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• Red Bull’s Verstappen dominates F1s Mexico City Grand Prix for season record 16th win

  29-10-2023 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Max Verstappen split the Ferrari front row of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz at the start to snatch the lead of the Formula One Mexico City Grand Prix by the first corner, then drove off to his record 16th victory of the season on Sunday.
  Red Bull’s three-time season champion collected his third consecutive win at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and broke his own season victories record set last year.
  Verstappen started from third and won from the same spot as h
  
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• Canada’s equestrian team golden and Paris-bound in eventing at Pan Am Games

  29-10-2023 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — More Canadian riders and their horses are headed to the Olympic Games in Paris next year.
  The eventing team’s gold medal Sunday at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, ensured Canada will send a full team to compete in what’s known as the triathlon of equestrian in 2024.
  Canada’s team in Santiago had amassed 98 total medals by Sunday — 33 gold, 30 silver, 35 bronze.
  Canada’s eventing team ranked second after dressage and third after the
  
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• Disabled B.C. man forced to drag himself off flight says he’s pushing for changes

  29-10-2023 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A disabled British Columbia man who dragged himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas after the airline’s ground assistance personnel were not available to help him says he doesn’t want others to go through the same experience.
  Prince George resident Rodney Hodgins, who can’t walk due to spastic cerebral palsy and uses a motorized wheelchair for mobility, says he was shocked and angry when a flight attendant said he would have to get himself off
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs clip Nanaimo

  29-10-2023 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Chiefs exploded for three goals over a span of 4:46 in the third period to snap a tie and defeat the Nanaimo Clippers 6 – 4 Saturday night in Nanaimo.
  The game was tied 3 –3 midway through the third period when Mateo Mrsic gave the Chiefs the lead. Just 3:19 later, Mrsic set up Brady Milburn to give Chilliwack a two goal lead. 1:27 later, Brian Morse gave Chilliwack a 6 – 3 lead.
  Mrsic and Dylan Kinch both ended the game with a goal and two ass
  
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• Unlike frigid conditions in 2003, weather forecast looks good for Heritage Classic

  29-10-2023 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Temperatures were expected to be more comfortable for the NHL’s Heritage Classic on Sunday than they were for the event’s inaugural edition 20 years ago at Commonwealth Stadium.
  Oilers fan Brent Oliver braved the frigid conditions in 2003 and was excited to return for this year’s outdoor game between the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. Forecasters expected the temperature to hover around the freezing mark with mostly cloudy conditions for the late-afternoon
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of October 29, 2023

  29-10-2023 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are five people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Cody CaseyAge: 37
  Height: 6’0” ft Weight: 200lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: 17 Drug and Firearm Offences
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver
  Name: Rabih AlkhalilAge: 36
  Height: 5’10” ft Weight: 166lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large, Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder
  Parole Jurisdiction: Coquitlam
  Name: Bith ChuolAge: 24
  He
  
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• Canada’s Einarson wins opening game at Pan Continental Curling Championships

  29-10-2023 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — Canada’s Kerri Einarson opened the Pan Continental Curling Championships on Sunday with a 9-2 rout of Taiwan’s Cynthia Lu at the Kelowna Curling Club.
  The event serves as a world championship qualifier for countries outside Europe.
  Einarson, from Camp Morton, Man., stole a pair in the fourth end and added a steal of three more points in the fifth to pull away. 
  Lu made a single in the sixth end and the teams shook hands after Einarson made a raise takeout f
  
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• Are these your goats? Abbotsford foursome safe in custody - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 19:54 via news.google.com
  
  Are these your goats? Abbotsford foursome safe in custody  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UBC-developed 'skin' giving prosthetics and robots a delicate touch - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 19:53 via news.google.com
  
  UBC-developed 'skin' giving prosthetics and robots a delicate touch  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Dunfee adjusts to painful pace of shorter race ahead of 2024 Olympic Games

  29-10-2023 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — Evan Dunfee is adapting to the escalation of suffering in a shorter race after reaching the Olympic podium in a much longer one.
  The Canadian claimed a bronze medal in the Olympic swan song of the 50-kilometre race walk two years ago in Tokyo. 
  Dunfee was devastated over the removal of the longest footrace from the Olympic Games.
  The 20K remains on the Olympic menu for Paris in 2024. Dunfee placed fourth at the world championship in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 19.
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• PHOTOS: Spooky season arrives at Highstreet in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 18:56 via news.google.com
  
