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• Big-game vibes remain for TSN analyst and former Team Homan member Joanne Courtney

  23-03-2024 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYDNEY, N.S. — Former Team Homan member Joanne Courtney is enjoying the same big-game feelings from the broadcast booth that she did when she was a competitive curler.
  She stepped away from the sport two years ago to focus on her family and career. Courtney later joined TSN’s broadcast team at the network’s Season of Champions events.
  “You’re at these championships, and for me, there’s visceral feelings watching these games,” Courtney said.
  Her former ri
  
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• Canada defeats well-organized Trinidad side 2-0 to qualify for Copa America

  23-03-2024 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRISCO, Texas — Second-half goals by Cyle Larin and Jacob Shaffelburg sent Canada to Copa America with a 2-0 win over a well-organized Trinidad and Tobago in a CONCACAF Nations League play-in match Saturday.
  The 96th-ranked Soca Warriors defended resolutely and in numbers as No. 50 Canada came on in waves.
  The Canadien men had 63 per cent possession and an 11-1 edge in corners in the first 45 minutes but could not make anything of it.
  The breakthrough finally came in the 61st minute when T
  
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• Canada’s Gilles, Poirier claim ice dance silver at figure skating worlds

  23-03-2024 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier put on a passionate performance to win silver in ice dance Saturday at the world figure skating championships.
  Skating to the “Wuthering Heights” soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gilles and Poirier posted the best score of the free dance with a season-best 133.17 points. They finished with 219.68 total points after placing third in Friday’s rhythm dance.
  Toronto’s Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., twi
  
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• Foerster’s third-period goal lifts Philadelphia Flyers over Boston Bruins 3-2

  23-03-2024 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyson Foerster scored with 1:29 left and the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a seven-game losing streak to Boston with a 3-2 win over the Bruins on Saturday.
  Travis Konecny scored two goals and Foerster also had an assist. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves in Philadelphia’s first victory over Boston since Oct. 20, 2021.Justin Brazeau and Danton Heinen scored for the Bruins in the opener of a six-game trip. Linus Ullmark made 26 stops.
  Boston started play with an NHL-leading
  
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• Clutterbuck, Barzal help Islanders end skid, defeat Jets 6-3

  23-03-2024 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cal Clutterbuck scored twice, Mathew Barzal and Hudson Fasching each had a goal and two assists and the New York Islanders snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets Saturday.
  Kyle Palmieri and Anders Lee also scored and Semyon Varlamov made 33 saves for the Islanders, who remain outside a wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 12 games left in the regular season.
  Vladislav Namestnikov, Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti scored fo
  
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• Longtime Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos dies at 94

  23-03-2024 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Peter Angelos, owner of a Baltimore Orioles team that endured long losing stretches and shrewd proprietor of a law firm that won high-profile cases against industry titans, died Saturday. He was 94.
  Angelos had been ill for several years. His family announced his death in a statement thanking the caregivers “who brought comfort to him in his final years.”
  Angelos’ death comes as his son, John, is in the process of selling the Orioles to a group headed by
  
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• Chilliwack Fire Department sees 2 fires in 3-hour span | CTV News - CTV News Vancouver

  23-03-2024 20:29 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Fire Department sees 2 fires in 3-hour span - CTV News Vancouver

  23-03-2024 20:27 via news.google.com
  
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• What people are saying about former prime minister Brian Mulroney at his funeral

  23-03-2024 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Family members, friends, political dignitaries and celebrities packed Montreal’s storied Notre Dame Basilica on Saturday for the funeral of Brian Mulroney. The former prime minister died Feb. 29 in Palm Springs, Fla. 
  Here is some of what people said about him and his legacy on the day he was laid to rest. 
  “There was a destiny attached to my father that, even in his youth, no one could deny.” — Caroline Mulroney
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  “He be
  
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• Joni Mitchell’s music back on Spotify two years after joining Neil Young in boycott

  23-03-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify more than two years after the songwriter pulled it off the platform in protest of other content available on the popular streaming service.
  Mitchell herself did not release an official statement announcing the return to Spotify, but a search for her content on the app reveals her complete discography is available to play again. 
  Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify in January 2022 in solidarity with fellow Canadian music icon Neil Young, who
  
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• No injuries in Chilliwack trailer fire

  23-03-2024 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Firefighters were busy overnight dousing a fire in a fifth-wheel trailer in the 8000 block of Lickman Road. 18 firefighters from Halls 1 and 4 were called to the home at approximately 3 a.m. Saturday (Mar. 23).
  They arrived to find the trailer engulfed in flames. The lone occupant of the trailer managed to make it out of the burning trailer.
  Quick work by firefighters brought the blaze under control, preventing the flames from leaping to other nearby units. Serious damage was
  
