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• Captain Michael Bradley opens up on eve of last game for Toronto FC after 10 seasons

  20-10-2023 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Captain Michael Bradley, on the eve of his last game with Toronto FC, opened up Friday about his love for the city and the club, the debt to his family and his excitement at transitioning to the coaching ranks down the line.
  Injured for much of a dismal MLS campaign that saw his father Bob Bradley fired in late June as head coach and sporting director, the 36-year-old midfielder spent much of the season under the radar.
  He rarely spoke to the media. But on Friday, a thoughtful Br
  
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• Blue Bombers host Elks with West Division title in their sights

  20-10-2023 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Zach Collaros has tunnel vision when it comes to the Blue Bombers home game against the Edmonton Elks on Saturday.
  The veteran quarterback is focused on leading Winnipeg (12-4) to a victory over the Elks (4-13), which would clinch first place in the West Division for a third consecutive season.
  However, that feat could be accomplished before the game, depending on the outcome of Friday night’s CFL action between the B.C. Lions and Calgary Stampeders.
  If the Lions (12-5) lo
  
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• All Blacks crush Argentina 44-6 to reach fifth Rugby World Cup final

  20-10-2023 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — New Zealand bulldozed through Argentina 44-6 on Friday to reach the Rugby World Cup final for a record fifth time.
  The All Blacks will bid for a record fourth title against defending champion South Africa or England, who play their semifinal on Saturday.
  Right winger Will Jordan scored three of the All Blacks’ seven tries to become the tournament leading scorer with eight, while flanker Shannon Frizell grabbed two tries in a clinical demonstration.
  The first-half tries came f
  
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• Roughriders look for better execution against Argos as they try to end six-game skid

  20-10-2023 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Regardless of where they are in the CFL playoff picture, the Saskatchewan Roughriders know they need their execution to be better on Saturday to get out of their current funk.
  The Roughriders carried a six-game losing streak into a home game against the Toronto Argonauts, who have clinched first place in the East Division with a 14-2-0 record.
  Head coach Craig Dickenson feels the Riders have played well during the losing skid but need to execute effectively for 60 minutes to beat
  
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• Poilievre wants RBC's $13.5B takeover of HSBC Canada blocked - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 23:31 via news.google.com
  
  Poilievre wants RBC's $13.5B takeover of HSBC Canada blocked  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bosa Properties Acquires Legacy Pacific Industrial Portfolio in ... - CoStar Group

  20-10-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Pink postpones Vancouver shows on doctor's orders - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 23:29 via news.google.com
  
  Pink postpones Vancouver shows on doctor's orders  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Appeal court orders new trial for former senior Montreal politician Zampino

  20-10-2023 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal has ordered the former chair of Montreal city council’s executive committee to stand trial on corruption charges.
  The three-judge panel found that a lower court judge erred when she stayed charges against Frank Zampino in 2019, after finding that police wiretaps violated his constitutional rights.
  The appeal court said in its decision that the wiretaps — which captured conversations with lawyers — violated Zampino’s rights,
  
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• B.C. and Washington state to collaborate on flood-risk and salmon habitat initiative

  20-10-2023 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it has finalized an agreement with Washington state and several First Nations to work together on flood-risk mitigation and salmon habitat restoration for the Nooksak and Sumas watersheds on the Canada-U. S. border. 
  The province says the Transboundary Flood Initiative involves cross-border collaboration to reduce the risks of flooding after the atmospheric river event in 2021 devastated B.C.’s Fraser Valley and other parts of sout
  
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• Montreal police say hate crimes rising, most targeting Jews, amid Israel-Hamas war

  20-10-2023 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal police say they’ve received reports of 16 hate crimes, mostly targeting Jewish people, since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7.
  Police say that, as of Wednesday, they had received reports of 12 hate crimes targeting the city’s Jewish community — including one during a protest — and four hate crimes targeting the city’s Arab and Muslim communities.
  Police say that during the same period there were also 13 “hate incidents&rdquo
  
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• First in B.C.: on-call firefighters sign collective agreement - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 22:31 via news.google.com
  
  First in B.C.: on-call firefighters sign collective agreement  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Argos president Manning has plenty to be happy with, on and off the football field

  20-10-2023 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — President Bill Manning has plenty to be happy about regarding the Toronto Argonauts.
  Toronto (14-2) boasts the CFL’s best record and could tie the league’s single-season record by winning its final two regular-season contests. Another victory would match the franchise best established in 1996-97 when late head coach Don Matthews and all-star quarterback Doug Flutie guided the Argos to consecutive Grey Cup titles.
  This year’s squad is also chasing a second straig
  
