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• WestJet flight diverts to Winnipeg after passenger tries to open door

  17-02-2024 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A flight from Vancouver to Toronto made an unscheduled stop after a passenger attempted to open a door.
  WestJet says in an email that Flight 710 diverted to Winnipeg after the incident on Friday.
  The airline says that as per standard protocol, it contacted RCMP and EMS to meet the aircraft upon arrival in Winnipeg and the passenger was taken into their custody.
  RCMP say an 18-year-old man from Victoria, B.C., is charged with endangering an aircraft under the Aeronatics Act.
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• Motorist flees from Mission RCMP, but crashes and rolls her vehicle

  17-02-2024 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission say a woman who was found to be a prohibited driver allegedly fled from police, crashed her car and wound up rolling her car down an embankment earlier this month.
  According to a news release from the Mission RCMP detachment, police say an officer on patrol Tuesday evening, February 6 witnessed a brown Oldsmobile driving along Logan Avenue. Police ran a search of the license plate and discovered that the owner of the car was a prohibited driver. An RCMP consta
  
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• Saturday morning shed fire in Chilliwack

  17-02-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Quick work by the Chilliwack Fire Department limited damage in a shed fire Saturday morning in the city.
  In a news release, fire officials say they were alerted to the fire at 11 a.m. Saturday (Feb. 17) in the 9000 block of Broadway Street. Nine firefighters responded from Halls 1, and 4.When crews arrived, they saw smoke and flames coming through the roof of a small shed on a residential property. Firefighters were able to quickly attack the stand-alone shed and prevent the f
  
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• Prince concludes visit to B.C.

  17-02-2024 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHISTLER — Prince Harry promised an “epic” Invictus Games when the event comes to Vancouver and Whistler next year.
  Harry was in B-C for a three-day trip with his wife Megan, the Duchess of Sussex, to visit training camps ahead of next year’s Games.
  At Friday’s celebratory dinner, he said the Games are about bonds built between nations and the shared journey of recovery that unites competitors and their families.
  Prince Harry founded the Games for wounded, injured o
  
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• MLS referees reject tentative contract, Lionel Messi’s Miami could open with replacement officials

  17-02-2024 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP-CP) — The Professional Referee Organization is locking out referees after their union rejected a tentative contract, putting Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on track to open the season next week with replacement officials.
  The Professional Soccer Referees Association said Saturday that 95.8 per cent voted against a tentative agreement with the Professional Referee Organization, which supplies match officials to MLS, the NWSL and some lower-tier leagues. The union said
  
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• Canadian Jonathan David scores a hat trick as Lille blanks Le Havre 3-0 in France

  17-02-2024 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Canadian international Jonathan David scored a hat trick to lift Lille to a 3-0 win over Le Havre in French Ligue 1 play Saturday.
  The 24-year-old from Ottawa upped his season total to 11 goals in league play, tied for second place behind PSG star Kylian Mbappe’s 20.
  David, who now has 16 goals in all competitions, exited to applause on the 75th minute at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
  Lille went ahead in the 13th minute off a free kick. Le Havre goalkeeper Ar
  
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• Veteran reliever Green gets full spring experience this time around with Blue Jays

  17-02-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. — Reliever Chad Green is getting the full spring experience this time around with the Toronto Blue Jays.
  Unlike last year when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery, the veteran right-hander is building up for the campaign with a regular throwing routine and participation in fielding drills at the team’s player development complex.
  Green returned for the stretch drive last September but his presence over a full season in 2024 should make a deep bullpen ever stronger
  
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• Fake lawyers scamming immigrants, Bar of Montreal warns

  17-02-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The organization representing lawyers in Montreal is warning newcomers to the city to watch out for fake immigration lawyers after a spike in complaints.
  The Bar of Montreal says the share of complaints it receives about fraudulent immigration law practitioners has tripled in recent years, from 13 per cent of total complaints in 2018 to 39 per cent in 2022.
  It launched an awareness campaign this week encouraging members of the public to verify that their immigration lawyers are
  
