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• Blue Jays left to reflect after Game 2 collapse ends brief playoff appearance

  09-10-2022 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — As far as gut-punch playoff losses go, this one hurt more than most for the Toronto Blue Jays. 
  With a seven-run lead and support from a boisterous sellout crowd, a Game 2 victory seemed like a virtual lock in their wild-card series against Seattle. 
  The Mariners had other plans. They completed an improbable comeback with a pair of four-run innings before taking the lead in the ninth for a stunning 10-9 win. 
  Instead of planning for a decisive Game 3 on Sunday at R
  
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• Quick start sends Montreal FC to 3-1 victory over Inter Miami

  09-10-2022 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Djordje Mihailovic and Lassi Lappalainen scored goals in the first eight minutes and CF Montreal breezed to a 3-1 victory over Inter Miami in a regular-season finale on Sunday.
  Montreal needed a win and a loss by the Philadelphia Union to claim the top spot in the Eastern Conference. The Union beat Toronto 4-0.
  Inter Miami, which had already clinched a spot in the playoffs, saw a four-match win streak at home end.
  Mihailovic scored in the fifth minute for Montr
  
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• Toronto FC’s disappointing MLS season ends in Philadelphia with a fifth straight loss

  09-10-2022 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHESTER, Pa. — Toronto FC’s MLS campaign ended in a dismal 4-0 loss to the Philadelphia Union on Sunday for a fifth straight defeat that signals more work is needed on a roster that was almost completely overhauled after last season.
  Daniel Gazdag scored a hat trick and Mikael Uhre added a single for Philadelphia (19-5-10), which secured first place in the Eastern Conference with the win. 
  With his first-half goal and assist, Gazdag becomes only the sixth player in league histor
  
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• Canada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earns world judo silver

  09-10-2022 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Canada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earned a silver medal in the world judo championship Sunday.
  The 28-year-old from Montreal, who was a bronze medallist in last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, lost to Japan’s Megumi Horikawa in the women’s 63-kilogram final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
  The result had Beauchemin-Pinard contemplating the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
  “When I won my bronze medal at the Olympics, I knew I wanted to keep compe
  
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• Maple Leafs sign forward Zach Aston-Reece to one-year contract

  09-10-2022 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Zach Aston-Reese to a one-year year contract worth $840,630.
  The 28-year-old from Staten Island, N.Y., had five goals and 10 assists in a combined 69 games with the Anaheim Ducks and Pittsburgh Penguins last season.
  Aston-Reese, six feet and 206 pounds, has 32 goals and 34 assists in 230 career NHL games, and a goal and three assists in 23 career playoff games.
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 9, 2022.The Canadian Press
  
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• Environment Canada warns of strong winds across Fraser Valley on Thanksgiving Monday

  09-10-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — There is another weather threat across British Columbia as the Thanksgiving weekend winds down.Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement because of concerns over high winds. The statement covers nearly the entire province.The national weather agency expects a cold front will sweep through the province Monday, producing the first wind event of the season for the South Coast. The strong winds could gust up to 60 km/h across the Fraser Valley, which may toss loose
  
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• Federal immigration committee to investigate allegations department misled a judge

  09-10-2022 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons committee on immigration has called an urgent meeting to study allegations that the department misled a federal judge during a trademark infringement case, which former immigration minister Marco Mendicino is categorically denying. 
  The allegations stem from the creation of a new college to regulate immigration consultants in 2020.
  An existing firm called the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council took the government to federal court over us
  
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• Stanback returns, Alouettes seek CFL playoff berth against Redblacks

  09-10-2022 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A win Monday would be worth its weight in gold for the Montreal Alouettes.
  A CFL team chasing a .500 record for most of the season, the Alouettes (7-7) can both clinch a playoff spot and a home post-season game with a Thanksgiving Day victory over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks (3-11).
  The Alouettes face a Redblacks team with an altered sideline. 
  Coach Paul LaPolice was fired following a 34-19 loss to the B.C. Lions on Sept. 30. Special teams co-ordinator Bob Dyce assumed t
  
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• Body of missing woman found during Nicola Valley search

  09-10-2022 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KAMLOOPS — A search for a missing 22-year-old woman in the Nicola Valley has ended tragically.
  In a post on Facebook, a friend of the family is reporting the discovery of Jacqueline McDermott’s body following search efforts Saturday (Oct. 8).
  The woman was the subject of a large search conducted by Search and Rescue teams, RCMP and members of the public.
  RCMP Sgt. Chris Manseau says while a police investigation is underway, investigators do not suspect any criminal intent.
  McDermott
  
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• Member of Parliamentary committee applauds Skinner’s resignation from Hockey Canada

