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• Canadians win second straight at CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship

  28-05-2023 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Olivia Smith scored twice Sunday as Canada blanked Panama 5-0 for its second straight win at the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship.
  Zoe Markesini and Amanda Allen also had goals for Canada, which led 4-0 at the half with the first three goals coming between the 22nd and 29th minute at Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez. The Canadians also benefited from an Alejandra Garay own goal.
  Allen, who plays for the NWSL’s Orlando Pride, made it 5-0 w
  
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• Vancouver police investigating fatal stabbing in city’s west end

  28-05-2023 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver are investigating a fatal stabbing in a busy neighbourhood Saturday night. 
  They say officers responded to reports that a man had been stabbed near the intersection of Davie and Bute streets in the city’s west end just before 10 p.m.
  Police say the man was taken to hospital, where he later died.
  A statement issued Sunday says the victim has not been identified and no arrests have been made.
  Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to ca
  
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• Some of the memorable comments made during Alberta election campaign

  28-05-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Candidates for both the United Conservative Party and New Democrats have been campaigning over the last four weeks for their party to form the next Alberta government. Election day is Monday.
  Here are some memorable quotes from the campaign:
  “(The NDP) devastated the Alberta economy. They created policies that drove investment out, drove jobs out, and we had to reverse all of that,” UCP Leader Danielle Smith said on May 1, the day the writ was dropped. “The choice in this elect
  
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• Blais scores twice, Canada beats Germany 5-2 to win gold at men’s hockey worlds

  28-05-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPERE, FINLAND — Sammy Blais scored twice as Canada beat Germany 5-2 to capture gold at the men’s world hockey championship today.
  Lawson Crouse, captain Tyler Toffoli and Scott Laughton also scored, and Peyton Krebs pitched in two assists for Canada.
  JJ Peterka and Daniel Fischbuch had the goals for Germany, which was in the gold-medal game for the first time since 1992 when the playoff format was introduced at the world championship. Moritz Seider added two assists.
  Goaltender Sa
  
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• Promise tracker: What Alberta’s UCP and NDP pledge to do if they win the election

  28-05-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Albertans go to the polls on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the promises announced by the two major parties:
  United Conservative Party
  — Create a new tax bracket that would deliver about $760 more for everyone making more than $60,000 a year. Those making less would see a 20 per cent reduction to their provincial tax bill.
  — Extend the pause on the provincial fuel tax, with savings of 13 cents per litre at the pump, until the end of 2023.
  — Put into leg
  
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• Economy, health care, trust: Alberta election campaign hits final day before vote

  28-05-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley made one final pitch to voters Sunday to upend Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government and deliver an upset win in the provincial election. 
  “In this room, we share Alberta’s values. Danielle Smith and her UCP do not,” Notley told cheering supporters at an afternoon rally in Edmonton. 
  “Friends, as long as we stand together, we can and we will win this thing. Let’s build a future togethe
  
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• Blue Jays beat Twins 3-0 on Berríos’ pitching, Kirk’s hitting, Varsho’s fielding

  28-05-2023 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — José Berríos pitched around a season-high five walks and into the sixth inning for Toronto to beat his old team, and the Blue Jays blanked the Minnesota Twins 3-0 on Sunday for their first series win in four tries.
  Alejandro Kirk hit a two-run single in the second inning that held up for Berríos (5-4), who has allowed two or fewer runs in seven of his last nine turns after a rough start.
  Daulton Varsho scored from first base on Kirk’s hit and w
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada beats Germany 5-2 to win gold at men’s world hockey championship

  28-05-2023 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPERE, Finland — Canada beats Germany 5-2 to win gold at the men’s world hockey championship.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Hamilton police say engaged couple shot dead while fleeing landlord-tenant dispute

  28-05-2023 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A brazen double homicide in which an engaged couple was allegedly gunned down by their landlord as they fled their rental home has shaken residents of their southern Ontario city and raised questions about how a landlord-tenant dispute could explode into such violence, Hamilton police said Sunday.
  Sgt. Steve Bereziuk said a 27-year-old female educational assistant and a 28-year-old male electrician were shot dead just outside the home they shared in the community of Stoney Creek on Saturday, des
  
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• ‘Precious’ musical instruments removed from Montreal heritage building after fire

  28-05-2023 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A pair of valuable musical instruments have been removed from a Montreal heritage building that caught fire last week, raising hopes that they can be saved to play again.
  Simon Blanchet, program director at the Chapelle du Bon-Pasteur, says a Fazioli concert grand piano and a 1772 Kirckman harpsichord were both removed on Saturday from the concert venue inside the chapel of the 19th century former monastery.
  He said both instruments sustained some moisture damage and will have t
  
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• The fastest 96 year old woman in the world: Ottawa woman breaks 5K race record

