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• Federal Tory Leader Poilievre targets illicit drugs in B.C. hospitals

  14-05-2024 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward legislation that would forbid Ottawa from “ever” granting provinces exemptions to allow illicit drug use in hospitals.
  Poilievre made the announcement in Vancouver on Tuesday, saying the Conservatives will introduce a private member’s bill in Parliament to end the federal health minister’s power to grant exemptions that would allow the use of illicit drugs in a hospital se
  
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• Pilot survives reported float plane crash in Manning Park, according to Chilliwack-area witness

  09-06-2024 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  E.C. MANNING PROVINCIAL PARK — Popkum resident Lynn Brooks was hiking around Lightning Lake Thursday morning (June 6) in Manning Provincial Park when she couldn’t believe what was unfolding before her eyes.“I saw a plane starting to land through the trees on the trail I was on. “I thought, ‘Wow, what does he think he’s doing?’ A few moments later, I heard a big crash. Shocking!” Brooks said. “Then, when it crashed, I felt bad for my judgement
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of June 9, 2024

  09-06-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Raphael LeonAge: 41
  Height: 5’8” ft Weight: 150lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Breach of Undertaking
  Warrant in effect: May 28, 2024Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack
  Name: Sam ReitsmaAge: 51
  Height: 5’7” ft Hair: Brown
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: May 29, 2024
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver
  Name: Travis ThompsonAge: 23
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• Body of missing rower located: Abbotsford PD

  09-06-2024 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department has confirmed that a 65-year-old male rower who went missing earlier this week has been located deceased.According to a statement from Abbotsford PD spokesperson Art Stele Sunday morning (June 9), AbbyPD investigators, along with the assistance of Central Fraser Valley Search and Rescue personnel, saw the deployment of the RCMP’s dive team into the Sumas River on Saturday, June 8 where the missing rower was last reported to have been seen
  
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• Relying on coalition partners, Modi is sworn in for a rare third term as India’s prime minister

  09-06-2024 16:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Narendra Modi was sworn in Sunday for a rare third consecutive term as India’s prime minister, relying on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome.
  Modi took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
  The 73-year-old popular but polarizing leader is only the second Indian prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to retain po
  
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• Body of missing British TV presenter Michael Mosley found on Greek island

  09-06-2024 15:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATHENS (AP) — The body of missing British TV presenter Michael Mosley was found on a Greek island Sunday morning after a days-long search.
  A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an ongoing investigation, said a body was found on a rocky coast by a private boat and that formal identification was pending. Mosley’s family confirmed his death Sunday.
  Mosley’s wife said in a statement that her husband took the wrong route on a hike and collapsed in a plac
  
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• B.C. looks into post-fire mushroom picking rush after First Nation reports conflicts

  09-06-2024 15:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia says it is not ruling out regulating wild mushroom picking after an Indigenous community said a rising number of foragers are infringing on its land, with one case involving alleged threats of physical violence and intimidation.
  The provincial response comes after the Skwlax te Secwepemculecw First Nation said the areas devastated by the Lower East Adams Lake and Bush Creek wildfires last year are now sprouting large numbers of morel mushrooms, attracting many foragers who are p
  
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• Call for regulations around mushroom picking after wildfire burns

  09-06-2024 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A B.C forest ecologist says it may be time for the province to revisit the idea of regulating wild mushroom picking after foragers came into conflict with a First Nations community in the Shuswap.
  Andy MacKinnon says B-C had decided to forego any licence requirements for mushroom picking but increasing wildfires may create more friction between groups for post-fire crops.
  MacKinnon says morel mushrooms thrive in the first year on land scorched by fire, and climate change may c
  
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• Iran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad

  09-06-2024 14:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Guardian Council on Sunday approved the country’s hard-line parliament speaker and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.
  The council again barred former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for the crackdown that followed his disputed 2009 re-election, from running.
  The council’s decision repres
  
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• Families, friends set to remember victims on anniversary of Manitoba bus crash

  09-06-2024 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The year that has passed since a bus crash killed 17 seniors headed to a Manitoba casino on a bright late-spring day has been one of grief, community support, a slow return to normal and, for some, a long road to recovery.
  It has also left unanswered questions about the genesis of the horrific crash that left the bus in flames, debris strewn in all directions and first responders dealing with a chaotic scene of death of injury.
  Dauphin, a city of 8,000 residents in western Manitoba, is a place w
  
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• Gaza’s Health Ministry says 274 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raid that rescued 4 hostages

  09-06-2024 12:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 274 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air and ground raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas.The ministry said Sunday that around 700 people were wounded in Saturday’s operation.The operation deep into central Gaza was the largest rescue operation since Oct. 7, when Hamas and other militants stormed across the border, killing some 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostage.
  Israel launched a massi
  
