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• Canadian diving team hopes to use world championships near misses as motivation

  22-07-2023 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian diving team didn’t win as many medals as it might’ve liked at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, says one of its coaches.
  Canada finished with two bronze medals in Fukuoka, Japan, this week.Calgary’s Caeli McKay came third in women’s 10-metre platform, as did Montreal’s Pamela Ware in three-metre springboard. Canada also earned three quota spots for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
  The Canadians had some cl
  
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• Delta BC hockey talent at Hockey BC camps in Chilliwack - Delta Optimist

  22-07-2023 22:00
  
  Delta BC hockey talent at Hockey BC camps in Chilliwack  Delta Optimist
  
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• Harman steadies himself at British Open to keep a 5-shot lead

  22-07-2023 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman has two victories in 335 tournaments over 12 years on the PGA Tour. Now he’s one round away from one of the grandest titles of all.
  Harman overcame an early wobble on a wet Saturday at the British Open, and then he steadied himself for a 2-under 69 that kept his lead at five shots on a Royal Liverpool links where the little lefty seems to do no wrong.
  His final act was an 8-foot par putt, with Harman lightly clenching his fist, that made it that m
  
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• Union leadership will advise members to accept offer to end port strike

  22-07-2023 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The union representing port workers across British Columbia says it will recommend voting yes on the terms of a tentative deal to its membership.
  The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada says it will meet with members next week in a development that may end the labour dispute between the union and the B-C Maritime Employers Association.
  In a written statement, union president Rob Ashton says the deal will be presented at a meeting next Tuesday morning and members
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder after shooting in Oliver, B.C.

  22-07-2023 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OLIVER, B.C. — Mounties in the southern Interior of British Columbia are asking for the public’s help after the body of a 29-year-old man was found.
  Oliver RCMP are hoping that anyone who was in the Ryegrass Road area on Wednesday afternoon and may have witnessed anything of note, or have video footage, to contact them.
  This comes after officers were called to a vineyard on the road Wednesday, where they confirmed a man was shot and killed.
  Police say the suspect left the scene but w
  
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• Growing B.C. wildfire closes Highway 20 following evacuation alert

  22-07-2023 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BELLA COOLA, B.C. — DriveBC says Highway 20 east of Bella Coola is closed in both directions due to a wildfire that has grown to more than 25-square kilometres in size.The BC Wildfire Service says fire behaviour for the Young Creek wildfire, about 35 kilometres west of Anahim Lake, has increased due to high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds.
  This comes after the Cariboo Regional District issued an evacuation order for 43-square kilometres near the community of Anahim Lake on Frid
  
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• Record-breaking downpours from thunderstorms cause flooding across Nova Scotia

  22-07-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — An unusually long procession of intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Nova Scotia on Friday and Saturday, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages.
  Torrential downpours started Friday afternoon across the Halifax region, dumping more than 200 millimetres of rain in the Hammonds Plains, Bedford and Lower Sackville areas. The port city typically receives about 90-100 mm of rain during an average July.
  Based on radar estimates and
  
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• Chiefs Season Ticket Sweepstakes

  22-07-2023 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Chilliwack Chiefs are excited to be partnering up with Zone Garage Fraser Valley, Certified Autosound, Stones Speed Shop, and Mountain Pacific Mechanical this off-season to give one lucky season ticket member $10,000 worth of prizes! 
  Every season ticket member who has previously signed up for the 2023/24 season and continues to sign up before October 3rd will be entered. 
  The winner will take home: 
  -A vehicle makeover from Stones Speed Shop including full detail, polish, and
  
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• Canada beats South Africa 21-6 to advance to women’s water polo quarterfinals

  22-07-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FUKUOKA, Japan — The Canadian women’s water polo team advanced to the quarterfinals at the FINA World Aquatics Championships with a 21-6 win over South Africa in Round-of-16 action Saturday.
  Canada will play the Netherlands in the next round. 
  Emma Wright of Whitby, Ont., was named player of the game with four goals, while Toronto’s Verica Bakoc and Montreal’s Elyse Lemay-Lavoie each scored three.
  Marilia Mimides, Regina’s Blaire McDowell, Hayley McKelvey of No
  
