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• Toddler dies after being struck by vehicle at Quebec campsite: provincial police

  23-07-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAGUENAY, Que. — Quebec provincial police say a toddler was killed after being struck by a car at a campsite in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region north of Quebec City.
  Provincial police say the boy, under the age of two, was struck around 11 a.m. while playing near the side of the road on Sunday at the site in Saint-Nazaire, about 230 kilometres north of the provincial capital.
  Police spokeswoman Ève Brochu-Joubert says the boy was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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• Mission firefighters battling a wildfire burning in Cannell Lake area

  23-07-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — A wildfire that broke out in the Cannell Lake area Saturday (Jul. 22) has kept the Mission Fire and BC Wildfire crews on alert as they continue their efforts to contain the flames.
  In response to the escalating situation, Mission’s Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has been activated and all available resources are being deployed to monitor and combat the blaze.
  “I want to thank the quick action of our crews and the collaboration between multiple agencies to fight thi
  
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• World No. 2 Novak Djokovic withdraws from National Bank Open due to fatigue

  23-07-2023 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — World No. 2 Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the National Bank Open.
  Tennis Canada says Djokovic has to pull out of the only Canadian stop on the ATP Tour schedule due to fatigue.
  The 36-year-old, 23-time Grand Slam champion reached the final of Wimbledon last weekend, falling narrowly to Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a marathon championship match. 
  Djokovic has won the National Bank Open four times over his career.
  Christopher Eubanks of the United States will gain autom
  
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• Canada’s 4×100 men’s relay team a step closer to 2024 Paris Olympics

  23-07-2023 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FUKUOKA, Japan — Canada’s men’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay is in a solid position to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after a strong showing at the World Aquatics Championship on Sunday.
  Canada’s Josh Liendo, Ruslan Gaziev, Finlay Knox and Javier Acevedo placed fifth in three minutes 12.05 seconds.
  Australia capped an impressive day with the victory in 3:10.16 with Italy second in 3:10.49 and the United States third in 3:10.81. Those three medallists clinched sp
  
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• Blue Jays sign third-round pick Juaron Watts-Brown out of Oklahoma State University

  23-07-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Right-handed pitching prospect Juaron Watts-Brown signed with the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. 
  He was drafted by Toronto in the third round of this year’s Major League Baseball draft.
  The Blue Jays had already signed 15 of their draft picks as well as three non-drafted free agents.
  Watts-Brown was the last prospect of Toronto’s picks from the first 10 rounds of the draft to sign.
  The 21-year-old Watts-Brown earned a 6-5 record with a 5.03 earned-run average over
  
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• TIMELINE: Amber Alert enters day 5 for missing B.C. children - Chilliwack Progress

  23-07-2023 20:20 via news.google.com
  
  TIMELINE: Amber Alert enters day 5 for missing B.C. children  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Brian Harman unstoppable in drama-free British Open win at Hoylake

  23-07-2023 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman turned back every challenge in the British Open, from big names to bad weather, and took his place among major champions Sunday with a victory that was never seriously in doubt at Royal Liverpool.
  Harman twice responded to a rare bogey with back-to-back birdies, leaving everyone else playing for second. He closed with a 1-under 70, making an 8-foot par putt on the last hole for a six-shot victory.
  At age 36, he is the oldest first-time major winner sinc
  
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• Harman unstoppable in drama-free British Open win at Hoylake

  23-07-2023 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman turned back every challenge in the British Open, from big names to bad weather, and took his place among major champions Sunday with a victory that was never seriously in doubt at Royal Liverpool.
  Harman twice responded to a rare bogey with back-to-back birdies, leaving everyone else playing for second. He closed with a 1-under 70, making an 8-foot par putt on the last hole for a six-shot victory.
  At age 36, he is the oldest first-time major winner sinc
  
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• Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for 2nd straight year

  23-07-2023 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France for a second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished Sunday on the famed Champs-Élysées.
  With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively his again before the largely ceremonial stage at the end of the 110th edition of the Tour.
  Vingegaard drank champagne with his Visma-Jumbo teammates as they lined up tog
  
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• Australian Titmus takes it out fast and sets WR in 400m freestyle as Ledecky settles for silver

  23-07-2023 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Australian Ariarne Titmus had only one tactic in mind to reclaim her women’s 400-meter freestyle world record on Sunday’s opening day of the World Aquatics Championships.
  Start fast and hang on.
  It worked. Titmus won in 3 minutes, 55.38 seconds with silver for American Katie Ledecky in 3:58.73 and bronze for Erika Fairweather of New Zealand in 3:59.59. 
  Sixteen-year-old Summer McIntosh of Toronto, who held the record after taking it four months ago fr
  
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• Fast-growing fire near Kamloops, B.C., prompts evacuation alerts and orders

