply associated with more overdoses: study

  25-03-2025 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A study into safer supply and drug decriminalization policies in British Columbia has found that both were associated with increased opioid overdose hospitalizations.
  The report says that there was no change in deaths associated with safer supply, while neither policy appeared to mitigate the opioid crisis that has claimed more than 16,000 lives in B.C. since being declared a public health emergency in 2016.
  The authors of the study, published in JAMA Health Forum, says it&rsqu
  
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• Vehicle strikes Chilliwack hydro pole Tuesday morning, resulting in power outage to 500+ customers

  25-03-2025 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A motor vehicle accident on Luckakuck Way near Envision Financial has led to a power outage involving more than 550 customers in Chilliwack, including the Cottonwood Centre mall.
  According to scanner dispatch, Chilliwack Fire, B.C. Ambulance and Chilliwack RCMP were dispatched shortly before noon Tuesday after a vehicle struck a hydro pole near Envision Financial.
  The occupant of the van remained in the car after the incident and is reportedly conscious and awake. The crash re
  
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• UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash - Chilliwack Progress

  25-03-2025 19:56 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit

  25-03-2025 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to suspend entry of new refugees as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system.
  Refugees conditionally approved before President Donald Trump took office must still be processed under the order from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but it allows the Republican administration to suspend new approvals.
  The appeals court panel halted a r
  
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• Beijing’s envoy calls for more trade with Canada as U.S. trade war continues

  25-03-2025 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Beijing’s ambassador to Canada says China is interested in stepping up trade with Ottawa as the U.S. continues to pursue a global trade war.
  Wang Di says Washington should not force Canada to choose between the U.S. and China because that would further destabilize the global economy.
  At a trade promotion event today hosted by the Chinese embassy in Ottawa, Wang says China’s volume of trade with Canada is still increasing, despite the tense relations of recent years.
  He
  
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• Video and 911 calls played by police detail chaos from deadly shooting in New Mexico

  25-03-2025 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Police released video footage and 911 emergency calls Tuesday depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a New Mexico park where three people were killed and 15 others were wounded during an unauthorized car show.
  One of the video recordings, taken by a bystander and shown by Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story at a news conference, showed a blue Mustang doing donuts in a parking lot just before gunfire erupts and people in a crowd
  
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• Iran qualifies for the 2026 World Cup after a 2-2 draw with Uzbekistan

  25-03-2025 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Iran qualified for the 2026 World Cup after Mehdi Taremi scored twice in a 2-2 draw with Uzbekistan on Tuesday.
  The point takes Iran to a fourth straight appearance at the World Cup and a seventh overall.
  The 48-team tournament will be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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  AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerJohn Duerden, The Associated Press
  
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• Housing project criticized by Chilliwack elected officials for multiple delays moves forward

  25-03-2025 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A supportive housing project just west of Young Road that was criticized for its repeated delays by a Chilliwack councillor is moving forward.
  Despite repeated delays that have sidelined its projected opening dates on multiple occasions, a spokesperson for B.C. Housing now says the 91-unit/bed building at 45857 Trethewey Avenue is now slated to open this fall.
  According to an email from a spokesperson last week, BC Housing says the modular housing development experienced delay
  
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• Housing project criticized by Chilliwack elected officials for multiple delays moves forward - Fraser Valley Today

  25-03-2025 18:28 via news.google.com
  Housing project criticized by Chilliwack elected officials for multiple delays moves forward  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Calgary paleontologist part of discovery of new dinosaur with 30-centimetre claws

  25-03-2025 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — A University of Calgary paleontologist is part of a discovery of a new species of dinosaur with 30-centimetre-long claws found in a Mongolian desert.
  Darla Zelenitsky says the remains of the therizinosaur were found in the Gobi desert in 2012 during the construction of a water pipeline.
  She says the species normally had three-fingered hands used to gather vegetation for food.
  Zelenitsky says this specimen evolved to have only two claws and has been named Duonychus.
  She says the D
  
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• Quebec man found in contempt of court for swastikas outside his home

  25-03-2025 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec man has been found in contempt of court for refusing to remove swastikas from outside his home in a municipality that he accuses of being “the most racist city in the world.”
  A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled earlier this month that Yahia Meddah had not taken seriously injunctions ordering him to remove the offensive signs.The swastikas first appeared last June on Meddah’s property in St-Barnabé-Sud, a community of roughly 1,000 people northea
  
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• 5 high-level CDC officials are leaving in the latest turmoil for the public health agency

  25-03-2025 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was rocked by five high-level departures on Tuesday in the latest turmoil for the nation’s top public health agency.The departures were announced at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices. The heads of five of them are stepping down, and that follows three other departures in recent weeks. This means close to a third of the agency’s top management is leaving or le
  
