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• Schenk’s late birdie gives him lead over Spieth, Fleetwood

  18-03-2023 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Adam Schenk looked as though he and everyone else would get passed by Jordan Spieth on Saturday at the Valspar Championship. When a wild and windy round finished, Schenk was still the player everyone was chasing.
  Schenk hit his approach to the 18th hole to 5 feet and made the birdie putt for a 1-under 70, giving him a one-shot lead over Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood as he goes after his first victory on the PGA Tour.
  “We didn’t have a ton go our way until
  
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• Update: Northbound lanes open on Coquihalla Highway - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2023 23:38 via news.google.com
  
  Update: Northbound lanes open on Coquihalla Highway  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Edwards, UConn opens March Madness run with 95-52 rout of Vermont

  18-03-2023 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Canada’s Aaliyah Edwards scored a career-high 28 points, Dorka Juhasz added a double-double and No. 2 seed UConn routed 15th seed Vermont 95-52 on Saturday, giving the Huskies a 29th straight win in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.Juhasz scored 15 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, the Hungarian’s 13th double-double this season for the sixth-ranked Huskies.
  Caroline Ducharme added 12 points, helping Connecticut (30-5) to its 26th, 30-win season du
  
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• Upper Fraser Valley RCMP seeks public input on its strategic plan, policing priorities

  18-03-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack residents are invited to share their input on policing strategies for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment (UFVRD) as Mounties plot a course for the next couple years.
  In a statement Friday, Mounties say planning for the 2023-25 UFVRD Strategic Plan is underway with a goal of engaging the broader Chilliwack community about what matters to them concerning policing.The UFVRD consists of four community police offices located in Chilliwack, Hope, Agassiz and Bost
  
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• Canada’s Einarson opens women’s world curling championship with win over host Swedes

  18-03-2023 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANDVIKEN, Sweden — Canada’s Kerri Einarson stole her way to victory to open the women’s world curling championship.
  Einarson defeated the host Swedes 9-4 on Saturday.
  Trailing 4-3 heading into the ninth end, Canada stole two to take the lead.
  Einarson executed a tricky double takeout in the 10th to force Swedish skip Anna Hasselborg to draw against multiple Canadian stones.
  Hasselborg was light to give up a steal of four.
  Both skips struggled with draw weight late in the game
  
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• Iranian New Year celebration Sunday at Pioneer Park in Yarrow

  18-03-2023 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — With no rain in the immediate forecast for Sunday, the Chilliwack community is invited to celebrate Norouz, the Iranian New Year, on Sunday, March 19 from noon to 4 p.m. at Pioneer Park in Yarrow, 4390 Kehler Street.Sponsored generously by the United Way of B.C., the Chilliwack community is invited to partake in food, drinks, activities, and an opportunity to connect with local non-profits and more.According to a post from the United Way’s Hi Neighbour Sardis Community I
  
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• Slain officers’ families will get $100,000 from Heroes’ Fund, Alberta premier says

  18-03-2023 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the families of two Edmonton police officers who were fatally shot this week are each to receive $100,000 from the province’s Heroes’ Fund.
  Smith made the announcement Saturday during her weekly provincewide radio program while addressing the deaths of Const. Brett Ryan and Const. Travis Jordan.
  The officers were gunned down Thursday by a teen who later killed himself while they were responding to a non-violent domestic dispute at
  
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• Pionk’s OT goal leads Jets over Predators 3-2

  18-03-2023 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Neal Pionk scored 55 seconds into overtime to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday.Nikolaj Ehlers and Adam Lowry also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves for Winnipeg, which snapped a two-game losing streak. Josh Morrissey had two assists.
  Cody Glass and Luke Evangelista scored and Juuse Saros made 30 saves for the Predators, who have lost two straight.
  The Predators now trail Winnipeg by three points in the chase f
  
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• Merrifield-led Blue Jays take 5-2 win over Yankees

  18-03-2023 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. — Whit Merrifield hit a two-run homer and added an RBI single as the Toronto Blue Jays topped the New York Yankees 5-2 in spring training action Saturday.
  The Yankees took an early 2-0 lead thanks to RBIs from Anthony Rizzo and Giancarlo Stanton. 
  However, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. kick-started the Blue Jays with a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning to cut the deficit in half.
  Merrifield put Toronto ahead 3-2 with his homer in the third inning. In the fourth, Danny
  
