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• Expansion St. Louis City gets to pick up to 5 players in MLS expansion draft Friday

  10-11-2022 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Expansion St. Louis City FC gets to grow its roster Friday via the MLS expansion draft.The league’s 29th team already has 12 players on its roster including two designated players — German midfielder Eduard Lowen and Brazilian forward Joao Klauss — as well as Canadian defender Kyle Hiebert.
  St. Louis can select up to five players from the eligible expansion pool, but only a single player from any one club. Teams that have a player selected will receive US$50,000 in general allo
  
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• Slipchuk happy to see Russian doping scandal at Beijing Games has gone to CAS

  10-11-2022 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Mike Slipchuk is pleased to finally see movement on the controversial team figure skating event at last year’s Beijing Olympics. 
  But he laments the lost moment on the medal podium for all the affected skaters.
  The World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday it sent the Beijing Olympics case of teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva to sport’s highest court, accusing Russian officials of making no progress toward resolving it.
  In one of the biggest scandals of the Beijing Games, Valieva
  
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• Wellness centres to open in Chilliwack soon with Council decision

  10-11-2022 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Three new shelters will open to protect homeless residents from the frigid temperatures that are expected over the winter months in the Fraser Valley.
  During a special council meeting Wednesday (Nov. 9) morning, elected officials voted to temporarily not enforce zoning bylaws in three locations where wellness centres will be established. “Council acknowledges how important it is for people experiencing homelessness to have a safe, warm indoor space to go during the winte
  
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• Quebec sits top of table at mixed curling championship with win over Northern Ontario

  10-11-2022 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Felix Asselin’s Quebec rink moved atop the championship pool standings with a 6-2 win over Northern Ontario on Thursday at the Canadian mixed curling championship.
  The second draw on Thursday was the first since teams were split into the championship and seeding pools following the conclusion of Wednesday’s action.
  The top four teams from pool A and pool B moved to the championship pool, carrying over their records. The top four championship pool teams at
  
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• Ontario man arrested, awaiting U.S. extradition for alleged global ransomware crimes

  10-11-2022 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A Russian-Canadian man from Ontario is in police custody and awaiting extradition to the United States for his alleged participation in a global ransomware campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
  Mikhail Vasiliev, a 33-year-old dual Russian and Canadian national from Bradford, Ont., is charged with conspiracy to intentionally damage protected computers and to transmit ransom demands in connection with his alleged role in the LockBit global ransomware scheme, the department s
  
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• LETTER: RCMP didn’t deal with this reader’s credit card fraud - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
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• UBC project seeks input from COVID long-haulers - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 22:51 via news.google.com
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• More than 20 years after she retired from skating, Stellato-Dudek has Olympic dreams

  10-11-2022 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Deanna Stellato-Dudek was attending a business retreat in 2016 and as part of a team-building exercise was asked: What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
  With no hesitation she said: Win an Olympic gold medal.
  Stellato-Dudek was a world junior silver medallist for the U.S. in singles figure skating in 2000, but a strained hip flexor suffered later that year was the latest in a long line of injuries, and she retired. 
  Sixteen years later, that team-building exercise hit a nerv
  
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• Jury: Filmmaker Haggis liable for $7.5 million in rape suit

  10-11-2022 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall. The jury also decided that additional punitive damages should be awarded, but the amount is to be decided later.
  Veering from sex to red-carpet socializing to Scientology, the civil court trial pitted Haggis, known for writing best picture Os
  
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• Canada Soccer announces multi-year sponsorship deal with CIBC

  10-11-2022 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  On the eve of the World Cup in Qatar, Canada Soccer has announced a multi-year sponsorship agreement with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce that involves Canada’s national teams, the Canadian Premier League and grassroots soccer.
  The deal will see CIBC’s logo “prominently placed” on the men’s, women’s and para national teams’ training apparel as well as Canada Soccer House in Doha.
  The CIBC logo becomes the front-of-jersey sponsor for Vancouver FC, the
  