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• 3 heli-skiers perish in deadly B.C. avalanche: RCMP

  25-03-2025 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KASLO — Mounties in British Columbia say a deadly avalanche in southeast British Columbia has claimed the lives of three men and critically injured a fourth.
  According to a statement from B.C. RCMP, two groups of skiers had just finished skiing the bowl on Monday, March 24, just prior to 1 p.m., and were waiting in a staging area below the tree line of Clute Creek water shed. A transport helicopter was nearing the group when the pilot observed an avalanche and sounded the siren.
  One group
  
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• Canada names 23-player roster for CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship in Nicaragua

  25-03-2025 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Forward Kaylee Hunter and goalkeeper Olivia Busby, part of the Canadian squad that qualified for the CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship last month, now look to do the same with the under-17 side.
  The two have been named to Canada’s 23-player roster for the CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship, the final stage of regional qualifying for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup scheduled for Oct. 7 to Nov. 8 in Morocco.
  “This will be the first tournament format experience for so
  
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• Montreal officially replaces city hall welcome sign that included woman wearing hijab

  25-03-2025 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The City of Montreal has officially taken down a welcome sign that stirred controversy last fall because it depicted a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf.
  The sign in the lobby of the newly renovated city hall, which showed a woman wearing a hijab, drew criticism online, prompting Mayor Valérie Plante to commit to taking it down in the name of secularism.
  In the image, which is in the style of a pencil sketch, the woman is standing between two men — one who seems yo
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Three heli-skiers killed in B.C. avalanche

  25-03-2025 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KASLO, B.C. — Three men have been killed in an avalanche on the east side of Kootenay Lake in southeast B.C.RCMP say the avalanche happened in an alpine area on Monday, sweeping away a group of four heli-skiers.More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• SD33 trustee, a self-described ‘former farmer’, to run in upcoming federal election for Chilliwack-Hope

  25-03-2025 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Less than two and a half years into his first term on the Chilliwack Board of Education, a self-described former farmer and longtime community advocate will run in the upcoming federal election with a message that Chilliwack deserves better.Teri Westerby says he has stepped forward as the NDP candidate for Chilliwack-Hope in the 2025 federal election, scheduled for Saturday, April 28.“On Sunday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh launched the NDP party’s 2025 campaign for th
  
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• Capitals re-sign defenseman Jakob Chychrun to an 8-year extension worth $72 million

  25-03-2025 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jakob Chychrun in his first season with the Washington Capitals delivered them offense from their blue line that helped them become the top team in the NHL.
  Now, he’s sticking around for the long term.
  Chychrun on Tuesday re-signed on an eight-year extension worth $72 million. The smooth-skating, high-scoring defenseman will count $9 million against the salary cap from when the new deal kicks in next season through 2033.
  “Jakob is a proven, dynamic defenseman in the prime of his care
  
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• US says it brokered safe shipping in the Black Sea in talks with Ukraine and Russia

  25-03-2025 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United States said an agreement has been reached to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea as it wrapped up three days of talks Tuesday with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia on prospective steps toward peace.U.S. experts met separately with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Riyadh, and the White House issued separate joint statements about the talks with Ukraine and Russia. It said the sides have “agreed to ensure safe navigation, eli
  
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• Science in steel boxes: how research teams hitched a ride with navy to Antarctica

  25-03-2025 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Scientists who went aboard a Royal Canadian Navy mission to Antarctica say the trip demonstrated how portable labs and gear can effectively probe the ocean depths.Marine scientists have traditionally relied on specialized vessels, but there’s been a scarcity of such research ships in Canada, particularly since the Hudson, a Coast Guard oceanographic vessel, was retired in 2022.As a result, during the HMCS Margaret Brooke’s journey to the Antarctic Ocean this month, en
  
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• Agassiz prison undergoes lockdown

  25-03-2025 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Mountain Institution in Agassiz has undergone a lockdown since Friday, Correctional Service Canada announced Monday.According to a statement, the lockdown was implemented to enable staff members to conduct what correctional authorities call an exceptional search, which was ordered to ensure the safety and security of the institution, its staff, and inmates.
  Visits have been suspended until the search is completed. Normal operations will resume as soon as it is considered safe to
  
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• Sudan aid groups say 54 killed in an airstrike blamed on the miliary in Darfur

  25-03-2025 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An airstrike blamed on the Sudanese military hit a local market in Sudan’s western region, igniting a huge fire and killing at least 54 people, aid groups said Tuesday.The military denied targeting civilians.
  The strike took place Monday in the village of Tora, north of el-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur province, said Adam Rejal, a spokesman for the General Coordination, a local group helping displaced people in Darfur.The Associated Press
  
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• Border officials offer rare look inside Canada’s largest immigration holding centre

