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• Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
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• 5 people sent to hospital from overnight Vancouver stabbings – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2022 22:35 via news.google.com
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• Canadian among injured in crowd surge that killed more than 150 in South Korea

  30-10-2022 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A Canadian was among those injured in a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people in Seoul, South Korea, Global Affairs confirmed Sunday, while Korean Canadians said they were shocked by the disaster.
  The federal department said Canadian officials are in touch with local authorities to gather more information and provide consular assistance to those affected. 
  It said no further information, including whether the person was hospitalized or the severity of the injuries, can be released ab
  
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• Fatal collision Sunday morning shuts down Lower Mainland thoroughfare – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• Emergencies Act inquiry to hear from ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest organizers this week

  30-10-2022 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — It was a scene of chaos and confusion in the upper tiers of the police service and local government when a convoy of big rigs and protesters arrived in Ottawa to demand an end to pandemic restrictions last winter. 
  That’s the picture witnesses have painted over the first couple of weeks of hearings at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in February to bring an end to the weeks-long demon
  
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• Canada’s Schnoor switches to coaching from playing at Women’s Rugby League World Cup

  30-10-2022 19:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Stevi Schnoor has represented Canada in both rugby league and rugby union — and starred in the indoor Legends Football League.
  Schnoor is back with the Canada Ravens at the Women’s Rugby League World Cup, but this time as an assistant coach with daughter Tate, born July 2, at her side.
  “She’s a really good baby … She’s making my job easy,” said Schnoor.
  Canada opens play Tuesday at the eight-country tournament against Papua New Guinea at Headingley Stad
  
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• 'It was historic': Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
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• Women, kids detained in ISIS camps should be repatriated to Canada quickly: expert

  30-10-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A psychiatrist involved in efforts to support children of Canadian women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State is urging Ottawa to speed up repatriation efforts.
  Dr. Cécile Rousseau, a pediatric psychiatrist at McGill University and an expert on violent radicalization and extremism, was part of a committee of local health officials and child welfare experts brought together by the RCMP’s Quebec detachment after the caliphate fell in 2017.
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• Patriots’ Kraft, school statements denounce antisemitism

  30-10-2022 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other members of the sports world are condemning recent incidents of hate speech toward Jewish people — not just the antisemitic comments by the music mogul formerly known as Kanye West, but also outside of a college football game in Florida on Saturday night.
  A day after the NBA and Brooklyn Nets issued disapproving statements in response to Kyrie Irving’s apparent support for an antisemitic film, other team executives and athletes are spe
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime tops Rune for third consecutive ATP Tour title

  30-10-2022 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BASEL, Switzerland — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Denmark’s Holger Rune 6-3, 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors final on Sunday for his third consecutive ATP Tour title.
  Auger-Aliassime, the third seed in the tournament and ninth in the world, fired 11 aces and won 78 per cent of his first-serve points.He also saved all three of Rune’s break point chances while converting on two out of his own five opportunities. The Montreal native went all five matches in the tournamen
  
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• At least 32 dead, many injured after India bridge collapse

  30-10-2022 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 32 people died and several are feared injured after a cable bridge collapsed into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday evening, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.Local media reports said hundreds plunged into the Machchu river when the bridge in the state’s Morbi district collapsed. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the bridge.The accident comes just days after the 19th-century, colonial-era bridge was r
  
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• World leaders grieve deadly Halloween crowd surge in Seoul – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  30-10-2022 17:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s Shapovalov falls short with three-set loss to Medvedev in Vienna Open final

  30-10-2022 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VIENNA — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov fell short of winning his first title of the year losing 6-4, 3-6, 2-6 to Daniil Medvedev in the Vienna Open final on Sunday.
  Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., won 78 per cent of his first-serve points and broke on three of his nine opportunities. The 23-year-old also fired six aces but committed six double faults in the loss.
  Medvedev, the top seed at the tournament and No. 4 in the world, converted on five of his 11 break point chances while winn
  
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• Search resumes for one-month old baby missing in river near Laval, Que. since Friday

  30-10-2022 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Police say the search for a one-month old child missing in the water off the shore of Laval, Que., just north of Montreal, has entered its second full day.
  The baby was in a vehicle with his mother and four-year-old sister when it plunged into the Mille Îles river shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday.
  The woman, 40, remains hospitalized and unable to speak with investigators, while the girl was released from hospital Friday.
  After pausing for the night, police began looking for
  
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• As election day approaches, voters in North Carolina hope for post-election peace

  30-10-2022 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — When it comes to the instability, discord and fears of violence that loom over the 2022 midterms, John Szoka has a simple solution: put people ahead of politics. 
  It’s hardly a new or revelatory idea — indeed, it’s precisely the sort of sentiment one might expect from any of the dozens of early voters who filed into this North Carolina polling station on a recent Monday morning. 
  But Szoka, 68, isn’t just on Cumberland County’s v
  
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• Witness recalls harrowing moment of Seoul crowd surge

