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• Canada’s Sarah Douglas wins gold at French Olympic Week sailing competition

  29-04-2023 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HYÈRES, France — Canadian Olympian Sarah Douglas won gold in ICLA 6 at the French Olympic Week sailing competition on Saturday.
  Douglas earned 74 points to beat Tokyo 2020 and 2022 world championship gold medallist Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark by one point.
  It’s the second time Douglas has won a major international event in the last year. 
  Douglas earned first place at the Sailing World Cup in April 2022 — part of the Princess Sofia Trophy in Spain.
  The 29-year-old
  
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• Canada loses to Sweden, will play for bronze at U18 men’s world hockey championship

  29-04-2023 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BASEL, Switzerland — Canada will play for bronze at the men’s under-18 world hockey championship after losing to Sweden 7-2 in the semifinal on Saturday.
  Forwards Otto Stenberg, who had five points, and David Edstrom each scored twice for Sweden, which won the tournament last year. 
  Defenceman Tom Willander and forwards Anton Wahlberg and Zeb Forsfjall also scored for Sweden.
  Forwards Angus MacDonell and Macklin Celebrini had the goals for Canada.
  Sweden will play the United Sta
  
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• Alberta Premier Smith questions election role of Opposition leader Notley’s husband

  29-04-2023 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is raising questions about Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s husband and his role in the upcoming provincial election campaign.
  Notley’s husband, Lou Arab, is a communications official for the Canadian Union of Public Employees and sits on the governing board of Notley’s NDP.
  In a statement Saturday from her United Conservative party, Smith says she wants to know if it’s legal for CUPE to spend money on attack ads agains
  
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• Largest powwow draws Indigenous dancers to New Mexico - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack pet food company donates 460,000 kitty meals to support ... - Hope Standard

  29-04-2023 22:25 via news.google.com
  
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• NHL playoffs Game 7 day: Panthers-Bruins, Kraken-Avalanche

  29-04-2023 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When the Boston Bruins took a 3-1 series lead on the Florida Panthers, it looked like the team that set NHL records for the most wins and points in a season was cruising toward the second round.
  Except within the opponent’s locker room.
  “There was not a single doubt in this locker room,” Panthers winger Anthony Duclair said. “We believed that we could come back, and now we did.”
  Against the odds, Florida has forced a Game 7 at Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston
  
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• Canada sweeps gold at senior world curling championship

  29-04-2023 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Canada won gold in both the men’s and women’s tournaments at the senior world curling championship Saturday in South Korea.
  Sherry Anderson’s Saskatoon rink beat Scotland’s Jackie Lockhart 8-4 in the women’s final. 
  Howard Rajala’s foursome from Ottawa topped former world champion Graeme Connal’s Scottish rink 7-2 on the men’s side to win the gold medal.
  It’s the 10th time Canada has swept gold at th
  
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• Optimist Club of Chilliwack looking for teens to perform original ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Federal government touts “final” offer to striking public service union as fair

  29-04-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is describing the contract proposal extended on Friday to the union representing more than 100,000 striking public servants as its final offer. 
  The Treasury Board issued a statement today saying the offer includes a better wage package and solutions to deal with priorities such as telework and seniority, but offered no further details.
  It describes Friday’s proposal to the Public Service Alliance of Canada as a “fair, competitive and reason
  
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• Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe mum on any potential Game 6 lineup changes

  29-04-2023 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe is keeping any potential lineup changes ahead of tonight’s Game 6 between Toronto and the Tampa Bay Lightning close to his vest.
  Keefe declined to take questions on his roster following the team’s optional morning skate at Amalie Arena, citing some injury-related question marks.
  Leafs winger Michael Bunting is a candidate to draw back in after serving a suspension for an illegal check to the head on Lightning defenceman Erik Ce
  
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• Canadians Sow, Robinson selected in fourth round of NFL draft

  29-04-2023 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The New England Patriots selected Canadian offensive lineman Sidy Sow in the fourth round of the NFL draft Saturday.
  The Patriots took the six-foot-four, 329-pound Sow, of Bromont, Que., with the 15th pick of the round, No. 117 overall. Sow, who played his college football at Eastern Michigan, became the third Canadian taken in the draft.
  On Friday, the Atlanta Falcons took Syracuse offensive lineman Matthew Bergeron, of Victoriaville, Que., in the second round. Then in
  
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• Canadian men in group with France, Latvia, Lebanon at 2023 FIBA World Cup this summer

  29-04-2023 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANILA, Philippines — The Canadian men’s basketball team will play France, Latvia and Lebanon in Group H at the 2023 FIBA World Cup this summer.
  Canada, which is 15th in the FIBA world rankings, qualified for the World Cup back in November after securing first place in qualification. 
  France is ranked fifth in the world and plans to have projected first-overall NBA draft pick Victor Wembanyama on its roster. Latvia and Lebanon are ranked 29th and 43rd, respectively.
  The tourname
  
