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• Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen on injured list with fractured finger

  02-09-2023 23:36
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have placed catcher Danny Jansen on the 10-day injured list with a right middle finger fracture.
  Jansen sustained the injury in the sixth inning of Friday’s 13-9 win over the host Colorado Rockies. 
  Jansen took a foul ball off his throwing hand. He’d hit a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie in the top of the inning.
  Tyler Heineman was recalled from triple-A Buffalo for Saturday’s second-game of a three-game set in Denver.
  The 32-year-old
  
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• Free cupcakes will be handed out during 2nd annual festival in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 23:11 via news.google.com
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders prepare for powerhouse Winnipeg Blue Bombers

  02-09-2023 23:05
  
  REGINA — With the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on the verge of clinching a CFL playoff spot, Saskatchewan head coach Craig Dickenson understands Sunday’s Labour Day Classic will be a tough challenge for his Roughriders.
  The Blue Bombers enter the contest in first place in the West Division with a 9-2-0 record. The Riders rank third at 5-5-0. 
  Winnipeg currently tops most team statistical categories in the league. They’re first in offensive points (327), offensive touchdowns (36),
  
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• Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back’ and DeSantis doesn’t show up

  02-09-2023 22:56
  
  LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia’s impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm. Notably absent was Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate who declined to join Biden after he suggested that the Democrat’s presence could hinder disaster response efforts.
  Biden, when asked about his rival’s absence, said he was not disappointed by the turn of ev
  
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• Shooting incident in Maple Ridge - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 22:47 via news.google.com
  
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• Raymond Moriyama, renowned Canadian architect behind iconic buildings, dies at 93

  02-09-2023 22:44
  
  TORONTO — Raymond Moriyama, a renowned architect behind the design of some of Canada’s most iconic buildings, has died. He was 93.
  A spokesperson for the architecture firm he founded said Moriyama died on Friday, but offered few other details.
  He had a hand in the creation of numerous iconic landmarks both in Canada and abroad, including the National War Museum, Ottawa’s City Hall, the Bata Shoe Museum, the Toronto Reference Library, the Ontario Science Centre and the Canadian
  
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• Evacuation orders downgraded in B.C. Interior in wake of two major wildfires

  02-09-2023 22:33
  
  KAMLOOPS — Evacuation orders for 26 properties in British Columbia’s Kamloops and Shuswap Lake areas affected by two separate wildfires have been lifted and downgraded to alert status.
  The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued a statement on Saturday saying the changes involve three properties affected by the ongoing Ross Moore Lake wildfire south of Kamloops and 23 properties ordered evacuated by the Bush Creek East blaze.
  The regional district statement says residents of propert
  
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• Twenty six properties on evacuation order in B.C. wildfire zones dropped to alert

  02-09-2023 22:24
  
  VICTORIA — Evacuation orders for 26 properties in British Columbia’s Kamloops and Shuswap Lake areas affected by two separate wildfires have been lifted and downgraded to alert status.
  The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued a statement on Saturday saying the changes involve three properties affected by the ongoing Ross Moore Lake wildfire south of Kamloops and 23 properties ordered evacuated by the Bush Creek East blaze.
  The regional district statement says residents of propert
  
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• Carlos Alcaraz produces highlights, smiles in U.S. Open victory over Dan Evans

  02-09-2023 22:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Even if Carlos Alcaraz was by no means perfect during a victory in the U.S. Open’s third round Saturday — he dropped a set, after all — the defending champion produced enough bits of brilliance to keep himself smiling and prompt his opponent, Dan Evans, to chuck his racket a couple of times.
  Less than 12 hours after the man he’s expected to meet next weekend for the title, Novak Djokovic, needed to fashion a comeback from a two-set deficit to win, Al
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski reaches U.S. Open women’s doubles third round with Routliffe

  02-09-2023 22:03
  
  NEW YORK — Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand advanced to the third round of women’s doubles at the U.S. Open with a victory on Saturday.
  Dabrowski and Routliffe defeated China’s Zhu Lin and Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien in three sets (6-3, 3-6, 6-3).
  The 16th-seeded Canadian and New Zealander will meet the Czech duo of Barbora Strycova and Marketa Vondrousova in the third round.
  Dabrowski, 31, reached the U.S. Open women’s doubles
  