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• 5 wildfires spark northwest of Penticton - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 18:50
  
  5 wildfires spark northwest of Penticton  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Michigan man charged with murder and other crimes in case involving ex-girlfriend and her toddler

  22-07-2023 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder by Michigan’s attorney general.
  Attorney General Dana Nessel charged Rashad Trice, 26, on Friday with 20 counts, including one count each of first-degree premeditated murder and felony murder in Wynter Cole Smith’s strangulation death. Both charges carry a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
  The Lansing man face
  
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• 5 lightning-caused wildfires spark near Peachland - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 18:30
  
  5 lightning-caused wildfires spark near Peachland  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Search continues for Ukrainian refugee who went missing after swim in Quebec river

  22-07-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINT-ANSELME, Que. — Quebec provincial police are continuing their search for a Ukrainian refugee who went missing Wednesday evening after a swim in a river southeast of Quebec City.
  Police spokesperson Sgt. Catherine Bernard says officers are searching the banks of the Etchemin River near St-Anselme, Que. and a police helicopter will survey the water later today.
  A team of divers was assisting with the search, but police said a strong river current forced them to suspend their work Thurs
  
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• TIMELINE: Amber Alert enters day 4 for missing B.C. children - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 16:44
  
  TIMELINE: Amber Alert enters day 4 for missing B.C. children  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘You’ve got to move fast’: Science learns to quickly link extreme weather and climate

  22-07-2023 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As firefighters and other first responders battle an unprecedented summer of fires, floods, tornadoes and heat waves around the country, a group of Canadian scientists are asking why they’re happening in the first place. 
  “May and June were record hot months in Canada and we’ve got the record wildfire season as well,” said Nathan Gillett of Environment and Climate Change Canada. “Yes, it has been busy.”
  Gillett heads the Rapid Extreme Event Attribution Pr
  
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• After tying Nigeria, Canada women turn attention to well-drilled Ireland at World Cup

  22-07-2023 12:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia — After a frustrating scoreless draw with Nigeria, Canada now turns its attention to a well-drilled Irish side at the Women’s World Cup.
  Ranked 22nd in the world, tournament debutante Ireland is coming off a 1-0 loss to Australia. But the 10th-ranked Matildas had to work hard, needing a 52nd-minute penalty to get past Ireland in their Group B opener in Sydney. 
  Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum’s team faces the Australians next. And his take on the tournamen
  
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• What ideas were left on the cutting room floor in passport redesign? We’ll never know

  22-07-2023 12:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Garry Keller recalls the first images passport staff brought before the then-Conservative government for consideration during the last major passport overhaul.
  “We laughed,” Keller recalls. “It looked like a C-minus effort.”
  The original concepts featured a Canada goose, a beaver and a maple leaf — ideas the government found uninspired and “lowest-common denominator.”
  Keller served as chief of staff to John Baird, who oversaw the passport
  
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• Canadian intelligence flagged Chinese meddling 37 years ago: newly released report

  22-07-2023 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A newly released document shows intelligence officials have been tracking China’s attempts to meddle in Canadian affairs for more than one-third of a century.
  The February 1986 intelligence report warned that Beijing was using open political tactics and secret operations to influence and exploit the Chinese diaspora in Canada.
  It said China was using new and potentially more potent techniques to accomplish these goals.
  The Canadian Press used the Access to Information Act to
  
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• Teoscar Hernandez’s game-winner against former team gives Mariners 3-2 win over Blue Jays

  22-07-2023 07:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Teoscar Hernández lined a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to score Jose Caballero and the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.
  Hernández jumped on the first pitch from Jordan Romano (4-5) and hit a line drive over the head of George Springer in right field and off the wall, allowing Caballero to jog home with the winning run.
  Seattle trailed 2-0, but scored once in the seventh, tied the game in the
  
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• Club Leon takes extra point after 19-round shootout but tie 2-2 against Whitecaps

