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• Move to Cure ALS event supports unique B.C. research model ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 23:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Man City beats Inter Milan 1-0 to win first Champions League title, complete treble

  10-06-2023 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Manchester City won the Champions League title for the first time by beating Inter Milan 1-0 in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium on Saturday.
  Rodri struck in the 68th minute to see the Premier League champions and FA Cup winners complete a treble of trophies this season.
  While it is the first time City has won European soccer’s biggest club competition, it is the third time Pep Guardiola has lifted the trophy as a coach.
  City triumphed despite losing inspira
  
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• Abbotsford Police remove lead-footed new driver from the streets and impound vehicle

  10-06-2023 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford have pulled a new driver off city streets after catching the driver speeding excessively.In a weekend Tweet, the AbbyPD says the driver was clocked doing 102 km/h. The speed limit on the road is 50 km/h.
  An excessive speeding ticket can bring significant consequences and heavy financial penalties with it. A driver who is spotted doing more than 40 km/h over the speed limit is subject to a minimum fine of $368 in addition to the cost of a ticket.The driver
  
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• Canada’s Nick Taylor sets course record at Canadian Open

  10-06-2023 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s Nick Taylor has set a new course record at the RBC Canadian Open.
  Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., fired a 9-under 63 at Oakdale Golf and Country Club on Saturday.
  He surpassed the record of 8 under that England’s Tyrrell Hatton matched in Friday’s second round.
  Oakdale actually has 27 holes on its property and is using a composite course for the PGA Tour event.
  The impressive showing rocketed Taylor up the leaderboard to hold the top spot by two strokes.
  
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• Liberal government leaves door open for public inquiry on foreign interference

  10-06-2023 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government is leaving the door open for a public inquiry into foreign interference, but it wants federal opposition parties to work together to come up with its terms of reference, timeline and potential leader. 
  Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc laid out his expectations on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the former governor-general tasked with probing foreign interference in recent federal elections announced his resignation from his post as
  
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• ‘The battle isn’t won’: Next 48 hours crucial in Quebec wildfire fight : Bonnardel

  10-06-2023 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The next 48 hours will be crucial in Quebec’s wildfire fight in northern and western parts of the province, Public Security Minister François Bonnardel said Saturday, with authorities hoping the situation remains stable ahead of rain forecast for early next week.
  Bonnardel told reporters that warmer temperatures and lower humidity levels will precede the moment when precipitation is expected Tuesday in those hard hit regions, noting the hotter, drier conditions coul
  
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• Meet and greet: NHL teams, prospects have plenty to talk about at scouting combine

  10-06-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. — Adam Fantilli spoke with 11 teams. Leo Carlsson chatted with the same number.
  Connor Bedard, meanwhile, didn’t get specific when asked how many clubs — “a pretty good amount” — quizzed the presumptive No. 1 overall pick at the NHL scouting combine.
  Three players expected to go in the top-5 picks at this month’s draft were poked, prodded and tested this week as the league’s 32 franchises prepare to select the next wave of talent.
  But
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Okanagan, Nicola, Boundary ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prison

  10-06-2023 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Saturday.
  Kaczynski was found dead around 8 a.m. at a federal prison in North Carolina. A cause of death was not immediately known.
  He had been moved to the federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings th
  
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• Iga Swiatek beats Karolina Muchova in the French Open final for her 3rd trophy in Paris, 4th Slam

  10-06-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek built a big lead in the French Open final, then overcame a second-set crisis of confidence and a third-set deficit to defeat Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 on Saturday and collect her third championship at Roland Garros and fourth Grand Slam title.
  The No. 1-ranked Swiatek raced to a 3-0 lead after just 10 minutes in Court Philippe Chatrier — taking 12 of the initial 15 points — and then was ahead 3-0 in the second set, too, before Muchova made things m
  
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• Canada adds Colorado defender Moise Bombito to CONCACAF Nations League roster

  10-06-2023 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has called up Colorado Rapids defender Moise Bombito to replace the injured Derek Cornelius at next week’s CONCACAF Nations League finals.
  It marks the first Canadian call-up for the 23-year-old from Montreal, in his first year with Colorado after being taken third overall in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft from the University of New Hampshire.
  Cornelius picked up a hamstring injury playing for Malmo in Sweden.
  Canada, ranked 47th in the world, plays No. 58 Panama on Thursday in the Nations
  
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• It’s graduation day for the youngest person in Canada to finish a university degree

  10-06-2023 16:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis is about to become the youngest person in Canadian history to graduate from university.
  The 12-year-old is expected to accept her University of Ottawa diploma for a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science this evening.
  Patricia Dennis started her university studies when she was nine years old. 
  She completed a 40-page thesis about the relationship between the brain and the hand for right-handed versus left-handed people. 
  Her mother Johanna Dennis &n
  
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• French stabbing suspect charged with attempted murder as injured toddlers remain hospitalized

