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• Cedric Mullins has RBIs in 10th, 11th innings to lift Orioles over Blue Jays 8-3

  21-05-2023 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Cedric Mullins had a two-run double as part of a five-run 11th inning as the Baltimore Orioles downed the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday.
  Mullins also had an RBI single in the 10th as Baltimore (31-16) won its fourth straight. Austin Hays had an RBI single and Terrin Vavra drove in two more in the 11th, while Adley Rutschman and Anthony Santander also drove in runs in the third.
  Dean Kremer gave up nine hits and two walks but limited the Blue Jays to just one run, striking out s
  
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• US routs France 9-0 to stay perfect at ice hockey worlds

  21-05-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The United States routed France 9-0 to keep its perfect record at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.
  Cutter Gauthier led with a hat trick, Drew O’Connor got two goals and Scott Perunovich, T. J. Tynan, Rocco Grimaldi and Conor Garland added one apiece at Nokia Arena for the Americans to dominate Group A with six wins from six games.
  Goaltender Cal Petersen made 13 saves for the shutout.
  Nico Sturm scored twice and Germany thrashed Hungary 7-2 to keep
  
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• Canadian forward Veleno given five-game suspension at world hockey championship

  21-05-2023 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIGA, Latvia — Canadian forward Joe Veleno was given a five-game suspension Sunday for stomping on the leg of an opponent at the world hockey championship.
  The International Ice Hockey Federation’s disciplinary panel ruled he violated Rule No. 49 (kicking) in Canada’s 3-2 loss to Switzerland on Saturday.
  “Canada’s national men’s team acknowledges the role of the committee and appreciate the diligence that went into the decision-making process, and we accept an
  
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• Meteorites found in Canada cannot be removed from the country without permit

  21-05-2023 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Catch a falling star if you can, and by all means put it in your pocket, but don’t try to cross international borders with it lest you run afoul of a little-known Canadian law.
  An American museum will have to navigate that law’s intricacies should it try to buy portions of a meteorite believed to have landed in New Brunswick last month. 
  A fireball ripped through the Earth’s atmosphere on April 8 and landed somewhere in the province, prompting the Maine Mineral and Gem Mus
  
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• New wildfire in B.C.’s central Interior sparks evacuation order in parts of Cariboo

  21-05-2023 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A new out-of-control wildfire in British Columbia’s Interior has sparked a mandatory evacuation order in an area approximately 600 kilometres north of Vancouver.
  The Cariboo Regional District says the Tzenzaicut Lake wildfire discovered on Saturday has become enough of a threat that an evacuation order has been issued for an area west of Highway 97 between Quesnel and Williams Lake.
  A wider zone around the evacuation area – just south of the community of Baker Creek – has been
  
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• McNulty claims first Grand Tour stage win, Armirail stays in Giro lead ahead of decisive Dolomites

  21-05-2023 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — American cyclist Brandon McNulty won the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday for his first victory in a Grand Tour while Bruno Armirail kept hold of the leader’s pink jersey as the race prepares for a dramatic and decisive final week.
  McNulty, who rides for UAE Team Emirates, edged out Ben Healy and Marco Frigo at the end of the tough 195-kilometer (121-mile) route from Seregno to Bergamo.
  “I’m stoked. This was my goal coming here,”
  
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• Canada rugby sevens men post dramatic win to escape World Series relegation

  21-05-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Alex Russell scored with a minute remaining to give Canada a dramatic 12-7 win over Kenya in a relegation playoff final Sunday, preserving the Canadian men’s status as a core team on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
  Kenya, which had been reduced to six men with John Okeyo in the sin-bin for an international knock-on, drops out of the elite sevens competition next season. Canada lives to fight another day.
  The win ended a tense weekend at Twickenham Stadium, with the Canad
  
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• Driver arrested after injuring two people in road rage incident near Montreal: police

  21-05-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police allege a pikcup truck driver intentionally struck a three-wheeled motorcycle in the Montreal suburb of St-Eustache, Que. this morning, seriously injuring two people.
  Police are describing the crash, which took place shortly before 10 a.m., as a road rage incident.
  Police spokesman Sgt. Eric Cadotte says the driver of the van was arrested for dangerous driving causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon.
  He says the van is being considered a weapon.&nbs
  
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• Police allege man cut own throat after stealing, crashing two cars north of Montreal

  21-05-2023 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINTE-JULIENNE, Que. — Quebec’s police watchdog is investigating the death of a man who allegedly slit his own throat as police confronted him after he stole and crashed two cars in less than half an hour.
  The agency, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, issued a news release saying the man appeared to have injured himself with an exacto knife at his workplace late Friday morning.
  It says the man then fled in a stolen vehicle, which he then drove off the road
  
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• Boots on the ground, eyes in the sky: satellites increasingly used to fight wildfires

