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• Storms bring down trees, bring play to halt at the Masters

  07-04-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two towering pine trees fell near patrons as storms rolled through Augusta National on Friday, and another tree fell elsewhere on the property, though nobody was injured as the second round of the Masters ground to a halt.
  The storms had been expected throughout the day, and tournament officials moved all starting times up 30 minutes in the hopes of getting the second round in as scheduled. The morning dawned hot and humid, with plenty of sun, but it gave way to ominous clouds churning through f
  
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• Federal tax workers vote in favour of striking in middle of tax filing season

  07-04-2023 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — More than 35,000 federal workers who assess and approve tax returns will be in a legal strike position by April 14, just two weeks before the annual deadline for Canadians to file their taxes.
  The strike vote comes after more than a year of haggling between the Canada Revenue Agency and workers represented by the Union of Taxation Employees within the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
  A conciliator appointed last fall to help with the talks reported in January that the two sides
  
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• UFC returns to Canada with UFC 289 pay-per-view set for June 10 in Vancouver

  07-04-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The UFC is returning to Canada.
  The mixed martial arts promoter said UFC 289 will take place June 10 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
  UFC president Dana White made the announcement Friday in a social media video.
  “So everybody’s been asking me: ‘When are you coming back to Canada? When are you coming back to Canada?'” said White. “UFC 289, June 10th, Vancouver, Rogers Arena. See you soon, Canada.”
  The UFC’s last event in Canada was Sept. 14, 2019, prior to
  
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• Tens of thousands suggest names for Aldergrove’s red panda cubs - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Tens of thousands suggest names for Aldergrove’s red panda cubs  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• St. Johnstone fan handed lifetime ban for racially abusing Canadian forward Theo Bair

  07-04-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  St. Johnstone has handed a supporter a lifetime ban for racially abusing Canadian international forward Theo Bair on Saturday.
  The Scottish Premiership club said the “wholly unacceptable incident” took place last Saturday at the end of St. Johnstone’s 1-0 loss to visiting Aberdeen at McDiarmid Park in Perth.
  The 23-year-old from Ottawa, a former Vancouver Whitecap, joined St. Johnstone in January 2022.
  “What happened to me on Saturday was shocking, disturbing and unaccept
  
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• New fundraiser for Chilliwack Restorative Justice will help ... - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Toronto Arrows missing more than a dozen players for long-awaited home opener

  07-04-2023 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows play at home Saturday for the first time this season after six straight road games. By rights, they should arrive in an ambulance for the meeting with the defending Major Rugby League champion New York Ironworkers.
  Injuries have taken their toll on Toronto (1-5-0, six points) ahead of the game at York Lions Stadium.
  “It’s absolutely decimated us,” lamented Arrows coach Peter Smith. “We’ve got about 15 guys out at this point in time
  
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• Canada’s Amihere ‘excited’ for WNBA draft, opportunity to grow on pro level

  07-04-2023 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The moment is starting to feel all the more real for Laeticia Amihere.
  The Mississauga, Ont., native recently completed her final season with NCAA powerhouse South Carolina Gamecocks and entered her name on Tuesday for the upcoming WNBA draft.
  “I think it hit me when I started packing up my room,” she told The Canadian Press. “And I remember just looking at how empty my walls were and I don’t remember seeing my room look like that since freshman year since I first moved i
  
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• U.S. trounces Switzerland 9-1 at world women’s hockey championship

  07-04-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRAMPTON, Ont. — Caroline Harvey scored twice, Abby Roque had a goal and three assists and the United States thumped Switzerland 9-1 on Friday at the world women’s hockey championship.
  Abbey Murphy set the record for the fastest goal ever at the tournament, scoring seven seconds into the contest. She added two assists, while Cayla Barnes also had a goal and two helpers.
  Rebecca Gilmore, Gabrielle Hughes, Hannah Bilka and Amanda Kessel added the others for the U.S. Nicole Hensley made
  
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• Canadian woman released from Syrian camp released on bail in Alberta

  07-04-2023 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Canadian woman who was returned from a prison camp in Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application.
  RCMP in Alberta say the 38-year-old woman is subject to a number of conditions while she awaits the peace bond process but did not say what those were.
  The woman is among a group of six Canadian women and 13 children Global Affairs Canada agreed to repatriate from the prison camps in northeastern Syria in January.
  Ottawa lawyer L
  
