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• It’s a Fine time for the Saskatchewan Roughriders to snap slump

  21-10-2022 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  REGINA — Even though he has every reason to, Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Mason Fine is determined not to be overwhelmed when he makes his first CFL start Saturday against the Calgary Stampeders.
  It’s challenging enough stepping in for veteran Cody Fajardo, which resulted in a firestorm of controversy this week among the passionate Rider Nation fan base, but the 25-year-old pivot is also dealing with the additional stress brought on by the Riders’ 2-9 record in their la
  
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• Upper Fraser Valley RCMP in Chilliwack reports 925 files of domestic violence this year alone

  21-10-2022 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Domestic violence is more prevalent in Chilliwack than residents might imagine.In what can easily be considered a disturbingly high number, the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack reported on Twitter Friday (Oct. 21) that there have been 925 reported files of domestic violence in UFVRD this year.“[Domestic violence] is a crime not often reported to police,” Corporal Carmen Kiener said. “If you or someone you know is experiencing intimate par
  
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• Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers to miss at least two more games with undisclosed injury

  21-10-2022 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have placed Nikolaj Ehlers on injured reserve, the team announced Friday.
  The move, retroactive to Tuesday, means the winger will miss at least Saturday’s visit from the Toronto Maple Leafs and Monday’s tilt with the St. Louis Blues.
  Ehlers, who has three assists in two contests this season, has already sat out two games with the undisclosed injury.
  The ninth overall pick at the 2014 NHL draft has registered 164 goals and 361 points in 480 regular-s
  
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• Former Vancouver Whitecaps striker Masato Kudo dies following brain surgery

  21-10-2022 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps say they are mourning the death of former striker Masato Kudo.Japanese club Tegevajaro Miyazaki announced on its website Friday that the 32-year-old player had died.Club president and CEO said Keita Nimura in a statement in Japanese that Kudo was “a very successful player” who had “no arrogance and a great attitude.”
  The Whitecaps said earlier this month that Kudo underwent brain surgery in Japan and was in intensive care.The Japa
  
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• Canada beats Finland 9-6 to reach semifinals at world mixed curling championship

  21-10-2022 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABERDEEN, United Kingdom — Canada’s Jean-Michel Menard scored three points in the extra end for a 9-6 victory over Finland’s Markus Sipila on Friday at the world mixed curling championship.
  Menard scored a deuce in the seventh end but Sipila tied the game with a three-ender in the eighth at the Curl Aberdeen facility.Canada advanced to play Switzerland’s Ursi Hegner in the semifinals on Saturday. Scotland’s Cameron Bryce will face Sweden’s Therese Westman in t
  
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• Never-boring Leafs hit the road after rollercoaster start: ‘The nature of the market’

  21-10-2022 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Mark Giordano has seen it before. He’ll no doubt see it again.
  Wins, losses, injuries and controversy are magnified early in every NHL season.In a Canadian market, the spotlight’s even brighter. And then there’s playing in Toronto.The Maple Leafs suited up for five games in eight days to start the schedule, and from pointed coach comments, sluggish play, and an oft-injured pair already sidelined, there’s been plenty of chatter around an organization with s
  
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• Industry minister on Canada-U.S. Nexus dispute: ‘Should be an easy one to resolve’

  21-10-2022 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Canada’s industry minister says he’s confident Canada and the United States can work out their differences over the Nexus trusted-traveller program.François-Philippe Champagne says he expects the dispute will be resolved before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden meet in person in December.
  Champagne says he raised the issue in his meeting today with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in Washington, D.C.He says “fluidity” at
  
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• UPDATE: Chilliwack voter turnout in 2022 election nudged to 24.8% – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 22:37 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Chilliwack voter turnout in 2022 election nudged to 24.8% – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Second Quebec opposition party refuses constitutionally required loyalty oath to King

  21-10-2022 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — Members of a second Quebec opposition party have refused to swear allegiance to King Charles III, as required by the Canadian Constitution, putting their ability to sit in the legislature into question.
  The three Parti Québécois members elected to the province’s legislature Oct. 3 took an oath of loyalty to the people of Quebec, but not to the monarch, as they were sworn in Friday morning.
  Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he believes the oath of office shou
  
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• MLS playoffs: New York City FC will be CF Montreal’s toughest test yet

