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• Tobacco company opposes proposed $32.5B settlement with provinces, smokers: court doc

  31-10-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — One of three major tobacco companies involved in years of negotiations with creditors says it opposes the proposed multi-billion-dollar settlement announced in the case earlier this month.
  JTI-Macdonald Corp. has filed a document with an Ontario court indicating it does not support the proposal due to “critical outstanding issues.”
  The document was filed ahead of a hearing scheduled today to set the next step for the proposed plan of arrangement presented on Oct. 17.
  
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• About 8,000 North Korean troops are near the Ukrainian border, US diplomat says at UN

  31-10-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday it has information that some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia’s Kursk region near Ukraine’s border and preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops.
  In a dramatic moment during a U.N. Security Council meeting, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Wood, asked for more time to add to earlier comments condemning the increasing military cooperation between Russia and North Kore
  
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• Prime Minister Trudeau calls for return of Ukrainian children deported to Russia

  31-10-2024 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on countries around the world to do everything possible to repatriate Ukrainian children taken by Russia.Trudeau addressed delegations from more than 70 countries at a conference in Montreal this morning, as they prepare a joint declaration for the return of Ukrainian children, civilians and prisoners of war.He said Ukrainians are looking to the international community to do everything it can to protect their country’s people and it
  
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• Quebec freezes two major immigration streams, citing pressure on services

  31-10-2024 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government has suspended applications for permanent residency from two immigration streams because it says it can no longer accommodate the rising number of newcomers.
  Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said today the government has frozen the Quebec Experience Program, a path for permanent residency for foreign students who have graduated in the province.
  Roberge says the government is also suspending applications from the Regular Skilled Worker Progra
  
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• Musse, Bekker repeat as finalists for CPL Players’ Player of the Year Award

  31-10-2024 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Cavalry FC’s Ali Musse, last year’s winner, and Forge FC captain Kyle Bekker, runner-up in 2023, are among the 10 finalists for the Canadian Premier League’s Players’ Player of the Year award, the lone CPL award decided by the players.
  The other contenders are Forge’s Beni Badibanga, Tristan Borges and Alessandro Hojabrpour, Cavalry’s Daan Klomp and Tobias Warschewski, Halifax’s Lorenzo Callegari, Atletico Ottawa’s Ruben del Campo and York United&r
  
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• Canadian goalkeeper Rylee Foster back in top-flight football after near-death crash

  31-10-2024 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Players who have worn the colours of both Liverpool and Everton form a select club. But Canadian Rylee Foster’s journey from one Merseyside rival to the other is painfully unique.
  The 26-year-old goalkeeper from Cambridge, Ont., is lucky to be alive, let alone playing professional soccer.
  “For me every day is a blessing now. Every day is an opportunity,” Foster said in an interview.Foster, then with Liverpool, was still basking in her role in a penalty shootout win over Aston V
  
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• Abbotsford teacher loses certificate due to sexual assault, assault

  31-10-2024 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation says an Abbotsford middle school teacher has lost his teaching certificate due to a sexual assault conviction and a related conviction on assault charges.
  According to a consent resolution agreement published on the BCCTR website, SD34 employee Khaled Hanafi Dardir was charged on July 26, 2021, with three charges under the Criminal Code of Canada, including one count of sexual assault and two counts of assault. In August 2021, Abbot
  
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• Einarson adapts to constant lineup shuffling on her curling team

  31-10-2024 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Kerri Einarson has come to terms with flux in her curling team’s lineup.
  The four-time Canadian champion recruited Joanne Courtney out of the broadcast booth to play second in both the Saville Grand Prix in Edmonton from Friday to Sunday and also the season’s second Grand Slam, the Canadian Open, in Nisku, Alta., next week.
  Courtney will be the third woman to sub in at second for Einarson this season after a knee injury sidelined Shannon Birchard in September.
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• Kamala Harris says Trump’s comments on women ‘are offensive to everybody’

  31-10-2024 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not” showed that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s “agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”
  “I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before she set out to spend the day
  
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• Survivors call on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism

  31-10-2024 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, days after the release of a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.
  Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, says Canadians need to acknowledge the schools’ place in history and to ensure the children who died are not silenced.
  More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed i
  
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• Oliveira, Mitchell named as finalists for CFL outstanding player award

  31-10-2024 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Running back Brady Oliveira of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell are the finalists for the CFL’s outstanding player award.
  Oliveira led the CFL in rushing this season with 1,353 yards while Mitchell was the league leader in passing yards (5,451) and touchdowns (32).
  Oliveira is also the West Division finalist for the CFL’s top Canadian award, the second straight year he’s been nominated for both.
  Oliveira was the CFL&
  
