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• Air Quality Advisory put in place for parts of the Fraser Valley including Abbotsford and Chilliwack

  06-07-2023 23:35
  
  VANCOUVER — The Metro Vancouver Regional District has issued an Air Quality Advisory for parts of Metro Vancouver and the Central and Eastern regions of the Fraser Valley.
  It says hot and sunny conditions combined with wildfire smoke are contributing to elevated ground-level ozone concentrations.When the advisory was issued Thursday (Jul. 6) afternoon, the latest PM 2.5daily rolling average was in the mid-level range of the province’s air quality index, but trending towards a poorer
  
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• Climate credit designed to fight climate change, not inflation ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 23:30
  
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• Iowa teen gets life with possibility of parole after 35 years for Spanish teacher’s beating death

  06-07-2023 23:20
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —The first of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to beating their high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat was sentenced Thursday to life with a possibility of parole after 35 years in prison.
  A judge sentenced Willard Miller after an hourslong sentencing hearing.
  Miller and another teen, Jeremy Goodale, had pleaded guilty in April to the 2021 baseball bat attack on Nohema Graber, a 66-year-old Spanish teacher, as she took her regular afternoon walk
  
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• Seabird Island doctor honoured with lifetime achievement award ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 23:15
  
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• Nearly 200K Montreal hydro clients without power after transmission line problem

  06-07-2023 22:48
  
  MONTREAL — Nearly 200,000 electricity clients have lost power in Montreal after an issue with a Hydro-Québec transmission line.
  The provincially owned electric utility says a protection mechanism was tripped on one of its high-voltage transmission lines just north of Montreal, triggering the widespread outage.
  Spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers says authorities are investigating what happened and aren’t ruling out high temperatures in southern Quebec as the cause.
  She says the
  
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• 10-year-old skateboarding phenom from Calgary to compete at X-Games

  06-07-2023 22:46
  
  Skateboarding is more than just a way of life for Reese Nelson, it’s all she’s ever known.
  The 10-year-old from Calgary can’t remember when she first started skating or when she first dropped into a halfpipe, it’s just been omnipresent in her life. 
  She’ll be competing in the women’s vert and the best trick events at the upcoming X-Games. Skating in the women’s vert is especially important for Nelson, since that event hasn’t been held at the X
  
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• B.C. school studies Canada's first zero-carbon emissions shipping ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 22:30
  
  B.C. school studies Canada's first zero-carbon emissions shipping ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trial starts for Chilliwack man accused of lighting occupied house on ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 22:00
  
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• Trial Starts For Chilliwack Man Accused Of Lighting Occupied House ... - Abbotsford News

  06-07-2023 22:00
  
  Trial Starts For Chilliwack Man Accused Of Lighting Occupied House ...  Abbotsford News
  
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• Montreal Alouettes linebacker Tyrell Richards tops CFL’s monthly honour roll

  06-07-2023 21:28
  
  It was a solid start to the CFL season for Canadian Tyrell Richards.
  The Montreal Alouettes linebacker received the top grade Thursday in the CFL’s honour roll for the month of June.
  Richard was named the top special-teams player with a 91.1 grade. Players in nine specific position are highlighted as per data points registered and compiled by Pro Football Focus, a sports analytics company.
  Zach Collaros of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was named the top quarterback (85.2) after earning weekly
  
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• Community, Indigenous drug rehab programs across West get $20M in federal funds

  06-07-2023 21:26
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — Dozens of community and Indigenous groups across Western Canada will share $20 million in federal funding to boost their drug awareness, treatment, rehabilitation and mental-health services.
  Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says 42 local drug-related programs across British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan will receive the federal funds to help people tackle drug-related issues.
  The minister was in Squamish, B.C., where she visited two add
  
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• Time has become Gustafson’s more precious commodity following Classic win

  06-07-2023 21:13
  
  Time has become Jeff Gustafson’s most precious commodity.
  In March, the Kenora, Ont., angler became the first Canadian to win the US$1-million Bassmaster Classic — pro bass fishing’s most prestigious title — going wire-to-wire on the Tennessee River. 
  And he did so in dramatic fashion, landing just two smallmouths weighing a combined six pounds, 12 ounces, on the final day to finish one pound, nine ounces ahead of American Bryan Schmitt.
  Gustafson has since been besi
  
