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• Topi Ronni sentenced in Finland court for rape, Flames renounce rights to 2022 pick

  12-03-2024 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary Flames draft pick Topi Ronni has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence for rape committed as a young person by the District Court of Helsinki. 
  Ronni’s Finnish Elite League team, Tappara Tampere, made the announcement on its website Tuesday and said it has terminated his contract.
  The Flames, who drafted him in the second round (59th overall) in the 2022 NHL draft, announced later Tuesday that they have renounced the rights to the unsigned Ronni effective immediatel
  
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• OPINION: Keep Prospera's heart in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  12-03-2024 23:28 via news.google.com
  
  OPINION: Keep Prospera's heart in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Calgary Flames list goalie Markstrom day-to-day with lower-body injury, recall Wolf

  12-03-2024 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have listed goaltender Jacob Markstrom as day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
  In a corresponding move, the Flames recalled goalie Dustin Wolf from the team’s American Hockey League affiliate Calgary Wranglers.
  Markstrom last played on Saturday in a 5-1 loss to NHL-best Florida. Dan Vladar started in goal on Sunday in Calgary’s 7-2 loss to Carolina.
  The 34-year-old is 22-17-2 in 41 starts this season, boasting a 2.68 goals-against average and a .910
  
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• Deficit of $11 billion and other highlights from Quebec’s 2024-25 budget

  12-03-2024 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard on Tuesday tabled his sixth budget, with big spending increases for health and education. Here are some highlights.
  – Deficit of $11 billion, which includes a $1.5-billion contingency reserve and a $2.2 billion payment into a fund dedicated to reducing debt.
  – Revenues of $150.3 billion, an increase of 2.4 per cent; expenditures of $157.6 billion, an increase of 4.4 per cent.
  – Economic growth — real GDP, adjusted for inflation —
  
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• Chilliwack man runs 60 miles for 60th birthday - Chilliwack Progress

  12-03-2024 22:16 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack man runs 60 miles for 60th birthday  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Blue Jays cruise past Yankees 8-1 for second straight pre-season win

  12-03-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. — Justin Turner, Daulton Varsho and Santiago Espinal each had two RBIs as the Toronto Blue Jays earned their second straight win topping the New York Yankees 8-1 in pre-season action Tuesday.
  Starting pitcher Jose Berrios (1-0) struck out three batters, walked one and gave up three hits and a single run in 3 1/3 innings of work for Toronto (8-9). Alejandro Kirk and Kevin Kiermaier also picked up RBIs in the win.
  Jose Rojas drove in Trent Grisham with an RBI single in the open
  
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• Chilliwack pedestrian hit by vehicle: RCMP - CityNews Vancouver

  12-03-2024 22:03 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack pedestrian hit by vehicle: RCMP  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• Calgary Stampeders add former Roughriders coach Craig Dickenson as senior consultant

  12-03-2024 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Dave and Craig Dickenson are together again with the Calgary Stampeders.
  The Stampeders appointed Craig Dickenson as a senior consultant Tuesday. His younger brother Dave Dickenson is Calgary’s head coach and GM.
  This marks the elder Dickenson’s third stint with Calgary.  
  He served as a receivers coach in 2002, then joined the Montreal Alouettes as a running backs coach before returning to the Stampeders as running backs coach in 2004.
  He served as the Stampeder
  
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• B.C. First Nation says racism, doctor shortage persists in regional health care

  12-03-2024 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation says racism in the health-care system persists despite efforts by the government and industry to combat the problem. 
  The Tsilhqot’in National Government says in a statement that it met with officials from Interior Health, the Cariboo Regional District and the City of Williams Lake last week to address the issue. 
  Tsilhqot’in Tribal Chair Joe Alphonse says racism within the local health system is limiting the Indig
  
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• Chilliwack pedestrian airlifted with significant injuries after being struck on Spruce Drive, in critical condition

  12-03-2024 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP closed Spruce Drive just west of Vedder Road in Chilliwack Tuesday afternoon after a pedestrian suffered significant injuries from being struck by a car.
  According to Corporal Carmen Kiener, spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, police were called to Spruce Drive at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday morning (Mar. 12) for the report of a pedestrian who had been struck.
  Cpl. Kiener said police are investigating the incident, and will be working with pers
  
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• Samaritan, 80, who died after pushing woman from path of vehicle always helpful: son

