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• Injury woes grow for Canadian women at Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

  20-10-2022 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada scrum half Brianna Miller has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rugby World Cup after sustaining “significant internal injuries” against Italy.
  Miller came off in the 64th minute last Saturday in what appeared to be a routine substitution in the game at Waitakere Stadium in Auckland. But Rugby Canada said Miller was taken to hospital after “developing symptoms” following the game.
  Internal damage was revealed, ruling Miller out of the rest of the tournament. T
  
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• Interfor announces 17% lumber production cut in fourth quarter

  20-10-2022 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY, B.C. — Interfor says it will reduce lumber production in the fourth quarter of 2022 due to reduced demand.
  The forest products company says it’s reducing output by 17 per cent of its quarterly capacity, or about 200 million board feet. 
  It says economic conditions and market uncertainty are leading to reduced demand for lumber.
  The temporary output cut will be spread across the company’s operating regions and timed around U.S. Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday pe
  
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• City of Chilliwack has paved 25 roads in 2022, eyes five more before year’s end

  20-10-2022 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack said in a Facebook post Thursday (October 21) that it has substantially completed paving on up to 25 roads.But they’re still not done for the year.
  Weather-permitting, the city still hopes to tackle Uplands Road west of Promontory Road. It also plans to pave the interior roadways of the Bailey Landfill, Elm DriveTo date in 2022, the city says it has substantially completed the following roads, some of which are in Greendale, Rosedale, Yarrow, downt
  
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• N.W.T., Ottawa to spend $4.6 million to enhance wages for early childhood educators

  20-10-2022 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories and federal governments have announced $4.6 million in funding between 2022 and 2024 to enhance wages for early childhood educators in the territory.
  Licensed early learning and child-care programs will receive more than $12,700 per full-time equivalent in the first year and $16,250 in the second.
  The territory says the recruitment and retention incentive is available to about 300 educators.The N.W.T. government signed a $51-million, five-year child-
  
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• Appeals court: Sen. Graham must testify in Georgia probe

  20-10-2022 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia, a federal appeals court said Thursday.The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paves the way for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to bring Graham in for questioning as she tries to wrap up the investigation. She has said she hopes to be abl
  
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• Padres turn to October ace Musgrove vs. Phillies in Game 3

  20-10-2022 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There was at least one fuddy-duddy in San Diego who did not see the humor in a mural painted this week of the famous San Diego Chicken using his super-sized yellow foot to stomp on the side of the head of the Phillie Phanatic.
  Did someone cry fowl because of the mascot-on-mascot crime?
  Or was it just superstition that made the makeover necessary because of a belief it’s best not to put the cart before the chicken?
  Whatever the reason, the mural outside Tivoli Bar
  
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• EPA starts civil rights probe into Mississippi water woes

  20-10-2022 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.
  The announcement came days after leaders of two congressional committees said they were starting a joint investigation into a crisis that left most homes and businesses in Jackson without running water for several days in late
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs get win over Wenatchee at BCHL Showcase – Hope Standard - Hope Standard

  20-10-2022 23:20 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Chiefs get win over Wenatchee at BCHL Showcase – Hope Standard  Hope Standard
  
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• Abbotsford Police asking for public’s help in locating missing 20-year-old man, Andrew Fontaine

  20-10-2022 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police are asking for the public’s help in locating missing 20-year-old Andrew Fontaine.
  According to Sgt. Paul Walker, media spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department, Fontaine’s disappearance is completely out of character and his loved ones are increasingly concerned for his well-being.
  Fontaine was last seen in central Abbotsford on Sunday, October 9. He is described as Caucasian, 5’11”, 180 pounds, and has brown hair and blue eye
  
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• Liberal mandatory minimums bill doesn’t go far enough: Murray Sinclair

  20-10-2022 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn’t go far enough.
  Murray Sinclair says Bill C-5 does not go nearly far enough to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black people in the criminal justice system. 
  He says the government has not provided data to justify a “piecemeal approach” that leaves two-thirds of mandatory minimum penalti
  
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• Ilia Malinin headlines Grand Prix opener at Skate America

  20-10-2022 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The new face of American figure skating began to play around with the quadruple Axel, that unicorn of a jump that had never been landed in competition, when he started to see some of the sport’s best give it a go about a year ago.
  Two-time Olympic champ Yuzuru Hanyu? He kept coming up short on the 4 1/2-rotation jump. Nathan Chen, the American gold medalist at the Beijing Games in February? He couldn’t pull it off, either.
  “At first it was kind of a joke,” Ilia Malinin ex
  
