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• Emergency teams search for victims of fatal Russian plane crash - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2018 18:36
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  Emergency teams search for victims of fatal Russian plane crash
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  Emergency teams combed the snowy fields outside Moscow on Monday, searching for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people aboard it who died. The An-148 twin-engine regional jet bound for Orsk in the southern Urals went ...and more »
  
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• Police to search Saskatoon landfill for woman missing since 2020

  19-04-2024 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — Police are planning to search a Saskatoon landfill for a woman who has been missing for almost four years. 
  Mackenzie Lee Trottier was last seen in December 2020.
  Police say a substantial amount of data was collected late last year that identifies a specific area of the landfill that may contain evidence in the investigation.
  The search will cover an area of about 930 cubic metres at a depth of one metre.
  The search, which is to include dogs from the RCMP and Calgary polic
  
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• TSS Rovers FC replace Victoria Highlanders in Canadian Championship field

  19-04-2024 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TSS Rovers FC are replacing the inactive Victoria Highlanders in this year’s Canadian Championship and will face Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League in the preliminary round.
  The Highlanders secured the Canadian championship berth by winning League1 B.C. in July. But the club announced earlier this month that it will not operate a men’s or women’s team this season.
  “Despite our best efforts over the past two months we have been unable to reach an agreement with the
  
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• Maple Leafs, Bruins set to renew playoff hostilities: ‘Here we go again’

  19-04-2024 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — Auston Matthews has closed the book on his staggering regular season.
  The Maple Leafs sniper came one shot — one crossbar — short of becoming just the ninth player in NHL history to reach 70 goals in a campaign.
  Toronto’s star attraction and his teammates limped over the finish line with four straight losses to close out the schedule in games that were largely insignificant as Matthews pushed for the milestone.
  The slate now wiped clean, the Leafs’ attentio
  
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• Minister visits Chilliwack Food Hub program

  19-04-2024 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The B.C. Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction was in Chilliwack Friday to meet with residents who are behind a program to improve food security for those in the region.
  Sheila Malcolmson visited the Upper Fraser Valley Food Hub at the Salvation Army Care and Share Centre in Chilliwack Friday morning. The Centre has helped to deliver more than 146 thousand meals and more than 13,500 food hampers to homes in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the Upper Fraser Valley in t
  
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• PWHL Montreal ready to set attendance record against Toronto at the Bell Centre

  19-04-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Danièle Sauvageau says there’s so much interest in the Professional Women’s Hockey League game at the Bell Centre that she’s searching for ways to outsmart the arena’s security.
  “People are after us like ‘I need tickets,’” PWHL Montreal’s general manager said Friday. “I had an event this morning — ‘How can we get tickets tomorrow?’ I said ‘well, maybe we could sneak you through the parking
  
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• Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon set for closures

  19-04-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LYTTON — Efforts to restore reliable travel through the Fraser Canyon are underway as work progresses to permanently repair the damage caused by an atmospheric river event in the fall of 2021. Work over the coming weeks will result in two full closures of Highway 1.
  On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, from 4:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., Highway 1 will be closed at Tank Hill, approximately 14 kilometres east of Lytton. This closure is necessary for the CP Rail workers to realign the railway track cross
  
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• Disability expert resigns from federal advisory group over benefit program

  19-04-2024 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — One of Canada’s leading disability scholars is quitting a federal advisory board, saying the government failed to properly fund the disability benefit.
  Michael Prince, a professor of social policy at the University of Victoria, says he’s deeply disappointed with the Canada Disability Benefit. 
  He’s resigning from Disabilities Minister Kamal Khera’s advisory group effective immediately, saying he has concluded his voice is no longer making a difference.
  
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• Whitecaps look to bounce back against Sounders in Cascadia clash

  19-04-2024 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps aren’t dwelling on their fall from the top spot in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference. 
  After all, there’s a lot of soccer still to be played. 
  The Whitecaps (4-2-1) dropped a 3-1 decision to the L.A. Galaxy last Saturday and sit in second spot on the West heading into a rivalry matchup with the Sounders (1-3-3) in Seattle this weekend.
  Moving back up the standings requires moving forward on the field, said Vancouver str
  
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• Leafs, Jets, Oilers and Canucks carry Canada’s Cup hopes with drought at 30 years

  19-04-2024 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Josh Morrissey remembers the city coming to life before his eyes.
  A nine-year-old Flames fan in the spring of 2004, he was captivated by every Jarome Iginla chance and Miikka Kiprusoff save during Calgary’s run to the Stanley Cup final.
  “It was just an awesome experience,” said Morrissey, now a star defenceman for the Winnipeg Jets. “Living and dying on every win and loss.”
  Hockey fans across Canada are once again preparing themselves to experience that annual thril
  
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• Polish leader tells B.C. audience NATO allies need to spend more on defence

