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• Canadian judoka Christa Deguchi wins gold at Antalya Grand Slam competition

  29-03-2024 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANTALYA, Türkiye — Canada’s Christa Deguchi defeated Brazil’s Jessica Lima on Friday to win gold in the under-57 kilogram category at the Antalya Grand Slam judo competition.
  Deguchi, from Lethbridge, Alta., was the first to go on the offensive in overtime and secured the win.She beat Austria’s Laura Kallinger, Guinea’s Mariana Esteves, South Korea’s Juhee Kim and Faiza Mokdar of France earlier in the day to qualify for the final.
  It was Deguchi’s s
  
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• Fisheries officials monitoring orphaned orca calf in lagoon off Vancouver Island

  29-03-2024 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZEBALLOS, B.C. — An official with Fisheries and Oceans Canada says rescue efforts to get an orphaned orca calf out of a lagoon off Vancouver Island have been hampered by challenging tides. 
  Paul Cottrell, the pacific marine mammal coordinator with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says efforts to coax the animal out of the lagoon on Thursday failed, and officials and local First Nations are “monitoring and assessing” the animal from afar this weekend. 
  Cottrell says the or
  
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• WHL hands Brandon Wheat Kings forward Matt Henry an eight-game suspension

  29-03-2024 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Western Hockey League has suspended Brandon Wheat Kings forward Matt Henry for eight games for violating the CHL’s drug education and anti-doping policy. 
  The suspension was for a first violation of using a prohibited substance, the league said Friday in a release. 
  Henry had one assist and 100 penalty minutes in 37 games this season. 
  He’ll begin serving his suspension immediately, the WHL said.
  The Wheat Kings finished sixth in the Eastern Confere
  
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• Tony Finau matches his career low and sets the target at the Houston Open

  29-03-2024 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Tony Finau matched his career low on the PGA Tour with an 8-under 62 on Friday, setting a daunting target for the rest of the field as he tries to win back-to-back in the Houston Open.
  Finau spent time after his opening round to work on his putting with coach Boyd Summerhays, and it paid off in a big way. He holed four putts from about 25 feet or longer, and he chipped in from 40 feet for eagle on the par-5 eighth.
  Finau narrowly missed a 15-footer on his last hole at the pa
  
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• Mission’s waterfront revitalization plan shines at international conference

  29-03-2024 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The City of Mission presented its Waterfront Revitalization Master Plan at the “Le Marché International Des Professionnels de L’immobilier 2024” (MIPIM), a week-long conference held in Cannes, France earlier this month (March).
  The yearly event provides a platform for innovative and sustainable projects all over the world, promoting waste minimisation, inclusivity and positive social impacts. This year, the summit hosted more than 20,000 delegates, with o
  
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• Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says

  29-03-2024 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, the Vatican said, adding to concerns about his frail health during a particularly busy liturgical period.
  Francis had been expected to preside over the Way of the Cross procession, which re-enacts Christ’s Passion and crucifixion, and composed the meditations that are read aloud at each station. But just as the event was about to begin, the Vatican announced that Francis was following t
  
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• Three youths arrested in stabbing death of teenager in Prince George, B.C.

  29-03-2024 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Mounties in Prince George say three youths were arrested after a 17-year-old was allegedly stabbed to death in the city. 
  Prince George RCMP say officers were called to a reported stabbing in the early morning hours on Thursday, where they found a 17-year-old male suffering from life-threatening injuries. 
  Police say the victim was taken to hospital but didn’t survive. 
  Investigators say they arrested three youth suspects but gave no information a
  
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• Three youths arrested in stabbing death of teenager in Prince George

  29-03-2024 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE — Mounties in Prince George say three youths were arrested after a 17-year-old was allegedly stabbed to death in the city.
  Prince George RCMP say officers were called to a reported stabbing in the early morning hours on Thursday, where they found a 17-year-old male suffering from life-threatening injuries.
  Police say the victim was taken to hospital but didn’t survive.
  Investigators say they arrested three youth suspects but gave no information about their age or gender
  
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• Niagara region declares state of emergency to prepare for influx of eclipse viewers

  29-03-2024 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April.
  The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by National Geographic to be one of the best places to see it.
  The city is in the path of totality, where the moon will entirely block the suns rays for a few minutes.
  Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati said earlier
  
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• Famous water bomber to highlight museum exhibit

