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• Chilliwack psychiatric nurse suspended after violating professional boundaries – Saanich News - Saanich News

  26-09-2022 23:40 via saanichnews.com
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• Chilliwack psychiatric nurse suspended after violating professional boundaries - Maple Ridge News

  26-09-2022 23:40 via mapleridgenews.com
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• Former top civil servant, medical association president appointed as senators

  26-09-2022 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Ian Shugart, a longtime bureaucrat and the country’s top civil servant during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been tapped for a seat in the Senate.
  Dr. Gigi Osler, a Winnipeg surgeon, University of Manitoba professor and president of the Federation of Medical Women in Canada, is also set to become a senator.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the picks today after the two were recommended to him by the independent advisory board for appointments to the uppe
  
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• In Port aux Basques, N.L., residents reeling after Fiona destroys dozens of homes

  26-09-2022 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. — Jocelyn Gillam knows she’s lucky to be alive after coming face-to-face with the post-tropical storm that destroyed part of her southwestern Newfoundland town and nearly swept her away in a surge of rushing water.
  Gillam was standing near her home in Port aux Basques on Saturday morning when a storm surge hit, sweeping her off her feet and dragging her underneath a Jeep as she clung to the undercarriage for dear life.
  The 61-year-old said she’d b
  
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• Canadian Armed Forces spearheads Ottawa’s post-Fiona response to Atlantic Canada

  26-09-2022 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian military is spearheading federal efforts to support post-Fiona recovery efforts across Atlantic Canada. 
  Here is a look at what Ottawa is doing to help those affected by the hurricane.
  Canadian Armed Forces
  The Canadian military is deploying troops and equipment to the region after the federal government approved requests for assistance from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador over the weekend.
  Approximately 50 Armed Forces members are
  
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• Sense of continuity at Raptors media day after a couple seasons rocked by pandemic

  26-09-2022 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — At this time last year, Nick Nurse had no idea what kind of team he had or how the season might play out, and the Toronto Raptors coach admitted as much.
  Gone was longtime leader Kyle Lowry, rookie Scottie Barnes’ was still unproven, and the team had no true centre.
  Fast forward a year, and continuity was a theme of Monday’s traditional Raptors’ media day.
  “I was sitting up here a year ago and we didn’t have any idea who we were, identity-wise &helli
  
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• Canadian Food Inspection Agency raises alarm as spotted lanternfly pest nears border

  26-09-2022 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is asking Canadians to keep an eye out for an invasive bug that could spell disaster for the country’s wineries and fruit growers.
  The spotted lanternfly is a pest native to China that has been making inroads in the United States since 2014.
  Thus far, the small grey-and-red insect with spotted wings has not been found alive in Canada.
  But in early September, hundreds of adults were found in a residential area in Buffalo, N.Y., just 45 km a
  
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• Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers look to clinch home playoff games

  26-09-2022 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts can both secure home CFL playoff games this weekend.
  Winnipeg (12-2) can clinch a playoff contest at IG Field with a home win Friday night over the Saskatchewan Roughriders (6-8). The Bombers would also earn a home post-season game if the Calgary Stampeders (9-5) lose at McMahon Stadium on Saturday to Toronto (8-5).
  Toronto can secure a home playoff game with a road win in Calgary or loss by the Ottawa Redblacks (3-10) in Vancouver
  
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• Roughriders suspend QB Jake Dolegala for one game following impaired driving charge

  26-09-2022 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders suspended American quarterback Jake Dolegala for one game Monday after he was arrested and charged with impaired driving.
  The Riders said in a statement Dolegala informed the club Sunday that “he was arrested in Regina over the bye week and charged with impaired driving.
  “Drinking and driving is a significant problem in our province, one that can have dangerous consequences, and we are disappointed in Jake for his actions.We are taking this
  
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• Milano, Demers, DeKeyser, Virtanen among players on PTOs trying to crack NHL rosters

