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• Canada’s Grondin earns snowboard cross World Cup gold, first career Crystal Globe

  24-03-2024 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEAUPRÉ, Que. — Eliot Grondin wrapped up the 2023-24 season making history on Sunday.
  The Sainte-Marie, Que., native earned his second World Cup gold medal of the weekend and his first career Crystal Globe in men’s snowboard cross action. Grondin became the first Canadian male to claim the snowboard cross Crystal Globe.It was presented to him by the only other Canadian to do so, Dominique Maltais.
  Sunday’s victory was the tenth World Cup medal of the season for Grondin,
  
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• Dumoulin-Duguary carries army experience into football with sights set on CFL draft

  24-03-2024 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Nathaniel Dumoulin-Duguay doesn’t have any problem with football coaches yelling instructions or criticism.
  The offensive lineman out of Laval University spent almost a year in the Canadian Army and says basic training included long days starting at 4 a.m. and military personnel barking out orders.
  “It’s like on TV, maybe like worse,” Dumoulin-Duguay said with a smile on Sunday after this year’s CFL national combine wrapped up in Winnipeg.
  “I
  
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• Middle East conflict likely to create more traffic at Port of Vancouver

  24-03-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The CEO of the Port of Vancouver says attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea could push more vessel traffic to the city’s ports.Peter Xotta says the attacks are causing ships to be rerouted, and that could mean more cargo coming through Vancouver in the short term.He says there’s been an uptick in cargo volume this year that could be, in part, related to the attacks on ships by Houthi militants since December.Xotta says the attacks have created supply chain volati
  
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• New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy suspends her Senate campaign to replace indicted Sen. Menendez

  24-03-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy has suspended her U.S. Senate campaign to replace Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez as he faces federal corruption charges.Murphy announced her decision in a video posted to her social media on Sunday.“New Jersey’s next senator must focus on the issues of our time and not be mired in tearing others down while dividing the people of our party and state,” she said.Her decision to drop out likely clears the way for U.S. Rep.
  
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• Flames sign Finnish defenceman Joni Jurmo to entry-level contract

  24-03-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed defenceman Joni Jurmo to an entry-level contract.
  The Flames acquired the rights to the 21-year-old from Espoo, Finland, in a Jan. 31 trade that sent centre Elias Lindholm to the Vancouver Canucks.
  Calgary also got forward Andrei Kuzmenko, another defensive prospect in Hunter Brzustewicz, Vancouver’s first-round pick and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft in that deal.
  Jurmo’s contract with the Flames is two years with
  
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• Blue Jays drop third in a row with 2-0 loss to Phillies in pre-season action

  24-03-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CLEARWATER, Fla. — Trea Turner and Alec Bohm drove in two early runs and the Philadelphia Phillies held on the rest of the way en route to a 2-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday in pre-season action.
  Aaron Nola (2-1) struck out four batters, walked one and allowed just two hits in 5 2/3 innings starting on the mound for Philadelphia (9-14).
  Max Lazar picked up the save pitching the final 2/3 of the ninth inning.
  Vladimir Guerrero Jr., with two hits, Addison Barger and Isiah Kiner-F
  
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• Canada’s Fernandez ousted in third round of Miami Open by American Pegula

  24-03-2024 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez fell 7-5, 6-4 to Jessica Pegula of the United States in third-round action at the Miami Open on Sunday.
  The Laval, Que., native committed four double faults, won 58.6 per cent of her first-serve points and broke on three of her nine opportunities. Each player had one ace.
  Pegula — ranked fifth in the world — only had one double fault and won 70.5 per cent of her first-serve points, while breaking on five of her 13 chances. 
  The 35th-
  
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• Russia concert hall attack suspects appear in a Moscow courtroom

  24-03-2024 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Suspects in the Russia concert hall attack, which left more than 130 dead, arrived at a Moscow district court on Sunday night.
  There was a heavy police presence around the court, which is expected to determine pretrial restrictions for the men, who are suspected of opening fire on crowds of concert goers at the capital’s Crocus City Hall.
  One of the suspects was led blindfolded into the courtroom. His blindfold was removed and a black eye was visible.
  Friday’s att
  
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• Alex Ovechkin scores twice as the Capitals beat the Jets 3-0 to move back into playoff position

  24-03-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored twice to reach 26 goals this season, Charlie Lindgren stopped all 27 shots he faced and the Washington Capitals beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-0 on Sunday to move back into a playoff position.
  The Capitals have won four of their past five games, a stretch in which Ovechkin has scored eight goals. He had just eight goals in his first 43 games.
  Ovechkin getting hot has fueled Washington’s surge up the standings and reignited talk of him breaking Wayne G
  
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• More than three decades later, Dunahee disappearance still a mystery

