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• Patients in Quebec’s Nunavik region evacuated over persistent water shortages

  16-05-2025 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is evacuating patients from a health facility in the province’s Far North because of persistent water shortages in a community.
  The Health Department says two patients were flown 1,600 kilometres south to the Montreal area from the Inuit village of Puvirnituq late Thursday, with more expected to arrive.
  The Inuulitsivik health centre’s emergency room remains open.Residents of Puvirnituq, in the Nunavik region, have been without consistent water
  
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• Sweden blanks newcomer Slovenia and Switzerland shuts out Norway at ice hockey worlds

  16-05-2025 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored a hat trick as Sweden blanked newcomer Slovenia 4-0 to keep a perfect record of five wins from five games at the ice hockey world championship on Friday.
  Sweden has the sole lead of Group A with Canada in second three points behind and a game in hand against Slovakia on Saturday. Slovenia is eighth without a point.
  Marcus Johansson also scored and goaltender Jacob Markstrom needed nine saves to shut out Slovenia.
  In Herning, Switzerland shut out Norwa
  
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• Bryde’s whale washes ashore in only known sighting of the animal in B.C.

  16-05-2025 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT MCNEILL — Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there’s likely no connections to the deaths.The Namgis First Nation says in a statement that a resident reported finding the whale Wednesday on a beach near Port McNeill, B.C., and experts who have examined the animal say it’s a Bryde’s whale – a species rarely seen in waters north of the same latitude as Los Angeles.
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• End-of-Life room in Abbotsford long-term care facility gets new sofa

  16-05-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — An Abbotsford long-term care facility has received a comforting addition to a room that regularly sees some of the worst days in families’ lives.Cottage and Worthington Pavilion now has a new sofa in its end-of-life room after a donation from the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF).“Grief affects everyone differently and this new sofa is more than just furniture; it represents a commitment to providing a supportive and comforting environment for residents
  
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• Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps look for repeat performance in Austin

  16-05-2025 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Austin, Texas, will always be a special place for Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Ali Ahmed.The Canadian international made his Major League Soccer debut there on April 23, 2022, with his family looking on from the stands.“Everytime I go back there, you kind of reminisce a little bit,” he said this week. “For me, I’m looking forward to going back to Austin. Beautiful city, stadium’s lovely. And that’s where it all started for me.”
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• Defender Jalen Neal flourishing in starting role with CF Montreal

  16-05-2025 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal’s sporting project aimed at developing and showcasing young talent has had mixed results over its five years. Fortunately, the Major League Soccer club has been able to balance that by finding success in the trade market.
  Montreal has repeatedly converted undervalued or misused pieces in other squads to useful players in Montreal. The most recent example is newly acquired central defender Jalen Neal.With a lingering thigh injury keeping George Campbell out of t
  
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• CFLPA president Elimimian backs CFL participation in Olympic flag football

  16-05-2025 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CFLPA president Solomon Elimimian is among those supporting CFL players participating in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games.
  Flag football will make its Olympic debut in L.A., and next week, NFL owners will discuss a resolution to allow their players to compete.
  Elimimian says the CFL and its players’ union have also discussed the possibility of Canadian players taking part. While those talks are still in the early stages, he’s optimistic that a deal can be reached that would allow Ca
  
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• B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba

  16-05-2025 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border.
  Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet this week destroyed 28 homes and cottages and left two people dead.
  He says the deployments are part of an inter-agency agreement that allows provin
  
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• Drunk driver rams police car in early morning collision in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  16-05-2025 20:11 via news.google.com
  Drunk driver rams police car in early morning collision in Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Austria beats France and Denmark routs Hungary at ice hockey worlds

  16-05-2025 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Austria beat France 5-2 for its second win at the ice hockey world championship on Friday.
  Austria is fifth in Group A with five points, France remains seventh on one.
  Marco Kasper, Vinzenz Rohrer and Ramon Schnetzer each scored for Austria to jump 3-0 up, forcing France to substitute goalie Antoine Keller with Quentin Papillon with 4:30 to go in the first period in Stockholm.
  In Herning, Denmark rallied from two goals down to rout newcomer Hungary 8-2 for a second victory
  