  26-09-2022 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Sonny Milano had a long summer — and not just because his team missed the NHL playoffs.
  Despite putting up 14 goals and 34 points in 66 games with the Anaheim Ducks in 2021-22, the winger was surprisingly cut loose and hit the open market after not receiving a qualifying offer.
  All the 26-year-old could do was wait for another organization to show interest and sign him in unrestricted free agency. 
  The problem? A new deal never materialized. 
  “I was hoping for a contract,&r
  
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• MPs to study Access to Information system, federal ‘culture of secrecy’

  26-09-2022 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons information, ethics and privacy committee plans to look at Canada’s much-maligned access-to-information regime — the latest in a long line of studies of a system intended to make government more transparent.
  Conservative MP Pat Kelly, the committee chairman, says the system is plagued by excessive delays and a culture of secrecy that has been “baking in for decades.”
  The Access to Information Act allows people who pay $5 to ask for a ra
  
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• Putin's call-up fuels Russian anger, instability, violence – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• Harrowing film tells of Las Vegas shooting and its aftermath – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• 1 shot, officer injured in Chicago police facility incident

  26-09-2022 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHICAGO (AP) — One person was shot and a Chicago police officer was wounded Monday during an incident inside a police facility on the city’s West Side, officials said.
  Shots were fired shortly before noon at the building in Homan Square, police spokesman Tom Ahern told WGN-TV.
  The officer was taken to Sinai Hospital in stable condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. He was not shot.
  The other person was taken to another hospital in critical condition with at least one gun
  
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• Vancouver Canucks’ Brock Boeser to miss 3-4 weeks following hand surgery

  26-09-2022 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks will start the season without Brock Boeser after the right-winger underwent hand surgery. 
  The team announced the news Monday, saying the 25-year-old forward injured himself at training camp in Whistler, B.C., on Saturday and will be out for three to four weeks. 
  Boeser had 23 goals and 23 assists for Vancouver last season while dealing with the declining health of his father, Duke, who died at the end of May following an extended battle with can
  
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• ‘We were literally riding over hundreds of dollars’ Chilliwack RCMP help return lost money

  26-09-2022 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Cops for Cancer Tour de Valley ride came to a heartwarming close in Chilliwack on Friday.
  After peddling through the streets of Chilliwack to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society and paediatric cancer research, cops who participated in the ride found themselves coming across multiple $100 bills on the ground.
  Initially, the cops thought they were being pranked, said Sgt. Krista Vrolyk of the Chilliwack RCMP.
  “Our tour officials always stress the importance of
  
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• Young Indigenous leaders speak on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Senate

  26-09-2022 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Dr. Meghan Beals says she wants Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to resemble Remembrance Day.
  The Prince Edward Island physician is one of five young Indigenous leaders who are in Ottawa to speak to a Senate committee ahead of the federal statutory holiday this Friday.
  Beals told senators that the day should include a moment of silence to remember the past and feature events in communities across the country to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributi
  
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• Wildfire smoke wafting back into the 'Wack and Fraser Valley – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 20:11 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack Chiefs top Langley in BCHL season opener – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 20:00 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack Chiefs top Langley in BCHL season opener – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  26-09-2022 20:00 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• Former Calgary Dino Deane Leonard now a rookie with NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers

  26-09-2022 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian Deane Leonard has certainly taken the path less travelled to the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers.
  The 22-year-old cornerback is in his rookie season with the Chargers (1-2). SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., is a long way from McMahon Stadium, the home venue for the Calgary Dinos, the team Leonard helped capture the ’19 Vanier Cup before transferring to Ole Miss the following year.
  “It’s still, ‘Wow,'” Leonard said in a recent telephone interview of his N
  
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• Poilievre denounces Diagolon ‘losers’ over threat of sexual assault against his wife

  26-09-2022 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he has asked the RCMP to look into “disgusting” comments made by the founder of a far-right group about sexually assaulting his wife. 
  Jeremy MacKenzie was referring to Anaida Poilievre on an online video stream over the weekend when he suggested she be sexually assaulted.
  MacKenzie, 36, is the high-profile founder of the online group “Diagolon,” which shares members and affiliation with the “Freedom Conv
  
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• British pound drops to an all-new low – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Lou Marsh Trophy, given annually to Canada’s top athlete, to be renamed