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• Earthquake in Ecuador kills at least 1, causes wide damage

  18-03-2023 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong earthquake shook the region around Ecuador’s second-largest city on Saturday, killing at least one person, damaging homes and buildings, and sending panicked residents into the streets.
  The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a magnitude of about 6.7 in the country’s coastal Guayas region. It was centered about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Guayaquil, which anchors a metro area of over 3 million people.The South American country
  
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• Ice climber dies after falling 30 feet near Golden - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Leman’s gold leads three-medal day for Canada at ski cross World Cup

  18-03-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CRAIGLEITH, Ont. — Brady Leman earned a gold medal in the men’s World Cup ski cross to lead a three-medal day for Canada in the event on Saturday.
  The Calgary native outmatched France’s Youri Duplessis-Kergomard and Switzerland’s Joos Berry, who grabbed silver and bronze, respectively.
  Germany’s Florian Wilmsmann finished last in the four-man race.
   In women’s action, Canadians Marielle Thompson and Brittany Phelan won silver and bronze.
  The two finished
  
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• Canada’s Sophie Jaques earns Patty Kazmaier Award in NCAA Division 1 hockey

  18-03-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DULUTH, Minn. — Toronto’s Sophie Jaques has won the Patty Kazmaier Award that goes to the top player in women’s NCAA Division 1 hockey.
  Jaques is the first Ohio State player to earn the honour and just the second defender since it was established in 1998.
  She helped the Buckeyes to a 33-5-2 record and a berth into Sunday’s NCAA national championship game against Wisconsin.
  Jaques led all NCAA defenders in points (48), goals (24), power-play goals (9) and points per game (
  
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• Canada’s Megan Oldham earns World Cup bronze in slopestyle

  18-03-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TIGNES, France — Canada’s Megan Oldham earned World Cup bronze in the slopestyle event on Saturday.
  The Parry Sound, Ont., native finished with a score of 90 points.Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud (96.25) and Norway’s Johanne Killi (95.25) held the top two spots on the podium.
  It’s the second World Cup podium this season for the 21-year-old Oldham, after winning the Copper Mountain big air event in December.
  Oldham was clean on the first two jumps and on the rails, t
  
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• Ottawa to allow temporary Syrian, Turkish residents to stay longer after earthquake

  18-03-2023 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The federal government says it will make it easier for temporary residents in Canada from Turkey and Syria to extend their stay in the country after a powerful earthquake struck their countries last month.
  More than 50,000 people have been killed and millions displaced after the 7.8-magnitude quake and several powerful aftershocks hit the region on Feb. 6.Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says the government will allow people from Turkey and Syria who have a temporary status to vi
  
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• Google says it will volunteer its top execs to testify at parliamentary committee

  18-03-2023 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Google said it will volunteer some of its top executives to testify at a parliamentary committee that is studying the actions of the Silicon Valley giant after it ran a five-week test that blocked news links to some of its Canadian users.
  The test was meant to assess the effects of a potential response to Bill C-18, the Liberal government’s Online News Act. 
  The test ended Thursday. 
  Google said they have notified the heritage committee that it will voluntarily mak
  
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• Indigenous Night with the Chilliwack Chiefs

  18-03-2023 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Join us for a night celebrating the local First Nations community and honouring the land that we live, work, and play on.Pre-game, the Chiefs will be joined by a number of distinguished Indigenous leaders and community members includingGrand Chief Betty Henry (Kwaw-kwaw-Apilt First Nation)
  Chief Randy Leon (Kwaw-kwaw-a-pilt First Nation)
  Chief Angie Bailey (Aitchelitz)
  Chief Dalton Silver (Sumas First Nation)
  Chief Ralph Leon (Sts’ailes)The Salish Coast Drummers will be performing a t
  
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• Canada’s Kingsbury wins final dual moguls World Cup title for third Crystal Globe

  18-03-2023 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury won the final dual moguls World Cup event of the year en route to claiming his third Crystal Globe this season on Saturday.
  The Deux-Montagnes, Que., native outduelled Sweden’s Walter Wallberg 22-13 in the big final to claim gold.
  Australia’s Matt Graham took bronze, beating out Japan’s Ikuma Horishima 22-13 in the small final.
  Kingsbury, 30, entered Saturday having won the singles moguls event on Friday. He also earned
  