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• Residents against graphite mine fear powering Pentagon, environmental ruin

  09-06-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — In Quebec’s Laurentians region, a few kilometres from a wildlife reserve and just outside the town of Duhamel, lies a source of one of the world’s most sought after minerals for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries: graphite.
  Since Lomiko Metals Inc., a mining company based in Surrey, B.C., announced plans to build a graphite mine in the area, some residents living nearby have protested the project, fearing the potential harm to the environment. But opposition ha
  
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• High security, protesters expected at today’s ‘Walk with Israel’ event in Toronto

  09-06-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A pro-Israel march is set to take place today in Toronto amid heightened security and a related protest.The United Jewish Appeal is holding its annual “Walk with Israel” event, which involves a five-kilometre walk and a festival in the city’s north end.Police have said they aim to “avoid confrontations” by designating certain areas for those who plan to protest the event, and they have warned that anyone engaging in criminal behaviour will be arreste
  
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• Polls open in 20 EU countries as voting for the European Parliament enters its final day

  09-06-2024 08:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Polls opened on Sunday in 20 European Union countries, from Sweden and Lithuania in the north to Portugal and Cyprus in the south, as voters choose their representatives for the next five-year term of the European Parliament, amid concern that a likely shift to the political right will undermine the ability of the world’s biggest trading bloc to take decisions as war rages in Ukraine and anti-migrant sentiment mounts.
  Citizens will cast ballots to elect 720 members of
  
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• Seoul to restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons

  09-06-2024 06:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons.
  Following a national security meeting, the South Korean presidential office said the loudspeakers will be installed and begin broadcasts in border areas on Sunday. The move is certain to anger North Korea and potentially prompt it to take its own retaliatory military steps.
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• Bobrovsky shines, Panthers blank Oilers 3-0 in Game 1 of Stanley Cup final

  09-06-2024 05:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE — Sergei Bobrovsky made 32 saves to register the third playoff shutout of his career as the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 on Saturday to take a 1-0 lead in the Stanley Cup final.
  Carter Verhaeghe, Evan Rodrigues and Eetu Luostarinen, into an empty net, scored for Florida. Aleksander Barkov had two assists.
  Stuart Skinner stopped 15 shots for Edmonton.
  Game 2 of a title series with the furthest distance between competing cities in NHL history goes Monday back at
  
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• Haiti’s new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country, official says

  09-06-2024 03:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince, an official told The Associated Press.
  It wasn’t immediately known why Conille was hospitalized.
  Louis Gérald Gilles, a member of the transitional presidential council that recently choose Conille as leader of the troubled Caribbean country, said he was en route to the hospital and did not have further information.
  A spokesma
  
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• Canadian men dig deep to beat U.S. 3-1 in Volleyball Nations League

  09-06-2024 03:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s national men’s volleyball team dug deep to beat the United States 3-1 in Volleyball Nations League action on Saturday.
  Canada, which has already qualified for the Paris Olympics, beat the Americans 25-16, 19-25, 26-24 and 28-26 to win the best-of-five at TD Place.
  Canada improves to 2-1 in the second round of VNL, beating Cuba 3-1 on Tuesday and dropping a 3-1 decision to Argentina on Thursday. Canada plays Serbia on Sunday.
  Canada led Saturday’s match i
  
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• Jenny Shin takes 1-shot lead into final round of ShopRite LPGA Classic

  09-06-2024 02:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — Jenny Shin shot a 2-under 69 on Saturday and will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic as she seeks her first victory since 2016.
  With the wind kicking up and making conditions tougher at the Bay Course at Seaview Resort, the 31-year-old from South Korea had six birdies and four bogeys to post a two-day total of 10-under 132.
  It was much different than Friday’s opening round, when Shin had nine birdies and a bogey in calmer cond
  
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• Canadian Brad Katona uses ground skills to earn decision win on UFC fight card

  09-06-2024 02:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOUISVILLE — Canadian bantamweight Brad (Superman) Katona, using his ground game to smother his opponent, won a unanimous decision over American Jesse Butler on the undercard of a UFC Fight Night card on Saturday.
  The judges scored it 30-26, 30-27, 30-27 for Katona (16-3-0), who improved to 4-3-0 in the UFC.
  The main event at the KFC Yum! Center pitted American Jared (The Killa Gorilla) Cannonier, ranked fourth among middleweight contenders, against No. 7 Nassourdine Imavov of France.
  The
  
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• Dornoch pulls off upset to win first Belmont Stakes run at Saratoga racecourse

  09-06-2024 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — When Luis Saez first rode Dornoch at Saratoga racecourse last summer, he told trainer Danny Gargan, “You have the Derby winner.”
  That did not come true, but Dornoch made good on that optimism Saturday by winning the first Belmont Stakes at Saratoga, hugging the rail and holding off Mindframe to spring a major upset in the Triple Crown finale at odds of 17-1.
  The horse co-owned by World Series champion Jayson Werth won the Belmont five weeks after a
  