  25-03-2025 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — When Osama Al-Hadad arrived from Yemen and applied for asylum at Toronto’s Pearson airport, he was taken into custody because he lacked documentation to prove his identity.He spent over a month in Canada Border Services Agency’s immigration holding centre near the airport and was released on Feb. 19 after his identity was verified.
  But his experience wasn’t anything like a detention, he said.Al-Hadad was among 70 detainees kept there at the time for reasons that
  
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• Pressure On: First half of the season will be key for Toronto Blue Jays’ future

  25-03-2025 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — With homegrown stars Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette in the final year of their contracts and a competitive window that’s open — for now — the Toronto Blue Jays need to make a statement over the first half of the season.
  The trade-deadline sell-off during last year’s disappointing 74-88 campaign could be minor compared to what might transpire if the Blue Jays struggle over the next few months.Setting a winning tone could help Toronto build for a pote
  
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• Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini acquitted again at second trial of financial wrongdoing at FIFA

  25-03-2025 10:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MUTTENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors.
  The former FIFA president and former UEFA president were acquitted for a second time on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2 million of FIFA money in 2011.Blatter, now aged 89, gave little reaction listening to the verdict of three cantonal (state) judges acting as a federal criminal appeals cou
  
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• In the news today: Poll suggests Liberal lead over Conservatives is growing

  25-03-2025 09:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…Liberals hold six-point lead over Conservatives: Leger poll
  A new poll suggests that the federal Liberals are widening their lead over the Conservatives. The poll, conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press, suggests that 44 per cent of decided voters will vote Liberal in the upcoming election. That’s compared to 38 per cent who say they’ll vote Conservative. The poll was conducted over the w
  
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• Quebec budget expected to include record deficit, measures to address tariff threats

  25-03-2025 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec’s finance minister is set to table a budget today with a focus on shoring up businesses and workers as U.S. tariff threats continue to sow economic turmoil.
  Eric Girard has confirmed the budget for the coming fiscal year will include a projected deficit of more than $11 billion, surpassing the record set last year.
  He told reporters Monday that the province is in a difficult economic position due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of across-the-board
  
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• Liberals hold six-point lead over Conservatives: Leger poll

  25-03-2025 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are pushing further ahead of the Conservatives in voter support, and almost one in two Canadians surveyed said they think the Liberals will win the election, a new poll suggests.
  The survey, conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press, reports that 44 per cent of decided voters surveyed would vote Liberal in the upcoming election, ahead of the Conservatives at 38 per cent.
  The poll surveyed 1,599 Canadians between March 21 and March 23, which includes the first
  
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• Internal report finds major flaws in program to recruit foreign nurses to Quebec

  25-03-2025 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Foreign nurses recruited to Quebec through a provincial government program faced “major obstacles” upon their arrival, including a lack of housing, child care and transportation, according to an internal report.A rigorous training schedule, culture shock and fear of failure caused severe stress among the recruits, says the report produced by the province’s Immigration Department. It suggests they were not properly informed about the demands of the program or th
  
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• WHL apologizes for past Chilliwack mistakes, pledges future loyalty - theprogress.com

  25-03-2025 08:00 via news.google.com
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• UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash - theprogress.com

  25-03-2025 08:00 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash  theprogress.com
  
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• UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash - The Chilliwack Progress

  25-03-2025 08:00 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Power restored to busy commercial hub in Chilliwack following crash  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• A Japanese court orders the dissolution of the Unification Church, report says

  25-03-2025 07:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Tuesday issued an order to dissolve the Unification Church, upholding the government request for a revocation, NHK television said.
  Tokyo District Court’s revocation of the church’s legal status means it will lose its tax-exempt privilege and must liquidate its assets.
  The church can still appeal the decision to higher courts.
  The order follows a request by Japan’s Education Ministry in October 2023 to dissolve the influential South Korea-
  
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• Update: Chilliwack fire chief confirms no injuries or animal fatalities during Monday’s massive barn fire - Fraser Valley Today

  25-03-2025 06:26 via news.google.com
  Update: Chilliwack fire chief confirms no injuries or animal fatalities during Monday’s massive barn fire  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• NHL roundup: Stars score twice in a minute to blank Wild 3-0

  25-03-2025 05:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger shut out his home-state team stopping 32 shots, Wyatt Johnston and Matt Duchene scored 58 seconds apart late in the second period, and the Dallas Stars blanked the Minnesota Wild 3-0 on Monday night.
  Oettinger, who grew up about 30 kilometres south of the Twin Cities in Lakeville, Minn., is 7-0-2 in regular-season play against the Wild and has an eight-game home winning streak beginning in late January.
  Johnston deflected a shot from the blue line by Thomas Har
  
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