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• Canadian who served in Afghanistan files discrimination lawsuit ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 20:59 via news.google.com
  
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• CSIS disinformation campaign leans on Soviet imagery - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 20:53 via news.google.com
  
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• Road closure coming up for section of Bailey Road in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 19:51 via news.google.com
  
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• 'Qairo' show infused with Eastern tradition coming to Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  02-09-2023 19:35 via news.google.com
  
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• 'Qairo' show infused with Eastern tradition coming to Chilliwack - Hope Standard

  02-09-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• 'Qairo' show infused with Eastern tradition coming to Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• South Sudan to represent Africa, Japan to represent Asia in Paris Olympic basketball

  02-09-2023 19:13
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — It was a chant that Luol Deng waited years to lead. He stood along the side of the South Sudan locker room after their run in the World Cup was over, cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled the same thing, over and over.
  “Where we goin’?” he shouted.
  “Paris,” the players all responded.
  Deng’s vision when he founded the national team about a decade ago was to use basketball as a beacon of hope for his homeland. And his visi
  
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• Bill Richardson, a former governor and UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies

  02-09-2023 19:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died. He was 75.
  The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which he founded and led, said in a statement Saturday that he died in his sleep at his home in Chatham, Massachusetts.
  “He lived his entire life in the service of others — including both his time in gove
  
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• Ryan Preece ready to race at Darlington after frightening Daytona crash

  02-09-2023 18:42
  
  DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Ryan Preece had a message to deliver, no matter how bad his eyes looked after his frightening crash at Daytona last week.
  “It’s OK to not race,” the Stewart Haas Racing driver said at Darlington on Saturday. “But it’s OK to race, and I think that’s what needs to be said.”
  Preece took questions publicly for the first time since his horrifying accident, where he went airborne and flipped over at least 10 times before coming to
  
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• Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-sign offensive lineman Jordan Murray

  02-09-2023 18:42
  
  HAMILTON — Offensive lineman Jordan Murray has returned to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  The CFL club announced the signing of the American on Saturday.
  The 26-year-old from Coppell, Texas started 11 games, including a pair of playoff games, for the Tiger-Cats in 2021.
  He was then released to sign with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, with whom he spent parts of the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
  Indianapolis waived him on Aug. 1. The six-foot-nine, 330-pound lineman served on the Colts’ pract
  
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• Big-spending Chelsea humbled in 1-0 home loss to Nottingham Forest

  02-09-2023 18:42
  
  LONDON (AP) — Half a billion dollars spent on new signings and Chelsea still looks like a team badly in need of reinforcements.Chelsea lost at home to Nottingham Forest 1-0 in the English Premier League on Saturday, a day after closing the summer transfer window by taking its spending past the $500 million mark with the addition of Cole Palmer.Record signing Moises Caicedo was partly at fault for the goal, giving the ball away cheaply before Anthony Elanga tapped in a cross from Taiwo Awon
  
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• Competition Bureau approves RBC's proposed takeover of HSBC ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 17:39 via news.google.com
  
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• 'Margaritaville' singer Jimmy Buffett dead at 76 - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 17:19 via news.google.com
  
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• DFO raises awareness of illegal fishing along Indian Arm

  02-09-2023 14:59
  
  CHILLIWACK — Fisheries and Oceans Canada is raising the alarm about what it describes as “rampant illegal fishing” in certain British Columbia waters protected for finfish.
  The department says its officers have seen “significant” illegal harvesting in Rockfish Protected Areas in the Indian Arm area of B-C’s Lower Mainland.
  Some species of rockfish are designated as “special concern” under the federal Species at Risk Act — and fishing for all
  
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• Juno Award-winning trumpeter Bria Skonberg in Chilliwack for ... - Hope Standard

  02-09-2023 14:06 via news.google.com
  
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• Jimmy Buffett’s laid-back party vibe created adoring ‘Parrotheads’ and success beyond music

