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• Government makes changes around disposal rule of toxic household waste

  08-07-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B-C government says it’s changing the rules to make it easier for people to properly dispose of toxic household waste.Environment Minister George Heyman says British Columbians, regardless of where they live, should be able to dispose of moderate-risk materials safely to keep harmful materials from landfills and the environment.The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy says materials covered under the amended regulations include things like lead-acid car
  
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• Three Detroit Tigers pitchers combine to no-hit Toronto Blue Jays in 2-0 victory

  08-07-2023 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Three Detroit Tigers pitchers combined to no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays in a 2-0 win Saturday.
  It was the first combined no-hitter in Tigers history.
  Matt Manning (3-1) pitched 6 2/3 innings and Jason Foley got four straight outs.
  Tigers closer Alex Lange came in for the ninth and struck out Bo Bichette on three pitches.Brandon Belt lined out to centre field, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded out to third on an 0-2 pitch.
  The Tigers celebrated at the mound with Manning and F
  
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• Smith overcomes shaky start to lead LIV Golf in England

  08-07-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England (AP) — British Open champion Cameron Smith overcame a pair of bogeys at the start to post a 4-under 67 and take a three-shot lead at LIV Golf-London on Saturday.
  Smith is playing his final event ahead of his British Open title defence in two weeks at Royal Liverpool. The Australian has yet to win this year.
  Thomas Pieters, who joined LIV at the start of the season, had an even rougher time at Centurion Club. 
  Along with a double bogey on the first hole, he dro
  
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• Environment Canada issues heat warnings for B.C., parts of Alberta and the North

  08-07-2023 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Parts of southern and coastal British Columbia as well as large swaths of Alberta and the North are under heat warnings as temperatures are forecasted to soar near or above 30 degrees Celsius over the weekend and into Monday.
  Environment Canada says heat warnings are issued when very high temperature could pose an elevated risk of illnesses like heat stroke or heat exhaustion, and is warning residents to keep hydrated and try to find a cool place to stay.
  B.C.’s Thompson, Cariboo and Okana
  
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• Horrific Chilliwack child abuse case reveals flaws in system - Richmond News

  08-07-2023 22:00
  
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• Bianca Andreescu ousted from Wimbledon women’s singles by Ons Jabeur

  08-07-2023 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WIMBLEDON, United Kingdom — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu was eliminated in the third round of Wimbledon women’s singles Saturday in a three-set loss to Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.
  Jabeur, last year’s Wimbledon finalist and this year’s sixth seed, downed Andreescu 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the round of 16 at the grass-court tournament.
  The unseeded Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., broke Jabeur in the third set to lead 3-1. 
  But Jabeur broke back to trail 3-2 before rai
  
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• Ministerial adviser won't be charged in election rule violation probe ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 21:45
  
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• Rally planned in support of striking port workers

  08-07-2023 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Canadian branch of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union says it’s gearing up for a rally on Sunday at downtown Vancouver’s Jack Poole plaza.
  The union says it anticipates a large turnout of supporters, strikers and international labour leaders to gather and call on the B-C Maritime Employers Association to make a deal to end the strike.I-L-W-U Canada president Rob Ashton says shipping companies and terminals have been cleaning up and making record pro
  
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• Cavendish crashes out of Tour de France in last attempt at outright record

  08-07-2023 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIMOGES, France — Mark Cavendish will have to share the record for most career stage wins at the Tour de France.Competing in his final season, the most successful sprinter in Tour history crashed out during Saturday’s eighth stage. His team said he broke his right collarbone and will need surgery.Cavendish equaled Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 stage wins during the 2021 Tour, 13 years after his first success, but was not selected last year.This edition was his last chance to becom
  
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• Iowa GOP schedules Jan. 15 for leadoff presidential caucuses. It’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  08-07-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans have scheduled the party’s presidential nominating caucuses for Jan. 15, 2024, putting the first votes of the next election a little more than six months away.
  The Iowa Republican Party’s state central committee voted unanimously Saturday to hold the leadoff contests on the third Monday in January — on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday.
  Though Republican presidential candidates have been campaigning in Iowa since last
  
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• US soccer star Megan Rapinoe announces she’ll retire after the NWSL season

  08-07-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Days before heading to her fourth World Cup, Megan Rapinoe announced Saturday she’ll retire at the end of the National Women’s Soccer League season.
  Rapinoe, 38, made the announcement on Twitter, saying she “never could have imagined the ways in which soccer would shape & change my life forever.”
  “It is with a deep sense of peace & gratitude that I have decided this will be my final season playing this beautiful game,” the Olympic
  
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• Airstrike in Sudanese city kills at least 22, officials say, amid fighting between rival generals

