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• Windshield smashed in P.E.I. pub’s van after photos of Trudeau visit drew harassment

  31-07-2022 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHARLOTTETOWN — A brewpub on Prince Edward Island says a barrage of harassment that followed a visit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has culminated in violence, after someone smashed the windshield in the company van.
  Lone Oak Brewing Company said in a Facebook post and picture Saturday that its delivery driver found the van that morning with spiderwebs of cracked glass spreading out from what appears to be two points of impact.
  The post says management is taking “the necessary st
  
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• Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ has died at 89 - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 22:47
  
  Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ has died at 89  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘We give bikes out to every age, every socio-economic background—it doesn’t matter’ Program gives new life to previously loved bikes

  31-07-2022 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Eight years ago, Steve Genik started an initiative to recycle unwanted bicycles into hope for children or adults who needed a set of wheels.
  “We collect, refurbish, restore, and give away good quality used bikes to people that need a bike, can’t afford a bike, need a bike to get to work, or anything,” he said. “If we have it, we’ll give it away.”
  Dubbed “ReCyclers: bikes for kids,” Genik said this was a team effort and gave credi
  
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• Out-of-office reply: Prime Minister Trudeau, family on holiday in Costa Rica

  31-07-2022 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation with his family.
  The Prime Minister’s Office says the family is returning to the same place where they stayed over the Christmas holiday in 2019 and that they are paying for their own accommodations.
  The prime minister must fly on a Royal Canadian Air Force plane for security reasons — even for personal travel — and the family’s flights on the last trip to and from Costa Rica cos
  
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• ‘A specific form of anti-Black racism:’ Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

  31-07-2022 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country’s history of slavery and its intergenerational harms.
  Author Elise Harding-Davis said Sunday that the federal government’s vote last March to recognize Emancipation Day shows Canadian leaders know that the country’s history of slavery has caused generations of harm to Black people. 
  To ignore years of c
  
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• It’s coming home! England rejoices as soccer women win Euros

  31-07-2022 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — “It’s coming home!”
  England won a major international soccer tournament on Sunday for the first time in more than half a century. The fact it was the women’s team, not the men’s, that ended decades of pain made it all the sweeter for many fans.
  Crowds erupted in joy at London’s Wembley Stadium, at fan zones across the country and in pubs, clubs and living rooms as the whistle blew after extra time with the score England 2, Germany 1. It was
  
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• Monkeypox: Experts at AIDS conference say the current global response is not enough

  31-07-2022 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are urging worldwide governments to ramp up resources to handle the monkeypox outbreaks.  
  The plea comes as international experts gathered earlier today to discuss the necessity to avoid reproducing mistakes made during the early HIV response.  
  Dr. Meg Doherty, director of the World Health Organization’s global HIV, hepatitis and STIs programs, told reporters an equitable approach is cr
  
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• Olympic champ Mitchell races to her third cycling silver of the Commonwealth Games

  31-07-2022 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — A day after Kelsey Mitchell joked that she was “consistently silver,” Canada’s Olympic champion added one more.
  The 28-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., won silver in track cycling’s 500-metre time trial on Sunday, and was pleased with the result in a race she rarely contests.
  “It’s not a new experience for silver, but very happy with my performance,” Mitchell said. “I was one of the first to go and had to wait
  
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• Berrios strikes out six in seven innings in Blue Jays’ 4-1 victory over Tigers

  31-07-2022 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Matt Chapman drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the second inning, and Jose Berrios struck out six in seven innings to push the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-1 win against the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.
  Before a crowd of 40,298 at Rogers Centre, the win allowed the Blue Jays (57-45) to snatch three of four games in the series against the light-hitting Tigers (41-62).
  With Teoscar Hernandez on base after a one-out single to left field, Chapman slammed his 20th homer to left for a 2-0 l
  
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• England beats Germany 2-1 in European Championship final

