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• Wildfire service warns winds may fan ‘aggressive’ blazes in B.C.’s north

  15-05-2024 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT NELSON, B.C. — British Columbia’s wildfire service says gusty winds could fan “aggressive fire behaviour” in the north, where out-of-control blazes have forced several thousand people to flee their homes.
  An update from the BC Wildfire Service says winds could pick up this afternoon in the Fort Nelson area where an 84-square-kilometre blaze threatens the town that has mostly been abandoned by residents.
  The community of about 4,700 has been evacuated since Friday alo
  
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• Police search the European Parliament over suspected Russian interference, prosecutors say

  29-05-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that police carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European Parliament and at his office in the Parliament’s building in Brussels over suspected Russian interference.
  Prosecutors said in statement that the suspect’s office in Strasbourg, where the EU Parliament’s headquarters are located in France, was also searched in partnership with the EU’s judicial cooperati
  
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• Canada to see warm summer, wildfire risks loom for some regions: Weather Network

  29-05-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Get ready to feel the heat, Canada.
  The Weather Network is predicting more sunshine and warmer temperatures for the summer.
  The weather broadcaster’s annual summer forecast released Wednesday indicates Canada will be blanketed in heat over the next three months as the country sees fewer rainy days and several regions experience humid conditions.
  “We’d be very surprised, very surprised, if this didn’t turn out overall as a warm summer,” Chris Scott, the Weather Netwo
  
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• In the news today: Property controls a barrier for domestic grocers

  29-05-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  Property controls a major barrier for grocery competition in Canada: experts
  Experts say limiting real estate restrictions in grocery leases could open the door to stronger competition in the sector, giving consumers more choices and potentially even lowering prices. Canada’s competition watchdog has turned its sight on grocery sector rental terms that include restr
  
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• How my photos of a pick-up football game made a mark on Canadian political history

  29-05-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  “Hey, Doug — did you take that shot of Stanfield on the front of the Globe and Mail this morning?”
  We were boarding the Progressive Conservative campaign bus outside the Hotel Vancouver early on May 31 during the 1974 federal election.
  I was a photographer working for The Canadian Press out of Montreal, where I had been stationed the previous year.
  Early the day before, we had flown out of Halifax heading for a rally in Saskatoon and then overnight in Vancouver.We had a refueli
  
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• Black-owned business program gives owners a shot at government, corporate contracts

  29-05-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Governments and corporations in Canada spend billions each year procuring products and services, but Jackee Kasandy says that historically barely any has gone to businesses owned by Black people, and she wants that to change.Kasandy heads the British Columbia-based Black Entrepreneurs and Businesses of Canada Society, which now offers a certification program for Black-owned businesses to help owners navigate the lucrative but complicated world of government and corporate procur
  
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• A political picture is worth a thousand words — and, sometimes, a career

  29-05-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — They say a photo is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, it’s worth your career.
  A momentary snapshot can send the public a strong signal about what a politician’s fate could be. It can seem to seal that fate.
  That was in part the case for former Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield, who was captured in an award-winning photo that became one of Canada’s most legendary political images.
  Fifty years ago, on May 30, 1974, former Canadian Press photographer
  
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• South Africans begin voting in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years

  29-05-2024 07:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory.At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in 1994. It is now the target of a new generation of discontent in a country of 62 million people — half of whom are estimated
  
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• Schneider and Gausman lead the Blue Jays past the sliding White Sox 7-2

  29-05-2024 06:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Davis Schneider had three hits and three RBIs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the sliding Chicago White Sox 7-2 on a rainy Tuesday night.
  Justin Turner drove in two runs for Toronto, which finished with 13 hits. George Springer had two hits, walked three times and scored two runs.
  Blue Jays right-hander Kevin Gausman (4-3) pitched six innings of one-run ball. The 33-year-old Gausman has won his last four decisions.
  Chicago dropped its seventh straight game. At 15-41, the Whi
  
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• Reinhart scores in OT, Panthers beat Rangers 3-2 to tie East final

  29-05-2024 05:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored a power-play goal 1:12 into overtime, and the Florida Panthers topped the New York Rangers 3-2 to even the Eastern Conference final at two games apiece.
  It was the third straight OT game in the series — and the first time Florida got a win in those matchups.
  Blake Wheeler, playing his first game for the Rangers since mid-February, was called for hooking Aleksander Barkov 59 seconds into the extra session. And it didn’t take long for the
  
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• Towns, Edwards lift Wolves over Mavs 105-100 to avoid sweep

  29-05-2024 05:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns scored 20 of his 25 points in the second half and the Minnesota Timberwolves held off the Dallas Mavericks 105-100 on Tuesday night to avoid a sweep in the Western Conference finals.
  Anthony Edwards had 29 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists as the Wolves stayed alive in their first trip to the conference finals in 20 years, and just the second in the franchise’s 35 seasons.
  Now third-seeded Minnesota heads home for Game 5 on Thursday night to see if
  
