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• Toronto Raptors sign guard Jeff Dowtin Jr. to two-way contract

  19-07-2022 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed guard Jeff Dowtin Jr. to a two-way contract.
  The six-foot-three, 185-pound Dowtin joined the Raptors for this year’s NBA Summer League, where he averaged 16 points, 4.3 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 28.1 minutes in four games (all starts).He shot 57 per cent from the field, including 36.4 per cent from three-point range.
  A native of Upper Marlboro, Ma., Dowtin played in nine NBA games last season for Golden State, Milwaukee and Orlando, averaging
  
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• Co-owner Grant not messing with Bulldog Hanover’s winning formula

  19-07-2022 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Brad Grant isn’t one to mess with a winning formula.
  Neither he nor co-owner/trainer Jack Darling have been present for many of Bulldog Hanover’s harness wins. Afraid to jinx the heralded colt, Grant and Darling watched the US$500,000 William R. Haughton Memorial on Saturday night at the Meadowlands on television.
  They saw not only a win by the four-year-old, Ontario-sired horse but in one minute 45.4 seconds, the fastest mile in harness-racing history. That broke the previous mark o
  
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• Crown calls final witness in trial for Dutch man accused of extorting B.C. teen

  19-07-2022 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Crown prosecutors have called their last witness in the British Columbia Supreme Court trial for the Dutch man accused of extorting Port Coquitlam teenager Amanda Todd before she died nearly a decade ago.
  Aydin Coban has pleaded not guilty to charges of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possessing child pornography.
  The jury is expected to be called back next Tuesday, after hearing testimony over the last several
  
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• RCMP looking for Sidney woman reported missing in Chilliwack – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  19-07-2022 23:15
  
  RCMP looking for Sidney woman reported missing in Chilliwack – Agassiz Harrison Observer  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• More than a mural: Local Indigenous artist’s tribute that led to artistic journey

  19-07-2022 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The pandemic forced lifestyle changes for many people—local Indigenous artist, Chase Gray, was no exception. Gray reignited his passion for art during the lockdown, and now his work will be showcased during the Chilliwack Mural Festival in August.
  “I guess during the pandemic, I got bored and started drawing again,” the gifted artist said, as he worked on his mural in the District 1881 alleyway.
  Gray explained that his uncle Mike had first taught him how to f
  
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• Trudeau launches expanded oceans protection plan, with aim to reach more regions

  19-07-2022 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new details about the federal government’s $3.5-billion plan to protect the oceans and boost coast guard facilities on the world’s longest national coastline.
  In its most recent budget, the government pledged to add $2 billion over nine years to the $1.5 billion already set aside for ocean protection.
  Speaking at a news conference on Bowen Island, B.C., Trudeau said the government had now launched an extended vers
  
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• B.C.’s Kispiox First Nation strikes deal for commercial cannabis operation - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 22:30
  
  B.C.’s Kispiox First Nation strikes deal for commercial cannabis operation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ex-Mountie sticks by story denying responding to 2013 domestic attack by mass killer

  19-07-2022 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A former Mountie is standing by his account that challenges testimony the RCMP failed to respond to a domestic violence call in 2013 involving the Nova Scotia mass shooter.
  Troy Maxwell, a retired RCMP constable, told a public inquiry Tuesday he had spoken with Brenda Forbes only about a claim that her neighbour, Gabriel Wortman, was driving recklessly around the community of Portapique, N.S., in a decommissioned police car and was “being belligerent.” 
  Forbes, h
  
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• Research survey finds Canadian lakes in increasingly hot water over climate change.

  19-07-2022 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian lakes are in hot water over climate change, a new research survey has concluded.
  “Canadian lakes are warming twice as fast as the rest of the lakes globally,” said York University biologist Sapna Sharma, a co-author of a paper published in the journal Bioscience.
  Sharma and her colleagues pored over 143 studies from around the world to try to summarize how climate change is affecting the globe’s 100 million lakes.
  Lakes that have been ice-covered at least part of the y
  
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• West Fraser Timber shuts down takeover report; shares spike

  19-07-2022 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it has not received any takeover offer after a report that Kronospan, an existing shareholder, and CVC Capital Partners were interested in making a bid for the company.
  West Fraser says it previously met with Kronospan and the private equity firm, but it has not received a proposal and there are no ongoing discussions regarding the terms of any transaction.
  It says it is focused on “executing on its business strategy to create shareholder
  
