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• Bedard on the Big E’s radar as Canada preps for world junior quarterfinals

  01-01-2023 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Connor Bedard wasn’t aware of the tweet.
  A genius with the puck capable of making opponents look foolish at any moment, the supremely gifted 17-year-old is singularly focused on the world junior hockey championship.
  He’s also on the verge of rewriting Canada’s record book at the event.
  And one of the game’s greats Bedard just equalled has taken note.
  “Don’t just break the record,” Eric Lindros posted to social media Sunday. “Smash i
  
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• Tottenham upset by resurgent Villa; Chelsea held at Forest

  01-01-2023 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — Any New Year’s resolution by Tottenham to stop conceding the first goal lasted less than one day as Aston Villa continued its revival under Unai Emery with a 2-0 away win in the Premier League on Sunday.
  Antonio Conte’s side has now conceded first in its last 10 matches, with Tottenham fifth in the standings following its latest disappointment.Emiliano Buendia took advantage of an error by Hugo Lloris in the Spurs goal to open the scoring at Tottenham Hotspur Stad
  
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• Canada’s Louttit crowds World Cup ski jump podium

  01-01-2023 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LJUBNO, Slovenia — Canada’s Alexandria Louttit finished just outside the medals in women’s World Cup ski jumping Sunday by placing fourth in Ljubno, Slovenia.
  Austria’s Eva Pinkelnig, Norway’s Anna Odine Stroem and Germany’s Selina Freitag finished first to third respectively.
  Louttit, an 18-year-old from Calgary, matched her career-best result after also finishing fourth last month in Villach, Austria.
  Calgary’s Abigail Strate was eighth in a field of 5
  
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• Premiers’ New Year’s messages talk economic improvement, health care, cost of living

  01-01-2023 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Premiers across the country used their New Year’s messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles.
  In his first New Year’s message as premier of British Columbia, David Eby says he’s honoured to celebrate the successes of 2022 “including the remarkable economic recovery in our province as we come out of the pandemic.” But he acknowledged challenges related to housing, health care and the cost of living.He says
  
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• 11 Hydro-Québec customers who lost power in winter storm yet to be reconnected

  01-01-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Hydro-Québec says almost all of its customers who lost power in a Dec. 23 winter storm have now been reconnected.
  Hydro spokesman Francis Labbé says 11 clients who lost power in the storm still don’t have electricity, after nearly 100 were reconnected earlier in the day. 
  He says all primary residences that lost power Dec. 23 have been reconnected and that 10 vacation properties and a sugar shack are still without power. 
  The storm, which brought wi
  
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• Stars sign veteran Joe Pavelski to extension through 2023-24

  01-01-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Veteran forward Joe Pavelski signed a one-year contract extension with the Dallas Stars on Sunday before he could have become an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season.
  The extension for the 2023-24 season has a base salary of US$3.5 million, along with an additional $2 million in potential performance bonuses.The 38-year-old Pavelski currently is in his fourth season with Dallas and his 17th in the NHL.Pavelski has appeared in all 38 games this season and i
  
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• Marlies’ Moore, Wranglers’ Love to coach in AHL all-star game

  01-01-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Greg Moore of the Toronto Marlies and Mitch Love of the Calgary Wranglers have been named to the coaching staff of the American Hockey League’s all-star event Feb. 5-6 in Laval, Que.
  Moore and Love join Todd Nelson of the Hershey Bears and Neil Graham of the Texas Stars behind the benches.
  The Marlies, Wranglers, Bears and Stars all owned the best record in their respective divisions as of Sunday.
  The Marlies were 19-9-1-1 under Moore, who took over as head coach
  
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• Canada’s COVID-19 travel restrictions for China a ‘political move,’ says expert

  01-01-2023 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  An expert says Canada’s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus.
  Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, calls the requirement a political move.
  The federal government said Saturday that people coming in from China, Hong Kong and Macao will have to test negative for COVID-19 before leaving for Canada.
  It says the requirement will apply to
  
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• Lula sworn in as president to lead polarized Brazil

  01-01-2023 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as president in the capital, Brasilia, assuming office for the third time after thwarting outgoing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection bid.Lula was president from 2003-2010, and his return to power marks the culmination of a political comeback that is both thrilling supporters and enraging opponents in a fiercely polarized nation.
  His presidency is unlikely to be similar to his previous two ma
  