  28-05-2023 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Rejeanne Fairhead says until two years ago the most athletic things she had ever done over more than nine decades of life involved bowling and horse shoes. 
  Now the 96-year-old is a world-record holding racer. 
  Fairhead completed the five-kilometre race at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend Saturday in just over 51 minutes.
  The world record for that distance among women over the age of 95 was demolished by almost five minutes.
  Fairhead says she never thought of herself as
  
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• Everton stays in Premier League after final-day escape, Leicester and Leeds relegated

  28-05-2023 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LEICESTER, England (AP) — Everton staged another last-day escape in the Premier League to extend its 69-year stay in England’s top division as Leicester and Leeds were relegated on Sunday.
  Abdoulaye Doucouré smashed home a 57th-minute goal to earn Everton a 1-0 win over Bournemouth that was enough to keep the team two points above Leicester, whose 2-1 victory against West Ham was in vain.
  Leicester is relegated seven years after winning the Premier League at preseason odds of
  
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• Chilliwack Alzheimer’s Walk Sunday afternoon

  28-05-2023 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Across British Columbia, thousands of people are expected to attend their local Walk for Alzheimer’s Sunday. The event is the largest annual fundraising event for the Society.
  But it is also a way to honour and recognize individuals who are dealing with the disease.In each community across the province, a local honouree is named to lead the walk.The Walk in Chilliwack will be led by Taylor Ogston and his wife of 34 years, Karen Stewart. Ogston started noticing changes th
  
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• Roglic raises the Giro d’Italia trophy in Rome; Cavendish wins final stage

  28-05-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Primoz Roglic expanded his Grand Tour portfolio by winning the Giro d’Italia on Sunday to add to his three Spanish Vuelta titles.
  The former ski jumper became the first Slovenian rider to win the Giro and he did it in dramatic fashion, claiming the lead in the penultimate stage — taking the pink jersey from Geraint Thomas in Saturday’s mountain time trial.
  It was the direct opposite of what happened in the 2020 Tour de France, when fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogac
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez beats Poland’s Magda Linette in French Open first round

  28-05-2023 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the French Open on Sunday, beating Magda Linette of Poland 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, in a first-round match.
  Fernandez hit two aces to Linette’s five and double-faulted nine times compared to six by her opponent, but won 69 per cent of her second-serve points en route to victory.
  The 20-year-old Fernandez from Laval, Que., entered the tournament ranked 49th in the WTA rankings, while Linette was ranked 21st.
  Fernandez made
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of May 28, 2023

  28-05-2023 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: Kurt Wade LangfordAge: 28
  Height: 5’9” ftWeight: 201lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Tattoo: Left Forearm: MOB; Left Hand: MOB; Right Arm: Flames and Skulls; Right Forearm: Peg City; Right Shoulder: Skull; Both Shoulders: Mob; Neck: Writing
  Mole under left eye
  Warrant in effect: May 23, 2023
  Parole Jurisdiction: New WestminsterName: Michael HolmgrenAge: 24
  Heigh
  
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• Latvia defeats US 4-3 in OT to win bronze at ice hockey worlds

  28-05-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — Defenseman Kristian Rubins scored his second goal 1:22 into overtime to lead Latvia to a 4-3 victory over the United States and earn a bronze medal at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.
  It’s the first top-three finish for Latvia at the tournament. Its previous best was a seventh place it managed three times.
  The U.S. lost in the bronze medal game for the second straight year. The U.S. team was cruising through the tournament with eight straight wins
  
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• Climate change could mean fewer ‘date nights’ for Arctic ground squirrels: study

  28-05-2023 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As temperatures rise in the North, scientists say it’s affecting how Arctic ground squirrels hibernate — and it could have serious consequences for the species.
  The furry critters survive the harsh Arctic winters by burrowing underground and hibernating for eight months before emerging in the spring ready to eat and breed. As the males go through seasonal puberty every year, they normally wake up about a month earlier so they are ready to mate when the female Arctic ground squirrels
  
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• Abbotsford man, woman charged in connection with 2022 murder in Abbotsford

  28-05-2023 15:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Saturday that a man and woman from Abbotsford have been arrested in connection with March 2022 murder of 41-year-old Chad Colivas of Abbotsford.On May 26, 2023, as a result of tireless dedication, IHIT investigators, along with members of AbbyPD, arrested 22-year-old Tanner Fox and 30-year-old Laetitia Acera, both of Abbotsford, in relation to the murder.
  On March 21, 2022, at around 9:52 p.m., Abbotsford Police Department (
  
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• Mechanical podium, playfully dubbed ‘explodium,’ aims to even B.C.’s political field

