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• Chilliwack-Hope representative Mark Strahl kicks off re-election campaign

  28-03-2025 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The current Member of Parliament for Chilliwack-Hope is seeking re-election, and he’s officially kicking off his campaign this weekend.
  In a statement released Monday, Mark Strahl announced that he will be running as the Conservative Party candidate for the federal election in April.
  “I was born and raised here and raised my own family here, and it has been an incredible honour to represent the people of Chilliwack–Hope since 2011,” said Strahl.Accordin
  
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• Chilliwack-Hope representative Mark Strahl kicks off re-election campaign - Fraser Valley Today

  28-03-2025 23:51 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack-Hope representative Mark Strahl kicks off re-election campaign  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Sochi Olympic champion Jacobs wearing Canada colours again at men’s curling worlds

  28-03-2025 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOOSE JAW, Sask. — It has been over a decade since Brad Jacobs has had the Maple Leaf on his back at a major curling event. Putting on Canada’s colours again Friday at the Temple Gardens Centre was a feeling that was tough to describe.
  “We’ve been looking forward to this day for a really long time,” Jacobs said. “There’s nowhere else we’d rather be.”
  Jacobs, vice Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert will represent Canada at
  
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• Chock and Bates lead for US at world figure skating championships as they chase 3rd straight title

  28-03-2025 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates built a big cushion Friday night as they chase a third consecutive world title, scoring a season-best 90.18 points for their rhythm dance to lead Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier.
  In what has fast become the best rivalry in figure skating, Gilles and Poirier scored 86.44 points to their dance, set to the most American of music: The Beach Boys. Then the American team followed them to the ice, and Chock and Bates —
  
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• Canada calls in forward Nyah Rose as injury replacement for Evelyne Viens

  28-03-2025 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nyah Rose has replaced injured forward Evelyne Viens on Canada’s roster for a pair of international women’s soccer friendlies against Argentina in B.C.
  Canada Soccer said Viens had suffered a “minor muscle injury: with her Italian club side AS Roma.
  Rose, the younger sister of Canadian defender Jade Rose, plays collegiate soccer at Southern Methodist University. The 19-year-old from Markham, Ont., has won two senior caps for Canada already.
  The seventh-ranked Canadian women hos
  
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• Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

  28-03-2025 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development.The three-judge panel found the Trump administration is likely to show that DOGE’s involvement doesn’t violate the Constitution.The appeals court blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland, who found that DOGE’s actions violated the appointments clause.
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• 3 dead and more than 200 rescued in South Texas after severe storms flood streets

  28-03-2025 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down an airport. At least three people died.Hidalgo County officials said in a statement that they did not immediately have more information about the three deaths except that they involved law enforcement efforts.
  In Harlingen, officials said their city
  
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• Michael Bublé says hosting Junos speaks for his national pride

  28-03-2025 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Michael Bublé says he’s letting his actions speak for his national pride by hosting the Juno Awards in Vancouver this weekend, as Canada-U.S. tensions surge in the background.
  Bublé says he doesn’t want to “add to the energy of a troll” by being too vocal amid the dispute but is instead focusing his energy as a proud Canadian on “why we’re so special” and “unique.”
  He says he doesn’t take the duty of cele
  
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• Scottie Scheffler ties his own course record with 62 for the lead in the Houston Open

  28-03-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Scottie Scheffler opened with two straight birdies and was on his way in the Houston Open, tying the Memorial Park course record he set in 2021 with an 8-under 62 for a one-shot lead among the early starters Friday.
  It was the most complete round of the year for Scheffler, who missed the first month of the season recovering from a glass puncture in his right palm that required minor surgery.
  The only green he missed was on No. 2 — his 11th of the round — and he h
  
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• Brazil fires coach Dorival Júnior after worst defeat in World Cup qualifying