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• Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, warns it’s dangerous for Tories

  16-05-2025 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former Conservative member of Parliament Stockwell Day says Alberta separatism poses a threat to the federal Conservative party — which risks seeing a return to the kind of vote-splitting that was common before the party united in 2003.
  Day, who was part of Stephen Harper’s cabinet from 2006 to 2011, says he’s “as outraged and upset” as the people behind the Alberta separation movement and he thinks holding a referendum is a good idea.
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• BC Highway Patrol ramps up efforts for Victoria Day long weekend

  16-05-2025 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOWER MAINLAND — The familiar red, blue and yellow stripes of the BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) cars will be everywhere this May long weekend.Police are set to ramp up their efforts as part of the month-long High Risk Driving and Motorcycle Awareness campaign. Motorists will see roving patrols, unmarked police cars and check stops across the province. BCHP will be looking for distracted, aggressive or impaired drivers, as well as people not wearing their seatbelts.
  “The May long weekend i
  
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• Sceptres look to continue battling for Walter Cup after another early playoff exit

  16-05-2025 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto Sceptres head coach Troy Ryan says being unhappy with the result shouldn’t mean being unhappy with where the team is headed.
  The Sceptres fell 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday to lose its best-of-five semifinal against the defending Walter Cup champion Minnesota Frost in four games.It’s the second consecutive year Toronto has fallen to Minnesota in the semifinals despite being the higher seed entering the playoffs.
  Toronto finished second in the PWHL standings beh
  
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• Hockey Canada interviews among evidence excluded from ex-junior players’ jury trial

  16-05-2025 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but those statements are not part of their criminal trial.
  Prosecutors wanted to use the interviews to cross-examine Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube and Alex Formenton if they chose to testify, but an Ontario judge last year excluded the statements from trial because they were obtained by the investigator, Dani
  
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• Jury convicts ex-Tennessee House speaker and his aide in legislative mail scheme

  16-05-2025 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from state lawmakers even after scandals drove the two out of political power.
  Former Republican Rep. Glen Casada was found guilty of all 19 charges, while his then-chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was found guilty of 17 of 19 charges in a public corruption trial that began in late April.
  The current House speaker, Cameron
  
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• Chilliwack fire officials say well-practised plan is 'blueprint' for saving lives - The Chilliwack Progress

  16-05-2025 19:08 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack fire officials say well-practised plan is 'blueprint' for saving lives  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Berube tweaks Leafs’ forward group for Game 6; Matthews and Marner remain together

  16-05-2025 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE — Craig Berube is going back for the future.
  The Maple Leafs head coach will dress forwards Calle Jarnkrok and Pontus Holmberg for Game 6 of their second-round playoff series against the Florida Panthers with Toronto facing elimination down 3-2 on Friday.
  Jarnkrok and Holmberg took a seat in Game 5 for Nick Robertson and David Kampf in the Leafs’ disastrous 6-1 loss Wednesday that pushed them to the brink of elimination.
  Berube will also keep star forwards Auston Matt
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Report says Lapu Lapu festival planning followed rules

  16-05-2025 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and police into last month’s Lapu Lapu Day festival attack says authorities are considering safety enhancements for outdoor events in light of the attack.
  But the report says planning for the festival appears to have followed prescribed processes, and Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says all the right steps were taken.Heavy barriers were not in place at the festival where 11 people were killed when an SUV sped through a crowded street
  
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• NewsAlert: Canada Post report recommends phasing out daily door-to-door mail delivery

  16-05-2025 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Industrial Inquiry Commission report on the labour dispute at Canada Post recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses, while daily delivery to businesses should be maintained.It also says the moratoriums on rural post office closures and community mailbox conversions should be lifted.More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Residents urged to stay safe after several apartment fires in Chilliwack

  16-05-2025 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Fire Department is urging residents to stay fire-safe after extinguishing a recent trail of apartment blazes.Throughout the first few months of this year, many residents have been displaced due to a number of fires in apartment buildings, homes and other private properties. The Fire Department asks all building owners and property managers to actively review and practice their Fire Safety Plan.“These vital documents outline emergency procedures, staff resp
  