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• Feds eyeing ‘variety of options’ for planned firearm buyback program: Mendicino

  01-01-2023 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is “looking at a variety of options” to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms — including enlisting outside help.
  Canadian police chiefs have urged the Liberal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to deliver the coming gun buyback.In May 2020, the government announced a ban through order-in-council on over 1,500 models and variants of what it considers assault-style f
  
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• Camouflaged cameraman a hit at world juniors: ‘I have the best seat in the house’

  01-01-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The last thing Nathan Eides wants – and he makes this abundantly clear – is to be in the spotlight.
  And yet there he is.
  Every TV timeout, every goal celebration, every victory, every defeat.
  Dressed head-to-toe in white, the camouflaged cameraman on skates is front and centre at the world junior men’s hockey championship inside Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre.
  “It’s not lost on me that I have the best seat in the house,” Eides said between t
  
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• Owen Beck replaces injured Colton Dach on Canadian junior men’s hockey team

  01-01-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Owen Beck has been added to Canada’s roster midway through the world junior men’s hockey championship because of Colton Dach’s tournament-ending injury.
  Beck of Port Hope, Ont., joins the host team in Halifax ahead of Monday’s quarterfinal against Slovakia.
  Dach went to the dressing room in the third period of Saturday’s 5-1 win over Sweden after delivering a check. He did not return to the game.
  Beck, 18, was drafted in the second round (33rd) by th
  
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• Minimum wage on Prince Edward Island increases to $14.50 - Chilliwack Progress

  01-01-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  Minimum wage on Prince Edward Island increases to $14.50  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bianca Andreescu rallies to beat Muguruza at Adelaide International

  01-01-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu rallied to beat Garbine Muguruza of Spain 0-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in a clash of Grand Slam champions Sunday in the first round of the Adelaide International.
  The 2019 US Open champion Andreescu trailed 0-6, 2-5 before staging a remarkable comeback to beat two-time major titlist Muguruza in two hours, 12 minutes. Andreescu improved her head-to-head record against former top-ranked Muguruza to 3-0.
  “In the second set I really had to
  
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• Arrest made in death of Réjean Hébert, longtime radio journalist in New Brunswick

  01-01-2023 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT-SIMON, NEW BRUNSWICK — A journalist well-known to listeners of French-language radio in New Brunswick has been killed and police are treating the death as a homicide.
  Donald Noël, the general manager of radio station CKRO, says Réjean Hébert was found dead Wednesday night outside his home in Saint-Simon, N.B., on the province’s Acadian Peninsula.
  New Brunswick RCMP say the death is being investigated as a homicide.
  Police spokesman Sgt. Luc Samson says a 29-y
  
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• B.C.’s New Year’s baby born in Abbotsford

  01-01-2023 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD— The first baby of 2023 in British Columbia, was born into the world in Abbotsford.
  The girl was born at 12:02 a.m. at Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre.
  She weighed 5 lbs. 10 oz.The provincial government announced the news via a tweet this morning (Jan. 1), congratulating the family.
  The name of the child or the family was not released.
  
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• B.C. poised for drug decriminalization experiment, but will it help stem deadly tide?

  01-01-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — People living in tents along about eight blocks of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside roam around on a chilly afternoon as some in the throes of addiction are hunched over on the sidewalk near storefronts.
  A woman wearing black and white striped pants strides along East Hastings Street yelling, apparently at no one, amid the hubbub of a flea market featuring everything from books to clothes and TVs from a bygone era.
  The Crosstown Clinic, North America’s only facility of
  
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• Weegar gives Flames big lift in 3-2 win over Canucks

  01-01-2023 07:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Defenceman Mackenzie Weegar notched his first goal as a Flame and added an assist Saturday night to lead Calgary to a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
  Elias Lindholm and Blake Coleman also scored for Calgary (18-13-7), which has points in 12 of its last 15 (8-3-4) games.
  Sheldon Dries and Elias Pettersson replied for Vancouver (16-17-3), which has dropped two straight on the road after winning seven in a row in opposition rinks.
  Getting the start for the Flames, Jacob Markstro
  
