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• Two hospitalized after two-alarm blaze damages remote Chilliwack home

  14-11-2024 15:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Over two dozen firefighters from five different halls were paged Wednesday afternoon for a structure fire at a home in the 5100 block of Sherlaw Road on a 40-acre property in Ryder Lake.According to a dispatch recording provided by Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, Engines 1, 4, and 5-2, and the Chilliwack duty officer were first dispatched at 3:06 p.m. to 5180 Sherlaw Road for a structure fire. The home itself is located quite a ways off Sherlaw Road and is not visible from
  
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• Canada women to play Iceland, Korea friendlies but no word yet on who will coach

  14-11-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada will play Iceland and South Korea in Spain during the upcoming FIFA women’s international window.
  Who will coach the team remains to be seen. Canada Soccer says head coach Bev Priestman won’t be returning in the wake of this week’s independent report into the Olympic drone-spying scandal.
  Canada Soccer said an announcement on “interim coaching staff” will come later.
  As he did at the Olympics after Priestman was sent home, assistant coach Andy Spence ran the
  
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• Trump expected to choose vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, AP sources say

  14-11-2024 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity.
  HHS is a massive Cabinet agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research and the social safety net programs Medicare and Medicaid.
  Kennedy, a former Democrat who ran as an independen
  
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• $574 million in federal financing to help build Vancouver rental homes

  14-11-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The federal government is providing more than $574 million in financing to help build about 950 rental homes in Vancouver.
  The government says in a news release that a project on 42nd Avenue is one of four locations receiving funds through the Apartment Loan Construction Program, which offers repayable low-interest loans to encourage more rentals builds for middle-class Canadians.
  It says the site, which is being built by Marcon Developments Ltd., has received $110 million thro
  
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• Vancouver Canucks winger Joshua set for season debut after cancer treatment

  14-11-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks winger Dakota Joshua is set to make his season debut Thursday after missing time for cancer treatment.
  Head coach Rick Tocchet says Joshua will slot into the lineup Thursday when Vancouver (8-3-3) hosts the New York Islanders.The 28-year-old from Dearborn, Mich., was diagnosed with testicular cancer this summer and underwent surgery in early September.
  He spoke earlier this month about his recovery, saying it had been “very hard to go through” and
  
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• Canada men expect challenges in Suriname series, from the heat to Dutch influence

  14-11-2024 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After crossing swords with heavyweights like Argentina, France, the Netherlands and Uruguay this year, the Canadian men return to competitive CONCACAF action Friday with the opening leg of their Nations League quarterfinal against Suriname.
  Ranked No. 136 in the world, Suriname is 101 places below Canada. But thanks to its former colonial ties, its football has a distinctly Dutch flavour.
  “We’re excited for the challenge,” Canada coach Jesse Marsch, speaking in Paramaribo, told
  
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• Chair of Liberal Indigenous caucus says identity ‘complicated’ as members questioned

  14-11-2024 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The chair of the Liberal party’s Indigenous caucus says Indigenous identity is “complicated” after questions have been raised about the claims of two Liberal MPs who currently sit with the group and one cabinet minister who is no longer a member.
  “It’s a very complicated issue, and there’s no right answer,” said Jaime Battiste, who is Mi’kmaq from Eskasoni First Nation.
  “It’s not biological or mathematical. It’s a s
  
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• Gradey Dick a bright spot as Raptors return to Toronto on five-game losing skid

  14-11-2024 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s even becoming tough for the usually sunny Darko Rajakovic to put a positive light on the Toronto Raptors’ season.
  The Raptors lost all five games on a West Coast road trip. dropping Toronto into the very bottom of the NBA standings with a 2-10 record. Rajakovic had set an optimistic tone for the team at training camp but when the head coach was asked on Thursday if everyone was still getting along in the locker room, he was direct.
  “We are in a rebuilding y
  
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• Police cleared of fault in fatal 2023 crash in B.C.’s Interior

  14-11-2024 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia’s independent police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing in a crash where three people were killed south of Kamloops in July of last year.A report from the Independent Investigations Office says a man was driving recklessly at a high rate of speed and was in the wrong lane on Highway 97D near Logan Lake when he hit another vehicle head-on. The man and the two occupants in the other car died.
  The report says RCMP had removed the man who caused t
  
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• Anti-abortion activists challenge Quebec law forcing demonstrators to keep distance

  14-11-2024 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Montreal court is hearing final arguments today in a constitutional challenge of a Quebec law that requires protesters to stay 50 metres away from abortion clinics.
  The Quebec Life Coalition and other plaintiffs say the 2016 law violates their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  The plaintiffs argue that the law undermines democratic debate occurring on public space and therefore should be struck down as &ldqu
  
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• CBC, TSN/RDS return, Prime comes aboard as PWHL announces Canadian broadcast schedule