  02-09-2023 14:01
  
  Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
  “Wastin’ away again in Margaritaville,” went the chorus to his most famous song, which became an international singalong. But Buffett was actually an astute, ambitious, aggressive businessman.A statement posted to Buffett’s official website and social media pages announced his passing on Friday at age 76. The statement did not say where Buffett died or give a cause. He resche
  
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• Juno Award-winning trumpeter Bria Skonberg in Chilliwack for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 13:57 via news.google.com
  
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• Juno Award-winning trumpeter Bria Skonberg in Chilliwack for ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  02-09-2023 13:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Maine resident captures nature in action in N.B. as shark snacks on whale carcass

  02-09-2023 13:03
  
  Paul Keller was sitting on the back porch of his rented cottage by the Bay of Fundy, sipping his morning coffee, when he spotted some commotion in the water. Perhaps the splash of a flipper, he figured, or something washing up against a rock.
  Through his binoculars he realized he had spotted a rare scene of ocean carnage — a great white shark feeding on a whale carcass.
  “That was kind of an odd, strange sensation to see,” said the bi-vocational pastor, who lives in China, Maine
  
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• CSIS disinformation campaign leans on Soviet imagery, as Ottawa tracks ‘grey media’

  02-09-2023 12:03
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency is leaning on Soviet imagery to help prime the public against disinformation but experts say Moscow is more likely to use images that make readers think the messaging is coming from North American sources.
  Last month, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service started posting on social media about its efforts to counteract deliberately misleading information online.
  The posts feature a font that resembles the Cyrillic alphabet, featuring stars instead of
  
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• Canada’s envoy to Ukraine says Canadian support will outlast Russian invasion

  02-09-2023 12:03
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s new ambassador to Ukraine had an eerie sense of déjà vu when she reached Kyiv last month.
  Natalka Cmok saw so many locals with missing limbs that it reminded her of working in Ukraine in the 1990s, when the newly independent country had thousands of soldiers returning from the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan.
  “Ukraine is really close to my heart, and I want Ukraine to succeed,” Cmok said in a Friday interview from Canada’s emb
  
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• School boards grappling with AI use in classroom, but formal policies still elusive

  02-09-2023 10:04
  
  Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. 
  But while there seems to be wide consensus on the need for more guidance and vigilance when it comes to AI in schooling, one education expert says blanket policies are not likely to help anyway. 
  The Canadian Press asked 10 school boards in di
  
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• N.W.T. officials set to share details about lifting of Yellowknife evacuation order

  02-09-2023 10:04
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — Residents of Yellowknife and a nearby First Nation have been told they’ll be allowed home as early as Sept. 6, barring any increase in wildfire risk.
  The city and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, which includes the nearby communities of Ndilo and Dettah, issued a joint statement on Friday announcing people will be able to return starting at noon that day.
  A press conference is scheduled for this afternoon to provide information about the return. 
  Some of the det
  
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• Ecologists say life will return to B.C. wildfire zone, but trees may never grow back

  02-09-2023 10:04
  
  The charred hills surrounding Lake Okanagan in the B.C. Interior will likely look very different in a year’s time and beyond as life returns to the wildfire-ravaged landscape, ecologists predict.
  An eruption of low plants, grasses, and shrubs will turn the hills green. Birds and small mammals, as well as deer and bears, will return to feast on berries and other plant life. Carnivores including cougars could move in.
  But the tall trees destroyed by the fires may never recover or return, sai
  
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• PHOTOS: Riders from across B.C. compete in Chilliwack equestrian ... - Vernon Morning Star

  02-09-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• India launches spacecraft to study the sun after successful landing near the moon’s south pole

  02-09-2023 08:50
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon.
  The Aditya-L1 spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from earth.
  The spacecraft is equipped with seven payloads to study the sun’s corona, chromospher
  
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• Toronto catcher Danny Jansen fractures finger in the Blue Jays’ 13-9 win over the Rockies

  02-09-2023 07:52
  
  DENVER (AP) — Initial X-rays showed Toronto Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen fractured his right middle finger in a 13-9 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night, manager John Schneider said.
  Jansen was struck by a foul ball on his right hand during Nolan Jones’ at-bat in the bottom of the sixth inning. Alejandro Kirk pinch hit for him in the seventh.“It’s a pretty freak injury, and it seems like those are coming in bunches right now,” Schneider said.Blue Jay
  