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• Dental-care program hits 1 million patients in first six months, coverage expands

  31-10-2024 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland says a million Canadians have received care under the federal dental-care plan six months after the program began.Starting Friday, the program will also cover more complex procedures.That means people who have coverage under the federal program can request pre-authorization for things like crowns and the initial placement of partial dentures.Paper claims will also be accepted, something Holland says will mean that more dentists are eligible to work und
  
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• Canada’s Carleton happy to be part of WNBA’s ‘wave’ as league enjoys huge success

  31-10-2024 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Bridget Carleton was in Minneapolis this summer when a WNBA fan stopped her on the street. The fan rolled up a sleeve to reveal a tattoo of Carleton’s name and her Minnesota Lynx jersey number on their arm.
  For the Canadian, it was just another example of the league’s growing popularity in its most successful season ever.
  “The passion these fans have, it’s been a lot of fun,” said Carleton of the fan’s ink. “I feel like, especially in women’s sport
  
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• Elon Musk’s $1M-a-day voter sweepstakes for Trump goes before a Philadelphia judge

  31-10-2024 15:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge began a hearing Thursday in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk’s political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
  Lawyers for Musk filed a motion late Wednesday seeking to move the case to federal court, saying it involves a federal election issue, but that didn’t stop a state judge, Angelo
  
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• Fire destroys vacant McGuire Road home

  31-10-2024 14:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Fire Chief Andrew Brown says 32 firefighters from five different halls were paged early Thursday morning for a fire at a vacant home in the 47000 block of McGuire Road.
  In a news release sent at 6:20 a.m. Thursday, Chief Brown says responding firefighters observed heavy smoke and flames venting from multiple areas of the structure. The building was vacant at the time of the fire.
  Initial arriving crews quickly initiated a defensive fire attack while securing a water
  
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• Germany orders 3 Iranian consulates to shut after an Iranian German prisoner is executed

  31-10-2024 14:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.
  Sharmahd, 69, was put to death in Iran on Monday on terrorism charges, the Iranian judiciary said. That followed a 2023 trial that Germany, the U.S. and international rights groups dismissed as a sham.
  The decision to close t
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez reaches quarterfinals at Hong Kong Open.

  31-10-2024 14:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONG KONG — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the quarterfinals of the Hong Kong Open, defeating Australia’s Kimberly Birrell 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday.
  Fernandez, the tournament’s third seed, needed just 80 minutes to dispatch the world No. 115 on the hard court at Victoria Park Tennis Centre.
  The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., dominated Birrell on serve, with a 76 per cent first-serve success rate and 75 per cent on her second serve, while committing just three double fau
  
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• Hana Wakimoto of Japan shoots 9-under 63 to lead after the first round of LPGA’s Toto Classic

  31-10-2024 13:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SHIGA, Japan (AP) — Hana Wakimoto of Japan shot a bogey-free 9-under 63 on Thursday to lead by two shots after the first round of the LPGA’s Toto Classic in Japan.
  Jin Young Ko of South Korea was two off the pace after a 65 at Seta Golf Course. Four players carded 66s to be within three shots of Wakimoto: Linn Grant, Ayake Furue, Hyo Joo Kim, and Jenny Shin.
  Brooke Henderson, of Smiths Falls, Ont., is tied for 34th after opening with a 2-under 70.
  Wakimoto’s score tied the Seta
  
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• Authorities in northern Israel say 5 killed by projectiles fired from Lebanon

  31-10-2024 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Projectiles fired from Lebanon into northern Israel killed five people on Thursday, including four foreign workers, authorities said. It was the deadliest such attack since Israeli troops invaded Lebanon earlier this month to battle the Hezbollah militant group.Hezbollah has been firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel for more than a year, drawing retaliatory strikes. Sixty-eight people have been killed in rocket attacks in northern Israel since the confl
  
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• ‘Just work harder’: Canucks look to reset after ugly loss to Devils

  31-10-2024 12:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Tyler Myers felt a loss like this could be brewing.The Vancouver Canucks had points in five straight games but the big defenceman knew his team wasn’t playing the way it should.
  Then came Wednesday’s matchup with the Devils. New Jersey scored 53 seconds in and never relented, handing the Canucks a 6-0 drubbing in the process.
  “It was embarrassing. We should be embarrassed,” Myers said. “Even through some wins the last couple weeks, there’s so
  
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• Spain searches for bodies after flood of the century claims at least 95 lives

  31-10-2024 11:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain (AP) — Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives. The death toll is expected to rise as search efforts continue with officials removing bodies from vehicles and an unknown number of people still missing.
  “Unfortunately, there are dead people inside some vehicles,” said Spain’s Transport Minister
  