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• 19-year-old charged with three counts of second-degree murder in Montreal stabbing

  18-03-2023 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The 19-year-old arrested Friday after three people were found stabbed to death in Montreal’s Rosemont neighbourhood is facing three counts of second-degree murder.
  Arthur Galarneau appeared Saturday before the Court of Quebec.
  Montreal police say there is a family connection between the accused and the victims identified as 53-year-old Mylène Gingras, 75-year-old Francine Gingras-Boucher and 53-year-old Richard Galarneau.
  Authorities also say the accused had no crim
  
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• 1st annual Chilliwack Rotary Climate Fair, trade show and job expo set for April 15-16

  18-03-2023 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — UFV professor Dr. Carin Bondar and horticultural specialist Brian Minter headline an extensive list of speakers set to participate in the first annual Chilliwack Rotary Climate Fair happening April 15-16 at the Landing Sports Centre in Chilliwack.However, calling it just a climate fair wouldn’t do it enough justice because Chilliwack Rotarian Robyn Curtis has devoted about 700 hours into researching and planning an event that’s being billed as a trade show, a job f
  
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• Critics allege group funded by Quebec government spreading ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Six missing after blaze destroyed Old Montreal building, fire officials say

  18-03-2023 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal fire officials now say at least six people are missing after a blaze destroyed a building in the city’s historic district Thursday.
  Investigators initially said one person was believed to be missing in the fire that also injured another nine people.
  “The information confirmed in the last few hours, from various sources, allows us to believe that there may be victims inside the debris,” Montreal fire operations chief Martin Guilbault said Saturday.The cause of the fire
  
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• Chilliwack financial advisor says parents are missing out on free govt. grants

  18-03-2023 15:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — There’s no catch and there’s no hidden agenda when it comes to signing up your child between the ages of 6-8 for a Registered Educational Savings Plan.Like he did years ago in an interview with the Chilliwack Progress, Chilliwack resident Terry Brown remains determined to convince Chilliwack parents and guardians that they’re missing out on free government grants available for their kids’ postsecondary education, as well as for disabled Canadians.Howeve
  
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• Bannister Auto Group contributes six-figure cheque to downtown Chilliwack housing project

  18-03-2023 15:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Bannister Auto Group of Chilliwack has made a significant donation towards the largest project in the nearly 100-year history of Chilliwack Community Services (CCS).In a Facebook post from Bannister Hyundai of Chilliwack on Thursday, March 15, Brian Westwell of the Bannister Auto Group Chilliwack presented a magnanimous donation of $100,000 to Luke Zacharias, board president of Chilliwack Community Services, CCS executive director Kate Healey, and Shirley Triemstra of CCS,
  
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• Russia’s Putin visits Crimea following war crimes warrant

  18-03-2023 14:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine.
  Putin visited an art school and a children’s center on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court’ issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.The court specifically accused him Friday of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during
  
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• Farmers prepare to break ground at 101st annual Chilliwack ... - Mission City Record

  18-03-2023 13:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Range of emotions for residents facing relocation over smelter in Rouyn-Noranda

  18-03-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. — An announcement this week that some 200 families would be relocated from a Rouyn-Noranda neighbourhood contaminated by smelter pollution was met with anxiety and concern for those who will be moved out.
  While some residents of the Notre-Dame neighbourhood, in the city about 630 kilometres north of Montreal, see it as a chance to leave a sector where arsenic emissions from the Horne copper smelter are associated to a higher risk of cancer, others greet the impending mo
  
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• Critics allege group funded by Quebec government spreading transphobic views

  18-03-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government came under fire this week for funding a women’s group that is alleged to have spread transphobic views and targeted trans activists online.
  On Thursday in the legislature, Jennifer Maccarone of the Liberal Opposition read excerpts of documents that refer to sex change surgeries as a form of “mutilation,” which she said had been published by the group Pour les droits des femmes du Québec (PDF Québec) on its online platforms.
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• Gov. Gen. Mary Simon champions Indigenous diplomacy, seeks new ties abroad