  29-03-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH SAANICH — The provincial government says a historic water bomber will be the centerpiece of a new wildfire aviation exhibit the British Columbia Aviation Museum in North Saanich.
  The province says it’s offering the museum $250 thousand to protect and preserve the Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber.It says the aircraft was a transport carrier for the United States Navy and served as the largest air ambulance during the Korean War until it was converted in 1958.
  The tourism ministry
  
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• Chilliwack to replace Canada Day fireworks with drones - CityNews Vancouver

  29-03-2024 18:59 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack to replace Canada Day fireworks with drones  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• Canada’s coal exports up again in 2023 as government’s promised ban elusive

  29-03-2024 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian exports of thermal coal increased another seven per cent last year, reaching the highest level in almost a decade.
  The boom in exports of the kind of coal burned to make electricity comes as Canada leads a charge to end the use of coal as a source of power worldwide.
  The Liberals also promised three years ago that all thermal coal exports will stop from Canada by 2030, but exports have risen almost 20 per cent since that promise was made.
  Statistics published this month b
  
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• Endangered North Atlantic right whales lose three of 19 calves this season

  29-03-2024 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — An international environmental organization says it is concerning that at least three of the 19 North Atlantic right whale calves born this season have died this year.
  Oceana Canada campaign director Kim Elmslie says there should be between 25 and 30 new calves so far, noting the total local whale population of 360 contains about 70 reproducing females.
  She says the main threats facing endangered North Atlantic right whales include hazards from fishing gear and ship strikes.
  
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• Former CSKA Moscow goaltender Ivan Fedotov joins the Philadelphia Flyers

  29-03-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The process needed to extract goalie Ivan Fedotov from both his Russian military and hockey commitments and finally land him in Philadelphia — nine years after he was drafted by the Flyers — remains largely shrouded in Cold War-era type secrecy.
  Flyers general manager Danny Briere stuck to silence on Fedotov’s path to Philly as the goalie was introduced Friday to the team.
  “We’ll just leave the details out,” Briere said.
  What the Flye
  
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• Nigerian family in Montreal facing imminent deportation pleads to stay

  29-03-2024 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Community groups gathered outside the federal immigration minister’s office in Montreal this morning to demand a stop to next month’s planned deportation of a local family originally from Nigeria.
  Deborah Adegboye says she, her husband and first child were fleeing religious persecution in their home country when they entered Canada as asylum-seekers via the now-shuttered Roxham Road crossing in 2017.
  Adegboye now works as an orderly, travelling between the homes of p
  
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• ‘Ozempig’ remains Minnesota baseball team’s mascot despite uproar that name is form of fat-shaming

  29-03-2024 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  For a Minnesota minor league baseball team known for a history of outlandish promotions, the idea of naming its longtime live pig mascot after the weight loss drug Ozempic made perfect sense.
  The St. Paul Saints quickly found out that not everyone was amused by the pig’s name, Ozempig, or the team’s posting of a backstory about the pig’s embarrassment at gaining weight and promise to try to remain trim.
  Almost immediately after the team announced the name this week ahead of Sat
  
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• Italian star Lorenzo Insigne expected to be out for six weeks with a hamstring injury

  29-03-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC coach John Herdman says Italian star Lorenzo Insigne is expected to miss six weeks with a hamstring injury. 
  A distraught Insigne hobbled off in first-half stoppage time of last Saturday’s 2-0 win over visiting Atlanta, trying not to put weight on his right leg, after pulling up in the Atlanta penalty box on what seemed an innocuous play.
  Herdman said experts in Canada, England and Italy had studied Insigne’s MRI, calling the news “a huge blow for us.”
  The
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs sign Simon Benoit to three-year contract extension

  29-03-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman Simon Benoit to a three-year contract extension.
  The average annual value of the deal is US$1.35 million, the team said Friday.
  Benoit, 25, has one goal and four assists in 54 games this season. 
  The six-foot-four 205-pound native of Laval, Que., has 20 points (5-15) in 191 career regular-season games with the Maple Leafs and the Anaheim Ducks. 
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 29, 2024. The
  
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• Godinez sisters make their mark on the wrestling mat, in UFC’s Octagon and as a mom