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• ‘I need a house’: Belleville’s drug emergency lays bare toll of wider crisis

  17-02-2024 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BELLEVILLE, ONT. — As snow accumulated on the streets around him, John Green wondered where he would find warmth for the night.The 48-year-old and his partner were among those huddling this week outside a church in downtown Belleville, a community in southeastern Ontario that recently declared a state of emergency following a spike in overdoses.The city’s mayor has called for provincial funding while highlighting the immense strain the local addiction, mental-health and homelessness
  
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• 28-year-old man killed in shooting in Montreal’s Little Italy

  17-02-2024 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in the city’s Little Italy neighbourhood early this morning.Police spokesperson Véronique Dubuc says authorities received several 911 calls about gunshots in the area at around 12:15 a.m.
  She says officers arrived to find the 28-year-old man on the ground with gunshot wounds to his upper body.
  The officers tried to revive him, but he was soon pronounced dead at the scene.
  Dubuc says preliminary information suggests on
  
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• Sts’ailes First Nation asserts its jurisdiction over children and family services

  17-02-2024 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STS’AILES / HARRISON MILLS — A First Nation in the Fraser Valley celebrated its jurisdiction over child and family services with an event that had been set to include a ceremonial signing of an agreement with the B.C. and federal governments after three years of negotiation.But a statement Friday (Feb. 16) from Sts’ailes First Nation says that a month before the scheduled signing, Ottawa indicated it would not meet certain deadlines and the government did not provide a timeline
  
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• Express notch OT winner to beat the Chilliwack Chiefs

  17-02-2024 14:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Sam Frandina’s powerplay goal at 9:27 of overtime gave the Coquitlam Express a 3 – 2 win over the Chiefs in Chilliwack Friday (Feb. 16).
  It was Frandina’s second goal of the night. His first came midway through the third period to tie the game at two and set up the overtime. Frandina also had an assist on Jake Manfre’s goal that opened the scoring in the first.
  Caleb Elfering’s goal late in the first started the scoring for the Chiefs, who earned
  
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• Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s team confirms his death and demands his body is returned to his family

  17-02-2024 12:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alexei Navalny ’s spokesperson confirmed Saturday that the Russian opposition leader had died at a remote Arctic penal colony and said he was “murdered.” She demanded that his body be handed over to his family.An official note handed to Navalny’s mother stated that he died at 2:17 p.m. local time Friday, Kira Yarmysh said. She added that an employee of the prison colony said that Navalny’s body was taken to the nearby city of Salekhard as part of a probe into his de
  
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• Astronaut headed to the moon says Canada needs more visionaries

  17-02-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — You’re in a Florida beach house. You’re under quarantine. And you’re saying your final goodbyes to your family.
  That’s all mandated by your bosses, because they’re about to send you on a mission you might never return from.Why on Earth would you say yes to that?It’s something Jeremy Hansen has been asking himself as he prepares to go on a mission around the moon.The Canadian astronaut says he finds his answers in the paths of those who came befo
  
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• Quebec man ‘not worthy’ to be parent of child fathered during sexual assault: judge

  17-02-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a man can never again try to claim paternity of a child he fathered during a sexual assault. 
  Justice Carl Lachance ruled this week that the man must also pay more than $155,000 to support the child until adulthood.
  “The defendant is not worthy to be recognized as the father of this child,” the judge wrote in the decision dated Thursday.
  The ruling states that the man, whose name is redacted, sexually assaulted the ch
  
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• Barbara 'Eunice' Dargatz (nee Thompson) - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  17-02-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Barbara 'Eunice' Dargatz (nee Thompson) - Obituary -  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Explosion at Virginia home kills 1 firefighter and hospitalizes 9 firefighters and 2 civilians

  17-02-2024 06:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STERLING, Va. (AP) — One firefighter was killed and nine others were injured when an explosion in a Washington, D.C., suburb on Friday leveled a home where they were investigating a gas leak. Two civilians were also injured.
  The firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said.
  The blast and fire occurred while firefighters were inside the building, Jam
  