  10-06-2023 13:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — French judges on Saturday handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park.
  The suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with permanent residency in Sweden. His name was not released.
  The lead prosecutor, Line Bonnet-Mathis, said the man was presented to investigating judges in the lakeside town of Annecy on Saturday and handed the charges. He is in custody pending further investigation.
  The p
  
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• Once ‘forgotten,’ Oujé-Bougoumou Cree watch nervously as wildfire threatens community

  10-06-2023 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — For Priscilla Bosum, the magnitude of what was happening to her northern Quebec home of Oujé-Bougoumou only sunk in when an evacuation order Tuesday night left her wondering if she and her family would ever see it again.
  Bosum and three of her children had already left the Cree community for southern Quebec earlier that day when a fast-approaching wildfire prompted the emergency evacuation. Her husband and 18-year-old son stayed behind to help fight the blaze.
  “It w
  
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• Book shines a light on successes, challenges experienced by Turcotte brothers

  10-06-2023 12:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ron Turcotte was the most unlikely of American Triple Crown winners.
  The Canadian rode superstar Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, becoming the first jockey to record the historic sweep in 25 years. But in his book, “The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty,” author Curtis Stock details how Turcotte got into horse racing merely by chance.
  “It was pure coincidence and fate,” Stock said in an interview. “He went to Toronto with his best friend
  
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• Wildfires are fuelling eco-anxiety but taking climate action can help, experts say

  10-06-2023 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When Jennifer Austin woke up on Tuesday morning, her Ottawa home smelled like smoke, even though all the windows were closed.  
  “I felt like a little bit under siege,” she said. “It was a bit of a battle every time the front door was opening, so I put one of the air filters there.”
  Outside, “it was like an orange glow and the streets looked smoky.” 
  Worried about her own asthma and the health risks that her three teenage kids might face, Austin ran m
  
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• Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes surprise visit to Ukraine

  10-06-2023 11:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Kyiv on Saturday for a surprise visit to show Canada’s solidarity with Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to push back against Russia more than a year after the invasion began.
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland joined him on the trip, which began with Trudeau laying a wreath at a memorial wall at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery to honour Ukrainians who have died while defending their homeland.
  Some media outlets,
  
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• Hong Kong launches bid to attract Canadian companies, but rights group warns of risks

  10-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hong Kong’s government is betting that Canadian companies and other overseas businesses will put profits over politics as it tries to lure talent and industry back to the city that has been cracking down on dissent after quashing a pro-democracy protest movement. 
  A Toronto-based official involved in the pitch that was advertised in Canadian newspapers this week says it’s targeting companies that want to “just get on with business” and remain “focused on their
  
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• B.C. fire officials hope wind shift will help save Tumbler Ridge from intense blaze

  10-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Fire officials are hoping a wind change will help save the community of Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia, after an intense wildfire pushed within a few kilometres of the town.
  The community of 2,400 people has mostly been evacuated but Tumbler Ridge fire Chief Dustin Curry says about 150 people remained on Friday, some of them emergency personnel, but others residents who refuse to comply with the order to leave.
  Officials say the fire was about four or five kilometres east of the
  
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• Single vehicle crash sends man to hospital in Abbotsford

  10-06-2023 08:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford are hoping the public can help them to learn how a vehicle wound up in a water-filled ditch Friday evening, sending a man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
  Police were called to the 2800 block of Gladys Avenue at 8:43 p.m. for a report of a single-vehicle crash.They were assisted by the Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service, and BC Ambulance Service in successfully pulling the lone occupant of the vehicle to safety. The 59-year-old manwas immediatel
  
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• Hot first quarter spurs Blue Bombers to 42-31 win over Tiger-Cats

  10-06-2023 06:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Zach Collaros threw for 189 yards and three touchdowns in the first quarter and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers held off a late Hamilton surge to defeat the Tiger-Cats 42-31 in the first game of the season for both teams Friday.
  Winnipeg’s defence also contributed to a pivotal first quarter by forcing two turnovers for two touchdowns in front of 29,057 roaring fans at IG Field.
  One turnover was an interception thrown by quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, who was Hamilton’s big-
  
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• Nuggets in command of NBA final, top Heat 108-95 for 3-1 lead

  10-06-2023 05:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Aaron Gordon scored 27 points, Nikola Jokic added 23 and the Denver Nuggets moved one win away from their first NBA championship by beating the Miami Heat 108-95 on Friday night to take a 3-1 lead in the title series.
  Bruce Brown scored 21 off the bench for the Nuggets, who took both games in Miami to grab complete command. 
  The Nuggets will have three chances to win one game for a title. Two of those games are in Denver and a raucous atmosphere is expected for Monday&rsq
  
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• Town west of Edmonton with 8,400 residents evacuated due to wildfire danger

  10-06-2023 05:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDSON, Alta. — A town in western Alberta is facing another evacuation order due to an out-of-control wildfire.
  Local officials ordered an evacuation for Edson and parts of Yellowhead County early Friday evening — the town’s second such order this spring.
  “We’ve made the tough decision,” said Luc Mercier, chief administrative officer for Yellowhead County, in a video statement on one of the town’s Facebook pages. “It’s not easy to put in an ev
  