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• Vaping company Juul cuts 400 jobs amid growing setbacks - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 22:30 via news.google.com
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• Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover: Report - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 22:30 via news.google.com
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• Tim Hortons brand soup base recalled for containing insects - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 22:30 via news.google.com
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• Quebec man faces murder charge three years after fatal head-on highway crash

  10-11-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say a man has been charged with second-degree murder after a head-on highway collision killed another man more than three years ago.
  Jano Vincent, 33, was arrested at his home in St-Polycarpe, Que., on Wednesday.
  The fatal crash occurred on Oct. 6, 2019, on Highway 50 near Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, in the province’s Laurentians region.
  Police say Vincent was one of the drivers involved in the collision and allegedly made a manoeuvre that led to the d
  
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• Alouettes putting ‘character on the line’ for East final against Argonauts

  10-11-2022 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Flying high after a statement win in the East Division semifinal, the Montreal Alouettes are locked in for their biggest game yet. 
  The Alouettes will head to Toronto for Sunday’s East final clash against the Argonauts with a chip on their shoulders after a 28-17 win over Hamilton last week. 
  Two wins away from a Grey Cup ring, the team is fuelled by the fact it was in the depths of the CFL standings early in the season.
  “Shoot, everybody knows the story of
  
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• U.S. resumes study of restoring grizzlies to Washington state national park - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 21:35 via news.google.com
  U.S. resumes study of restoring grizzlies to Washington state national park  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Labrador MP Yvonne Jones taking leave of absence for breast cancer treatment

  10-11-2022 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Labrador member of Parliament Yvonne Jones is taking a leave of absence to deal with a recurrence of breast cancer.
  The parliamentary secretary to the ministers of natural resources and of northern affairs says in a social media video that she was diagnosed in September.
  Jones says the diagnosis came in the early stages of the disease, adding that she’ll be stepping back from her duties to undergo treatment and surgery as required.
  She has been in politics since the early 19
  
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• LETTER: Let's build a Popove-drop off zone downtown Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 21:00 via news.google.com
  LETTER: Let's build a Popove-drop off zone downtown Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian women look to extend four-game win streak in two-match series in Brazil

  10-11-2022 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada, boosted by the return of captain Christine Sinclair and Ashley Lawrence, take on a familiar foe in Brazil on Friday in the first of a two-game international friendly series.
  The seventh-ranked Canadian women meet No. 9 Brazil in Santos first before the return match Tuesday in Sao Paulo.
  Canada has an 8-9-9 record against Brazil since they first met in 1996. 
  Their most recent meeting was at the Tokyo Olympics where the Canadians prevailed 4-3 in a penalty shootout after the quarterf
  
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• 94% of municipal police in Surrey, B.C., sign vow not to join ‘toxic’ RCMP: union

  10-11-2022 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — The union representing members of the fledgling Surrey Police Service says its officers and civilian workers have “no intention” of joining the RCMP, should the municipal force be scrapped.
  A statement from the Surrey Police Union says 94 per cent of its members have signed a pledge to refuse to apply to, or join, the Mounties, if newly elected Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke makes good on a campaign promise to cancel the city’s switch from the national police fo
  
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• Sentencing arguments continue for former CFL player convicted of voyeurism

  10-11-2022 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Sentencing arguments are continuing for a former player with the Calgary Stampeders who filmed a sexual encounter with a woman without her permission.
  Jerome Messam, who is 37, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of voyeurism. 
  Court heard Messam and the woman followed each other on social media while he was a running back for the football team. 
  On Nov. 11, 2016, they had dinner together and then had consensual sex at Messam’s apartment. 
  Three mont
  
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• Illinois elects Democrat Eric Sorensen to US House seat