  19-04-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Poland’s president says members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including Canada, must raise defence spending to three per cent of GDP to deter Russia’s war in Ukraine from spreading. 
  Andrzej Duda made the comments at a speech in Vancouver on Friday, a day ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  While not saying Canada by name, Duda says the West has “a lot of gaps” in its industrial base to produce military aid for Ukra
  
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• Aparicio and revamped Atletico Ottawa looking to top Canadian Premier League table

  19-04-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  On his third stop in the Canadian Premier League, Manny Aparicio is closer to home and, hopefully, another title.
  The 28-year-old midfielder, born in Buenos Aires and raised in Toronto, joined Atletico Ottawa in the off-season from Pacific FC — part of a strong Ottawa recruiting class.
  “We have a lot of positions where no one can really feel relax and take their starting spot for granted, which is good to see,” said Aparicio.
  “It’s gelling well together,” he a
  
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• Liberal and NDP MPs lament departure of longtime Tory MP as status of women chair

  19-04-2024 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal and NDP MPs are lamenting the loss of the longtime Conservative chair of the parliamentary committee on the status of women. 
  Government members say they were disappointed to learn this week that Karen Vecchio would no longer be at the helm, after having first served as chair in 2017. 
  The House of Commons’ website shows Vecchio’s role as committee chair ended this week, and on Thursday the Conservatives on the committee voted in fellow Tory MP Shelby
  
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• Quebec Liberals will choose new leader during convention in June 2025

  19-04-2024 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The Quebec Liberal Party says its leadership race will begin next January and the winner will be chosen in June 2025.
  Former leader Dominique Anglade stepped down weeks after the 2022 provincial election, during which the party maintained official Opposition status but lost 10 seats.
  Marc Tanguay has served as interim leader since.
  Candidates will each have to make a $40,000 deposit with the party, obtain 750 signatures from 70 ridings and 12 regions, and sign up 350 new members.
  
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• MPs chide ‘incompetent’ health agency over fired National Microbiology Lab scientists

  19-04-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab are defending security protocols at the Winnipeg institution against accusations of incompetence from opposition MPs.
  The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada appeared before a parliamentary committee on relations between Canada and China, where she was peppered with questions about the firing of two researchers in 2021.
  The agency fired two researchers who left Canada after their security clearances were revoked o
  
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• ‘City within a city’: Montreal announces new plan for 20,000 housing units

  19-04-2024 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The City of Montreal has announced a new vision for an old racetrack that the mayor says will be home to as many as 40,000 people.
  The federal and provincial governments, as well as the city will each pitch in $2 million for technical studies on the 95 hectares of land, part of which used to host the Hippodrome.
  The land hasn’t been used for 14 years and doesn’t have a water distribution system, and the studies will analyze what it will cost to connect the area to ci
  
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• Alberta spring signals another Oilers-Kings NHL playoff showdown

  19-04-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — There are a few sure signs of spring in Alberta. The snow turns to slush, the Canada geese return to the ponds, lakes and streams, and the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings face each other in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs.
  The two rivals will meet in the first round for the third season in a row, with the Oilers looking to make it a hat trick of victories. 
  The Oilers rebounded from a 3-2 series deficit to win a seven-game thriller two seasons ago.
  
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• Injured Toronto FC star Lorenzo Insigne back running but still some weeks away

  19-04-2024 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — There was a welcome sighting of Toronto FC star Lorenzo Insigne running with a trainer Friday while the rest of the team warmed up before training on a damp day at BMO Field.
  But the former Napoli captain, who has not played since March 23 when he hobbled off the field with a hamstring injury in first-half stoppage time of the 2-0 win over visiting Atlanta United, is still some weeks away.
  Toronto hosts the New England Revolution on Saturday.
  “I’d like to frighten New
  
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• Toronto FC, New England looking to turn the tide after disappointing showings

  19-04-2024 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC and the New England Revolution are both looking to climb out of a hole when they meet Saturday at BMO Field. 
  After a promising start under John Herdman, injury-depleted Toronto (3-4-1) has lost three straight while being outscored 10-3. 
  New England (1-5-1) made it as far as the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup but has found league wins hard to come by under new coach Caleb Porter. 
  Porter sees some similarities with Toronto.
  “There’s a transitio
  
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• GM Staios taking cautious approach to off-season after Sens miss playoffs again

  19-04-2024 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Another season out of the playoffs has left Ottawa Senators players frustrated and disappointed, but a complete overhaul doesn’t appear to be in Steve Staios’s plans.
  In his media availability with media Friday morning, the Senators general manager acknowledged his players’ feelings — captain Brady Tkachuk said Thursday as players cleaned out their lockers that he was “sick and tired of losing” — but was cautious in revealing plans for nex
  
