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• ‘Something’s got to give:’ Canadian Olympic, sports groups call out funding shortfall

  05-03-2024 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian men’s basketball team qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games led by a clutch of homegrown NBA stars.
  But that success could be short-lived, with the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, along with national sports organizations like Canada Basketball, speaking out about federal funding shortfalls that could impact which athletes attend future games.
  “If we continue to rely on overstretched, under-resourced national sports organizations who fund and support these athle
  
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• Seahawks’ makeover begins as Jamal Adams, Quandre Diggs and Will Dissly are released

  05-03-2024 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks’ remodel under new coach Mike Macdonald started Tuesday as the team released safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs, and tight end Will Dissly in moves that will give the team a boost of salary cap space ahead of the start of the new league year.The release of Diggs and Dissly will save Seattle $18 million against the cap. They will get about $6 million in cap relief with the release of Adams but also take on nearly $20 million in dead cap mo
  
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• Fast, Larocque enjoying consistency as lead blue liners for PWHL Toronto

  05-03-2024 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Renata Fast and Jocelyne Larocque are no strangers to being partners on the blue line. 
  The two have been paired together on the Canadian national team. And as the Professional Women’s Hockey League season has progressed, they have benefited from a lot of ice time together for a red-hot Toronto team that’s won seven in a row and eight of its last nine.
  “Just that consistency, the fact that we’re playing two to four games a week,” Larocque said p
  
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• B.C. ombudsperson calls rules that allow private roads to be made public ‘unjust’

  05-03-2024 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s ombudsperson says a decades-old portion of the Transportation Act has holes big enough that a logging truck could drive through.
  Jay Chalke says it’s “unjust” that a section in the act allows some roads on private property to be automatically considered public if government money is spent on maintenance, without the property owner’s knowledge or consent.
  A report from Chalke’s office highlights cases where an owner was surpr
  
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• Chilliwack awarded $1.5M to set up Foundry centre to serve youth - Mission City Record

  05-03-2024 22:39
  
  Chilliwack awarded $1.5M to set up Foundry centre to serve youth  Mission City Record
  
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• Chilliwack awarded $1.5M to set up Foundry centre to serve youth - Maple Ridge News

  05-03-2024 22:39
  
  Chilliwack awarded $1.5M to set up Foundry centre to serve youth  Maple Ridge News
  
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• Peguero’s two-run homer in eighth inning lifts Pirates over Blue Jays

  05-03-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. — Liover Peguero hit a game-winning two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 on Tuesday in spring training baseball action.
  Toronto took a 5-3 lead in the top of the eighth on Will Robertson’s RBI double followed by Miguel Hiraldo’s run-scoring single.
  The Pirates loaded the bases with none out in the bottom of the eighth, then Ali Sanchez scored when Jase Bowen flied into a double play.
  Peguero followed wit
  
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• Nashville cleared the runway for an emergency. Pilot said ‘I’m too far away’

  05-03-2024 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near downtown Nashville told air traffic controllers he could see the runway they were clearing for an emergency landing. But he said he couldn’t reach it.
  “I’m going to be landing — I don’t know where!” the pilot said before the plane crashed alongside Interstate 40, killing all five people aboard.
  The pilot had another adult and three children on board, National Transportation Safe
  
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• Haitian prime minister lands in Haiti as he tries to return home to quell gang violence

  05-03-2024 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s embattled prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday as he tried to return to Haiti to quell a surge in violent gang attacks, officials said.
  Officials told The Associated Press that Ariel Henry landed late in the afternoon at the Luiz Muñoz Marín International Airport in the capital of San Juan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to confirm his arrival.
  Henry was expected to travel to
  
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• Flower power: the Chilliwack Tulip Festival is moving to Harrison - The Georgia Straight

  05-03-2024 22:29
  
  Flower power: the Chilliwack Tulip Festival is moving to Harrison  The Georgia Straight
  
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• Flower power: Chilliwack Tulip Festival is moving to Harrison - The Georgia Straight

  05-03-2024 22:29
  
  Flower power: Chilliwack Tulip Festival is moving to Harrison  The Georgia Straight
  
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• Canadian Cooper Gallant is off to solid start to 2024 Elite Series season