  31-07-2022 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — England beat Germany 2-1 in the final of the European Championship after extra time on Sunday to win its first major women’s soccer title.Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a rebound in the second half of extra time after Germany failed to clear a corner. The game had finished 1-1 after 90 minutes.
  Ella Toone latched onto a long pass from Keira Walsh to get in behind the German defense in the 62nd minute and cleverly sent a lobbed shot over goalkeeper Merle Frohms a
  
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• Two of three victims in shooting at Surrey, B.C. sports park now dead, say RCMP

  31-07-2022 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police say what appears to be a targeted shooting of three men at a Surrey, B.C. sports park has now resulted in two deaths. 
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is urging witnesses to come forward with any information that could be related to the Saturday afternoon shooting at South Surrey Athletic Park.
  Police say in a statement that officers were called to the park Saturday where they found three males suffering from gun shot wounds.
  Police say one of the men
  
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• Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88 - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 19:52
  
  Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88

  31-07-2022 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport — and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday. He was 88. 
  His family posted the news on social media, saying Russell died with his wife, Jeannine, by his side. The statement did not give the cause of death. 
  “Bill’s wife, Jeannine, and his many f
  
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• Liberals give themselves more time to meet five-year-old peacekeeping pledge

  31-07-2022 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government is giving itself more time to fulfil a key peacekeeping promise to the UN first made five years ago.
  The commitment involves the provision of a 200-soldier quick reaction force to the UN.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced the pledge during a major peacekeeping summit in Vancouver in 2017.
  The government at the time said the force, intended to provide response to emergencies on peacekeeping missions, would be deployed within five years.
  Yet the De
  
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• Spin and win: Verstappen rallies to eighth win of F1 season

  31-07-2022 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Formula One champion Max Verstappen overcame a spin and his worst starting spot of the season to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. His eighth win of the season pushed Verstappen’s lead to 80 points over Charles Leclerc as F1 heads into its midseason break.
  Mercedes placed both its cars on the podium for the second straight race; seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton carved his way from seventh to a second-place finish, teammate and pole-sitter George Ru
  
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• Wildfire near Penticton puts Apex Mountain Village under evacuation alert - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 17:30
  
  Wildfire near Penticton puts Apex Mountain Village under evacuation alert  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Part of Beirut port silos, damaged in 2020 blast, collapses

  31-07-2022 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A section of Beirut’s massive port grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed in a huge cloud of dust on Sunday after a weekslong fire, triggered by grains that had fermented and ignited in the summer heat.The northern block of the silos collapsed after what sounded like an explosion, kicking up thick gray dust that enveloped the iconic structure and the port next to a residential area. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured.Assaad Haddad the Gen
  
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• Extensive community volunteer seeks seat on Chilliwack City Council this fall

  31-07-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Rotarian and familiar face from the 2018 municipal election is making another run for Chilliwack City Council.
  Debora Soutar, a retired professional forester, will add her name to the list of candidates vying for one of six seats on the Chilliwack City Council in this fall’s municipal election.According to her campaign press release, Soutar ran for Chilliwack council in 2018 and considered the experience a pleasant one. This time around, she’s still passionate ab
  
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• Chilliwack-Kent MLA Paddon addresses illegal parking at Cultus Lake over long weekend

  31-07-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Kent MLA Kelli Paddon took to social media Saturday night to address the illegal parking mayhem in and along the Columbia Valley Road shoulder amidst the three-day weekend.
  In a Facebook post, Paddon said she heard from constituents about the volume of cars parked along the primary arterial through Cultus Lake main beach and up along the lake during the B.C. Day long weekend.She said a likely solution is on the way.
  “Yesterday (Jul. 29), I met with the Ministr
  
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• Chilliwack delivering higher quality corn this year but less of it - iNFOnews

  31-07-2022 15:00
  Chilliwack delivering higher quality corn this year but less of it  iNFOnews
  
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• CRIMESTOPPERS: ‘Most wanted’ for the week of July 31 - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 14:50
  