  21-10-2022 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Wilfried Nancy and CF Montreal find themselves in uncharted territory. 
  For the first time since 2016, the Major League Soccer team is riding real playoff momentum and find themselves favourites to reach the Eastern Conference Final. 
  Montreal has won six of its last seven games — including a 2-0 decision over Orlando City in the playoff opener last Sunday — and is playing some of its best soccer of the season on both sides of the ball. 
  On Sunday, the
  
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• Heavy early morning police presence in Chilliwack neighbourhood has residents concerned – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 21:48 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP searching for graffiti suspect linked to spate of downtown graffiti, vandalism; female accomplice also wanted

  21-10-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying an individual who is believed to be responsible for spray painting graffiti in the downtown Chilliwack core.
  On September 29, at around midnight, a suspect was caught on camera spray painting an image in red paint on the wall of a downtown business. An unknown female who appears to be capturing the event on a cell phone accompanied the individual.
  Image: RCMP supplied. A female appeared to document
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP searching for graffiti suspect – Hope Standard - Hope Standard

  21-10-2022 21:15 via news.google.com
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• Abby PD investigate incident in which 85-year-old pedestrian was hit by vehicle, airlifted and hospitalized

  21-10-2022 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is investigating after an 85-year-old elderly pedestrian was struck by a vehicle Thursday (Oct. 20) afternoon in the 31500 block of Blueridge Drive east of Mount Lehman Road, in west Abbotsford.On October 20 at 2:31 p.m., Abbotsford Police patrol officers responded to a serious collision Blueridge Drive. Upon arrival, emergency service workers located an 85-year-old pedestrian that had been struck by a vehicle and was airlifted to hospital with
  
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• Embattled Rowing Canada signs with OSIC on heels of damaging independent study

  21-10-2022 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Rowing Canada has signed an agreement to join Abuse-Free Sport, three weeks after an independent report revealed a toxic environment in the sport.
  The national federation will be able to access the new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner following a transition period that will end no later than Dec. 13.
  “The sport community is in need of a consistent national safe sport program and this is a great step forward for everyone involved in sport in Canada,” said Jennifer Fitzpatric
  
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• Guilty plea due in Michigan school shooting that killed 4

  21-10-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DETROIT (AP) — A teenager accused of killing four fellow students and injuring more at a Michigan high school is expected to plead guilty to murder next week, authorities said Friday.
  Ethan Crumbley had created images of violence during a classroom assignment last November but was not sent home from Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan. He pulled out a gun a few hours later and committed a mass shooting.
  “We can confirm that the shooter is expected to plead guilty to all 24 ch
  
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• First lady to host roundtable on breast and cervical cancer

  21-10-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden will host a roundtable Monday on breast and cervical cancer, part of the administration’s “moonshot” effort to reduce deaths from cancer, the White House said.
  The event is one of many being launched by the American Cancer Society. Singer Mary J. Blige, an advocate for cancer screening, will participate in the roundtable with Biden.
  President Joe Biden announced in February his goal of halving cancer deaths in the next 25 years. The
  
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• Drought, lack of rain and wildfires by the numbers in B.C.

  21-10-2022 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia should be well into its rainy season, but hot and dry weather that lasted through most of October has created drought conditions. Here are some of the numbers connected with the drought:
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  Recorded rainfall between July and Oct. 21, compared with average rainfall:
  Vancouver: current 16 mm, average 198 mm
  Victoria: current 2 mm, average 132 mm
  Sechelt: current 9 mm, average 200 mm
  Fort Nelson: current 61 mm, average 182 mm—
  The B.C. government ranks
  
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• World’s first recovery effort sees spotted owls released into the wild for the first time north of Hope

  21-10-2022 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FRASER CANYON — The conservation of endangered species in B.C. took a monumental step forward in August 2022 as three spotted owls born and raised in a breeding facility were released into protected habitat in the Fraser Canyon, which was the first release of these rare birds into the wild anywhere in the world.
  The B.C. government announced Friday (Oct. 22) that this historic milestone was the result of a partnership between the provincial Spotted Owl Breeding and Release Program and the
  
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• Park Board releases survey from Sunnyside Campground 2022 customers; users very satisfied about campsite itself with only a few exceptions