  05-03-2024 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been a solid start to the Elite Series season for Canadian pro bass fisher Cooper Gallant.
  The 26-year-old Bowmanville, Ont., native has posted consecutive top-10 finishes in the first two events. After taking eighth in the opener at Toledo Bend Reservoir in Many, La., on Feb. 25, the second-year pro was 10th at Lake Fork in Yantis, Texas, on Sunday, cracking the 100-pound plateau for the first time.
  “No, I wouldn’t have thought I’d start with two top-10s, especially
  
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• Rewritten indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez alleges new obstruction of justice crimes

  05-03-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New obstruction of justice crimes were added Tuesday to charges against Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife that allege they accepted gold bars, cash and a luxury car in return for favors the senator carried out to assist three businessmen.
  The new charges were in a rewritten indictment returned against the Democrat in Manhattan federal court.
  New charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice were added against Menendez and his wife, Nadine. Attorneys for
  
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• Ottawa, Nunavut sign $36M deal to improve health-care services in territory

  05-03-2024 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut and the federal government are spending nearly $36 million to improve access to health care in the territory.
  The agreement, announced in Iqaluit, is to increase the number of Inuit working in health care.
  It is to help recruit and retain nurses and to assist remote communities in determining their health-care needs.
  The deal is also to improve obstetric and addiction services.
  Ottawa has committed $23.6 million to the three-year program, with the remaining fundi
  
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• Calgary Flames claim defenceman Joel Hanley off waivers from Dallas

  05-03-2024 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames claimed defenceman Joel Hanley off waivers from the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.
  Hanley, from Keswick, Ont., has three assists and 23 penalty minutes in 32 games with Dallas this season.
  Stars coach Peter DeBoer said Hanley was a “cap roster casualty” when he was waived by Dallas on Monday, adding it was a “tough day” for the club.
  Hanley is in the second year of a two-year deal with a US$787,500 annual salary.
  The 32-year-old was signed as
  
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• Chilliwack Jets Overcome Langley Trappers in PJHL Playoff Thriller, Advance to Round Two - BNN Breaking

  05-03-2024 20:51
  Chilliwack Jets Overcome Langley Trappers in PJHL Playoff Thriller, Advance to Round Two  BNN Breaking
  
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• Paris won’t allow tourists free access to the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine River

  05-03-2024 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Tourists won’t be allowed to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics for free as initially promised, the French government announced Tuesday, as it grapples with security concerns about the unprecedented open-air event along the Seine River.
  Organizers had planned a grandiose opening ceremony July 26 for as many as 600,000 people, most watching free of charge from riverbanks. But security and logistical concerns — and an outcry from booksellers along the c
  
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• Langley Trappers edged out by Chilliwack Jets in seventh game of semifinal - Aldergrove Star

  05-03-2024 20:45
  
  Langley Trappers edged out by Chilliwack Jets in seventh game of semifinal  Aldergrove Star
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP say Island 22 homeless camp involved hundreds of police files

  05-03-2024 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Island 22 homeless encampment wasn’t just an unsightly mess where squatters lived unlawfully and multiple fires occurred in 2023.According to statistics released by the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack, police say the 130 people associated with the now-dismantled camp accounted for 734 total files in the UFVRD, and were linked to 903 total police files in the Lower Mainland.Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / One of many trailers at the f
  
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• Oilers place veteran forward Sam Gagner on waivers

  05-03-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have placed veteran forward Sam Gagner on waivers, the NHL club announced Tuesday.
  The 34-year-old, in his third stint with the Oilers, has five goals and five assists in 27 games this season.
  The Oilers signed Gagner to a one-year, two-way contract worth US $775,000 on Oct. 31.
  He appeared in 18 games over November and December before being sidelined with a concussion.
  He has been used sparingly since returning, losing his bottom-six forward minutes to Corey
  
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• Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won’t seek reelection, avoiding 3-way race

  05-03-2024 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Tuesday that she won’t run for a second term after her estrangement from the Democratic Party left her politically homeless and without a clear path to reelection.
  Sinema’s announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel, which Sinema spent months negotiating. She’d hoped it would be a signature achievement addr
  