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• Billions needed for Vancouver’s new wastewater treatment plant

  23-03-2024 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Metro Vancouver regional district says the projected cost to build a new wastewater treatment plant on the North Shore has ballooned to 3.86 billion dollars, up from an initial estimate of 700 million more than a decade ago.
  “This program is not optional: Building a new wastewater treatment plant that provides a higher level of treatment is essential to comply with federal regulations, and it is absolutely critical that the facility is built to ensure human health and
  
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• UPDATE: Fire guts occupied trailer on commercial property in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2024 18:37 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Fire guts occupied trailer on commercial property in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate’s early-morning passage ended shutdown threat

  23-03-2024 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown.The White House said Biden signed the legislation at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was spending the weekend. It had cleared the Senate by a 74-24 vote shortly after funding had expired for the agencies at midnight.But the White House had sent out a n
  
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• Members of the public brave snowfall, frigid temperatures to honour Brian Mulroney

  23-03-2024 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A handful of mourners gathered outside the security barrier surrounding Old Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica this morning, braving snow and frigid temperatures to pay respects to Brian Mulroney and get a glimpse of the former prime minister’s funeral ceremony.
  Seventy-four-year-old Colleen Hawley said she travelled all the way from Amherst, N.S., to say goodbye to her favourite prime minister, a man she said she admired for his common sense and dedication to Canada.
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• UPDATE: Fire guts occupied trailer on commercial property in Chilliwack - Hope Standard

  23-03-2024 17:43 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Fire guts occupied trailer on commercial property in Chilliwack  Hope Standard
  
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• Witness heard sputtering from Ontario family’s plane before Nashville crash: report

  23-03-2024 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A preliminary report from U.S. authorities probing a plane crash in Tennessee that killed a family of five from Ontario said one witness heard “sputtering” and “popping” sounds from the aircraft’s engine moments before it crashed alongside a highway west of downtown Nashville.
  Friday’s report from the National Transportation Safety Board described how pilot Victor Dotsenko of King Township, Ont., told a Nashville International Airport controller in a “fa
  
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• Canadian Thompson captures World Cup women’s skicross race, overall crown

  23-03-2024 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IDRE FJÄLL, Sweden — Another year, another women’s skicross World Cup title for Canadian Marielle Thompson.
  Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., earned her sixth victory of the World Cup season Saturday. She defeated France’s Marielle Berger in the big final and finished atop the women’s overall standings for a fourth straight year.
  Brittany Phelan, of Mont-Tremblant, Que. , was third in the race as well as the overall standings.
  Thompson entered competition Saturday with a
  
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• Chilliwack a 'poster child' cities for absorbing B.C. growth, minister hears - Surrey Now Leader

  23-03-2024 16:57 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack a 'poster child' cities for absorbing B.C. growth, minister hears  Surrey Now Leader
  
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• Resident using extinguisher prevents fire from spreading in Chilliwack home - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2024 16:02 via news.google.com
  
  Resident using extinguisher prevents fire from spreading in Chilliwack home  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• The latest on the state funeral for former prime minister Brian Mulroney

  23-03-2024 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — 10:30 a.m.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Notre-Dame Basilica, and stops to speak with the media briefly. 
  He says Mulroney’s dedication to Canada and to Canadians was legendary. 
  “He shaped our history, got the big things right. He had a huge impact 40 years ago, he had a huge impact four years ago as he helped Canada and me negotiate through a very challenging time with our free-trade deal with the United States.”
  The Royal Canadian Air Forc
  
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• A Russian Soyuz rocket with 3 astronauts blasts off to the International Space Station

  23-03-2024 13:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station blasted off Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute.
  The spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus launched with no apparent problems from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan.
  The launch had been planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds befor
  
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• Overnight fire in Chilliwack sends one to hospital

  23-03-2024 13:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — One person was sent to hospital after a fire struck a home in the 45000 block of Wellington Avenue in Chilliwack early Saturday (Mar. 23) morning.
  15 firefighters from Fire Halls 1 and 4 were called out by the alarm at 12:30 a.m. They arrived to find the two occupants of the detached home had escaped the fire. Although smoke was coming from the front door of the home, one of the occupants was largely successful in knocking down the fire with an extinguisher.
  Paramedics from th
  
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• Chilliwack Progress up for 2 provincial Ma Murray Awards - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2024 13:30 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack Progress up for 2 provincial Ma Murray Awards  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs second place lead smaller after loss in Port Alberni

