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• Take the bus for free on election day in Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 23:57 via theprogress.com
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• Actor, athlete Johnny Issaluk stripped of Order of Canada

  14-10-2022 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has stripped actor and athlete Johnny Issaluk of the Order of Canada.
  A regulatory notice being published Saturday says Issaluk’s appointment was terminated Aug. 31.
  An appointment to the Order of Canada may be terminated by the governor general on the recommendation of an advisory council.
  The notice does not include reasons for withdrawing Issaluk’s membership and Rideau Hall did not elaborate, but said the advisory council “concluded that
  
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• Quebec election: Judge rejects request by Conservatives for recount in Beauce-Nord

  14-10-2022 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT-JOSEPH-DE-BEAUCE, Que. — A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a request by the Conservative Party of Quebec to have a recount in a Quebec City-area riding it lost by a slim margin to the Coalition Avenir Québec on Oct. 3.
  With the ruling, Luc Provençal of the CAQ has officially won the Beauce-Nord seat, beating out Conservative candidate Olivier Dumais by 202 votes, winning a second mandate in the riding south of the provincial capital.
  The decision from Justice N
  
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• Toronto FC says goodbye to two goalkeepers and others as rebuild continues

  14-10-2022 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto FC started pruning its roster after a second straight disappointing season Friday, saying goodbye to goalkeepers Alex Bono and Quentin Westberg, defender Doneil Henry, midfielder Noble Okello and forward Ifunanyachi Achara.
  TFC also declined the contract option on veteran centre back Chris Mavinga but said it remains in talks about a potential new deal. The club also said it is in discussions with midfielder Jonathan Osorio, whose contract expires at the end of the year.
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• Maple Leafs, Senators looking to rekindle dormant Battle of Ontario: ‘It was awesome’

  14-10-2022 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — D.J. Smith was so far down the Maple Leafs depth chart in the early 2000s, he didn’t even travel during the playoffs.
  Then a minor-league defenceman in Toronto’s organization, the current head coach of the Ottawa Senators still has vivid memories of the Battle of Ontario’s heyday.
  “It was awesome,” Smith recalled. “It was unbelievable to watch how good the players were, how much the people were involved. We were at a restaurant in Toronto (to w
  
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• Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter’s review of Trump docs

  14-10-2022 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked afederal appeals court on Friday to overturn a judge’s appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
  The appeal is the latest salvo in weeks of litigation over the scope of duties of the arbiter, also known as a special master. He was assigned last month by a judge to inspect the thousands of records taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago a
  
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• Quebec appeals court overturns sex assault acquittal because ruling relied on ‘myths’

  14-10-2022 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial in a sexual assault case after concluding that the lower court judge based his ruling on “myths, prejudices or generalizations.”
  The recent high court decision involves the June 2021 acquittal of a brother charged with sexual assault and incest against his sister. At the time of the alleged incidents, between January 1996 and December 1997, the brother was 13 and the sister was 11. Neither can be named under provisio
  
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• Firefighters respond to wildfire in West Vancouver near Cypress Falls Park – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 23:00 via theprogress.com
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• CREA reports home sales in typically busy September continued to slow – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 23:00 via theprogress.com
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• Even without QB Collaros, Winnipeg Blue Bombers present challenge for B.C. Lions

  14-10-2022 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers may be swapping their lineup this week, but the B.C. Lions know they’re still in for a tough test against the CFL’s top team. 
  With first spot in the West locked up, the Bombers (14-2) are opting to rest several stars when they face the Lions in Vancouver (10-5) on Saturday. 
  For B.C. head coach Rick Campbell, it doesn’t really matter who’s on the other side of the field. 
  “You take a look at their roster, t
  
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• Ongoing damage to Gill Road gates costs City over $40,000 alone in 2022; Councillor Kloot says city leaders wants a regional park there

  14-10-2022 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Ongoing damage and vandalism to the newly installed roadblocks and barriers at the northern end of Gill Road have cost the City of Chilliwack over $25,000 this year alone.
  Back on July 28, the federal government erected roadblocks and a locked road gate preventing motorized access to portions of Gill Bar; the bar and its side channels have important ecological and fish habitat value to Chilliwack-area First Nations, and are an ongoing concern for conservation and stewardship g
  
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• Elmore looks to reclaim Canadian record at Toronto Marathon