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• Stars captain Benn fined for sucker-punching Jets centre Scheifele

  16-05-2025 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The NHL has fined Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn US$5,000 for punching Jets forward Mark Scheifele during Game 5 of the team’s second-round playoff series.
  Benn sucker-punched Scheifele during a scrum at 13:28 of the third period of the game Thursday night in Winnipeg. Scheifele, who sustained a concussion earlier in the post-season, was being held back by linesman Ryan Daisy before the punch, and the two fell to the ice.
  Benn was assessed a minor penalty for roughing and
  
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• CRTC should equalize CanCon spending for streamers, broadcasters: Corus

  16-05-2025 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Corus is urging the CRTC to require traditional broadcasters and online players to pay the same amount into the Canadian content system.
  The broadcaster, which owns Global TV, says both should contribute 20 per cent of their revenue towards Canadian content.
  The federal broadcast regulator is holding a two-week hearing on coming up with a new definition of Canadian content, and the hearing is highlighting tensions between traditional players and large foreign streamers.
  Currently,
  
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• Clock starts on timing of byelection Poilievre hopes to use to return to Parliament

  16-05-2025 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives know more today about when their leader could return to the House of Commons, now that Damien Kurek has been officially declared the member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot.
  Kurek, who won the election in the rural Alberta riding with more than 80 per cent of the vote, has promised to step aside to give Pierre Poilievre a chance to run for a seat.
  The riding results are considered official once they’re published in the Canada Gazette, which hap
  
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• Canadian women to face Costa Rica in ‘Pride Celebration’ friendly in June in Toronto

  16-05-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Canadian women’s soccer team will host Costa Rica in Toronto on June 27 in a “Pride Celebration” friendly.
  After the BMO Field game, the seventh-ranked Canadian women will travel to Washington, D.C., to face the top-ranked U.S. in a previously announced game on July 2 at Audi Field. Both games fall in FIFA’s June-July international window.
  The Canadian women have never faced No. 43 Costa Rica before.
  The Toronto game marks the third consecutive year th
  
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• Fraser Valley bookkeeper caught cooking the books: CRA

  16-05-2025 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — The Canada Revenue Agency says a Fraser Valley bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to willfully evading remittance tax and making false statements about tax returns.
  According to a news release, Aeddy Leung of Surrey received a conditional sentence order for two years less a day and two years probation on April 15, 2025, at the Provincial Court of British Columbia (Robson Square). Leung pleaded guilty to willfully evading remittance tax and to making false statements in Goods and
  
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• Chilliwack crews respond to early morning collision on Yale Road

  16-05-2025 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack drivers faced a hectic early commute after a section of Yale Road was closed off due to a motor vehicle incident this morning (May 16).Eyewitnesses on social media reported a number of police cars heading to and from Hodgins Avenue just before 3 a.m.The intersection of Yale Road and Hodgins Avenue was then blocked and taped up by police for a few hours, until around 8 a.m.We have reached out to the RCMP for information.
  
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• Overnight Surrey house fire spreads to neighbouring homes, police investigating cause

  16-05-2025 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating an early morning house fire in the city’s Bridgeview neighbourhood.
  They say officers responded to a report of a structure fire around 1:35 a.m. in the area of 127 Street and 113A Avenue.
  Police say firefighters extinguished the blaze, but remained on scene around 8:15 a.m.
  They say the fire is believed to have started in a vacant building and spread to neighbouring homes.
  Police say no one was injured.
  The fire department is still w
  
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• Abbotsford’s Ignite Theatre presents Newsies in Chilliwack - The Chilliwack Progress

  16-05-2025 17:37 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford’s Ignite Theatre presents Newsies in Chilliwack  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Concerns over protesters, man with smart glasses raised during hockey players’ trial

  16-05-2025 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team will now continue with a judge alone after the jury was dismissed.The move comes after a juror sent a note to the judge Thursday indicating some members of the panel felt two of the defence lawyers were laughing at them as they came into court each day, giving rise to concerns about jury bias.
  Both lawyers denied doing anything of the like, and Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia said she had no
  
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• University of Calgary launches program to study new relationship with the U.S.