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• B.C. introduces legislation to reduce poverty rate by 60 per cent over next decade

  05-03-2024 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government says it is setting 10-year targets to substantially reduce poverty in the province, with a focus on lifting children and seniors above the poverty line.Sheila Malcolmson, social development and poverty reduction minister, says legislation introduced today changes three laws to set higher targets to cut poverty, ease employment requirements for people on income and disability assistance and provide more supports.
  She says the legislation commit
  
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• WNBA expansion to Toronto a possibility with efforts in motion: reports

  05-03-2024 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Another chance for Toronto to get a WNBA team may have arrived.
  According to multiple reports, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment chairman Larry Tanenbaum is in pursuit of a WNBA team for 2025 through his holding company Kilmer Group.
  Kilmer Sports Venture appointed long-time European soccer executive Ivan Gazidis to lead the new organization on Tuesday. The venture will look for sports and entertainment opportunities around the world.
  Both CBC and the Star have said former Raptors vice-presi
  
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• Vancouver Highlanders announced first rugby fixtures, with an international flavour

  05-03-2024 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The newly formed Vancouver Highlanders have revealed some of their first fixtures, which come with an international flavour.
  The invitational rugby club will host 10 matches at select venues in the Vancouver area from May through August.
  The first matches announced are a June 28 doubleheader with the Highlanders first team and reserves playing the Canada Selects and Barbados. The Highlanders will then face Germany on July 20, a Brazil XV on Aug. 3 and a Canada XV on Aug. 17.
  The Highlanders say
  
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• UPDATE: Chilliwack council opts to create full-size replica of Paramount sign - Chilliwack Progress

  05-03-2024 19:59
  
  UPDATE: Chilliwack council opts to create full-size replica of Paramount sign  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack council to vote on what to do about the old Paramount sign - Chilliwack Progress

  05-03-2024 19:59
  
  Chilliwack council to vote on what to do about the old Paramount sign  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• WorkSafeBC says no injuries in fourth crane accident in Metro Vancouver

  05-03-2024 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — There has been another crane accident in Metro Vancouver, in what B.C.’s workers’ safety agency says is the fourth such incident this year. 
  WorkSafeBC says the latest incident happened Monday at a work site in Vancouver. 
  The agency says in a statement that no one was hurt, but it doesn’t elaborate on what happened. 
  A stop-use order has been placed on the crane, and WorkSafeBC says no one is allowed to work on a section of the construction sit
  
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• Greendale Acres in Chilliwack to host multiple events as 2024 season kicks off

  05-03-2024 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Don’t let the late winter snow and ice-cold morning conditions fool you. Spring is just around the corner at Greendale Acres in Chilliwack.
  The farm is gearing up for another year of family fun with its annual Easter egg hunt, the 102nd annual Chilliwack Plowing Match, and a Sweet Spring Flower and Animal Festival at the beloved family farmstead.
  Renowned for its popular corn maze that attracts thousands of visitors each year, the season gets underway on Friday, March 29
  
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• Bonot moves into first place in Pool A with win over Howard at Brier

  05-03-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Trevor Bonot’s Northern Ontario rink continued its impressive run at the Canadian men’s curling championship with a 10-6 win over Ontario’s Scott Howard in Tuesday’s early draw.
  Howard scored two in the eighth end to cut Bonot’s lead to 7-6, but the skip out of Thunder Bay responded with three in the ninth and prompted Howard to concede.
  Bonot, coming off an upset of top-ranked Brendan Bottcher on Monday, improved to 4-1 and took control of first plac
  
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• More games means Vancouver unsure of hosting costs for 2026 FIFA World Cup

  05-03-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver says it’s unable to give a complete estimate of costs associated with hosting 2026 FIFA World Cup matches because it is hosting two more games than originally anticipated.
  The original cost, released by the provincial government at the end of January 2023, pegged the bill for hosting five World Cup matches as $230 million, with much of that money going towards event security.
  But with the addition of hosting two more games, the city says the original
  
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• No working rink at prison where MP says notorious in play pickup hockey: agency