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• Hoover Dam transformer explodes; no one hurt

  19-07-2022 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, producing a cloud of thick, black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished. No one was hurt and electricity continued to flow from one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric facilities, authorities said.“There is no risk to the power grid,” according to Jacklynn L. Gould, the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s regional director for the Lower Colorado Region. The fire ignited around 10 a.m. an
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rips Hockey Canada leadership over sex assault fund

  19-07-2022 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s “hard for anyone” to have faith in Hockey Canada’s leadership as revelations emerge about how the federation maintains a fund meant to partially handle sexual abuse claims.
  Speaking to reporters in B.C. today, Trudeau says the fund is “totally unacceptable.”
  Hockey Canada has been under fire since May when news broke that the organization quietly settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges s
  
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• Canadian Olympic Committee sees ‘ample time’ for 2030 bid as BC cities discuss doubts

  19-07-2022 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Canadian Olympic Committee says the February deadline for its bid to host the 2030 Olympic Winter Games in British Columbia gives “ample time for funding partners to complete cost-benefit analyses of the 2030 project.”
  This comes as Whistler and Vancouver city councils plan to discuss reports this week highlighting the seven-month timeline and lack of financial details related to the bid proposal.
  Tricia Smith, the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee, sa
  
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• Hundreds of cases postponed over shortage of judges in Quebec’s Nunavik region

  19-07-2022 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec provincial court has cancelled an entire week of hearings due to a lack of judges in the province’s northern region of Nunavik. 
  The Justice Department says about 250 cases were postponed this week in Kuujjuaq, one of the region’s 14 Indigenous communities, because no judges were available to travel with the itinerant court.
  The court of Quebec has about 319 judges, with another 61 retired judges allowed to fill in, but none of them are permanently based
  
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• Longtime Raptors assistant Eric Khoury named head coach of Raptors 905

  19-07-2022 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Toronto Raptors’ NBA G League affiliate Raptors 905 have hired Eric Khoury, making him the youngest head coach in the team’s history.
  The 33-year-old Khoury joined the Toronto Raptors organization in 2012 as part of the basketball operations team. He was promoted to manager of basketball operations and analytics, focusing on college players, in 2015. In 2017, he moved to the Raptors bench, serving both as an assistant coach and the director of analytics.
  “We are proud of ou
  
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• Gymnasts wonder if recent abuse case could have been prevented had they been heard

  19-07-2022 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Abby Spadafora has had trouble sleeping since a gymnastics coach in Lethbridge, Alta., was charged with sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl last week.
  Spadafora and other Canadian gymnasts say they’re devastated about the case that is only too familiar. And they wonder if it could have been prevented.
  Gymnasts for Change, a group that has grown to over 500 current and retired gymnasts, has been calling on Sport Canada for an independent investigation into their sport for months. And
  
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• UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 20:30
  
  UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Football Canada, CFL Players Association unveil three-year partnership

  19-07-2022 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Football Canada and the CFL Players’ Association have formed partnership aimed at growing the game in Canada.
  The three-year deal, announced Tuesday, will focus on the sport’s growth, learning, and safety opportunities and is designed to “foster football development and growth in Canada over the next three years.”
  “The game of football has been life-changing for most CFLPA members, including myself, because it develops not only athletic skill but also character, fos
  
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• Men find hope, healing at Joshua House residential recovery house east of Chilliwack

  19-07-2022 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — It’s not uncommon for men to show up at Richard Korkowski’s substance abuse rehabilitation facility on Chilliwack Lake Road with little more than the shirt on their back.At Joshua House Ministries, which launched in 2002, despair doesn’t begin to adequately describe the sense of hopelessness he sees on the faces of men who are down and out. Korkowski, who admits to being an addict himself, speaks of the physical and emotional trauma he sees first-hand.“
  
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• Receivers Ellingson, Lawler, QB Evans named CFL top performers for Week 6