  09-10-2022 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A member of Parliament says that more members of Hockey Canada’s leadership group should resign.
  Sébastien Lemire said Andrea Skinner made the right decision to resign as Hockey Canada’s interim board chair Saturday.
  Lemire, a Bloc-Québécois MP who sits on the standing committee on Canadian Heritage, tweeted in French on Sunday that “for the good of all” Hockey Canada must continue to clean house.
  Skinner and her predecessor Michael Brind’Amour
  
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• Canadian women look to extend winning streak against World Cup-bound Morocco

  09-10-2022 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Ignoring World Cup-bound Morocco’s modest world ranking of No. 76, Canada coach Bev Priestman expects her seventh-ranked squad to be tested by the Atlas Lionesses on Monday. 
  The African Cup of Nations runner-up has invested in its program and hired a top coach in former French international Reynald Pedros, who twice led Olympique Lyonnais Feminin to the UEFA Women’s Champions League title and was named Best FIFA Women’s Coach in 2018.
  “You invest and you put profess
  
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• 53 year-old-man arrested after man injured in shooting at Quebec resort

  09-10-2022 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say they have arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with a shooting at an upscale resort in the Laurentians region.
  Police say the man is scheduled to appear in court by videoconference over the long weekend. 
  A 44-year-old man was seriously injured in the shooting Friday in Estérel, Que., a municipality about 100 kilometres north of Montreal.
  Estérel Mayor Frank Pappas told reporters Friday that the shooting was a targeted attack,
  
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• Quebec police watchdog investigating death of man who fled police hours after stop

  09-10-2022 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s police watchdog says it has opened an investigation after a man died several hours after being stopped by police for impaired driving.
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes said in a release that the 25-year-old man was stopped by provincial police Sunday shortly after midnight .
  The agency says he was taken to a police station, where a breath test showed he was over the legal limit, and then taken home by police. 
  According to the BEI, police sa
  
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• ‘Amsterdam’ and ‘Lyle Lyle’ struggle, letting ‘Smile’ repeat

  09-10-2022 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — David O. Russell’s star-studded 1930s mystery “Amsterdam” flopped and the children’s book adaptation “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” debuted softly, allowing the horror thriller “Smile” to repeat atop the box office in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.Neither new release caught fire with moviegoers but the disappointment was most acute for “Amsterdam,” a poorly reviewed $80 million screwball r
  
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• ‘It’s time’: Maple Leafs know they’re running out of chances for playoff breakthrough

  09-10-2022 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Kyle Dubas didn’t just double down.
  The Toronto Maple Leafs general manager pushed his chips all-in – a decision that could go a long way in defining his tenure in the pressure-packed role he’s occupied since the spring of 2018.
  Dubas once again resisted any potential off-season urge to blow up the core of his highly skilled yet playoff-success-starved roster following another first-round exit last May.
  Toronto, in truth, showed better than in past post-season f
  
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• Canada star Alphonso Davies diagnosed with cranial bruise, no word on return to play

  09-10-2022 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MUNICH — Canadian star Alphonso Davies suffered a “cranial bruise” in taking a boot to the face in Bayern Munich’s 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
  Bayern Munich said the 21-year-old from Edmonton was “feeling good in the circumstances” but sat out training Sunday. There was no mention of a timeline for his return.
  Davies, meanwhile, put out a brief video on Instagram.“I just want to say thank you everyone for the nice messages and I’m lo
  
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• Projection: Austria’s president to win 2nd term, no runoff

  09-10-2022 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VIENNA (AP) — A projection indicates that Austria’s liberal president is on course to win a second six-year term without the need for a runoff vote.
  The projection for ORF public television shortly after the last polling stations closed in Sunday’s election showed President Alexander Van der Bellen winning 54.6% of the vote. It gave a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
  His closest rival, the far-right Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz, was expected
  
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• Roadwork unearths remnants of 1800s Montreal zoo run by the ‘Canadian Barnum’

  09-10-2022 13:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Long before the Plateau-Mont-Royal became one of Montreal’s trendiest neighbourhoods, the area was home to a 19th-century botanical garden and zoo where Montrealers marvelled at the sight of hippopotamuses, acrobatic circus acts and a live whale in a tank.
  This piece of history has resurfaced in recent weeks thanks to an archeological dig that unearthed what is believed to be part of a fountain marking the former site’s entrance.
  Jonathan Choronzey, an archeologist w
  
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• On U.S. campaign trail and beyond, Trump’s familiar silhouette proving inescapable

  09-10-2022 13:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — He’s the Kevin Bacon of modern American politics, a familiar shadow that seems to loom over or lurk behind virtually every major storyline playing out on the U.S. campaign trail and beyond.
  But forget six degrees of separation — with Donald Trump, it’s often only a couple. 
  Abortion controversy in Georgia? Trump and Herschel Walker are longtime friends. Kooky Republican hopefuls in key swing states? Chances are, they were backed by Trump. Fears of politi
  
