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• Photojournalist, news organization file lawsuit against RCMP over 2021 arrest

  13-02-2023 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken and news organization the Narwhal have filed a lawsuit against the RCMP, claiming Bracken was wrongfully arrested and detained for three nights while reporting on a British Columbia pipeline dispute.
  The lawsuit seeks a court declaration that Bracken’s constitutional rights to liberty and freedom of the press were unlawfully breached in November 2021, when police arrested her during an operation to enforce an injunction granted to th
  
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• Man with Vancouver connections wanted for 1st-degree murder in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 23:33
  
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• Premiers agree to accept new federal health-care funding offer - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 23:30
  
  Premiers agree to accept new federal health-care funding offer  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Why a top B.C. heart surgeon quit for politics - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 23:20
  
  Why a top B.C. heart surgeon quit for politics  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. park site of Chinese-style matchmaking, as parents seek wedded bliss for kids

  13-02-2023 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — In a corner of a park in Metro Vancouver, the hunt for marital bliss is on.
  Groups of middle-aged and elderly Chinese pass around their smartphones or photos plucked from wallets, smiling and nodding their greetings before getting down to business.
  Do you have a daughter or a son? How old are they? Where did they go to university? Where do they work? And perhaps most importantly — why are they still single?
  Central Park in Burnaby, has become a matchmaking corner for
  
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• Jays begin early training camp, keen to make strides after wild-card exit last fall

  13-02-2023 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. — Feelings of optimism, joy and excitement were ever-present Monday at the Toronto Blue Jays’ player development complex as a couple dozen players kicked off spring training ahead of the 2023 season.
  With light winds gently swaying the tops of the palm trees on a brilliant mid-February morning, the mood was as breezy as the favourable conditions in the Sunshine State for Day 1 of early camp.
  Distractions seemed virtually non-existent in a welcome change from this time l
  
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• Chilliwack volunteer puts B.C. minister on notice he's no longer ... - Hope Standard

  13-02-2023 22:57
  
  Chilliwack volunteer puts B.C. minister on notice he's no longer ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Chilliwack volunteer puts B.C. minister on notice he's no longer ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 22:57
  
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• New federal telecom policy will require CRTC to enact rules to improve competition

  13-02-2023 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The final version of a new telecom policy directive first unveiled by the federal government in May of last year is now in force.
  The government’s new directive to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) means the agency must put in place new rules to improve competition in the telecom industry, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Monday.
  “Under the Telecommunications Act, the CRTC is responsible for implementing the
  
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• Canadian government gives funding to help Vancouver’s Chinatown revitalization

  13-02-2023 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The federal government is spending $1.8 million to help make Vancouver’s historic Chinatown lighter and brighter. 
  Harjit Sajjan, minister responsible for the Pacific economic development agency of Canada, says the COVID-19 pandemic hit Chinatown particularly hard but the investment provides a first step toward a “renewed and reinvigorated” community.
  The Vancouver Chinatown Foundation says more than $1.3 million of the funding will be used modernize buil
  
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• Leave use of notwithstanding clause up to provinces, say Conservative and Bloc MPs

  13-02-2023 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives joined the Bloc Québécois to try and send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it is up to the provinces to decide how to use the notwithstanding clause. 
  Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet brought forward a motion in the House of Commons calling on MPs to recognize that provinces have a “legitimate right” to use the clause, including pre-emptively.
  While Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his MPs sup
  
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• UN says Syria agrees to open 2 new crossings for quake aid

  13-02-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment fon millions of earthquake victims, the United Nations announced Monday.
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the decision by Syrian leader Bashar Assad to open crossing points at Bab Al-Salam and Al Raée for an initial period of three months.
  Currently, the U.N. has only been allo
  
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• Player Jim Rutledge and writer Robert Stanley Weir to join Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

  13-02-2023 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jim Rutledge was mowing his lawn in Victoria when Ted Fletcher, chair of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame’s selection committee, gave him a call.
  Rutledge and reporter Robert Stanley Weir would be the next inductees into the hall, becoming the 84th and 85th honoured members. The 63-year-old Rutledge has competed at every level of men’s golf around the world, but he was still floored when Fletcher told him the good news.
  “I stopped the lawn mower, sat down on it for a second and s
  