  19-07-2022 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Winnipeg wide receiver Greg Ellingson, Edmonton receiver Kenny Lawler and Hamilton quarterback Dane Evans have been named the top performers for Week 6 of the 2022 CFL season.
  Ellingson had 11 catches for 152 yards in the Blue Bombers’ 26-19 win over Calgary on Friday.
  Ellingson reached the 100-yard mark for the first time this season as the Bombers improved to 6-0.
  He has 34 catches for 518 yards and three touchdowns so far this season.
  Lawler scored the game-tying touchdo
  
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• National avian flu outbreak launches B.C. bird feeder safety debate – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 19:10
  
  National avian flu outbreak launches B.C. bird feeder safety debate – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada lacks clear funding, overall plan to commemorate treaties: document

  19-07-2022 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Many First Nations are preparing to mark significant anniversaries of their treaty relationships with the Crown in coming years, but a government briefing document says Ottawa has no plan to commemorate the treaties.
  It says most of the 11 numbered treaties the Crown signed with Indigenous leaders are set to turn 150 by 2027. 
  By way of the treaties, the Canadian government gained access to vast swaths of land for settlement from the Northwest Territories and northern British
  
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• Hugo Houle wins Stage 16 of Tour de France, fellow Canadian Michael Woods third

  19-07-2022 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FOIX, France — Hugo Houle pointed at the sky as he crossed the finish line well ahead of the competition in Stage 16 of the Tour de France.
  After finishing the hilly 178.5-kilometre stage from Carcassonne to Foix in four hours 23 minutes 47 seconds — 1:10 ahead of France’s Valentin Madouas and Israel-Premier Tech teammate Michael Woods of Ottawa — Houle dedicated his historic win to his younger brother.
  Pierrik Houle died in December 2012 when he was hit by a car while jo
  
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• Quebec City residents asked to avoid five swamped ERs amid staff shortages

  19-07-2022 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec City residents are being asked to avoid unnecessary trips to five emergency rooms that are struggling with staff shortages and overcrowding.
  The Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec says sustained high patient volumes combined with staffing challenges have created a “critical situation” in its five hospital ERs.
  It adds that more than 500 workers were off the job for reasons related to COVID-19 as of Monday night.
  Patients are being asked to avoid the emergency ro
  
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• Canada’s turbine decision could weaken united sanctions front against Russia: Hillier

  19-07-2022 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Retired general Rick Hillier says he fears Canada’s decision to return Nord Stream 1 pipeline turbines to Germany will weaken global sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. 
  Hillier, who heads a new advisory council of retired military commanders formed by the Ukrainian World Congress, worries the decision could prove to be the first break in that united economic front. 
  Retired U.S. generals David Petraeus and Welsey Clark, however, are less crit
  
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• Random COVID-19 testing resumes at four major airports; tests to be done offsite

  19-07-2022 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mandatory random COVID-19 testing resumes today for travellers coming in through Canada’s four major airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.
  But the actual tests will be completed outside the airports, either in an in-person appointment or via a virtual appointment for a swab test.
  Ottawa paused the random testing of vaccinated travellers entering Canada by air last month as it worked to move the actual testing process to locations outside of airports.
  At the time, the federa
  
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• WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 16:30
  
  WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• US beats Canada for women's soccer title, '24 Olympic berth – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 16:30
  
  US beats Canada for women's soccer title, '24 Olympic berth – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trudeau tours BC cherry farm, where weather events have affected crop – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 16:30
  
  Trudeau tours BC cherry farm, where weather events have affected crop – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Buffalo market reopens after mass shooting to debate over healing, sensitivity – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-07-2022 16:30
  
  Buffalo market reopens after mass shooting to debate over healing, sensitivity – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack doctor says Ministry of Health can’t keep ignoring family physicians

  19-07-2022 16:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As the number of British Columbians without a family doctor grows daily, a Chilliwack family doctor figures the current system needs to change immediately.Dr. Darren Joneson, who runs Spectrum Medical at 6640 Vedder Road, believes the present healthcare model, from fee-for-service to medical education deserves a massive overhaul.Joneson says physicians typically bill the same fee code whether it’s a short or long visit. The longer a family physician spends with patients
  
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• Methanol in blood of teens who died in South African tavern

  19-07-2022 15:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month.
  Methanol was found in all of their bodies and investigations are continuing to determine whether the levels of the toxic chemical were enough to have killed them.“Methanol has been detected in all the 21 individuals that were there, however there is still progressive analysis of the quantitative levels of m
  