  29-03-2024 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  You don’t mess with the Godinez sisters.
  Lupita (Loopy) Godinez has won four straight in the UFC, where she is ranked 10th among strawweight contenders. Ana Godinez was one of the first Canadian wrestlers to qualify for this summer’s Paris Olympics. Karla Godinez, a bronze medallist at the 2022 world championships, hopes to join her via a last-ditch qualifier next month in Istanbul.
  Sister Mariana is a mother of two. “A different kind of fighter,” said Loopy, the oldest o
  
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• Owning Wrexham is hitting Ryan Reynolds in the wallet. Club owes its celebrity owners more than $11M

  29-03-2024 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Owning a soccer club is hitting Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in the wallet.
  Wrexham, the Welsh team bought by Reynolds and fellow Hollywood actor Rob McElhenney in 2021, released its accounts for the latest financial year on Thursday and reported that the amount owed to celebrities has risen to nearly 9 million pounds ($11.4 million).
  That was up from 3.7 million pounds ($4.67 million) from the previous year, ending June 2022.
  While the club said turnover rose from nearly 6 million pounds ($7.5
  
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• France asks for foreign police and military help with massive Paris Olympics security challenge

  29-03-2024 16:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  France says it has asked 46 countries if they would be willing to supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics this summer, as organizers finalize security planning for the French capital’s first Games in a century while on heightened alert against potential attacks.
  The Interior Ministry said Friday that the request for foreign security assistance was made in January, seeking nearly 2,185 reinforcements. The officers are sought to help with Games security and &
  
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• The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party steps down amid police probe

  29-03-2024 14:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party has stepped down from the top job after being charged with allegations of a historic nature, the party said in a statement on Friday.
  Jeffrey Donaldson left his post with immediate effect pending the outcome of the judicial process, the Democratic Unionist Party said. In accordance with the party rules, it has suspended him from membership.
  Gavin Robinson, the member of Parliament for Belfast East, was named interi
  
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• Farmers ready to turn sod at 102nd annual Chilliwack Plowing Match - Chilliwack Progress

  29-03-2024 13:38 via news.google.com
  
  Farmers ready to turn sod at 102nd annual Chilliwack Plowing Match  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Gushue on world curling championship: ‘I’m going into this like it could be the last’

  29-03-2024 12:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Brad Gushue is approaching this year’s men’s world curling championships like it could be his last.
  The veteran skip from St. John’s, N.L., won the world title in 2017 and lost in the final three times, including the last two years. The 43-year-old isn’t taking his future for granted.
  “At this point, you have to treat every one like it’s the last one,” Gushue said in recent media availability before leaving for Schaffhausen, Switzerland. “I’m
  
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• ‘Energetic’ coach Vanni Sartini set to return to Vancouver Whitecaps

  29-03-2024 12:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vanni Sartini has done a lot of self reflection lately. 
  Barred from the Vancouver Whitecaps’ first four games of the Major League Soccer season, the club’s head coach has had time. 
  The animated Italian was handed a five-game suspension and a $20,000 fine in November for his on-field actions and post-game comments after a playoff loss to Los Angeles FC that ended the Whitecaps season. Sartini also got an automatic one-game suspension when he was shown the
  
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• A capsule look at the teams competing at the world men’s curling championship

  29-03-2024 12:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A team-by-team look at the field for the world men’s curling championship, March 30 to April 7 at the KSS Sports Complex in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
  CANADA
  Skip — Brad Gushue, Third — Mark Nichols, Second — E.J. Harnden, Lead — Geoff Walker
  St. John’s Curling Club
  Gushue, the 2006 Olympic gold medallist, won the 2017 world championship but lost back-to-back finals in 2022 and 2023.
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  CZECHIA
  Skip — Lukas Klima, Third — Marek Cernovsky
  
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• CF Montreal’s MLS road trip continues Saturday against D.C. United

  29-03-2024 11:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — CF Montreal is back from a week off and on the road again as their Major League Soccer season-opening trip continues Saturday against D.C. United.
  Montreal is coming off its first loss of the young MLS season, a wild 4-3 decision to Chicago Fire on March 15.
  Sparked by a red card to Montreal wingback Raheem Edwards, Chicago erased a 3-1 deficit with three late goals. Kellyn Acosta scored the injury-time winner with a kick from half that sailed over goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois t
  
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• Fluid in eye cells can ‘boil’ if you watch the eclipse without protection: expert