  PHOTOS: Spooky season arrives at Highstreet in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Son of Canadian hostage in Gaza: “Military actions don’t solve anything”

  29-10-2023 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The son of a Canadian woman believed to be among those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza wants the world to push for an end to the fighting and says he fears Israel’s escalating offensive could end all chance of bringing his mother safely home. 
  Yonatan Zeigen’s mother, Vivian Silver, is one of an estimated 229 hostages taken by Hamas during its bloody Oct. 7 rampage in Israel.
  Hamas fighters breached Israel’s defences and stormed into nearby towns like Silver&r
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime defends Swiss Indoors title with win over Hurkacz

  29-10-2023 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BASEL, Switzerland — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) on Sunday to successfully defend his Swiss Indoors tennis title.
  Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, completed the victory in one hour 52 minutes.
  It was his first ATP Tour title of the season.
  The 23-year-old Auger-Aliassime won four tournaments last year and reached a career-high sixth in the world rankings.
  But injuries have been a problem at times this season and his ranking fe
  
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• Beloved actor Matthew Perry grew up in Canada and is linked to big names in politics

  29-10-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Matthew Perry’s iconic performance on “Friends” may forever link him with New York City, but the actor behind Chandler Bing described himself as half Canadian and had deep ties to some of the biggest names in Canadian politics.
  The 54-year-old actor was found dead in his Los Angeles home Saturday.
  Perry detailed his childhood spent growing up in Canada with his mother in his memoir, published a year before his death.
  Perry lived between Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto with his Can
  
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• Montreal police say fire set at Montreal bakery in third criminal attack since May

  29-10-2023 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal police say they’re investigating after a fire was set at a bakery that has been targeted by criminals two other times since May.   
  Police say they were called to the bakery, in the northern Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, shortly before 3 a.m. after suspicious people allegedly tried to enter.
  They say the suspects started a fire and then fled before officers arrived. 
  Police say firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control and incendiary objects
  
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• Justin Trudeau, friends, actors and fans mourn Matthew Perry - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 17:35 via news.google.com
  
  Justin Trudeau, friends, actors and fans mourn Matthew Perry  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Wrong distance takes women’s walk race athletes to mistaken record at Pan Am Games

  29-10-2023 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Peru’s Kimberly García thought she set the world record in the women’s 20 kilometers walk race at the Pan American Games. She later found out she didn’t.
  Organizers of the largest multi-sports in the continent said in a statement that the times of the race were annulled due to “a measuring problem” in Santiago’s O’Higgins Park. They blamed the Association of Pan American Athletics for the mistake.
  Athletes believe the
  
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• Wind cancels men’s World Cup season opener after 47 starters with Austrian skier Schwarz leading

  29-10-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Strong winds forced the cancellation of the season-opening men’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday after 47 of the 73 skiers in the first run had started.
  Gusts high up on the Rettenbachferner glacier initially prompted organizers to lower the start gate, which reduced run times by nearly 10 seconds.
  As winds on the course became too strong, the jury interrupted the race after 47 starters, before calling it off as conditions failed to improve.
  The International Sk
  
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• Celine Boutier wins LPGA Malaysia after epic nine-hole playoff

  29-10-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — In fading light and with another thunderstorm approaching, Celine Boutier made a birdie on the ninth playoff hole to defeat Atthaya Thitikul and win the Maybank Championship on the LPGA Tour on Sunday. 
  In a marathon playoff, both players made near identical shots on several holes and saw potential winning putts lip out as they stayed tied through eight tense holes, which included sitting out a 90-minute storm delay at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Cl
  
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• American hockey player Adam Johnson dies after ‘freak accident’ during game in England

  29-10-2023 14:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — American hockey player Adam Johnson, who appeared in 13 NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins, has died after a “freak accident” during a game in England on Saturday, his club said.
  The 29-year-old Minnesota native was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in a Challenge Cup game against the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered a slashed neck during the second period of the game at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.
  “The Nottingham Panthers are trul
  
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• City of Abbotsford says much work has been done to prevent damage from another major flood