  10-11-2022 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHICAGO (AP) — A battleground race between newbies aiming to fill retiring U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos’ seat in Illinois’ 17th district tipped in Democrat Eric Sorensen’s favor, representing a key win for the party as it tries to maintain control of Congress.
  Sorenson, a meteorologist from Rockford, defeated Republican Esther Joy King, a lawyer who serves in the Army Reserve, in Tuesday’s election. The northwestern Illinois district stretches from Rockford in the north t
  
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• Raptors Achiuwa has ligament tears in ankle, will wear walking boot for 10 days

  10-11-2022 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto Raptors forward Precious Achiuwa has been diagnosed with partial ligament tears in his right ankle, and is listed as out indefinitely.
  Achiuwa injured the ankle and had to be helped off the court during the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s 116-109 victory over the Houston Rockets.
  The Raptors said Thursday that he will wear a walking boot for the next 10 days.
  Achiuwa is averaging 8.8 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 20.4 minutes in 12 games this season. He has scored in double f
  
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• OPINION: Supreme Court decision a setback for justice for Indigenous offenders - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 20:29 via news.google.com
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• Trudeau to take off for international meetings, starting with Cambodia ASEAN summit

  10-11-2022 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to take off late tonight for a flurry of international meetings across four countries, starting in Cambodia. 
  Trudeau is due in Phnom Penh for a leaders’ meeting at the Association of South East Asian Nations summit.
  Canada is in trade negotiations with the economically booming bloc of 10 countries in the region.
  But experts have warned that Canadian engagement with ASEAN has been sporadic, leading to skepticism from the organiz
  
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• Quebec Liberals name Marc Tanguay interim leader after Anglade resignation

  10-11-2022 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — The Quebec Liberal Party has named veteran member Marc Tanguay as interim leader days after the previous leader stepped down.
  Tanguay will replace Dominique Anglade, who resigned Monday, five weeks after the party suffered a crushing election defeat.
  The Liberals maintained official Opposition status in the Oct. 3 election but saw their share of the popular vote drop below 15 per cent, receiving fewer votes than Québéc solidaire and the Parti Québécois.
  
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• Alex Jones ordered to pay $473M more to Sandy Hook families

  10-11-2022 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.
  Connecticut Judge Barabara Bellis imposed the punitive damages on the Infowars host and Free Speech Systems. Jones repeatedly told his millions of followers t he massacre that killed 20 first graders and six edu
  
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• Democracy the clear champion in U.S. midterm elections, say envoys in D.C., Ottawa

  10-11-2022 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The ambassadors representing Canada and the United States in each other’s capitals say democracy was the true winner in Tuesday’s midterm elections. 
  Both David Cohen, Washington’s envoy in Ottawa, and Kirsten Hillman, the top Canadian diplomat in D.C., say strong voter turnout is a sign of health in the U.S. political system. 
  The final outcome remains to be determined. 
  As the counting of votes continues out west, Republicans are on track for
  
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• Larger-than-expected interest rate hikes would lead to economic contraction: PBO

  10-11-2022 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the Canadian economy would contract slightly in 2023 if central banks raise interest rates more than anticipated. 
  The PBO published a report Thursday that assesses what would happen if the Bank of Canada and U.S. Federal Reserve raise interest rates by one percentage point more than anticipated. 
  In that scenario, the Canadian economy would contract by 0.3 per cent in 2023 and grow by 1.3 per cent in 2024. 
  The PBO says the une
  
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• Quebec to hire more nurses to address overcrowding in north after death of 10 infants

  10-11-2022 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Health officials in northern Quebec say they are taking steps to hire more nurses and Inuit staff after a coroner’s report released last month linked the deaths of 10 infants in the region to overcrowding. 
  The regional health board said today that a recruitment drive is underway to hire more nurses to vaccinate children against disease and offer preventive services to the Inuit communities of Nunavik.
  The health agency says it is also trying to hire Inuit staff who u
  
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• Werner Härtl Creates Beautiful Paintings… Out of Cow Poop