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• One-year sentence for Saskatchewan man convicted of hate speech against Jews

  20-10-2022 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ESTEVAN, Sask. — The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party was handed a one-year sentence Thursday on a hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in a video posted on the party’s website and social media accounts.
  Travis Patron, who founded the now-defunct party, was convicted of wilfully promoting hate by a jury earlier this month during a trial in Estevan, Sask.
  Justice Neil Robertson of Court of King’s Bench accepted the Crown’s rec
  
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• Truss resignation likely to stall Canada-U.K. trade deal, experts say

  20-10-2022 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — More political tumult in Britain is likely to further stall trade talks with Canada, experts say.
  U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss stepped down today after a mere six weeks in office following ministers’ resignations over her controversial tax policies.
  The ruling Conservative Party says it will elect a new leader in a week, who will then install a new cabinet. 
  Canadian trade experts say the changeover will mean it takes longer for Ottawa and London to sort out how they w
  
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• Security forces kill at least 60 as protests engulf Chad

  20-10-2022 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chadian security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country’s two largest cities Thursday killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morgue official said.
  Authorities imposed a curfew after the violence, which came amid demonstrations in the central African nation against interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby’s two-year extension of his power.Thursday’s unrest was unprecedented in Chad, which saw little pub
  
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• Liberals want House speaker to investigate hidden tags on Poilievre YouTube account

  20-10-2022 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are demanding a formal investigation into the use of hidden tags embedded in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube videos. 
  A letter to House Speaker Anthony Rota alleges that Poilievre is deliberately using tags that target misogynistic online groups and that questions remain unanswered even after the new leader denied having any knowledge of the tags.
  Global News reported earlier this month that Poilievre’s videos had long carried t
  
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• Ticats in control of their playoff destiny against Redblacks

  20-10-2022 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON, Ohio — Dane Evans and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats did more than just exorcise a few demons with last week’s road win in Calgary. They also reclaimed control of their playoff destiny.
  Evans’s seven-yard TD pass to Tim White with 22 seconds remaining rallied Hamilton to a 35-32 win over Calgary, its first at McMahon Stadium since ’04. More importantly, it moved the Ticats (6-10) ahead of idle Saskatchewan (6-1) in the battle for the final East Division playoff spot.
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• Quebec City mosque that was targeted by gunman wants firearms-control bill adopted

  20-10-2022 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A spokesman for the Quebec City mosque where six men were shot to death in 2017 is calling on Ottawa to pass a gun-control bill being studied by MPs. 
  Boufeldja Benabdallah told the House of Commons public safety committee today the bill should be amended to include a comprehensive and permanent definition of banned assault-style firearms.
  He says the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre wants that definition to include all assault-style semi-automatic guns that could not reasonabl
  
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• Canada’s Sophie Schmidt, Allysha Chapman get new deals with NWSL’s Houston Dash

  20-10-2022 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOUSTON — The Houston Dash have signed veteran Canadian internationals Sophie Schmidt and Allysha Chapman to contract extensions.
  The NWSL club said Schmidt has signed a two-year contract to remain with the team through the 2024 season. Chapman has a one-year extension through the end of the 2023 campaign.
  Both contracts include option years. 
  Schmidt joined the Dash from Germany’s FFC Frankfurt in 2019. Since then, the Canadian midfielder has made 70 appearances across all comp
  
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• B.C. Taiwanese Canadian community pays tribute to slain RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang

  20-10-2022 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Members of British Columbia’s Taiwanese Canadian community are paying tribute to a Burnaby Mountie who was stabbed to death in the line of duty this week. 
  William Tsai says he got to know RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang four years ago when she was a civilian volunteer working on raising mental health awareness among teenagers.
  Tsai says in an interview in Mandarin that Yang was passionate about the cause, dedicated to lifting up others, and teenagers involved in her volunt
  
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• TWU student from Chilliwack off to Egypt for climate change conference – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2022 20:38 via news.google.com
  TWU student from Chilliwack off to Egypt for climate change conference – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian men expect to face ‘fully loaded’ Chile side at Americas Rugby Trophy