  14-10-2022 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Malindi Elmore has had the Canadian marathon championships in Toronto on her bucket list since 2012, when she first “came up with this crazy idea of running marathons.”
  Elmore will make her TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon debut on Sunday, when the race returns for the first time since 2019, and the 42-year-old will be keen to reclaim the Canadian record she lost recently to Natasha Wodak.
  Wodak ran two hours 23 minutes and 12 seconds in Berlin last month, beating Elmo
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigate home invasion near 8700 block of Chilliwack Mountain Road

  14-10-2022 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP and its Emergency Response Team are investigating a targeted home invasion that happened Friday morning on the north side of town near the 8700 block of Chilliwack Mountain Road.Corporal Carmen Kiener, media spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP, said police responded to the incident at roughly 10:40 a.m. Friday. There are presently over 12 police vehicles at the scene, and RCMP are asking motorists to stay away from the area.Image: M. Vanden Bosch / PML
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• Absence of former CFL running back in person delays sentencing hearing for voyeurism

  14-10-2022 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The sentencing hearing for a former CFL running back who pleaded guilty to voyeurism after he filmed a consensual sexual encounter without the woman’s permission has been delayed because he failed to appear in person.
  Jerome Messam, 37, was expected to appear in Court of King’s Bench in Calgary, but his lawyer applied to have his client attend online.
  Court heard that Messam had purchased plane tickets and was planning to appear, but there was no explanation as to why
  
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• Quebec youth care agency not serious about fighting racism: Indigenous advocate

  14-10-2022 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — An advocate for Indigenous people says a Montreal-based child and family services agency isn’t serious about improving care for Indigenous youth.
  Nakuset, director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, says that while Batshaw Youth and Family Centres has received advice and recommendations from Indigenous communities and the province’s human rights commission, the agency isn’t implementing them. 
  Her comments are in reaction to an incident in Ap
  
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• Canadian pro fisher Cooper Gallant qualifies to compete on Elite Series in 2023

  14-10-2022 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  For the first time this year, Cooper Gallant will fish totally for fun.
  There’ll be no pressure on the 24-year-old Bowmanville, Ont., native at the season-ending Bassmaster Central Open event that begins Thursday on Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Jasper, Tex. That’s because Gallant has already achieved his long-standing goal of qualifying for the Elite Series, pro bass fishing’s top circuit.
  Gallant earned a ’23 berth after last weekend’s 14th-place finish in the last Sou
  
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• After worst-to-first season, Atletico Ottawa hopes to make mark in CPL playoffs

  14-10-2022 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Atletico Ottawa continues its worst-to-first season Saturday with its first visit to the Canadian Premier League playoffs, taking on defending champion Pacific FC on Vancouver Island in semifinal play.
  Last in the eight-team league at 6-14-8 in 2021, Ottawa topped the standings this year under new manager Carlos Gonzalez.
  “We are step-by-step making history here,” the Spaniard said Friday.
  Gonzalez’s message going into the playoffs is simple. Forget the regular season.
  “W
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP plans to ticket all motorists who bypass red-light stop signs on buses, provided there’s enough video evidence

  14-10-2022 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Gone are the days when motorists could wantonly ignore the red-light stop signs and illuminated arms that activate when school buses unload passengers, thereby endangering students in the process.Earlier this week, the Chilliwack School District revealed that it plans to gradually outfit all its buses with exterior cameras that can record motorists who fail to stop when red-light stop signs are activated by bus drivers. All new busses come with exterior cameras; 85 per cent of
  
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• Canada leading, not lagging, global green energy transition, but more to do: Freeland

  14-10-2022 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is leading, not lagging, the global shift towards green energy in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 
  Earlier this week, Freeland urged the world’s democracies to spend more “domestic political capital” to prepare for a new era of economic and energy uncertainty. 
  But she says that message was aimed more at other countries than her own, where critics have accused the federal Liberals o
  
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• BREAKING: Targeted home invasion results in heavy police presence at Chilliwack residence – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 20:50 via theprogress.com
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• Elks welcome Argonauts, still looking for first home victory of CFL season

  14-10-2022 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Sooner or later, the Edmonton Elks are going to win a home game. The Toronto Argonauts would rather it be later.
  The Elks (4-12) enter Saturday’s game with the East-leading Argos (9-6) on a CFL-record 15-game home losing streak. Visiting teams don’t want to be the squad that allows Edmonton to break its miserable run at Commonwealth Stadium.
  “It’s about not getting ahead of your toes,” said Argos quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, who threw for 352
  
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• No timeline for hiring Iran sanctions staff, federal minister says