  21-10-2022 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CULTUS LAKE — It’s not everyday that government agencies seek feedback on the user experience from their customer base.
  But for the Cultus Lake Park Board, which owns and manages the 65-acre Sunnyside Campground and its 353 seasonal sites, measuring user satisfaction is part of enhancing the customer experience once the busy summer season wraps up.
  Joe Lamb, chief administrative officer for the Cultus Lake Park Board,posted to Facebook this past week that it solicited feedback from u
  
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• Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Trump, demanding he testify

  21-10-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena Friday to Donald Trump, exercising its subpoena power against the former president who lawmakers say “personally orchestrated” a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  The nine-member panel issued a letter to Trump’s lawyers, demanding his testimony under oath by Nov. 14 and outlining a request for a series of corresponding documents, includ
  
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• Review: Taylor Swift gets dark, electric on 'Midnights' – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Air quality advisory for Fraser Valley cancelled due to welcome change in weather

  21-10-2022 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — After a full week of brutally smoky skies that led to hazardous breathing conditions for Chilliwack residents, including efforts by SD33 to limit outdoor exposure for its 14,000-plus students, a regional air quality advisory has been cancelled.Metro Vancouver Regional District has ended the fine particulate matter Air Quality Advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley that had been in effect since October 13 in the Fraser Valley and October 14 in Metro Vancouver.Air qu
  
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• CRTC head is confident about managing online news bill despite ‘challenges’ ahead

  21-10-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The chair of Canada’s broadcasting regulator says there will be challenges along the way but the body is well equipped to iron out the details of a bill that seeks to regulate online news.
  Ian Scott, head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, told a House committee that he has already sought input from other jurisdictions where similar laws are already in place, such as Australia.
  Bill C-18 would require tech giants to negotiate deals to pay med
  
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• Atletico Ottawa set for another CPL landmark as it hosts first-ever playoff game

  21-10-2022 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Another landmark for Atletico Ottawa on Sunday as it hosts its first-ever home playoff game in the Canadian Premier League.
  Under new coach Carlos Gonzalez, Ottawa has already completed a worst to first regular-season journey, climbing from the league basement at 6-14-8 last year to top spot in the eight-team standings at 13-5-10 this season.
  And last Saturday, it celebrated its playoff debut by defeating defending champion Pacific FC 2-0 in Langford, B.C., in the first leg of their semifinal. O
  
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• Critics call Gymnastics Canada’s agreement with Abuse-Free Sport “miniscule step”

  21-10-2022 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Gymnastics Canada has signed an agreement to join Abuse-Free Sport, the new federal program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.But an international athletes rights group said the news is more “miniscule steps” the embattled national gymnastics federation has taken to improve what more than 500 current and former Canadian gymnasts say is a toxic environment of abuse and maltreatment in their sport.
  Gymnastics Canada said in a release Friday it can access services of the new
  
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• Alouettes eyeing first in CFL East ahead of season-ending two-game set with Argos

  21-10-2022 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — With two games remaining, the Montreal Alouettes are set to embark on a home-and-home series that will decide first place in the Canadian Football League’s East Division.The Alouettes (8-8) will host the Toronto Argonauts (10-8) on Saturday afternoon before heading to Toronto for a regular season finale .
  Although four points back of the Argos in the standings, Montreal can steal top spot by winning both games.General manager and interim coach Danny Maciocia said that his
  
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• Chilliwack realtors meet with MPs, including Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl, in push for national housing roundtable

  21-10-2022 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-area realtors and their industry counterparts have been meeting with MPs in Ottawa this past week, including Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl, as real estate professionals across the country push for a permanent national housing strategy.The realtors included Daryl Moniz, president of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, which comprises approximately 382 realtors in the greater Chilliwack area, as well as Steve Latham, vice-president of CADREB.They traveled
  
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• Chess star Hans Niemann sues over cheating allegations

  21-10-2022 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by falsely accusing him of cheating.Niemann is seeking $100 million in damages in the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, elevating a controversy that has roiled the chess world since September, when Carlsen suggested Niemann cheated during his upset win over Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. Louis.The lawsuit names Carlsen; h
  
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• At last, rain in Vancouver and elsewhere, but much more needed to break B.C. drought