  12-03-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The son of an 80-year-old Alberta man who died on Vancouver Island after helping a woman involved in a crash says it was in his dad’s nature to help others before “tragedy took him.” 
  Ronald Hare of Calgary says his father Patrick Hare was the kind of person to hold doors open for people and help out whenever he could. 
  RCMP say a suspected impaired driver hit the woman’s damaged vehicle which was partially on the road, striking the pair who were standing nearby
  
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• Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP’s slim majority

  12-03-2024 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat.
  Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party’s handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Special Couns
  
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• Richmond, B.C., seeks federal funding to house refugees crowding homeless shelters

  12-03-2024 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND — The City of Richmond in British Columbia is urging the federal government to provide more temporary housing for refugees and asylum seekers or pay for the use of city shelters, with the newcomers taking up about a third of all beds at one shelter last year.
  Coun. Carol Day, whose motion proposing the request was passed unanimously by the council on Monday, says local residents experiencing homelessness have been denied shelter spaces because of the phenomenon.
  She shared data pr
  
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• Vancouver tent city to temporarily close over unsafe and unhygienic conditions

  12-03-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver officials say dozens of homeless people staying in the city’s only legal encampment have to temporarily move because the site has become unsafe and unhygienic.
  Deputy city manager Sandra Singh says the section of Crab Park designated for the tent city will be shut for a week starting March 25 so equipment can be brought in to clean piles of debris and unsafe structures.
  Singh says the city’s actions are not a decampment, since the estimated 30 to 50 people staying at the si
  
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• By the numbers: Canada’s disaster financial assistance program

  12-03-2024 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, or DFAA, was launched in 1970, setting a formula for how provinces and territories would split costs with the federal government when disaster strikes.
  The formula is based on population, with Ottawa covering a larger share of the costs in smaller provinces with less ability to pay. The formula means that the federal coverage for a $60-million disaster claim from Prince Edward Island would be 87 per cent, while it
  
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• B.C. to hike commercial vehicle crash penalties after 35 over-height truck incidents

  12-03-2024 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Penalties for commercial truck crashes into overpasses or other infrastructure in British Columbia are set to soar, including fines of up to $100,000 and jail sentences up to 18 months.
  The New Democrat government says it’s proposing changes to the Commercial Transport Act that currently prescribes fines for over-height vehicles of $500 to $598, levels that are unchanged for decades.
  Transportation Minister Rob Fleming says the proposed changes are in response to 35 crashe
  
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• Investigation concludes into release of Saskatchewan man who went on stabbing rampage

  12-03-2024 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — An investigation into the statutory release of a man who went on a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan has released 14 recommendations for the Correctional Service of Canada and the parole board. 
  The national joint board of investigation into Myles Sanderson was launched soon after the mass stabbing on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon in 2022. Eleven people were killed and 17 others injured as Sanderson went door to door attacking people.
  Sande
  
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• Rockets guard Dillon Brooks would welcome more NBA players on Canada’s Olympic team

  12-03-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Dillon Brooks would welcome more Canadian NBAers on the men’s senior basketball team for this summer’s Paris Olympics.
  Brooks, from Mississauga, Ont., is one of the 14 players who have committed to playing for Canada through this Olympic cycle.
  He was instrumental in Canada winning bronze at the FIBA World Cup this past September. Canada won its first-ever men’s World Cup medal despite missing several NBA players.
  Brooks says that he would welcome players like Jamal Murray, And
  
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• Canadian Tre Ford expects to have chip on his shoulder this season with Elks

  12-03-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  He made Edmonton Elks fans forget about a dismal 0-9 start and dubious 22-game home losing streak last season.
  But when Canadian quarterback Tre Ford reports to training camp in May, it will be to compete as newcomer McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s backup.
  “It is what it is, it’s pro football and I can’t control anything that I can’t control,” Ford told The Canadian Press in an interview. “I’m just going to learn as much as I can this year and do the best
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps acquire Canadian midfielder Ralph Priso from Colorado Rapids

  12-03-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Canadian midfielder Ralph Priso from the Colorado Rapids.
  In exchange, the Whitecaps sent up to US$150,000 in conditional 2025 general allocation money, the latter of their current two first-round selections, and their natural third-round selection, in the MLS SuperDraft 2025. 
  The later first-round pick will be either Vancouver or LAFC’s natural selection.
  Priso started 17 of his 36 appearances and added three assists across all
  