  29-10-2023 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — As the second anniversary of historic flooding through the Fraser Valley approaches, the City of Abbotsford says it is better prepared to face similar events.
  In a public notice to its citizens, the City of Abbotsford outlines recovery work and improvements that have been taken since the 2021 atmospheric river event that flooded Sumas Prairie and other sections of the Fraser Valley.
  Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens says while most lives have returned to normal, some farms in Suma
  
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• Thousands loot UN aid warehouses in Gaza as death toll tops 8,000 and Israel widens ground offensive

  29-10-2023 12:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
  Tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the weekend as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “second stage” in the war, three weeks after Hamas launched a brutal
  
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• Montreal restaurants adapt to rising costs, but worry customers might be priced out

  29-10-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — As Montreal restaurants adapt to rising costs and impending deadlines to repay loans issued during the pandemic, one well-known chef says she worries about the future of the city’s famed dining scene.
  Dyan Solomon, who owns three restaurants in the city, said that in the past, Montreal’s famously low rents meant chefs could open their own places, and restaurants were able to thrive in part because customers had the disposable income to eat out.
  But as rents rise, alo
  
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• Sikh independence vote takes place in B.C. amid Canada-India tensions

  29-10-2023 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Thousands of Sikh voters are expected to turn out today in the Metro Vancouver municipality of Surrey, to vote in an unofficial referendum at the centre of Canada’s ongoing tensions with India.
  Organizers say the referendum on Khalistan — an independent state in India proposed by some Sikhs — is taking place at the same Surrey gurdwara where activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in June.
  Today’s vote is the second round of the referendum in Brit
  
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• Quebec government to present contract offer to unions on cusp of strike Sunday

  29-10-2023 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is expected to present a contract offer today to public sector unions who are on the cusp of a strike.
  Several union federations, representing around 430,000 workers, have said they’re planning their first strike day for Nov. 6, while 80,000 members of a nurses union plan to strike Nov. 8 and 9. 
  The negotiations have lasted for months, with the unions presenting their demands last fall and initial government offers coming last December. 
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• NHL roundup: Pastrnak score twice as Bruins beat Red Wings 4-1

  29-10-2023 07:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored his second penalty-shot goal of the season and banked in an empty-netter, leading the Boston Bruins past the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Saturday night.
  Pavel Zacha and Charlie McAvoy scored first-period goals and Jeremy Swayman made 22 saves for the Bruins, who improved to 7-0-1. Boston posted NHL records with 65 wins and 135 points last season.
  Joe Veleno sent a wrister over Swayman’s left shoulder from the slot, slicing it to 2-1 midway into the th
  
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• Jets send prayers to former NHLer Adam Johnson after severe injury in England

  29-10-2023 06:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Members of the Winnipeg Jets expressed their support for Adam Johnson, a former NHL player who suffered a serious injury while playing professionally in England on Saturday, leading to the game being abandoned.
  According to multiple local outlets and The Athletic, Johnson appeared to suffer a serious cut to his neck from a skate blade in a Challenger Cup game between the Nottingham Panthers and the Sheffield Steelers.
  The Panthers posted to X, the social media platform formerly
  
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• Rangers trip Canucks 4-3 in overtime thriller

  29-10-2023 06:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — K’Andre Miller scored his first goal of the season in overtime as the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Saturday night in a nail-biting NHL game.
  Miller took a pass from Chris Kreider and buried it behind Canuck goaltender Casey DeSmith at 3:48.
  Carson Soucy had tied the game for Vancouver with a blast from the blue line at 15:42 of the third period.
  Early in the three-on-three overtime Vancouver’s Andrei Kuzmenko made a nice move around the Ranger
  
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• Diamondbacks roll over Rangers 9-1 to tie World Series 1-1

  29-10-2023 04:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Merrill Kelly pitched three-hit ball over seven innings, Ketel Marte extended his post-season hitting streak to a record 18 games and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Texas Rangers 9-1 on Saturday night to tie the World Series at one game apiece.
  Gabriel Moreno hit a go-ahead homer in a two-run fourth against Jordan Montgomery, and Tommy Pham went 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles. 
  Marte added a two-run single in a three-run eighth, breaking a tie for the long
  
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• Kelly dominates, Marte, Pham sparks offense, Diamondbacks beat Rangers 9-1 to tie World Series 1-1