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• Senators add forward MacEwen on three-year contract

  06-07-2023 21:13
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have agreed to terms on a three-year, US$2.325 million contract with forward Zack MacEwen. 
  The deal carries a $775,000 average annual value.
  MacEwen, 26, split time between the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings last season, having been acquired by the Kings ahead of the trade deadline.
  The six-foot-three, 205-pound centre had nine points (four goals, five assists) in 46 games for the Flyers and just one assist in 10 games for the Kings.
  MacEwen sp
  
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• Pulling ads from Facebook could force its hand on news deals — if support grows

  06-07-2023 21:13
  
  MONTREAL — Pulling ads from Facebook could prod Meta toward inking deals with news outlets, though more momentum would be needed to push it over the edge, experts say.
  The tactic adopted by several governments and companies in Canada this week might force the social media giant’s hand if other countries and corporations follow suit in larger markets, said Sam Andrey, managing director of the Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University.
  “I thought it was interesting how quickly a bu
  
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• Mother-in-law of B.C. knife victim says ‘monster’ robbed son of woman he loved

  06-07-2023 21:08
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The mother-in-law of a woman killed in a mass stabbing at a North Vancouver, B.C., library two years ago has told a sentencing hearing that her attacker is a “monster” who stole from her son a life with the woman he loved.
  Yannick Bandaogo, 30, pleading guilty this year to second-degree murder, several charges of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault over the March 2021 attack.
  The murdered woman’s mother-in-law has told the British
  
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• US to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package: AP sources

  06-07-2023 20:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine and is expected to announce on Friday that the Pentagon will send thousands as part of the latest military aid package for the war effort against Russia, according to people familiar with the decision.
  The decision comes despite widespread concerns that the controversial bombs can cause civilian casualties. The Pentagon will provide munitions that have a reduced “dud rate,” meaning th
  
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• PODCAST: Debating the big winners, losers of the NHL's off-season ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 20:30
  
  PODCAST: Debating the big winners, losers of the NHL's off-season ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Two Canadian women and three children on way home from detention camps in Syria

  06-07-2023 20:10
  
  OTTAWA — Two women and three children who were temporarily missing in Syria after failing to board a repatriation flight to Canada in April are now flying home.
  The women and children were among a group of 19 people Canada agreed to bring home from Kurdish-operated prison camps in northeastern Syria in January.
  The other 14 people arrived in April but these women and children failed to show up for the flight and neither their lawyers nor the Canadian government knew what happened for sever
  
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• Defending champion Canada to face Jamaica in Olympic women’s soccer qualifier

  06-07-2023 19:40
  
  TORONTO — The Canadian women’s soccer team will face Jamaica in a two-game series in September with a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  Canada, the defending Olympic champion, will travel to Kingston, Jamaica, for the opening match on Sept. 22 and will host the second leg in Toronto four days later.
  The winner of the cumulative goals series will advance to the Olympic tournament.
  Canada and Jamaica qualified for this phase of qualifying by finishing second and third respectively at la
  
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• Canada rugby women look forward to rare home game as Ottawa hosts Pacific Four Series

  06-07-2023 19:40
  
  A rare home game for the Canadian women’s rugby team could be a record-breaker Saturday.
  Rugby Canada expects the test match against world champion New Zealand to draw a crowd of more than 7,500 to Ottawa’s TD Place, which will be the largest audience for an international women’s 15s contest in Canada.
  The fourth-ranked Canadians face No. 2 New Zealand on Saturday and No. 5 Australia on July 14, also at TD Place, in the World Rugby Pacific Four Series. The seventh-ranked Americ
  
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• Owner of the submersible that imploded during Titanic dive suspends operations

  06-07-2023 19:23
  
  The company that owned a submersible that fatally imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic said Thursday it has suspended operations.
  OceanGate, a company based in Everett, Washington, owned the Titan submersible that is believed to have imploded as it made its descent on June 18 in the North Atlantic. The implosion killed all five people on board, including Stockton Rush, the submersible’s pilot and the chief executive officer of the company.
  The company’s website sai
  