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• Nova Scotia mass killer accumulated cash through ‘illegitimate or suspicious’ means

  19-07-2022 14:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia mass killer used “illegitimate or suspicious means” to amass cash and enjoy a lifestyle well beyond his reported $40,000 annual income, the inquiry into his 2020 murders has found.
  But the inquiry says in a document published Tuesday it found no evidence the gunman was involved in organized crime or was a police informant, despite rumours that surfaced after it was revealed he withdrew $475,000 in cash from a Brink’s office shortly before his ram
  
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• UK shatters its record for highest temperature

  19-07-2022 13:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K. weather office says Britain has shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered, with a provisional reading of 39.1 degree Celsius (102.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in Charlwood, England.
  The highest temperature previously recorded in Britain was 38.7 C (101.7 F), a record set in 2019.
  The high Tuesday came as the country sweltered in heat wave that also scorched mainland Europe for the past week. Travel, health care and schools were disrupted in a country not
  
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• Trudeau tour begins and wildfires continue to burn: In The News for July 19, 2022

  19-07-2022 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, July 19, 2022 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on the West Coast as part of a summer tour across Canada.
  Yesterday, he got a first-hand look at how heat and wildfires in British Columbia last year combined with mild temperatures in the earlier months of 2022 have left fruit growers
  
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• Trial continues for Jake Virtanen, former Canucks forward charged with sexual assault

  19-07-2022 10:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A defence lawyer is expected to cross-examine a woman today who claims she was sexually assaulted by former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen. 
  The 23-year-old woman, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, told his B.C. Supreme Court trial on Monday that Virtanen sexually assaulted her in a Vancouver hotel room in September 2017.
  The woman testified she told Virtanen no multiple times and repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with him.
  Virtanen, who is 25 year
  
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• Wildfire threats grow in western provinces, as warmer and drier weather forecast

  19-07-2022 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s western provinces are dealing with a number of wildfires caused by warmer and drier weather.
  The B.C. Wildfire Service is keeping an eye on the Nohomin Creek Fire, which measures more than 20 square kilometres and is burning just west of the Village of Lytton. 
  It says lower humidity will cause fuels to dry out, stoking the flames of the nearly week-old blaze that has already destroyed at least six properties.
  Lytton was razed in a similar fire last year and many residents ev
  
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• Fisheries report brings hope to Indigenous communities, sparks anger in industry

  19-07-2022 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Mi’kmaw lawyer from the community at the centre of a violent backlash over its self-governed lobster fishery says she’s “very hopeful” about a new Senate report that calls for the full implementation of Indigenous fishing rights.
  “I was pleasantly surprised, to be honest,” said Rosalie Francis, a member of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia.
  But elsewhere in the province, the surprise has been significantly less pleasant. Ther
  
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• UPDATE: RCMP Locate Sidney Woman Who Was Reported Missing In Chilliwack - Abbotsford News

  19-07-2022 09:00
  
  UPDATE: RCMP Locate Sidney Woman Who Was Reported Missing In Chilliwack  Abbotsford News
  
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• Canadians lose CONCACAF W Championship final to the U.S. on Alex Morgan penalty

  19-07-2022 06:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GUADALUPE, Mexico — Alex Morgan’s 78th-minute penalty gave the U.S. a 1-0 win over Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final Monday, sending the Americans to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  The final marked the first meeting between the two North American powers since Aug. 2, 2021, when Canada won 1-0 on a 75th-minute Jessie Fleming penalty in the Tokyo Olympics semifinal. The Canadian women went on to claim gold in a penalty shootout win over Sweden while the Americans settled for bronze
  
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• Trudeau tours B.C. cherry farm, where weather events have affected crop

  19-07-2022 06:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — The prime minister got a first-hand look at how heat and wildfires in British Columbia last year combined with mild temperatures in the earlier months of 2022 have left fruit growers with a lighter than normal crop.
  Justin Trudeau stopped at Lutz Orchards in Summerland, B.C. on Monday as he swung through the province on a summer tour across the country, meeting with workers in different occupations including farmers and growers.
  Trudeau asked Derek Lutz, the farm’s ow
  
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• Lyles celebrates 25th with cruise through world qualifying