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• Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime loses to Serbian Dusan Lajovic at Madrid Open

  29-04-2023 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADRID — Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Madrid Open singles tournament after losing to Dusan Lajovic in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5), in the Round of 64 on Saturday.
  Lajovic handily won the first set, but Auger-Aliassime responded with a comfortable win of his own in the second. Lajovic then took the third set in a tiebreak.
  Auger-Aliassime, who’s ninth in the ATP rankings, hit 12 aces but also gave up 11 double faults in the match.
  Lajovic, 32, moves on to pla
  
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• US conducts 1st evacuation of its citizens from Sudan war

  29-04-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones.
  American unmanned aircraft, which have been keeping an eye on overland evacuation routes for days, provided armed overwatch for a bus convoy carrying 200 to 300 Americans over 500 miles or 800 kilometers to Port Sudan, a place of relative safety, U.S. of
  
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• BC Housing gets new, permanent CEO - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 18:37 via news.google.com
  
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• Threatened Quebec caribou herd expecting up to 12 calves this year

  29-04-2023 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A caribou herd in Charlevoix, Que., could be heading toward a baby boom this year, providing a rare bit of good news for the province’s decimated population.
  Caroline Hins, a biologist with the province’s Wildlife Department, confirmed all 12 of the herd’s breeding-age females are believed to be pregnant, after tests that showed high progesterone levels.
  “It’s very good news,” she said in an interview Friday.
  She said that if all the pregnanci
  
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• Canada to continue air evacuations from Sudan, navy vessels on standby

  29-04-2023 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Efforts to bring Canadians home from Sudan will continue for as long as possible amid escalating violence and deteriorating safety conditions, federal Defence Minister Anita Anand said Saturday.
  At least one evacuation flight is planned by the Canadian military on Saturday, she said. It would be the fifth to leave the Sudanese capital of Khartoum since Thursday.
  About 221 people were on board two aircraft that departed on Friday, including 68 Canadians and six permanent residents,
  
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• Canadian rider Derek Gee to make Grand Tour debut in Giro d’Italia

  29-04-2023 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian Derek Gee has been named to Israel-Premier Tech’s team for the Giro d’Italia, the first Grand Tour of the cycling season.
  The 25-year-old from Ottawa, who came fifth in the team pursuit at the Tokyo Olympics, will support Italian Domenico Pozzovivo in his general classification campaign. Gee won the 2022 Canadian time trial national championship.
  “Derek Gee … is lining up for his first Grand Tour so it will be a new experience for him. But he has a big engine, h
  
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• G.W. Graham hosting free kids football camp Sunday, lunch to be provided

  29-04-2023 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The G.W. Graham Secondary football program will host a free kids football camp for ages 5-12 (kindergarten through grade 7) on Sunday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Lunch will be provided. The football camp will be held at the G.W. Graham Secondary Sports Field at 45955 Thomas Road in Chilliwack.Visit https://grahamfootball.wufoo.com/forms/z14aii600mopu4t/ to fill out the online registration form.
  
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• Abby PD looking for witnesses after motorist fled police through mall parking lot

  29-04-2023 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police Department is putting out a public appeal for witnesses after the driver of a vehicle who refused to stop for police on South Fraser Way wound up fleeing at a high rate of speed into a nearby mall, forcing two pedestrians to jump out of the way.At 6:50 p.m on Friday night (Apr. 28), patrol officers with the Abbotsford Police Department attempted to stop a black Chrysler 300 along South Fraser Way in front of Seven Oaks Mall. According to police, the drive fle
  
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• Abbotsford Police on the lookout for man who can’t keep his clothes on

  29-04-2023 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police are on the lookout in Abbotsford for a man who can’t seem to keep his clothes on in a public place.Abbotsford Police distributed an online bulletin via Facebook and Twitter Friday (Apr. 28) about another incident involving indecent exposure committed by an unknown male.According to its Twitter and Facebook accounts, the Abbotsford Police Department responded to a report of an indecent act within the trails of Downes Bowl Park north of Clearbrook. A witness advised
  
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• RCMP Musical Ride coming to Chilliwack in June

  29-04-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A time-honoured tradition since 1876 will be trotting into Chilliwack in late June.In commemoration of the RCMP’s 150th anniversary, the Chilliwack Agricultural Society will host two shows of the RCMP Musical Ride on the day students are let out of SD33, Thursday, June 29, Chilliwack Heritage Park.Tickets will go on sale next week for 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. performances.The RCMP Musical Ride comes to British Columbia once every four years, giving Chilliwack residents a rare o
  