  CRIMESTOPPERS: ‘Most wanted’ for the week of July 31  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sacred site or rallying point? The politicization of Canada’s National War Memorial

  31-07-2022 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The sacrifices of Canadians who fought and died for democracy and freedom during the Korean War were honoured during a small ceremony last week at the National War Memorial.
  The ceremonial plaza, located a stone’s throw from Parliament Hill and which includes the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, was built for such acts of remembrance.
  This year, though, Canadians have seen far different images of the memorial, including acts of vandalism, and as a rallying point for those oppose
  
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• Nunes beats Peña to regain UFC women’s bantamweight belt

  31-07-2022 07:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Amanda Nunes won a unanimous five-round decision over Julianna Peña in the main event of UFC 277 on Saturday night at to regain the women’s bantamweight championship that she lost last December.
  Nunes (22-5), nicknamed “The Lioness,” is again a double-champion, already holding the featherweight belt. The judges’ scoring was 50-45, 50-44 and 50-43.Peña beat Nunes last December at Las Vegas to claim the title in one of the biggest upsets in
  
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• Saudi-born Canadian gets life sentence in U.S. for ISIS propaganda support, terrorism

  31-07-2022 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization ISIS. 
  The Department of Justice statement says Mohammed Khalifa, 39, pleaded guilty last December in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to a charge of conspiring to provide material or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, resulting in death.
  The statement says
  
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• Toronto FC picks up rare point on the road in scoreless draw with New England

  31-07-2022 04:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Toronto FC picked up a rare point on the road with a 0-0 draw against the New England Revolution in MLS play Saturday, but were denied the win when Djordje Petrovic stopped Italian star Lorenzo Insigne from the penalty spot in the 81st minute.
  The six-foot-four Serbian goalkeeper dove to his right, getting one hand on the ball.
  Toronto (6-12-5) remains winless away from home in league play this season (0-7-4), with just four points out of a possible 33. On a positive no
  
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• Unbeaten Blue Bombers win a 35-28 thriller over Stampeders

  31-07-2022 04:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Nic Demski and Dalton Schoen caught two touchdown passes each from quarterback Zach Collaros as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Calgary Stampeders 35-38 in CFL action Saturday night to stay undefeated.
  Collaros had a superb game for Winnipeg (8-0) as he completed 22-of-30 passes for 270 yards.
  Marc Liegghio kicked two field goals and a single for the Bombers, who will look to keep their winning streak alive when they travel to Monteal to face the Alouettes next Thursday.
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• Defences dominate as Montreal, New York battle to scoreless draw in MLS

  31-07-2022 03:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Defence dominated in a battle of two high-powered offences on Saturday as CF Montreal and New York City FC played to a scoreless draw at Stade Saputo.
  For two of the five highest-scoring teams in Major League Soccer, the first half was remarkably prudent.
  Montreal (11-8-3) enjoyed the lion’s share of the possession with New York (12-4-6) seemingly more than happy to sit in a low block and wait for a counterattack.
  The first chance went Montreal’s way just after the 1
  
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• Jake Paul match at MSG off over Rahman’s weight issues

  31-07-2022 03:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Paul’s boxing match at Madison Square Garden next week has been canceled after his promotional team said opponent Hasim Rahman Jr. did not intend to honor the contracted weight limit.
  Most Valuable Promotions said Saturday that Rahman had signed a contract July 5 to weigh a maximum of 200 pounds. However, it said in a statement that a weight check Friday showed that he had only lost one pound since weighing 216 then and that the New York State Athletic Commission
  
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• Stenson has 3-shot lead in LIV Golf debut at Trump National

  31-07-2022 02:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Henrik Stenson overcame a double bogey on his third hole Saturday with a long eagle putt and enough birdies for a 2-under 69 at windy Trump National Bedminster and a three-shot lead over Dustin Johnson in the LIV Golf Invitational.
  Two weeks ago, Stenson had just missed the cut in the British Open and was still the Ryder Cup captain for Europe. Now the 46-year-old Swede is 18 holes away from a $4 million prize, more than double the biggest check of his career.
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• Surrey RCMP investigate shooting: one dead, two suffering serious wounds

