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• Chilliwack parishioners ring in 100 years for United Church of Canada - The Chilliwack Progress

  11-06-2025 22:13 via news.google.com
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• MINTER: What to know about warm weather and watering - The Chilliwack Progress

  11-06-2025 21:14 via news.google.com
  MINTER: What to know about warm weather and watering  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack firefighters paged Wednesday morning after vehicle strikes home - Fraser Valley Today

  11-06-2025 20:29 via news.google.com
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• Game on: Chilliwack high schoolers enter the world of competitive video games - Fraser Valley Current

  11-06-2025 19:36 via news.google.com
  Game on: Chilliwack high schoolers enter the world of competitive video games  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• LETTER: 'Quite obvious' oil companies dishonest at Chilliwack fuel pumps - The Chilliwack Progress

  11-06-2025 17:58 via news.google.com
  LETTER: 'Quite obvious' oil companies dishonest at Chilliwack fuel pumps  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• In the news today: Trump’s tariffs remain in effect, Canadians critical of Israel

  11-06-2025 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Trump’s tariffs to stay in effect amid appeal
  A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs will remain in place while a case is heard — extending an emergency stay granted after a lower court found the devastating duties unlawful.The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found “a stay is warranted under the
  
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• Poll suggests half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

  11-06-2025 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new poll suggests that nearly half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza almost two years after the current conflict began.
  In a survey conducted last weekend, the polling firm Leger asked Canadians and Americans a series of questions about the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
  Leger surveyed 1,511 Canadians and 1,011 Americans between June 6 and June 8. The poll cannot be assigned a margin of error because online surveys are not considered truly random samples.
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• Ottawa moves to prop up youth employment in a rough summer jobs market

  11-06-2025 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to shore up a historically weak summer job market for students — even as one economist argues tough employment prospects for young people suggest broader softness in the job market.
  Statistics Canada shone a light on the difficult employment prospects for students heading back to school this fall in its May jobs report last Friday.
  Roughly one in five returning students aged 15 to 24 was unemployed in May, the agency said. The last time the j
  
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• Negotiations expected to resume today as Montreal public transit strike in third day

  11-06-2025 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Negotiations between Montreal’s public transit authority and its maintenance workers are expected to resume today, the third day of a strike causing headaches across the network.
  The strike by 2,400 mechanics is limiting bus and metro service to morning and afternoon rush hours and late at night.
  Regular service is expected to be maintained from Friday to Sunday for the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, but will be restricted on other days until the strike ends June 17.
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• Lawyers continue final pitches to judge in hockey players’ sex assault trial

  11-06-2025 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Defence lawyers are set to continue their final pitches to the judge today in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team.
  Court heard from lawyers representing two of the accused, Alex Formenton and Dillon Dube, on Tuesday, and Dube’s lawyer is expected to finish her submissions today.
  Formenton’s lawyer, Daniel Brown, argued the complainant’s testimony about her state of mind that night is contradicted by video evi
  
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• Edmonton Oilers fan paints hundreds of faces per game while taking in the action

  11-06-2025 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — More often than not, lifelong Edmonton Oilers fan Jacob Golka can be seen on game nights with his back to the screen and his hands hard at work.
  Wielding a paint palette and dipping and swapping brushes in a flash, Golka usually needs just a few seconds to decorate a fan’s face.
  The speed and accuracy is certainly a result of practice, but it’s also necessary if he wants to keep up with the steady line that forms around him at the Oilers’ watch parties outside
  
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• RFK Jr.’s firing of U.S. immunization committee worrisome, Canadian scientists say

  11-06-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of an immunization advisory committee south of the border is worrisome.
  On Monday, the U.S. health and human services secretary — a longtime anti-vaccine advocate — said he will appoint new members to the scientific group that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about vaccination.Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan, said Tuesday that the move will f
  
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• Nova Scotia strike that turned deadly a century ago a milestone for workers’ rights

  11-06-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — During Nova Scotia’s storied 300-year history of coal mining, one deadly riot in 1925 proved to be pivotal for workers’ rights in Canada.
  One hundred years ago today, William Davis — a 37-year-old Cape Breton coal miner and father of nine — was shot to death by a special constable hired by the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO) — a monopoly mine owner that had repeatedly turned to violence to end strikes over poor wages and unsafe working condi
  
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• Kananaskis: An explainer on Alberta’s cherished park and G7 host location

  11-06-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — For the next week, Derek Ryder will be temporarily divorced from his favourite mountain range and beloved trails in Kananaskis, Alta., so the world’s most powerful people can safely gather for the G7 leaders summit.
  The spokesman for Friends of Kananaskis Country, an environmental stewardship group for the region, has been trekking in Kananaskis Country, informally known as K-Country, since 1976.
  “I’ve been basically everywhere,” says Ryder, who added he&r
  
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• South Korea halts loudspeaker broadcasts along border with rival North Korea