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• Surrey, B.C., council restricts access over ‘disruptive’ pro-Palestine protests

  12-03-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — City council in Surrey, B.C., says it is restricting public access to its meetings after persistent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters.
  Mayor Brenda Locke began Monday’s meeting by announcing that the public would be allowed to attend meetings on city premises, but outside the gallery.
  She told the meeting that council had adopted provisions for registered members of the public to speak on items on the agenda.
  Locke said the decision was made “reluctantl
  
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• Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile

  12-03-2024 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, senior defense officials said Tuesday.It’s the Pentagon’s first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of repl
  
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• UPDATE: Family of missing man says he was headed to Chilliwack - Maple Ridge News

  12-03-2024 19:04 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Family of missing man says he was headed to Chilliwack  Maple Ridge News
  
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• B.C. truck drivers could face fines of up to $100K and jail time for hitting overpasses

  12-03-2024 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — After 30-plus incidents of commercial vehicles hitting overpasses since 2021, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Rob Fleming announced Tuesday (Mar. 12) that drivers of commercial trucks involved in infrastructure crashes will face exceptionally higher penalties so that highway travel is safer for all B.C. motorists.In a news release Tuesday morning, the provincial government says proposed changes to the Commercial Transport Act (CTA) will allow provincial law courts to
  
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• UPDATE: Man airlifted to hospital after being hit by vehicle in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  12-03-2024 18:45 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Man airlifted to hospital after being hit by vehicle in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Health issues forced Cody Hodgson to retire from hockey at 26. Eight years later, he’s playing again

  12-03-2024 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The health issues that drove former NHL forward Cody Hodgson away from hockey eight years ago were frightening enough for him to fear the worst.
  He was shaking often. His body felt unusually hot. He had an abnormal heartbeat. He was having a tough time breathing. Tests showed his liver and kidney were damaged.
  “At the time, they were testing me for brain, liver, lung cancer – all that stuff,” said Hodgson, who played six seasons with the Vancouver Canucks
  
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• ‘Pure nightmare’: Montreal-based musician wins $1.5 million in defamation lawsuit

  12-03-2024 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sexual predator.
  “It was terrible. The whole thing was like pure nightmare and hell,” Frederik Durand said in an interview from Montreal.
  “I felt hopeless. It was the worst feeling ever.”
  The 35-year-old performer, who performs under the name Snails, said the Instagram rep
  
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• UPDATE: Road blocked after commercial truck rolls over in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  12-03-2024 18:20 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Road blocked after commercial truck rolls over in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Study indicates ’23 Grey Cup provided economic boon for both Ontario and Hamilton

  12-03-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — The 2023 Grey Cup provided economic gain for both the city of Hamilton and province of Ontario.
  According to a study by Sport Tourism Canada, the game and ’23 Grey Cup festival generated a net economic impact of $41.9 million, including $35.4 million for Ontario and $29.2 million for Hamilton, which staged the game. The Montreal Alouettes defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28-24 at Tim Hortons Field.
  “These numbers show that regionalizing the festivities not only sup
  
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• Pedestrian hospitalized after being hit by a car early Tuesday in Abbotsford

  12-03-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police are investigating after a 52-year-old female pedestrian was struck by a car early Tuesday morning (Mar. 12).
  According to a news release from Constable Art Stele, AbbyPD patrol officers responded to the intersection of King Road and Riverside Road in Abbotsford for a reported collision involving a motor vehicle and a pedestrian.
  When police arrived on scene, officers, along with other first responders, located a 52-year-old female with what appeared to be ser
  
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• Russian skater’s doping case leaves WADA uneasy and targeting new rules before next Winter Olympics

  12-03-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left a “very unpleasant” taste with the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is unhappy that the teenager was the only one punished with a ban while her coaches and entourage have not been sanctioned.WADA now wants anti-doping rules to be updated before the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy to give more powers to investigate athlete entourages, officials said at the anti-doping body’s annual confe
  
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• Predators defenseman Dante Fabbro is out 2-3 weeks with an upper-body injury

  12-03-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Predators will be without defenseman Dante Fabbro for two to three weeks because of an upper-body injury.
  The Predators updated Fabbro’s injury status on Tuesday as they recalled Spencer Stastney from their AHL Milwaukee affiliate.
  Fabbro was hurt Sunday in a 4-3 overtime loss at Minnesota, playing just six shifts over 3 minutes, 8 seconds. He signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract at the NHL trade deadline for the 2024-25 season.
  The 25-year-o
  