  28-05-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — It was a sizable British Columbia political issue that called for a one-size-fits-all solution, says Premier David Eby, who at 6-7 is the province’s tallest leader.
  The tall and the short needed evening out as matters of perception and fairness, he said.
  Eby towers over most people at news conferences but is juxtaposed with Selina Robinson, minister of post-secondary education and future skills, who at 4-11 often needs to stand on boxes to reach the microphone.
  The solutio
  
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• Early snowmelt in Western mountains means drier summers, more wildfire risk: study

  28-05-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Leaner snowpack in Western Canada and United States mountain ranges is causing drier summers and increasing wildfire risk, says a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder.
  Lead author Kate Hale said her team analyzed mountain snow data and found snowpack water storage decreased more than 25 per cent from 1950 to 2013. This, she said, can be attributed to earlier snowmelt, less snowfall and more rain.
  “We actually saw some of the strongest signals up in the Canadi
  
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• Voters in Turkey return to polls to decide on opposing presidential visions

  28-05-2023 07:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by a challenger who has promised to restore a more democratic society.
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been at Turkey’s helm for 20 years, is favored to win a new five-year term in the second-round runoff after coming just short of an outright victory in the first round on May
  
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• Fight still ahead for Texas’ Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions

  28-05-2023 06:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The historic impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plunged Republicans on Sunday into a fight over whether to banish one of their own in America’s biggest red state after years of scandal and criminal accusations that will now be at the center of a trial in the state Senate.Paxton said he has “full confidence” as he awaits judgement from the Senate, where his conservative allies include his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, who has not said w
  
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• White plays hero as Celtics beat Heat, force Game 7 in East finals

  28-05-2023 05:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Derrick White scored on a putback with 0.1 seconds left and the Boston Celtics moved to the brink of the greatest comeback in NBA playoff history, holding off the Miami Heat 104-103 on Saturday night to force a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals.
  Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, Jaylen Brown scored 26 and Marcus Smart added 21 for the Celtics, who became only the fourth NBA team to erase a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series and force a deciding game. The others in that c
  
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• St. Louis City rolls to 3-1 victory over visiting Whitecaps

  28-05-2023 05:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis City got an early goal from Eduard Löwen, a late goal from Miguel Perez and an own-goal from Tristan Blackmon in-between en route to a 3-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night.
  St. Louis City (8-4-1) grabbed the lead in the 10th minute on an unassisted goal by Löwen — his fourth tally this season.
  Blackmon’s own-goal came in the 45th minute, giving St. Louis City a 2-0 lead at halftime.
  Vancouver (4-5-5)
  
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• Stars stay alive with 4-2 win over Golden Knights

  28-05-2023 05:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ty Dellandrea scored twice in a 1:27 span midway through the third period and the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Saturday night to stay alive in the Western Conference final.
  The Stars escaped elimination for the second game in a row and head to Dallas for Game 6 on Monday night down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Dallas is attempting to become the fifth team in NHL history to win a series after being down 3-0.
  Dellandrea had the first multigoal game o
  
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• Toronto FC caps tumultuous week with much-needed 2-1 victory over D.C. United

  28-05-2023 03:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Goals by Deandre Kerr and Kosi Thompson helped Toronto FC rebound from a week of turmoil surrounding disgruntled Italian star Federico Bernardeschi with a much-needed 2-1 win over D.C. United in MLS play Saturday.
  An 87th-minute goal by D.C.’s Christian Benteke made for a tense ending but Toronto hung on through six minutes of added time.
  Bernardeschi, the club’s leading scorer, was benched by coach Bob Bradley after an explosive outburst following last week’s 1
  
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• Roughriders rally to tip visiting Lions 30-27 in CFL pre-season tilt

  28-05-2023 03:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders ended a long CFL pre-season losing streak on Saturday with a 30-27 victory over the B.C. Lions.
  Quarterback Mason Fine connected with Mitchell Picton on two fourth-quarter touchdowns to give the Riders their first pre-season victory since June 14, 2014. On that day, the Riders beat the Ottawa Redblacks 21-17.
  Fine took over as quarterback for the Riders in the fourth quarter and he got off to a rough start. On his first pass attempt, B.C. linebacker Ry
  
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• Offor’s second-half goal lifts CF Montreal over Inter Miami 1-0

  28-05-2023 03:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Chinonso Offor scored his third goal of the season in the second half to lift CF Montreal over Inter Miami 1-0 on Saturday.
  Montreal goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois shined between the pipes, making five saves. The native of LaSalle, Que., recorded a fifth clean sheet and set a new club record for minutes without conceding at home.
  Under the watchful eyes of former player Ismael Kone, who visited his hometown following the conclusion of his EFL Championship season with Watford, Montre
  
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• Chilliwack Airport to receive $1.9 million for runway improvements

