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• Leaders urge Quebecers to vote as advance polls open ahead of provincial election

  25-09-2022 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s main political party leaders spent Sunday rallying their supporters to head to the polling stations, as Quebecers got a first chance to vote for who will lead them after the Oct. 3 election.
  The leaders of the Coalition Avenir Québec, the Liberals, Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois all visited polling stations on the first day of advance voting amid concerns over possible low voter turnout.
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• Driver ran over, dragged person inside tent at Kelowna homeless encampment – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 23:00 via theprogress.com
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• ‘I’ve been on council for 28 years’ Abbotsford’s long-standing councillor seeks re-election

  25-09-2022 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Patricia Ross has served on Abbotsford city council for almost three decades and is once again seeking re-election on Oct. 15.
  “I’ve been on council for 28 years now, I’ve been vice-chair of the Fraser Valley Regional District for the last two terms, and I’ve served on the FVRD for 25 years now,” said Ross.
  She is currently president of the Lower Mainland Local Government Association and chair of Gro YourBiz—a mentoring and advisory board fo
  
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• Springer’s two homers lead Blue Jays to 7-1 victory over Rays

  25-09-2022 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — George Springer homered twice, Alejandro Kirk and Teoscar Hernández also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-1 on Sunday to gain a four-game split.
  Toronto (86-67) opered a two-game lead over Tampa Bay (84-69) for the top wild card with nine games left. 
  Seattle (83-68) was also two games back with a game to play later Sunday against Kansas City.
  Toronto allowed 20 runs in losing the first two games, but limited Tampa Bay to
  
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• Jennifer Jones takes PointsBet curling women’s title, downs Scheidegger 7-4

  25-09-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FREDERICTON — Jennifer Jones won the women’s title at the inaugural PointsBet Invitational Sunday with a 7-4 win over Casey Scheidegger in the final.
  The victory was worth $50,000 for Jones, Karlee Burgess, Mackenzie Zacharias, Lauren Lenentine and alternate Emily Zacharias at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton.
  Jones and company strung together four straight wins to claim the title and take home the winner’s cheque.
  They’re a new team this season with 48-year-old Jo
  
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• Italians vote in election that may bring far-right to power – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 22:00 via theprogress.com
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• EXPLAINER: Mexican army's role in students' disappearance – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 22:00 via theprogress.com
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• After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 22:00 via theprogress.com
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• Vancouver's Natasha Wodak smashes Canadian marathon record in Berlin – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 21:30 via theprogress.com
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• Tropical Storm Ian strengthens as it heads to Cuba, Florida – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 21:30 via theprogress.com
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• Teenager Luca Koleosho has international options, but enjoys time in Canada’s camp

  25-09-2022 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Having left home at 11 to pursue his soccer dream in Spain, Luca Koleosho has worked hard to get where he is today.
  Now 18, the RCD Espanyol winger is in camp with Canada but has plenty of international options having been born in the U.S. to a Nigerian father and Italian-Canadian mother, who was born in Montreal.
  Koleosho owns four passports. While he has yet to choose his international path, he says he’s enjoying his time with Canada.
  “Getting to meet up with the players, the coach
  
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• Tragically Hip bassist Gord Sinclair to perform in Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 21:00 via theprogress.com
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• Industry minister to represent Canada at former Japanese PM’s funeral

  25-09-2022 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Federal Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will represent Canada at former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral this week.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled to visit Japan and attend Tuesday’s funeral, but cancelled those plans to oversee recovery efforts after post-tropical storm Fiona ravaged much of eastern Canada and parts of Quebec.
  Describing Abe as a friend and ally of Canada, Champagne says the former Japanese prime minister p
  
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• Battleship Mountain, B.C.'s last wildfire of note, now being held – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 19:39 via theprogress.com
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• Fire at Vancouver SRO building displaces dozens on Downtown Eastside – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 18:05 via theprogress.com
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime beats Djokovic; Team World leads Laver Cup