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• Daniel Ricciardo claps back at Jacques Villeneuve for harsh comments

  09-06-2024 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo is hitting back at Jacques Villeneuve for harsh comments made by the Canadian.
  Villeneuve, the 1997 world champion, ranted in a television broadcast Friday that Ricciardo should no longer be in F1.
  Ricciardo responded at the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday by placing fifth in qualifying for RB F1 team, his best result of the season.
  He said after the session that Villeneuve has probably hit his head a few too many times.
  The 34-year-old Riccia
  
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• Scheffler builds 4-shot lead at Memorial; Hadwin remains in hunt

  09-06-2024 01:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler hit out of a bunker over the green and into the water. He hit a tee shot over a boundary fence and made a triple bogey. He three-putted his last hole. All that, and he posted a 1-under 71 and increased his lead Saturday in the Memorial.
  In his final start before the U.S. Open, Scheffler seized control despite a couple of blunders on a tough Muirfield Village course. He still built a four-shot lead, moving closer to his fifth PGA Tour victory of the yea
  
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• Scheffler builds 4-shot lead at Memorial; Abbotsford’s Hadwin remains in hunt

  09-06-2024 01:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler hit out of a bunker over the green and into the water. He hit a tee shot over a boundary fence and made a triple bogey. He three-putted his last hole. All that, and he posted a 1-under 71 and increased his lead Saturday in the Memorial.
  In his final start before the U.S. Open, Scheffler seized control despite a couple of blunders on a tough Muirfield Village course. He still built a four-shot lead, moving closer to his fifth PGA Tour victory of the yea
  
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• Roughriders rally to clip Elks 29-21 in regular-season opener

  09-06-2024 01:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Shawn Bane Jr. reeled in three touchdown passes as the Saskatchewan Roughriders came from behind to spoil Edmonton’s Canadian Football League home opener, defeating the Elks 29-21 on Saturday.
  The Elks started the scoring on their first possession with a 17-yard field goal from Boris Bede.
  Saskatchewan responded right back with a long drive capped off by quarterback Trevor Harris finding a wide-open Bane Jr. for a 27-yard passing major.
  After starting the second quarter wi
  
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• Four men charged with murder in targeted Surrey shooting

  09-06-2024 01:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police say the four men arrested Friday after a fatal shooting in Surrey have been charged with first-degree murder.
  Surrey RCMP say investigators believe the shooting was targeted even though the victim had no history of police contact.
  Police say 28-year-old Yuvraj Goyal was found dead in a residential area in south Surrey after officers were called to the area to investigate a shooting Friday morning.
  They say four suspects in their early 20s were arrested hours after the
  
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• Four men charged with murder in targeted Surrey, B.C., shooting

  09-06-2024 01:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police say the four men arrested Friday after a fatal shooting in Surrey, B.C., have been charged with first-degree murder.
  Surrey RCMP say investigators believe the shooting was targeted even though the victim had no history of police contact.Police say 28-year-old Yuvraj Goyal was found dead in a residential area in south Surrey after officers were called to the area to investigate a shooting Friday morning.
  They say four suspects in their early 20s were arrested hours aft
  
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• Kevin Gausman throws the first shutout of his 12-year career as Blue Jays beat A’s 7-0

  09-06-2024 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Gausman pitched the first shutout of his 12-year career, a five-hitter, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Saturday.
  A two-time All-Star who had never thrown a nine-inning complete game in the majors, the 33-year-old Gausman matched his season-high of 10 strikeouts and walked one. The right-hander threw 109 pitches, his fourth time this season topping the century mark.
  Gausman (5-4) allowed one run or fewer for the eighth time in 13 sta
  
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• Aid is delivered to Gaza from newly repaired US-built pier, US official says

  09-06-2024 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Badly needed aid has been delivered to Gaza from a newly repaired American-built pier, a U.S. official said Saturday, following problems that had plagued the effort to bring supplies to Palestinians by sea.
  The pier constructed by the American military was only operational for about a week before it was blown apart in high winds and heavy seas on May 25. The damaged section was reconnected to the beach in Gaza on Friday after undergoing repairs at an Israeli port.
  Crews d
  
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• Seaplane crashes into Vancouver’s Coal Harbour

  09-06-2024 00:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Emergency crews have responded to what appears to be a float plane crash in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour waters.
  Vancouver Fire Rescue Services Fire Chief Karen Fry says in a post on social media platform X that police and rescuers are at the scene of a “marine incident” in Coal Harbour on the Vancouver waterfront.
  Images and videos on social media show what appears to be a small plane partially submerged in the water with a SeaBus and several other vessels nearby
  
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