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• Canada’s Brad Gushue beats Turkey 9-5 at world men’s curling championship

  07-04-2023 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s Brad Gushue tuned up for the playoffs Friday morning with a 9-5 victory over Turkey’s Ugurcan Karagoz at the world men’s curling championship.
  Gushue broke a tie in the fifth end by making a hit for four points. Turkey conceded after scoring a single in the eighth.
  “Not the bounceback I was hoping for this morning,” said Gushue, who fell to Scotland on Thursday night. “But we’ve got tonight.”
  Gushue and teammates Mark Nichol
  
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• B.C. students provide free English lessons to Ukrainian refugees - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Nashville’s Shaffelburg looks forward to reunion with former Toronto FC teammates

  07-04-2023 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jacob Shaffelburg cut his teeth with Toronto FC. But the Canadian winger has found a home in Nashville.
  The 23-year-old from Port William, N.S., joined Toronto as a homegrown player in June 2019 and went on to make 61 appearances in all competitions.
  “The kid can run all day and he’s incredibly fast,” then-TFC coach Greg Vanney said after Shaffelburg’s first start.
  But occupying the same position as Italian star Lorenzo Insigne, Shaffelburg found playing time hard to get
  
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• Hundreds of thousands remain without power after dedly ice storm in Quebec

  07-04-2023 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Hydro-Québec says it’s restored power to more than half a million customers since Wednesday’s ice storm, but more than 600,000 remain in the dark.
  Director of Energy System Control Maxime Nadeau says 1,400 crew members are working through the long weekend to restore power, but some outages may continue through to Monday. 
  Wednesday’s freezing rain sent ice-covered tree branches crashing onto power lines, streets and cars across swaths of southern Qu
  
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• Secrets and Lives with David Warburton - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Hanging in’: David Suzuki shares insights as he retires from ‘The Nature of Things’

  07-04-2023 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After 44 years as the face of Canada’s premier science TV show, you might expect David Suzuki to feel a little sadness and a little nostalgia as he steps down as host of “The Nature of Things.” Not so.
  “Happy as hell,” he laughs over Zoom from his Vancouver office.
  “I’m an old guy. It’s the next stage of my life. What the hell — it’s reality.”
  Friday night marks Suzuki’s last appearance as the host of the show he founded and
  
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• Pope Francis to miss Way of the Cross event in cold Rome

  07-04-2023 15:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis, who was recently hospitalized for bronchitis, won’t preside over Good Friday’s late-night Way of the Cross event due to extremely cold weather in Rome.
  It said that instead of presiding over the torch-lit procession at the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the hotel where he lives in the Vatican.
  He will still attend the earlier Passion of the Lord celebration at St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican added. There, the cross
  
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• An Australian Company Created A Meatball Made Of Woolly Mammoth

  07-04-2023 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Would you eat a meatball made of lab-grown meat? What if the meat was made from the genetic material of a woolly mammoth? If your answer was yes, the Australian startup Vow has your delectable culinary artifact!
  Vow created the cultivated meat using the pachyderm’s cells, so we could potentially being seeing the extinct mammal on our dinner plates someday!
  Mammoth Meat
  Using publicly available genetic information, the company supplemented the process
  
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• LETTER: We should stop making assumptions and focus on the truth - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  LETTER: We should stop making assumptions and focus on the truth  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• G.W. Graham wide receiver Braeden Macdonald equally devastated by SFU football closure

  07-04-2023 14:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — G.W. Graham standout wide receiver Braeden Macdonald couldn’t believe the news about the sudden closure of the Simon Fraser University football program when teammate Lucas Feaver dialed him up earlier this week.Macdonald, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound senior wide receiver who had 39 catches for 500 yards and 5 TDs during the Grizzlies’ run to the provincial title game in 2022, was in disbelief to the point that he thought Feaver was pulling a fast one.
  “Lucas called
  
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• Charis Camp to mark 75th anniversary on Saturday with free food, Easter egg hunt

  07-04-2023 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — From quilting to skateboarding, marriage retreats and youth getaways, band camps and family camps, Charis Camp and Conference Centre is accustomed to hosting all kinds of diverse groups at its 19-acre retreat centre on Hack Brown Road east of Chilliwack.Come summertime, the camp sets aside the month of July for overnight camps for ages seven to teens and families so that they can enjoy activities like a low ropes course, archery, indoor and outdoor climbing walls, just to name
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps want more intensity in first Cascadia tilt vs. Portland Timbers

