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• Feds try to prevent disclosure of ‘sensitive’ details in turbine court case

  24-08-2022 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to shield “sensitive or potentially injurious information” from disclosure during a court challenge of its decision to return a turbine repaired in Montreal to a Russian energy giant.
  In an application to the Federal Court, the attorney general seeks confirmation that certain information flagged by the Justice Department must not be disclosed in the turbine legal proceedings.
  In early July, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly i
  
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• N.W.T.’s 2022 wildfire season has nearly doubled five-year average for area burned

  24-08-2022 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — The 2022 wildfire season in the Northwest Territories is shaping up to be one of the most severe in the past five years.
  “We’re well on our way to doubling our five-year average for area burned,” said Mike Westwick, a wildfire information officer for the territory.“It’s been a significant year for fires after a few years where we had a slight downturn.”
  So far, 238 fires have burned nearly 4,300 square kilometres of land across the territor
  
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• Concern for B.C. sockeye salmon as Fraser River return estimates drop by millions

  24-08-2022 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Optimism over an expected bumper season for wild British Columbia sockeye salmon has turned to distress, after a regulatory body’s estimate of returns to the Fraser River dropped by nearly half this week. 
  The Pacific Salmon Commission’s pre-season estimate of 9.8 million returning fish went down to 5.5 million Monday, prompting environmentalists and fishers alike to express concern. 
  “It’s disturbingly bad,” said Greg Taylor, senior fish
  
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• CP Women’s Open showcases past, present, and future of Canadian golf

  24-08-2022 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Lorie Kane won’t hear any kind of talk about her legacy as she plays in the CP Women’s Open one last time.
  Kane will tee off in the national women’s golf championship for the 30th and final time on Thursday, one of 18 Canadians in the field at the national championship. The 57-year-old from Charlottetown insists that the sport’s future in Canada has already arrived and that she had nothing to do with it.
  “We have a great group of young women who are m
  
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• Chad Martz of Chilliwack offers upbeat update on Ukraine's Independence Day - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Chad Martz of Chilliwack offers upbeat update on Ukraine's Independence Day  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Utah sues Biden over move to restore 2 national monuments

  24-08-2022 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican state leaders in Utah sued the Biden administration on Wednesday over the president’s decision last year to restore two sprawling national monuments on rugged lands sacred to Native Americans that former President Donald Trump had downsized.The lawsuit over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, the two monuments, alleges that President Joe Biden’s action violates the authority granted in a century-old law that allows presidents to protect si
  
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• CP Women’s Open hopefully a boost to struggling Ottawa tourism

  24-08-2022 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Golf phenom Brooke Henderson may be what Ottawa’s tourism industry needs to revitalize its flagging numbers.
  Henderson, from nearby Smiths Falls, Ont., is the star attraction at this week’s CP Women’s Open at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club. The most successful professional golfer in Canadian history, Henderson hopes that the LPGA Tour event can help the tourism sector in the nation’s capital recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  “Hopefully jus
  
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• ‘Pre-bunking’ shows promise in fight against misinformation - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
  
  ‘Pre-bunking’ shows promise in fight against misinformation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
  
  More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Animated doc ‘Eternal Spring’ selected as Canada’s contender for Oscar nomination - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Animated doc ‘Eternal Spring’ selected as Canada’s contender for Oscar nomination  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 40 residents of Vancouver street camp accept accommodation: BC Housing - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
  
  40 residents of Vancouver street camp accept accommodation: BC Housing  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Federal government invests $4.4 million in Golf Canada’s professional tournaments

  24-08-2022 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s federal government has announced new funding for Golf Canada’s two professional tournaments.
  The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario said on Wednesday that it’s giving the national sport organization $4.4 million. The non-repayable investment is earmarked for the CP Women’s Open and the RBC Canadian Open, the national women’s and men’s professional championships respectively.
  Mona Fortier, the president of the Treas
  
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• NATO chief’s first visit to Canadian Arctic signals thaw in Ottawa: experts

  24-08-2022 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s longstanding resistance to NATO involvement in the Arctic appears to be thawing amidst warming temperatures and a coinciding increase in Russian and Chinese activity in the region.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is hosting a visit by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this week, with the two scheduled to tour a military radar site in Nunavut on Thursday before they head to an air force base in Alberta on Friday.
  The tour represents the first visit by a NATO secr
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers sue for over $878K in fees

  24-08-2022 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, is suing her, her brother and husband, saying it was never paid for more than $878,000 for its work.Denver-based Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday that Maxwell put her brother Kevin Maxwell in charge of paying her legal fees after she was arrested in 2020 but that he only paid a fraction of what they had ch
  