  18-03-2023 11:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is using her role to help build ties between Indigenous people across the globe — an effort experts say is leveraging a colonial institution to advance reconciliation abroad and bolster centuries of collaboration.
  “I’ve had some very interesting dialogue,” Simon said in an interview last month after a trip to Finland.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent the Governor General to Helsinki in February to mark the 75th anniversary of diplomat
  
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• Farmers prepare to break ground at 101st annual Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2023 08:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Farmers Prepare To Break Ground At 101st Annual Chilliwack ... - Abbotsford News

  18-03-2023 08:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Wyoming governor signs measure prohibiting abortion pills

  18-03-2023 05:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill Friday night prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature.In a statement, Gordon expressed concern that the latter law, dubbed the Life is a Human Right Act would result in a lawsuit that will “delay any resolution to the constitutionality of the abortion ban in Wyoming.”He noted that earlier in the day, plaintiffs in an ongoing la
  
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• United States downs Canada 9-3 in para hockey series

  18-03-2023 05:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ELMIRA, ONTARIO — Canada’s para hockey team lost 9-3 to the United States in Friday’s second game of a three-game series.
  Brody Roybal’s hat trick and assist for the U.S. gave him a career 100 goals and 200 career points.
  Canada dropped the first game of the series 1-0 at Woolwich Memorial Arena in Elmira, Ont.
  Tyler McGregor of Forest, Ont., scored a pair of power-play goals for Canada.
  James Dunn of Wallacetown, Ont., contributed a goal and an assist in the loss.
  Goalte
  
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• Schenk getting results in 10th straight week, leads Valspar

  18-03-2023 05:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Adam Schenk is playing for the 10th consecutive week on the PGA Tour and finally seeing some good results, making enough putts Friday for a 2-under 69 that gave him a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the Valspar Championship.
  Schenk had four birdies, all but one of them from inside 10 feet, and finished with a bogey from the bunker short of the 18th on the Copperhead course at Innisbrook.
  That didn’t bother him too much because of the 20-foot putt he m
  
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• City of Yellowknife, civic workers’ union ratify deal after strike/lockout

  18-03-2023 04:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — Unionized workers with the City of Yellowknife have ratified a new collective agreement after a labour dispute that began in early February that included a strike and a lockout.
  The Union of Northern Workers says in a release Friday that they worked tirelessly for the best deal they could get with the city.
  The union says the agreement includes a compounded wage increase of 5.83 per cent with full retroactivity and signing bonuses.
  Union president Gayla Thunstrom says the las
  
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• Honda ‘hatches’ a new performance compact with more flair and ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-03-2023 03:30 via news.google.com
  
  Honda ‘hatches’ a new performance compact with more flair and ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Aston-Reese scores twice, Rielly bags another as Maple Leafs down Hurricanes 5-2

  18-03-2023 03:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Zach Aston-Reese scored twice as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Friday night. 
  Morgan Rielly, with a goal and an assist, Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner provided the rest of the offence for Toronto (41-18-9), which got 31 saves from Ilya Samsonov. John Tavares added two assists.
  Brady Skjei and Martin Necas replied for Carolina (44-15-8). Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 19 shots.
  Leafs defenceman Luke Schenn played his first game at Scotiabank Arena
  
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• Knee injury knocks Canada’s Janine Beckie out of this summer’s World Cup

  18-03-2023 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s World Cup hopes took a body blow Friday with news that Janine Beckie has been sidelined by a torn anterior cruciate in her right knee.
  Beckie was taken off on a stretcher in the 19th minute of the Portland Thorns’ 4-1 home pre-season win Wednesday over the U.S. women’s under-23 team.
  “Heartbroken is an understatement,” Beckie wrote in a Twitter post Friday.
  “Having worked so hard during the off-season for what was set to be one of the biggest seasons
  
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• B.C. school support staff for K-12 ratify new three-year contracts

  18-03-2023 00:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — More than 40,000 school support staff in British Columbia have ratified new contracts.
  Employees including education assistants, Indigenous support workers and custodians working in kindergarten to Grade 12 are now covered by 69 local agreements.
  The Ministry of Finance says the deals stretch over three years, from July 1, 2022, until June 30, 2025.
  The parties began local bargaining after the BC Public School Employers’ Association, the K-12 Presidents’ Council and
  
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