  08-07-2023 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An airstrike in a Sudanese city on Saturday killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest air attacks yet in the three months of fighting between the country’s rival generals.
  The assault took place in the Dar es Salaam neighborhood in Omdurman, the neighboring city of the capital, Khartoum, according to a brief statement by the health ministry. The attack wounded an unspecified number of people, it said.
  The ministry posted video footage th
  
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• Argonauts trade Canadian defensive lineman Acheampong to Elks

  08-07-2023 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Toronto Argonauts have dealt defensive lineman Sam Acheampong to the Edmonton Elks for a draft pick and rights to a negotiation-list player.
  The Argonauts get a fifth-round pick in next year’s draft and the negotiation rights to wide receiver Xavier Gipson in the deal announced Saturday.
  Acheampong, a 28-year-old from Brampton, Ont., played 30 games with Toronto in 2021 and 2022 and helped the club win last year’s Grey Cup in Regina.
  The Wilfrid Laurier alumnus p
  
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• Blue Jays’ outfielder Springer on paternity list, Lukes activated from triple-A

  08-07-2023 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have place outfielder George Springer on the paternity list and activated Nathan Lukes from triple-A.
  Lukes has appeared in 23 games for Toronto this season with three hits and an RBI in 19 at bats.
  The 28-year-old’s batting average with the Buffalo Bisons this season is .338.
  Toronto (49-40) rode a four game win streak heading into Saturday’s road game against the Detroit Tigers.
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2023
  
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• Crews tackle house fire in Chilliwack River Valley - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 17:48
  
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• Mi'kmaq lawyers from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland appointed to ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 17:45
  
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• B.C. athletes become world champion ball hockey players ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 17:00
  
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• Slo-pitch tournament in Abbotsford raises money for local hospitals ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 16:00
  
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• Chilliwack soccer star off to nationals after provincial win - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 15:00
  
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• Real Estate President sees positive signs in Chilliwack real estate market

  08-07-2023 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK —Despite some negative numbers, the President of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board sees some positive signs in the June monthly figures released this week.
  The benchmark price for single-family homes was $901,900, representing a decrease of 6.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis in June. By comparison, the benchmark price for townhouse or row units was $607,700, a decrease of 9.3 per cent when compared to a year earlier. The benchmark apartment price was $415,400, a
  
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• T-Rex battles wrecks: Mission enlists dinos for wildlife crossing signs ... - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 14:31
  
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• ‘Tornado detectives’ at Western University out to demystify Canada’s twister history

  08-07-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Confirming a tornado in Canada used to be a bit like the proverbial tree falling in the forest: if no one was there to see it, it never officially happened.
  But a group of Canadian weather scientists, engineers and university students is out to change all that with modern technology and dogged forensic work — plus no small measure of that aforementioned toppled timber.
  “I like to think of myself more as a tornado detective,” said Connell Miller, a full-time w
  
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• People flock to Newfoundland in search of the Come From Away kindness — and find it

  08-07-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GANDER, N.L. — Janet Hayward didn’t show too much outward excitement Friday night as she walked toward a Gander, N.L., theatre to see the musical that inspired what she calls her “Newfoundland Quest” — but she did arrive a full hour early.
  The 54-year-old high school teacher from Indiana has spent the past three weeks driving all over Newfoundland to capture the essence of its people, culture and landscape, and relay it for her students. She began dreaming of the tr
  
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• Bar that became epicentre of Lac-Megantic tragedy now a symbol of its rebuild

  08-07-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAC-MÉGANTIC — The bar that became the epicentre of the deadly train disaster that struck Lac-Megantic, Que., 10 years ago marked the sombre anniversary on Friday in much the same way it spent the hours leading up to the tragedy: with music, laughter and even joy.
  Musical headliner Dany Flanders, a former contestant on singing reality show “La Voix,” began Friday’s tribute event at the Musi-Café with an emotional tribute to the victims and the town, set to t
  
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• Trudeau set to attend pair of Stampede pancake breakfasts

  08-07-2023 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Calgary for a second day, and he has a pair of Stampede pancake breakfasts on his plate.
  His first scheduled stop is an event with the Ismaili Muslim community.
  Later in the morning, Trudeau is set to attend a Stampede breakfast hosted by George Chahal, the Liberal MP for Calgary Skyview.
  Trudeau visited the Stampede grounds on Friday, greeting festival-goers and stopping at some local stalls.
  That came after a meeting with Alberta Premier Dani
  
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• Chilliwack soccer star off to nationals after provincial win - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 09:00
  
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• State TV: Militants attack a police station killing an officer in southeastern Iran, clashes ongoing

  08-07-2023 08:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A group of militants attacked a police station with suicide belts and killed an officer in southeastern Iran, state TV reported on Saturday.
  An armed group attacked a police station in Zahedan a city in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, some 500 kilometers (310 miles) southeast of the country’s capital, Tehran, and killed a policeman. The report said the militants were equipped with suicide belts and two of them detonated, but did not elaborate further
  