  24-03-2024 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Police in Victoria say investigators are still trying to get to the bottom of the disappearance of four-year-old Michael Dunahee more than three decades after he disappeared.Victoria police say today marks the 33rd anniversary of Dunahee going missing from a school playground in the city in 1991.Police say Dunahee disappeared while his family and many others were nearby during a game of touch football.Investigators say hundreds of volunteers and police launched an extensive sear
  
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• South Korea’s Gim beats Italy’s Constantini at world women’s curling championship

  24-03-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYDNEY, N.S. — South Korea’s Eunji Gim defeated Italy’s Stefania Constantini 6-3 on Sunday to win bronze at the world women’s curling championship. 
  Gim made a double-takeout to score three points in the 10th end to reach the world podium for the first time in five career appearances. 
  Canada’s Rachel Homan was scheduled to play defending champion Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland in the final later in the day at Centre 200.
  In the third-place game, neither
  
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• Two fire incidents in Chilliwack, one person sent to hospital - CityNews Vancouver

  24-03-2024 16:51 via news.google.com
  
  Two fire incidents in Chilliwack, one person sent to hospital  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of March 24, 2024

  24-03-2024 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are two people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Calvin GarnerAge: 48
  Height: 5’7” ft Weight: 157lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Break & Enter With Intent, Possession of Stolen Property, Possession of Controlled Drug/Substance for Purpose of Trafficking, and Uttering Threats to Cause Death or Bodily Harm
  Warrant in effect: March 19, 2024
  Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack
  Name: Michael SeeAge: 43
  Heig
  
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• Alberta scientists band together to shift climate change focus to health impacts

  24-03-2024 15:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper.
  “Climate change impacts everything we care about,” she said. “It’s not just an environmental issue.”
  That’s why Harper, along with 30 or so colleagues from disciplines as wide-ranging as economics and epidemiology, have banded together into what she calls Canada’s first university hub to shift the view of
  
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• Brazil’s federal police arrest men suspected of ordering 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman

  24-03-2024 14:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamoring for justice.
  The brutal assassination of the 38-year-old Black, bisexual Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman in a drive-by shooting shook Brazil profoundly and reverberated across the world.Two federal police sources with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Pr
  
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• Chilliwack beats Victoria to maintain hold on second place

  24-03-2024 13:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Caleb Elfering was the lone player to score in a shootout as the Chilliwack Chiefs edged the Victoria Grizzlies 4 – 3 on Saturday (Mar. 24) in Victoria.Nathan Morin, Stone Rolston and Mateo Mrsic scored goals for the Chiefs who earned an important two points with the win. It maintains the club’s slim two point lead on Alberni Valley in the race for second place in the Coastal Division standings. Both clubs have two regular season games remaining.
  Frank Murphy stopped
  
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• Two daughters, two parents, and echoes of a murder that rocked Indigenous activism

  24-03-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — In Halifax, Denise Pictou Maloney says the trauma and grief from the 1975 murder of her mother, Indigenous activist Anna Mae Aqaush, has never dimmed. Pictou Maloney was nine when she last saw her.
  In Vancouver, Naneek Graham vividly remembers American FBI agents visiting her family’s home in Yukon in the 1980s to threaten her father, John Graham, with prosecution if he didn’t co-operate with the murder investigation.
  Thirty-five years after the killing, Graham, a m
  
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• Anti-authority narratives could tear ‘fabric of society,’ intelligence report warns

  24-03-2024 11:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Threats against politicians have become “increasingly normalized” due to extremist narratives prompted by personal grievances and fuelled by misinformation or deliberate lies, warns a newly released intelligence report.
  The report, prepared by a federal task force that aims to safeguard elections, says the Canadian violent extremist landscape has seen the proliferation of conspiracy theories, a growing lack of trust in the integrity of the state and more political pola
  
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• Worldwide support pours in for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after shocking cancer reveal

  24-03-2024 08:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Support poured in from around the world Saturday for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after she revealed in a candid video message that she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer following major abdominal surgery.
  The princess’s poignant video, in which she spoke about the “huge shock” and “incredibly tough couple of months” for her family after her diagnosis, came after weeks of frenzied speculation on social media about her health and well-being.
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• Two arrests made following tense standoff in Chilliwack Sunday - Fraser Valley Today

  24-03-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Two arrests made following tense standoff in Chilliwack Sunday  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Hoglander scores twice as Vancouver Canucks double up Calgary Flames 4-2

  24-03-2024 05:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Nils Hoglander scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks doused the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Saturday. 
  J.T. Miller recorded his team-leading 34th goal of the season, Elias Lindholm scored into an empty net, and Elias Pettersson and Conor Garland each contributed a pair of assists for the Canucks (45-18-8). 
  Rasmus Andersson and Joel Hanley replied for the Flames (33-31-5), who hadn’t played since suffering a 5-2 loss to the Washington Capitals on Monday.
  Making his f
  
