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• Around The Lake New Course Records

  16-10-2018 20:55 via mychilliwacknews.com
  A number of new course records were established in this weekend’s (October 13) 16th Annual Around the Lake Trail Race at Cultus Lake. Aided by perfect conditions on a beautiful sunny day, the fastest time around the 30.2 km course was set by the male relay team of Kevin Barata and Brandon Jones from Abbotsford, who smashed last year’s course record time by almost half an hour, with a time of 2 hours, 24 minutes, 41 seconds. Second place went to another Abbotsford duo, Russ Esau and R
  
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• B.C. seniors feel ‘invisible and forgotten,’ new seniors advocate says

  05-06-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Seniors in British Columbia are feeling “invisible and forgotten” as their advocate says they are falling thorough the cracks in existing provincial support systems.
  In his first report as B.C.’s senior’s advocate, Dan Levitt says affordability was the top concern during visits with hundreds of seniors in more than 20 communities in April.
  He says one in four seniors in B.C. earn less than $23,000 a year, which is below the poverty line, and more seniors
  
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• Trudeau congratulates Modi re-election, raises rule of law in India relationship

  05-06-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is congratulating his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his re-election, while reinforcing the importance of the rule of law.
  Modi won a weeks-long election Tuesday, securing a majority but losing more seats than widely expected to opposition parties.
  Despite huge amounts of trade between Canada and India, relations have been strained for years over efforts by some Canadians to advocate for a separate Sikh homeland to be carved out of India.
  Those t
  
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• Canada drawn with France, Brazil and Fiji at FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia

  05-06-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has been drawn in Group B with France, Brazil and debutante Fiji for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
  The draw for the newly expanded 24-team tournament, which runs Aug. 31 to Sept.22 in Colombia, was held Wednesday in Bogota.France has made the tournament semifinals four times, missing out on the final four in 2022 in a penalty shootout loss to Japan. The French were runners-up in 2016 and third in 2014, when Canada hosted the tournament.
  France booked its ticket to Colombia as the
  
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• Vancouver Canucks promote Svejkovsky to assistant coach, expand Sedins’ roles

  05-06-2024 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have made some coaching changes, including promoting skills coach Yogi Svejkovsky to an assistant role.The team says Daniel and Henrik Sedin are also getting bigger coaching roles where they will be more involved with the day-today activities of both the NHL club and its American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks.The moves follow an announcement last week that Vancouver had “mutually parted ways” with assistant coach Mike Yeo.The
  
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• Trial to begin Thursday in murder-conspiracy case tied to Coutts border blockade

  05-06-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The trial for two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the border protest at Coutts, Alta., is set to begin Thursday.
  Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert were arrested after RCMP found a cache of guns, body armour and ammunition in trailers in the community in February 2022.
  Mounties said at the time that they seized long guns, handguns, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and body armour.A five-man, nine-woman jury was selected Friday, but the trial
  
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• PBO accuses Liberals of hiding economic analysis of carbon pricing

  05-06-2024 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux is accusing the federal government of hiding its own economic analysis that confirms carbon pricing has a negative overall effect on Canadian households.
  Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the accusation is ridiculous.
  Giroux is battling with the Liberals after he admitted recently that his office’s own analysis of the carbon price was flawed.
  While the analysis said it only looked at the impact of the consumer carbon levy, i
  
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• House Republicans issue criminal referrals against James and Hunter Biden, alleging false tesitmony

  05-06-2024 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued criminal referrals Wednesday against Joe Biden’s son and brother, accusing the president’s family members of making false statements to Congress as part of year-long impeachment inquiry.The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways & Means committees sent a letter to the Justice Department recommending prosecution of the Hunter Biden and James Biden.
  For months, Republicans have pursued an impeachment inquiry s
  
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• Weather window may help search for three missing mountaineers: B.C. RCMP

  05-06-2024 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — Police and rescue teams hope a window of good weather will help the search for three mountaineers lost since Friday on Mount Garibaldi in British Columbia.
  A Squamish RCMP spokeswoman says the clearing conditions could allow an aerial assessment of the area before search and rescue teams are deployed in the “complex terrain.”
  The lost climbers were reported overdue on May 31 and were last seen on Atwell Peak on the southern edge of Mount Garibaldi, about 70 kil
  
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• Raed Jaser, convicted in Via Rail terror plot, loses appeal

  05-06-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ontario’s highest court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of one of the two men found guilty of terrorism charges in a plot to derail a passenger train between Canada and the U.S.
  Raed Jaser had challenged the outcome of the 2015 trial on several grounds, including that his case should have been severed from that of his co-accused, Chiheb Esseghaier – something he requested twice, unsuccessfully.
  Esseghaier, who was self-represented, refused to meaningfully participate in t
  