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• Canada bumped 3-1 by U.S. in VNL match

  29-05-2024 05:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON — After winning three of four Volleyball Nations League matches in Rio de Janeiro to keep their hopes alive for a berth in the Paris Olympics, the Canadian women’s team were handed a setback Tuesday night by the powerful United States.
  The U.S. squad, playing in front of loud American supporters, defeated Canada 25-22, 25-17, 23-25 and 25-20 to win the best-of-five VNL match 3-1.
  Despite losing, Canada led in attacks (59-52), tied the U.S. in blocks with 10 each, had 11 unf
  
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• Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for royal defamation, prosecutors say

  29-05-2024 05:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors on Wednesday said former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges.
  Thaksin will not yet be indicted because he had filed a request to postpone his original appointment on Wednesday with proof that he has contracted COVID-19, said Prayuth Bejraguna, a spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General, at a news conference.
  The attorney general’s office sche
  
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• De Grasse posts season best, wins sprint double

  29-05-2024 05:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Andre De Grasse passed his “fitness test” with flying colours on Tuesday as the reigning Olympic 200-metre champion posted back-to-back wins at the 63rd Ostrava Golden Spike track meet.
  De Grasse clocked a season-best 20.09 seconds in the 200-metre final to beat Jamaica’s Andrew Hudson (20.56) and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake of London (20.63) to the finish line. It was De Grasse’s second straight win in the 200 this season.
  About an hour earlier, De Grasse won the 100-metre
  
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• Warriors beat Voltigeurs 4-3, advance to Memorial Cup semifinal

  29-05-2024 04:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAGINAW — The Moose Jaw Warriors were thrilled to qualify for their first Memorial Cup tournament.
  The Western Hockey League champions from Saskatchewan were even more excited to record their first win as they defeated the Drummondville Voltigeurs 5-3 on Tuesday night in a must-win battle for both winless teams at Dow Event Center.
  The Warriors, who grabbed an early 3-0 lead on goals by Vojtech Port, Jagger Firkus, Denton Mateychuk, needed an Aiden Ziprick goal at 18:26 of the third period
  
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• Texas runoffs put Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, state’s GOP House speaker in middle of party feud

  29-05-2024 03:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is out to save his job Tuesday in a GOP primary runoff that has put rifts within the party on display.Gonzales, who has clashed with some of his hard-right colleagues in Washington and drawn a rebuke from the state party, is in a race against Brandon Herrera, a gun-rights YouTube creator with more than 3 million followers.Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan also faces a tough challenge that could see him ousted from his powerful seat, upend
  
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• 126 children and youth died from toxic drugs in five years, says BC Coroners Service

  29-05-2024 01:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A report from the BC Coroners Service says 126 children and youth younger than 19 died from toxic drugs between 2019 and 2023.
  That makes unregulated drug toxicity the leading cause of unnatural death for the age group over those five years.
  The report says fentanyl or related drugs were detected in 83 per cent of the deaths, either alone or in combination with other substances.
  It says about two-thirds of those who died were receiving services offered through the Ministry of Ch
  
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• Human smugglers used B.C. freight trains to move people across border, U.S. says

  29-05-2024 01:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The U.S. Department of Justice says two men are facing human smuggling charges in Seattle for their alleged role in what it calls a dangerous scheme to transport people out of British Columbia and across the border on freight trains.U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Tessa Gorman says Jesus Ortiz-Plata, 45, of Oregon and Juan Pablo Cuellar Medina, 35, of Washington were arrested last week, along with three non-citizens who were allegedly smuggled out of Canada
  
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• Transitional council in Haiti selects new prime minister for a country under siege by gangs

  29-05-2024 00:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council had chosen someone else for the position.
  The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorize the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once peaceful neighborhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations and prisons.
  Council member Louis Gérald Gilles told The Associated Press
  
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• B.C. miners serve strike notice at Gibraltar copper pit in central Interior

  29-05-2024 00:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A union representing 550 workers at a mine in British Columbia’s central Interior says they’re prepared to go on strike if a new contract is not reached by the end of Friday.
  Unifor Local 3018 says the workers at Taseko’s Gibraltar Mine deserve fair wages, strong safety protocols and equitable treatment on the job.
  A statement from the union says despite several weeks of meetings, the company has failed to make meaningful proposals at the bargaining
  
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• P.E.I. kiteboarder ‘lucky to be alive’ after shark attack in Turks and Caicos

  29-05-2024 00:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PROVIDENCIALES — A professional kiteboarder from P.E.I. says he has been seriously injured in a shark attack that occurred while he was snorkelling in the Turks and Caicos Islands last week.
  In an Instagram post Saturday, Lucas Arsenault shared a photo of himself in a hospital bed with his lower right leg apparently missing and his left leg and forearm heavily bandaged.
  In an accompanying caption, he said the injuries were the result of a shark attack while snorkelling with family and frie
  