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• Youthful Canadiens head into season with plenty of building, learning to do

  09-10-2022 12:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — After a 3-0 pre-season loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sept. 28, Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis summed up what may be the team’s mantra going forward. 
  “If you expect immediate understanding and execution, you don’t understand what teaching is,” he said. 
  The Canadiens, which will count on several young players in their first full season under St. Louis, will be a work in progress as the team builds toward the future.
  After fi
  
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• Potent Edmonton Oilers ready to contend for Stanley Cup

  09-10-2022 12:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Oilers have finished an eight-game pre-season schedule — and the veterans can’t wait for the real games to start.
  “It’s nice to have one or two games, but I think you want to get ready to go and play when it counts,” said winger Evander Kane. “I think we should chop it to four (games), I think that makes the most sense, for players, anyways. There are bigger camps, more guys playing, and more players getting experience. But, as a veteran g
  
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• Climate Changed: Communities on edge of catastrophe face choice of fight or flight

  09-10-2022 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The idea of relocating his community isn’t one that Arnie Lampreau of the Shackan Indian Band in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley thought he’d be considering when he was elected chief early last year.
  After wildfires torched the forests surrounding the band’s reserves and flooding swept away homes and the only highway access just months later, however, he said he now wants to see members living in a safer place. 
  Lampreau was among the evacuees of b
  
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• Climate Changed: Catastrophe experts say retreat from flood risk is ‘critical option’

  09-10-2022 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — All climate disasters are not created equal and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction recommends retreat in the face of only one type of threat.
  “In our opinion, retreat is not an option that is important for most climate hazards in Canada. The hazard where retreat is really important and quite viable and a critical option involves flooding,” executive director Paul Kovacs said.
  There are relatively affordable ways individual property owners can protect them
  
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• Competition Bureau probe of ‘flushable’ wipes goes down the drain

  09-10-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — To flush or not to flush?
  It is a question Canada’s Competition Bureau says it cannot answer.
  Three years ago, Friends of the Earth Canada and lawyers from Ecojustice filed a grievance with the bureau saying the makers of 20 disposable wipes were falsely advertising the products as safe to flush down the toilet.
  In February, the Competition Bureau informed Friends in a letter that it was closing its inquiry because it’s not clear what it really means to be “flush
  
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• Chilliwack Votes 2022: The Progress Q&A with city council candidates – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  09-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack Votes 2022: The Progress Q&A with city council candidates - Chilliwack Progress

  09-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Official: Strikes on Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia kill 17

  09-10-2022 08:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia overnight struck apartment buildings and killed at least 17 people, a top official in the Ukrainian city said Sunday.
  City council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said the city was struck by rockets overnight, and that at least five private houses were destroyed and around 40 were damaged. The Ukrainian military also confirmed the attack, saying that there were dozens of casualties.The strike came after an explosion Saturday caused the partia
  
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• Philippine ex-senator briefly held hostage in jail rampage

  09-10-2022 06:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police killed three detained Muslim militants linked to the Islamic State group after they staged a jail rampage Sunday that saw a police officer stabbed and a former opposition senator briefly held hostage in a failed escape attempt from the maximum-security facility in the police headquarters in the capital, police said.
  National police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. said former Sen. Leila de Lima was unhurt and taken to a hospital for a checkup follo
  
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• Canadian women post comfortable 41-5 win over Japan to open Rugby World Cup campaign

  09-10-2022 06:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WHANGAREI, New Zealand — Canada ran in seven tries to open its Rugby World Cup campaign with a comfortable 41-5 win over Japan on Saturday.
  The Canadian women reeled off 36 straight points to snap an early 5-5 tie at Northland Events Centre.
  The bigger Canadian forwards had the advantage in the scrum and lineout, used the driving maul to gain metres at will and pressured the Japanese at the breakdown. The Canadian backs, meanwhile, kicked effectively for territory.
  But coach Kevin Rouet wi
  
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• Cantlay misses out on 59 and shares Vegas lead with Tom Kim

  09-10-2022 04:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Patrick Cantlay came within one putt of a 59 on Saturday, instead matching his low score on the PGA Tour for a share of the lead with 20-year-old Tom Kim going into the final round of the Shriners Children’s Open.
  If the third round was any indication, anything goes on the TPC Summerlin high above the Las Vegas Strip.
  Cantlay had five birdies in his opening six holes, and then poured it on again down the stretch with five birdies in a six-hole stretch that put him on
  
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• Blue Bombers wrap up first by blitzing Elks 48-11