  05-03-2024 18:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s prison service says there is no working hockey rink at an institution where a Conservative MP says notorious inmates play “taxpayer-funded serial killer pickup hockey.”
  Correctional Service Canada says there is currently no functioning hockey rink or tennis court for inmates to use at La Macaza Institution, located outside of Montreal. 
  Serial rapist and convicted murderer Paul Bernardo was transferred to the medium-security prison last year from th
  
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• Modern Brier attempts to strike a tricky balance between its roots and changing game

  05-03-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Brier is no longer your father’s Brier.
  What was a provincial and territorial men’s curling championship embodying Canadian Confederation for most of its almost 100 years is now a hybrid including multiple teams from one province and widely differing ways for teams to get in it.
  Former Canadian and world curling champion Nolan Thiessen, Curling Canada’s new chief executive officer, says both the Brier and the Canadian women’s curling championship, the S
  
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• February drier, warmer than usual, says Chilliwack weather watcher - Chilliwack Progress

  05-03-2024 17:58
  
  February drier, warmer than usual, says Chilliwack weather watcher  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Dairy Queen to hold hiring fair as it opens soon east of Chilliwack in Popkum

  05-03-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The home of Ultimate cheeseburgers and signature Blizzard desserts will hold a hiring fair next week as it prepares to open this spring east of Chilliwack in Popkum.According to an email from a spokesperson dated Monday, March 4, Dairy Queen International has confirmed with the franchise owner that they plan to open the DQ restaurant at 52964 Yale Road East in Popkum in April or May.Their first job fair will be held next week, and people interested in applying for a position a
  
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• Olynyk says signing extension with hometown Raptors was a priority

  05-03-2024 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian centre Kelly Olynyk says signing a two-year extension with the Toronto Raptors was a priority.
  Olynyk, who was born in Toronto and moved to Kamloops, B.C., when he was an adolescent, was dealt to the Raptors ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline a month ago.
  He could have tested free agency this summer but instead chose to get a deal done quickly.
  The 32-year-old says he wants to retire with the Raptors.
  Olynyk is also the captain of Canada’s men’s senior t
  
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• Man arrested in Port Moody, B.C., after driving car into sea for video livestream

  05-03-2024 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT MOODY, B.C. — Police in Port Moody, B.C., say a man may be charged after he allegedly drove his vehicle into the sea as part of a livestreamed video.
  Const. Sam Zacharias says in a release that officers were called to the Rocky Point boat launch in the city at around 10 p.m. Monday.
  Zacharias says a call to police reported that a man was allegedly driving his vehicle into Burrard Inlet at the boat launch because he was being paid to do so as part of a video livestream.
  Police say they
  
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• Federal tax change could raise electricity, gas bills in some provinces

  05-03-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Electricity Canada is sounding the alarm over a proposed tax change it warns could see some private utilities saddled with millions in additional income taxes.
  Michael Powell, its vice-president of government relations, says that would likely mean some privately operated electricity and natural gas companies would have to hike the rates charged to consumers.
  He says the problem arises from an adjustment to the Income Tax Act proposed in the government’s bill to implement its
  
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• High-risk sex offender banned from downtown Chilliwack park has been re-arrested

  05-03-2024 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A 24-year-old high-risk sex offender who was the subject of a public warning from the Vancouver Police Department last week, and banned from visiting a downtown Chilliwack park next to the library, has been re-arrested by Vancouver authorities.The Vancouver PD announced Monday (Mar. 4) they have re-arrested Skylar Wayne Pelletier on a Canada-wide warrant. Pelletier was located in downtown Vancouver on Thursday, Feb. 29 and remains in custody pending review by the Parole Board o
  
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• PBO expects inflation to fall to 2% by end of year, deficit to grow amid weak economy

  05-03-2024 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer is projecting inflation will return to the Bank of Canada’s two per cent target by the end of the year and the federal deficit will grow amid weakening economic conditions. 
  The budget watchdog released the latest economic and fiscal outlook today.
  The report predicts the central bank could begin cutting interest rates in April, given the expectation that inflation will fall back to target by the end of 2024. 
  The PBO also anticipat
  
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• Grand Slam champ Simona Halep wins doping case on appeal and is cleared to resume tennis

