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• Chilliwack school board takes out $6.5M loan for unconfirmed new school - CBC

  24-11-2025 23:34 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack school board takes out $6.5M loan for unconfirmed new school  CBC
  
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• Chilliwack school board takes out $6.5M loan for unconfirmed new school - Yahoo News Canada

  24-11-2025 23:32 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack school board takes out $6.5M loan for unconfirmed new school  Yahoo News Canada
  
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• With lengthy road trip in the books, Oilers look to make a move at home

  24-11-2025 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Having already played close to half their season allotment of road games, the Edmonton Oilers returned home Monday from another gruelling trip confident there are reasons for optimism looking ahead.
  Captain Connor McDavid said he saw positive signs in the team’s game after winning three of the seven games in the 11-day trip. Now the team has to take advantage of having six of their next seven games at home.
  “That was a tough trip, a lot of games, a lot of cities,&rdq
  
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• One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies age 111

  24-11-2025 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111.Her grandson Ike Howard said Monday that she died surrounded by family at a Tulsa hospital. Sustained by a strong faith, she raised three children, worked as a welder in a shipyard during World War II and spent decades caring
  
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• Budget watchdog calls for more transparency after Liberals shift fiscal anchors

  24-11-2025 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Ottawa is not planning to set up an independent body to scrutinize the new capital framework in its budget, despite calls for more transparency from the government's fiscal watchdog.
  Interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques told MPs on the House of Commons finance committee Monday that he fears the changes made to the federal government's fiscal anchors in the recent budget were made quickly and without parliamentary debate.
  Jacques said that while the federal government
  
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• ‘He should care’: Conservatives slam Carney on Trump comments

  24-11-2025 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Conservative MPs slammed Prime Minister Mark Carney Monday over dismissive comments he made recently when asked about stalled trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.
  While taking questions from reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday, Carney was asked when he last spoke with Trump and replied, "Who cares?"
  "I look forward to speaking with the president soon, but I don't have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now," he said. "When America wants to come back a
  
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• Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury materials

  24-11-2025 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante.U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act — passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump — in court filings
  
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• Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed

  24-11-2025 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had targeted two of the president's most high-profile political opponents and am
  
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• One minor is dead, one injured after shots fired east of Quebec City

  24-11-2025 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT-VALLIER — One minor is dead and another is in hospital after shots were fired at a home in St-Vallier-de-Bellechasse, Que., east of Quebec City.
  Police were called to a residence around 4 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report about two people who had been injured.One victim was found unconscious and taken to hospital where they were declared dead.
  The second victim was seriously injured but expected to survive.Quebec provincial police Sgt. Frédéric Deshaies says there ha
  
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• McGill’s decision to cut 25 sports teams called ‘unfortunate’ by U Sports CEO

  24-11-2025 22:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  McGill University's decision to cut 25 sports teams following the 2025-26 school year is "unfortunate," U Sports CEO Pierre Arsenault says.
  The school said that it "carried out an extensive review process that involved discussions with internal and external stakeholders" before coming to its conclusion last Thursday.
  McGill stated that an audit in 2024 and an independent external review in 2025 made it clear that the current structure in place "was no longer sustainable."
  The school said it revi
  
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• Coroner’s inquest finds Chilliwack man, 32, died of gunshot to chest - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 22:21 via news.google.com
  Coroner’s inquest finds Chilliwack man, 32, died of gunshot to chest  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Residents say grizzly encounters up in Bella Coola, B.C., scene of attack on students

  24-11-2025 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Residents of Bella Coola on British Columbia's central coast say they've been grappling with a spike in encounters with grizzly bears in the remote community where a bear attacked a group of students and teachers last week.
  Resident Corey Van Andel has been living in the valley for four years, and says he noticed a number of house break-ins by bears that wouldn't have happened in previous years.
  He says the bears seem more comfortable coming to people's homes and he knows two people who have had
  
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• U.S. directs its embassies in Western nations to scrutinize ‘mass migration’

  24-11-2025 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has directed its embassies in Canada and other Western nations to scrutinize the impacts of "mass migration" — the Trump administration's latest push to reshape the geopolitics of America's longtime allies.
  Last week's dispatch to embassies directed diplomats in Ottawa, New Zealand, Australia and countries in western Europe to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of large-scale mass migration, calling it an "existent
  
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• Trucks stolen from Chilliwack business recovered; 1 found in Mission - Mission City Record

  24-11-2025 21:21 via news.google.com
  Trucks stolen from Chilliwack business recovered; 1 found in Mission  Mission City Record
  