  25-09-2022 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime added a singles victory over Novak Djokovic to an earlier win in doubles Sunday, allowing Team World to take a 10-8 lead over Team Europe with two matches remaining in the Laver Cup.
  Auger-Aliassime, a 22-year-old from Montreal, beat 21-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic 6-3, 7-6 (3) with the help of 13 aces and a 39-11 advantage in total winners.
  That followed the three-day event’s last doubles contest, in which Auger-Aliassime and A
  
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• Natasha Wodak smashes Canadian marathon record in Berlin

  25-09-2022 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Natasha Wodak believes that enjoying the process will show up in the results.
  The 40-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., who grew to love training for the marathon, shattered the Canadian record in that distance in Berlin on Sunday.
  Wodak finished 12th at the Berlin Marathon in two hours 23 minutes 12 seconds, lowering Malindi Elmore’s record of 2:24.50 set in 2020.Wodak, who was 13th in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, was a 10,000-metre specialist on the track for the better par
  
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• Military sounding alarm over recruiting problems as Canadians steer clear – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 17:45 via theprogress.com
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• Carleton scores 19 points, Canada beats Japan to remain undefeated at FIBA World Cup

  25-09-2022 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SYDNEY, Australia — Canada’s women’s basketball team continues to pick up steam at the FIBA World Cup.
  Bridget Carleton scored 19 points while Kayla Alexander grabbed 11 rebounds, and the Canadian women beat Japan 70-56 on Sunday to remain undefeated and clinch a berth in the quarterfinals.“That was a big game for us,” Carleton said. “That’s a tough team, they’re hard to play against, they’re fast, they like to shoot the three-ball so it&rsqu
  
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• G.W. Graham dominates in a 38-13 exhibition win over St. Thomas More Collegiate at Exhibition Stadium

  25-09-2022 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The G.W. Graham senior varsity football team took care of business on all fronts before a packed homecoming crowd of over 1,500 Friday night at Exhibition Stadium.G.W. Graham quarterback Lucas Feaver threw for 232 yards on 17-of-29 passing and a score, and running back Maleky Colgiu amassed 54 rushing yards and two touchdowns, as the top-ranked Grizzlies knocked off St. Thomas More 38-13 in its final exhibition match in AAA action Friday.The undefeated Grizzlies (4-0) parlayed
  
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• Couple proceeds with wedding amid chaos in P.E.I. from post-tropical storm Fiona

  25-09-2022 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTETOWN — Naomi and Tyler Wheeler have lived through a pandemic, wildfires, heat waves, minor earthquakes and most recently a post-tropical storm that laid waste to huge swaths of Atlantic Canada.As the former hurricane Fiona pounded Prince Edward Island on Saturday, devastating much of the province, the couple pledged to weather storms — and any other apocalyptic events life sends their way — together.
  In front of just 16 guests, down from the 85 they’d hoped to en
  
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• South Korea says North Korea test-fired missile toward sea – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 17:20 via theprogress.com
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• Fiona sweeps away houses, knocks out power in eastern Canada – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 17:18 via theprogress.com
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of September 25, 2022

  25-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: PELLY, Robert
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 62
  Height: 5’8″ ft
  Weight: 168 lbs
  Hair: Black
  Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Robbery, break and enter
  Warrant in effect: September 13, 2022
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver, B.C.
  Name: HEATHEN, Ronald
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 38
  Height: 5’9″ ft
  Weight: 166 lbs
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Brown
  Wanted:
  
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• Chilliwack City Council approves development permit for new PedalSport bike shop west of Young Road

  25-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A proposal to build a modern, contemporary retail bike shop at 45960 Alexander Avenue passed with flying colours by Chilliwack City Council at its meeting earlier this week.
  Councillors approved a motion on Tuesday, Sept. 20 to issue a development permit, subject to the recommendations of the Design Review Advisory Committee and conditions as mandated in the draft development permit, towards construction of a new PedalSport bicycle shop not far from its current location.The of
  