  26-09-2022 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The trophy awarded to Canada’s athlete of the year is getting a new name. 
  The Lou Marsh Trophy has been handed to the country’s top athlete, male or female, annually since 1936, with Nancy Greene, Wayne Gretzky, Bianca Andreescu and Alphonso Davies among the recipients. 
  Decathlete Damian Warner won the 2021 award after capturing gold at the Tokyo Olympics. 
  The award was named after Lou Marsh, a former football player and NHL referee who spent more th
  
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• Family wisdom and hard work carried Ottawa Senators rookie Mark Kastelic to the NHL

  26-09-2022 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The best piece of advice Mark Kastelic received from his grandfather was being told it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.
  Wise words from a wise man who had plenty of hockey knowledge to share with his grandson.
  Pat Stapleton had an impressive NHL career playing 635 games with the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins. The mobile defenceman was also a member of Canada’s Summit Series team in 1972.
  Unfortunately, Stapleton, who died in 2020, missed the c
  
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• Neighbours Smash Front Windows To Save Chilliwack Man From Fire - Abbotsford News

  26-09-2022 18:20 via abbynews.com
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• Metro Vancouver gas prices hit record high $2.339 per litre – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 17:49 via theprogress.com
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• Suspect to face murder, arson charges following triple homicide near Montreal

  26-09-2022 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Police say a man detained at the scene of a Montreal-area triple homicide will appear in court today to face murder and arson charges.
  A 38-year-old woman and her children, aged five and two, were declared dead in hospital on Sunday after being found inside a burning apartment in Brossard, Que., on Montreal’s South Shore.
  The suspect was taken into custody and was originally described by local police as an important witness.
  The names of the victims are under a publication
  
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• Trans-Canada multi-day closures return east of Golden today – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 17:13 via theprogress.com
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• Joly to raise abortion, sexual violence in closing UN speech – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Italy shifts to the right as voters reward Meloni's party – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Feds lift border vaccine requirements, mandatory masks on planes and trains – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Kentucky man who shot classmates in ’97 imprisoned for life

  26-09-2022 15:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A Kentucky man who killed three fellow students and wounded five others when he was 14 years old will have to spend the rest of his life in prison without another opportunity to seek parole, the Kentucky Parole Board voted Monday.
  Michael Carneal, now 39, told parole board members last week that he would live with his parents and continue his mental health treatment if they agreed to release him. He admitted that he still hears voices like the ones that told him to steal a neighbor’s pisto
  
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• Australia hands Canada its first loss at FIBA World Cup

  26-09-2022 15:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SYDNEY, Australia — Host Australia handed Canada’s women’s basketball team its first lost at the FIBA World Cup on Monday.
  Ezi Magbegor scored 16 points as the Aussies topped Canada 75-72
  Nirra Fields scored a game-high 17 points for Canada, while Bridget Carleton scored 16 and Kia Nurse chipped in with 11.
  Kayla Alexander had four points and 11 rebounds for Canada, who led 57-51 after three quarters.
  Nurse drained a three-pointer that gave Canada a 63-60 lead just over three m
  
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• This business helps people find their missing pets—sometimes with the help of bloodhounds

  26-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Al Maclellan is the owner/operator of Pet Searchers Canada—a unique business that helps people find their lost pets, sometimes with the help of his three bloodhounds. His son, Parker, and Arianna also assists with the business.
  “We get hired to look for lost dogs, lost cats, and lost animals,” Maclellan said. “We used to look for lost people, but we don’t do that anymore.”
  The Surrey-based business was founded 15 years ago after Maclellan lost h
  
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• This business helps people find their missing pets-sometimes with the help of bloodhounds

  26-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Al Maclellan is the owner/operator of Pet Searchers Canada—a unique business that helps people find their lost pets, sometimes with the help of his three bloodhounds. His son, Parker, and Arianna also assists with the business.
  “We get hired to look for lost dogs, lost cats, and lost animals,” Maclellan said. “We used to look for lost people, but we don’t do that anymore.”
  The Surrey-based business was founded 15 years ago after Maclellan lost h
  