  09-10-2022 04:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Rookie receiver Dalton Schoen caught three touchdown passes and running back Brady Oliveira scored twice as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers clinched first place in the CFL West Division for the second straight season with a dominating 48-11 victory over the Edmonton Elks on Saturday.
  The two-time defending Grey Cup champions improved their record to 14-2 in front of 27,159 fans at IG Field and earned a bye before hosting the West Final on Nov. 13.
  The loss officially eliminated the El
  
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• Senators beat familiar Canadiens 3-2 in overtime

  09-10-2022 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BOUCTOUCHE, N.B. — It seemed fitting, if not cruel, that the Montreal Canadiens would lose their final game of the NHL pre-season to the Ottawa Senators.
  The Canadiens, who lost 3-2 to the Senators in overtime on Saturday, went 0-8 in the pre-season with four of the losses against the Senators, all by one goal.
  Drake Batherson scored at 2:45 of overtime to give the Senators their third win over the Canadiens in the past five days.
  Derick Brassard and Scott Sabourin also scored for Ottawa,
  
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• Maple Leafs sting Red Wings 5-1 in pre-season finale

  09-10-2022 03:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — William Nylander and Auston Matthews scored twice to help the Toronto Maple Leafs clobber the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 in their pre-season finale on Saturday.
  Matthews converted passing plays from Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly for two power-play goals in the third period for the Maple Leafs (5-2-0).
  It was Matthews’ only two goals in three pre-season games. Marner had three power-play assists in the third period.
  Nylander tied the game in the first period after Pius Suter gav
  
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• Canadians Russell-Rowe, Telfer help Crew 2 win the inaugural MLS Next Pro Cup

  09-10-2022 03:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS — Goals by Canadians Jacen Russell-Rowe and Ryan Telfer helped Columbus Crew 2 win the inaugural MLS Next Pro Cup with a 4-1 win over St. Louis City 2 on Saturday.
  The game at Lower.com Field served as a wrap for the first season of MLS Next Pro, which features 21 teams — 20 MLS reserve sides and the independent Rochester New York FC. Seven more MLS clubs plan to field teams in MLS Next Pro next year.
  It was a matchup of conference leaders with Columbus (16-3-5, points) topp
  
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• Andrea Skinner resigns as Hockey Canada’s interim chair

  09-10-2022 03:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hockey Canada has confirmed that Andrea Skinner, interim chair of the organization’s board of directors, has submitted her resignation. 
  Skinner assumed the role in August after the resignation of former chair Michael Brind’Amour.
  Skinner joined the Hockey Canada Board of Directors in November 2020 as a volunteer.
  Hockey Canada has been under intense scrutiny since May, after it was revealed that an undisclosed settlement had been paid to a woman who alleged she was sexually ass
  
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• George Springer carted off field in Blue Jays wild card game against Mariners

  09-10-2022 01:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Blue Jays outfielder George Springer was carted off the field in the eighth inning of Toronto’s wild-card playoff game against the Seattle Mariners.
  Springer was injured when tracking doing a potential fly ball from Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford.
  The Blue Jays outfielder raced forward from centre field to try and make a catch on the play as Toronto shortstop Bo Bichette ran toward him.
  As Springer dove forward it appeared he clipped Bichette and then hit his head hard on
  
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• Bethel-Thompson’s late touchdown pass earns Argos home win over Lions

  09-10-2022 01:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Tommy Nield rallied the Toronto Argonauts to a wild 23-20 home win over the B.C. Lions on Saturday.
  Bethel-Thompson hit Nield on a 37-yard scoring strike at 12:10 to put Toronto ahead 23-20. B.C.’s Sean Whyte appeared poised to tie the CFL contest but his 41-yard field goal attempt with 1:30 remaining hit the left upright.
  B.C. quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. began the fourth-quarter fireworks with a 31-yard touch
  
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• Injuries hit Toronto FC hard ahead of MLS regular-season finale in Philadelphia

  09-10-2022 00:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto FC will be without at least four starters, including Italians Lorenzo Insigne and Domenico Criscito, for Sunday’s MLS regular-season finale at the Philadelphia Union.
  Insigne and Criscito are both out with lower body injuries, according to the team’s injury report released Saturday. Midfielder Jonathan Osorio (neurological dysfunction) and suspended fullback Richie Laryea are also unavailable.
  Italian winger Federico Bernardeschi (lower body) is listed as questionable. Midfie
  
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• Hockey N.L. withholding player fees from Hockey Canada amid sexual assault claims

  09-10-2022 00:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The governing organization for amateur hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador has become the latest provincial body to declare it will withhold player fees from Hockey Canada.
  Hockey N.L. said in a statement posted Friday to its website it will not be submitting its $3-per-player participant fee to Hockey Canada while the national governing body is under independent review.
  Hockey Canada has been under intense scrutiny since May, when it was revealed that an undisclos
  
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