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• Toronto FC’s final game of the MLS season marks both a beginning and an end

  20-10-2023 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Saturday’s regular-season finale against visiting Orlando City represents both a beginning and an end for Toronto FC. 
  Former Canada coach John Herdman takes charge on the Toronto sideline for the first time while captain Michel Bradley takes the field for the last time.
  Herdman brought the entire backroom staff out to a rainy practice Friday morning to fete Bradley, who spoke briefly to those in attendance.
  But the gathering also served as a reminder to the players &l
  
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• 2024 Grey Cup Festival gets $3.5M boost from B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 22:16 via news.google.com
  
  2024 Grey Cup Festival gets $3.5M boost from B.C.  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian military preparing for possible evacuation from Lebanon

  20-10-2023 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces said Friday it is getting ready for the possibility that it will need to help bring Canadians out of Lebanon, as Israel began evacuating a large town near its own northern border with that country.
  Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah, which has a massive arsenal of long-range rockets, has been trading fire with Israel along their shared border since the latest Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7.
  Hezbollah has also hinted that it might join the war if I
  
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• 'Knit' launched to ensure better earnings for Cowichan sweater knitters - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 21:49 via news.google.com
  
  'Knit' launched to ensure better earnings for Cowichan sweater knitters  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Haudenosaunee Lacrosse team one step away from achieving Olympic dreams

  20-10-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Haudenosaunee Nationals are one step away from achieving a decades-long dream.
  Lacrosse was restored to the Olympics program on Monday, with men’s and women’s versions of the game to be played at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Because lacrosse was created by the Haudenosaunee people centuries before European colonizers arrived in North America, the originators of the game play independently of Canada or the United States in international lacrosse competitions. 
  But there is cur
  
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• Federal government denies teenage surfing prodigy’s bid for Canadian citizenship

  20-10-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Teenage surfing prodigy Erin Brooks, has had her bid for Canadian citizenship turned down by the federal government.
  The 16-year-old Brooks was born in Texas and grew up in Hawaii but has Canadian ties through her father Jeff, who is a dual American-Canadian citizen. 
  Brooks, who won a silver medal at the ISA World Surfing Games in El Salvador in June, had hoped to secure her citizenship and represent Canada at next year’s Paris Olympics. But the delay in citizenship means she has had
  
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• Canada beats Australia, advances to semifinals at mixed curling worlds

  20-10-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABERDEEN, United Kingdom — Canada advanced to the semifinals of the world mixed doubles curling championship with a 7-3 win over Australia on Friday.
  Felix Asselin’s team from suburban Montreal started swiftly with two points in the first, followed by steals of one and two in the following ends.
  Australia got on the board in the fourth to cut the lead to 5-1, but Canada responded with two in the fifth.
  The Australians conceded after a blank sixth end and managing just one point in th
  
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• 3 charged in Alberta human-trafficking investigation - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 21:20 via news.google.com
  
  3 charged in Alberta human-trafficking investigation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Saskatchewan legislature passes pronoun bill in special sitting

  20-10-2023 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — A controversial bill on the use of pronouns in schools received final approval in the Saskatchewan legislature Friday.
  The new law prevents children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without receiving parental consent. It uses the notwithstanding clause to override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Saskatchewan’s Human Rights Code.
  The governing Saskatchewan Party said the law formalizes policies already in place in many school divisio
  
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• Belgian minister quits after ‘monumental error’ let Tunisian shooter slip through extradition net

  20-10-2023 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s justice minister resigned on Friday over what he described as a “monumental error” after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week.
  Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said that he and his services had been searching for details to understand how Abdesalem Lassoued had disappeared off the map two years ago after being denied asylum and
  
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• South Africa and England meet again at the Rugby World Cup in rematch of 2019 final

  20-10-2023 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  They’re the reigning world champions. They’re the No. 1 team in the world. They’ve just dumped out the highly fancied home nation in a Rugby World Cup epic.
  No wonder the Springboks are big favorites heading into their semifinal against England in Paris on Saturday.
  The English are trying not to think that way, though.
  “We’re not talking about a team that’s never lost,” England lock Maro Itoje said. “We’re not talking about a team that is wit
  
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• Drive-thru fundraiser to help fill Christmas stockings for Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 20:34 via news.google.com
  
  Drive-thru fundraiser to help fill Christmas stockings for Chilliwack ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Dean resignation calls relaunched for B.C. foster care failures - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Dean resignation calls relaunched for B.C. foster care failures  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Langley family fosters 'strong inclusive community' through annual ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Abbotsford Police make arrests following a series of Break and Enters