  07-04-2023 13:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — After a disappointing 3-0 loss to Los Angeles FC on Wednesday in CONCACAF Champions League action, the Vancouver Whitecaps are looking for a rebound on Saturday against regional rivals.
  The Whitecaps, who are 1-3-2 in the regular season, have reasons to be optimistic after the loss, head coach Vanni Sartini said after training on Thursday.
  “I don’t want to sound like a lunatic but I think there’s more positives than negatives,” he said.
  Sartini, who has
  
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• N.S. mass shooting: how gun smuggling happened, and the inquiry’s call for reforms

  07-04-2023 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk.
  Yet those records never found their way to the Canada Border Services Agency, and they didn’t prevent the mass shooter from obtaining a Nexus card — granting him status as a low-risk traveller.
  The final report of the public inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting, released last week, details troublin
  
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• Family of Indian migrants who died in Quebec shocked by river crossing attempt

  07-04-2023 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An Indian national who died with his family last week when a boat capsized in the St. Lawrence River during an attempt to enter the United States was “mortally afraid of water,” says his cousin.
  Pravinbhai Chaudhari, 49, was found in a marshy area in Akwesasne, Que., with his wife Dakshaben, 45, their 23-year-old daughter, Vidhi and their 20-year-old son, Meet. A couple of Romanian descent and their two Canadian-born children, aged one and two, also died during the failed March 29 cr
  
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• Struggling CF Montreal face another tough test against New England

  07-04-2023 12:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — After suffering their third-worst loss in club history last week, CF Montreal are looking to climb out of the Eastern Conference basement as they travel to face the New England Revolution on Saturday night. 
  Montreal (1-4-0) has already accumulated as many road losses as it did all of last year in what is becoming a particularly poor start to the Major League Soccer season. Those four losses risk becoming five as New England (4-1-1) is unbeaten at home after collecting two
  
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• Kansas approves bill to end gender-affirming care for minors

  07-04-2023 11:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas approved a plan early Friday to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth, capping a week of intensifying efforts to rolling back LGBTQ rights like other states with GOP-controlled legislatures.The Kansas House voted 70-52 to pass a bill requiring the state’s medical board to revoke the licenses of doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors, even though many professionals who deal with transgender youth see such care
  
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• Israeli medics: 2 killed in Palestinian attack in West Bank

  07-04-2023 11:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An alleged Palestinian shooting attack in the northern occupied West Bank killed two women and seriously wounded another, Israeli medics said, the latest violence after Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon in a significant escalation.
  Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said that two women in their 20s were killed and another woman in her 40s was seriously wounded near the settlement of Hamra in the Jordan Valley. The medics said they pulled the three uncon
  
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• Sajjan says Liberals might reverse foreign-aid drop if economy bounces back

  07-04-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says his government might boost foreign aid spending if the Canadian economy rebounds after criticism over a drop in development funding that has the sector preparing to cut programs.
  “The stronger our economy, the more we can do around the world,” Sajjan said in an interview Thursday in his first public comments since last month’s budget called for a 15 per cent drop in aid funding.
  The Liberals are planning to sc
  
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• Demko earns third career shutout, Canucks blank struggling Blackhawks 3-0

  07-04-2023 06:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Thatcher Demko stopped all 33 shots he faced and collected his first shutout of the season as the Vancouver Canucks blanked the Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 on Thursday. 
  It was the first time since former head coach Bruce Boudreau’s debut on Dec. 6, 2021 that the Canucks have held an opponent off the scoresheet. 
  Andrei Kuzmenko, Vitali Kravtsov and J.T. Miller — into the empty net — all scored for the Canucks (35-36-7), while defenceman Akito Hirose cont
  
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• China sanctions Reagan library, others over Tsai’s US trip

  07-04-2023 05:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is imposing sanctions against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other U.S.- and Asian-based organizations in retaliation for the closely watched meeting this week between the U.S. House Speaker and Taiwan’s president.The Reagan library was the site of the rare high-level, bipartisan meeting Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted this week for talks with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.The meeting came as U.S.-China relations have sunk to
  
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• Lyon solid in goal as Florida beats Ottawa 7-2