  20-10-2022 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada rugby coach Kingsley Jones, facing limited preparation time and players being out-of-season, has included four sevens players in his backline for Friday’s game against Chile in Brazil.
  The match at Municipal Stadium Francisco Ribeiro Nogueira in Mogi das Cruzes, some 65 kilometres east of Sao Paulo, is the first of two for Canada in the new Americas Rugby Trophy.
  Canada takes on Brazil on Oct. 26 in the three-country developmental tournament, which does not carry test status. Chile
  
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• Calgary Flames sign goalie Dan Vladar to two-year contract extension

  20-10-2022 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed goaltender Dan Vladar to a two-year, $4.4-million contract extension.
  The extension kicks in for the 2023-24 season.
  Vladar is playing his second season in Calgary after he was acquired from the Boston Bruins in the summer of 2021 for a third-round pick in the 2022 entry draft.
  Jacob Markstrom’s backup went 13-6-2 with two shutouts, a 2.75 goals-against average and a save percentage of .906 last season. Vladar had 26 saves Saturday in a 4-3 wi
  
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• Lock Adrian Wadden returns for third season with the Toronto Arrows

  20-10-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows have re-signed lock Adrian Wadden for the 2023 Major League Rugby season. 
  The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., has made 25 appearances, including 12 starts, for the Arrows since his debut in 2021. The six-foot-six 245-pounder is currently on loan at Hong Kong Premiership side HKU Sandy Bay as part of Toronto’s development partnership with the Hong Kong Rugby Union.
  “Adrian has his best rugby ahead of him and will push hard for a starter&rsq
  
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• Recession likely amid global economic downturn, fiscal restraint needed: Carney

  20-10-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says a global recession is likely, making it challenging for Canada to avoid a similar economic downturn. 
  While testifying before the Senate banking committee on Thursday, Carney said Canada may fare better than others because of mitigating factors such as the country’s ties to the U.S. and its strong labour market recovery from the pandemic.
  A growing number of economists are now forecasting Canada will enter a recession as t
  
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• Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing infant daughter

  20-10-2022 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed inmate Benjamin Cole on Thursday morning despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill.Cole was pronounced dead at 10:22 a.m. at Oklahoma’s state penitentiary in McAlester. He was the sixth Oklahoma inmate to be executed since the state resumed carrying them out in October 2021.Cole delivered a sometimes rambling, two-minute prayer while strapped to the gurney.
  “Choose Jesus while you still can,” he said
  
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• Inquiry releases recordings of key RCMP meeting after N.S. mass shooting

  20-10-2022 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting today released partial recordings of a tense RCMP meeting that is at the centre of allegations of political interference into the police investigation of the massacre.
  In recordings made on April 28, 2020 — nine days after the killings — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says she understood the police force could not at the time release details about the make and model of each of the weapons the gunman used to kill 22 people
  
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• Edmonton Elks have one last chance this season to end home losing streak

  20-10-2022 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The last time the Edmonton Elks won a home game was on Oct. 12, 2019, the final weekend of the CFL regular season. They beat the B.C. Lions 19-6.
  A CFL-record 16 home losses in a row have ensued. And, with just one home date left to go in the 2022 season, the 4-13 Elks have just this single chance left to stop themselves from going two full seasons without winning a home game.
  The opponent this Friday night? The B.C. Lions, who, at 11-5, are one game up on the Calgary Stampeders
  
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• COVID-19 outbreak hits Mission Institution as 97 inmates test positive

  20-10-2022 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — A COVID-19 outbreak has hit Mission Institution, a medium-security facility, where 97 inmates have tested positive for the infectious virus.The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) reported the outbreak Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 19) and stresses that the health and safety of its employees, inmates, and the public continue to be the agency’s top priority. Staff are closely monitoring the situation, and measures are in place to minimize spread of the virus within the institut
  
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• US: Iranian troops in Crimea backing Russian drone strikes

  20-10-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that the U.S. has evidence that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on the ground” in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population.
  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran has sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in contravention of international law in 2014, to assi
  
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• Montreal Haitian community against foreign military intervention in Caribbean country

  20-10-2022 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Montreal’s Haitian community is expressing opposition to the possibility of foreign troops being dispatched to Haiti amid civil unrest in the Caribbean country.
  The United Nations Security Council postponed a vote Wednesday on a resolution demanding an immediate end to the violence and criminal activity that is crippling the country. A second resolution authorizing foreign military action is currently being worked on after an Oct. 7 request from Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
  The first resolu
  
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• ‘We don’t have good memories’: B.C. Lions eager for long-awaited return to Edmonton