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• Novak Djokovic is headed to a fifth set against Laslo Djere at the US Open

  02-09-2023 07:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic and Laslo Djere were heading to a fifth set in their third-round match at the U.S. Open.
  Djere took the first two sets 6-4, 6-4, before Djokovic began mounting a comeback and claimed the third and fourth 6-1, 6-1.
  The match began Friday night under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium and was more than three hours old by the time they were going to start the decisive set at nearly 1 a.m. on Saturday.
  The second-seeded Djokovic is a 23-time Grand Slam champion wh
  
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• Kirk’s pinch-hit double, Toronto’s 3 homers power Blue Jays past Rockies 13-9

  02-09-2023 06:20
  
  DENVER (AP) — Pinch-hitter Alejandro Kirk’s three-run double keyed a five-run seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays hit three homers in a 13-9 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.
  Danny Jansen, Brandon Belt and Ernie Clement went deep for the Blue Jays, who have won four of six to move within 1 1/2 games of slumping Texas for the final AL wild card. 
  Toronto had 17 hits and improved to 3-10 at Coors Field in its first trip to Colorado since 2019. George Springer
  
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• Pope starts Mongolia visit by praising the country’s religious freedom dating back to Genghis Khan

  02-09-2023 05:42
  
  ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of its founder, Genghis Khan, as he opened the first-ever papal visit to the Asian nation with a plea for peace and an end to the “insidious threat of corruption.”
  Francis met with President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh inside a traditional Mongolian ger, or round yurt, set up inside the state palace, and wrote a message in the guest book that he was visiti
  
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• Perrine Delacour holds onto Portland Classic lead with another bogey-free round

  02-09-2023 04:17
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Perrine Delacour held onto the Portland Classic lead Friday with another bogey-free round at Columbia Edgewater, shooting a 5-under 67 in perfect conditions a day after opening with a 63 in the rain.
  “You had to adjust for the pins, especially on the wedges,” Delacour said. “But it was definitely nicer. I mean, even though the bag is still wet from yesterday, but it was definitely nicer to be in shorts and polos instead of rain gear.”
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• Bear breaking into B.C. homeless tents euthanized - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 02:00 via news.google.com
  
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• New COVID variant no cause for parental panic, says doctor, but kids need flu shot

  02-09-2023 01:42
  
  VANCOUVER — A pediatric infectious disease doctor says there’s nothing to suggest that British Columbia parents sending kids back to school next week need to make big changes in how they manage COVID-19 after a new variant was discovered in the province.
  But Dr. David Goldfarb at BC Children’s Hospital says evidence from the Southern Hemisphere suggests influenza B, which can affect children worse than adults, will be particularly prevalent this year.
  He says that strain is wel
  
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• Fraser Valley slo-pitch tournament raises $7300 for local hospitals - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 01:27 via news.google.com
  
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• VIDEO: Tips on life jackets focus of 4th, final Chilliwack water-safety ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2023 01:03 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack man accused of shooting at RCMP in Victoria Day ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  02-09-2023 00:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Province urges caution to Fraser Valley residents looking to explore B.C. over the long weekend

  02-09-2023 00:30
  
  CHILLIWACK — As the Labour Day long weekend approaches, British Columbia is under a state of emergency due to escalating drought conditions, raising concerns of intensified wildfire threats. Government officials are sounding the alarm, urging both residents and visitors to exercise extreme caution and vigilance in light of the ongoing wildfire crisis.
  While most wildfires in the summer months are ignited by lightning strikes, the shoulder seasons following peak travel times witness a surge
  
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• Evacuation alert cancelled at the northern edge of the Koopiki Creek wildfire near Lytton

  02-09-2023 00:15
  
  KAMLOOPS — The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has cancelled the Evacuation Alert created by the Kookipi Creek wildfire. The original alert for the area west of Lytton was put in place August 17 and included 34 properties.
  Image: TNRD map of Koopiki Creek – All Clear
  The BC Wildfire Service says upwards of 16mm of rain fell on the Kookipi Creek wildfire this week, assisting firefighting efforts on the blaze. The wildfire is still considered out of control by authorities. It says wi
  
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