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• BC Ferries triples the number of terminals with Wi-Fi - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 21:59 via theprogress.com
  
  BC Ferries triples the number of terminals with Wi-Fi  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Roughriders post $3.9 million profit from CFL’s return to play last season

  24-08-2022 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The CFL’s return to play in 2021 was a profitable one for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  The Roughriders posted a $3.9-million profit last season, the community-owned franchise announced at its annual general meeting Tuesday night. Saskatchewan finished second in the West Division in 2021 with a 9-5 record.
  The Riders defeated Calgary 33-30 in overtime in the conference semifinal at Mosaic Stadium before dropping a 21-17 road decision to eventual Grey Cup-champion Winnipeg in
  
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• Group files constitutional challenge of ArriveCan app in Federal Court

  24-08-2022 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A constitutional rights group has launched a legal challenge of a federal requirement that travellers to Canada use the ArriveCan app.
  The action was filed in Federal Court by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms on behalf of 11 Canadians, including some allegedly fined up to $8,500.
  The legal challenge, spearheaded by an organization that has opposed public health measures such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, seeks to strike down mandatory use of the app and to decla
  
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• Canadian Michael O’Connor to assume control of B.C. Lions offence

  24-08-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The B.C. Lions are about to see what life without Nathan Rourke is all about.
  Rourke, of Victoria, will undergo foot surgery after being injured in the Lions’ 28-10 road win last week over Saskatchewan. Fellow Canadian Michael O’Connor will start Friday night in the rematch at B.C. Place Stadium.
  The Lions (8-1) will chase a sixth straight win and look to sweep the three-game season series with the Riders (5-5). B.C. last swept Saskatchewan in 2016 when it went 3-0 head-to-head.
  Rour
  
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• Single game tickets for Abbotsford Canucks available starting Aug. 31 - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 21:14 via theprogress.com
  
  Single game tickets for Abbotsford Canucks available starting Aug. 31  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada hopes for better result in Victoria as it welcomes Argentina in WCup qualifier

  24-08-2022 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The last time Canada’s men’s basketball team travelled to Victoria, the trip ended in deep disappointment.
  Entering a last-chance qualification tournament for the Tokyo Games, there were high hopes that a Canada squad led by Golden State Warriors star Andrew Wiggins would clinch the team’s first Olympic berth since 2000. Those hopes were scuttled by a surprising overtime loss to Czechs in the semifinals.
  Just over a year later, Canada is back in the B.C. capita
  
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• 15 reported killed in Independence Day attack in Ukraine

  24-08-2022 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says Russian forces have launched a rocket attack on a railroad station in central Ukraine on the country’s Independence Day, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 50.The lethal strike Wednesday came after warnings from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in recent days that the Russians might “try to do something particularly nasty, something particularly cruel” this week.Wednesday is a national holiday in Ukraine commemor
  
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• B.C. NDP government to fund daytime wellness shelter in Chilliwack for homeless people; MLA Coulter faults B.C. Liberals for prior cuts for homeless

  24-08-2022 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The B.C. NDP government announced Monday (Aug. 22) that it will provide over $600,000 in funding for a daytime wellness centre in Chilliwack to provide refuge for homeless people as well as a separate Indigenous youth outreach project.Chilliwack New Democrat MLAs Dan Coulter and Kelli Paddon say that people who are unhoused will have more access to support services in Chilliwack as a result of provincial funding.“People need community services now more than ever and this
  
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• Quebec’s CAQ leads rivals in fundraising, Liberals in last place among major parties

  24-08-2022 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s governing Coalition Avenir Québec party has raised more than $928,500 so far in 2022, nearly $300,000 more than its nearest rival, the Parti Québécois.
  According to the most recent Élections Québec data, the Liberal Party of Quebec — currently polling in second place — has raised slightly more than $323,520, the lowest amount among the province’s five main parties.
  Québec solidaire and the Conservative Pa
  
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• 40 residents of Vancouver street camp accept accommodation: BC Housing

  24-08-2022 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — BC Housing says 40 people in Vancouver who were living in a Downtown Eastside street encampment being cleared by city workers have accepted offers of accommodation.
  The agency’s vice-president of operations, Dale McCann, was speaking at a press conference today at city hall, where Mayor Kennedy Stewart reported “good progress” clearing the street in accordance with a safety order by the city’s fire chief.
  Stewart says the clearance operation that began o
  
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• Canadian Rourke’s 2022 CFL season one for the league record book