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• Sources: CFL board vote was clear indicator of Ambrosie’s standing with governors

  31-10-2024 11:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It wasn’t enough to immediately end Randy Ambrosie’s tenure as CFL commissioner, but it was clear the writing was on the wall.
  Ambrose announced Saturday he will be retiring from his post sometime in 2025 after his successor was chosen. Ambrosie became the CFL’s 14th commissioner July 5, 2017, succeeding Jeffrey Orridge.
  His seven-plus year tenure is the second-longest ever behind the late Jake Gaudaur (1968-84).
  Ambrosie’s decision was surprising given la
  
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• In the news today: StatCan to release estimate for Q3 economic growth

  31-10-2024 09:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  StatCan to release August GDP report, estimate for third quarter economic growth
  Statistics Canada is set to publish its August gross domestic product report, which will include an early estimate for economic growth in the third quarter. The agency’s preliminary estimate for August suggested the economy did not grow that month. RBC says it expects the economy remained weak in September as well, d
  
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• StatCan to release August GDP report, estimate for third quarter economic growth

  31-10-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to publish its August gross domestic product report, which will include an early estimate for economic growth in the third quarter.The agency’s preliminary estimate for August suggested the economy did not grow that month.
  RBC says it expects the economy remained weak in September as well, dampening growth for the third quarter.The Bank of Canada projected in its latest monetary policy report that the economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.5 per cen
  
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• Israel envoy seeks hostages ‘at any cost,’ says Canada has strained ties during war

  31-10-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Israel’s ambassador to Canada says the war that started a year ago has profoundly changed Israelis’ views on peace in the Middle East — and strained his country’s long-standing strong relationship with Canada.
  In a recent interview with The Canadian Press a year after the Hamas attack on Israel, Iddo Moed said the war has united Israelis across the political spectrum in solidarity, but has caused confusion about Canada’s stance on the conflict.
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• ‘Out of control’: Room costs spike 10 times higher on Taylor Swift Canada show nights

  31-10-2024 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Taylor Swift fan Kelly Hall was elated when she beat the odds and was allocated three coveted tickets for The Eras Tour in Vancouver.Then she started looking for a hotel.Hall, who lives in Oshawa, Ont., planned to fly to Vancouver with her husband and a friend for the weekend of the Dec. 8 show, but the cheapest room was about $1,200 a night.
  “We decided that if this weekend alone — just three nights — is going to cost us three to five grand in accommodation,
  
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• Columbus shuts out Islanders, Jets back to winning ways

  31-10-2024 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Damon Severson broke a scoreless tie in the third period, Elvis Merzlikins stopped 28 shots for his first shutout of the season and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New York Islanders 2-0 on Wednesday night.
  It was the first time this season the Blue Jackets (5-3-1) have won two straight, but they have earned seven of a possible eight points in their last four games.
  After both goalies turned away some great shots in the first two periods, Severson’s shot from
  
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• Hischier plays hero as New Jersey Devils blank Vancouver Canucks 6-0

  31-10-2024 06:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Nico Hischier scored and had a pair of assists Wednesday as the New Jersey Devils blanked the Vancouver Canucks 6-0.Dawson Mercer and Jack Hughes each had a goal and an assist for the Devils (7-4-2), while Timo Meir, Ondrej Palat and Tomas Tatar contributed a goal apiece.
  Jacob Markstrom’s 20 saves produced his first shutout as a Devil and 21st of his career.
  Vancouver’s starter Arturs Silovs stopped 17 of 23 shots in his first game since Oct. 15.A five-game point s
  
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• Mikhail Sergachev helps Utah beat Calgary Flames 5-1 to snap four-game skid

  31-10-2024 05:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mikhail Sergachev had a goal and two assists, Connor Ingram stopped 30 shots and the Utah Hockey Club beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 on Wednesday night.
  Alexander Kerfoot, Barrett Hayton, Maveric Lamoureux, and Clayton Keller also scored to help end Utah’s four-game skid.
  Anthony Mantha scored for the Flames, who lost their fourth straight. Dustin Wolf finished with 23 saves.
  Kerfoot and Hayton both scored on long shots to give Utah a two-goal lead in the first. Ma
  
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• 8 of 11 members of Mexico’s Supreme Court to resign in protest of controversial judicial overhaul

  31-10-2024 05:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Eight justices of Mexico’s Supreme Court have said they will leave the court rather than stand for election as required by a controversial judicial overhaul passed last month.
  Supreme Court President Norma Piña and seven others submitted letters Tuesday and Wednesday stating they would leave their posts rather than compete in judicial elections scheduled for next June.
  The court’s three other justices have indicated they will compete in the elections.
  
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