  28-03-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil coach Dorival Júnior was fired on Friday after 14 months amid poor results and disappointing performances from the national team.
  Júnior’s sacking by Brazilian Football Confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues came three days after a 4-1 defeat to bitter rival Argentina in Buenos Aires, Brazil’s heaviest defeat in a World Cup qualifier.
  Júnior’s replacement has yet to be picked.
  Brazil is fifth in South American qualifying for
  
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• Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million ahead of Supreme Court election

  28-03-2025 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court was to be decided.
  Attorney General Josh Kaul asked the Dane County Circuit Court to issue an emergency injunction to stop the Musk event, which he announced on his social media platform X. Musk initially said the money would go to voters in th
  
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• Canada sevens captain Olivia Apps scores in Hong Kong to reach 300-point milestone

  28-03-2025 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONG KONG — Captain Olivia Apps reached the 300-point plateau in HSBC SVNS play while Taylor Perry scored her first try in World Rugby’s elite sevens series as Canada opened play at the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens with a win and a loss Friday.
  Canada opened with a 24-17 victory over No. 5 Japan before dropping a 26-15 decision to No. 2 Australia. It will wrap up Pool C play against No. 12 Spain.
  The Hong Kong event is being held at the new Kai Tak Stadium.
  The Canadian women stand s
  
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• Overnight closures planned on Highway 1 near Langley for bridge sign removal

  28-03-2025 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit is urging drivers to plan ahead as crews remove an overhead sign on Highway 1 eastbound near the 264th Street interchange late tonight, March 28.Between midnight and 4:30 a.m., there will be 20-minute intermittent eastbound lane closures to allow for the safe removal of the bridge sign. Emergency vehicle access will be maintained, and traffic will be routed between the closure periods.
  Drivers can avoid traffic stoppages on the east
  
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• Fight on in southern Alberta to save Tyra the mega-popular tourist-luring dinosaur

  28-03-2025 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Tyra the Tyrannosaurus, the lovable landmark that towers over the Drumheller skyline in the heart of the Canadian Badlands, is facing an extinction-level event.
  The 25-metre-high attraction — billed as the World’s Largest Dinosaur, and the backdrop to hundreds of thousands of tourist photos over a quarter of a century — is set to become history by 2029.
  But the fight over her fate may have just begun in this town that sits northeast of Calgary.
  The Drumheller an
  
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• New Abbotsford long-term care facility set to go to public hearing Monday

  28-03-2025 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBTOSFORD — After some consultation with the public, a 200-bed long-term care facility could soon be built near the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre.At the March 11 Council meeting, City of Abbotsford staff explained Fraser Health’s plans to build two buildings just south of the Maplewood House long-term care facility: one for childcare and one six-story long-term care facility.That parcel of land is currently zoned for mid-rise residential units, so the City would nee
  
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• Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies

  28-03-2025 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent agencies handling labor issues from their respective posts in the federal government.
  A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed to lift orders blocking the Trump administration from removing Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.
  On March 4, U.S. D
  
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• Toronto FC coach hopes to add at least one player before transfer window closes

  28-03-2025 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Winless Toronto FC is looking to add to its roster with speculation that Swiss midfielder Maxime Dominguez is close to joining the team.
  The MLS primary transfer window closes April 23.
  “We’re in discussions with a couple of players. And we’ve looked at a number of players,” Toronto coach Robin Fraser said Friday. “And I certainly expect that we will add at least one player between now and then.
  “Certainly, we look forward to whatever we can do
  
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• Respiratory season ends, B.C. launching spring COVID-19 vaccination campaign

  28-03-2025 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s top doctor says respiratory illness season has come to an end, but the province will soon launch a spring COVID-19 immunization campaign and encourage everyone to ensure they’re fully protected against measles.
  Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says COVID-19 hospitalizations have hit the lowest level since 2020, while respiratory cases have been declining.Still, Henry says there have been resurgences in spring and summer in the past, and the province is fo
  
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• B.C. Premier David Eby walking back tariff bill after ‘anxiety’ from stakeholders