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• The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, celebrates 88th birthday

  06-07-2023 19:14
  
  DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama celebrated his 88th birthday on Thursday, as hundreds of his supporters and exiled Tibetans thronged his hillside Indian headquarters in Dharamsala.
  Artists played traditional welcome tunes as the Tibetan spiritual leader arrived in his open mobile van to preside over the celebrations in the courtyard of the Tsuglakhang Temple, which was festooned with Tibetan and Buddhist flags and portraits.
  “We are celebrating my 88th birthday but look at me,
  
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• Search for women’s remains in landfill rests with Ottawa, Manitoba premier says.

  06-07-2023 19:13
  
  WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson says the federal government needs to make a decision on whether to search a landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two women.
  Stefanson says it’s not a provincial responsibility, and the province would only support a federally led search if there are ways to guarantee the safety of workers conducting the search.
  Two Indigenous women — Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — are believed to have been killed last year and thei
  
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• Raptors confirm centre Jakob Poeltl will return on multi-year deal

  06-07-2023 19:09
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have made one of their big off-season moves official by announcing that centre Jakob Poeltl has signed a multi-year contract with the NBA club.
  The Raptors did not disclose terms of the deal, but reports last week had the contract at US$80 million over four years.
  The seven-foot-one Austrian averaged 12.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.2 blocks and 26.5 minutes in 72 games (71 starts) with San Antonio and Toronto last season.
  Poeltl was selected ninth ov
  
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• Former Chilliwack man will be in town to sign copies of debut spy ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 18:52
  
  Former Chilliwack man will be in town to sign copies of debut spy ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Texas man reported missing as a teen in 2015 returned home the next day, police say

  06-07-2023 18:49
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who went missing as a teenager in 2015 returned home the next day but he and his mother deceived officers by giving false names over the ensuing eight years, police said Thursday.
  Houston police detectives said prosecutors have declined to bring false report charges against Janie Santana and her son, Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV, but that their investigation is continuing.The announcement came a week after police said they found Farias after receiving a c
  
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• Ex-PM Stephen Harper seeks closer ties with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

  06-07-2023 18:46
  
  OTTAWA — Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between the parties including the Conservative Party of Canada and the Hungarian government during a trip to Budapest today.
  Hungary has been accused of backsliding under the governance of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
  Human Rights Watch says Orbán’s government has delivered sustained “attacks on rule of law and public institutions” and the European Court of Justice repeatedly ruled that
  
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• New Brunswick holding onto $41 million in security deposits from tenants

  06-07-2023 18:21
  
  FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has amassed nearly $41 million in security deposits collected from residential tenants in a practice that is unique in Canada and that critics say needs to change.
  The latest annual report from Service New Brunswick showed security deposits sitting at $40.9 million for the 2021-22 fiscal year, up from $36.4 million a year earlier. It is unclear from the numbers how much of the total came from people who had moved out and were entitled to get their
  
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• Feds using B.C. tech to monitor abandoned vessels across the ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 18:20
  
  Feds using B.C. tech to monitor abandoned vessels across the ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Most of B.C. under campfire ban as heat, lightning likely to ramp up wildfire risk

  06-07-2023 18:11
  
  VANCOUVER —More campfire bans are on the way in British Columbia as a heat wave in many areas is not expected to ease for days and a moderate to extreme wildfire risk covers all but the southeast corner of the province.
  The BC Wildfire Service says the Cassiar and Bulkley fire zones within the Northwest Fire Centre will prohibit campfires at noon, adding to the ban imposed in that centre’s Nadina fire zone last month.
  Campfires will also be prohibited across the entire Cariboo Fire C
  
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• Quebec social media influencer charged for simulating crimes to gain attention

  06-07-2023 18:06
  
  GATINEAU, Que. — Quebec police say they have arrested a social media influencer who allegedly committed fake crimes to gain popularity.
  Police in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, say Anthony Gagné, 27, simulated crimes to attract police attention.
  They say they launched an investigation in May after he allegedly drove a van with the words “free candy” printed on the side in an attempt to lure children.
  Police say worried residents called 911.
  Gatineau police say Gagné
  