  16-05-2025 17:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The University of Calgary is launching an initiative to study how Canada’s relationship with the United States is changing with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House.
  Researchers at the New North America Initiative, based in the university’s School of Public Policy, have been tasked with coming up with a vision of what the continental relationship could become at a time of increasing trade uncertainty and geopolitical turmoil.
  “I think it’s clear
  
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• Halifax Wanderers to host Wrexham AFC in under-21 series in Atlantic Canada in July

  16-05-2025 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Halifax Wanderers will play Wrexham AFC in a three-game under-21 series in July in Atlantic Canada.
  The series will kick off July 5 at the Wanderers Grounds in Halifax before moving to Charlottetown on July 9 and Saint John, N.B., on July 12.
  Wrexham, co-owned by Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds and American actor/producer Rob McElhenney, has won fame for its celebrity ownership and rise up the ranks captured in the documentary series “Welcome to Wrexham.”
  The Welsh side
  
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• Snow sprinkles Okanagan Connector ahead of Victoria Day long weekend - The Chilliwack Progress

  16-05-2025 16:38 via news.google.com
  Snow sprinkles Okanagan Connector ahead of Victoria Day long weekend  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Jury dismissed in sexual assault trial of five ex-world junior hockey players

  16-05-2025 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jurors in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team have been discharged.
  Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia did not give jurors reasons for her decision.
  The trial began in late April and has heard evidence from several witnesses, including the complainant, who testified for nine days.
  Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.
  McLeod has also pleaded not guilty
  
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• ICC prosecutor Karim Khan steps aside pending outcome of sexual misconduct investigation

  16-05-2025 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will temporarily step down pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court announced Friday.
  Karim Khan has categorically denied accusations that he tried for more than a year to coerce a female aide into a sexual relationship and groped her against her will.Last year, an Associated Press investigation found that two court employees in whom the alleged victim confided came forw
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Jury dismissed in sexual assault trial of five hockey players

  16-05-2025 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jurors in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team have been discharged.
  Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia did not give jurors reasons for her decision.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Carney travelling to Rome today, will be among world leaders at Pope’s inaugural mass

  16-05-2025 16:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is flying to Rome today to attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV on Sunday.
  Carney is a devout Catholic and this will be his first official trip to the Vatican as prime minister.
  He was unable to attend Pope Francis’s funeral three weeks ago because it fell two days before the federal election.
  The inaugural mass is drawing many international leaders and Carney is expected to have bilateral meetings with several of them during the trip.
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• Recount confirms narrow Liberal victory in Milton East—Halton Hills South

  16-05-2025 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal Kristina Tesser Derksen says she found out just before midnight on May 15 that a judicial recount had confirmed her victory in the federal Ontario riding of Milton East—Halton Hills South.
  The margin narrowed from 29 votes to 21 with the recount.
  Elections Canada ordered the recount last week after the vote validation process showed Tesser Derksen won the riding over Conservative Parm Gill a slim margin.
  A judicial recount is ordered automatically when the top two ca
  
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• UPDATE: Man arrested after ramming police vehicle, 3 other cars in Chilliwack - The Chilliwack Progress

  16-05-2025 15:49 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Man arrested after ramming police vehicle, 3 other cars in Chilliwack  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from May 16 onward - The Chilliwack Progress

  16-05-2025 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from May 16 onward  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Russia and Ukraine hold their first direct peace talks in 3 years amid low expectations

  16-05-2025 12:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Russia and Ukraine held their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for Turkish-brokered negotiations, but officials and observers expected them to yield little immediate progress on stopping the more than three-year war.
  A Ukrainian delegation led by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov sat down with a low-level Russian team headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Ty
  
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• Trump says Iran has a proposal from the US on its rapidly advancing nuclear program