  28-05-2023 03:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Airport will receive $1.9 million from the B.C. government and the City of Chilliwack as part of a shared funding agreement from a provincial program that upgrades regional airports and improves aviation services and safety.
  In a release from the provincial government on Friday, May 19, the B.C. government announced that Chilliwack Airport will receive $1.9 million to extend the runway and upgrade lighting.The City of Chilliwack says on its website the Chilliwack Ai
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP detains man after he allegedly causes accident, flees scene

  28-05-2023 03:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A motorcyclist was detained by Chilliwack RCMP officers Saturday afternoon after he allegedly caused an accident on Chilliwack Lake Road and fled the scene, only to be captured and arrested less than an hour later.
  The Chilliwack Fire Department was dispatched Saturday afternoon at approximately 4:45 p.m. for the report of a truck that had gone into a ditch on Chilliwack Lake Road, and a motorcyclist possibly responsible for that crash had allegedly left the scene.
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• Boutier, Maguire set for LPGA Match Play semifinal showdown

  28-05-2023 03:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Former Duke and Solheim Cup teammates Celine Boutier and Leona Maguire remained undefeated Saturday at Shadow Creek to set up a semifinal match in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.
  The third-seeded Boutier, from France, edged Ayaka Furue of Japan 2 and 1 in the quarterfinals. The seventh-seeded Maguire, from Ireland, held off American Lindsey Weaver-Wright 3 and 2.
  In the other semifinal Sunday morning, Linn Grant of Sweden will face Pajaree Anannarukarn of Tha
  
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• Crnkovic nets 3, T-Birds beat Petes 6-3 at Memorial Cup championship

  28-05-2023 02:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The Seattle Thunderbirds, no stranger to winning crucial games at the Sandman Centre this season, won another one big one Saturday by defeating the Peterborough Petes 6-3 in the Memorial Cup opener for both teams.
  The Western Hockey League champion Thunderbirds, who won twice in Kamloops earlier this month to beat the Blazers and win the Western Conference final, fell behind 1-0 and 2-1 to the Ontario Hockey League champions, but refused to quit.
  J.R. Avon gave the Petes a
  
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• Schnek, Hall tied for Colonial lead after three rounds

  28-05-2023 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Adam Schenk closed out a 3-under 67 with a 16-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Saturday to match PGA Tour rookie Harry Hall for the lead at 10-under after three rounds at the Colonial. 
  Hall, who had the solo lead after the first and second rounds, overcame consecutive double-bogeys on the front nine that had dropped him out of the lead. His final putt in his round of 72 was a 10-foot par at No. 18 after he chipped from the fringe out of an awkward stance tha
  
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• Mitchell, Tiger-Cats tip Argonauts 27-22 in CFL pre-season test

  28-05-2023 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell tossed an early touchdown to lead his new team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, to a 27-22 pre-season win against the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday.
  This was the first CFL pre-season game for the longtime rival Ticats (1-0) and the defending Grey Cup champion Argos (0-1).
  After dropped passes by wide receiver Justin McGriff and running back James Butler on Mitchell’s first two attempts, he hit Richie Sindani for a 32-yard score on the Ticats’ second offensi
  
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• Blue Bombers edge Elks 25-23 in CFL pre-season clash

  28-05-2023 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome’s 46-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter proved to be the difference as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers survived a comeback bid to open up CFL pre-season play with a 25-23 victory over the Edmonton Elks on Saturday afternoon.
  Edmonton dropped to 0-2 in exhibition action.
  The Elks scored on their opening drive, getting a 35-yard field goal from Dean Faithfull.
  Winnipeg was quick to respond, as veteran quarterback Zach Collaros found Kenny Lawler o
  
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• WestJet pilots deal grants 24% pay raise over four years - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-05-2023 01:00 via news.google.com
  
  WestJet pilots deal grants 24% pay raise over four years - Chilliwack ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bucks finalizing deal to make Raptors’ Adrian Griffin their head coach, AP source says

  28-05-2023 00:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks are finalizing a deal to make Adrian Griffin their head coach after he spent the last five seasons as a Toronto Raptors assistant, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
  The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the deal was still being completed.
  Griffin would replace Mike Budenholzer, who was fired earlier this month after the top-seeded Bucks’ stunning loss to the Miami Heat in the first roun
  
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• Castro hits 2 of Minnesota’s 4 home runs in 9-7 win over Toronto

  28-05-2023 00:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Willi Castro had his first career multi-homer game, Matt Wallner homered amongst his career-high four hits, and the Minnesota Twins held off the Toronto Blue Jays 9-7 on Saturday
  Edouard Julien also homered as part of a three-hit day, and Alex Kirilloff and Kyle Farmer each had two of Minnesota’s 14 hits.
  Bo Bichette had three hits, including a home run the second straight game, but the Blue Jays lost for the 10th time in 13 games. Daulton Varsho also went deep.
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