  30-10-2022 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As he watched a dozen or more unconscious partygoers carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed like movie characters, an overwhelmed Ken Fallas couldn’t process what was happening.
  Fallas, a Costa Rican architect who has worked in Seoul for the past eight years, said Saturday’s Halloween festivities at the city’s nightlife district of Itaewon were a long-awaited occasion to hang out with fellow expats following years of
  
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• Chrystia Freeland, Melanie Joly among signatories to letter on Iranian women’s rights

  30-10-2022 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly are among the key signatories to an open letter decrying Iran’s record on women’s rights. 
  The letter, published in Sunday’s New York Times, condemns Iran’s violent crackdown on recent protests and calls for the country to be removed from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. 
  Former prime minister Kim Campbell and human rights activist and aut
  
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• Heavy rain expected Sunday in the Fraser Valley

  30-10-2022 15:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Rain moved into the Fraser Valley overnight and is expected to hang over the region through the day.
  Environment Canada issued a heavy rainfall warning for the area Saturday. It updated the warning this morning (Oct. 30), reducing the amount of expected rain to 50 mm of rain over the course of the day and the evening.
  Gusty winds are expected to accompany the rain today. Gusts of up to 40 or 50 kph are predicted for the Fraser Valley, with the winds increasing as you move west
  
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• Fraser Valley Regional District approves single zoning bylaw within its borders

  30-10-2022 13:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Development planning across the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is expected to become easier with the consolidation of zoning bylaws across the district.
  While meeting last week, directors approved a new region-wide zoning bylaw, discarding the 9 different zoning regulations that were in place. It’s believed the step will make it easier for homeowners, developers, and others to move ahead with projects.
  The previous bylaws offered different rules for different are
  
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• Brazil’s polarizing Bolsonaro-Lula contest goes to voters

  30-10-2022 12:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilians began voting Sunday morning in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits an incumbent vowing to safeguard conservative Christian values against a former president promising to return the country to a more prosperous past.
  The runoff shaped up as a close contest between President Jair Bolsonaro and his political nemesis, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Both are well-known, divisive political figures who stir passion as much as lo
  
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• RCMP review prompted by employee’s arrest urges changes to bolster internal security

  30-10-2022 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A confidential RCMP review, conducted after the arrest of a senior employee for allegedly leaking classified information, calls for a fundamental shift in the security culture of the national police force to be led at the highest levels.
  The newly disclosed report makes 43 recommendations, including training updates, stricter adherence to federal security screening standards and the possible introduction of random physical searches.
  The review “confirms gaps in the security
  
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• Climate Changed: Canada’s health system isn’t ready for new reality, say doctors

  30-10-2022 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Montreal family doctor Claudel Pétrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing “risk amplifier.”
  She says it raises the potential for hazard across the board, from threatening the most basic health determinants, such as air quality and access to food and water, to exacerbating seasonal allergies and tick-borne Lyme disease.
  Pétrin-Desrosiers, president of the Quebec chapter of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, is among a group of d
  
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• Canada women defeat the U.S. 32-11 to advance to the Rugby World Cup semifinal

  30-10-2022 06:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Canada took control in the second half with 20 points to defeat the United States 32-11 and earn a berth in the semifinals at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday.
  The third-ranked Canadians will face No. 1 England, the tournament favourite, next Friday at Eden Park in Auckland. No. 2 New Zealand, the five-time champions, meets No. 4 France in the other semifinal Saturday.
  McKinley Hunt, Karen Paquin, Paige Farries and Alex Tessier scored tries for Canada, which led 12-8 a
  
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• Flames burned 3-2 at home by Oilers comeback

  30-10-2022 05:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Zach Hyman scored twice, including the game winner at 12:24 of the third period, as the Edmonton Oilers came from behind for a 3-2 NHL victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night.
  Connor McDavid, who also added two assists, had the other goal for Edmonton (6-3-0), which has won three in a row.
  Mikael Backlund and Brett Ritchie replied for Calgary (5-2-0).
  Stuart Skinner made 40 saves to earn the win and improve to 2-1-0.
  Jacob Markstrom, who had 22 saves, suffered his first
  
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• Somalia’s leader says at least 100 killed in Saturday attack

  30-10-2022 05:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday’s two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise.
  President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a statement at the site of the explosions told journalists early Sunday that nearly 300 other people were wounded.
  It was the deadliest attack in Somalia since a truck bombing at the same spot in October 2017 killed more than 500 people.
  Somalia’s government has blame
  
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• S. Korea in shock, grief as 151 die in Halloween crowd surge

  30-10-2022 05:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Concerned relatives raced to hospitals in search of their loved ones Sunday as South Korea mourned the deaths of at least 151 people, mostly in their teens and 20s, who got trapped and crushed after a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in a nightlife district in Seoul.
  Tens of thousands of people were believed to have gathered in Itaewon for festivities on Saturday night. Witnesses say the streets were so densely clogged with people and slow-mov
  
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• Stevens leads Stampeders to 36-10 win over Roughriders in regular-season finale