  21-10-2022 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The first showers since September began falling in parts of Metro Vancouver before dawn, but officials in many coastal communities doubt a series of incoming weather systems will relieve the drought gripping parts of British Columbia.
  Environment Canada is calling for just under 10 millimetres of rain in the Fraser Valley and about seven millimetres on parts of eastern Vancouver Island by early Saturday, but says parched areas of the Sunshine Coast and Sechelt could see little
  
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• VIDEO: RV driver loses both left wheels on Highway 1 in Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 18:40 via news.google.com
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• 'Extreme fire risk' leads Chilliwack fire chief to issue warning against all fireworks – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 18:26 via news.google.com
  'Extreme fire risk' leads Chilliwack fire chief to issue warning against all fireworks – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sports journalists pleased access is improving after restrictions during pandemic

  21-10-2022 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A line of sports media members formed outside the Toronto Blue Jays’ clubhouse earlier this month shortly after the team blew a seven-run lead and was eliminated from the post-season. 
  Managers and select players were set to speak in a nearby interview room but a big part of the story would come into focus once the locker-room door opened.
  For local baseball scribes who couldn’t do the same when normal access wasn’t available in the pandemic-impacted 2020 p
  
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• RCMP release new details about Indian migrant family who died at border

  21-10-2022 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Mounties have confirmed some of the movements of an Indian migrant family who froze to death near the U.S.-Canadian border earlier this year, but say they are still unsure how they made it to Manitoba. 
  The bodies of the family of four, which included a husband, wife and their two children, were found in January near Emerson, Man., just metres from the U.S. border. 
  RCMP say they have determined the family arrived in Toronto on Jan. 12 and were picked up at the airport
  
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• Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov to lead Canada’s Davis Cup team in Finals in Spain

  21-10-2022 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Félix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal and Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., headline Canada’s tennis team for the Davis Cup Finals next month in Spain.
  The two are joined by Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, B.C., Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., and Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo
  “It’s a privilege for our team and our country to be back in the Davis Cup Finals,” said team captain Frank Dancevic. “We’re also very excited to have Denis back
  
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• Canadian women hurting but still winning at Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

  21-10-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada is enduring a war of attrition at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. But coach Kevin Rouet’s team has yet to stumble.
  The third-ranked Canadian women (2-0-0) wrap up Pool B play Saturday night against the sixth-ranked U.S. (1-1-0) in Auckland (3:15 p.m. Sunday local time) in control of their own destiny, despite losing a third player for the tournament in the wake of last weekend’s 22-12 win over No. 5 Italy.
  Scrum half Brianna Miller was taken to hospital after the match and
  
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• Bannon gets 4 months behind bars for defying 1/6 subpoena

  21-10-2022 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to serve four months behind bars after defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
  The judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of $6,500 as part of the sentence. Bannon was convicted in July of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition and the other for refusing t
  
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• Patient Played Saxophone Throughout His Own Brain Surgery

  21-10-2022 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!On October 10, a hospital ward in Rome’s Paideia International Hospital was filled with the smooth sound of jazz as a 35-year-old patient underwent brain surgery while fully awake and playing the saxophone!
  A team of 10 surgeons led by Dr. Christian Brogna kept the patient, identified only as G.Z., awake for nine hours of surgery to allow them to navigate brain function while they worked to remove a brain tumor.
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• Dispute over Nova Scotia land development can go to trial: Supreme Court of Canada

  21-10-2022 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says a trial can proceed over whether Halifax Regional Municipality improperly used its regulatory powers to effectively seize land for use as a public park without compensation.
  The legal dispute began when Annapolis Group Inc. filed a court action against Halifax, claiming it was not only blocking attempts to develop the company’s land but promoting the area’s use by the public — in effect expropriating the space.
  In 2019, a judge de
  
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• Rain arrives in southern B.C., but more than 100 millimetres needed to erase drought

  21-10-2022 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The first showers since September began falling in parts of Metro Vancouver before the sun came up, but officials in many coastal communities doubt a series of incoming weather systems will relieve the drought gripping parts of British Columbia.
  Environment Canada is calling for just under 10 millimetres of rain in the Fraser Valley and about seven millimetres on parts of eastern Vancouver Island by early Saturday, but says parched areas of the Sunshine Coast and Sechelt could
  
