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• Grief gives way to anger over Turkey’s earthquake response - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 23:45
  
  Grief gives way to anger over Turkey’s earthquake response  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Unidentified object’ downed over Lake Huron, 3rd this week - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 23:39
  
  ‘Unidentified object’ downed over Lake Huron, 3rd this week  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Owl rescued from Prince Edward Island field to be taken to Nova Scotia for treatment

  12-02-2023 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As darkness descended and temperatures plunged in a Prince Edward Island field, Dennis MacKenzie tried to coax a scared, injured barred owl down from a spruce tree.
  He had no plans to visit the field in Crapaud, P.E.I., en route to drop his sons off for a basketball game at their school, but he was struck when his car lights picked out a little head bobbing in and out of a ditch along the roadside.
  He soon recognized it as an owl’s head and realized the bird was trying to cross the street.
  
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• Turkish-Canadian Society calls for faster deployment of rescue teams after disasters

  12-02-2023 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Sina Kutluay, a member of the Turkish-Canadian Society, says his group is calling for a change in the way Canada deploys rescue crews to international disasters after only one team deployed to Turkey.
  He says the group was disheartened that the Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue team from British Columbia, which self-deployed last week, will remain the only Canadian crew in the quake zone, as the Vancouver consulate said a deadline for others to participate had expired.
  The team m
  
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• Ottawa speedskater Ivanie Blondin takes silver in World Cup mass start

  12-02-2023 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOMASZÓW MAZOWIECKI, Poland — Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin took silver in the women’s mass start event Sunday at the second-last World Cup speedskating stop of the season.
  The 32-year-old picked up her fourth World Cup podium of the season in the distance in a time of nine minutes 34.47 seconds.
  Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands (9:34.23) took the gold medal while American Mia Kilburg (9:34.61) finished with bronze.
  Blondin was well positioned for the final sprint but was
  
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• B.C. snowboarder Darcy Sharpe wins World Cup slopestyle gold in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 22:50
  
  B.C. snowboarder Darcy Sharpe wins World Cup slopestyle gold in ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Police watchdog investigating November death of UBC student - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 22:30
  
  Police watchdog investigating November death of UBC student  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Unidentified object’ downed over Lake Huron, 3rd this week

  12-02-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said an “unidentified object” has been shot down Sunday for the third time in as many days, this time over Lake Huron, after earlier downings in Alaska and Canada.
  Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., tweeted that “the object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard.” A U.S. official confirmed the shootdown.
  U.S. and Canadian authorities earlier Sunday restricted some airspace over the lake as aircraft were scrambl
  
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• UPDATE: Car crashes into Mission Tim Hortons - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 22:06
  
  UPDATE: Car crashes into Mission Tim Hortons  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Car crashes into Mission Tim Hortons - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 22:06
  
  Car crashes into Mission Tim Hortons  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian snowboard Darcy Sharpe wins World Cup slopestyle gold in Calgary

  12-02-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canadian snowboarder Darcy Sharpe won men’s World Cup slopestyle gold Sunday in Calgary.
  The 27-year-old from Comox, B.C., posted a winning score of 88.85 points in the second of his three runs. Sharpe’s victory was the first of his career in slopestyle.
  Dusty Henricksen of the United States was second with 82.66 and Sharpe’s Canadian teammate, Cameron Spalding of Moonstone, Ont., took third with 77.33.
  Julia Marino of the United States won women’s gold ah
  
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• Harris scores two, Canadiens defeat Oilers 6-2 for back-to-back wins

  12-02-2023 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Jordan Harris had his first career two-goal game as the Montreal Canadiens earned wins on back-to-back afternoons with a convincing 6-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. 
  Alex Belzile, Josh Anderson, Rafael Harvey-Pinard and Christian Dvorak added goals for Montreal (22-27-4). Evgenii Dadonov and Jonathan Drouin each recorded two assists.
  Jake Allen made 30 saves. 
  Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane scored for Edmonton (30-19-5). Connor McDavid was left off the
  