  11-06-2025 09:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border, in a move aimed at easing tensions.
  The South resumed the loudspeaker broadcasts in June last year following a yearslong pause in retaliation for North Korea flying trash-laden balloons toward the South in a psychological warfare campaign.
  South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday the move was part of efforts to “to resto
  
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• COLUMN: Travelling as music lovers in a dangerous time - The Chilliwack Progress

  11-06-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  COLUMN: Travelling as music lovers in a dangerous time  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Los Angeles imposes downtown curfew as protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown continue

  11-06-2025 07:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles leaders imposed a downtown curfew through Wednesday morning to deal with protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while the governor accused him of drawing a “military dragnet” across the nation’s second-largest city with his escalating use of the National Guard.
  Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standin
  
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• McIntosh just misses breaking oldest women’s record by blink of an eye

  11-06-2025 07:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Summer McIntosh came within a blink of an eye of breaking swimming’s oldest women’s world record at the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials on Tuesday night.
  With a sold-out crowd’s cheers ringing in her ears, the 18-year-old from Toronto swam the 200-metre butterfly in 2:02.26 — just .45 off the record of 2:01.81 set by China’s Liu Zige in 2009. She also shaved .76 off her own Canadian record and notched the second fastest time in history in the event.
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• Canada wins Canadian Shield Tournament despite penalty shootout loss to Ivory Coast

  11-06-2025 05:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada won the inaugural Canadian Shield Tournament on Tuesday night despite losing to African champion Ivory Coast 5-4 in a penalty shootout.
  The game went to a shootout after it finished knotted at 0-0 after 90 minutes.
  The 30th-ranked Canadian men finished with four points, one ahead of No. 86 New Zealand and No. 25 Ukraine and two ahead of No. 41 Ivory Coast.
  Victory was assured for Canada just by getting to the shootout, given it would finish the night with at least four poi
  
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• Women’s hockey on the rise in Pacific Northwest, with young girls excited about PWHL’s arrival

  11-06-2025 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Elly Garcia-Dudek can’t help but gaze out toward the ice during hockey practices at the Kraken Community Iceplex.
  The 12-year-old Garcia-Dudek is a big fan of women’s national team stars like Hilary Knight, who starred for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women’s Hockey League last season. Pretty soon, Garcia-Dudek — who started playing through the Seattle Kraken’s Learn to Play program — won’t have to look across the country for
  
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• Giménez, Kirk homer to lead surging Blue Jays to 10-9 win over Cardinals

  11-06-2025 04:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrés Giménez and Alejandro Kirk each homered, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-9 on Tuesday night.
  Chris Bassitt (7-3) gave up four runs on six hits in seven innings for the Blue Jays. Jeff Hoffman got the final out of the game to earn his 17th save in 20 tries despite giving up a three-run homer to Willson Contreras.
  The Blue Jays have won 11 of their last 13 and are a league-best 21-10 over their last 31 games.
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• CP NewsAlert: Court rules Trump’s tariffs can stay in effect while appeal proceeds

  11-06-2025 03:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on most countries around the world can remain in place while a federal appeals court decides on their future.The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the duties were unlawful last month.
  More to come.
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• B.C. ruling says note on ‘dinged’ car was binding contract between two lawyers

  11-06-2025 02:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal says a note left on a car about a “dinged” door was a binding contract to pay repair costs.
  The decision says lawyer Carly Peddle was being dropped off in a parking lot at an event in September 2023, when she dented fellow lawyer Richard Brooks’ door.
  She left a note saying “I dinged your back passenger door,” adding she was “happy to pay” and leaving her phone number.
  The ruling says P
  
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• Jack Ciattarelli, ex-state lawmaker backed by Trump, wins New Jersey Republican primary for governor

  11-06-2025 02:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Jack Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker and small businessman, won the Republican primary in New Jersey’s race for governor, cruising to victory with the support of President Donald Trump.Ciattarelli now heads into the general election seeking to win back the governorship after two straight Democratic victories. He’s hoping to build on his 2021 performance when he came within a few percentage points of defeating Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
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• Authorities believe they spotted ex-soldier Travis Decker, who is wanted in deaths of 3 daughters

  11-06-2025 02:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say they believe they spotted Travis Decker, an ex-soldier wanted in the deaths of his three daughters, in the remote backcountry of Washington state, after receiving a tip from hikers who said they saw a lone person who appeared to be ill-prepared for the conditions.
  The Chelan County Sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post Tuesday that tracking teams responded immediately, and a helicopter crew spotted a lone, off-trail hiker near Colchuk Lake, in a popu
  
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• Tides record first NSL victory, beat visiting Rapid 2-1