  21-05-2023 16:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Eyes in the sky are becoming an increasingly important tool for boots on the ground when it comes to fighting wildfires, experts say, as data from a growing number of satellites give firefighters new tools to predict fire behaviour and analyze its consequences.  
  “It’s being more and more adopted,” said wildfire expert Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University. 
  “In the old days, almost no one was using satellites. Now they’re being used more and more.&
  
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• ‘On the inside’: Why some Indigenous officers stick with the RCMP despite struggles

  21-05-2023 15:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Dean Gladue says he never experienced racism until joining the RCMP.The 26-year veteran began his career with the force in 1989 as special constable, a role assigned to police First Nations reserves. It was a rank below his non-Indigenous colleagues, who were better paid.
  It felt like he was “a second-class citizen,” he said in a recent interview.After the program shuttered, Gladue transitioned into a job as a regular constable. The 25-year-old Métis man would t
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of May 21, 2023

  21-05-2023 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are two people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: Franklin CookAge: 38
  Height: 5’4” ft Weight: 205lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Tattoo: Right Forearm – Devil Smoking, Right Upper Arm – Hands and Flames, Left Upper Arm – Gothic Pattern, Right Calf- Cross, Left Forearm – Cross.
  Wanted: Armed Robbery, Disguise with Intent, and Break and Enter with Intent
  Warrant in effect: May 10, 2023
  Par
  
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• Stave Falls park public planning session set for Mission

  21-05-2023 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The City of Mission is looking for public input into the development of Stave Falls Community Park. It’s hosting an input session Saturday, June 3 from 9 a.m. to noon at Stave Falls Elementary school.
  The park will be located near the school along Brackley Avenue.Officials are using a charrette planning process to develop ideas to take forward. A number of hands-on table top exercises are planned for the meeting.
  “Stave Falls wants to see their park become a reality.
  
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• Ukrainian president meets with world leaders at G7 as Russia claims a key victory in the war

  21-05-2023 09:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy huddled with some of his biggest backers in Hiroshima on Sunday, building momentum for his country’s war effort even as Russia claimed a symbolic victory on the battlefield.
  The Ukrainian leader’s in-person appearance in his trademark olive drab during the final day of the Group of Seven summit underscored the centrality of the war for the bloc of rich democracies. It also stole much of the limelight from other pri
  
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• Heroes in Education: G.W. Graham trio aligns to create meaningful ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-05-2023 09:00
  
  Heroes in Education: G.W. Graham trio aligns to create meaningful ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trudeau asserts continued support for Ukraine as G7 leaders’ summit concludes

  21-05-2023 08:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HIROSHIMA, Japan — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ukraine would not be standing today if allies were not there to support it when Russian troops invaded early last year — and countries pushing for a ceasefire must recognize Russia is squarely to blame.
  Trudeau told reporters after attending the G7 leaders’ summit in Hiroshima, Japan, that the Canadian military will continue to provide support training to Ukraine’s forces and may also endeavour to train Ukrainian pilot
  
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• Whitecaps pump up offensive volume to tip Sounders 2-0

  21-05-2023 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Midfielder Pedro Vite scored late in the first half as the Vancouver Whitecaps extended their home undefeated streak to six Major League Soccer games with a 2-0 win over the Seattle Sounders Saturday night.
  Seattle also scored an own goal resulting from a blistering shot by midfielder Ryan Gauld early in the second half.
  The Whitecaps are 4-1-2 at home after losing their first match of the season. The Sounders came into the game having won three of their last six games on the r
  
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• Polls open in Greece’s first election since international bailout spending controls ended

  21-05-2023 06:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Polls have opened in Greece’s parliamentary election, the first since the country’s economy ceased to be subject to strict supervision and control by international lenders who had provided bailout funds during its nearly decade-long financial crisis.
  The two main contenders in Sunday’s vote are conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, a Harvard-educated former banker, and 48-year-old Alexis Tsipras, who heads the left-wing Syriza party an
  
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• At least 9 dead in stampede at soccer stadium in El Salvador

  21-05-2023 06:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal match in the Salvadoran league Saturday.
  The National Civil Police said in a preliminary report via Twitter that nine dead were confirmed at the match between clubs Alianza and FAS at Monumental stadium in Cuscatlan, which is about 25 miles (41 kilometers) northeast of the capital.
  At least two of the injured transpor
  
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• Tkachuk scores another OT winner, lifting Panthers to 2-0 series lead vs Hurricanes

  21-05-2023 05:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk finished a feed from Sam Reinhart at the 1:51 mark of overtime to help the Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 on Saturday night for a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference final.
  Less than two days after scoring the winner in a four-overtime thriller, Tkachuk came through again, this time on the power play after a faceoff win by the Panthers. Sam Bennett sent a pass to the left side for Reinhart, who zipped the puck across to Tkachuk
  
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• Nuggets on brink of NBA Finals with 119-108 win over Lakers