  23-03-2024 13:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT ALBERNI — The Alberni Valley Bulldogs scored three times in the third period to blow open a tight game and defeat the Chilliwack Chiefs 5 – 1 Friday (Mar.22) in Port Alberni.
  Hayden Stavroff and Grayson Badger each scored twice to leave the Bulldogs just two points behind Chilliwack in the race for second place in the Coastal Division. Both teams have three games remaining.
  Matt Argentina scored the lone goal for the Chiefs who trailed the game 2 – 1 after forty minutes. V
  
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• State funeral today for former prime minister Brian Mulroney in Montreal

  23-03-2024 12:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney will be honoured today at a state funeral in Montreal in the presence of a diverse cross-section of Canadian society, from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to hockey great Wayne Gretzky.
  Funeral attendees will include people who knew and admired Mulroney in politics, business and in his personal life, his son Ben Mulroney said.
  The ceremony takes place at 11 a.m. at Notre-Dame Basilica, following a funeral procession that will include an RCMP mo
  
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• Kate’s diagnosis could prompt others to get tested, seek treatment: cancer society

  23-03-2024 11:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The sharing of a cancer diagnosis from Catherine, the Princess of Wales, could be positive for those going through their own cancer journey or people who need to be more aware of the disease, says an executive with the Canadian Cancer Society. 
  Stuart Edmonds, executive vice-president of mission, research and advocacy for the society, said such news from the princess, or other public figures, can help raise awareness and encourage others to be tested early and seek treatment
  
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• Russian detains 11 people after concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State

  23-03-2024 09:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Eleven people have been detained after an attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed 60, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service told President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Another 145 people were injured in the attack by assailants who burst into a concert hall and sprayed the crowd with gunfire. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media.
  
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• COVID vaccines don’t cause cancer. But false claims persist in sea of misinformation

  23-03-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Anyone who spends even a moderate amount of time online has likely come across social media posts falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful to human health.
  Among the most widely debunked claims is that vaccines developed with messenger RNA technology can cause cancer because they contain “monkey virus DNA.”
  Such claims were even repeated during a U.S. congressional hearing on vaccine injuries last year, but North American and European health authorities have stressed that
  
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• Brian Mulroney’s state funeral: A closer look at the former prime minister’s legacy

  23-03-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney died on Feb. 29, in Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 84. He was first elected in 1984 following the largest majority mandate in Canada’s history, and was re-elected in 1988. 
  His state funeral is to be held in Montreal on Saturday. 
  Here are some of the key moments that helped to shape the former prime minister’s legacy. 
  The Shamrock Summit
  The March 1985 meeting in Quebec City between Mulroney and U.S. President Rona
  
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• Borrow a bee colony? West Vancouver library loans out pollinators

  23-03-2024 09:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Patrons at the West Vancouver Memorial Library are abuzz over a loan program of mason bees that come with their own “bungalow.” 
  The bee program is a bid to educate people about the need for pollinators and how simple it is to raise these easygoing insects, said Taren Urquhart, the library’s arts and special events programmer.
  Participants must first take in a 60-minute lecture to learn the basics about the bees’ life cycle and how to take care of t
  
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• Fredrick Arthur 'Fred' Northgraves - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Fredrick Arthur 'Fred' Northgraves - Obituary -  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack a 'poster child' cities for absorbing B.C. growth, minister hears - Maple Ridge News

  23-03-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack a 'poster child' cities for absorbing B.C. growth, minister hears  Maple Ridge News
  
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• What we know and don’t know about Kate’s cancer diagnosis

  23-03-2024 07:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy — though in a video announcement Friday, she did not say what kind of cancer or reveal details of her treatment.Here’s what is known:
  What kind of surgery did Kate have?
  Kate had what was described as abdominal surgery on Jan. 16. The news wasn’t announced until the next day, when Kensington Palace revealed that Kate was recovering from a planned operation.
  At the time, officials said
  
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• NHL roundup: Playoff-hungry Capitals beat Hurricanes 7-6 in shootout

  23-03-2024 06:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sonny Milano recorded his first hat trick in the NHL, Alex Ovechkin scored again, and the Washington Capitals ended the Carolina Hurricanes’ winning streak at five with a shootout victory Friday night that could play a pivotal role in their playoff pursuit.
  Ovechkin’s goal was the 846th of his NHL career, while Milano scored one of his three juggling the puck off his stick and batting it into the net in front of a fired-up crowd in the nation’s capital.
  