  23-07-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A fast-moving wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders and alerts in and around the Kamloops area has grown to 18-square kilometres in size.
  The Ross Moore Lake fire, first discovered Friday afternoon, is now about 13 kilometres south of the city and has more than doubled in size overnight.
  It is one of more than 480 active fires burning across the province.
  The BC Wildfire Service says the blaze is now “highly visible” from the city and surrounding areas a
  
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• Eastern Fraser Valley transit strike ends; first stop, HandyDART ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-07-2023 18:46 via news.google.com
  
  Eastern Fraser Valley transit strike ends; first stop, HandyDART ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Australia retains the Ashes after drawing rain-hit 4th test against England

  23-07-2023 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Australia has retained the Ashes after rain prevented any play on the final day of the fourth test against England at Old Trafford on Sunday.
  Australia has an insurmountable 2-1 lead with one test left. England needed to win the five-match series to take the urn off holder Australia.
  England was favorite to win the fourth test with Australia 214-5 and 61 runs behind the hosts.
  Only 30 overs were possible on Saturday.___
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• F1 champ Verstappen wins Hungarian GP to extend overall lead, give Red Bull record 12th straight win

  23-07-2023 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST (AP) — Formula One champion Max Verstappen needed only a few seconds to stamp his authority on the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday and win his seventh straight race of a crushingly dominant season.
  Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton started from pole position ahead of Verstappen, who muscled him out at the first corner and never looked back.
  Red Bull’s 12th straight win, including the final race of 2022, broke McLaren’s record for consecutive team wins set in 1988.
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• Search continues for four people missing after record rainfall in Nova Scotia

  23-07-2023 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP say the search continues for four people, including two children, after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across the province.
  Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay released no other details, but says police would update the progress of the search later today.
  All four people were reported missing Saturday in separate incidents in West Hants – a largely rural municipality northwest of Halifax.
  Police say the children were with three other people who man
  
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• ‘A long journey’: Reconciliation happening day by day, one year after Pope’s apology

  23-07-2023 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Phil Fontaine has had a year to reflect since he heard an apology from the head of the Roman Catholic Church, something the former Assembly of First Nations national chief fought much of his life to have delivered on Canadian soil.
  “Without an apology, it would be impossible to forgive,” Fontaine says after taking a few moments to contemplate the historic moment. 
  “And without forgiveness, there can’t be any true healing.”
  This week marks a year since Pope Fran
  
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• Wildfire threats continuing to grow across B.C.

  23-07-2023 15:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is working hard to keep up with a growing number of wildfires across the province.
  The Ross Moore Lake wildfire south of Kamloops has put the B.C. Interior city on edge. Large dark plumes of smoke stretched across the city as the fire exploded in size to 450 hectares Saturday afternoon.
  49 properties just south of Kamloops have been ordered to evacuate while an area within the southeast boundary of the city, has been placed under an Evacuation Ale
  
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• Canada essentially alone when it comes to World Cup teams without a women’s league

  23-07-2023 12:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia — Canada may be Olympic champion but it trails Vietnam, the Philippines and the rest of the field at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in one important category: Canada does not have a women’s pro league.
  A report by FIFPro, the global union representing professional soccer players, notes 30 of the 32 competing nations have domestic women’s leagues.
  Diana Matheson’s Project 8 group is working on bringing an eight-franchise pro league to Canada in 2025.
  
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• Refugee claims followed Montreal AIDS summit marred by visa woes, planning issues

  23-07-2023 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Almost one-sixth of guests at a major AIDS conference in Montreal last year who received Canadian visas ended up claiming asylum, according to internal data obtained by The Canadian Press.
  The documents also show Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada struggled to work with the International AIDS Society as both tried to avoid a mass refusal of visas.
  When the society’s conference got underway last July in Montreal, dozens of delegates from Africa had been denied visas
  
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• CBC head ‘blindsided’ staff with comments on broadcaster’s future, Poilievre: emails

  23-07-2023 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — After the head of Canada’s public broadcaster gave a newspaper interview earlier this year that promised CBC would eventually become a digital-only product and that criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, senior managers were quick to refute her comments, internal emails suggest.
  The Globe and Mail reported in February based on an interview with Catherine Tait that she was preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and move completely to a digital platform
  
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• B.C. professor pushing plan to protect marbled murrelet habitat in old growth

  23-07-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It is only a little bird, weighing a few ounces, but the marbled murrelet is known for its remarkable ability to fly far out to sea to catch fish before returning in the darkness of night to inland treetop nests on mossy limbs.
  It also inspires outsized devotion among those who want to study and protect it.
  Royann Petrell of Courtenay on Vancouver Island has been an avid bird watcher since childhood, but in retirement she has taken up the cause of protecting the marbled murrelet’s habitat.
  
