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• Japan’s Yuka Saso clubhouse leader at CPKC Women’s Open in Vancouver

  24-08-2023 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Japan’s Yuka Saso is the clubhouse leader at the CPKC Women’s Open.
  She fired a 6-under 66 in the morning wave of the first round of the Canadian women’s golf championship.
  Hamilton’s Alena Sharp was the low Canadian in the morning wave, shooting a 3-under 69 to finish her round tied for second with South Korea’s Sei Young Kim and Rose Zhang of the United States.
  Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club is hosting the event.
  The course w
  
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• More than 1000 wildfire evacuees in Vernon - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  More than 1000 wildfire evacuees in Vernon  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg has decided to retire, AP source says

  24-08-2023 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has decided to retire, ending a career that began as a No. 1 draft pick, included 2019 World Series MVP honors and was derailed by injuries, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because Strasburg has not spoken publicly about his plans. The person told The AP that Strasburg is expected to hold a news conference before a game at Natio
  
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• Maui County sues utility, alleging negligence over fires that ravaged Lahaina

  24-08-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company on Thursday over the fires that devastated Lahaina, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.Witness accounts and video indicated that sparks from power lines ignited fires as utility poles snapped in the winds, which were driven by a passing hurricane. The Aug. 8 fire killed at least 115 people and left an unknown number of others missing.A spokesperson for Hawaiia
  
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• Argos defender Robertson looking forward to rematch with Stampeders

  24-08-2023 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The second time around will have a little extra juice for Robertson Daniel.
  The Toronto Argonauts return from their final bye week of the season Friday night to host the Calgary Stampeders at BMO Field. Three weeks ago, the Stamps handed the defending Grey Cup champions their lone loss of the season, a 20-7 decision at McMahon Stadium.
  “This is a big game for us, for sure,” Daniel said Thursday following Toronto’s walk-through. “When you lose to a team, it
  
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• RCMP gather in Chilliwack for deployment to BC wildfires; Chilliwack Walmart, London Drugs pitch in

  24-08-2023 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — RCMP officers from across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island assembled at the Pacific Regional Training Centre in Chilliwack on Wednesday (August 23) before being deployed to wildfires throughout the province.In a news release, BC RCMP says that as 60 personnel returned to their home districts today, another 76 RCMP members traveled to Kelowna and surrounding areas on August 23, providing relief to those officers already in working in the field. These officers travelled f
  
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• TSB report warns that unnoticed locomotive fires pose wildfire risk

  24-08-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is warning about the risks of fires going unnoticed on locomotives and setting wildfires, citing dozens of on-board blazes in a report into an incident two years ago in southeast British Columbia.
  The board says there have been at least 21 more on-board fires involving “remote” locomotives in the middle or at the end of a train since the incident, with 34 occurring in the 10 years before.
  The board says a mechanical failure on a locomotive in
  
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• Prevent illegal mass data extraction, privacy authorities tell social media firms

  24-08-2023 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal privacy watchdog and some of his global counterparts are urging the largest social media companies to prevent bulk extraction of personal details from their websites.
  In a joint statement, privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne and data protection authorities from Australia, Britain and other countries say the practice, known as data scraping, poses a serious risk.
  They warn that personal information has been used for targeted cyberattacks, identity fraud, creating fac
  
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• Hudson’s Bay brings back outlet model with new Scarborough store

  24-08-2023 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay is reviving its outlet model with a discount store in Toronto’s east end.
  The department store chain says it is converting an existing Hudson’s Bay store at Eglinton Square in Scarborough to an outlet.
  The outlet will sell home goods and apparel, including accessories, intimates and footwear for women, men and children.
  Hudson’s Bay spokeswoman Tiffany Bourre says discounts are expected to be as deep as 75 per cent. 
  The new outlet comes
  
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• At nearly 37, Canada’s Michael Woods still hungry after Tour de France stage win

  24-08-2023 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s Michael Woods is already looking ahead after winning a stage at the Tour de France earlier this summer — hungry to accomplish more despite his age.
  The 36-year-old from Ottawa, who turns 37 in October, became the third Canadian and 11th oldest stage winner at the Tour de France with his ninth-stage victory on July 9.
  “It was one of the biggest goals of my career,” he said over a video conference from his residence in Andorra on Thursday. “T
  
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• The wildland-urban interface: why wildfire fatalities seem so prevalent in the U.S.