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• CRIMESTOPPERS: 'Most wanted' for the week of Sept. 25 – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 14:50 via theprogress.com
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• ‘We saw what happened in Ontario’: Quebecers urged to vote in provincial election

  25-09-2022 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — An incumbent premier and his party sail through an election campaign as a fragmented opposition vies to capture the attention of voters in the absence of a central rallying issue or tide-turning missteps. 
  The scenario playing out in Quebec in the lead-up to next month’s provincial election may seem like déjà vu for residents of Ontario, where the Progressive Conservatives won a second majority in June.
  Doug Ford’s victory came as voter turnout in
  
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• Military sounding alarm over recruiting problems as Canadians steer clear

  25-09-2022 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is sounding the alarm over a severe shortage of recruits to fill thousands of vacant positions, with the shortfall so bad that senior officers are now calling it a crisis.
  On a cool Tuesday afternoon, Robert Romero walks out of the Canadian Armed Forces’ recruiting office in downtown Ottawa with an envelope full of papers in his hands.
  Originally from the Philippines, Romero does not have any direct experience with Canada’s military; his inter
  
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• Kipchoge clocks 2:01:09 for world record in Berlin Marathon

  25-09-2022 11:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BERLIN (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has bettered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon on Sunday.
  The Kenyan runner clocked 2 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds to shave 30 seconds off his previous best mark of 2:01:39 set on the same course in 2018.
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  More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsCiarán Fahey, The Associated Press
  
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• Officials across Eastern Canada set to begin assessing full scope of storm damage

  25-09-2022 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  As post-tropical storm Fiona continued to hammer parts of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec with powerful winds and significant storm surge early Sunday, officials across Eastern Canada prepared to begin assessing the full scope of the damage.
  As of 4 a.m. local time, nearly 275,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were still affected by outages, 82,415 Maritime Electric customers remained in the dark and more than 21,000 homes and businesses in New Brunswick were without power, with some
  
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• WHL roundup: Winnipeg better late than ever against Brandon

  25-09-2022 07:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BRANDON, Man. — Josh Medernach’s second goal of the game, scored at 18:26 of the third period, allowed the Winnipeg ICE to force overtime in Western Hockey League action on Saturday night at Westoba Place.
  And Zach Benson’s goal with 6.7 seconds left in overtime gave the ICE a hard-fought 4-3 victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings.
  Scoring for Brandon were Brett Hyland, Mason Ward and Nolan Ritchie. Hyland also chipped in with two assists. Evan Friesen had the other Winnipeg goal
  
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• Stampeders lean on defence to tame listless Lions 25-11

  25-09-2022 07:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Calgary Stampeders avoided a season sweep at the hands of the B.C. Lions with a defensively impressive 25-11 win at B.C. Place on Saturday.
  A spectacular 54-yard catch by rookie Jalen Philpot of Delta, B.C., set up the only major score of the first half, landing the Stampeders (9-5) on B.C.’s three-yard-line for a touchdown conversion by Ka’Deem Carey.
  Calgary failed on its two-point convert attempt. Peyton Logan added a 19-yard touchdown run with 1:57 left in t
  
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• Favourite Oh Well captures third running of Mohawk Million

  25-09-2022 07:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CAMPBELLVILLE, Ont. — Oh Well was the class of the Mohawk Million on Saturday night.
  American Tim Tetrick drove the 3/5 favourite to a solid two-and-a-half length victory at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Starting on the rail, Tetrick had Oh Well standing third halfway through the race before taking the lead from Oh Look Magic with a quarter-mile to go.
  And the outcome was never in doubt as Oh Well claimed the race for two-year-old trotters in a stakes record-tying 1:53.4. Silly Me Hanover, at 42/1
  
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• Italians vote in election that could take far-right to power