  14-11-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Professional Women’s Hockey League says all 90 games of its upcoming second regular season will be shown by its Canadian broadcast partners.
  The league announced its national broadcast partnerships Thursday.
  TSN, RDS, and CBC/Radio-Canada will return as broadcast partners for a second season, while Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service will host games for the first time. The coverage will include French-language broadcasts of all 30 Montreal Victoire games.
  CBC w
  
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• Public restroom in downtown Chilliwack repeatedly damaged, ‘abused’: Mayor Popove

  14-11-2024 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove says a public restroom on Young Road meant to serve Chilliwack’s unhoused street population has been repeatedly vandalized and abused.
  Popove told 89.5 JR Country Morning show host Glen Slingerland Thursday morning (Nov. 14) the public washroom near Five Corners on Young Road was intended to replace portable toilets that were previously damaged and burned.
  “Back in the day, a few years back when I was on council, we put in a half dozen p
  
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• Ambitious Centre Block renovation project nearly ready to enter the rebuilding phase

  14-11-2024 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The major restoration of Parliament’s Centre Block is nearly ready to enter the rebuilding phase now that the demolition, primary excavation and abatement phase is complete.
  The renovation is estimated to cost between $4.5 billion and $5 billion, including building a brand new visitor centre.
  Workers are currently installing hundreds of steel supports to hold up the building while the renovations are completed.
  More precise excavation has begun to carve out rock and earth ar
  
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• RCMP rolls out body-worn cameras for officers nationally

  14-11-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The RCMP will begin its rollout of body-worn cameras for RCMP officers across the country next week.
  It expects deployment of more than 10,000 cameras to be finished in the next 12 to 18 months.
  The RCMP says the cameras serve as an objective record of how officers interact with the community.
  Officers will wear the cameras on their chests, and the cameras will flash red lights to indicate they are recording.
  The RCMP says the cameras won’t be worn for surveillance or for 24
  
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• No timeline yet for injured Montreal Victoire draft pick Cayla Barnes

  14-11-2024 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Victoire don’t yet have a timeline for the return of injured first-round draft pick Cayla Barnes.
  Victoire general manager Danièle Sauvageau said after Montreal’s first on-ice session at training camp on Thursday that the team is still evaluating Barnes’s injury, but that signs are encouraging.
  Barnes did not skate, while forward Catherine Dubois (medical reasons) was also absent at Verdun Auditorium. Defenders Amanda Boulier and Dominika La
  
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• Voice of Hope for Kenya to hold Christmas craft sale this weekend in Chilliwack

  14-11-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Since its formation over a decade ago, Voice of Hope has worked to leverage its Chilliwack connections to enhance the quality of life for indigent widows and orphans in Kenya.
  Teams of Chilliwack-area volunteers visit Kenya on a regular basis to provide tangible assistance to vulnerable women and children by facilitating opportunities for them to have better everyday lives and self sustainability.
  To that end, Voice of Hope will hold a Christmas craft sale and collector/hobby
  
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• Indochino CEO Drew Green named chair, co-owner of Canadian Elite Basketball League

  14-11-2024 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Drew Green has been named the new chair of the Canadian Elite Basketball League’s board of governors.
  Green has also become co-owner of the league.
  His role will include instituting new formal governance at the board level, working to attract strategic investors and partners, and advising commissioner Mike Morreale and team owners on league business matters.
  Green is the chief executive officer of Indochino, one of Canada’s fastest-growing apparel brands. It has partn
  
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• Tropical Storm Sara threatens to bring flash floods and mudslides to Central America

  14-11-2024 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Sara formed Thursday in the Caribbean Sea and was expected to cause life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides across portions of Central America, including Honduras, forecasters said.
  The storm is about 50 miles (85 kilometers) northeast of the east coast border between Honduras and Nicaragua, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Sustained winds were maxing out at nearly 40 mph (65 kph), with stronger gusts, as the storm moved west at about 12 mph (19 kp
  
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• Mayor Popove challenges B.C. govt. over housing targets when it can’t seem to finish its own project

  14-11-2024 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove called out the provincial government Thursday morning for its apparent hypocrisy in demanding that Chilliwack build thousands of housing units the next five years, but can’t seem to finish a new supportive housing building that was supposed to open nearly three years ago.Popove made the remarks in his weekly “Ask the Mayor” segment on 89.5 JR Country with Morning show host Glen Slingerland. Popove and Slingerland typically discuss
  
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• MACINTOSH COMMITS TO UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE

  14-11-2024 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  We’re proud to announce Chiefs forward, Dakota MacIntosh, has committed to play at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
   
  “Proud and honoured to announce my verbal commitment to play Division 1 hockey at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Thank you to my supportive family, friends, teammates, staff throughout the whole Chilliwack Chiefs organization and God, all who have all helped me continue to reach towards my dreams and goals as a hockey player and as a person. Excited for w
  