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• Cardi B brings energy at pre-Super Bowl concert, joins crowd - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 21:30
  
  Cardi B brings energy at pre-Super Bowl concert, joins crowd  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Birthday girl needs a miracle: Kelowna child prepares for chemo - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 21:00
  
  Birthday girl needs a miracle: Kelowna child prepares for chemo  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada women’s soccer team reluctantly returns to training under protest in Florida

  12-02-2023 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As promised, the Canadian women’s soccer team returned to training Sunday in Florida.
  But they did so under protest after Canada Soccer threatened legal action if they continued their job action.
  “We are being forced back to work for the next few weeks.” midfielder Quinn, who goes by one name, said on social media. “While stepping on a field continuing to provide labour for an organization that upholds gender inequality goes against every fibre of my being, I will continu
  
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• Object over Yukon ordered shot down because of threat posed to aircraft: Trudeau

  12-02-2023 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian recovery teams are searching the Yukon wilderness for the remnants of an object shot down by American military planes Saturday afternoon and which the United States is now identifying as a small surveillance balloon.
  “recovery teams” are searching for the downed object, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday, so they can analyze it.
  “There’s still much to know about it,” he said. “That’s why the analysis of this object is going
  
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• U.S. holds drills in South China Sea amid tensions with China - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 19:30
  
  U.S. holds drills in South China Sea amid tensions with China  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• U.S. army sees safety, not ‘wokeness,’ as top recruiting obstacle - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 19:30
  
  U.S. army sees safety, not ‘wokeness,’ as top recruiting obstacle  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Super Bowl ads keep it light by using nostalgia and stars - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 19:30
  
  Super Bowl ads keep it light by using nostalgia and stars  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Rehab contract sparks fresh battle between veterans and the Liberal ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 19:30
  
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• Sens goalie Forsberg out indefinitely with MCL tear in both knees

  12-02-2023 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa Senators goaltender Anton Forsberg is out indefinitely after tearing the medial collateral ligament in both of his knees during a game Saturday against Edmonton.
  Senators general manager Pierre Dorion updated Forsberg’s status after the team’s practice on Sunday.
  Forsberg was injured late in the third period when Senators defenceman Travis Hamonic pushed Oilers winger Zach Hyman on top of the goaltender during a goalmouth scramble.
  Forsberg had to be removed from the ice on a
  
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• Sarault skates to victory; Canada sweeps women’s 1,000 short-track races at World Cup

  12-02-2023 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DORDRECHT, Netherlands — Canada swept the women’s 1,000-metre races at a World Cup speedskating event in the Netherlands after Courtney Sarault raced to victory in Sunday’s race.
  Sarault, from Moncton, N.B., topped the field in one minute 32.93 seconds.
  Gilli Kim of South Korea was second in 1:33.037, followed by Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands in 1:33.137.
  Four-time Olympic medallist Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., won gold in Saturday’s 1,000-metre race.
  The Canadi
  
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• Canadian skier Alexander claims downhill bronze in impressive world championship debut

  12-02-2023 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COURCHEVEL, France — Cameron Alexander’s impressive result in his first world championship race was no surprise to teammate James Crawford.
  Alexander, from North Vancouver, B.C., finished in one minute 47.94 seconds, 0.89 seconds behind winner Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, to take the bronze medal in Sunday’s men’s downhill at the alpine skiing world championships.
  It was Canada’s second medal of the worlds after Crawford won the super-G earlier this week.
  Alexande
  
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• Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 17:30
  
  Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Online romance scammers may have a new wingman — artificial ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 17:20
  
  Online romance scammers may have a new wingman — artificial ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Cyprus exit poll shows ex-minister leading presidential vote

  12-02-2023 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An exit poll from the presidential election in ethnically divided Cyprus shows a former foreign minister leading a career diplomat by a tight margin in a runoff vote.According to Sunday’s exit poll by state broadcaster CyBC, Nikos Christodoulides, the ex-minister, garnered 50.5% to 53.5% against 46.5% to 49.5% for veteran diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis.
  Christodoulides campaigned as a unifying force, eschewing ideological and party divisions, while Mavroyiannis
  