  16-05-2025 12:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has an American proposal over its rapidly advancing nuclear program as negotiations between the two countries go on.
  Trump made the comment aboard Air Force One as he ended his trip to the United Arab Emirates, the last stop on his three-nation tour of the Middle East.
  Trump did not elaborate on the substance of the proposal and Iran did not immediately acknowledge having it.The Associated Press
  
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• Israeli strikes kill at least 64 people in Gaza as Trump wraps up his Middle East visit

  16-05-2025 11:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday killed at least 64 people, hospitals said, as U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up his Middle East visit that skipped Israel and offered no prospect for a ceasefire in the war-battered territory.At least 48 bodies were brought to the Indonesian hospital and another 16 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, health officials said, as strikes overnight into Friday morning hit the outskirts of Deir al-Balah and the
  
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• In the news today: Crews continue battle against Manitoba wildfires

  16-05-2025 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Crews continue battle against Manitoba wildfires
  Fire crews in Manitoba continue to battle out-of-control wildfires, including one in the eastern part of the province, which has revealed the bodies of a couple in the ashes.
  In the Manitoba legislature on Thursday, opposition Progressive Conservative legislature member Rick Wowchuk named the victims as Richard and Sue Nowell, who lived in the Rural Municipality o
  
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• Quebec renews subsidy program for electric school buses

  16-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is renewing a subsidy program for electric school buses that expired in March.The program will now offer subsidies of $240,000 for each purchase of an electric school bus, up from a maximum of $175,000.The news comes a week after a group of investors submitted a revised offer to buy Quebec vehicle-maker Lion Electric.Their offer was contingent on the government renewing the subsidy program, which was a key to Lion’s success in Quebec.Quebec is aiming
  
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• New Indigenous Services minister says she’s been handed the ‘toughest task’

  16-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As the first Indigenous person ever to lead the federal department responsible for delivering services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Mandy Gull-Masty knows she has a daunting task ahead.
  But the newly-appointed Indigenous services minister also knows what it’s like to sit at both sides of the table — as a cabinet minister now and, until recently, as the grand chief of the political body representing 20,000 Cree people in northern Quebec.
  “I know the i
  
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• Kahnawake casino owners sue Mohawk council, grand chief for $220 million

  16-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Two owners of a casino in a First Nations community southwest of Montreal are suing the territory’s council for more than $200 million.
  They say the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake ignored their right to due process when it abruptly shut down the Magic Palace casino in March 2024.The closure followed a 2023 news report that alleged the RCMP were investigating an Albanian investor they suspected of using the casino to launder money for a Mexican cartel.The lawsuit also targets
  
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• First-degree murder trial in Quebec truck attack set to hear first witnesses

  16-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIMOUSKI — A jury trial for a man charged with killing three people with a truck in eastern Quebec is expected to hear from its first witnesses today.
  Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon faces five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
  Gagnon turned himself in to police after a truck struck pedestrians on a main street of Amqui, Que., in March 2023, killing three men and injuring nine other people.
  The town is about 350 kilometres northeast of
  
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• Crews keep battling deadly, out-of-control wildfires in eastern Manitoba

  16-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAC DU BONNET — Fire crews in Manitoba continue to battle out-of-control wildfires, including one in the eastern part of the province, which has revealed the bodies of a couple in the ashes.
  In the Manitoba legislature on Thursday, opposition Progressive Conservative legislature member Rick Wowchuk named the victims as Richard and Sue Nowell, who lived in the Rural Municipality of Lac Du Bonnet.
  The bodies were found on Wednesday.
  The wildfire burning in the municipality, a popular cottage
  
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• U.S. ambassador and Trump’s former presidential rival to speak in Ottawa

  16-05-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Global business leaders and diplomats will converge on Ottawa today in an attempt to chart a path through the United States’ tariff war.
  The B7 conference in the nation’s capital is a partner event to the G7 summit set for next month in Alberta.
  This year’s conference is tackling trade uncertainty as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to overturn the global trading order with his tariffs.
  Among those speaking today in Ottawa are U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete H
  
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• Chilliwack green space fight - Global News

  16-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack green space fight  Global News
  
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