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• Jordan Martinook scores 16 seconds in, Hurricanes roll over Coyotes 5-1

  17-02-2024 06:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes got a goal before the fans had settled into their seats and scored again a few minutes later.
  Their goalie was good all night, ensuring the early lead would hold.
  Jordan Martinook scored 16 seconds into the game, Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 30 shots and the Hurricanes blew past the Arizona Coyotes 5-1 on Friday night.
  “We started really well, which was great to see,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. And then our goalie played
  
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• Bennedict Mathurin caps Pacers’ All-Star celebration with Rising Stars MVP, title in 26-13 win

  17-02-2024 05:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana guard Bennedict Mathurin put on a show for Pacers fans Friday night, earning the Rising Stars MVP award after scoring 13 points in a 26-13 victory in the championship game.
  San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama didn’t make it that far. Despite scoring 11 points, his team was eliminated in the second game.
  Jalen Williams, Mathurin’s teammate, scored the other 13 points to give coach Jalen Rose the title.But it was an all-Pacers celebration.
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• PWHL Toronto tops Montreal 3-0 in front of record-setting crowd at Scotiabank Arena

  17-02-2024 03:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Kristen Campbell earned a 30-save shutout and Toronto took the “Battle on Bay Street” over Montreal 3-0 in Professional Women’s Hockey League action on Friday.
  The PWHL’s first game at Scotiabank Arena set a league and women’s hockey attendance record with a sellout crowd of 19,285. The previous PWHL mark of 13,316 people was set at Xcel Energy Center for Minnesota’s home opener on Jan. 6.
  Jesse Compher and Hannah Miller scored a goal apiece wh
  
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• Cantlay leads by 5 shots over Hughes at Riviera, Woods makes early exit

  17-02-2024 02:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Cantlay began with an eagle and never let anyone close to him the rest of the round Friday. He shot a 6-under 65 to build a five-shot lead at the Genesis Invitational going into a weekend that won’t include Tiger Woods.
  Woods made another early exit, this one because of flu symptoms instead of his injured body. He withdrew after six holes and spent the next two hours getting intravenous fluids before leaving Riviera, along with a big chunk of the gallery.
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• B.C. Prosecution Service updates hate crime definitions, includes ‘hate propaganda’

  17-02-2024 02:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia Prosecution Service has revised its hate crimes policy, expanding definitions and guidance related to hate-motivated offences.
  The service says the definitions of hate crime have been updated to include “hate propaganda offences,” such as public incitement of hatred and “wilful promotion of antisemitism,” as well as offences related to “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that aims to change sexual orientation or g
  
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• Ukraine withdrawing from Avdiivka, where outnumbered defenders held out for 4 months

  17-02-2024 02:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military chief said early Saturday that he’s withdrawing troops from Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, where they’ve battled a Russian assault for four months.
  In a short statement posted on Facebook early Saturday, Oleksandr Syrskyi said he had made the decision to avoid encirclement and “preserve the lives and health of servicemen”.
  The commander-in-chief added that troops were moving to “more favourable lines”.
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• Vince Carter, Chauncey Billups, Seimone Augustus among Basketball Hall of Fame finalists for 2024

  17-02-2024 01:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vince Carter is one step from the Basketball Hall of Fame.
  Carter — who played 22 NBA seasons, the most in league history — was among the Hall of Fame finalists announced Friday at All-Star weekend. The finalist nod came in Carter’s first year of eligibility.
  Also among the finalists: four-time WNBA champion Seimone Augustus, former Detroit Pistons guard and current Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, former Los Angeles Lakers guard Michael
  
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• Japan has launched its flagship H3 rocket in aclosely-watched 2nd test after failed debut last year

  17-02-2024 01:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A new Japanese flagship H3 rocket lifted off from a space station in southwestern Japan on Saturday in a key second test flight a year after its failed debut launch.
  The H3 rocket blasted off from a launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center two days after its originally scheduled liftoff which was delayed due to bad weather.
  The rocket’s initial flight has been smooth as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said in its livestreaming. JAXA will have
  
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