  24-08-2022 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Even if Nathan Rourke’s stellar ’22 season be over, it will still be one for the CFL record book.
  The 24-year-old Victoria native suffered a foot injury in the B.C. Lions’ 28-10 road win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week. Rourke will undergo surgery and while he remains optimistic about a late-season return, his 2022 campaign remains very much in jeopardy.
  With Rourke out, Michael O’Connor, an Ottawa native, will start Friday night when B.C. (8
  
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• Jays begin 2023 on 10-day road trip before returning to renovated Rogers Centre

  24-08-2022 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays will begin next season on a lengthy road trip before returning home to a renovated Rogers Centre.
  The Blue Jays released their schedule for the 2023 season on Wednesday. Canada’s lone Major League Baseball team will open the season March 30 at St. Louis to kick off a 10-game road trip that will include series against the Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Angels.
  Toronto’s home opener will be April 11 against the Detroit Tigers, and will be the B
  
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• Homeless encampment at Chilliwack Secondary concerns downtown advocate who fears next daytime shelter will end up downtown again

  24-08-2022 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — When a homeless encampment cropped up over the weekend at Chilliwack Secondary School, downtown resident Tina McNeill monitored it like a hawk.
  Within minutes, McNeill was on the phone with Griffin Security, a local security company tasked with patrolling city parks and school district property because Chilliwack RCMP officers aren’t always able to respond to lower-priority nuisance calls where physical harm isn’t imminent.
  “I just feel that it’s part o
  
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• Oklahoma governor rejects clemency for death row inmate

  24-08-2022 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday rejected clemency for a man facing execution this week for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared.
  James Coddington was convicted and sentenced to die for the beating death of friend and coworker 73-year-old Albert Hale inside Hale’s Choctaw home. Prosecutors say Coddington, who was 24 at the time, became enraged when Hale refu
  
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• Achonwa, Carleton, Nurse headline Canada’s basketball roster for World Cup training

  24-08-2022 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — WNBA players Natalie Achonwa, Bridget Carleton and Kia Nurse headline Canada’s women’s basketball roster for its pre-World Cup training camp.
  Nurse, a guard for the Phoenix Mercury, hasn’t played since suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament during the WNBA playoffs last October. 
  Achonwa and Carleton were available immediately for the Canada camp since their Minnesota Lynx didn’t qualify for the current WBNA playoffs. 
  Head coach Victor Lap
  
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• Canada has short window to get ahead of U.S. hydrogen efforts, backer warns

  24-08-2022 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The chairman of the company behind one of the biggest proposed green hydrogen projects in Atlantic Canada says a three-year time frame to start shipping the fuel to Germany is feasible if everyone moves quickly.
  John Risley is the chair of World Energy G2, a consortium looking for provincial approval to build a wind-powered hydrogen production facility in a port town on the western shore of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  It is one of more than a dozen projects put on the table in Atla
  
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• Jill Biden has ‘rebound’ COVID-19 case, president negative

  24-08-2022 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent “rebound” case, after she initially tested negative for the virus over the weekend.President Joe Biden, who spent three days with his wife at their Rehoboth Beach, Del. vacation home, continues to test negative, the White House said. He also suffered a rebound case earlier this month after an initial recovery from the virus.
  Biden’s deputy communications director Kelsey Donohue s
  
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• Quebec official says Omicron-targeted bivalent vaccine ready in ‘less than two weeks’

  24-08-2022 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s public health director says a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant should be available in less than two weeks.
  Dr. Luc Boileau made the comments today in Montreal, even though Canadians are still waiting on Health Canada’s approval of bivalent vaccine submissions from Moderna and Pfizer.
  Boileau says once a bivalent shot is available it will immediately replace the older-generation vaccines for dist
  
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• More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog

  24-08-2022 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his department is going on a hiring spree to bring 1,250 new employees on board by the end of the fall to tackle massive backlogs in processing applications.
  As of the end of July, just over half of the 2.4 million pending immigration applications have taken longer to process than the government’s service standards dictate they should. 
  In January, Fraser vowed to eliminate immigration backlogs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by the
  
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• Belarus’ Azarenka dropped from Ukraine exhibition at US Open

  24-08-2022 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
  Azarenka is from Belarus, which helped Russia launch its invasion of Ukraine in February. At least one Ukrainian tennis player, Marta Kostyuk, questioned having a Belarusian player participate in the U.S. Tennis Association’s “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition,” scheduled for Wednesday
  
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• Head of federal telecom regulator did not breach Conflict of Interest Act: watchdog