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• Jesse Marsch likes what he see in first camp in charge of Canadian men

  05-06-2024 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jesse Marsch likes what he’s seen at his first camp in charge of the Canadian men’s soccer team.
  “All the things that I felt about the team and the optimism I have had has been exceeded by the work that’s been done,” Marsch said Wednesday in Rotterdam. “And I think a lot of that comes down to not just the quality and the talent in the team but the quality of the character.”
  Marsch cited the players’ selflessness and “drive to be successful as
  
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• ATV incident on Harrison East FSR seriously injures 2 males

  05-06-2024 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON EAST FOREST SERVICE ROAD — An ATV accident on Harrison East Forest Service Road Tuesday night (June 4) north of Agassiz has seriously injured two males, according to the Agassiz RCMP detachment.
  Sgt. Andy Lot of the Agassiz RCMP detachment told Fraser Valley Today over the phone Wednesday morning that B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics, Kent Harrison Search and Rescue, and Agassiz RCMP were dispatched sometime after 10:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a single-vehicle ATV crash.
  
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• Robert Miller too sick to defend himself against sex charges, his lawyers say

  05-06-2024 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Lawyers defending Quebec billionaire businessman Robert Miller against sex crime charges have filed an application for a stay of proceedings, saying he is too sick to appear in court.
  The founder of Future Electronics was arrested last week on 21 sex charges involving 10 complainants, many of whom were minors when the alleged offences occurred between 1994 and 2016.
  The application says the 80-year-old Miller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1996 and is now in the
  
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• Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate for first time in more than four years

  05-06-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada marked a major turning point in its fight against inflation on Wednesday as it lowered its key interest rate for the first time in more than four years, making it the first central bank in the G7 to cut rates.
  Governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank has more confidence inflation is moving closer to its two per cent target, citing various indicators that suggest price pressures have retreated.
  “If inflation continues to ease, and our confidence that inf
  
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• Wisconsin warden jailed hours before news conference on prison death investigations

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin was jailed on Wednesday hours before a scheduled news conference where officials were expected to announce even more arrests stemming from investigations into inmate deaths at the troubled lockup.
  The arrest of Randall Hepp, who has been warden of the Waupun Correctional Institution since 2020, comes as the head of the state prison system urged the county sheriff to keep the probes open, saying dozens of workers were
  
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• Putin takes questions from international journalists for first time since inauguration

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions Wednesday from international journalists for the first time since his inauguration at a roundtable session on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
  He faced questions from senior news leaders of international news agencies, including The Associated Press.
  The Russian leader has used the annual forum as a showcase for touting Russia’s development and seeking investors. While meeti
  
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• Mirra Andreeva defeats No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka to reach the French Open semifinals at age 17

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Mirra Andreeva, an unseeded 17-year-old from Russia, surprised No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 at the French Open on Wednesday to become the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist since Martina Hingis at age 16 in 1997.
  “I tried to play brave,” Andreeva said. “And I managed to win.”
  She is also the youngest player to eliminate someone ranked No. 1 or 2 at Roland Garros since Monica Seles — like Hingis, now a member of the International Tenn
  
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• Chilliwack council calls B.C. government’s forced housing plans in Bill 44 ‘undemocratic’

  05-06-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — In a rare formal statement aimed at the provincial government, Chilliwack City Council says it is frustrated over legislation by the B.C. government that mandates significantly more housing without considerations for infrastructure or resident feedback.According to a news release Wednesday morning (June 5), the Chilliwack council asserts that it has long supported responsible housing and affordable housing projects in a way that balances the needs and wants unique to the Chill
  
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• Maple Leafs add former Islanders head coach Lambert to Berube’s staff

  05-06-2024 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired former New York Islanders head coach Lane Lambert as an associate coach on Craig Berube’s staff.
  The 59-year-old Lambert posted a 61-46-20 record as Islanders head coach.
  He was promoted from associate coach after Barry Trotz was fired following the 2021-22 season and led the Islanders to the playoffs the following campaign, where they lost to Carolina in the first round.
  He was fired midway through the 2023-24 season and replaced with Pat
  
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• Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested after occupying Stanford University president’s office

  05-06-2024 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford University said 13 people were arrested as law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building early Wednesday that houses the university president and provost offices, with the school saying there was damage inside and outside the building.
  The takeover began near dawn on the last day of classes for the spring quarter. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside while other linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported.
  