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• B.C. government lawyers cry foul over unionization bid - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 22:10
  
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• Liberal MP wants to expedite having Canada Soccer before parliamentary committee

  13-02-2023 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It appears Canada Soccer may soon join Hockey Canada in coming under the scrutiny of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
  Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says the parliamentary committee has already requested the minutes of Canada Soccer’s board and wants to question the governing body in a future meeting. And while Canada Soccer was one of several governing bodies the committee had already planned to examine, Housefather says it should be moved “to the top of the list”
  
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• Chilliwack's Jordyn Huitema and Canadian soccer teammates ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 21:20
  
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• 52-year-old Chilliwack man charged with break-and-enter at Mary's ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 21:18
  
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• Twitter’s plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 21:15
  
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• Major parties support quick passage of Liberal law delaying assisted dying expansion

  13-02-2023 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — All major parties in the House of Commons are signalling they will support a Liberal bill that would further delay the expansion of medically assisted dying to people whose sole condition is a mental disorder.
  Members of Parliament began debating the bill this week and it is expected to pass quickly, before a mid-March deadline.An update to assisted dying law passed in March 2021 included a two-year sunset clause on provisions to expand eligibility to patients who only have mental
  
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• Imperial Oil files cleanup plan for tailings leak in Alberta, won’t disclose details

  13-02-2023 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Imperial Oil Ltd. has filed a plan for the interim cleanup of one of the largest oilpatch spills in Alberta history but won’t say what it is.
  A spokeswoman for the oilsands giant says the company has sent a plan to the Alberta Energy Regulator as required.
  No new information about the massive spill and seepage event has been released by the company or the regulator.
  The regulator says it’s in the middle of an investigation of how more than 5,000 cubic metres of tailings overflowed fr
  
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• IFAF approves Canadian rules in competitions, use of the Canadian rulebook

  13-02-2023 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The International Federation of American Football has approved Canadian rules in international competition and the use of the Canadian Amateur Football rulebook in IFAF-sanctioned global competitions.
  Football Canada made the announcement Monday.
  “We are thrilled the IFAF recognizes 12-player football supporting the current international tackle rules,” Football Canada president Jim Mullin, who is also the IFAF general secretary, said in a statement. 
  “As
  
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• Netanyahu launches contentious overhaul as thousands protest - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 21:01
  
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• Impact players still available as CFL free agency set to begin Tuesday

  13-02-2023 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Now comes the waiting for Jeremy O’Day.
  According to CFL sources last week, the Saskatchewan Roughriders GM reached agreements in principle with quarterback Trevor Harris and receiver Jake Wieneke during the CFL’s free-agent negotiating window.The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity as deals reached during that time couldn’t be announced.
  Now, the Montreal Alouettes will have until Tuesday morning to re-sign Harris and/or Wieneke before the start of free agency, althoug
  
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• ‘I bet on us:’ Raptors confident in figuring it out entering later stretch of season

  13-02-2023 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s been a season full of highs and lows for the 10th-place Toronto Raptors, but all-star forward Pascal Siakam says confidence hasn’t wavered with just 24 games left in the regular season.
  After days of discussion — and criticism — over the front office’s lack of activity at the trade deadline in the midst of a losing season, Siakam says the Raptors maintain a strong belief in their current group to figure things out.
  “You go through a lot of
  
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• Biden fires Architect of the Capitol over alleged abuses

  13-02-2023 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has fired the embattled Architect of the Capitol, the official who oversees the U.S. Capitol complex, officials said.The White House said Monday that Brett Blanton’s appointment was terminated. It comes as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he’d lost confidence in Blanton’s ability to do the job.An inspector general report released last year found “administrative, ethical and policy violations” by Blanton, including that he
  
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• Canadian Heritage changes vetting process for anti-racism funds after nixing contract

  13-02-2023 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian Heritage has changed the way it vets funding requests for community and anti-racism projects after it cut ties with an organization that was accused of antisemitism.The federal government suspended a contract with the Community Media Advocacy Centre back in August after it gave the group $133,000 for projects to help combat anti-racism.
  Ottawa’s relationship with the group ended after media reported that a senior consultant had posted what federal ministers describe
  