  29-03-2024 11:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Millions of people in parts of Eastern and Atlantic Canada will be able to see the rare solar eclipse happening on April 8. But they should only look up if they have proper eye protection, experts say. 
  WHY IS WATCHING THE ECLIPSE MORE DANGEROUS THAN LOOKING AT THE SUN ON A NORMAL DAY?
  When people look up at the sun normally, the intense brightness triggers pain that causes them to look away quickly before it can cause damage, said Dr. Philip Hooper, president of the Canadian Ophthalmologic
  
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• New study says fireworks have small effect on air quality, but doctors not impressed

  29-03-2024 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Almost a year after smog from wildfires led officials in Montreal to cancel two major fireworks shows, groups representing pyrotechnics companies have released a study that concludes the displays have a small effect on air quality.
  But doctors and an environmental health specialist warn the fireworks can still pose dangers to human health.
  The study published Wednesday was commissioned by the Regroupement des événements pyrotechniques du Québec and carried o
  
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• Half of Canadians support TikTok ban, with U.S. concerns ‘trickling’ north: poll

  29-03-2024 09:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new poll indicates 51 per cent of Canadians support banning the social media app TikTok, after a U.S. bill aiming to do just that passed in the House of Representatives.
  Canada has ordered its own national security review of TikTok, something the Liberal government revealed following passage of the U.S. bill earlier this month. 
  Just under a third of respondents, 28 per cent, said they would oppose a ban, according to the Leger poll of 1,605 Canadians conducted March 23 to
  
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• Giovanni Linza Obituary - Chilliwack, BC - Dignity Memorial

  29-03-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  
  Giovanni Linza Obituary - Chilliwack, BC  Dignity Memorial
  
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• NHL roundup: Malkin reaches 20 goals for 15th time, Penguins edge Columbus 3-2

  29-03-2024 06:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni Malkin scored twice to reach the 20-goal milestone for the 15th time and Pittsburgh extended their mastery over Columbus with a 3-2 win on Thursday night.
  The Russian became the 31st player in league history to score 20 goals in 15 seasons, doing it with a pair of power-play blasts — one from the right circle, one from the left circle — that erased one-goal deficits.
  Drew O’Conner’s 12th goal 35 seconds into the third period put Pittsburgh i
  
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• Dallas Stars clinch playoff spot with 3-1 win over Vancouver Canucks

  29-03-2024 06:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Roope Hintz scored and contributed a pair of assists, and the Dallas Stars clinched a playoff spot with a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.
  Jamie Benn added a goal and a helper for the Stars (46-19-9) before Jason Robertson put a puck into the empty net. Joe Pavelski had two assists.
  Jake Oettinger stopped 27 of 28 shots as Dallas stretched its win streak to six games. 
  The Canucks (45-20-8) got a goal from J.T. Miller and 30 saves from Casey DeSmith.
  Dallas
  
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• McDavid, Draisaitl help Oilers rule over Kings 4-1

  29-03-2024 04:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Connor McDavid scored a goal and added two assists as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Thursday as the two teams jostle for home ice advantage in what has often appeared like a destined first-round clash in the NHL playoffs.
  Leon Draisaitl had three helpers, Evan Bouchard had a goal and an assist, and Adam Henrique and Cody Ceci also scored for the Oilers (44-23-4) who have gone 15-2-2 at home since Jan. 1 to move five points up on the Kings for second p
  
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• Burmese python seized from Chilliwack, B.C., home - Vancouver Is Awesome

  29-03-2024 04:49 via news.google.com
  
  Burmese python seized from Chilliwack, B.C., home  Vancouver Is Awesome
  
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• Survivor of Humboldt Broncos bus crash makes 2024 Paralympics as rower

  29-03-2024 04:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A survivor of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has qualified for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
  Rowing Canada says on social media that Jacob Wassermann has earned Canada a country quota spot in an event known as PR1 men’s single sculls.
  The 24-year-old, who trains in Saskatoon, recently competed for Canada in a continental qualification regatta in Rio de Janeiro.
  Wassermann played goal for the Broncos.
  He is one of 13 survivors of the deadly 2018 bus crash, which left him paralyzed.
  Sixteen
  
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• Saad scores winner as Blues douse fading Flames 5-3