  10-11-2022 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!German artist Werner Härtl creates intricate paintings celebrating Bavaria’s rural heritage while using a surprising medium: cow dung! 
  Poop Portrait
  Despite the strange “paint,” Werner’s monochromatic artworks resemble sepia photographs, rich in detail. He first happened upon the idea of using cow dung as a medium while working as a farmhand. 
  One of Werner’s cow poop paintings. Courtesy Werner Härtle and P
  
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• Canadian women look to earn bronze by beating France at Rugby World Cup

  10-11-2022 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Coach Kevin Rouet knows the challenge that awaits Canada in Friday’s bronze-medal match at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
  The 35-year-old Rouet is French, although he now calls Quebec City home. And prior to the World Cup, he had a five-month stint coaching a club side in Bordeaux.
  “I know all those French girls,” he said. “I know the style of play in France. This is maybe an advantage for us, I can say that. And some of the (Canadian) girls play in France also.&rdqu
  
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• Alouettes’ Worthy long past point of seeking redemption versus Argos

  10-11-2022 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Chandler Worthy is exactly where he thought he’d be.
  When CFL training camps opened in May, the veteran receiver/returner expected to end the season in the Grey Cup game. He’s one win away from doing so but what Worthy didn’t know was it wouldn’t be with the Toronto Argonauts.
  Worthy spent his first three CFL seasons with Toronto (2017, 2019, 2021) before being released following the Argos’ first exhibition game May 29. Two days later, the five-foot-eight, 177-pound
  
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• VIDEO: People with disabilities raise voices at international climate talks - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 18:37 via news.google.com
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• Israelis, Palestinians can fly on same flights to World Cup

  10-11-2022 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Soccer fans from Israel and the Palestinian territories will be able to fly directly to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar from Tel Aviv for the first time, soccer’s global governing body announced Thursday. The development is a breakthrough agreement for Israel and Qatar — two countries without diplomatic relations.
  The charter flights to Doha from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv for the tournament starting Nov. 20 will be open to all Palestinians, FIFA
  
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• B.C. group wants better use of federal flood recovery fund in Abbotsford area

  10-11-2022 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — A group in British Columbia wants better accountability for the use of a $5-billion recovery fund as provincial, municipal and Indigenous officials prepare to issue an update on repairs around Abbotsford since catastrophic floods last year.
  The Indigenous-led collaborative seeking more integrated and resilient flood planning says there is little information about how the recovery fund has been allocated or spent.
  The federal government provided the fund last December, ju
  
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• Calgary man who killed girlfriend and her 22-month-old daughter to be sentenced

  10-11-2022 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A man who killed a woman and her young daughter and buried them in a shallow grave west of Calgary is scheduled to be sentenced this afternoon.
  Robert Leeming, who is 37, pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Jasmine Lovett, but not guilty in the death of 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson.
  He was convicted earlier this year of second-degree murder in the child’s death.
  Leeming must serve an automatic life sentence for the second-degree murder convictions, but a Court of
  
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• Tam warns of flu upswing, new COVID-19 variants as viral triple threat continues

  10-11-2022 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top doctor is warning of “increased growth” in new COVID-19 variants and an upswing in seasonal influenza cases, just as a surge of respiratory syncytial virus inundates hospitals.
  Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the triple threat of all three viruses is posing a challenge for the health system in several parts of the country and points to the need for “stepped up precautions.”
  Although a recent surge of COVID-19 cases seem t
  
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• First responders trained on how to avoid mistaking body for mannequin: Quebec coroner

  10-11-2022 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SHERBROOKE, Que. — A coroner’s report into the death of a Quebec woman whose body was mistaken for a mannequin says police and firefighters have received training to help them avoid making similar errors.
  Laurette Therrien, 64, died in July 2020 after setting herself on fire in a field near a factory in Sherbrooke, Que., 150 kilometres east of Montreal.
  Witnesses had thought a silicone mannequin had been set ablaze.
  Police put the body into a dumpster after speaking to witnesses and
  
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• Hometown players powering Chilliwack Jets in 2022-23 - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 17:45 via news.google.com
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• Section of destroyed shuttle Challenger found on ocean floor