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• Wizards win two in a row, hand Raptors 10th straight loss

  24-03-2024 04:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deni Avdija scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Kyle Kuzma made some big baskets down the stretch to compensate for a rough shooting performance and the Washington Wizards handed the Toronto Raptors their 10th consecutive loss, 112-109 on Saturday night.
  With just their third two-game winning streak of the season, the Wizards kept from falling below Detroit for the worst record in the NBA. 
  Bruce Brown missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer that would have forc
  
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• Senators snap 3-game losing skid with 5-2 win over Devils

  24-03-2024 03:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Thomas Chabot and Mathieu Joseph each scored and had an assist to help the Ottawa Senators snap a three-game skid with a 5-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.
  Angus Crookshank, Ridly Greig and Drake Batherson also had goals and Brady Tkachuk had two assists for the Senators. Jonas Korpisalo stopped 18 shots for his 16th win.
  Jesper Bratt and Tomas Nosek scored for the Devils, who had their two-game winning streak stopped and remain out of the wild-ca
  
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• Ilia Malinin takes men’s world figure skating crown in dominating fashion

  24-03-2024 03:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-record holder.
  Malinin put on a dominant display that included a jaw-dropping six quad jumps — including his patented quad axel — to snag the men’s singles crown Saturday at the world championships.
  After placing third in Thursday’s short program, the 19-year-old scored a world record 227.79 in the free program while skating to the “Succession” soundtrack to brin
  
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• Whitecaps concede late goals in 2-1 loss to Real Salt Lake

  24-03-2024 02:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Midfielder Fidel Barajas assisted on a pair of second-half goals as Real Salt Lake rallied for a 2-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps Saturday night.
  Striker Anderson Julio tied the match in the 70th minute then defender Alexandros Katranis gave Salt Lake the lead six minutes later.
  Midfielder Damir Kreilach scored a first-half goal against his old teammates for the Whitecaps. The loss, before a crowd of 22,178 at BC Place Stadium, prevented Vancouver fr
  
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• Toronto FC defeats Atlanta 2-0 but victory could be costly with Insigne injured

  24-03-2024 02:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Rookie Tyrese Spicer scored in his first MLS start and substitute Prince Owusu added his first MLS goal to help Toronto FC defeat Atlanta United 2-0 in a chilly matchup of depleted teams Saturday.
  Both teams were missing players. Toronto (3-1-1) through injury and Atlanta (2-2-0) through international duty.
  And Toronto’s roster problems grew as both forward Lorenzo Insigne and defender Shane O’Neill didn’t finish the first half.
  A groggy-looking O’Neill, w
  
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• McMann, Holmberg help Leafs down Oilers; McDavid registers three more assists

  24-03-2024 02:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Bobby McMann had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs built a 5-0 lead before hanging on to beat Connor McDavid’s Edmonton Oilers 6-3 on Saturday night.
  Pontus Holmberg also scored twice, while William Nylander had a goal and set up another for Toronto (40-20-9) before Auston Matthews added his NHL-leading 58th into an empty net. 
  John Tavares and Timothy Liljegren chipped in with two assists each. Ilya Samsonov made 31 saves before leaving injured with 3
  
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• Biden and Trump win Louisiana’s presidential primary having already clinched nominations

  24-03-2024 02:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, collecting more delegates after they already clinched their party nominations.Biden also appeared in Missouri’s Democratic primary, with results not expected to be reported until next week.None of the races were in suspense. Biden and Trump have already beaten their major competitors. But the primary races are still closely watched by insiders for turnout and signs of pr
  
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• Mitchell takes two-shot lead into final round at Innisbrook, Hamilton’s Hughes hot on his heels

  24-03-2024 01:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Keith Mitchell capped off a magnificent run through the “Snake Pit” at Innisbrook on Saturday with a shot he never saw go in. His 7-iron from the 18th fairway one-hopped into the hole for eagle and a 5 under and a two-shot lead in the Valspar Championship.
  Mitchell was among a dozen players on the fringe of contention at a tournament so tight that it began with all 77 players who made the cut separated by a mere six shots.
  That changed when he went 3-2-
  
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• Indigenous Justice Association in Chilliwack gets $327000 from province - Chilliwack Progress

  24-03-2024 00:30 via news.google.com
  
  Indigenous Justice Association in Chilliwack gets $327000 from province  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Homan beats South Korea’s Gim to reach final at world curling championship

  24-03-2024 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYDNEY, N.S. — Canada’s Rachel Homan is moving on to the final at the world women’s curling championship.
  She beat South Korea’s Eunji Gim 9-7 in semifinal play at Centre 200.
  Homan made a hit to score three points in the 10th end for the victory.Canada will play defending champion Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland in Sunday’s championship game.Switzerland beat Italy’s Stefania Constantini 6-3 in the other semifinal. South Korea and Italy will play for bronze e
  
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