  29-10-2023 04:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Merrill Kelly pitched three-hit ball over seven innings, Ketel Marte extended his postseason hitting streak to a record 18 games and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Texas Rangers 9-1 on Saturday night to tie the World Series at one game apiece.
  Gabriel Moreno hit a go-ahead homer in a two-run fourth against Jordan Montgomery, and Tommy Pham went 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles.Marte added a two-run single in a three-run eighth, breaking a tie for the longest post
  
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• Hollingshead, Bouanga spark LAFC to 5-2 playoff win over Whitecaps

  29-10-2023 03:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Defender Ryan Hollingshead and Golden Boot Award-winner Dénis Bouanga both scored goals in each half and Los Angeles FC began defence of its title with a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in a Major League Soccer playoff opener on Saturday night.
  LAFC (15-10-10), the third seed in the Western Conference, grabbed a 1-0 lead on an unassisted goal by Hollingshead in the 18th minute. Brian White scored the equalizer for sixth-seeded Vancouver (12-11-12) in the
  
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• Tkachuk scores twice as Senators top Penguins 5-2

  29-10-2023 03:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored twice, Joonas Korpisalo made 39 saves and the Ottawa Senators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Saturday night to snap a three-game NHL losing streak.
  Ridly Greig, Dominik Kubalik and Drake Batherson also scored for Ottawa. Claude Giroux added two assists. Korpisalo withstood relentless early pressure from the Penguins to win for the second time in five starts.
  Sidney Crosby scored for the second straight game for Pittsburgh and Jake Guentzel picked
  
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• Argos make history with 27-22 win over Redblacks

  29-10-2023 03:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Toronto Argonauts closed out their CFL regular season with a franchise-record 16th win by beating the Ottawa Redblacks 27-22 on Saturday night.
  The Argos made CFL history completing their season with a perfect divisional record of 10-0.
  In comparison, Ottawa finished the season with a 4-14 record and failed to beat a division rival this season.
  Cameron Dukes finished the game 22-of-34 passing for 317 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions.
  Ottawa’s Dustin Crum wa
  
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• Allen makes 42 saves as Canadiens come back to beat Jets 4-3 in shootout

  29-10-2023 03:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Goaltender Jake Allen made 42 saves as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday night.
  Montreal captain Nick Suzuki scored to open the shootout and Allen shut the door the rest of the way after a scoreless back-and-forth overtime period.
  Justin Barron, Sean Monahan and Joel Armia had the goals for Montreal (5-2-1). Kaiden Guhle pitched in with two assists.
  Montreal’s Cole Caufield, who scored the OT winner Thursday in a 4-3 comeback w
  
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• 76ers top Raptors 114-107 in Nick Nurse’s first trip back to Toronto

  29-10-2023 03:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey each scored 34 points in leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 114-107 win over the Raptors in Nick Nurse’s first trip back to Toronto on Saturday.
  Kelly Oubre Jr. added 18 points off the bench for Philadelphia (1-1), which earned its first win of the new NBA season.
  Nurse was with the Raptors from 2013-2018 as an assistant coach before being promoted to head coach, which lasted from 2018 until his firing on April 21.
  He was met with applause by t
  
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• Matthew Perry, Emmy-nominated 'Friends' star, dies at 54 - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 02:40 via news.google.com
  
  Matthew Perry, Emmy-nominated 'Friends' star, dies at 54  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Forge edges Calvary 2-1 in OT to defend CPL title

  29-10-2023 02:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Tristan Borges bent a high corner kick for a goal in overtime to push Forge FC to a successful defence of its Canadian Premier League championship with a 2-1 win against Calvary FC on Saturday.
  The midfielder left-footed his significant goal into the far side of the net and past the outstretched arms of Calvary FC goalkeeper Marco Carducci to send 13,925 at Tim Hortons Field into a frenzy.
  Borges’s goal came in the 21st minute of overtime to provide the Forge FC with its s
  
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• Heavyweight boxing champ Fury survives scare from former UFC fighter Ngannou to win split decision

  29-10-2023 01:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Former UFC champion Francis Ngannou shockingly went the distance in his boxing debut early Sunday morning, even knocking down reigning WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury at one point, but Fury remained undefeated after winning a split decision.
  Two judges gave Fury the fight by scores of 96-93 and 95-94, and the other judge favoured Ngannou 95-94.
  Fury remained undefeated at 34-0-1 with 24 knockouts. Ngannou’s UFC record was 17-3.
  Fury’s championshi
  