  22-07-2023 07:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps and Mexican side Club Leon played to a 2-2 draw on Friday night in Leagues Cup action at BC Place Stadium.
  But in a quirk of Leagues Cup rules, the game then went to a shootout with the team that won gaining a point in addition to the one for the draw.
  Leon’s Borja Sanchez scored the winning kick of the shootout after a stunning 19 rounds of attempts.
  A game that initially appeared to be dominated by Club Leon — the defending Leagues Cup cham
  
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• Sophia Smith scores twice for US in in 3-0 victory over Vietnam to open the Women’s World Cup

  22-07-2023 05:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Sophia Smith scored twice for the United States in the opening half and the two-time defending champions kicked off the Women’s World Cup with a 3-0 victory over tournament first-timers Vietnam on Saturday.
  Lindsey Horan added a goal for the favored Americans, who have won four World Cups overall and are vying for an unprecedented three-peat in this year’s tournament.Vietnam drew comparisons to Thailand, the team the Americans routed 13-0 in in their
  
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• Kelly throws two TD passes as Argonauts down Ticats 31-15 to improve to 5-0

  22-07-2023 04:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Chad Kelly threw two touchdown passes and ran for another to lead the Toronto Argonauts past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 31-15 on Friday night.
  Toronto (5-0) remained the CFL’s lone unbeaten team and replicated its modern-day club record of 5-0 established in 1960. The Argos improved to 2-0 this season versus their arch rivals and have won eight of their last nine head-to-head matchups overall.
  Rookie quarterback Taylor Powell, in his first CFL start, pulled Hamilton to within
  
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• Fraser Valley transit strike ends after union members ratify deal - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 04:40
  
  Fraser Valley transit strike ends after union members ratify deal  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Family remembers Alberta pilot who died fighting wildfire as big man with big heart

  22-07-2023 04:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITECOURT, Alta. — A pilot whose helicopter crashed while he was fighting a forest fire in northern Alberta is being remembered as a big man with a big heart. 
  “He travelled and made an impact wherever he went,” Ryan Gould’s family said in a statement Friday shared by family friend Kassy Goodyer. 
  Gould was a skilled pilot, with family roots in aviation.  
  On Wednesday, Gould’s helicopter crashed near Haig Lake, 140 kilometres northeast of Peace Rive
  
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• Body of girl found in river believed to be that of 2-year-old lost in Pennsylvania flash flood

  22-07-2023 04:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — The body of a young girl was recovered Friday in the Delaware River and was believed to be a 2-year-old who was one of two children swept away from their family’s vehicle by a flash flood last weekend, authorities said.
  The body was found in the early evening near a Philadelphia wastewater treatment plant about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from where Matilda Sheils was carried away, authorities said in a nighttime news conference.By physical description, a
  
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• Four month long Fraser Valley transit strike finally ends with union vote

  22-07-2023 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Four months and a day after it began, the transit strike in the Fraser Valley is over. CUPE 561 members voted to accept a mediated settlement with First Transit Friday (Jul. 21). According to a union news release, picket lines are being taken down and the 213 transit workers are returning to their jobs.
  The deal is six years, ending March 31, 2026.While it doesn’t reach the union’s goal of receiving the same pay as their member’s counterparts in Vancouver, it
  
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• Lionel Messi makes his Inter Miami debut, checks in during 2nd half against Cruz Azul

  22-07-2023 03:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi is now, officially, an Inter Miami player.
  The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner as the world’s best player checked in for his new Major League Soccer club for the first time on Friday night, coming in early in the second half of Inter Miami’s game against Cruz Azul in the Leagues Cup tournament.
  He hugged the player he was replacing, midfielder Benjamin Cremaschi, then trotted onto the field as the estimated crowd of 21,000 all seeme
  
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• B.C. man threatens hunger strike over noisy neighbouring pickleball court

  22-07-2023 03:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Rasjnish Dhawan says having a pickleball court 10 metres from his home is like living next to a gun range, and that its affecting his mental and physical health.
  