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• Trucks stolen from Chilliwack business recovered; 1 found in Mission - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 21:21 via news.google.com
  Trucks stolen from Chilliwack business recovered; 1 found in Mission  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Martyr status inevitable for former trustee Barry Neufeld arrested at Chilliwack courthouse Monday - Paul J. Henderson

  24-11-2025 20:55 via news.google.com
  Martyr status inevitable for former trustee Barry Neufeld arrested at Chilliwack courthouse Monday  Paul J. Henderson
  
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• SD33 hiring Chilliwack bus drivers with starting wage of over $29/hr. - Fraser Valley Today

  24-11-2025 20:41 via news.google.com
  SD33 hiring Chilliwack bus drivers with starting wage of over $29/hr.  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• SD33 hiring Chilliwack bus drivers with starting wage of over $29/hr.

  24-11-2025 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack School District is trying to recruit new bus drivers with an attractive starting wage of over $29 an hour.
  In a social media post, the district says it is hiring casual school bus drivers.Successful candidates do need a minimum class 2 driver’s license with an air endorsement.Candidates need to attend a four-daya driver’s training course, and provide a recent driver’s abstract.The current rate of pay for a casual bus driver is $29.21 per hour.T
  
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• Free Christmas resources listed in online document from Chilliwack Community Services - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 19:21 via news.google.com
  Free Christmas resources listed in online document from Chilliwack Community Services  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Two trucks collide, closing Highway 1 near Lytton: B.C. RCMP

  24-11-2025 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LYTTON — A spokesperson for the B.C. RCMP says a serious motor vehicle incident involving two trucks northeast of Lytton has closed Highway 1.
  According to a statement from B.C. RCMP spokesperson Corporal Brett Urano, Lillooet RCMP members responded at 8:56 a.m. Monday morning (Nov. 24) for a crash about 14 kms northeast of Lytton.
  Cpl. Urano says two trucks collided on the highway, and the highway will be closed until further notice to enable the investigation to proceed and to allow firs
  
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• Woman hospitalized after shooting at Surrey home: Surrey Police Service

  24-11-2025 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A woman has been transported to hospital with injuries after shots were fired outside a home on 101B Avenue in Surrey Sunday night.According to a statement from Surrey Police Service Staff Sergeant Lindsey Houghton, police say they were called to a report of possible shots fired outside a residence in the 12100 block of 101B Avenue in Surrey Sunday night at about 9:11 p.m.SPS officers arrived and determined one person, an adult woman, inside had been injured. She was transported t
  
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• Employee at Mission retirement home stops senior from being scammed out of $20,000: RCMP

  24-11-2025 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission say a retirement home employee was instrumental in stopping a senior resident there from losing $20,000 to a scammer.
  According to a statement from Mission RCMP, police were contacted by a staff member at the retirement home on Friday morning, Nov. 14, after an 82-year-old resident left with an 84-year-old male friend to deposit a $20,000 cheque into a Bitcoin ATM in Surrey.
  Police say the 82-year-old woman had already previously lost another large sum of mone
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Six more Alberta government MLAs face recall petitions

  24-11-2025 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Elections Alberta says six more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative caucus are facing recall petitions, bringing the total to nine.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Gushue, Dunstone stay unbeaten at Canadian Olympic curling trials

  24-11-2025 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Brad Gushue improved to 3-0 at the 2025 Montana's Canadian Curling Trials with a 5-3 win over John Epping in Monday's opening draw.
  Gushue's team from St. John's N.L., won the low-scoring contest by stealing a point in the third and sixth ends. Gushue's rink also took care of the rock with the hammer by not giving up a steal to Epping's Toronto-based team.
  Gushue, the 2006 Olympic champion, is hoping to represent Canada at the Winter Games once again in his final competitive seas
  
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• Health minister dismisses key recommendation from expert report on pharmacare

  24-11-2025 17:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Marjorie Michel is dismissing the key finding of an expert advisory committee on pharmacare, which says Ottawa should fully fund a list of essential medicines without cutting deals with the premiers.
  The committee's report, released Friday, says the federal government should create the list and provide funding to ensure all Canadians can get essential medication at no cost.
  The chair of the committee says it's clear trying to negotiate bilateral deals with the prov
  
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• Canadian men slip to No. 25 in World Rugby rankings after loss to Portugal

  24-11-2025 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada has dropped one place to No. 25 in World Rugby's new rankings, matching its career low after November losses to Romania, Georgia and most recently Portugal.
  Overtaken by Zimbabwe, the Canadian men are now the lowest-ranked team in the field of 24 for the 2025 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
  Stephen Meehan's side will learn its World Cup opponents at the Dec. 3 draw in Sydney.
  The Canadian men sat out the World Cup for the first time in 2023 after losing two-legged qualifying series to the U
  