  14-10-2022 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says that while legislation is coming within weeks to get tough on the Iranian regime, there is no timeline for hiring people to enforce fresh sanctions.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a week ago that Canada would ban thousands of Iranian officials from entering the country.
  Ottawa has also pledged $76 million to enforce new sanctions against Iranian officials.
  Mendicino said Thursday this would involve hiring 30 new people as either
  
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• Proposed daytime wellness shelter won’t be a permanent fixture in Chilliwack

  14-10-2022 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The proposed daytime wellness shelter that Chilliwack City Council voted to authorize at its last meeting on October 4 won’t be a permanent fixture in Chilliwack, no matter where it will be located.Chilliwack City Council voted unanimously on Oct. 4 to award a $480,500 contract to Pacific Community Resources Society for the establishment of a daytime wellness shelter.
  The contract was not on the council agenda and there was no PDF attachment on the electronic agenda. The
  
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• BC SPCA slashes fees as facilities bursting – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• Wynton Marsalis joins forces with Michigan Marching Band

  14-10-2022 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has done just about everything in the world of music.
  One thing he hasn’t, however, is team up his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a college marching band — until now.
  “I’ve never seen a jazz band like ours play with a marching band, where the actual music we’re playing is integrated into the music the band is playing,” Marsalis said during one of his many stops this week in Ann Arbor, where the Grammy and Pu
  
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• CF Montreal hopes late-season surge stretches into playoffs

  14-10-2022 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Riding a six-game unbeaten run and winners of eight of their last 10 matches, CF Montreal could not be in better form heading into its first Major League Soccer playoff game since 2016.
  The late-season run put a cap on a historic season for CF Montreal, which broke a dozen franchise records including most wins (20), points (65) and goals scored (63). Montreal’s 35 points away from home was also an MLS record in the non-shootout era.  
  “(This team) has built some
  
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• Smith's discrimination remark making Alberta an international embarrassment: NDP – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 19:50 via theprogress.com
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• Military eases vaccine mandate, presses ahead with discipline for unvaccinated troops – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 19:40 via theprogress.com
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• Netflix sets $7 monthly price for its ad-supported service – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Mendicino to visit James Smith Cree Nation after of stabbing massacre

  14-10-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DARTMOUTH, N.S. — The federal public safety minsiter says he is to travel to James Smith Cree Nation next week to advance the Liberal government’s plan to have First Nations policing recognized as an essential service. 
  Marco Mendicino says policing by Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous Peoples is a key part of reconciliation.
  He says he has been speaking with his provincial counterpart in Saskatchewan, Christine Tell, and Indigenous leaders about the issue. 
  The minister sa
  
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• Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at 72 – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Cranbrook doctor raising money for medical equipment on Ukrainian front lines – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 19:10 via theprogress.com
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• Brothers reverse plea to guilty in car-bomb murder trial

  14-10-2022 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — In a stunning reversal, two brothers who are on trial for the car-bomb murder of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist on Friday entered guilty pleas on the first day of trial.Only hours earlier at the start of the trial in a Valletta courthouse, George Degiorgio, 59, and Alfred Degiorgio, 57 had entered not-guilty pleas.They are charged with having set the bomb that blew up Daphne Caruana Galizia’s car as she drove near her home on Oct. 16, 2017.The trial judge
  
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• UFV Cascades men's soccer team leaps into playoff picture – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 18:49 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP to bring awareness to domestic violence in youth at free barbecue – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 18:41 via theprogress.com
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• Judge rules new DACA program can continue temporarily

  14-10-2022 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.
  U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen — who last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal — said that the policy, which is set to proceed under new regulations at the end of the month, can continue with limitations that he previo
  
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• Rainfall, drought and wildfires by the numbers in British Columbia – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 18:30 via theprogress.com
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• Abbotsford farmer says drought benefits some, extending harvest and reducing rot – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 18:30 via theprogress.com
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• Susan Auch out as chief executive officer of Speed Skating Canada

  14-10-2022 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Susan Auch is out as chief executive officer of Speed Skating Canada.
  A spokesman says the Speed Skating Canada board of directors decided that it “was in the best interest” of the federation that Auch no longer serve in the role.
  A reason for the departure was not provided.
  Auch, a three-time Olympic medallist in long-track speedskating, spent more than five years in the position.She had previously served as president and vice-president of Speed Skating Canada.
  Auch,
  
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• Air quality advisory issued for eastern Fraser Valley due to wildfires

  14-10-2022 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. should be well into its rainy season, but persistent hot and dry weather have created drought conditions. Nearly 1,700 wildfires are currently active throughout the province.
  