  28-03-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government is walking back a key portion of its controversial tariff response law, admitting the proposed legislation “didn’t get the balance right.”
  He says the legislation known as Bill 7 needs appropriate “safeguards” after a wave of criticism about potential overreach.
  Eby says the government has emergency powers for natural disasters,and this bill was designed to give the government emergency powers
  
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• Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser rates Whitecaps as the best Vancouver team he has seen

  28-03-2025 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser doesn’t hesitate when asked about the Vancouver Whitecaps, who visit BMO Field on Saturday.
  “The best Vancouver team, I think, I’ve seen,” said Fraser. “The age profile of their team is really good. They have a lot of players who are right in that sweet spot of not being young but not being old and are quite experienced.
  “With the new coach (Denmark’s Jesper Sorensen), they are very forward-thinking. They&rsq
  
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• Chilliwack mayor skipped WHL news conference 'for personal reasons', says no disrespect intended - The Province

  28-03-2025 20:34 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack mayor skipped WHL news conference 'for personal reasons', says no disrespect intended  The Province
  
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• Vancouver police deploying big presence to ‘maintain order’ at anti-Tesla protests

  28-03-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver police say they are investigating 28 anti-Tesla incidents and will deploy more than 130 extra officers to “maintain order” at protests targeting the electric carmaker this weekend.
  The force says in a statement that the incidents targeting Tesla are suspected to be politically motivated and all have occurred since Jan. 20.
  It says 19 incidents were at dealerships and charging stations, including “hateful words and symbols spray-painted on buildings,
  
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• Bobsled officials rave about Cortina track, a good sign for 2026 Olympics being held there

  28-03-2025 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Italy appears to be one big step closer to having the sliding events at next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics on its own track after all.
  The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said Friday that it has declared this week’s testing period at the Cortina d’Ampezzo track “successful” and that it looks forward to the 2026 Olympics being held at the rebuilt track.
  That’s not the official word — that will likely come from the International Olympic Commi
  
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• Police seize phones, meth during week-long lockdown in Agassiz prison

  28-03-2025 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has now announced the end of a lockdown in Mountain Institution that was put in place last week.On March 21, a lockdown began at the medium-security prison in Agassiz so staff members could conduct an exceptional search, which was ordered to ensure the safety and security of staff and inmates at the institution.During the search, officers were able to seize contraband such as cell phones, phone chargers, and methamphetamines.
  The lockdown
  
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• Canada’s most wanted: Quebec street gang leader arrested in Rome hideout

  28-03-2025 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s most wanted fugitive has been arrested in Italy after more than a year at large.
  Dave (Pik) Turmel, alleged by police to be the head of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia, was arrested in Rome on Thursday after local police were tipped off about his presence in the Italian capital.
  Quebec City police are holding a news conference this afternoon about Turmel’s capture.
  In a news release today, Italian authorities say police burst into a vacation home where
  
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• Memphis Grizzlies fire Taylor Jenkins, franchise’s winningest coach

  28-03-2025 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Memphis Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins, their winningest coach, on Friday with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason.
  Still sitting at No. 5 in the Western Conference standings, the Grizzlies decided to dump Jenkins anyway without immediately announcing an interim coach.
  Jenkins led the Grizzlies for six seasons. He was let go with the team on the verge of playing three home games in a four-day span starting Saturday — first
  
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• Memphis Grizzlies part ways with coach Taylor Jenkins, franchise’s winningest coach

  28-03-2025 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies have parted ways with their winningest coach, Taylor Jenkins, with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason.
  The franchise announced the decision Friday. Jenkins was in his sixth season as Memphis’ coach as the Grizzlies struggled on a West Coast road trip.
  Memphis lost the first two games at Sacramento and in Portland and still have games left in Los Angeles against the Clippers, at
  
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• ‘He can make you look stupid’: NHL goalies on the challenge of facing Alex Ovechkin