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• Union beat short-handed Revolution 3-1 in MLS playoffs

  29-10-2023 01:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Dániel Gazdag, Mikael Uhre and Nathan Harriel each scored in the first half and the Philadelphia Union beat the short-handed New England Revolution 3-1 on Saturday in the first round of Major League Soccer playoffs.
  Philadelphia (16-9-10), the defending Eastern Conference champions, will play at New England (15-10-10) on Nov. 8 in Game 2 of the best-of-three series.
  New England captain Carles Gil left the game early in the first half with an apparent leg injury.
  
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• Joe Thornton officially retires from the NHL after a 24-year career

  29-10-2023 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Joe Thornton has officially announced his retirement from the NHL following a 24-year career as one of the game’s top playmakers.
  The 44-year-old Thornton hadn’t played since the 2021-22 season with Florida but hadn’t made an official declaration about his plans until releasing a video on Saturday through the San Jose Sharks.
  “Judging how many people keep asking me, I guess I have to tell you, I’m officially retiring from the NHL,&rdquo
  
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• 75000 used books for sale at Rotary Club of Chilliwack fundraiser - Chilliwack Progress

  29-10-2023 00:57 via news.google.com
  
  75000 used books for sale at Rotary Club of Chilliwack fundraiser  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 75000 used books for sale at Rotary Club of Chilliwack fundraiser - Mission City Record

  29-10-2023 00:55 via news.google.com
  
  75000 used books for sale at Rotary Club of Chilliwack fundraiser  Mission City Record
  
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• MATCHDAY: Manchester derby at Old Trafford in Premier League. Roma visits Inter Milan in Serie A

  29-10-2023 00:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Sunday:
  ENGLAND
  Manchester United has been winning games but hardly convincingly in the run-up to the derby against Manchester City at Old Trafford that wraps up the 10th round in the Premier League. United is on a three-match winning run in all competitions, with all the victories by a one-goal margin and requiring second-half winners against modest opponents in Brentford, Sheffield United and FC Copenhagen. City is looking to reduce its de
  
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• Bruins place veteran forward Milan Lucic on long-term injured list

  29-10-2023 00:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins placed veteran forward Milan Lucic on the long-term injured list Saturday before their game against the Detroit Red Wings.
  The 35-year-old Lucic played in four games, getting two assists. He missed the last two games with what was called a lower-body injury after getting hit with a shot off an ankle in a game against Los Angeles on Oct. 21.
  A 2011 Stanley Cup winner with the Bruins, Lucic returned during the offseason, signing a $1 million deal with $500,000
  
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• Safety concerns raised by prison officers union following death at Mountain Institution this week

  29-10-2023 00:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The union representing prison officers says its members are concerned about the safety of staff and inmates over a needle exchange program proposed by the Correctional Service of Canada after an inmate in B.C. died of a fentanyl overdose.
  John Randle, Union of Canadian Correctional Officers regional president, says it is now calling for overdose prevention sites over such needle exchange programs.
  The Correctional Service says in a statement that there are needle exchange prog
  
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• Sakamoto finishes first in women’s program at Skate Canada; Canada’s Schizas rises

  29-10-2023 00:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Kaori Sakamoto continued her momentum, and dominance, in the women’s competition at Skate Canada International to claim gold on Saturday.
  The reigning world champion scored a season best score of 151 in the free skate program to finish first in the competition and overall with a total score of 226.13.
  Chaeyon Kim, 16, of South Korea finished second overall in her Grand Prix debut.
  Sakamoto’s Japan teammate Rino Matsuike rounded out the top three, the same order as a
  
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• Palestinian-Canadians worry for relatives as offensive in Gaza ramps up

  29-10-2023 00:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Moayed Salim expected his father to come home to Canada at the end of the month in time for the birth of his son. Instead, the London, Ont. resident said his 66-year-old father is stuck in Gaza and there’s no way to know if he is alive or dead amid a telephone and internet blackout.
  “It’s devastating, it’s hard to focus on anything,” Salim said in an interview Saturday. “My wife, she’s almost in labor, her entire family’s in Gaza,
  
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