  24-08-2023 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The oceanfront home on Maui’s western shore sits unscathed, family car in the driveway, its pristine red roof and well-tended yard an oasis of hope on a bleak landscape of ash and destruction. 
  The most enduring image of Hawaii’s wildfire tragedy is, in some ways, symbolic of the modern-day challenge of climate change: ensuring humanity can still thrive in an indiscriminate and unpredictable natural world. 
  In other ways, however, it is simply not good en
  
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• Toronto FC players focused on ending winless streak as coaching rumours swirl

  24-08-2023 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC midfielder Alonso Coello said his team has kept its focus on snapping their lengthy winless streak rather than reports that Canadian men’s national team John Herdman is in talks to take over the struggling Major League Soccer club.
  TFC management has refused to comment on the Herdman report from the Athletic that also speculated Queen’s Park Rangers manager Mark Warburton, D.C. United assistant Carl Robinson and Bobby Smyrniotis, skipper of Forge FC of the Canadian Premier
  
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• Ohio University QB Kurtis Rourke ranked No. 1 prospect on CFL scouting list

  24-08-2023 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Kurtis Rourke has secured family bragging rights.
  The Ohio University quarterback was the top player listed Thursday in the CFL Scouting Bureau’s fall edition of the top-20 prospects for next year’s draft. It’s one of the few accomplishments that escaped Rourke’s heralded older brother, Nathan, who’s currently battling for a roster spot with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars.
  “Nathan and I being competitive, I think if I need to, it would be
  
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• No arrests made from Highway 1 roadblock near Sorrento

  24-08-2023 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SORRENTO — No arrests were made, and no charges are expected after a confrontation at a roadblock on Highway 1 in the Shuswap Wednesday (Aug. 23) evening.
  In a news release, RCMP say its Chase detachment were told of a large group of people assembled with food and supplies meant for an area in the North Shuswap under an evacuation order. Police say it appeared their intentions were to overwhelm the roadblock at Highway 1 near Sorrento and enter the area.
  “Increased police presence ha
  
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• Foreign interference talks: Parties trade jabs for bipartisan chats from the cottage

  24-08-2023 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — House leaders for the main federal parties have been working together this summer to make a public inquiry on foreign interference happen, as they put aside partisan jabs that dominated Parliament for much of the year. 
  Alex Marland, head of the political science department at Memorial University, says the shift signals that political leaders are trying to earnestly make progress on an inquiry. 
  Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is leading the negotiatio
  
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• Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan chides Joly for ‘unacceptable’ comments to Armenians

  24-08-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry argues Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is undermining peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by referring to the area with the name used by Armenian secessionists.
  Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but it is mostly populated by Armenians, and neighbouring Armenia has fought for control of the region for decades.
  Tensions rose in the area last fall when the region’s main access r
  
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• Trump is set to surrender at a Georgia jail on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss

  24-08-2023 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump was set to turn himself in Thursday to authorities in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in that state, a county jail booking expected to yield a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president.
  Trump’s surrender, coming amid an abrupt shake-up of his legal team, follows the presidential debate in Milwaukee the night before featuring his leading rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination — a contest in
  
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• Music Review: Big Thief’s Buck Meek delivers from high on the ear-friendly ‘Haunted Mountain’

  24-08-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Buck Meek, “Haunted Mountain” (4AD)
  Buck Meek, the stellar guitarist of Big Thief, is out with his third studio album, “Haunted Mountain.” It is a lovely fusion of twang and rock with prime songwriting that works to define the art of caring.
  Sure, this is largely love song territory for the troubadour. He sought a bit of solace and wrote the songs in the mountains of Portugal and the Swiss Alps. But it’s a deft examination of how the heart grows, and not a breezy tr
  
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• Quebec company buys private island with chalet to boost employee happiness

  24-08-2023 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAVAL, Que. — A Montreal-area company has come up with a novel — if extreme — way to boost employee happiness: buying them a private island.
  The 30 workers at data services company Mon Technicien are now able to book stays on their employer’s newly acquired, 930-square-metre island in the Laurentian Mountains northwest of Montreal.
  The Labelle, Que., getaway includes a single, two-bedroom cabin with enough room for eight people, as well as a barbecue, pedal boat, dinghy a
  