  20-10-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department’s Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) has successfully apprehended two suspects linked to a string of daytime residential break-ins that have plagued the community since January 2023.
  The CRU initiated an investigation in the crimes.Following months of investigative activities, their work bore fruit with the arrests of two suspects: Tyler Edward William Penill and Bryan Thomas Barker.
  Penill is facing a total of 14 counts of Break and Enter and on
  
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• Standoff situation in Lower Mainland leads to one male arrested - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 19:42 via news.google.com
  
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• Cardiology clinic becomes first in Saskatchewan to opt out of public health care

  20-10-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOOSE JAW, Sask. — A cardiology clinic in Saskatchewan, the birthplace of medicare, has opted out of the publicly funded heath-care system.
  Dr. Jeffrey Wilkinson, who runs the South Saskatchewan Heart Clinic in Moose Jaw, says he believes it is the first clinic to do so since universal health care was introduced in 1962.
  He says it has become too operationally and financially difficult to keep operating under the public system.
  Wilkinson says Saskatchewan Health pays 20 to 40 per cent less
  
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• 'Very hurt': New Airbnb restrictions spark backlash from B.C. landlords - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
  'Very hurt': New Airbnb restrictions spark backlash from B.C. landlords  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• CF Montreal looks to advance to MLS playoffs with road win over Crew on Decision Day

  20-10-2023 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — After the departure of several key players and coach of the year nominee Wilfried Nancy, and a seemingly never-ending injury crisis, the odds were against CF Montreal entering Decision Day occupying a playoff spot. 
  However, that is exactly where the Major League Soccer club finds itself heading into its regular-season finale Saturday on the road against Nancy’s current team, the Columbus Crew. 
  Currently sitting in eighth place with 41 points, Montreal (12-16-5)
  
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• Poilievre calls on Ottawa to block RBC’s $13.5B takeover of HSBC Canada

  20-10-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for the federal government to block Royal Bank of Canada’s $13.5-billion takeover of HSBC Canada as a way to help with housing affordability.
  Poilievre says in a statement that Canada’s banking sector is overly concentrated, and that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland should stop the deal to improve competition in areas such as mortgage rates. 
  RBC spokesman Andrew McGrath says in a statement that the takeover is in
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Premiers ask Ottawa for COVID-19 small business loan extension

  20-10-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Canada’s premiers have sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking the federal government to extend the repayment period for a year for interest-free loans to small businesses and non-profits given during the pandemic.
  The federal government’s Canada Emergency Business Account offered interest-free loans of up to $60,000 to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.B.C. Premier David Eby says in a letter to the prime minister that small businesses, like
  
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• Registration open for Chilliwack Rotary Christmas Parade ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 19:06 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Board of School Trustees faces legal action over freedom ... - True North

  20-10-2023 18:59 via news.google.com
  
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• UFV in Abbotsford hosts campus-wide open house - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 18:51 via news.google.com
  
  UFV in Abbotsford hosts campus-wide open house  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia

  20-10-2023 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday just as jury selection was getting underway in his trial on charges accusing him of participating in efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia.
  Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents in a last-minute deal. His plea came a day
  
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• Tributes pour in for Sinclair in wake of plans to retire from international game

  20-10-2023 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The greatest ever. The goat.
  Tributes were quick to pour in Friday after news broke that Canada captain Christine Sinclair is retiring from international football at the end of the year.
  “Simply put, she has single-handedly put Canadian soccer on the map,” said former Canada teammate Rhian Wilkinson, who coached Sinclair at Portland. “Her legacy is enormous and touches every aspect of sport in our country. She is an example of excellence both on (and off) the field, and we are
  
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• Pan Am Games a Park family affair, three siblings coached by father in taekwondo

  20-10-2023 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — Jae Park has a family-sized job ahead of him at the Pan American Games.
  He’ll coach his three children Skylar, Tae-Ku and Braven in taekwondo on opening weekend in Santiago, Chile.“People tell me it’s unique and special, and it is special, but my focus is on the Games still and the performance, so I don’t think it sunk in yet,” Jae told The Canadian Press. “I’m trying to get my kids, my athletes prepared.”
  Taekwondo, a marti
  
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• House Republicans reject Jim Jordan a third time for the speaker’s gavel as opposition deepens

  20-10-2023 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Jim Jordanfailed badly Friday on a third ballot for the House speaker’s gavel, rejected by even more Republicans from the conservative mainstream who warned the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump that no threats or promises could win their support.
  The Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the sta
  