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• Why B.C.'s NDP disqualified leadership contender, and how she responds – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  21-10-2022 17:00 via news.google.com
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• UN demands end to violence in Haiti, sanctions gang leader

  21-10-2022 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday demanding an immediate end to violence and criminal activity in Haiti and imposing sanctions on a powerful gang leader.The United States and Mexico, which drafted the 10-page resolution, delayed the vote from Wednesday so they could revise the text in hopes of gaining more support from council members — and they succeeded in getting approval from all 15 nations.
  U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenf
  
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• Former No. 1 Simona Halep suspended for positive doping test

  21-10-2022 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Former No. 1-ranked player Simona Halep was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency after failing a drug test during the U.S. Open last month.
  The ITIA announced the suspension Friday for Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion who is currently No. 9 in the WTA rankings. She won the French Open in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019, beating 23-time major champion Serena Williams in the final.Halep, a 31-year-old from Romania, who recently announced she was taking the rest of t
  
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• Blue Jays agree to terms with manager John Schneider on three-year deal

  21-10-2022 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays and manager John Schneider have agreed to terms on a three-year contract with a team option for the 2026 season, the club announced Friday.
  Schneider guided the Blue Jays to a 46-28 record after being promoted to interim skipper on July 13 following the departure of manager Charlie Montoyo.
  The Blue Jays reached the playoffs but were swept in the wild-card series by the Seattle Mariners. 
  Schneider, a 42-year-old native of Princeton, N.J., is the 14th m
  
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• Federal freeze on buying, selling handguns now in effect: Minister

  21-10-2022 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government says measures to freeze the number of handguns in Canada are now in effect.
  In May, the Liberals announced a plan to implement a freeze on importing, buying, selling or otherwise transferring handguns, in order to help quell firearm-related violence.
  At the time, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino tabled regulatory amendments in both the House of Commons and the Senate.
  In a social media post, Mendicino says those regulations have now come into force.
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• Stephen Curry launches graphic novel series on sports stars

  21-10-2022 15:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry’s latest move is one for the books.The NBA superstar is launching a graphic novel series, “Stephen Curry Presents!: Sports Superheroes,” in partnership with Penguin Workshop. The first of four planned installments will focus on Curry’s career and is scheduled for fall 2024.
  The series will be created through the publishing arm of Unanimous Media, the company founded by Curry and Erick Peyton. Last month, Penguin released Curry’s p
  
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• Women’s World Cup draw to set the stage for 32-team soccer tournament next year

  21-10-2022 13:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada will learn its path at next year’s Women’s World Cup early Saturday with coach Bev Priestman and Canada Soccer general secretary Earl Cochrane in the audience for the draw in Auckland, New Zealand.
  Former players Carli Lloyd, Alexi Lalas, Gilberto Silva and Ian Wright are among those taking part in the ceremony, which decides the eight groups for the expanded 32-team field for the soccer showcase slated to run July 20 to Aug. 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
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• Koloko soaked up the support both from Cameroon and his teammates after NBA debut

  21-10-2022 13:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Christian Koloko could barely peel his eyes away from his phone in the Raptors locker-room after Wednesday’s game.
  Toronto’s rookie had just made his NBA debut, and although it was 3 a.m. back home in Cameroon, his friends and family were still wide awake. And the messages of congratulations were pouring in.
  “When you start playing basketball, you always think about playing at the highest level. Sometimes, you don’t even think it’s possible until you
  
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• Pakistan’s election commission disqualifies ex-PM Imran Khan

  21-10-2022 11:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s elections commission on Friday disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding public office on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts to him and concealing assets, his spokesman said. The move is likely to deepen lingering political turmoil in the impoverished country.
  Fawad Chaudhry told reporters that the Election Commission of Pakistan announced the much-awaited verdict in the capital, Islamabad. Chaudhry condemned the move.According to l
  
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• Italian far-right leader says she is ready to govern

  21-10-2022 11:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ROME (AP) — Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni said Friday she and her allies asked the nation’s president to give her the mandate to assemble a new government.Meloni and her allies met briefly with Sergio Mattarella on Friday. Some observers had expected that she would then announce that he had given her the mandate to try to form a government. Instead, she she said only that the coalition had proposed her as the next premier. An official indicated Mattarella’s decision m
  
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