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• Federal disaster aid for Fraser Valley floods, landslides taking too long: B.C. MP

  12-03-2024 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government estimates it will need to pay almost $3.4 billion for its share of the disaster recovery bills for flooding and landslides that devastated British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in November 2021.
  But more than two years after that disaster occurred, only about 40 per cent of that has been paid.
  “Our communities need this funding now,” said Brad Vis, the Conservative MP for the sprawling, crescent-shaped riding of Mission—Matsqui—Frase
  
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• Free ice skating, including free skate rentals, happening over spring break in Chilliwack

  12-03-2024 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack service club that prides itself on having fun and a get-it-done attitude will hold a free family-friendly event over spring break in Chilliwack.The Mount Cheam Lions Club will hold a free family skate, complete with free skate rentals, on Wednesday, March 20 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chilliwack Coliseum.According to a social media post from the Chilliwack Coliseum, the two-hour event will also have a coloring contest and free vision testing.Image: Chilliwack
  
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• Yankees star Aaron Judge expects to be ready for opening day after MRI of abdomen

  12-03-2024 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees star Aaron Judge expects to be ready for opening day on March 28 after an MRI exam of his abdomen.
  Judge started feeling discomfort with his abdomen during his swing’s follow-through about a week ago and the 31-year-old has not taken on-field batting practice the past few days. He lasted played Sunday, striking out in both at-bats, and said he expects to resume swinging a bat this week.
  “We ran tests. Everything comes back good,” Judge
  
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• 'Significant effort' to secure 3 years for Chilliwack Wellness Centre - Chilliwack Progress

  12-03-2024 17:20 via news.google.com
  
  'Significant effort' to secure 3 years for Chilliwack Wellness Centre  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian men to face Mexico in September friendly in Texas at Dallas Cowboys’ home

  12-03-2024 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada will face 15th-ranked Mexico in a men’s soccer friendly in the September FIFA international window.
  The game is scheduled for Sept. 10 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys.
  it’s the second high-profile friendly announced recently. The 50th-ranked Canadians are set to face the sixth-ranked Netherlands in Rotterdam on June 6.
  The matchups have been months in the making with teams looking for tune-ups ahead of Euro 2024, set to kick off June 14 in G
  
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• B.C. Greens call for ban on all fossil fuel ads

  12-03-2024 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Green Party says the provincial government should ban advertising of fossil fuels as part of the fight against climate change.The Greens say fossil fuel ads should be banned like ads for cigarettes due to the impacts on human health caused by fossil fuel pollution.
  “Fossil fuel ads are everywhere in British Columbia – on public transit, the front page of the newspaper, all over social media,” said Sonia Furstenau, Leader of the B.C. Greens. “Imag
  
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• Missing man sought by Chilliwack RCMP was reportedly heading to a friend’s home in Chilliwack

  12-03-2024 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A 40-year-old man who was the subject of a missing persons bulletin by the Chilliwack RCMP Monday was reportedly on his way to a friend’s house in Chilliwack in February.According to a news release from Corporal Carmen Kiener of the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack dated Monday, March 11, police say Kent Mantler was reported missing on Friday, March 8. He was last seen in February driving a grey 2005 Suzuki Grand Vitara SUV.
  Police provided the follo
  
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• All-star goalie Thatcher Demko absent from Vancouver Canucks practice

  12-03-2024 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — All-star goalie Thatcher Demko was absent from Vancouver Canucks practice Tuesday, days after suddenly leaving a game. 
  Demko went directly down the tunnel during a T.V. timeout in the second period of Vancouver’s 5-0 drubbing of the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. 
  Backup Casey DeSmith finished out the matchup for the Canucks (42-17-7) and head coach Rick Tocchet declined to speculate about the reason for Thatcher’s departure after the game. 
  Demko, 28, b
  
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• PWHL rivals Montreal and Toronto will meet at Bell Centre on April 20

  12-03-2024 16:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Professional Women’s Hockey League game between rivals Montreal and Toronto is being moved to the Bell Centre.
  The April 20 game was originally scheduled to be played April 21 at Verdun Auditorium, which seats 4,114 fans.
  With a capacity of over 21,000 spectators, Bell Centre, which is home to the Montreal Canadiens, will be the sixth NHL arena to host a PWHL game in the league’s inaugural season.
  Montreal and Toronto previously met at Scotiabank Arena, home of the
  