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• Abbotsford boy, 7, needs bone marrow match to save life ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 18:03
  
  Abbotsford boy, 7, needs bone marrow match to save life ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lac-Mégantic marks 10th anniversary of rail disaster that killed 47 people

  06-07-2023 17:46
  
  LAC-MÉGANTIC, Que. — A commemorative mass has begun in Lac-Mégantic, Que., to mark the 10th anniversary of the rail disaster that killed 47 people and destroyed parts of the community’s downtown.
  Federal and provincial politicians gathered with residents at the Sainte-Agnès church, promising that a long-awaited rail bypass would be built to divert trains carrying dangerous goods through the town centre.Speaking to reporters outside the church, Prime Minister Just
  
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• Man injured in Surrey shooting - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 17:45
  
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• Record-breaking wildfire season will continue to burn hot for months: officials

  06-07-2023 17:29
  
  OTTAWA — Natural Resources Canada says the country’s record-breaking wildfire season will continue to be abnormally intense throughout July and into August.
  The projections are based on anticipated high temperatures, dry conditions and historical comparisons. 
  The risk is expected to shrink slightly in August, but it will remain high across the country.
  Canada surpassed the known historic record for total area burned by wildfires in one season on June 27, with months of hot weat
  
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• Trump valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case

  06-07-2023 17:25
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, made a brief court appearance Thursday as he entered a not guilty plea to charges that he helped the former president hide classified documents from federal authorities. He also hired a new Florida-based lawyer to represent him as the case moves forward.
  Nauta was charged alongside Trump in June in a 38-count indictment alleging the mishandling of classified documents. His arraignment was to have happened twice before, but he had struggl
  
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• UPDATE: Wildfire out of control north of Mission - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  06-07-2023 17:16
  
  UPDATE: Wildfire out of control north of Mission - Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• N.W.T. signs agreement in principle with feds on health funding

  06-07-2023 17:04
  
  OTTAWA — Northwest Territories has signed on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s health funding offer, which would see a $361-million boost to health funding to the territories over 10 years.The agreement will include a boost to health-care transfers from the federal government, along with a $73-million deal focused on specific concerns in Northwest Territories.
  Trudeau presented his offer to provincial and territorial premiers in February as local politicians, doctors, nurses and hea
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Online bookings now available for pharmacists in B.C

  06-07-2023 17:00
  
  Quality healthcare is important to British Columbians, and our government is working diligently to take pressure off of the healthcare system, using as many tools in our toolbox as possible.Pharmacists are incredibly integral, knowledgeable, dedicated and valuable members of our primary care system here in British Columbia, and important members of their communities. This summer, pharmacists were given more prescribing power so they could help even more British Columbians.
  As of June 1st, local
  
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• Memphis prosecutors seek death penalty against man charged with kidnapping and killing teacher

  06-07-2023 16:51
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a man charged with kidnapping a Memphis, Tennessee, school teacher during an early-morning run and killing her.
  Cleotha Abston is charged with snatching Eliza Fletcher from a street near the University of Memphis on Sept. 2 and putting her in an SUV. Her body was found days later near an abandoned house. He has pleaded not guilty.
  Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy has filed notice with the court that
  
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• Canada’s Denis Shapovalov and Bianca Andreescu advance at Wimbledon

  06-07-2023 16:19
  
  LONDON — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov defeated Gregoire Barrere of France 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7) in second-round men’s singles play Thursday at Wimbledon.
  Shapovalov, the No. 26 seed from Richmond Hill, Ont., needed one hour 52 minutes to complete the victory. He’ll next face either fourth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway or British wild-card entry Liam Broady.
  Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., won her opening match in women’s singles play, posting a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 win over
  
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• Hope firefighters douse three suspicious fires

  06-07-2023 14:50
  
  HOPE — An investigation is underway, looking into how three fires began near each other Wednesday (Jul. 5) morning in Hope.
  A news release from the District of Hope Fire Department, says firefighters were alerted to smoke in the area of Olson Avenue and Golf Course Road just before 5:30 a.m.
  Image: supplied by District of Hope Fire Department / Image of grassy area burned Wednesday morning.
  Crews responded and found three separate fires burning in an empty lot. The fires were burning grass
  