  30-10-2022 04:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Tommy Stevens rushed for 163 yards and a touchdown for the Calgary Stampeders in a 36-10 win over the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders in the final regular-season game of the 2022 CFL season Saturday.
  Teammate Dedrick Mills also posted a big night with 125 rushing yards and a touchdown. 
  Jalen Philpot also scored a rushing major and Reggie Begelton had a touchdown catch in front of an announced 25,179 at McMahon Stadium.
  Stampeder quarterback Jake Maier completed 13 of 16 p
  
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• MVP Smith scores, Thorns beat Current 2-0 for NWSL title

  30-10-2022 03:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sophia Smith, the season’s Most Valuable Player, scored early and the Portland Thorns won their third National Women’s Soccer League championship Saturday night with a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Current. 
  The Thorns also won NWSL championships in 2013, the league’s inaugural season, and again in 2017. The three titles are the most for any team in the league. 
  Canada skipper Christine Sinclair captained Portland to her third championship,
  
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• AP source: Spurs waived Primo after allegation of exposure

  30-10-2022 03:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A female former San Antonio Spurs employee has alleged that now-former Spurs guard Josh Primo exposed himself in her presence, a person with knowledge of the matter said Saturday night.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no details had been revealed publicly by the Spurs, Primo or the accuser.
  Attorney Tony Buzbee confirmed to AP that he has been hired by “a former contractor” with the Spurs. He is the attorney who represented 24 women who sued
  
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• Hornets spoil Curry’s homecoming again, beat Warriors in OT

  30-10-2022 03:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — P.J. Washington scored 31 points, Gordon Hayward added 23 and the Charlotte Hornets once again spoiled Stephen Curry’s annual homecoming game with a 120-113 overtime win over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
  Kelly Oubre Jr added 18 points as the Hornets beat the Warriors for the fourth straight year at the Spectrum Center in Curry’s hometown despite playing without their starting backcourt of LaMelo Ball and Terry Rozier.
  Curry scored 31 point
  
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• Fiala propels Kings past Maple Leafs 4-2

  30-10-2022 03:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist, and Adrian Kempe and Viktor Arvidsson scored power-play goals in the second period of the Los Angeles Kings’ 4-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.
  Gabriel Vilardi also scored during the Kings’ three-goal second period, and captain Anze Kopitar had two assists. Cal Petersen made 26 saves in an encouraging bounce-back victory for Los Angeles, which had lost three of four after a solid start to the season.
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• Christian Dvorak has 1st hat trick, Canadiens beat Blues 7-4

  30-10-2022 03:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Christian Dvorak had his first NHL hat trick and the Montreal Canadiens scored three times in a 4:50 span in the second period to rally for a 7-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night. 
  Dvorak completed the hat trick into an empty net with 1:35 remaining in the third period. He broke through after 13 two-goal games.
  Cole Caufield added two goals and Nick Suzuki and Juraj Slafkofsky also scored to help the Canadiens win for the second straight game.
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• Tiger-Cats roll past Redblacks 23-16 to extend win streak

  30-10-2022 02:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — With a 23-16 win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats wrapped up their CFL regular season on a four-game winning streak.
  In stark comparison, the Redblacks’ rough season (4-14) came to an embarrassing end with an 0-9 record at TD Place.
  Matt Shiltz, making his third start of the season, went 12-for-18 for 144 yards. Dane Evans took over in the third and played part of the fourth before Shiltz returned.
  Evans finished the game 7-for-9 for 117 yards,
  
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• Montour scores late in third, Panthers beat Senators 5-3

  30-10-2022 01:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Montour scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:32 remaining and the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Saturday. 
  Carter Verhaeghe had two goals and an assist for the Panthers, Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk each had a goal and two assists, and Montour also had two assists. Spencer Knight had 23 saves as Florida snapped a two-game skid.
  Shane Pinto, Brady Tkachuk and Nick Holden scored for the Senators, who have lost two straight. Anton Fo
  
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• Golden McIntosh: Canadian swim star Summer McIntosh wins gold again at World Cup

  30-10-2022 00:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada’s Summer McIntosh is back on top of the podium at the FINA Swimming World Cup. 
  She finished first in the women’s 400-metre medley final on Saturday evening at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
  McIntosh set a world junior record with a time of four minutes 21.49 seconds to lead a Canadian sweep. Sydney Pickrem of Halifax was second in 4:28.45 and Bailey Andison of Smiths Falls, Ont., was third in 4:29.36.
  McIntosh edged American star Katie Ledecky in the 4
  
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• Congo expels Rwandan ambassador after new rebel advance

  30-10-2022 00:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government ordered the Rwandan ambassador to leave the country within 48 hours Saturday after a rapid advance by M23 rebels near their shared border led two more towns to fall under rebel control.
  The expulsion of Ambassador Vincent Karega came the same day that M23 rebels doubled the territory they control. Congo has repeatedly accused Rwanda of backing the rebels, an allegation Rwanda has repeatedly denied.
  The decision by Congo’s high defense counc
  
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