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• Canucks set to face Predators in first playoff appearance since 2020

  19-04-2024 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Expectations for the Vancouver Canucks were not high heading into the season. 
  Asked in September if he expected the team to make the playoffs, president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford hedged.
  “To be very to the point, the changes that we made, we have a playoff team if everything goes right,” he said. 
  Things did go right. 
  On Sunday, the Canucks will host their first home playoff game since 2015 when they kick off a first-round matchup against
  
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• Receiver Eugene Lewis optimistic about Edmonton Elks’ 2024 fortunes

  19-04-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Receiver Eugene Lewis can’t wait to start earning quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s trust.
  The signing of Bethel-Thompson, a two-time Grey Cup champion, was Edmonton’s biggest off-season move. The Elks have finished last in the West Division three consecutive years.
  CFL training camps open next month.
  “I know what a great quarterback can do,” Lewis said. “Somebody with experience, somebody who’s been through it and won championships and MBT has done t
  
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• Penguins GM Dubas joins Canada’s front office for world hockey championship

  19-04-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Pittsburgh Penguins general manager and president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas has been named to Canada’s front office team for the upcoming world hockey championship.
  Hockey Canada announced Friday that Dubas will make his international debut as an associate general manager on GM Rick Nash’s staff.
  Dubas, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., recently completed his first season leading Pittsburgh’s front office. The Penguins made a late playoff push but ended the sea
  
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• Hamilton, Winnipeg and B.C. fined by CFL for exceeding 2023 salary cap

  19-04-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and B.C. Lions have all been fined by the CFL for exceeding the league’s 2023 salary cap.
  But none exceeded the $5.45-million cap by more than $100,000 so the selection order for the ’24 CFL draft April 30 remains unchanged.
  The CFL released the results of its detailed season-ending audit Friday.
  The 2024 salary cap is set at $5.525 million.
  Hamilton went over the cap by just $2,654 while Winnipeg surpassed it by $25,947.
  
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• Flames want to promote their team as a desirable destination for NHL players

  19-04-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Winning more games and the construction of a new arena will convince more NHL players that Calgary is a desirable place to play, some Flames say as they head for the exits.
  Calgary finished 17 points out of a playoff spot this season with a record of 38-39-5, and missed the post-season a second straight year. 
  A slow start to the season combined with big-name pending free agents not signing contract extensions produced midseason lineup changes that hampered the club’s
  
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• Coroner’s inquest to probe death of B.C. man shot dozens of times by police in 2018

  19-04-2024 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The British Columbia Coroners Service says it will hold an inquest into the death of a man who died in a hail of police gunfire after starting a shootout with RCMP officers in Kamloops. 
  The service says the inquest will begin on May 6 at the Kamloops law courts to determine the facts related to the death of 35-year-old Eugene Marcano, who was shot and killed by Mounties on Sept. 14, 2018. 
  A report from B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office in 2019 says
  
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• NHL PLAYOFFS: ‘It’s wide open’ is the theme as the race to the Stanley Cup begins

  19-04-2024 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  General manager Don Waddell likes how his Carolina Hurricanes finished the season, winning 16 of their final 21 games. He knows it means nothing now.
  “Your points get erased and you all start with zeros,” Waddell said. “Playoffs are a different time. That’s what’s great about the NHL. Once you get to the playoffs, it’s wide open.”
  This year more than many in the recent past.
  Unlike last year, when Boston broke league records for the most wins and points
  
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• Senators reject field trip to African Lion Safari amid elephant bill study

  19-04-2024 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Senate legal affairs committee has rejected a motion calling for members to take a $50,000 field trip to the African Lion Safari in southern Ontario to see the zoo’s elephant exhibit.
  The committee is studying a government bill that would prohibit new captivity and breeding of elephants and great apes without a license that shows it is for conservation, science or the animal’s welfare.
  Conservative Sen. Don Plett says the bill would have the biggest impact on the A
  
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• Report suggests little progress in first year of Alberta’s emissions reduction plan

  19-04-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A survey from a clean energy think-tank says Alberta has done little to implement its plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
  The Pembina Institute has examined the measures included in the province’s plan released one year ago.
  It says it found no evidence the government has begun the sort of public consultations required to move Alberta’s economy towards the goal of net zero emissions.
  Despite the plan’s promise to keep reducing Alberta’s methane e
  
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• The Latest | A second alternate has been picked for Trump’s hush money trial, 4 more still needed

  19-04-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers in former President Donald Trump ‘s hush money case shifted their attention Friday to picking alternates as jury selection resumed for a fourth day. The proceedings began again with the questionnaire phase of jury selection and 22 possible jurors were brought in. A second alternate was picked just before 1 p.m. and four additional alternates are still needed.
  Thursday’s proceedings demonstrated unpredictability in the selection process, with two jurors w
  
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