  20-10-2022 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — Jevon Cottoy wants to make some better memories at Commonwealth Stadium. 
  Although he’s in his third season with the B.C. Lions, the wide receiver has played in Edmonton just once during his CFL career. 
  “We don’t have good memories,” Cottoy said of the matchup back on Oct. 12, 2019. 
  He remembers then-star quarterback Michael Reilly leaving midway through the first quarter with a broken wrist. He remembers making a tackle after an Edmo
  
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• David Eby to be declared B.C. NDP leader on Friday, says party

  20-10-2022 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — David Eby will officially be declared the leader of the B.C. New Democratic Party on Friday, clearing the way for him to be sworn in as premier. 
  A statement from the party’s chief electoral officer Elizabeth Cull says after the executive’s decision last night to disqualify the only other candidate, Anjali Appadurai, she will declare Eby the new leader.
  Premier John Horgan had said he would leave in December, but Cull says she can adjust the leadership election
  
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• Prosecution rests in Wisconsin parade suspect’s trial

  20-10-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of a Wisconsin man accused of killing six people and injuring scores of others when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade, telling the judge that they’re tired of him questioning their ethics as he struggles to defend himself without a lawyer.
  Darrell Brooks faces 76 charges, including six homicide counts, in connection with the Nov. 21 incident in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb. Investigators say
  
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• Supreme Court to examine law that limits reporting of criminal proceedings

  20-10-2022 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether a law banning publication of certain proceedings in criminal matters applies before the selection of a jury.
  A consortium of major media outlets asked the top court to hear the appeal, given conflicting interpretations from various courts as to how Section 648 of the Criminal Code should be applied.
  The consortium said in its application to the Supreme Court that media have been prevented from reporting on pretrial matters despite c
  
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• VIDEO: Thousands honour Const. Shaelyn Yang killed in line of duty – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Thousands honour Const. Shaelyn Yang killed in line of duty – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Penticton Vees extend win streak to 9 at BCHL Showcase in Chilliwack – Penticton Western News - Penticton Western News

  20-10-2022 19:25 via news.google.com
  Penticton Vees extend win streak to 9 at BCHL Showcase in Chilliwack – Penticton Western News  Penticton Western News
  
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• Abbotsford threatens fines of up to $50,000 for possession of fireworks ahead of Halloween; Chilliwack has similar fines

  20-10-2022 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — In the midst of a months-long drought, and despite the weather forecast calling for rain tomorrow (Oct. 21), the City of Abbotsford isn’t taking any chances with the fire danger that fireworks pose.The City of Abbotsford took to social media earlier this week with a stern message to rogue fireworks users.Image: City of Abbotsford Facebook.
  “The city’s Fireworks Bylaw prohibits the sale, possession and discharge of fireworks within city borders,” the mes
  
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• Cultus Lake Park Board staff recommend commissioner pay remain unchanged following consultant analysis

  20-10-2022 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CULTUS LAKE — Following a comparative analysis conducted by an external consultant, Cultus Lake Park Board staff are recommending that commissioner remuneration remain unchanged except for inflation-related measures.
  The Cultus Lake Park Board had agreed to undertake a routine review of its commissioner remuneration, according to minutes from its September meeting.The purpose of the external consultation was to set the compensation for the incoming elected park board. The incoming park boa
  
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• Worker who quietly lowered town’s fluoride for years resigns

  20-10-2022 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community’s drinking water for years has resigned — and is asserting that the levels had actually been low for much longer than believed.
  Richmond water superintendent Kendall Chamberlin disclosed in his five-page resignation letter, submitted Monday, that fluoride levels have not been in the state-recommended range for over a decade — instead of nearly four years, as the state had recently disclosed.Chamberlin said
  
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• One man in custody as police investigate double homicide in Saanich, B.C.

  20-10-2022 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAANICH, B.C. — Two people have been found dead in Saanich, B.C., and police in the Vancouver Island municipality say the homicides appear to be connected.
  One man is in custody.
  Police say the public is not believed to be at risk.
  A statement from the Saanich Police Department says its officers are working with major crime investigators.
  An area of the Uptown neighbourhood was behind police tape on Wednesday.
  Officers stayed there for most of the day and a spokesman said more information
  
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• Canadian Premier League announces five finalists for player of the year