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• Air quality advisory expanded to Metro Vancouver, all of Fraser Valley

  14-10-2022 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. should be well into its rainy season, but persistent hot and dry weather have created drought conditions. Nearly 1,700 wildfires are currently active throughout the province.
  
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• Canadian women expect stiff challenge from Italy at Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

  14-10-2022 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Having opened the Rugby World Cup with a win despite losing a key player on the eve of the game, the Canadian women face a stiff challenge in Italy on Saturday in Auckland, New Zealand.
  Third-ranked Canada downed No. 13 Japan 41-5 in its opener last Saturday in Whangarei while No. 5 Italy beat the sixth-ranked U.S. 22-10. That left Canada and Italy both on five points, with the Canadians atop Pool B on points differential.
  The top two in each of the three pools and two best third-place finishers
  
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• Firefighters respond to wildfire in West Vancouver near Cypress Falls Park

  14-10-2022 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Firefighters in West Vancouver are responding to a what they describe as a wildfire at the top of the Caulfeild neighbourhood on the lower slopes of Cypress Falls Park.
  West Vancouver Fire Rescue duty chief Matt Furlot says crews responded at around 7 a.m.
  He said they were trying to pinpoint the exact location of the fire and the best way to access to the flames.
  The neighbourhood is a heavily wooded area with many homes and businesses.
  Smoke from the fire could be seen across
  
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• Quebec suspect in decades-old murder and sex assault may have other victims: police

  14-10-2022 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Quebec provincial police say they believe a man charged this week in the murder and sexual assault of a junior college student 22 years ago may have had other victims. 
  Marc-André Grenon, 47, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault of Guylaine Potvin, 19, in April 2000.
  He was also charged with attempted murder and sexual assault in a separate, violent sexual assault that took place in Quebec City in July 2000, in which the victim was left for dead
  
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• AT&T Illinois to pay $23M to settle federal probe

  14-10-2022 16:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHICAGO (AP) — AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal probe into its illegal efforts to influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, prosecutors announced Friday.
  The U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago said in a news release that under the agreement, the company admits that it arranged to make payments to an associate of Madigan, who was one of the state’s most powerful political figures at the time, in exchange for Madigan’
  
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• UK climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  14-10-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Drake’s owl logo on Barcelona jersey for clásico at Madrid

  14-10-2022 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s players will have the owl-shaped logo of Canadian rapper Drake on their jerseys at Real Madrid on Sunday in the first “clásico” of the season in the Spanish league.
  Barcelona said Friday that it will swap the logo of new sponsor Spotify for the Grammy-winning artist’s logo in the form of an owl silhouette.“Spotify has given this privileged space on the jersey as part of the framework of the partnership with the Club,
  
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• Canadian star Alphonso Davies back training with Bayern Munich after blow to head

  14-10-2022 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MUNICH — Canadian star Alphonso Davies, who had to be helped off the field last weekend after taking a boot to the head, was back training Friday with Bayern Munich.
  While Friday was officially a day off from training, Bayern said Davies, Matthijs de Ligt, Serge Gnabry — who all missed Bayern’s 4-2 Champions League win Wednesday at Czechia’s Viktoria Plzen — and goalkeeper Johannes Schenk trained with head coach Julian Nagelsmann, assistant coach Dino Toppmoller and
  
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• Just a Number: Group of Skydivers Over Age 80 Break Record

  14-10-2022 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!A group of eight skydivers lept into the Central Florida skies to prove age really is just a number by breaking a world record for the largest formation of jumpers over the age of 80!
  Blue skies were smiling at Jim Culhane, Cliff Davis, Scotty Gallan, Walt Green, Paul Hinen, SkyHuminsky, Woody McKay, and Ted Williams as they jumped out of a plane and into the record books during a 3-day event sponsored by the International Skydiving Hall of Fame Celebration
  
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• Putin: Call-up of Russian reservists to finish in 2 weeks

  14-10-2022 15:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he thinks a partial mobilization of army reservists he ordered last month to bolster his country’s troops in Ukraine will to be completed in two weeks.Putin told reporters after attending a summit in Kazakhstan on Friday that 222,000 of the 300,000 reservists the Russian Defense Ministry said would get called up have been mobilized. A total of 33,000 of them are already in military units and 16,000 are involved in the militar
  
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