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• New Chilliwack seniors' building offers a new kind of retirement living — it's not what you might think – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 15:00 via theprogress.com
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• Fun + fabulous: Fashionista Fashion Show returns to the runway Nov. 16 – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 15:00 via theprogress.com
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• 13 dead, 23 wounded in school shooting in Russia

  26-09-2022 14:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 13 people and wounding 23 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said.The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same school, and said he was wearing a black t-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols.” No d
  
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• Winless weekend for UFV soccer teams – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 14:15 via theprogress.com
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• Egyptian cleric revered by Muslim Brotherhood dies at 96

  26-09-2022 13:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric who was seen as the spiritual leader of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, died Monday at the age of 96, according to his official website.He died in the Gulf Arab nation of Qatar, where he had been living in exile following the military’s overthrow of a Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt in 2013. Al-Qaradawi had been tried and sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt.
  For many years while living in exile, he had popular
  
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• Rihanna set to headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-09-2022 10:30 via theprogress.com
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• COVID travel restrictions announcement, Fiona’s aftermath : In The News for Sept. 26

  26-09-2022 10:16 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 Sept. 26 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  The federal government is expected to officially announce the end of COVID-19 border restrictions today, including mandatory vaccinations, testing and quarantine of international travellers.
  Two senior government sources aware of the decision confirmed the cabinet order maintaining
  
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• Quebec votes: CAQ, PQ leaders head to Fiona-battered Îles-de-la-Madeleine

  26-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Two of Quebec’s main party leaders are heading to the Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, which is in cleanup mode after a battering from post-tropical storm Fiona.
  Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announced Sunday that he’d visit the eastern Quebec island chain to see if there was anything his party could do to help.
  He told reporters that recovery efforts seemed well underway, but Quebecers hit by natural disasters in the past haven’t gotten the su
  
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• Military en route to assist with recovery efforts

  26-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Residents of Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec are coming to terms with the full scope of the damage left behind after post-tropical storm Fiona tore through the region over the weekend as one of the strongest storms Canada’s East Coast has ever faced.
  Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are being deployed to help with recovery efforts, with federal Defence Minister Anita Anand saying Sunday that about 100 troops a piece were either in place or en route to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and P
  
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• Joly to raise abortion, sexual violence in closing UN speech

  26-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is urging countries to uphold women’s rights and abortion access while rooting out sexual violence, as the United Nations General Assembly comes to a close.
  In a speech today in New York, Joly will summarize Canada’s priorities and concerns in foreign relations.
  That includes being part of “a global coalition in support of equality” that will “defend against the growing attacks on women’s rights and f
  
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• Feds to lift border vaccine mandates, mandatory use of ArriveCan

  26-09-2022 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is expected to officially announce the end of COVID-19 border restrictions today, including mandatory vaccinations, testing and quarantine of international travellers.
  Two senior government sources aware of the decision confirmed the cabinet order maintaining COVID-19 border measures will not be renewed when it expires on Sept. 30.
  The sources spoke to The Canadian Press last week on the condition they not be named because they were not authorized to speak p
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs top Langley in BCHL season opener – Hope Standard - Hope Standard

  26-09-2022 09:00 via hopestandard.com
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• Cardinal Zen, 5 others stand trial in Hong Kong over fund

  26-09-2022 06:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HONG KONG (AP) — A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five others stood trial in Hong Kong on Monday for allegedly failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to assist people arrested in the mass anti-government protests in the city three years ago.
  Cardinal Joseph Zen, who is a retired bishop of Hong Kong, was first arrested in May together with others including singer Denise Ho and barrister Margaret Ng on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national se
  
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• Huberdeau flexes offensive muscle in Flames 4-0 pre-season win over Canucks

  26-09-2022 04:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Jonathan Huberdeau scored in his Flames debut as Calgary scored three times in the second period in a 4-0 NHL pre-season victory over the Vancouver Canucks split-squad.
  Cody Eakin, Blake Coleman and journeyman forward Brett Sutter, Darryl Sutter’s son, also scored for Calgary. The Flames iced a far more experienced lineup than Vancouver, who kept all of its top players back home for the other half of two split-squad games. The Flames also prevailed in Vancouver, winning 3-2
  
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