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• Death on B.C.’s coast: A stormy night, a missing tugboat - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 20:02
  
  Death on B.C.’s coast: A stormy night, a missing tugboat  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Russian ambassador claims Canada a ‘very dangerous country’ to ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 20:00
  
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• German ballet director suspended after feces attack on reviewer - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 20:00
  
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• Panarin, Karlsson, Keller named NHL’s three stars of the week

  13-02-2023 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  New York Rangers left-wing Artemi Panarin, San Jose defenceman Erik Karlsson and Arizona right-wing Clayton Keller have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Panarin led the NHL with nine points (four goals, five assists) in four games as the Rangers posted a perfect week and increased their overall winning streak to five games.
  He capped the week by scoring a career-high four goals, including a natural hat trick that featured the game-winner, and matching a personal best with five
  
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• Celebs tout ice baths, but science on benefits is lukewarm - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 19:30
  
  Celebs tout ice baths, but science on benefits is lukewarm  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Federal justice minister orders appeal for Manitoba man in murder case

  13-02-2023 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A Manitoba man who spent more than two decades behind bars is getting a new chance to overturn his murder convictions.
  Federal Justice Minister David Lametti has referred the case of Robert Sanderson to the Manitoba Court of Appeal for a new hearing, saying he has concluded there was likely a miscarriage of justice.
  Sanderson was found guilty in 1997 of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years. 
  The Manitoba
  
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• Emphasis on medals needs to change, says Canadian sport minister

  13-02-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian sports minister Pascale St-Onge says excellence needs to be redefined in the national sport policy.
  The emphasis on medals and podiums needs to change, the minister told a standing committee on the Status of Women examining the recent wave of reports of maltreatment and abuse in Canadian sport.
  St-Onge says the independent sports integrity commissioner appointed last year can address complaints from national-level athletes, but a large gap exists at the provincial or club
  
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• Canada’s Rebecca Marino qualifies for main draw at Qatar Open

  13-02-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DOHA, Qatar — Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino qualified for the main draw of the Qatar Open tennis tournament with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Marie Bouzkova of Czechia on Monday.
  Marino, ranked 75th in the world, landed just 44.4 per cent of her first serves, but won 78.6 per cent of the available points when it did land, including five aces.
  The Canadian also defended four of the five break points she faced, while breaking Bouzkova four times in 14 chances.
  Bouzkova, seeded second in the qualif
  
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• Yukon celebrates 50th anniversary of watershed self-governance meeting

  13-02-2023 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — For Peter Johnston, Grand Chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations, the history of the territory’s modern self-government agreements runs in his blood.
  On Feb. 14, 1973, his father — Sam Johnston, former chief of the Teslin Tlingit Council — was part of a delegation of Yukon First Nations leaders who flew to Ottawa to present then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau with a document laying out both grievances and a proposed plan to for the future.
  Five decades la
  
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• Southern Irrigation has mysterious plan for Chilliwack's famous pink ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 18:45
  
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• U-Haul hits, injures several pedestrians on NYC sidewalk

  13-02-2023 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man drove a U-Haul truck onto a sidewalk, striking and injuring several pedestrians in New York City on Monday before police captured him following a chase.The truck sped through the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn before police stopped it near the entrance to a tunnel leading from Brooklyn to Manhattan, a law enforcement official said. Details were not immediately available. The official could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The Associat
  
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• Weekend ‘anomaly’ over Montana first detected in Canadian airspace: Norad commander

  13-02-2023 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — An “anomaly” that military officials were tracking through the weekend before fighter jets downed an unknown object over the Great Lakes was first detected in Canadian airspace. 
  Norad commander Gen. Glen VanHerck says radar first picked up the object on Saturday at about 4:45 p.m. EST, about 110 kilometres north of the Canada-U.S. border. 
  VanHerck says it crossed into U.S. airspace over Montana about an hour later, but fighter jets were unable to locate
  
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• Halifax man to fly to Turkey after earthquake to join brothers searching for sister