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• Hellebuyck props up Jets in 2-1 win over Oilers

  01-01-2023 07:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Neal Pionk and Kyle Connor each had a goal and an assist as the Winnipeg Jets pushed past the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Saturday night.
  Connor Hellebuyck had 31 saves for the Jets (23-13-1) who have won two in a row.
  Klim Kostin replied for the Oilers (20-16-2) who had a two-game winning streak halted and have lost four straight at home.
  Edmonton controlled most of the early action, but it was Winnipeg that struck first with a power-play goal with 4:16 remaining in the opening peri
  
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• TOP STORIES 2022: Chilliwack athletes compete on world stage - Chilliwack Progress

  01-01-2023 05:00 via news.google.com
  TOP STORIES 2022: Chilliwack athletes compete on world stage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bunting scores two, Leafs top Avalanche 6-2

  01-01-2023 04:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENVER (AP) — Michael Bunting had two goals, Auston Matthews and T.J. Brodie scored 24 seconds apart in the second period, and the Toronto Maple Leafs spoiled Nathan MacKinnon’s return with a 6-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night.
  Matthews added an assist to his 18th goal, Mitch Marner and Pierre Engvall also scored, and Matt Murray stopped 26 shots for Toronto.
  MacKinnon missed 10 games with an upper-body injury suffered Dec. 5 against Philadelphia. His initial timel
  
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• Red Wings score three in third to sink Senators 4-2

  01-01-2023 04:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DETROIT (AP) — Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist, and the Detroit Red Wings scored three times in the first 3 1/2 minutes of the third period to beat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Saturday night.
  Elmer Soderblom had the go-ahead goal for the Red Wings, who trailed 2-1 entering the final period. Pius Suter and Michael Rasmussen also scored, while Magnus Hellberg made 20 saves.
  Austin Watson and Claude Giroux scored for the Senators, and Cam Talbot stopped 21 shots.
  Drake Batherson extende
  
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• Bedard’s four assists lead Canada over Sweden on New Year’s Eve at world juniors

  01-01-2023 03:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Connor Bedard had four assists to tie Eric Lindros for Canada’s all-time points record at the world junior hockey championship as the tournament hosts wrapped up preliminary round play with a dominant 5-1 victory over Sweden on Saturday night.
  Brennan Othmann, with two, Joshua Roy, Tyson Hinds and Kevin Korchinski scored for the Canadians. Thomas Milic made 22 saves. Ludvig Jansson replied for Sweden, which got 39 stops from Carl Lindbom.
  Canada, which wore its black jersey
  
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• Man arrested in Victoria assaults where women were splashed with chemical liquid

  01-01-2023 02:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Police in Victoria are looking for more potential victims or witnesses after a man was arrested for a series of assaults in the city’s downtown where women were allegedly splashed with a burning liquid.
  The department previously asked for the public’s help investigating two separate cases where women had a liquid splashed on their legs, causing burning and skin irritation. 
  Police say that since November, there have been more similar incidents targeting women in
  
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• TOP STORIES 2022: Chilliwack artist makes international headlines ... - Chilliwack Progress

  01-01-2023 01:30 via news.google.com
  TOP STORIES 2022: Chilliwack artist makes international headlines ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C.’s Health Minister supports COVID-19 testing for travellers from China

  01-01-2023 01:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s health minister says he supports Ottawa’s decision to temporarily require people flying from China, Hong Kong and Macao to test negative for COVID-19 before leaving for Canada, beginning in early January.
  Adrian Dix says in a news release that the province will continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation around the world while working with its federal partners to ensure the public is protected and informed.
  The federal government says the m
  
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• Ovechkin nets hat trick, Caps crush Canadiens 9-2

  01-01-2023 01:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin recorded his 30th career hat trick to speed up his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s goal record, Charlie Lindgren made 31 saves against his first NHL team and the Washington Capitals skated circles around the Montreal Canadiens on the way to a 9-2 rout Saturday.
  Ovechkin’s 804th, 805th and 806th career goals put him 88 back of Gretzky’s mark that long seemed unapproachable. He has scored six times in four games to reach 26 this season, past the h
  
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