  31-07-2022 02:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — One man is dead and two others are in hospital with life-threatening injuries following a shooting in Surrey, B.C. 
  The RCMP says in a statement officers responded Saturday afternoon to a report of shots fired in the 14600 block of 20th Avenue and discovered three males suffering from gunshot wounds.
  The RCMP says despite providing life-saving measures, one of the wounded men died at the scene.
  Police say the two other victims were taken to hospital suffering from life-
  
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• Pump Up The Jams: Manager John Schneider invites DJ into Blue Jays clubhouse

  31-07-2022 02:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse had a different vibe on Saturday morning. Instead of some quiet country music or baseball highlights playing on the spacious room’s TVs, a DJ was performing a set featuring house music and classic rap and R&B tracks from the late 1990s.
  Although the clubhouse has an impressive sound system, usually deployed with a fog machine after big wins, interim Blue Jays manager John Schneider decided to shake things up ahead of their matinee against
  
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• Man shot in Vancouver after police say he assaulted an officer - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 01:38
  
  Man shot in Vancouver after police say he assaulted an officer  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• U.S. judge gives life term to Canadian ISIS propagandist - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 01:27
  
  U.S. judge gives life term to Canadian ISIS propagandist  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Triple shooting in Surrey leaves 1 dead, 2 injured - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 01:16
  
  Triple shooting in Surrey leaves 1 dead, 2 injured  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Police shoot man after officer wounded with weapon in rough Vancouver neighbourhood

  31-07-2022 01:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver shot and injured a man Saturday after an officer was allegedly attacked with a weapon while on patrol in the city’s Downtown Eastside.
  Const. Tania Visintin says in a statement two officers were sitting in their patrol vehicle Saturday morning when a man carrying a weapon struck one of the officers through an open window.
  She says during the altercation, one officer fired shots.
  Visintin says the officer suffered a serious head injury and was taken to
  
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• Chilliwack Man With National Charity Working To End Hunger Says World Food Crisis ‘solvable’ - Abbotsford News

  31-07-2022 01:14
  
  Chilliwack Man With National Charity Working To End Hunger Says World Food Crisis ‘solvable’  Abbotsford News
  
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• VIDEO: Find Me My Furever Home – Claire and Triss at the Chilliwack SPCA - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 01:03
  
  VIDEO: Find Me My Furever Home – Claire and Triss at the Chilliwack SPCA  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Taylor Pendrith tied with Tony Finau for Rocket Mortgage lead

  31-07-2022 01:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Canada’s Taylor Pendrith could be on pace for his first ever PGA Tour title. 
  The Richmond Hill, Ont., native shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday to match American Tony Finau at 21-under 195 with a round left in the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
  A stroke ahead entering the round, Pendrith birdied four of the last five holes for a 66.
  Pendrith was the second-round leader after setting the tournament 36-hole record at 15-under 129.
  The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie missed nearly
  
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• Teoscar Hernandez’s three-run homer lifts Blue Jays over Tigers 5-3

  31-07-2022 00:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Teoscar Hernandez’s three-run homer lifted the Toronto Blue Jays over the Detroit Tigers 5-3 on Saturday.
  Bo Bichette had the 200th RBI of his career for Toronto (56-45) and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. also drove in a run.
  Ross Stripling allowed five hits for two runs, striking out five over 4 1/3 innings.
  Adam Cimber, Trevor Richards (3-0), Yimi Garcia and Jordan Romano came out of the Blue Jays, with Romano earning his 23rd save of the season.
  Riley Greene had an RBI double for D
  
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• With higher water and hotter temperatures, Chilliwack RCMP urge safety on water - Chilliwack Progress

  31-07-2022 00:00
  
  With higher water and hotter temperatures, Chilliwack RCMP urge safety on water  Chilliwack Progress
  
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