  20-10-2022 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Canadian Premier League player of the year will be one of Forge FC’s Alexander Achinioti-Jonsson, Pacific FC’s Manny Aparicio, Atletico Ottawa’s Ollie Bassett and Ballou Tabla and Valour FC’s Sean Rea.
  The five finalists were nominated by members of the league office. The winner, to be decided by a media vote, will be announced during the league’s awards ceremony during the championship game weekend Oct. 29-30.
  Brazilian forward Joao Morelli won
  
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• Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard sentenced to five years behind bars

  20-10-2022 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years behind bars on Thursday in the sexual assault of an Ottawa woman, an offence the presiding judge called a “particularly degrading rape.”
  In delivering her sentence in a downtown Toronto courtroom, Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts said Hoggard’s offence involved “gratuitous degradation” and “gratuitous violence.”
  “It is no exaggeration to say that (the woman) i
  
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• Proposed dental benefit for children would cost $703M: Parliamentary budget officer

  20-10-2022 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux says Ottawa’s proposed dental benefit for children under the age of 12 would cost $703 million over the next three fiscal years. 
  Giroux released the costing in a new report today after MPs voted Wednesday to send the bill to a committee for study, putting it one step closer to becoming reality.
  The benefit would provide up to $650 annually to cover the dental costs for children whose families who don’t already have coverag
  
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• Montreal police say family conflict sparked killings of man, woman in their 60s

  20-10-2022 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Montreal police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested after the bodies of two people in their 60s were found inside a home in the suburb of Île-Bizard.
  Police say the killings of a 65-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man were likely sparked by a conflict between family members, but they have not made clear what the link is between the suspect and the victims.
  A security perimeter was still in place today as major-crimes detectives continued to gather evidence at the scene.
  The suspect wi
  
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• Fall set to finally reach B.C., as rain, skiff of snow forecast to replace heat

  20-10-2022 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada says unseasonable heat in British Columbia is ending and rain or snow will arrive in some areas as early as Friday.
  The weather office says nine temperature records were set Wednesday across the province, including four on Vancouver Island, where a high of 21.5 C in Port Alberni broke the old mark of 20.6 C set 104 years ago.
  There were other records in Powell River, Whistler, Pemberton, Trail and in Tatlayoko Lake, west of Williams Lake, but forecasters say
  
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• How a Hamster Is Helping Pioneer Space Tourism

  20-10-2022 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!When it comes to space travelers, most people think astronauts. But history tells a different story.
  Animals have a long legacy of space exploration dating back to the 1940s. The first critters sent to space were fruit flies carried on a V2 rocket that left Earth’s orbit on February 20, 1947, and this swarm would soon be followed by many other lifeforms, from canines to monkeys, apes to cats and even adorable water bears. Hamsters have also falle
  
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• Woman, 90, dies after attack in seniors residence west of Montreal

  20-10-2022 16:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. — Quebec provincial police say a 90-year-old woman has died following an assault at a seniors residence on Wednesday by an 82-year-old man who is now under arrest.
  Provincial police say the suspect is set to appear at the courthouse in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield today to face a charge to be determined by the Crown.
  Police say they received a call at 1 p.m. for an assault at the residence in Vaudreuil-Dorion, just west of Montreal.
  They found the woman, identified by po
  
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• Qatar’s 12-year journey as World Cup host has 1 month to go

  20-10-2022 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GENEVA (AP) — The first World Cup in the Middle East is one month away, nearing the conclusion of an often bumpy 12-year journey for Qatar that has transformed the nation.
  Qatar has faced skepticism about how it persuaded FIFA to vote for the country in 2010; criticism of how migrant workers were treated building stadiums and tournament infrastructure; and derision from the soccer world for changing the dates from the traditional June-July period to November-December.
  The small Arab countr
  
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• Elite curlers adapt to new ‘no tick’ rule designed to inject more suspense into games

  20-10-2022 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  No tick is here to stay in curling.
  Canada has adopted the new rule the World Curling Federation tested at the women’s and men’s world championships earlier this year.
  The “no tick” rule will be played at the 2023 Canadian men’s and women’s championships and in the playdowns to get there.
  The tick shot as a strategy emerged from the implementation of free-guard zone. Stones in front of the rings, or guards, can’t be removed from play in an end until five
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Keeping British Columbians safer during earthquakes

  20-10-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Every year in October, The Great B.C. Shakeout is a chance for students, workers, and everyone across British Columbia to learn the best ways to stay safe in the event of an earthquake. Earlier this week, our provincial government released a comprehensive earthquake response strategy in order to keep people as safe as possible if a major earthquake should occur.  The strategy is buildable and able to adapt based on the
  
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