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• Nam leads at Palos Verdes in 2nd career LPGA Tour start

  23-03-2024 05:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Malia Nam took a one-stroke lead into the weekend in just her second career LPGA Tour start, shooting a 2-under 69 on Friday in the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship at Palos Verdes Golf Club.
  One of seven former University of Southern California players in the field at the scenic course overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 24-year-old Nam — from Hawaii — played more than 100 rounds on the layout during her time with the Trojans.
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• Japan’s Sakamoto three-peats as women’s figure skating world champion

  23-03-2024 03:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Kaori Sakamoto of Japan is the first women’s figure skater to three-peat as world champion since American Peggy Fleming from 1966 to 1968.
  Sakamoto captured gold again Friday at the Bell Centre, climbing from fourth place after the short program to the top of the podium with a near-flawless performance.
  The 23-year-old led the pack by more than 10 points in the free program to finish with 222.96 points and earn a standing ovation from the 6,000 fans on hand.
  Isabeau Levito
  
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• Gilgeous-Alexander powers Thunder past injury-plagued Raptors 123-103

  23-03-2024 02:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 23 points with eight assists and seven rebounds as the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past the hurting Toronto Raptors 123-103 on Friday.
  Chet Holmgren had a double-double with 18 points and 10 boards as Oklahoma City (49-20) won its fourth straight. Jalen Williams added 20 points and Montreal’s Lu Dort scored 10.
  Rookie Gradey Dick led Toronto (23-47) with 21 points. Kelly Olynyk of Kamloops, B.C., had 16 points, six rebounds and
  
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• ‘Grandpa’ Cink, Hughes share lead with 3 others at Valspar Championship

  23-03-2024 01:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Stewart Cink made a great escape from the pine straw for an unlikely birdie and had a 4-under 67 that gave him a five-way share of the lead Friday in the Valspar Championship and a chance to entertain thoughts of winning for the second straight tournament.
  There’s just one difference for Cink. The golf course is a lot longer. And the guys he is trying to beat are a lot younger.
  The 50-year-old Cink, who blew a chance to win on the PGA Tour Champions two weeks
  
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• Capitals’ Wilson suspended 6 games for stick to the face of Leafs’ Gregor

  23-03-2024 01:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson was suspended six games Friday for his stick to the face of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Noah Gregor.
  The NHL’s department of player safety gave Wilson a suspension tied for the longest of any player this season after a disciplinary hearing with him on Zoom. The league offering that type of hearing instead of a phone call allowed senior vice-president of player safety George Parros to hand down a suspension of six or more games.
  
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• Republican Mike Boudreaux advances to special election to complete term of ousted Speaker McCarthy

  23-03-2024 00:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is advancing to a May election in California to decide who will complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January.
  Boudreaux will face state legislator Vince Fong in the May 21 special election in the 20th District.Boudreaux is the Sheriff of Tulare County in the state’s Central Valley. He has been spotlighting his decades of law-and-order experience and is promisi
  
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• Canadian featherweight Jeremy (JBC) Kennedy stopped in Bellator title bout

  23-03-2024 00:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BELFAST, United Kingdom — Bellator featherweight champion Patricio (Pitbull) Freire stopped Canadian Jeremy (JBC) Kennedy with a flurry of blows in the third round Friday in the Bellator Champions Series.
  The 31-year-old from Surrey, B.C., had staggered Freire with a left hook earlier in the round and roughed him up at the fence, drawing blood.
  But the 36-year-old Brazilian, a Bellator icon who has held titles in two weight classes, absorbed the damage. And once he got away from the fence,
  
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• Texas school bus with more 40 students crashes, killing 2 people, authorities say

  23-03-2024 00:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BASTROP, Texas (AP) — A school bus carrying more than 40 prekindergarten students on a field trip collided with a concrete truck and rolled over Friday in Texas, killing two people, authorities said.Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Deon Cockrell said another vehicle was also involved in the crash in the suburbs outside Austin. He did not know which vehicles the victims were in.Cockrell said others who were injured were airlifted to hospitals, but he did not know how many.
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• Canada’s Cynthia Appiah captures World Cup women’s monobob bronze medal

  23-03-2024 00:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Canada’s Cynthia Appiah captured a bronze medal Friday in a World Cup women’s monobob event.
  Appiah, of Toronto, posted a two-run time of one minute 59.13 seconds for her first medal of the World Cup monobob season.
  “It feels amazing to get this weight off my shoulders,” said Appiah. “Today was a bit of redemption and a reminder to ‘don’t count me out yet.'”
  Australia’s Bree Walker won the event in 1:58.67, ahead of
  
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• Chilliwack a 'poster child' for absorbing regional growth, minister hears - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2024 00:00 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack a 'poster child' for absorbing regional growth, minister hears  Chilliwack Progress
  
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