  25-09-2022 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ROME (AP) — Italians were voting on Sunday in an election that could move the country’s politics sharply toward the right during a critical time for Europe, with war in Ukraine fueling skyrocketing energy bills and testing the West’s resolve to stand united against Russian aggression.
  Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0500GMT). The counting of paper ballots was expected to begin shortly after they close at 11 p.m. (2100 GMT), with projections based on partial results coming early Monday
  
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• Mbongue goal lifts TFC II past the Philadelphia Union II in MLS Next Pro playoffs

  25-09-2022 05:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Hugo Mbongue’s sixth-minute goal helped Toronto FC II to a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Union II on Saturday, moving the TFC reserve side into the Eastern Conference final of the MLS Next Pro league.
  Mbongue, the younger brother of former Toronto FC midfielder Ralph Priso, deflected in a low Jordan Perruzza cross that a Philadelphia defender shied away from for fear of knocking the ball into his own goal at BMO Field. He left it and Mbongue did just that.
  TFC II will play
  
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• Argos clinch playoff berth by crushing Redblacks 45-15 in Ottawa

  25-09-2022 04:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw three touchdown passes and the Toronto defence intercepted Ottawa quarterbacks five times as the Argonauts clinched a playoff berth with a 45-15 win over the Redblacks Saturday.
  The Argos (8-5) scored 20 fourth-quarter points as Bethel-Thomson threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Markeith Ambles before the defence got two pick-six scores as Maurice Carnell (35 yards) and Chris Edwards (89 yards) intercepted Caleb Evans to complete the CFL rout. Boris Bede
  
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• Manoah, Merrifield lead Blue Jays to 3-1 win over Rays

  25-09-2022 04:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Alek Manoah pitched seven shutout innings, Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays regained the top AL wild-card spot with a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.
  The Blue Jays lead Tampa Bay by one game. The top wild card finisher will host all games in their best-of-three opening-round series, while the other two wild cards play strictly on the road.
  Manoah (15-7) scattered four hits, walked two and struck out eight whi
  
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• South Korea says North Korea test-fired missile toward sea

  25-09-2022 02:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Sunday toward its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weapons testing as a U.S. aircraft carrier visits South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North’s growing nuclear threat.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launched from the western inland town of Taechon flew cross-country before landing in waters off North Korea’s eastern coast. The South&rsqu
  
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• Fire breaks out at Mountainview Mobile Home Park in Sardis

  25-09-2022 01:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A fire broke out Saturday afternoon at a trailer home at the Mountainview Mobile Home Park in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Sardis.
  At least six fire engines and two B.C. Ambulance units responded to the report of a trailer on fire. RCMP units also attended to limit vehicular access in and out of the cul de sac except for emergency personnel.
  Firefighters quickly established a water supply and extinguished the fire. The trailer unit still appeared somewhat intact from t
  
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• VIDEO: Student creates song to honour veterans – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-09-2022 01:00 via theprogress.com
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• Palace reveals ledger stone at queen’s final resting place

  25-09-2022 00:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace released a photo Saturday giving the first public glimpse of the new ledger stone installed at the final resting place of Queen Elizabeth II.The image shows the hand-carved Belgian black marble slab with brass letter inlays set into the floor of King George VI Memorial Chapel, St. George’s Chapel, at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England.Surrounded by floral wreaths and bouquets, it is inscribed with her name and the years of her birth and death, alongsid
  
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• Huneault earns shutout as Canada kicks off IPC Cup with 3-0 victory over Czechia

  25-09-2022 00:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OSTRAVA, Czechia — Liam Hickey scored twice as Canada opened the International Para Hockey Cup with a 3-0 win over Czechia on Saturday.
  Mathieu Lelievre added an insurance goal and Dominic Cozzolino had two assists. Jean-Francois Huneault made 13 saves for the shutout.
  “Our focus thus far has been on playing solid defensive hockey and I thought we did that,” said Canadian head coach Russ Herrington. “It was great to see contributions from veterans and new guys alike.&ldqu
  
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