  07-04-2023 04:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Alex Lyon set a franchise record for saves in a regulation game and Aleksander Barkov scored twice as the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 7-2 on Thursday night for their fifth consecutive victory.
  Florida remains tied with the New York Islanders for the top wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference but holds the tiebreaker with more wins.
  Lyon got his fifth consecutive win in place of Sergei Bobrovsky and ended with 56 saves — surpassing the regulation r
  
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• Okanagan College nursing students speak out against program ... - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 04:30 via news.google.com
  
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• David Pastrnak scores in OT, Bruins beat Maple Leafs 2-1

  07-04-2023 04:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored his 57th goal of the season at 2:30 of overtime to give the history-chasing Boston Bruins a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.Pastrnak blasted a shot from inside the left circle as the Bruins notched their 61st victory — one off the NHL season record set by Detroit in 1995-96 and matched by Tampa Bay in 2018-19.
  Jeremy Swayman made 31 saves for Boston, winners of four straight, and Charlie Coyle also scored.
  Ilya Samsonov m
  
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• Joel Armia’s hat trick helps Canadiens down short-handed Capitals 6-2

  07-04-2023 04:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Joel Armia scored his second career hat trick and the Montreal Canadiens grabbed a 6-2 win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday.
  Nick Suzuki, Brendan Gallagher and Mike Hoffman also scored for Montreal. Mike Matheson collected two assists. 
  Sam Montembeault made 24 saves as the Canadiens (31-42-6) snapped a four-game losing skid.
  Dylan Strome and Nicklas Backstom scored for the Capitals. 
  Darcy Kuemper made 25 saves as Washington (34-35-9) lost its third straight.
  
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• Koepka living large at Masters, leads with Rahm and Hovland

  07-04-2023 02:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka shared the lead Thursday in the Masters, and that’s about all they had in common.
  Not the way they started their rounds at Augusta National. Certainly not the tours they represent — Rahm a loyalist on the PGA Tour, Koepka a surprise defector to LIV Golf.
  All that mattered was the 7-under 65s on their cards, allowing them to join Viktor Hovland atop a leaderboard filled with red numbers and the ominous “weather warning”
  
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• Abbotsford Police Chief Mike Serr announces retirement

  07-04-2023 01:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — In a post on its Facebook page Thursday afternoon (Apr. 6), the city of Abbotsford has accepted the formal notice of retirement from Police Chief Mike Serr.
  “It is with mixed emotions that we accept Abbotsford Police Chief Mike Serr’s notice of retirement from the Abbotsford Police Department,” Mayor Ross Siemens wrote on Facebook Thursday. “Chief Serr has been an outstanding public servant through his more than 30 years of service, and in particular, h
  
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• Doctor says health wait times now permanent after high court rejects challenge

  07-04-2023 01:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The doctor who led a legal challenge over a patient’s right to pay for private medical care says a decision by Canada’s top court not to hear an appeal means long wait times have been “forcibly embedded” into the medicare system.
  Dr. Brian Day is CEO of the Cambie Surgery Centre, which, along with a handful of patients, has spent more than a decade in court challenging the British Columbia Medicare Protection Act, which bans extra-billing and private ins
  
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• Doctor behind cross-border rush for Ozempic in B.C. is suspended in Nova Scotia

  07-04-2023 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEDFORD, NOVA SCOTIA — Nova Scotia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended a doctor it says was responsible for thousands of prescriptions of the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic that were mailed to Americans by two British Columbia pharmacies. 
  Dr. Gus Grant, registrar and CEO of the college, says the regulator first heard about the Nova Scotia-licensed practitioner from media coverage of B.C’s recent move to restrict access to the drug for non-residents.
  
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• Suspect in custody for possible Northern California shooting

  07-04-2023 00:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — At least three people were hospitalized and a suspect in custody Thursday after a possible shooting in Northern California.
  A spokesperson for Sutter Roseville Medical Center said three people were at the hospital. It was not immediately clear whether they had gunshot wounds or other injuries, or if there were other victims.
  Officer Ricardo Ortiz with the California Highway Patrol said a suspect was taken into custody but provided no other details, including whethe
  
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• EDITORIAL: Spring has arrived at long last - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 00:30 via news.google.com
  
  EDITORIAL: Spring has arrived at long last  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Successful season for Sardis Hockey Academy in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  07-04-2023 00:20 via news.google.com
  
  Successful season for Sardis Hockey Academy in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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