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• Canada ‘firm and steadfast’ in call for two-state solution for Israel, Palestinians

  20-10-2023 17:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada remains “firm and steadfast” in its commitment to a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
  He says the Middle East, and the world, needs both a Palestinian state and Israel to exist alongside each other in peace, safety and prosperity.
  Canada has long called for a negotiated two-state solution in the region, and considers the West Bank and East Jerusalem to be occupied territories.
  Trudeau is reiterating this position
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez moves in semifinals at Jiangxi Open in China

  20-10-2023 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANCHANG, China — Canadian tennis player Leylah Fernandez moved closer to her second straight WTA Tour title Friday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich in quarterfinal action at the Jiangxi Open.
  The 22-year-old had four aces and broke her Belarusian opponent four times on seven chances as she increased her winning streak to eight matches.
  Fernandez will face Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova in Saturday’s semifinals. It’s a rematch of the final of last week’s
  
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• Suspect detained following police incident near downtown Chilliwack

  20-10-2023 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Police surrounded a home in the 46100 block of Princess Avenue Friday morning, resulting in what appeared to be the arrest or detention of a man by members of the Emergency Response Team.
  Over a dozen police officers and multiple police vehicles flooded the area around Princess Avenue and Williams Street as authorities executed a search warrant at a home.
  According to Wendy Power, who resides in the area, the police incident unfolded just after 7 a.m. Police utilized flash ban
  
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• The White House details its $105 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine, the border and more

  20-10-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday released a sweeping set of proposals to bolster Israel and Ukraine in the midst of two wars as well as invest more in domestic defense manufacturing, humanitarian assistance and managing the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  The total cost of the supplemental funding request was pegged at just over $105 billion. President Joe Biden hopes Congress will move urgently on the legislation, and he made the case for deepening U.S. support fo
  
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• Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson named Canada’s flag-bearers for Pan Am opening ceremonies

  20-10-2023 16:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — The beach volleyball team of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson have been named Canada’s flag-bearers for the Pan American Games opening ceremonies.
  The Toronto athletes will usher Canada’s team into the stadium tonight in Santiago, Chile.
  Humana-Paredes, whose parents were born in Chile, and Wilkerson became a duo earlier this year. They’re ranked fifth in the world.
  Both competed in Tokyo’s Summer Olympics two years ago and reached the
  
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• UPDATE: Highway 5 northbound reopened south of Kamloops - Chilliwack Progress

  20-10-2023 16:00 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Highway 5 northbound reopened south of Kamloops  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Goals, goals, goals: A timeline of Canada captain Christine Sinclair’s career

  20-10-2023 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A look at the career of Canadian soccer icon Christine Sinclair, who has announced she is retiring from international soccer at the end of the year:
  March 12, 2000 — A 16-year-old Sinclair, then Canada’s youngest-ever player, makes her senior debut for Canada in a 4-0 loss to China at the Algarve Cup.
  March 14, 2000 — Sinclair scores her first senior goal for Canada in a 2-1 loss to Norway at the Algarve Cup.
  2001-2002 — Sinclair scores 27 goals in 19 international youth
  
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• A look at Canada captain Christine Sinclair’s honour roll

  20-10-2023 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada captain Christine Sinclair has announced plans to retire from international soccer at the end of the year. A look at her glittering resume.
  — Sinclair is the world’s all-time leading goal-scorer with 190 in 327 international appearances. That earned her The Best FIFA Special Award in January 2022.
  — Sinclair has won Canada Soccer’s female player of the year 14 times — including a stretch of 11 straight years from 2004 to 2104 — and led the national team
  
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• Canada’s Christine Sinclair retiring from international soccer at end of the year

  20-10-2023 15:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After leading Canada to gold at the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021, captain Christine Sinclair came to a realization.
  “After Tokyo, deep down inside, I knew I didn’t want to play in Paris,” she said, referencing the 2024 Olympics. “The way the Tokyo Olympics ended, you can’t beat it.
  “I wanted to give it one more shot for the World Cup, just because I really thought we could be successful there and we hadn’t been successful in a long time at World Cups.&r
  
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• Banning plastic waste exports won’t solve the world’s plastic trash woes: Guilbeault

  20-10-2023 15:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The mountains of trash from foreign countries seen piling up around homes and temples in Myanmar are renewing calls for Canada and other wealthy countries to deal with their own plastic garbage at home, instead of exporting waste — and the problem — to the developing world.
  While there is some local trash in the heaps of plastic waste all over the township of Shwepyithar, in the north of Yangon, there is clear evidence of plastic packaging from foreign brands there too
  
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