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• Ottawa announces $35 million for 30 oral health training programs across Canada

  24-11-2025 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The federal government has announced more than $35 million over three years to train dental students across the country.
  Health Minister Marjorie Michel made the announcement today in Montreal with Carlos Leitão, Liberal MP and former Quebec finance minister.
  A news release says the funding will go toward 30 oral health programs mainly at universities and colleges for future dentists and dental hygienists.
  Michel says the money will fill competency gaps to ensure more Can
  
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• Trump, Xi spoke on phone Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, US and Chinese officials say

  24-11-2025 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, according to the White House and Chinese officials, nearly one month after the two men met in person in the South Korean city of Busan.Xi told Trump in the phone call Monday that Taiwan’s return to mainland China is “an integral part of the post-war international order,” according to the Chinese foreign ministry. A White House official c
  
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• Meet the team guiding Chilliwack flooring renos for 65+ years - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 17:20 via news.google.com
  Meet the team guiding Chilliwack flooring renos for 65+ years  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Snowfall warning issued for southeastern B.C. as weekend rain hits south coast

  24-11-2025 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Southeastern British Columbia is set for a blast of wintry weather with as much as 20 centimetres of snowfall expected today.
  Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Elk Valley region along the Alberta boundary, covering the area around Fernie, B.C.
  The warning extends into the entirety of Alberta's southern edge with the United States border, as well as parts of Saskatchewan's southern region.
  Environment Canada says snow is coming from a low-pressure system a
  
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• Three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week

  24-11-2025 16:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack’s newest sports bar and restaurant could begin serving customers this week, one of three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week.Zahir, the Montana’s franchisee, told Fraser Valley Today Friday morning that he was hoping to hold a soft opening of Montana’s inside the Coast Hotel at 45920 First Avenue Friday and Saturday, but it got delayed due to construction. He said he was still hoping to open on Monday, Nov. 24.Image: Mike Va
  
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• Three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week - Fraser Valley Today

  24-11-2025 16:49 via news.google.com
  Three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Are your parents ready for senior living? - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 16:26 via news.google.com
  Are your parents ready for senior living?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• US-backed aid company in Gaza shutters operations

  24-11-2025 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed company that provided aid to Gaza said Monday it would shutter operations.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had already closed distribution sites after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect six weeks ago in Gaza, and said Monday it would fully shut down. “We have succeeded in our mission of showing there’s a better way to deliver aid to Gazans,” said GHF director John Acree in a statement.
  Julia Frankel, The Associat
  
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• New retailer coming to occupy the former Canadian Tire on Vedder Road

  24-11-2025 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — An international retail chain known for selling everything for the home – from mattresses to tables, to furniture and dining sets, chairs and more – has plans to open in Chilliwack.According to a very brief statement emailed to Fraser Valley Today on Friday, Nov. 21 from the communications department at the City of Chilliwack, a tenant improvement permit and a development permit for form and character have been issued for a Jysk store at 7560 Vedder Road in Chilliw
  
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• Abbotsford MLA chides B.C. NDP govt. over abrupt closure of Cole Road rest stop in Abbotsford

  24-11-2025 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman says the abrupt closure of the Cole Road rest stop between Abbotsford and Chilliwack leaves street people with literally no other options as winter quickly approaches.
  Originally intended as a resting point for motorists and tourists, the Cole Road rest stop turned into a homeless encampment where RVs, trailers and other vehicles almost never left.The province disconnected power, water and other utilities this past week, leaving dozens of unho
  
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• Former Chilliwack trustee arrested at Chilliwack Law Courts building Monday morning - Fraser Valley Today

  24-11-2025 15:59 via news.google.com
  Former Chilliwack trustee arrested at Chilliwack Law Courts building Monday morning  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Former Chilliwack trustee facing arrest, order of committal

  24-11-2025 15:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Former SD33 trustee Barry Neufeld plans to turn himself at the Chilliwack Law Courts building Monday morning after an order of committal was issued for his arrest.Neufeld wrote in a newsletter reviewed by Fraser Valley Today that after losing a defamation lawsuit to Dr. Carin Bondar and being required to pay $35,000 in general damages and $10,000 in punitive damages, he has no way of paying the amount mandated by Justice K. Michael Stephens in an April 2024 ruling.“I liv
  
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• Fact File: How Sora’s AI videos made going viral easy, and tips on how to spot them