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• Game 4 of NBA final interrupted to check one of the rims

  10-06-2023 04:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Game 4 of the NBA final halted for about nine minutes Friday night after Miami’s Bam Adebayo appeared to bend one of the rims on a missed dunk attempt.
  It happened with 2:07 left in the third quarter.Adebayo missed a two-hand dunk attempt and hung onto the rim for a moment or two afterward. That’s when someone noticed that the basket didn’t appear to be level.
  Play was stopped and within about five minutes, a ladder was brought onto the court for an investiga
  
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• Twins end five-game skid with 3-2, 10-inning victory over Blue Jays

  10-06-2023 04:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Michael A. Taylor homered and drove in all three Minnesota runs as the Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 in 10 innings Friday night at Rogers Centre.
  Taylor hit a sacrifice fly off Blue Jays sidearmer Adam Cimber (0-1) that brought home Ryan Jeffers with the go-ahead run. Left-fielder Whit Merrifield was charged with a throwing error on the play.
  Jeffers started the inning on second base as the automatic runner. He moved to third on an infield single by Royce Lewis. 
  With
  
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• Holmqvist surprise leader after first round of ShopRite LPGA Classic

  10-06-2023 03:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — Dani Holmqvist shot a career-best 7-under 64 on Friday to take a one-shot lead over Jenny Shin and Chinese rookie Yan Liu after the first round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic.
  Two-time ShopRite winner Anna Nordqvist and Georgia Hall were in a group of five two shots off the lead in the 54-hole event on the Bay Course at Seaview, close to the casinos in Atlantic City.
  Defending champion Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., shot a first-round 69 to trail Holmqvist by f
  
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• 4 children lost in the jungle for 40 days after a plane crash are found alive in Colombia

  10-06-2023 03:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that authorities found alive four children who survived a small plane crash 40 days ago and had been the subject of an intense search in the Amazon jungle that held Colombians on edge.
  The children were alone when searchers found them and are now receiving medical attention, Petro told reporters upon his return to Bogota from Cuba, where he signed a cease-fire agreement with representatives of the National Liberation Arm
  
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• White Rock business launches 'ethics' complaint against councillor ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 02:12 via news.google.com
  
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• In finally competitive Stanley Cup Final, Vegas may still have edge on Florida

  10-06-2023 02:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The sour taste in the aftermath of their Stanley Cup Final Game 3 loss is gone for the Vegas Golden Knights, who quickly moved on to enjoying the nearby ocean breeze.
  They’re breathing easily up 2-1 on the Florida Panthers in the series, knowing fully they’ve been the better team so far. Taking a day away off the ice and away from the rink — but not too far away from hockey on this big a stage — the Golden Knights are calm, cool and conf
  
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• Connor mania: Bedard the main attraction at NHL scouting combine

  10-06-2023 01:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. — Connor Bedard has passed a lot of signposts this season.
  With less than a month to go until the presumptive No. 1 pick climbs on stage and checks another box after hearing his name called first at the NHL draft, the 17-year-old phenom is doing his best to stay patient.
  It can’t be easy. Bedard also isn’t in any rush.
  “This is our dream,” he said Friday at the league’s scouting combine. “All of this, you’ve just got to take in and en
  
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• Canada’s Pendrith makes cut at RBC Canadian Open after seven years away from event

  10-06-2023 01:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Taylor Pendrith has been one of the best Canadians on the PGA Tour for several years, but due to some bad luck he hasn’t played in the RBC Canadian Open in seven years and hasn’t made the cut in eight. 
  That changed Friday.
  Pendrith, from nearby Richmond Hill, Ont., shot an even-par 72 in the second round of the men’s national golf championship to sit at 3-under overall and easily make the 1-under cut. 
  The 32-year-old said he expected more of himself
  
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• RCMP use aircraft to track Kelowna theft suspect, nab him in Kamloops

  10-06-2023 01:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS — Police in Kelowna say an RCMP aircraft had no problem keeping up with a theft suspect’s speedy escape to Kamloops.
  In a news release, Kelowna RCMP spokesperson Cst. Mike Della-Paolera says officers were called to a home in that city on May 29 after a woman claimed an acquaintance had stolen $1,500 in cash from her. The victim said the man was fleeing on his blue Suzuki motorcycle and was likely heading back to Kamloops.
  A short time later, officers in Lake Country spotted
  
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• 402 senior projects in B.C. to receive federal funding - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 01:00 via news.google.com
  
  402 senior projects in B.C. to receive federal funding - Chilliwack ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack real estate sales pick up while prices hold steady - Hope ... - Hope Standard

  10-06-2023 00:45 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack real estate sales pick up while prices hold steady - Hope ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Chilliwack real estate sales pick up while prices hold steady ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 00:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Atypical Abbotsford athlete taking on Spartan Death Race challenge ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-06-2023 00:28 via news.google.com
  
  Atypical Abbotsford athlete taking on Spartan Death Race challenge ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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