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• ‘If we don’t understand, we can’t really change’: Studying Saskatchewan mass killer

  29-04-2023 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RCMP may never fully learn why Myles Sanderson went on a deadly stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation, but they may be able to offer answers that some experts say could help victims’ families make sense of it all.
  Mounties released on Thursday a preliminary timeline of the Sept. 4 attacks on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon, which killed 11 people and injured 17. They also announced they are conducting a psychological autopsy on Sanderson, who went
  
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• Alberta’s two main political rivals have baggage to shed ahead of May 29 election

  29-04-2023 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s two main provincial political party leaders are set to duel for the province’s highest office starting Monday in a campaign that for both could be a case of win or go home. 
  A win by United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith and her party gets a second term, defeating Rachel Notley and her NDP just like in 2019. 
  A loss and Smith risks being tossed out by her party, wearing the ignominy of the first Alberta conservative leader to lose in a head to
  
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• ‘Pretty surreal:’ Canada’s Keishana Washington looking forward to WNBA opportunity

  29-04-2023 12:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The moment has sunk in for Keishana Washington.
  The Pickering, Ont., native arrived in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday to begin a new chapter in her basketball career. Washington, who recently closed out her NCAA career at Drexel University, signed a training camp deal with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx on April 14. 
  She is now set to get her first taste of the pro game on Sunday when camp begins.
  “It’s pretty surreal,” Washington told The Canadian Press. “I mean (Th
  
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• Families minister says Tory premiers touting child care should ask Poilievre for plan

  29-04-2023 12:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Provincial conservative premiers touting $10-a-day child-care deals with Ottawa is a welcome move, even if some of the leaders now campaigning on the deals were among the last to sign them, federal Liberal Families Minister Karina Gould said.
  Now she says they need to push federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to explain if he would keep the agreements in place.
  “They should probably be prodding their federal counterpart at the Conservative Party of Canada as to what
  
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• TikTokers making six-figure incomes via app worried about potential ban

  29-04-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ssonia Ong had no idea that a 25-second video she posted miming to music the story of her college love, her wedding, then her four children would go viral on TikTok. 
  Three years later, with 9.2 million followers, Ong isn’t sure what she would do without it. 
  She is one of several Canadian “influencers” on the video-hosting service who depend on the app who are voicing their concerns about a growing call worldwide to ban TikTok over the possibility i
  
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• ‘Phenomenal’ logjam in the Canadian Arctic stores millions of tonnes of carbon: study

  29-04-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — Researchers say they have mapped the world’s largest known cumulative logjam in the Canadian Arctic and it holds millions of tonnes of carbon, representing an important but understudied part of the carbon cycle. 
  A study published in Geophysical Research Letters earlier this month describes how the scientists mapped almost 415,000 individual deposits of wood in the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories, with the pileup stretching nearly 52 square kilom
  
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• Chilliwack pet food company donates 460,000 kitty meals to support ... - Maple Ridge News

  29-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack pet food company donates 460000 kitty meals to support ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• 3 music groups will celebrate spring with by-donation concert in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Defending champ Avs force Game 7 with 4-1 win over Kraken

  29-04-2023 07:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored his seventh goal of the playoffs, Artturi Lehkonen scored twice, including an empty-net goal in the closing seconds, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Seattle Kraken 4-1 on Friday night to force a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series. 
  Rantanen scored in the final seconds of the first period, tying it at 1-1 after Seattle posted the first goal yet again. The Avalanche then dominated the final two periods, flashing some of what made them Sta
  
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• Canada loses 6-2 to Norway to finish 4th in world mixed doubles curling championship

  29-04-2023 07:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Martine Roenning and Mathias Braenden of Norway stole singles in the fourth, fifth and eighth ends to defeat Team Canada in the bronze-medal final at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Saturday in South Korea.
  The Canadian combo of Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing finished the round robin portion of the 20-country event on top of Group A with an 8-1 record. Norway finished tied for second in Group B with a 7-2 record.
  In the fourth end against Nor
  
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• Stars bounce Wild in 6 with 3-1 win behind Hintz, Oettinger

  29-04-2023 06:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Roope Hintz got Dallas going early, Jake Oettinger stonewalled his home-state team again and the Stars eliminated the Minnesota Wild with a 4-1 win in Game 6 of their first-round NHL playoff series on Friday night.
  Wyatt Johnston and Mason Marchment scored in the second period when a burst by the Stars — smelling the Western Conference semifinals and swooping in for the finish — outshot the Wild 18-5. Max Domi closed it out with an empty-netter in the fin
  
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• Former secretary of state Clinton to join Liberal convention in Ottawa next week