  10-11-2022 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed a schoolteacher and six others.
  NASA’s Kennedy Space Center announced the discovery Thursday.“Upon first hearing about it, it brings you right back to 1986,” said Michael Ciannilli, a NASA manager in charge of the remains of both lost shuttles, Challenger and Columbia.In a N
  
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• Relationship between nature, people is damaged and poses danger, UN leaders say

  10-11-2022 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The heads of the United Nations office behind a global conference on biodiversity loss next month in Montreal say the more we destroy nature, the higher the risk of pandemics like COVID-19.
  They say the meeting in December is a critical moment that should raise biodiversity loss to the same level of concern the world has about climate change.
  Elizabeth Mrema, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, says eroding habitats and destruction of wildlife are mak
  
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• Japan, US hold joint arms drills amid China, North Korea worry - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 17:35 via news.google.com
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• Canada Soccer president predicts labour talks will produce ‘epic, historical’ deal - Chilliwack Progress

  10-11-2022 17:30 via news.google.com
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• Veterans Ejim, Scrubbs to lead Canada in key FIBA World Cup qualifying game

  10-11-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Canadian veterans Melvin Ejim and Phil and Thomas Scrubb headline the national men’s basketball roster for Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Venezuela. 
  The Canadians are just one win away from qualifying for next summer’s World Cup. They’re 8-0 and the only undefeated team in Americas zone qualifying. Venezuela is 7-1. 
  The team gathered earlier this week for training camp in Edmonton ahead of the game at the Edmonton EXPO Centre.
  While se
  
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• Recently retired P.K. Subban joining ESPN as hockey analyst

  10-11-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  P.K. Subban has become a full-time member of ESPN’s hockey team after contributing during last season’s Stanley Cup playoff coverage.
  Subban, who retired in September, has signed a three-year agreement with ESPN. He will work mainly as a studio analyst but will handle some games during the season.
  “I’ve known for a few weeks now. It’s been tough to have known what I was gonna do that and just kind of keep it close to the chest. But I’m excited now that we&rsqu
  
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• The War Against Spotted Lanternflies, as Told by a Native Pennsylvanian

  10-11-2022 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!As someone who was born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am well aware of the weirdness of the Keystone State. From a town that’s perpetually on fire to Philly murdering a peaceful hitch-hiking robot, we’re a really fun and wacky place. But when it comes to spotted lanternflies, we mean business. 
  I remember the first time I saw one of these horrendous bugs in person. I was taking my lunch break outside when all of a sudden, this big, red-bodi
  
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• Devils give Martin Brodeur new contract, exec VP title

  10-11-2022 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEWARK, N.J. — Hall of Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur has been named executive vice president of hockey operations and given a new multi-year contract extension by the New Jersey Devils.
  Devils’ general manager Tom Fitzgerald announced Thursday that Brodeur will be staying with the organization after spending the last 2 1/2 years serving as an adviser to hockey operations and on the business side.
  “Working with Tom’s group for the past few years, I have seen firsthand wha
  
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• Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to Donald Trump reviewing plea offer: lawyer

  10-11-2022 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former United States president Donald Trump says she is likely to accept a plea deal.
  Federal public defender Eugene Ohm told a Washington D.C. District Court today that his client has a number of questions about the details of the offer made by federal prosecutors.
  Pascale Ferrier, 55, is alleged to have mailed in September 2020 an envelope containing the poising ricin to the White House and faces four federal
  
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• Road surface problems lead to closure of newly developed Marshall Road Connector

  10-11-2022 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The City of Abbotsford is closing a portion of the newly opened Marshall Road Connector. It says some settlement is occurring, leading to dips in the road surface. It says it is closing the road for safety reasons.
  The area affected is the Connector on King Road from Ross Road to east of the gravel operations near Bradner Road.
  With the road closed, crews will be able to do a further assessment of the roadway to determine the issue behind the settling. No date has been set to
  
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