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• One arrested in Chilliwack bait-car sting - Hope Standard

  24-08-2023 19:35 via news.google.com
  
  One arrested in Chilliwack bait-car sting  Hope Standard
  
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• One arrested in Chilliwack bait-car sting - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 19:35 via news.google.com
  
  One arrested in Chilliwack bait-car sting  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• VIDEO: Abbotsford 55-Plus BC Games Opening Ceremony - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 19:25 via news.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Abbotsford 55-Plus BC Games Opening Ceremony  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Mission RCMP intervene after three Surrey males discharge guns at Stave Lake campground

  24-08-2023 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STAVE LAKE — Three males from Surrey found out the hard way that discharging a shotgun and a rifle at a campground with people nearby isn’t the smartest idea on the planet.According to Mission RCMP Constable Harrison Mohr, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment, Mission RCMP were dispatched to the area of the Rocky Point campground on Tuesday evening, August 15. They had been called to area after a group of males had been reportedly firing a shotgun and a rifle
  
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• Upper Fraser Valley RCMP arrest man after he steals a bait car in Rosedale area

  24-08-2023 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROSEDALE — A man has been arrested after he allegedly stole a car in the Rosedale area east of Chilliwack Tuesday night.According to a statement from Corporal Carmen Kiener of the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, the Agassiz RCMP received a bait car activation notification in the Rosedale area at 7:42 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22. Frontline RCMP personnel accompanied by the Integrated Police Dog Services unit were able to locate the vehicle in the nearby area.The vehicle stopped for
  
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• LGBTQ advocates in Saskatchewan gear up for human rights fight over pronoun rules

  24-08-2023 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Fran Forsberg fought years ago for a gender marker to be removed from her child’s birth certificate. 
  Now up against the Saskatchewan Party government’s pronoun and naming changes in schools, she says she’s prepared to fight again.
  “I think I’m going to have a bigger army behind me this time,” Forsberg said. 
  “I’m a scrapper. I’m not quitting.”
  Forsberg, a mother in Saskatoon with two children who are transgender, was at the c
  
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• Mission RCMP find black replica gun on woman after she overdoses

  24-08-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mission RCMP say they located a black replica handgun tucked into the waistband of a woman who was being treated for an apparent drug overdose earlier this month.
  Mission RCMP Constable Harrison Mohr, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment, says police and paramedics were dispatched early Wednesday, August 16 for the report of a 35-year-old female that was experiencing an apparent drug overdose. While interacting with the female, an officer located a black r
  
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• Mission RCMP find black replica gun on woman after she overdoes

  24-08-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mission RCMP say they located a black replica handgun tucked into the waistband of a woman who was being treated for an apparent drug overdose earlier this month.Mission RCMP Constable Harrison Mohr, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment, says police and paramedics were dispatched early Wednesday, August 16 for the report of a 35-year-old female that was experiencing an apparent drug overdose. While interacting with the female, an officer located a black re
  
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• Renewables pause in Alberta affecting 118 projects worth $33 billion, think tank says

  24-08-2023 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A clean energy think tank says Alberta’s pause on approvals for new renewable energy projects is affecting 118 projects worth $33 billion.
  The Pembina Institute says those projects would create enough jobs to keep 24,000 people working for a year. 
  It says those projects represent what could be $263 million in local taxes and leases for landowners in 27  municipalities.
  Earlier this month, the province’s United Conservative government said it would pause all renewable energ
  
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• Putin breaks silence on plane crash that presumably killed Wagner leaders

  24-08-2023 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken his silence on the plane crash that killed top leaders of the Wagner mercenary group.
  Putin expressed condolences for those who were aboard the jet, including mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. He made the remarks while speaking with the Russian-installed leader of Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk region,Denis Pushilin, in a televised interview.
  The crash was widely seen as an assassination to avenge a mutiny that challenged Putin.
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• Ukraine seeks Canada’s help in selling peace plan to skeptical states, more demining