  28-03-2025 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mackenzie Blackwood can describe the sequence down to its finest detail.
  The spot on the ice. How the shot went in. And, of course, which player fired the puck by his ear before there was time to react.
  Alex Ovechkin blasted the 700th regular-season goal of a banner NHL career past the then-New Jersey Devils goaltender in February 2020.
  “One-timer from the dot,” recalled Blackwood, now with the Colorado Avalanche. “Off the elbow (where post meets crossbar) and in … it wa
  
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• Thrifty Boutique fashion show struts back into Chilliwack for 7th year - Fraser Valley Today

  28-03-2025 17:40 via news.google.com
  Thrifty Boutique fashion show struts back into Chilliwack for 7th year  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Thrifty Boutique fashion show struts back into Chilliwack for 7th year

  28-03-2025 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Models of all shapes, ages and sizes will be hitting the catwalk at Evergreen Hall again for the Thrifty Boutique’s annual Fashionista Fashion Show.While last year’s show went “classy and a little bit sassy”, the boutique’s 7th runway will be filled with more “Vintage Vibes” as more than 50 timeless, thrifted looks will be showcased at the event.Source: Vickie Legere / Chilliwack Hospice Society
  Each $30-ticket also gives access to a c
  
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• Chilliwack mayor apologizes for 'disrespect' shown to the WHL - The Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2025 17:31 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack mayor apologizes for 'disrespect' shown to the WHL  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack mayor apologizes for 'disrespect' shown to the WHL - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2025 17:31 via news.google.com
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• Vance and wife tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit

  28-03-2025 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.
  The revised trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory comes as relations between the U.S. and the Nordic country have soured after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that the
  
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• Estate of late Savoura founder sues helicopter company in 2019 deadly Quebec crash

  28-03-2025 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A United States helicopter company is facing a $50-million lawsuit in the 2019 crash that killed the founder of a Quebec greenhouse farming company and his teenage son.
  The estate of Stéphane Roy, the late founder and ex-CEO of Savoura, has launched a lawsuit against Robinson Helicopter Company Inc. in Quebec Superior Court.Robinson is the manufacturer of the R44 helicopter that crashed in Quebec in July 2019, killing Roy and his son Justin Roy Séguin, who were ret
  
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• Brad Marchand in the lineup Friday for his Panthers’ debut

  28-03-2025 17:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand is ready for his Florida debut.
  The Panthers said Marchand — who, because of an upper-body injury, hasn’t appeared in a game with Florida since being acquired in a trade with Boston three weeks ago — will be in the lineup Friday night when the team plays host to the Utah Hockey Club.
  It will be the first time in 1,091 NHL games, 1,248 when adding in playoff contests, that Marchand takes the ice in something other than a Bruins sweater. T
  
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• Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic to shut after 35 years

  28-03-2025 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic that has operated for more than three decades is shutting its doors due to funding uncertainty.
  The Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic says the facility’s lease is set to run out this summer, and relocating and investing in a new site “did not make sense” given there is only one more year of confirmed funding for its services.
  The clinic’s board says in a news release that the uncertainty stems from “change
  
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• B.C. Lions fine, forfeit two draft picks for violating CFL’s salary cap

  28-03-2025 16:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The B.C. Lions were one of four CFL teams to violate the league’s 2024 salary cap, but their penalty is more severe than others, with the club forfeiting first- and second-round picks in this year’s draft.
  According to the CFL, the Lions were $347,889 above the league-mandated 2024 cap of $5.525 million. The Toronto Argonauts ($87,103), Saskatchewan Roughriders ($40,121) and Ottawa Redblacks ($22,914) also exceeded the cap and were each fined by the amount they finish
  
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• South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him

  28-03-2025 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets.
  Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squad Friday. His execution is scheduled for April 11.
  Mahdi was convicted for killing a police officer with a gun he stole from the officer’s shed in 2004.
  Mahdi had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Mahdi is the first inmate to be executed in the
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Mark Carney set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning

  28-03-2025 16:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A White House official says Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning.
  More to come.Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
  
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• Bayern Munich threatens Canadian soccer federation with legal action over Davies’ injury