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• A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board has crashed on takeoff, officials say

  12-03-2024 16:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
  It said the Il-76 aircraft with eight crew and seven passengers crashed in the Ivanovo region. It didn’t say whether there were any survivors.
  Ivanovo Gov. Stanislav Voskresensky offered condolences to the victims’ families. He said there was no damage on the ground.The Defense Ministry said in a statement th
  
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• Interim Canada coach Mauro Biello names roster for crucial Copa America playoff

  12-03-2024 16:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alphonso Davies, who needed dental work after taking a boot to the face on the weekend for Bayern Munich, is among the 23 players called up by interim coach Mauro Biello for Canada’s crucial Copa America qualifying playoff against Trinidad and Tobago.
  The 50th-ranked Canadian men take on the 96th-ranked Soca Warriors on March 23 in Frisco, Texas, with the winner slotting into Group A alongside top-ranked Argentina, No. 33 Peru and No. 42 Chile at this summer’s Copa America.
  It’
  
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• Darryl Strawberry resting comfortably after heart attack, according to New York Mets

  12-03-2024 15:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Former New York Mets and Yankees star Darryl Strawberry is recovering from a heart attack and is at SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital.
  Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said Tuesday that Strawberry was stricken Monday, a day before the eight-time All-Star’s 62nd birthday.
  Strawberry posted a photo of himself at the hospital on Instagram and wrote: “I am so happy and honored to report that all is well.”
  “So thankful for the medical team and staff at
  
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• Kerri Einarson’s rink confirms curler Briane Harris suspended for doping violation

  12-03-2024 15:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canadian curler Briane Harris was ineligible to compete in the national women’s championship because she tested positive for a banned substance.
  The 31-year-old from Winnipeg was declared ineligible to compete in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Calgary hours before her team skipped by Kerri Einarson played its opening game Feb. 16.
  Einarson’s rink confirmed that Harris tested positive for a banned substance on social media this morning.
  Their statement says that
  
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• Senators’ Norris out after season-ending shoulder surgery

  12-03-2024 13:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators took a hit Monday.
  Head coach Jacques Martin said that centre Josh Norris will be out for the season after having shoulder surgery last week.
  He suffered the injury in the second period of a 4-1 loss to Nashville on Feb. 27. Predators forward Cole Smith checked Norris into the back of the net and the Ottawa forward was down momentarily before getting up favouring his left shoulder.
  Norris only played eight games in 2022-23 after missing almost three months due
  
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• Special counsel Hur is set to testify before a House committee over handling of Biden documents case

  12-03-2024 12:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who impugned the president’s age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents after his years as vice president is set to be questioned himself on Tuesday, as House Republicans seek to keep a spotlight on the unflattering assessment of the president.Robert Hur will appear before the Judiciary Committee to take hours of questions from Republicans and Democrats on his 345-page report, made public last month, in which h
  
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• Trudeau speaks with Haiti’s outgoing PM about crisis, need for political agreement

  12-03-2024 10:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Haiti’s now-departing prime minister about the ongoing humanitarian, security and political crises in that country.
  A readout issued by the PMO late Monday said Trudeau expressed his concern to Ariel Henry about the situation in Haiti, and that he underscored Canada’s longstanding support for Haitian-led solutions.
  Henry announced early Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created.
  Henry
  
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• In the news today: Haiti’s Prime Minister to resign after transitional council formed

  12-03-2024 09:18 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…
  Ariel Henry bows to pressure, saying he’ll resign once a council is formed to lead crisis-hit Haiti
  Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry says he’ll resign once a transitional presidential council is created.
  Haiti has been overwhelmed by violent gangs that some experts say have unleashed a low-scale civil war in the island country.
  Henry made the announcement ho
  
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• This B.C. farm can grow softball-sized peaches. This year they’ll rely on vegetables

  12-03-2024 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  One of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees.
  Like many other farmers, Jennifer Deol of There and Back Again Farms in Kelowna cuts off some peach branches and brings them into a warm greenhouse to see how well the buds bloom.
  The farm has a history of producing massive peaches, softball-sized giants that it has documented on social media. Another farmer on the same land gr
  
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