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• Turkey detains building contractors as quake deaths pass 33K

  12-02-2023 15:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors, including a pregnant woman and two small children, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings.
  The death toll from Monday’s quakes that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria stood at 33,179 on Sunday and was certain to rise as search terms locate more bodies in the rubble. Au
  
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• CRIMESTOPPERS: ‘Most wanted’ for the week of Feb. 12 - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 14:30
  
  CRIMESTOPPERS: ‘Most wanted’ for the week of Feb. 12  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Asylum seekers using well-organized system for crossing irregularly into Canada

  12-02-2023 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Moments after a Greyhound bus from New York City pulls into a gas station bus stop in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Friday at 5:25 a.m., several minivan taxis swarm the vehicle.
  About a dozen passengers descend from the bus — mostly single men, but also several couples and a family with three young daughters. They are greeted by four pushy taxi drivers.
  The drivers begin to shout: “Frontera!” — the Spanish word for border — “Roxham Road! 60 doll
  
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• Rehab contract sparks fresh battle between veterans and the Liberal government

  12-02-2023 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A multimillion-dollar contract between Ottawa and a private company around the provision of mental and physical health services for veterans is sparking a new fight between the Liberal government and Canada’s community of veterans.
  The contract had already been heavily criticized by the union representing Veterans Affairs Canada employees, including hundreds of case managers charged with helping the most ill and injured recover from their service-related wounds.
  But now othe
  
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• Questions remain about city governance for coming days, weeks and months

  12-02-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Torontonians will return to the polls just months after October’s municipal election saw John Tory cruise to what was supposed to be a third full term.
  But just when the byelection will take place remains unclear, with a city spokesperson saying as of yet, Tory has not submitted a formal letter of resignation to the City Clerk and therefore remains mayor.
  After two relatively scandal-free terms at City Hall, Tory detonated a political bombshell late Friday when he admitted to having an &ld
  
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• Online romance scammers may have a new wingman — artificial intelligence

  12-02-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The voice you hear on the other end of your phone call may not be who you think it is, the person you’re texting with may really be a bot and the face in a photo or video on your favourite dating app may not even exist.
  Technological advancements in artificial intelligence create the potential to fuel romance scams, said Jeff Clune, an associate professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.
  Scammers now have “more tools in their tool box to ho
  
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• Wheeler navigates Jets to 4-1 win over Blackhawks

  12-02-2023 07:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Blake Wheeler scored twice and added an assist as the Winnipeg Jets defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 on Saturday night.
  Fresh off his first appearance at the NHL all-star game, Jets’ defenceman Josh Morrissey scored once and added a helper for the Jets, who won their second straight and improved to 33-19-1.
  Connor Hellebuyck made 31 saves for Winnipeg, which swept its four-game season series against Chicago.
  Tyler Johnson scored for the Blackhawks (16-30-5), who were co
  
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• Calgary’s Stephen Ames wins PGA Tour Champions event in Morocco

  12-02-2023 04:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RABAT, Morocco — Calgary’s Stephen Ames fired a final round 73 on Saturday to finish off a wire-to-wire victory at the Trophy Hassan II tournament in Morocco.
  Ames finished the three-round PGA Tour Champions event with a 9-under total of 210, five shots better than runner-up Mark Hensby of Australia.
  Ames, who burst from the gate with what would tie for the low round of the tournament in the first round — a 6-under 67 that included eight birdies — needed only 18 pars in t
  
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• Blue Jackets down Maple Leafs 4-3 to spoil Woll’s home debut and split back-to-back