  19-07-2022 05:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Noah Lyles celebrated his 25th birthday Monday by running the fastest time in 200-metre qualifying at world track and field championships, a 19.98-second romp that he punctuated by playfully wagging his finger at the six other sprinters straggling behind. 
  Lyles, last year’s Olympic bronze medallist, was part of a cavalcade of the world’s best sprinters — including 100 champions Fred Kerley and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and 18
  
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• Juan Soto overcomes JRod, contract talk to win HR Derby

  19-07-2022 05:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Washington Nationals star Juan Soto won his first Home Run Derby on Monday night, holding off Seattle Mariners rookie Julio Rodríguez 19-18 in the final.
  The 23-year-old Soto hit 53 total homers, beating each of his three opponents by one homer in the midseason power showcase. Soto was locked in at the plate even after spending an hour earlier at Dodger Stadium answering repeated questions about his possible departure from the Nats after turning down a huge contra
  
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• Canada’s Brown bounces back from blocks mishap to clinch spot in world 200 semis

  19-07-2022 05:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EUGENE, Ore. — Canada’s Django Lovett tied for sixth in the men’s high jump at the world track and field championships on Monday.
  The 30-year-old from Surrey, B.C., cleared 2.27 metres to match Luis Enrique Zayas of Cuba.Lovett, who’s named for Django Reinhardt, the French jazz guitarist, didn’t miss a bar through the competition before three misses at 2.30 metres.
  Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar cleared 2.37 to capture his third consecutive world title, screaming at th
  
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• Mental evaluation for man who threatened Memphis shooting

  19-07-2022 02:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Monday ordered a mental evaluation for a man police said had planned a mass shooting of people leaving a rap concert in downtown Memphis.
  Elijah Hyman went before a Shelby County judge on 30 charges of attempted murder and 30 more counts of possessing a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, court documents showed.
  General Sessions Judge S. Ronald Lucchesi ordered Hyman held without bond. Lucchesi also ordered an evaluation to determine
  
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• Former White House aides to testify at next Jan. 6 hearing

  19-07-2022 02:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan. 6 committee’s prime-time hearing Thursday as the panel examines what Donald Trump was doing as his supporters broke into the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the plans.Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, a former press aide, are expected to testify, according to the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and requested
  
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• Jackie Robinson’s legacy looms over All-Star Game in LA

  19-07-2022 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The legacy of Jackie Robinson showed in Major League Baseball’s draft, with four Black players among the first five selected for the first time in history.
  Six of the first 18 players chosen as well as nine players taken in the first round are Black. All of them are alumni of MLB’s diversity development programs.
  That’s considered progress in a sport that has a smaller percentage of Black players now than any year since the early 1990s.“It’s
  
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• Roughriders announce ‘several’ positive COVID tests following Touchdown Atlantic game

  19-07-2022 01:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders say “several members” of the team have recently tested positive for COVID-19.
  The Roughriders, who recently returned home after playing Toronto in the Touchdown Atlantic game Saturday in Halifax, did not disclose who tested positive, but say it was members of the team and its support staff.
  The team says it has cancelled its practice Tuesday “out of an abundance of caution” but is expecting to resume all on-field activities on W
  
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• Former Juventus winger Federico Bernardeschi happy for new beginning with Toronto FC

  19-07-2022 01:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — While the existing product withers on the field, Toronto FC has assembled some considerable new firepower off it in recent days.
  The hope is the cavalry is ready to ride in.
  On Monday, the Major League Soccer team unveiled its latest Italian in former Juventus winger Federico Bernardeschi. The 28-year-old arrived in style, taking the stage at the Real Sports bar/restaurant in matching white linen pants and open-neck shirt, showing off a simple tattooed cross on his chest under a
  
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• Ambrosie doesn’t feel chippy game negatively impacted Touchdown Atlantic experience

  19-07-2022 00:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie doesn’t believe a chippy game between the Toronto Argonauts and Saskatchewan Roughriders negatively impacted the 2022 Touchdown Atlantic experience.
  In fact, Ambrosie felt this year’s edition of the series was the best ever.
  “I can’t help but feel it was just an overwhelming success,” Ambrosie said Monday. “I was in Halifax on Sunday and everywhere I went people stopped and wanted to talk about it.
  “The ove
  
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