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• Campfire ban returns for Fraser Valley and beyond

  06-07-2023 14:50
  
  CHILLIWACK — A new campfire ban in the Coastal Fire Centre, which includes the Fraser Valley, goes into effect today (Jul. 7) at noon. The ban covers the entire Coastal Fire Centre with the exception of the Haida Gwaii Forest District.
  The ban was initially put in place earlier this year due to dry conditions throughout the area but was partially lifted in most areas except for Chilliwack last month. The new ban will remain in place until October 31 unless it is rescinded earlier.
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• Day six of B.C. port strike as management calls for binding arbitration

  06-07-2023 14:29
  
  VANCOUVER — The organization that represents employers at roughly 30 strikebound ports in British Columbia says binding arbitration could end the six-day-old dispute.More than 7,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union walked off the job on Canada Day after voting overwhelmingly to strike against the BC Maritime Employers Association.Talks stalled Monday and business groups are increasingly demanding federal legislation to end the disruption, while CP Rail, now known
  
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• The death toll from a South Africa gas leak blamed on illegal gold processing has risen to 17

  06-07-2023 14:18
  
  BOKSBURG, South Africa (AP) — The death toll from a toxic gas leak that authorities blamed on an illegal gold processing operation in South Africa rose to 17, including three children, as police removed canisters from a community of closely packed shacks and sifted through evidence Thursday.
  The leak of what authorities said was a toxic nitrate gas happened Wednesday night in the informal Angelo settlement in Boksburg, a city on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg.
  The three children who
  
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• Missing 2-year-old girl is found dead in Detroit, after her disappearance sparked massive search

  06-07-2023 13:54
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A missing 2-year-old girl was found dead in Detroit on Wednesday, authorities announced, three days after her disappearance sparked a massive search.Wynter Cole Smith’s body was discovered in the evening near a municipal airport that is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) northeast of downtown Detroit, Chief Ellery Sosebee of the Lansing Police Department reported.
  “I am deeply saddened to report that the search for Wynter Cole Smith has come to an end. …
  
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• Prepping the body for the bucking; more rodeo athletes buckle down

  06-07-2023 13:15
  
  CALGARY — Coy Robbins once thought running long distances was good training for riding a bull.
  When he attended a spring training camp organized by the Canadian Pro Rodeo Sport Medicine Team, the 24-year-old from Camrose, Alta., learned endurance running was the opposite of what he should be doing.
  Social media is full of images and videos of professional athletes churning battle ropes and jumping on boxes to train for their sport.
  What’s your workout when your equipment on the field
  
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• In the news today: Canada melts under heat wave, 10 years since Lac-Mégantic disaster

  06-07-2023 10:18
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  Extreme heat warnings remain across Canada…
  Southern parts of Ontario and Quebec are entering the third day of a multi-day heat event that Environment Canada has warned could see temperatures reach highs near 40 degrees Celsius when humidity is factored in.
  A heat warning is also in effect in British Columbia, from the north to central coast and in the Fraser Canyo
  
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• Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Russia, president of Belarus says

  06-07-2023 10:14
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The president of Belarus says Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained at the camps they stayed in before an attempted mutiny against Moscow.
  President Alexander Lukashenko helped broker a deal under which Prigozhin ended his abortive mutiny on June 24 in exchange for security guarantees for himself and his soldiers. The deal allowed Prigozhin and his troops to move to Belarus.
  Lukashenko said last week that Pr
  
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• Work just beginning for the point man of new women’s professional hockey league

  06-07-2023 10:11
  
  A league name and logo, cities where teams will be located and a game schedule top Stan Kasten’s to-do list.
  The Los Angeles Dodgers’ president, whose boss and Dodgers owner Mark Walter is the financial backer of a new professional women’s hockey league, is the point man getting the women’s league up and running for a planned January start.
  “I have so many people all over the place, working as fast as they can on my one-million-item, to-do list,” Kasten told T
  
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