  28-03-2025 16:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich is considering legal action against the Canadian soccer federation following Alphonso Davies’ serious knee injury in a match of little importance.
  “We’re demanding a full investigation into the events from Canada Soccer and expressly reserve the right to take legal action,” Bayern chief executive Jan-Christian Dreesen told the Bild tabloid on Friday.
  Davies tore a ligament and sustained other damage in his right knee during Canada’s
  
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• Ottawa posts $26.8 billion deficit for April-to-January period

  28-03-2025 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year.
  The result compared with a deficit of $25.7 billion for the same period a year earlier.
  According to the Finance Department’s monthly fiscal monitor, revenue for the 10-month period totalled $398.6 billion, up from $359.3 billion a year earlier, boosted by gains in all categories.
  Program expenses excluding net actuarial losses amounted to $376.5 bil
  
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• Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift an order barring deportations under wartime law

  28-03-2025 15:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues.
  The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration’s plea to the federal appeals court in Washington. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of appellate judges left in place an order temporarily prohibiting deportations of the migrants under t
  
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• Vancouver-based Loopy Godinez back to her roots with fight on UFC Mexico City card

  28-03-2025 15:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The UFC has taken Vancouver-based strawweight Lupita (Loopy) Godinez to Abu Dhabi as well as Atlantic City, N.J., New York City, Miami, San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas (six times).
  But Saturday night will be special as Godinez (12-5-0) takes on Brazil’s Julia (Psycho) Polastri (13-4-0) on the undercard of a UFC Fight Night show in Mexico City.
  Born in Mexico, Godinez was 14 when her family moved to Vancouver. Her father’s car business had received threats from a drug cartel so he de
  
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• Canada’s Eliot Grodin wins snowboard cross gold at world championships

  28-03-2025 14:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINT MORITZ — Canada’s Eliot Grondin won gold in snowboard cross at the world championships Friday.The Ste-Marie, Que., native topped the podium ahead of France’s Loan Bozzolo and Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle.The 23-year-old Grondin has four World Cup medals this season, including two gold, after winning seven races in 2024.
  It is his second medal at the worlds following a bronze in 2021 in Idre Fjall, Sweden. Grondin also won that season’s world junior title.
  It
  
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• Wintry conditions hitting much of Canada, commuter chaos and power outages possible

  28-03-2025 14:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A blast of wintry weather across a swath of Canada is expected to disrupt commutes and bring possible power outages as a long line of warnings stretch from Edmonton to the shores of Lake Ontario.Environment Canada says the bulk of the notices are made up of snowfall warnings and in southern Ontario they turn into freezing rain warnings.
  The snowfall forecast calls for accumulations of up to 30 centimetres in some parts of Alberta, the Prairie provinces and northern Ontario.
  The RCMP in Edmonton
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from March 28 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2025 13:59 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from March 28 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Indigenous storytelling comes to life when dancers take Chilliwack stage - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2025 13:35 via news.google.com
  Indigenous storytelling comes to life when dancers take Chilliwack stage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Powerful earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, killing at least 3 in Bangkok high-rise collapse

  28-03-2025 13:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Footage shared on social media from Myanmar’s second-largest city showed widespread destruction, raising fears that many were trapped under the rubble or killed.
  The 7.7 magnitude quake, with an epicenter near Mandalay in Myanmar, struck at midday and was followed by a strong 6.4 mag
  
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• Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

  28-03-2025 13:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November.
  Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a large boom and witnessed smoke rising from the area that Israel’s military had vowed to strike.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s army urgently warned people to evacuate parts of a Beirut
  
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• King Charles III seen in public one day after hospitalization for cancer treatment side effects

  28-03-2025 12:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  King Charles III was seen in public on Friday for first time since his brief hospitalization for the side effects from his cancer treatment.
  Charles waved to people as he left his residence at Clarence House in London by car Friday morning.
  The king canceled his engagements for Thursday afternoon and Friday after his brief stay in the hospital.
  The king’s health has been closely watched ever since early last year when he announced that he had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of canc
  
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