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• Chilliwack couple staging sit-in, hunger strike to protest pickleball ... - CTV News Vancouver

  22-07-2023 03:28
  Chilliwack couple staging sit-in, hunger strike to protest pickleball ...  CTV News Vancouver
  
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• Knight and Szokol shoot tournament-record 62 in alternate shot to take lead in team event

  22-07-2023 03:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol birdied six of the last eight holes in alternate-shot play for an 8-under 62 and a three-stroke lead Friday in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event.
  Knight made a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 18th in windy conditions at Midland Country Club to break the tournament alternate-shot round record and 54-hole scoring mark at 18-under 192.
  “It’s so awesome,” Szokol said. “
  
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• Fundraiser started for helicopter pilot killed in Alberta wildfire crash - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 03:00
  
  Fundraiser started for helicopter pilot killed in Alberta wildfire crash  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Police launch tip line in missing B.C. children’s alleged abduction

  22-07-2023 01:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police have launched a dedicated phone line and email account to gather tips for the Amber Alert case involving two missing British Columbia children alleged to have been abducted by their mother.
  Surrey RCMP say that the suspect, Verity Bolton, has access to “a number of trailers” along with a blue 2012 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup that was previously identified in the case.
  Police say in a statement they believe Bolton is travelling with both eight-year-old Aurora and
  
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• Helicopter crashes into remote Alaska lake, no survivors found, officials say

  22-07-2023 01:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — No survivors were found after a helicopter carrying four people crashed in a shallow lake in Alaska’s North Slope region, officials said Friday.
  The helicopter had been chartered by a government agency, according to the company that operated the flight. It was reported overdue late Thursday night.
  A North Slope Borough search and rescue team in a helicopter found debris matching the description of the missing helicopter, but no bodies had been seen or recover
  
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• Improvements at BC Ferries a ‘top priority’ of government: Premier Eby - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 01:30
  
  Improvements at BC Ferries a ‘top priority’ of government: Premier Eby  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bandits back home in Langley, looking to snap losing streak - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 01:30
  
  Bandits back home in Langley, looking to snap losing streak  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hells Angels roll through Mission and Maple Ridge Friday afternoon - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 01:00
  
  Hells Angels roll through Mission and Maple Ridge Friday afternoon  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian teenager Olivia Smith turns pro, signs with Portugal’s Sporting CP

  22-07-2023 00:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Olivia Smith, the youngest member of Canada’s Women’s World Cup squad, has signed with Portugal’s Sporting CP.
  The 18-year-old from Whitby, Ont., played for Penn State last year but announced before the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand that she planned to leave school and turn pro. 
  Sporting CP said Smith has signed through 2025.
  Smith, who can play both forward and attacking midfielder, was on the bench Friday for seventh-ranked Canada’s scoreless draw with No
  
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• Chilliwack emergency crews respond to report of drowning - Hope ... - Hope Standard

  22-07-2023 00:30
  
  Chilliwack emergency crews respond to report of drowning - Hope ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Chilliwack Emergency Crews Respond To Report Of Drowning - Abbotsford News

  22-07-2023 00:30
  
  Chilliwack Emergency Crews Respond To Report Of Drowning  Abbotsford News
  
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• Portable drug-testing ‘robot’ heading to Shambhala Music Festival - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 00:26
  
  Portable drug-testing ‘robot’ heading to Shambhala Music Festival  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Whitecaps deal Julian Gressel after failing to agree contract extension

  22-07-2023 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have traded midfielder Julian Gressel to the Columbus Crew in exchange for allocation money.
  Whitecaps chief executive officer Axel Schuster says in a release that the team and Gressel had been working on an extension before the player made the decision to move east to be closer to family.
  Vancouver will receive US$275,000 in general allocation money in 2023 and 2024 and could also receive an additional $300,000 in conditional allocation money from 2024-
  
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• Shuswap wildfire reaches 210 hectares, evacuation alerts remain in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  22-07-2023 00:00
  
  Shuswap wildfire reaches 210 hectares, evacuation alerts remain in ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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