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• Blue Bombers pull ahead in second half to defeat Stampeders 24-11

  08-07-2023 05:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Rasheed Bailey’s nine-yard touchdown catch after a Calgary Stampeders’ turnover broke a third-quarter tie and helped boost the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a 24-11 victory on Friday.
  With the game tied 11-11 late in the third quarter, Winnipeg defensive back Demerio Houston intercepted Calgary quarterback Jake Maier to register his third pick of the season.
  Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros then engineered a seven-play, 54-yard drive capped by Bailey’s touchdown wi
  
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• Canada tops Argentina to set date with U.S. in FIBA Women’s AmeriCup semifinals

  08-07-2023 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LEÓN, Mexico — Nirra Fields scored a game-high 22 points along with eight rebounds in leading Canada to a 68-60 win over Argentina on Friday to advance to the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup semifinals.
  Aaliyah Edwards added 13 points and a game-high 16 rebounds and Shay Colley had 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for Canada.
  The Canadians now have a date set with the U.S. — which defeated Colombia 68-49 in quarterfinal action earlier Friday — on Saturday for a sh
  
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• Bailey Tardy brings her best to Pebble Beach for early lead at US Women’s Open

  08-07-2023 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Bailey Tardy picked a good time and a beautiful location to play her best golf.
  Tardy made eagle on the par-5 sixth hole at Pebble Beach for the second straight day as part of a torrid start to her second round Friday in the U.S. Women’s Open, and she held steady the rest of the way for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot lead among the early starters.
  She fit the profile of a 36-hole leader at a historic Women’s Open in which the stars have been nearly as a
  
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• Whit Merrifield and Alek Manoah lead the Blue Jays to a 12-2 victory over the Tigers

  08-07-2023 03:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Whit Merrifield homered and drove in four runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers 12-2 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory.
  Toronto improved to 15-5 against American League Central teams, while the Tigers fell to 2-15 against the AL East.
  George Springer added a home run and three RBIs for Toronto, which sent 10 batters to the plate in a six-run fourth and 11 in a five-run ninth. Kevin Kiermaier had four hits.
  Alek Manoah (2-7) won for the first
  
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• Conservatives say parties reach agreement on terms for foreign interference inquiry

  08-07-2023 03:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA, Ill. — The Conservatives say all parties agreed tonight on the scope for a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada.
  The agreement appears to break the impasse between the governing Liberals and the Conservatives about how to proceed with negotiations to establish a probe into efforts of foreign governments to interfere in Canada’s elections and governance.
  Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc was dispatched in June to work with the other parties on a
  
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• Cameron Young leads John Deere Classic by 2, seeking long-awaited first tour win

  08-07-2023 03:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Cameron Young shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the John Deere Classic and put himself into position to erase an unwelcome distinction from his PGA Tour resume.
  Young was at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run, with Garrick Higgo (66), Adam Schenk (66) and Brendon Todd (65) chasing at 11 under.
  The 26-year-old Young did everything but win last season en route to being named the tour’s rookie of the year. He was the runner-up at the Br
  
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• Spallumcheen, B.C., orders evacuation for 18 properties as lightning triggers fire

  08-07-2023 02:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SPALLUMCHEEN, B.C. — The Township of Spallumcheen in the southern B.C. interior has opened an emergency operations centre after ordering 18 properties evacuated due to an out-of-control wildfire. 
  The evacuations come amid a spike in wildfire activity associated with lightning and parched conditions across much of the province’s interior.
  Spallumcheen, with a population of about 5,300, says people living in the properties east of Round Lake Road should leave the area immediately
  
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• Leslie Van Houten, follower of cult leader Charles Manson, is one big step closer to freedom

  08-07-2023 02:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s governor announced Friday that he won’t ask the state Supreme Court to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, paving the way for her release after serving 53 years in prison for two infamous murders.
  In a brief statement, the governor’s office said an appeal was unlikely to succeed.
  Newsom is disappointed, the statement said.
  “More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims&rs
  
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• Langley's pro soccer team goes country - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 02:00
  
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• B.C. RCMP announce corruption, drug trafficking charges against former constable

  08-07-2023 00:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The B.C. RCMP says a former probationary constable at the force’s Surrey detachment has been charged with multiple offences after a months-long corruption investigation. 
  Mounties say the ex-constable faces 13 charges related to drug trafficking, breach of trust, theft, cannabis distribution and conspiracy to commit robbery.
  Police say the force started a covert investigation in the summer of 2020 after becoming aware that the former constable was allegedly associ
  
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• $1 million in meth seized in Langley drug bust - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  08-07-2023 00:25
  
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