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• Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of man convicted in Alberta hunters’ deaths

  14-11-2024 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of one of two men found guilty in the fatal shooting of two Métis hunters in eastern Alberta.As is usual, the Supreme Court did not give reasons for its dismissal of Anthony Bilodeau’s leave to appeal.
  Court heard that in March 2020, Bilodeau and his father had been concerned about a truck parked at the end of their rural property, so they chased down the vehicle and there was a confrontation.
  Bilodeau was convi
  
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• Canadian kicker Lirim Hajrullahu enjoys stellar return to CFL with Toronto Argonauts

  14-11-2024 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It’s a mouthful, but Lirim Hajrullahu’s name comes with a compelling story.
  The veteran CFL kicker’s first name means “release” in Albanian. Hajrullahu was born in Gjilan, Kosovo, and his family emigrated to Canada in 1999 to escape the civil war there.
  But on the day Hajrullahu was born (April 24, 1990), Azem Vllasin, a Kosovo-Albanian politician and lawyer, and 13 others were released from jail in Serbia and acquitted of charges levied against th
  
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• Democrat Janelle Bynum flips Oregon’s 5th District, will be state’s first Black member of Congress

  14-11-2024 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and will become the state’s first Black member of Congress.
  Bynum, a state representative who was backed and funded by national Democrats, ousted freshman GOP U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Republicans lost a seat that they flipped red for the first time in roughly 25 years during the 2022 midterms.The contest was seen as a GOP toss up by the Cook Political Report, meaning either party
  
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• Justice Department says jail conditions in Georgia’s Fulton County violate detainee rights

  14-11-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions, U.S. Justice Department officials said Thursday while threatening to get the courts involved if corrective action isn’t taken quickly.
  The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t adequately protect jail inmates from violence by othe
  
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• Quebec orders audits at 17 schools after complaints over secularism non-compliance

  14-11-2024 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville says his department will investigate complaints at 17 schools across the province where it is alleged that state secularism is not being respected.
  Questions around religious neutrality in schools have been swirling since the publication last month of an Education Department report on a school in Montreal, where media reports had exposed questionable religious practices and a toxic climate.
  Eleven teachers were suspended with pay at M
  
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• Hurricane-stricken Tampa Bay Rays to play 2025 season at Yankees’ spring training field in Tampa

  14-11-2024 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 2025 home games at the New York Yankees’ nearby spring training ballpark amid uncertainty about the future of hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field, Rays executives told The Associated Press.
  Stuart Sternberg, the Rays’ principal owner, said in an interview that Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is the best fit for the team and its fanbase. At about 11,000 seats, it’s also the largest of the spring training sites in Flo
  
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• NDP expected to unveil campaign pledge to remove GST on internet, heat, diapers, more

  14-11-2024 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — With the cost of living playing a central role in provincial elections across Canada and in the U.S. presidential race, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is set to unveil a pre-campaign policy plank for the next federal election to differentiate his party from the governing Liberals.Singh is expected to announce this morning that an NDP government would remove the GST on what his party deems “essentials.”This includes pre-made meals and foods at grocery stores, clothing for chi
  
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• York United FC Academy to debut in League1 Ontario Championship Division next year

  14-11-2024 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — York United FC will field an under-20 team in League1 Ontario next year.
  The Canadian Premier League team announced Thursday it has acquired a licence to compete in the League1 Ontario men’s Championship Division, the second tier of the semi-pro league which is also home to the Toronto FC academy side.
  Starting next season, York United FC Academy will feature amateur under-20 players plus a maximum of three domestic under-23 players at any one time. The new team will also b
  
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• Canada coach fields young matchday squad for Romania rugby test in Bucharest

  14-11-2024 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Sam Miller, Jesse Kilgour and Rhys James are in line for their first caps off the bench Saturday when Canada faces Romania in a men’s rugby test match in Bucharest.All three are members of Rugby Canada’s Pacific Pride development academy.
  Canada coach Kingsley Jones is preparing his young side for World Cup qualifying, which starts next year via the Pacific Nations Cup.
  Canada is ranked 22nd in the world, compared to No. 20 for Romania.
  Centre Noah Flesch, who made his debut in last
  
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• Police, firefighters respond to train derailment near Montreal; no injuries reported

  14-11-2024 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONGUEUIL, Que. — Police are responding to a derailment at a train yard in Longueuil, Que., on Montreal’s South Shore.
  Longueuil police say it does not initially appear anyone was hurt, but fire officials are dealing with a spill of hydrogen peroxide.
  The derailment happened at around 9 a.m. in the LeMoyne area, near the intersection of St-Louis and St-Georges streets.
  Police and fire officials are on site, as well as CN railworkers.
  Officers are asking people to avoid the sector, wh
  
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