  12-02-2023 04:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Kent Johnson scored the winner in the third period as the last-place Columbus Blue Jackets downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Saturday to split a back-to-back.
  Boone Jenner and Kirill Marchenko, with a goal and an assist each, and Sean Kuraly provided the rest of the offence for Columbus (16-33-4), which got 27 saves from Elvis Merzlikins.
  William Nylander, with a goal and an assist, Michael Bunting and Morgan Rielly replied for Toronto (32-14-8). Mitch Marner added two assist
  
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• Canadian women end strike over threat of legal action from Canada Soccer

  12-02-2023 03:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Facing the threat of legal action from Canada Soccer, the Canadian women’s team has agreed to return to training and play in the SheBelieves Cup.
  The women had boycotted training in Florida on Saturday, saying they would not take the field unless their grievances against the governing body were addressed.
  They demanded the same backing in preparing for this summer’s World Cup that the men received last year before Qatar. And they wanted Canada Soccer to open its books. They also obje
  
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• Scheffler holds WM Phoenix Open lead, Taylor 2 shots back

  12-02-2023 02:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to successfully defend his title and regain the No. 1 spot in the world.
  The second-ranked Scheffler shot a 3-under 68 in front of some 200,000 fans at TPC Scottsdale to get to 13-under, two strokes ahead of third-ranked Jon Rahm and Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C.
  Rahm also had a 68, holing a curling 40-footer for birdie on the stadium 16th for his third birdie in four holes. Taylor shot
  
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• Montreal Force blank Toronto Six 3-0 in all-Canadian PHF battle

  12-02-2023 02:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Tricia Deguire earned the shutout as the visiting Montreal Force blanked the Toronto Six 3-0 in an all-Canadian Premier Hockey Federation showdown on Saturday.
  Deguire, a 26-year-old netminder from Sherbrooke, Que., turned away 39 Toronto shots, including 22 in the second period.
  Samantha Isbell had a goal and an assist for the Force who peppered Toronto goaltender Elaine Chuli with 32 shots. Chuli was making her 12th start of the season.
  Sarah Lefort (power play) and Ann-Sophie
  
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• Miura and Kihara win Four Continents skating championship, Canadians finish third

  12-02-2023 01:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara became the first Japanese pairs skaters to win the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships when they overcame a couple of mistakes in their free skate to easily win the title Saturday.
  Unbeaten in international competition this year, Kihara spun out on the final double axel of their opening jump sequence, and the pair was sloppy on their triple salchow and throw triple flip. But it was still good enough to score 137.05 points for a total of 208.24, and easily o
  
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• Displaced Merritt, B.C., residents to move into transitional housing

  12-02-2023 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Nearly 15 months after catastrophic floods forced the evacuation of the southern interior city of Merritt, B.C., some residents whose homes were destroyed will soon move into new transitional housing.
  The City of Merritt says in a statement that it used some of the $24 million it received from the province to buy 31 manufactured homes to provide temporary housing for its displaced residents. 
  Among the 20 residents selected for the project’s first pha
  
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• New miniaturized pacemaker a ‘game-changer’ amid testing in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 01:10
  
  New miniaturized pacemaker a ‘game-changer’ amid testing in ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Devastation in Turkey, Syria echoes past earthquakes and offers ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 01:10
  
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• Bickering bogs down Capitol riot trial of Proud Boys leaders - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 01:10
  
  Bickering bogs down Capitol riot trial of Proud Boys leaders  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• PODCAST: The ‘Best of’ Super Bowl 57 interviews – ‘The Moj’ - Chilliwack Progress

  12-02-2023 00:33
  
  PODCAST: The ‘Best of’ Super Bowl 57 interviews – ‘The Moj’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• How will Toronto’s transfer of mayoral powers work? An explainer on what lies ahead

  12-02-2023 00:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Mayor John Tory shocked Torontonians and the political sphere late Friday when he admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to resign from the city’s top job.
  Tory’s sudden resignation has left many questions about what lies ahead for Toronto and the city’s governance in the coming days, weeks and months. Here’s what to expect:
  Who is mayor of Toronto?
  Still John Tory &mdas
  
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