  21-05-2023 05:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 37 points, Nikola Jokic added 24 points and eight assists, and the Denver Nuggets rolled to a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference finals with a 119-108 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night.
  Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half against his former team for the top-seeded Nuggets, who have never been this close to the NBA Finals in 47 years in the league.
  Denver blew a big early lead in Game 3, but made a
  
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• Austin FC scores in injury time to defeat injury-ravaged Toronto FC 1-0

  21-05-2023 05:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Substitute Gyasi Zardes scored in stoppage time to give Austin FC a 1-0 victory over injury-ravaged Toronto FC on Saturday in the first-ever meeting between the MLS clubs.
  Substitute Adam Lundkvist’s cross was not cleared with Nick Lima’s ensuing backward header hitting the crossbar. The ball came back to Zardes who headed it home for his 99th career MLS goal.
  The goal had been a long time coming. Austin outshot the visitors 16-4 (3-0 in shots on target).
  Toront
  
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• Reyes, Burke lead Red Bulls to 2-1 MLS win over Montreal

  21-05-2023 04:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Andrés Reyes and Cory Burke scored first-half goals to lead the New York Red Bulls to a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday night.
  Reyes gave the Red Bulls (3-4-7) the lead in the 23rd minute with his second goal of the Major League Soccer season, scoring unassisted.
  Defender Joel Waterman answered six minutes later for Montreal (5-8-0) when he took a pass from George Campbell and scored for the first time this season to knot the score at 1-1.
  The Red Bull
  
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• Shoes a part of B.C. memorial for residential school victims disappear before removal

  21-05-2023 03:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Most of the shoes on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery that were a part of a memorial dedicated to children who never returned from residential schools disappeared hours before a scheduled ceremony to remove them.
  A spokesperson for the City of Vancouver said Friday the city had an agreement with the artist and volunteers guarding the memorial to have a ceremony to remove the shoes before the weekend.
  However, when city staff arrived Friday morning to begin work, Michelle
  
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• Canada’s David scores milestone goal for Lille as Marseille loses ground in Champions League chase

  21-05-2023 02:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (CP-AP) — Canadian forward Jonathan David scored a milestone goal Saturday in Lille’s 2-1 win over visiting Marseille, which fell behind Lens in the race for an automatic Champions League place from the French league.
  Lille closed the gap on Monaco in the chase for fourth and an Europa League place with David, from the penalty spot, scoring his 22nd league goal of the season. The 23-year-old from Ottawa is the first player to score 50 goals for Lille since Pierre Pleimelding in
  
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• Koepka survives tough day to lead PGA Championship, Canadian Conners one shot back

  21-05-2023 02:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Brooks Koepka says he thrives in majors because they’re the toughest tests. The PGA Championship was every bit of that on a rainy Saturday at Oak Hill, and so was Koepka.
  Koepka was at his best even during occasional downpours, and he surged into the 54-hole lead for the second straight major. He had a 4-under 66 — the low round at Oak Hill for the second straight day — and led by one shot over Viktor Hovland and Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont.
  Now
  
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• O’Hearn homer, 4 RBIs helps Orioles beat Blue Jays 6-5 in 10 innings

  21-05-2023 01:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Ryan Mountcastle scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning when third baseman Matt Chapman’s throw hit him in the back on Austin Hays’ grounder, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 Saturday to become the second team to reach 30 wins.
  Ryan O’Hearn tied his career high with four RBIs, including a three-run homer in the eighth off Jordan Romano that tied the score 5-5. Cedric Mullins hit a solo homer as the Orioles (30-16) won for the fou
  
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• Baffert’s National Treasure wins Preakness, hours after one of his horses euthanized

  21-05-2023 01:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert’s National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, ending Mage’s Triple Crown bid in the trainer’s return from a suspension — and just hours after another of his three-year-old horses was euthanized on the track.
  Baffert headed to the winner’s circle on the same day that his colt Havnameltdown went down with a fatal left leg injury in an undercard race. Baffert said he and his team were in shock.
  “Winning this,”
  
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• Events that mark beginning of May long weekend on Prairies get smoked out by fires

  21-05-2023 01:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A forecast for cooler temperatures and even rain is giving some hope to evacuees and firefighters after thick smoke from wildfires burning across the Prairies forced the cancellation of a number of outdoor activities that traditionally mark the beginning of the May long weekend.
  A fog-like haze obscured visibility in Edmonton on Saturday giving the city a smoky odour not unlike a provincial park campground, where wood-burning fires are now banned throughout the province due to t
  
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• Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet scores 97.25 per cent in confidence vote

  21-05-2023 00:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet scored 97.25 per cent in a confidence vote at his party’s national convention on Saturday.
  It was the first test of his leadership since Blanchet was acclaimed leader of the sovereigntist party in January 2019.
  Under Blanchet, the party has won 32 seats in back to back federal elections in 2019 and 2021.
  During a speech earlier in the day, Blanchet sought to bring together all sovereigntists in th
  
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