  24-11-2025 15:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Entertainment, emotion, surprise — these are some of the ingredients that make videos go viral. But seeing is no longer believing, and many of the gripping videos now filling social media feeds bear the watermark of an AI app that lets users create seemingly real videos that are anything but.
  Videos generated with the Sora 2 text-to-video app, developed by OpenAI, have fooled many internet users since the app launched in September. From fake ICE arrests to the Louvre heist, videos from Sor
  
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• Gifts galore and 300-plus vendors at annual Christmas market in Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  24-11-2025 14:35 via news.google.com
  Gifts galore and 300-plus vendors at annual Christmas market in Chilliwack  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Gifts galore and 300-plus vendors at annual Christmas market in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  24-11-2025 14:32 via news.google.com
  Gifts galore and 300-plus vendors at annual Christmas market in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ja’Kobe Walter’s improved shooting an asset off the Toronto Raptors’ bench

  24-11-2025 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — When Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic calls on Ja'Kobe Walter to sub in, the 21-year-old forward knows what to do.
  Walter has been Rajakovic's go-to player off the bench during Toronto's seven-game win streak, including getting 19 minutes in the Raptors' 119-109 triumph over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. Walter had 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting, including 4 for 5 from beyond the arc over 19 minutes of play.
  "Just knowing what I'm supposed to do: bring energy to the game,"
  
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• Flames riding hot streak after Maloney pushes back against quitting on season

  24-11-2025 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Calgary Flames have delivered their best results of the year after team president Don Maloney pushed back against the idea of giving up on the 2025-26 season earlier in the week.
  The Flames (8-13-3) beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday, then kicked off a five-game coast-to-coast road odyssey with a 5-2 win over the rested Vancouver Canucks (9-12-2) at Rogers Arena on Sunday.
  “It's been a tough grind for us,” said Connor Zary, who converted a rebou
  
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• Nunavik’s Inuit residents show resilience in the face of persistent water shortages

  24-11-2025 10:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PUVURNITUQ — In Quebec's Nunavik region, it's not unusual to run out of drinking water at home, or to have a full wastewater tank. But the Inuit residents demonstrate an impressive resilience to water shortages, with many adapting to the situation without complaint as they go about their lives in a remote region of Quebec dominated by the unique tundra landscape.
  "I'm not stressed about it," says Joshua Nathan Kettler, when asked about the constant water shortages. "We grew up with it, so
  
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• In the news today: Joly heads to South Korea to meet with Hanwha

  24-11-2025 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
  Industry Minister Joly heads to South Korea to meet with Hanwha
  Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is jetting off to Asia for a five-day trip to meet with major companies and discuss Ottawa's hunger for attracting large investments into Canada's defence-related sectors. The meetings come as Canada looks to quickly ramp up non-U.S. exports, and will include talks with one of the two bidders on Canada's ma
  
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• Industry Minister Joly heads to South Korea to meet with Hanwha

  24-11-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is jetting off to Asia for a five-day trip to meet with major companies and discuss Ottawa's hunger for attracting large investments into Canada's defence-related sectors.
  The meetings come as Canada looks to quickly ramp up non-U.S. exports, and will include talks with one of the two bidders on Canada's major submarine procurement project.
  Joly is meeting with officials from the Korean business conglomerate Hanwha, part of a trip lasting thro
  
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• B.C. activists who tested and sold heroin and meth launch constitutional challenge

  24-11-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A constitutional challenge by founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" who were found guilty of drug trafficking is expected to begin today at the British Columbia Supreme Court.
  Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were found guilty by a B.C. Supreme Court judge earlier this month in relation to charges of possessing cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine for the purposes of trafficking.
  That decision says the "the conviction will be held in abeyance pending the Constitutional challenge.
  
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• Three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week - fraservalleytoday.ca

  24-11-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Three new businesses set to open in Chilliwack over the next week  fraservalleytoday.ca
  
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• Suicide bombers strike security force headquarters in northwestern Pakistan, killing 3 officers

  24-11-2025 06:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of a security force in northwestern Pakistan on Monday morning, killing at least three officers and wounding five others, police and rescue officials said.The attack took place in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, said city Police Chief Saeed Ahmad.He said one attacker detonated his explosives at the main gate of the provincial headquarters of the Federal Constabulary, while th
  
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• Malenstyn shines, Luukkonen blocks 28 as Sabres top East-leading Hurricanes 4-1

  24-11-2025 05:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Beck Malenstyn scored a spectacular goal, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 28 saves and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Sunday.
  Malenstyn took a touch pass from Tyson Kozak, made a sweet move to his right to slip past Sebastian Aho and easily beat Frederik Andersen to make it 3-1 with 1:24 left in the second period.
  Alex Tuch, Jack Quinn and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres, who have won four of five. Ryan McLeod had two assists, and Luukkonen g
  
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