  24-08-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal ethics watchdog says the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he held meetings with large telecom providers while they had files before the regulator.
  One of the meetings scrutinized involved CRTC head Ian Scott and senior BCE Inc. and Bell Canada executive Mirko Bibic in an Ottawa pub in December 2019.
  A week before the meeting, Bell Canada filed an application to the CRTC to review an
  
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• Maier gets nod ahead of veteran Bo Levi Mitchell for Calgary Stampeders

  24-08-2022 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A first for Jake Maier.
  The second-year quarterback will be Calgary’s starter Thursday night when the Stampeders (6-3) visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-1). The start will be Maier’s fourth in the CFL but the first with veteran Bo Levi Mitchell also on the roster.
  All three of Maier’s previous starts came with Mitchell on the injured list.
  Maier replaced Mitchell in the second half of Calgary’s 22-19 road win over the Toronto Argonauts last week. Maier w
  
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• Canada back on top of the women’s hockey world, but work continues to stay there

  24-08-2022 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s women’s hockey team starts the world championship remembering the words of a man who climbed Mount Everest twice.
  Jamie Clarke, a Canadian adventurer who reached the top of the world’s highest mountain in 1997 and 2010, spoke to the women’s team twice in the weeks leading up to February’s Olympic Games in Beijing where the Canadian women reclaimed gold.
  “He talked about conquering Mount Everest. One of his messages was, you’re only on top for a
  
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• A team-by-team look at the women’s world hockey championship field

  24-08-2022 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A capsule look at the 10 teams competing in the 2022 women’s world ice hockey championship in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark. Listed in order of finish in Calgary in 2021.
  CANADA
  The reigning world and Olympic champion is back on top after years of giving up ground to archrival United States in their constant tug of war for international supremacy. Brianne Jenner, named most valuable player of the Olympic tournament, and captain and golden-goaler Marie-Philip Poulin lead the defending
  
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• Abbotsford’s Marek Klassen invited to Canada Basketball camp - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 18:07 via theprogress.com
  
  Abbotsford’s Marek Klassen invited to Canada Basketball camp  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• IHIT releases identity of victim in fatal stabbing incident in Mission - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 18:00 via theprogress.com
  
  IHIT releases identity of victim in fatal stabbing incident in Mission  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCMP Commissioner Lucki grilled at N.S. inquiry about failure to implement reforms

  24-08-2022 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is facing questions today at a public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting on why the police force didn’t move more swiftly to implement recommendations for reform.
  Josh Bryson, a lawyer for family members of two people killed in the shootings, asked Lucki why the RCMP hadn’t implemented recommendations from past reviews calling for investigators to attend crime scenes in a “timely fashion.”
  Bryson notes that polic
  
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• B.C. wildfires: Lightning continues to spark fresh blazes - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 17:04 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. wildfires: Lightning continues to spark fresh blazes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• CF Montreal sending Mihailovic to Dutch club AZ Alkmaar

  24-08-2022 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Star midfielder Djordje Mihailovic will be leaving CF Montreal at the end of the Major League Soccer season. 
  The team announced Wednesday that it has sold Mihailovic’s playing rights to Dutch first-division club AZ Alkmaar for an undisclosed amount of money. The transfer is effective Jan. 1, 2023.
  “This is a very exciting moment for me, but also sad, knowing that I will be leaving CF Montreal,”  Mihailovic said in a statement. “When I joined th
  
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• 2016 champion Kerber out of US Open; says she’s pregnant

  24-08-2022 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday because she is pregnant, announcing the news via social media by joking that “two against one just isn’t a fair competition” and posting a string of emojis that included a baby bottle.
  The 34-year-old German won the title at Flushing Meadows in 2016 to rise to No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She also won the Australian Open that year and added a Wimbledon championship in 20
  
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• Mounties looking for man who had 'inappropriate conversation with youth' in Chilliwack - CTV News Vancouver

  24-08-2022 16:51 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
  Mounties looking for man who had 'inappropriate conversation with youth' in Chilliwack  CTV News Vancouver
  
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• Chilliwack news: Mounties looking for man | CTV News - CTV News Vancouver

  24-08-2022 16:51 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
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• Ukraine girds for heavy attacks as it marks Independence Day - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Ukraine girds for heavy attacks as it marks Independence Day  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Teen pilot sets age record for solo flight around world - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Teen pilot sets age record for solo flight around world  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Seasonal transit changes coming in September for Chilliwack, FVRD transit systems - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Seasonal transit changes coming in September for Chilliwack, FVRD transit systems  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Delectable. Accessible - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Delectable. Accessible  Chilliwack Progress
  
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