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• Canadian flyweight Denis Puric no stranger to tough fights in Thailand

  05-06-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Having survived a fight in a Thai prison, there isn’t much that fazes Canadian kickboxer Denis (The Bosnian Menace) Puric.
  The 39-year-old Puric, now fighting under the One Championship banner, has seen it all.
  The Hamilton-based fighter is back in Thailand, this time facing local favourite Rodtang (The Iron Man) Jitmuangnon in the co-main event of “One 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II” on Friday at Bangkok’s Impact Arena.
  Puric is no stranger to Thailand, having lived and
  
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• Man to serve 12 months house arrest in fatal hit-and-run of 7-year-old Ukrainian girl

  05-06-2024 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A driver who struck and killed a seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee in Montreal in 2022 has been sentenced to 12 months of house arrest.Juan Manuel Becerra Garcia apologized to the girl’s family today at the courthouse following his sentencing, after pleading guilty last month to failing to stop after an accident.Seven-year-old Mariia Legenkovska was walking to school with her brother and sister on Dec. 13, 2022, when Becerra Garcia’s Jeep Grand Cherokee ran into her.H
  
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• Liberal MP ‘surprised’ social conservative felt ‘ambushed’ by questions on abortion

  05-06-2024 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal MP who invited a Conservative backbencher onto his podcast says he’s surprised the Conservative described feeling “ambushed” by queries about his long-standing and well-known opposition to abortion.Nate Erskine-Smith says he’s less surprised, however, to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre distance himself from Alberta MP Arnold Viersen’s comments.
  During his appearance on Erskine-Smith’s podcast, Viersen discussed his social-co
  
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• NBA advocates for federal regulatory gambling framework in wake of Porter ban

  05-06-2024 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The NBA’s deputy commissioner and chief operating officer says the league wants a strong federal regulatory framework for legalized gambling in the United States.
  Mark Tatum made the comments on Wednesday, a day after a New York man was charged in a sports betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban former Toronto Raptors centre Jontay Porter for life.
  Tatum had no comment on the criminal matter, but said the state-by-state legalization of sports gambling in the U.S. made it possible to tr
  
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• Watchdog can’t ‘add anything’ on finding that MPs assisted foreign states: McGuinty

  05-06-2024 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The chairman of a national security watchdog says the panel “cannot add anything” to its recent finding that some MPs wittingly assisted the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.
  Liberal MP David McGuinty says the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians has gone as far as it possibly can in its report to outline the accusations.
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said this week it is up to law enforcement to decide i
  
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• Slovakia’s Prime Minister Fico posts a speech online in a first since his attempted assassination

  05-06-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico posted a speech online on Wednesday, his first appearance since he was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt three weeks ago.
  In a prerecorded speech on his Facebook ahead of the European Parliament election, Fico said the attack caused serious damage to his health and that “it will be a small miracle if I return to work in several weeks.”
  Fico has been recovering from multiple wounds after
  
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• Eagle Landing Parkway closed Wednesday; RCMP, paramedics dispatched for report of train vs. pedestrian

  05-06-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Eagle Landing Parkway has been closed at the railroad tracks Wednesday morning (June 5) after first responders were dispatched for the report of a train versus a pedestrian.
  Chilliwack Fire Department, RCMP and B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics were dispatched shortly after 8:15 a.m. for the report of a train versus a pedestrian.
  According to scanner traffic, Chilliwack Fire Engines 1 and 4 cleared the scene at 8:52 a.m. The scene was left in care of RCMP.
  During the incident,
  
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• BREAKING: Chilliwack RCMP confirms that a man died after being struck by a train near Eagle Landing Parkway

  05-06-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson has advised Fraser Valley Today that a man has died after being struck by a train Wednesday morning.
  According to a statement from Corporal Carmen Kiener, spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, Mounties in Chilliwack responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a train near Eagle Landing Parkway.
  On arrival, Chilliwack RCMP officers located a deceased male in the area that had suffered injuries consistent with being struck by a
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: NDP housing mirage: reality vs rhetoric

  05-06-2024 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  There’s no denying that the housing crisis in British Columbia has reached a critical point under the governance of David Eby and the NDP. Their management of this crippling crisis has been characterized by skyrocketing prices and insufficient housing supply and has been exacerbated by a series of missteps and failures.
  Recent reports have exposed a disturbing pattern of NDP mismanagement at BC Housing, an organization critical to addressing housing issues in the province. The Ernst &
  
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• See a goofy-looking bird on the ground? It’s likely a baby and it’s fine, experts say

  05-06-2024 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — It’s fledgling season, a time when animal rescue experts say they are inundated with calls about goofy-looking birds stumbling around on the ground.
  Karen Gosse of The Rock Wildlife Rescue in Newfoundland says most of the spring calls she gets from people worried they’ve found an injured bird are about baby crows.
  She says they come down from the nest without having figured out how to stretch their wings, and they often fall over or stare at people with
  
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