  13-02-2023 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The oldest brother of a Canadian woman missing since an earthquake struck Turkey is trying to rent equipment and join his two siblings in a desperate search for their sister.
  The Feb. 6earthquake has killed more than 35,000 people and has turned large portions of cities in Turkey and Syria into fragments of concrete and twisted metal.
  Manaf Zora said in an interview today his brothers Saad and Muthana Zora are living in a car stationed near the building in the city of Antakya, wh
  
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• Russian ambassador claims Canada a ‘very dangerous country’ to visit

  13-02-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa says Canada is a “very dangerous country” for Russians to visit.
  Oleg Stepanov says Canada keeps sanctioning people and claimed that Russians are regularly experiencing racism.
  In a Russian-language interview last Friday, Stepanov said, “I would not recommend (visiting Canada) for tourism, education or business.”
  However, he added that most Canadians treat Russians well, and Moscow’s travel advisory for Canada only
  
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• Billy Two Rivers, retired Mohawk wrestler and politician, dies at 87

  13-02-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Billy Two Rivers, a retired Mohawk wrestler, politician and activist, has died at 87.
  The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake announced his death in a statement published today.
  Two Rivers rose to fame as a wrestler in the 1950s, and spent nearly a quarter of a century in the ring before he turned to politics.
  He was first elected to Kahnawake council in 1978 and served 10 consecutive terms, where the council said he was an influential leader during the Oka crisis of 1990.
  The council s
  
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• Former Quebec immigration minister Nadine Girault dies at age 63

  13-02-2023 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Former Quebec cabinet minister Nadine Girault has died at the age of 63.
  Premier François Legault confirmed her death on social media, paying tribute to a “passionate, determined and endearing woman.”
  Girault announced in July that she was stepping away from her role as minister of immigration for health reasons and that she would not run in the October election.
  In 2019, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and took time off to undergo treatment.
  Girault was a bu
  
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• Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report

  13-02-2023 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has ordered the release of parts of a report produced by a special grand jury that investigated efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss in Georgia.
  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney announced the decision on Monday, three weeks after hearing arguments from prosecutors, who urged the report be kept secret until they decide on charges, and a coalition of media organizations, which pressed for it
  
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• VIDEO: Turkey earthquake survivors face despair, as rescues wane - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 16:30
  
  VIDEO: Turkey earthquake survivors face despair, as rescues wane  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• US jets down 4 objects in 8 days, unprecedented in peacetime - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 16:30
  
  US jets down 4 objects in 8 days, unprecedented in peacetime  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Moldova’s president outlines Russian ‘plan’ to topple her government - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 16:30
  
  Moldova’s president outlines Russian ‘plan’ to topple her government  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• All the best - Chilliwack Progress

  13-02-2023 16:30
  
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• Two people in serious condition after Ottawa gas explosion: paramedics

  13-02-2023 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two people have been taken to hospital in serious but stable condition after a blast destroyed multiple homes in an east Ottawa suburb.
  Reid Purdy of the Ottawa Paramedic Service says the two had to be extricated after the explosion in Orleans, while three other people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
  Another five people were assessed at the scene and released.
  Ottawa deputy fire chief David Matschke says the explosion occurred around 6:18 a.m. local time and affected f
  
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• One dead, one seriously injured after Cariboo Highway crash south of 150 Mile House: RCMP

  13-02-2023 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — Police say one person is dead and another is seriously injured in hospital following a two-vehicle collision on the Cariboo Highway near Williams Lake Friday (Feb. 10) afternoon.
  In a news release issued Sunday (Feb. 12) afternoon, Williams Lake RCMP says preliminary findings suggest two southbound vehicles collided on Highway 97 south of 150 Mile House after one was attempting to pass.
  RCMP say they were told of the crash at around 12:35 p.m. Friday where one occupan
  
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• Nick Taylor’s second place finish puts five Canadians in men’s top 100 golf rankings and two Abbotsford men in the top 53

  13-02-2023 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nick Taylor’s second place finish at the WM Phoenix Open on Sunday made Canadian golf history.
  His US$2 million in winnings was the most ever won by a Canadian at a single event, even topping previous winners, as the PGA Tour significantly increased its purses this season.
  It also elevated the native of Abbotsford to No. 73 in the official world golf rankings, putting five Canadians in the top 100 of the men’s standings for the first time ever.
  Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., is the
  
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