  24-08-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ukraine is calling on Canada to help it sell a peace plan with Russia to developing countries who have taken a neutral stance on Moscow’s invasion.
  Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba wants Canada to use its “diplomatic muscle” to encourage countries beyond Europe and its allies to support a peace plan.
  In a video presented at a closed-door meeting of foreign ambassadors, to which The Canadian Press was invited, Kuleba also asks Ottawa to increase it
  
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• Race walker Dunfee picks up another 4th-place finish at World Athletics Championships

  24-08-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary — Evan Dunfee finished just shy of a podium finish for the second time at the World Athletics Championships.
  The race walker from Richmond, B.C., placed fourth in the men’s 35-kilometre event Thursday in a season’s-best time of two hours 25 minutes 28 seconds.
  Spain’s Álvaro Martín came first in 2:24:30, followed by Ecuador’s Brian Daniel Pintado (2:24:34) and Japan’s Masatora Kawano (2:25:12).
  Dunfee also finished fourth &mdash
  
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• Hope Fire says fire that burned a home, unoccupied trailers is under investigation

  24-08-2023 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Hope Fire Chief Thomas Cameron says Tuesday night’s residential fire that burned one home, two abandoned trailers and several other structures is under investigation.
  In a news release Wednesday afternoon, the Hope Fire Department says it was dispatched for the report of a structure fire in the 19000 block of Marie Street on Tuesday, August 22 at 7:21 p.m. The area is located just south of Highway 1 in the Silver Creek neighbourhood.
  On arrival, fire crews found aggressive fir
  
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• Canadian Table Tennis Championships in Hay River cancelled due to N.W.T. wildfires

  24-08-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAY RIVER, N.W.T. — The Canadian Table Tennis Championships scheduled for Sept. 22-24 in Hay River, N.W.T., have been cancelled due to the ongoing wildfire situation in the territory, Table Tennis North announced.
  In light of the cancellation, Table Tennis North says its organizing committee plans to make a proposal to Table Tennis Canada to host the event next year.
  The organization says it will provide updates once circumstances return to normal.
  Wildfires have run rampant through tens o
  
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• Keith Spicer, Canada’s first official languages commissioner, dead at 89

  24-08-2023 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Keith Spicer, Canada’s first commissioner of official languages, died Thursday in Ottawa at 89.
  Canadians who closely followed the constitutional debates of the early 1990s might remember him as the man who starkly described the “fury in the land” against the prime minister who had named him to lead a commission on national unity.
  Those nearest to Spicer remember him as a hard-working family man who brought a sense of humour to his often high-ranking roles &mdash
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Wildfire heroes

  24-08-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  This summer, wildfires have challenged people and communities across B.C. – and across North America. And we know that the challenges are not over as our fire season continues.
  Keeping us safe from wildfires, and supporting those who have had to evacuate, is an immense task.To those who are on the frontlines, we thank you for your dedication, bravery, and teamwork. The loss of two firefighters this year – Devyn Gale and Zak Muise – reminds us that fire crews are putting their l
  
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• Canada Basketball announces final roster ahead of FIBA World Cup

  24-08-2023 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — Canada Basketball announced its final roster for the senior team heading into the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup on Thursday.
  The team will be led by all-NBA first team guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, guard RJ Barrett of the New York Knicks and centre Kelly Olynyk of the Utah Jazz. Wing Thomas Scrubb and guard Kenny Chery were the final cuts to the lineup.
  Canada has seven NBA players on its 12-man roster, the most of any team at the
  
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• Corporate ethics czar opens forced-labour probes against Walmart, Hugo Boss, Diesel

  24-08-2023 15:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s corporate-ethics watchdog is investigating whether Walmart, Hugo Boss and Diesel have forced labour in their supply chains.
  Sheri Meyerhoffer, the Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, issued three reports today saying none of the companies have done enough to demonstrate the products they sell in Canada are free of slave labour.
  The Canadian subsidiaries of all three companies are accused of relying on suppliers who source materials from Uyghur people forced to
  
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• PHOTOS: McDougall Creek wildfire damage in West Kelowna - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 15:35 via news.google.com
  
  PHOTOS: McDougall Creek wildfire damage in West Kelowna  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Walroy Lake wildfire in Kelowna being held - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 14:20 via news.google.com
  