  11-06-2025 02:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Halifax Tides have finally hit the win column in the Northern Super League.
  A goal in the 75th minute by Gunnhildur Yrsa Jonsdottir snapped a 1-1 tie and lifted the Tides to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Ottawa Rapid on Tuesday at Wanderers Grounds.
  Olivia Scott gave the Rapid a 1-0 lead in the 15th minute, but Megumi Nakamura tied the match in the 58th minute.
  The Tides outshot the Rapid 19-8 — and 7-2 with on target shots — and improved to one win, five losses
  
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• Arizona governor vetoes bill to ban teaching antisemitism in Arizona’s public schools

  11-06-2025 02:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would ban teaching antisemitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities and colleges and expose educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits.
  On Tuesday, the Democratic governor said the bill is not about antisemitism but rather about attacking teachers.
  “It puts an unacceptable level of personal liability in place for our public school, community college, and university educators and
  
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• National Guard troops are now protecting ICE agents as they make arrests in LA

  11-06-2025 01:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — National Guard troops began protecting immigration agents as they made arrests in Los Angeles on Tuesday, an expansion of their duties that been limited to protecting federal property.
  Photos posted Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show National Guard troops standing guard around officers as they made arrests.
  ICE said in a statement that the troops were “providing perimeter and personnel protection for our facilities and officers who are out on
  
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• Alabama executes a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988

  11-06-2025 01:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.
  Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at a south Alabama prison, authorities said, one of four scheduled this week in the United States.He was convicted of capital murder for the killing of Karen Lane, who was 32 when she was killed on Aug. 2, 1988, in the Cordova apartment she shared with another woman in Walker County.
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• US Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges from skirmish at New Jersey immigration center

  11-06-2025 01:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she impeded and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility.
  Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced the grand jury indictment in a post on X.“While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, th
  
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• Man accused of plotting shooting at New York Jewish centre extradited to U.S.

  11-06-2025 01:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The U.S. Justice Department says a Pakistani citizen who was living in Canada has been extradited to New York, where he’s accused of plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre.
  The RCMP arrested Muhammad Shahzeb Khan in Quebec last September.The Mounties said at the time he was in the process of planning a deadly attack targeting Jewish people in the U.S. and was facing charges in Canada.He is now charged in the U.S. with attempting to provide material support
  
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• Zinchenko scores off the bench to help Ukraine defeat New Zealand at Canadian Shield

  11-06-2025 01:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Substitute Oleksandr Zinchenko scored in the 75th minute to lift Ukraine to a 2-1 win over New Zealand on Tuesday at the Canadian Shield Tournament.
  The Arsenal fullback/midfielder had been on the pitch less than a minute when he acrobatically swept Oleksandr Martyniuk’s cross past New Zealand goalkeeper Max Crocombe.
  Zinchenko, Ukraine’s Footballer of the Year in 2019, joined Arsenal from Manchester City in July 2022 in a 30-million-pound ($55.4-million) transfer. Th
  
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• Southern Baptists overwhelmingly call for a ban on gay marriage

  11-06-2025 00:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.
  They also called for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing.
  The votes came at the gathering of more than 10,000 church representatives at the annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
  A proposed resolution says legis
  
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• Florida executes man convicted of raping and killing a woman 3 decades ago

  11-06-2025 00:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot was executed Tuesday in Florida.
  Anthony Wainwright, 54, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been convicted in the April 1994 killing of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, a mother of two young children, in Lake City.
  Wainwright was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m., said Byran Griffin, a spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis.Wainwright
  
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• Chilliwack ice cream shop to hold hiring fair this weekend - Fraser Valley Today

  11-06-2025 00:07 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack ice cream shop to hold hiring fair this weekend

  11-06-2025 00:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack-area ice cream parlour with three locations in and around Chilliwack will hold a hiring fair this weekend as it looks to add more people to its staff roster.
  Kent’s Ice Cream Co. posted on Facebook Tuesday that it will be hiring for all three of its locations at its hiring fair this Saturday, June 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at 47582 Yale Road in Chilliwack. The company says it’s looking to add some “fun individuals” to its team.
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• Moving Whitecaps from Vancouver would be ‘a crime’: FIFA vice president

  11-06-2025 00:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A vice president of soccer’s global governing body says moving the Vancouver Whitecaps would be “a crime” and negatively impact the city’s reputation after it hosts games at next year’s World Cup.
  FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani spoke at a Vancouver Board of Trade event Tuesday, telling the crowd that relocating the Major League Soccer club would suggest to the world that the city simply wanted to host a party and isn’t actually seriou
  
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• Forward Adam Klapka, Calgary Flames agree to two-year contract extension

  11-06-2025 00:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed forward Adam Klapka to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of US$1.25 million.
  Klapka, six foot eight and 235 pounds, had six goals and four assists and 29 penalty minutes in 31 games for the Flames this past season.
  The 24-year-old Czech spent the rest of the season with the AHL’s Wranglers, where he had 14 goals and 12 assists in 33 games.
  Klapka had three goals and three assists in Calgary’s final nine games of
  
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