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• City of Mission, firefighters union agree to 3-year collective bargaining deal

  29-05-2024 00:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The City of Mission and the union representing career firefighters with Mission Fire Rescue Service have come to terms on a three-year labour pact.According to a statement from the City of Mission and the International Association of Firefighters Local 4768, the 3-year deal takes effect from January 1, 2024 through to December 31, 2026.The agreement, which was duly ratified by the IAFF on May 16, 2024 and by City of Mission council on May 21, 2024, included modest increases to be
  
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• Oilers looking to regroup after Game 3 loss: ‘Nothing to sulk about’

  28-05-2024 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Kris Knoblauch needed someone — anyone — to step up.
  The Oilers were taking on water after a flying start to Game 3 of the NHL’s Western Conference final.
  Connor McDavid had been shot out of a cannon, setting up Edmonton’s first goal and scoring another in Monday’s quick-strike opening 20 minutes that saw the home side lead 2-0 and hold the Dallas Stars to just three shots.
  The momentum, however, was resoundingly flipped after the intermission. And
  
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• Humboldt Broncos families fight to keep Saskatchewan government named in lawsuit

  28-05-2024 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Lawyers for several Humboldt Broncos families were in court Tuesday fighting a bid by the government of Saskatchewan to have it removed as a defendant in a lawsuit over the deadly bus crash in 2018.
  The five hockey families are suing over the crash, alleging the province knew the rural intersection where the crash happened had problems with visibility but did nothing to fix it.Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when an inexperienced truck driver went through a stop sig
  
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• Trudeau ‘in no way’ supports Israeli offensive in Rafah, but is mum on taking action

  28-05-2024 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is “horrified” by Israeli strikes that killed civilians in Rafah earlier this week, but walked away from reporters when asked what he will do about it.His comment comes two days after gruesome images emerged of children injured in airstrikes and fires burning among encampments of displaced people in Rafah.
  Trudeau says Canada “in no way” supports the attacks on Rafah, which had become a safe haven for more t
  
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• US condemns loss of life, but says no policy changes after civilian deaths in Israeli strike

  28-05-2024 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday condemned the loss of life of dozens of civilians as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, but said it is not planning any policy changes as a result of the Israeli actions.
  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Israel had not violated Biden’s “red line” for withholding future offensive arms transfers because it has not, and itnappears to the U.S. that it will not, launch a full-scale ground in
  
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• A Kentucky family is left homeless for a second time by a tornado that hit the same location

  28-05-2024 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BARNSLEY, Ky. (AP) — Devin Johnson’s life was uprooted for a second time when a tornado flattened his home over the Memorial Day weekend — on the same lot in Kentucky where another twister left him homeless in 2021.
  Johnson, 21, watched Tuesday as workers used chain saws to cut into the wreckage of the trailer he called home with his grandparents and girlfriend. It was an all-too-familiar scene for his family.
  Their previous home in the tiny western Kentucky community of Barnsl
  
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• Slumping Vancouver Whitecaps searching for goals, road win in Kansas City

  28-05-2024 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps need a win.Heading to a mid-week matchup with Sporting Kansas City, the Whitecaps (5-5-4) are winless in their last six Major League Soccer outings, with three losses and three draws across the stretch.
  A loss to Inter Miami at home on Saturday was especially bruising, as it came in front of more than 51,000 fans who were already disappointed the visiting side left soccer superstar Lionel Messi at home.Wednesday’s game in Kansas City represents a c
  
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• Jessica Campbell could be candidate as an assistant in Seattle, new Kraken coach Dan Bylsma says

  28-05-2024 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — New Seattle Kraken coach Dan Bylsma said current Coachella Valley assistant coach Jessica Campbell could be a candidate for a similar position with the NHL club.
  Bylsma has been the head coach at Coachella Valley for the past two seasons with Campbell, a former Canadian national team player, as one of his assistants. Bylsma said Campbell and fellow Coachella Valley assistant Stu Bickell will be among a group in consideration for a role with the Kraken.
  Bylsma said Tuesday he
  
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• Di Stasio, Dhesi lead Canada’s wrestling team into Olympic Games

  28-05-2024 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — World champion Justina Di Stasio and veteran Amar Dhesi will lead Canada’s wrestling team into the Olympic Games in Paris.
  Ana Godinez Gonzalez of Burnaby, B.C., Montreal’s Alex Moore, Linda Morais of Tecumseh, Ont., and Hannah Taylor of Summerside, P.E.I. join Dhesi of Surrey, B.C., and Di Stasio of Coquitlam, B.C., on the team announced Tuesday by the Canadian Olympic Committee.
  Di Stasio captured a world title in the women’s 72-kilogram division in 2018, as w
  
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