  Walroy Lake wildfire in Kelowna being held  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadians unified on forest protection although wildfire cause divisive: poll

  24-08-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As Canada struggles through its worst fire season in recorded history, a new survey suggests protecting forests remains one issue that unites most Canadians no matter who they are or where they live. 
  However, other parts of the survey done for Nature Canada and the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests the climate change debate is spilling over into the woods — especially in a season of unprecedented wildfires. 
  “That is deeply concerning and it does reflect widesprea
  
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• Water world - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 10:30 via news.google.com
  
  Water world  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• In the news today: NWT officials turning residents back as wildfire threat remains

  24-08-2023 10:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  N.W.T. officials want evacuees to stay out for now
  Northwest Territories officials are using roadblocks to turn back Yellowknife residents who are attempting to return home despite the city still being under a state of emergency.
  All but about 1,600 of Yellowknife’s 20,000 residents have left the community due to the continued threat of wildfires that have caused th
  
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• Heavy rain aids in tempering B.C. wildfires in Shuswap, Okanagan regions

  24-08-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Firefighters in British Columbia’s southern Interior continue to battle a number of major blazes, having been aided by ample rainfall that fell Wednesday over the Okanagan and Shuswap regions.
  BC Wildfire Service information officer Forrest Tower says one weather station near the eastern edge of the Bush Creek East wildfire near Chase received about 20 millimetres of rain in the last day.
  Tower says varying amounts of rainfall were also recorded on the wildfire’s western edge, which
  
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• Jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives at a hearing on extending his detention

  24-08-2023 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, arrived at a Moscow court Thursday for a hearing on a motion by the prosecution to extend his arrest.Gershkovich arrived at court in a white prison van and was led handcuffed out of the vehicle wearing jeans, sneakers and a shirt.
  A 31-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in late March. He and his employer
  
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• Local smoke to become more widespread across Eastern Fraser ... - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Local smoke to become more widespread across Eastern Fraser ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Shohei Ohtani won’t pitch for rest of season because of a tear in an elbow ligament, Angels GM says

  24-08-2023 07:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani won’t pitch for the rest of the season because of a tear in an elbow ligament, Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian said Wednesday night.
  The Angels don’t yet know whether Ohtani will need surgery to repair the UCL ligament.
  Ohtani left the mound in the middle of an at-bat during the second inning Wednesday in a doubleheader opener because of arm fatigue.
  Ohtani had a 2-2 count on Cincinnati Reds third baseman Christian Encarnac
  
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• Gunfire at California biker bar kills 4 people, including the shooter, and wounds 5 more

  24-08-2023 06:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. The shooter also died.
  The shooting occurred after 7 p.m. at Cook’s Corner in rural Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, a popular longtime watering hole for motorcycle riders and enthusiasts who gather for live music, open-mic nights or just a cold beer after a long ride.
  Authorities didn’
  
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• Anthony Santander hits 2 homers to back Dean Kremer as Orioles beat Blue Jays 7-0

  24-08-2023 04:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander homered twice, Dean Kremer threw six innings of five-hit ball, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 on Wednesday night.
  The Orioles extended their streak of series without being swept to 80 and maintained their two-game lead in the AL East over Tampa Bay. Toronto fell one game behind Seattle for the final AL wild-card spot.
  Ryan Mountcastle went 1 for 3 with an RBI, extending his major league-leading on-base streak to 28 games.
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• New Zealand’s Lydia Ko happy to return to Vancouver, where LPGA Tour success started

  24-08-2023 01:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — If it wasn’t for Vancouver, Lydia Ko might never have become a 19-time LPGA Tour winner.
  Ko is back in the field at the CPKC Women’s Open, a tournament she has won three times, including her first two victories on the LPGA Tour when she was still an amateur. She said that winning at Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, B.C., in 2012 was instrumental to her development as one of the most successful players in LPGA Tour history.
  “I had my first LPGA win in Vancouve
  
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• BC Transit rolls out $23.2M electronic fare system - Chilliwack Progress

  24-08-2023 01:30 via news.google.com
  
  BC Transit rolls out $23.2M electronic fare system  Chilliwack Progress
  
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