  29-04-2023 05:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the first woman to run as a major party candidate for United States president, will headline the Liberal Party of Canada’s national convention on May 5.
  Clinton will join Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for a fireside-style chat onstage on the second day of the three-day event in Ottawa.
  Clinton rose to national prominence first during the presidential terms of her husband, Bill Clinton, in the 1990s, before her launching he
  
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• Panthers score 7, force a Game 7 against the Bruins

  29-04-2023 04:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk scored twice, Eetu Luostarinen put Florida ahead to stay with 5:38 left in what was a crazed third period, and the Panthers forced a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference first-round series by beating the Boston Bruins 7-5 on Friday night.
  Aleksander Barkov, Brandon Montour, Zac Dalpe and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Panthers, who got 30 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Reinhart capped it with an empty-netter with 28 seconds left — the seventh and fi
  
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• Stastny’s OT goal sends Hurricanes past Isles into 2nd round

  29-04-2023 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Stastny scored 6:01 into overtime, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Friday night in Game 6 to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
  Sebastian Aho tied it midway through the third period for the Hurricanes. Frederik Andersen stopped 35 shots while making his first start of the postseason.
  Cal Clutterbuck scored for the Islanders and Ilya Sorokin finished with 39 saves. New York was eliminated in the first round for the fi
  
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• Finau leads Mexico Open at halfway point; Rahm 6 shots back

  29-04-2023 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Tony Finau kick-started what had been a disappointing 2022 with a runner-up finish in the Mexico Open at Vidanta. He moved into position for an even better result on Friday, shooting a 7-under 64 to take a one-shot lead through two rounds.
  Finau, the second highest-ranked player in the field behind world No. 1 and defending champion Jon Rahm, made five birdies on his front nine — none from longer than 11 feet. After four straight pars, he holed a 30-footer on
  
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• Vernon hosts record-breaking SILGA - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 04:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Springer’s RBI single lifts Blue Jays over Mariners 3-2 in rematch of AL wild card

  29-04-2023 03:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — George Springer hit a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays over the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Friday.
  Alejandro Kirk had three hits, including a solo homer, as Toronto (17-9) won its fifth consecutive game. Matt Chapman also drove in a run with a double.
  Blue Jays infielder Whit Merrifield’s second-inning double ensured that he reached base for the 20th consecutive game.
  Alek Manoah gave up six hits and four walks, but struck out seven and all
  
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• LETTER: Earth Day action is needed every day - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 03:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Federal picketers spend Friday morning at Aldergrove border crossing - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 03:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Charges laid in connection with attempted Chilliwack, B.C. bank robbery - Global News

  29-04-2023 02:40 via news.google.com
  
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• Charges laid in connection with attempted Chilliwack, B.C. bank robbery

  29-04-2023 02:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Eric Hansen is facing charges of robbery and using an imitation firearm while committing a robbery, the BC Prosecution Service confirmed Friday.
  
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• Baby found dead in Victoria parking lot died of natural causes: police

  29-04-2023 02:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Police in Victoria say an autopsy of a baby found dead in a parking lot Wednesday has concluded the newborn died of natural causes.
  A statement from the police department says they have located the mother of the baby and she is receiving medical care and support.  
  Police say circumstances are still under investigation by the major crimes unit and further details cannot be shared at this time. 
  Officers and an ambulance were called Wednesday night to a report of a baby
  
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• LETTER: Chilliwack Youth Health Centre continues to press ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 02:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Atlanta Falcons take Canadian OL Bergeron in second round of 2023 NFL draft

  29-04-2023 01:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Atlanta Falcons selected Canadian offensive tackle Matthew Bergeron in the second round of the NFL draft Friday night.
  Atlanta made a deal with the Indianapolis Colts to select Bergeron with the seventh pick of the second round, No. 38 overall.
  The 23-year-old native of Victoriaville, Que., played his college football at Syracuse and became the first Canadian selected in this year’s draft.
  The six-foot-five, 322-pound Bergeron started 11 games last season at Sy
  
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• LETTER: Wonderful end-of-life care at Eden Care - Chilliwack Progress

  29-04-2023 01:30 via news.google.com
  
  LETTER: Wonderful end-of-life care at Eden Care  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Army grounds aviators for training after fatal Alaska crash

  29-04-2023 01:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army says Friday that it has grounded non-critical aviators for training after deadly helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky killed 12 in the past month.Military investigators were making their way to Alaska’s interior on Friday, one day after a midair collision between two helicopters killed three soldiers and injured a fourth.
  The investigative team from Fort Novosel, Alabama, was expected to arrive at the scene of the cras
  
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• Abbotsford, Chilliwack, First Nations and province sign flood ... - Hope Standard

  29-04-2023 01:15 via news.google.com
  
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