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• Voting begins in Spain in an election that could see another EU country swing to the right

  23-07-2023 09:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADRID (AP) — Polling began Sunday in Spain in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.
  Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a beating in local and regional elections in May. Sánchez has been premier since 2018.
  Most opinion polls for Sunday’s voting have put the right-wing Popular Party
  
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• Toronto Arrows part ways with head coach Peter Smith after 1-13-2 MLR season

  23-07-2023 06:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Toronto Arrows have parted ways with head coach Peter Smith after an injury-plagued season that saw the lone Canadian entry in the 12-team Major League Rugby finish last with a 1-13-2 record.
  The Arrows finished the season on a 13-game losing streak with their lone win coming March 11, a 27-26 decision at the expansion Chicago Hounds.
  Smith had been with the Arrows since the club’s debut season in 2019, spending three years as an assistant coach before becoming head coach in advance of
  
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• B.C. Lions slowed by penalties in 19-9 win over Saskatchewan Roughriders

  23-07-2023 04:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 19-9 on Saturday night with both teams committing a number of fouls in a lacklustre night for offences at B.C. Place.
  Lions backup quarterback Dane Evans threw for one touchdown and an interception going 16-for-25, while Saskatchewan’s Mason Fine finished 32-for-41 with two interceptions.
  Evans entered the game after Vernon Adams Jr. left the game after being sacked by Riders (3-3) defensive tackle Micah Johnson in the firs
  
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• CF Montreal salvages win after beating Pumas 4-2 in Leagues Cup penalties

  23-07-2023 04:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A dramatic last-minute comeback from Pumas Unam that tied the match 2-2 and forced a penalty shootout wasn’t enough for the visitors as CF Montreal opened their Leagues Cup account, winning 4-2 on penalties and securing an advantage to qualify for the round of 32.
  Bryce Duke and Mathieu Choinière were the first-half goal scorers for Montreal, while Gabriel Fernandez and Emanuel Montejano scored for Pumas.
  With both teams employing a direct and counterattacking style
  
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• Knight, Szokol hold on to win LPGA Tour’s lone team event

  23-07-2023 02:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol held off Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan by a stroke Saturday to win the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event.
  Knight and Szokol closed with a 5-under 65 in better-ball play at Midland Country Club. They finished at 23 under, following a better-ball 61 in the second round Thursday with an alternate-shot 62 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round.
  Castren and Tan shot a 63. They
  
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• New Zealand Women’s World Cup team evacuated due to hotel fire

  23-07-2023 02:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  New Zealand’s Women’s World Cup squad had to be evacuated from a downtown hotel on Saturday night after several small fires broke out.New Zealand have police charged a 34-year-old man with burglary and arson and said he is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday.
  It was the second security incident within three days at the World Cup, following a fatal shooting near team hotels on the first morning of the tournament.About 7:45 p.m. local time Saturday, the Football Ferns we
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu taken to hospital for heart procedure, placed under sedation

  23-07-2023 01:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday he was going to the hospital for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker, but vowed to press ahead with his controversial judicial overhaul plan.
  In a brief videotaped statement released at 2 a.m., Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device after being briefly hospitalized last week for what his office had said was dehydration. He said an alarm on the device beeped Saturday night, meaning he needed a pacemaker imme
  
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• Mariners score 5 in seventh, rally past Blue Jays for 9-8 win

  23-07-2023 01:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — J.P. Crawford and Teoscar Hernández both had two-run doubles as part of Seattle’s five-run seventh inning against Toronto’s bullpen, and the Mariners rallied for a wild 9-8 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday.
  Once again, the Blue Jays and Mariners played a game of wild momentum swings, clutch hits and big moments that left the heavily mixed crowd of fans from both teams highly entertained.
  The teams combined for seven home runs, including each side enjoyin
  
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• VIDEO: Hundreds of B.C. Hells Angels celebrate anniversary in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-07-2023 01:30 via news.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Hundreds of B.C. Hells Angels celebrate anniversary in ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Stampeders, Redblacks ride momentum of narrow wins into McMahon Stadium clash

  23-07-2023 00:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary Stampeders middle linebacker Micah Awe took football trash talk to outer space ahead of the Ottawa Redblacks in town Sunday.
  Redblacks quarterback and aeronautical engineer Dustin Crum was the talk of the CFL this week after his two rushing touchdowns spurred Ottawa to an overtime upset of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  So Awe, who owns a Texas Tech petroleum engineering degree, will be chasing down a rocket scientist Sunday at McMahon Stadium.
  “I saw some things about him,” Awe
  
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• Memorial for fallen B.C. wildfire fighter held in Revelstoke

  23-07-2023 00:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REVELSTOKE, B.C. — Family, friends and fellow firefighters paid tribute today to the 19-year-old woman killed while battling wildfires in British Columbia earlier this month.
  Devyn Gale died on July 13 after being struck by a falling tree while fighting a wildfire near Revelstoke, B.C.
  Gale’s brother and sister, Nolan and Kayln, who are also firefighters, gave emotional speeches about their sister at a public memorial in Revelstoke, calling her compassionate, wise and nurturing.
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