  05-03-2024 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep was cleared for an immediate return to tennis on Tuesday by sports’ highest court cutting her ban for doping on appeal.
  The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges partially upheld Halep’s appeal and reduced her four-year ban to just nine months. It was applied retroactively and expired last July.
  The three judges decided Halep “established, on the balance of probabilities” her positive te
  
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• CP NewsAlert: State funeral for former PM Mulroney to be held in Montreal March 23

  05-03-2024 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A state funeral for former prime minister Brian Mulroney will be held on March 23 in Montreal. 
  His casket will lie-in-state in Ottawa and lie-in-repose in Montreal before the funeral. 
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Housing deals mean 750000 homes in the next decade: Ottawa - Chilliwack Progress

  05-03-2024 15:30
  
  Housing deals mean 750000 homes in the next decade: Ottawa  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• International court seeks the arrest of 2 Russian officers over attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure

  05-03-2024 15:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that judges said happened “pursuant to a state policy.”
  It’s only the second time the global court has publicly announced arrest warrants linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. In March 2023, the court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin fo
  
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• Ngannou’s boxing switch is no gimmick. The ex-UFC star looks to pull out another surprise vs. Joshua

  05-03-2024 14:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It was one of the most striking sights in boxing for some time, Francis Ngannou dancing a jig of delight while leaning over a floored and clearly dazed Tyson Fury.
  For boxing purists, a disaster was unfolding.
  Was a UFC fighter, in his first ever boxing bout, really about to knock out a reigning world heavyweight champion?
  Fury got up and wound up eking out a heavily debated and unconvincing split-decision victory but Ngannou had made a dramatic entry into the world of boxing.
  On Friday, the Fre
  
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• Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is in hospital with pneumonia

  05-03-2024 13:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, the mother of the incumbent president and widow of an ousted dictator, has been hospitalized with pneumonia.President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday that his mother, who is 94, was suffering from a slight pneumonia and was put on antibiotics by her doctors.Marcos, in a statement from Melbourne, Australia, where he is attending an Asian summit, said that his mother was “in good spirits” and has “no
  
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• Small plane crashes near Nashville interstate and 5 people aboard were killed, police say

  05-03-2024 12:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Five people aboard a single-engine plane died when the aircraft crashed near an interstate highway in Nashville, Tennessee, authorities said.
  The pilot made an emergency call to John C. Tune Airport around 7:40 p.m. Friday, reported engine trouble and was given clearance to make an emergency landing, Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said. A short time later the pilot radioed that the aircraft would not reach the airport, he said.
  The plane burst
  
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• In the news today: Conservatives win Ontario byelection, measles cases in Montreal

  05-03-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  Conservatives clinch Ontario riding
  Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani celebrated his victory in the Ontario riding of Durham by thanking his allies and pouncing on his “Liberal elite” rivals, who he says are making life harder and more expensive for the working class.Preliminary results from Elections Canada showed Jivani is poised for a seat in the House of
  
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• Who owes the biggest penalties to B.C.’s securities watchdog?

  05-03-2024 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The British Columbia Securities Commission has levied about $430 million in unpaid fines and disgorgement orders for breaches of the province’s Securities Act. Here are some of those who have the largest unpaid amounts:
  MICHAEL LATHIGEE AND EARLE PASQUILL: $51.7 million
  The commission says Lathigee and Pasquill committed fraud while controlling a group of companies under the banner of the Freedom Investment Club, raising money from nearly 700 investors in 2008. The pair were banned from th
  
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• B.C.’s securities watchdog fined rule breakers $430M. Why can’t it make them pay?

  05-03-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics. 
  He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no history of resort development.
  Yet the Bigfoot Ski Resort’s website was full of promises — world-class skiing, a golf course, a fishing lodge and an “antique train” carrying guests around the facility. The website, which now exists in archived form, purported to sho
  
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• B.C. man once duped investors into Bigfoot Resort east of Chilliwack, but B.C.’s securities watchdog struggles to make them pay

  05-03-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics.
  He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no history of resort development.
  Yet the Bigfoot Ski Resort’s website was full of promises — world-class skiing, a golf course, a fishing lodge and an “antique train” carrying guests around the facility. The website, which now exists in archived form, purported to show endo
  
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