  29-03-2024 04:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brandon Saad scored his sixth winning goal of the season, lifting the St. Louis Blues to a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.
  Jordan Binnington made 23 saves and also had a pair of assists to give him seven in his career.
  Pavel Buchnevich scored two goals, including an empty netter, while Zack Bolduc and Jake Neighbours also scored for the Blues, who are 7-1-1 in their last nine games. 
  Andrei Kuzmenko scored two goals and Jonathan Huberdeau had th
  
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• Barbashev helps Knights beat skidding Jets 4-1

  29-03-2024 04:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Ivan Barbashev’s pair of late goals propelled the Vegas Golden Knights to a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.
  Barbashev scored with a high backhand shot past Connor Hellebuyck at 14:31, then followed up with an empty-net marker with 1:45 remaining.
  The Jets have lost five straight (0-4-1), matching a season-high skid from late January (0-4-1).
  Jack Eichel had an empty-net goal and Pavel Dorofeyev also scored for the Golden Knights (40-25-8), who were playing
  
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• Nick Suzuki, Cayden Primeau lead Canadiens to 4-1 win over Flyers

  29-03-2024 03:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Nick Suzuki had a goal and an assist and the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Thursday night.
  Suzuki, the Canadiens captain, reached the 30-goal milestone for the first time in his fifth season.
  Jesse Ylonen also scored while Joel Armia and Jake Evans added empty-net goals for Montreal (28-32-12), which won its third straight in its first game back at the Bell Centre after a five-game road trip.
  Juraj Slafkovsky extended his point streak to a career-hig
  
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• Woll solid, Giordano scores in return from injury as Maple Leafs top Capitals 5-1

  29-03-2024 02:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Joseph Woll made 24 saves in a bounceback performance and Mark Giordano scored following a long injury absence as the Toronto Maple Leafs cruised past the Washington Capitals 5-1 on Thursday.
  Tyler Bertuzzi, with two goals to give him six in his last seven games, Conner Dewar and Bobby McMann provided the rest of the offence for Toronto (41-22-9).
  Nic Dowd replied for Washington (36-27-9). Charlie Lindgren stopped 43 shots.
  Woll was solid after giving up a goal on the first shot
  
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• Senators win fourth straight by blanking Blackhawks 2-0

  29-03-2024 02:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators are riding a four-game winning streak following a 2-0 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night thanks to Anton Forsberg’s 19-save shutout performance.
  The win was Ottawa’s first against Chicago since Dec. 20, 2016, snapping an 11-game losing skid.
  The Senators (31-36-4) got first-period contributions from Claude Giroux and Parker Kelly.
  Peter Mrazek had a rough first period for the Blackhawks, but settled in and stopped 32 shots.
  Fans piled
  
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• Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession

  29-03-2024 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAXCO, Mexico (AP) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession.
  On the eve of Good Friday, men walk through the colonial streets of Taxco wearing hoods, whipping themselves or carrying heavy bundles of thorns in penitence. That and other Holy Week processions date back centuries in the old silver-mining town.
  The
  
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• Scheffler shoots impressive 5 under, trails by one at Houston Open

  29-03-2024 01:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had his 28th consecutive round under par to start the year, a 5-under 65 on Thursday that left him one shot behind Taylor Moore and Wilson Furr in the Houston Open.
  Scheffler also extended his streak to 49 holes without a bogey dating to the third round of The Players Championship two weeks ago, where he became the first back-to-back winner in the 50 years of the PGA Tour’s flagship event.
  The streak that matters is his bid for a third straight PGA To
  
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• Emil Anderson issues travel advisory for Hope ahead of possible anti-carbon tax protest Monday

  29-03-2024 00:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Emil Anderson Maintenance, the provincial contractor tasked with maintaining highway and bridge maintenance services in the Fraser Valley since 1996, has issued a travel advisory for the Hope area ahead of a possible anti-carbon tax protest scheduled for Monday, April 1.According to a memo posted on its Facebook and Twitter pages, Emil Anderson Maintenance says it is alerting the public to possible traffic disruptions in and around Hope.“The traffic disruptions may result from
  
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• Jays play long ball to open season with 8-2 win over Rays

  29-03-2024 00:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — George Springer, Cavan Biggio and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered Thursday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a season-opening 8-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
  Alejandro Kirk and Bo Bichette drove in two runs apiece for the Blue Jays, who scored five times in the sixth inning after being limited to one hit — Springer’s solo homer in the fourth — off Rays’ starter Zach Eflin (0-1) through five innings.
  José Berríos (1-0), mak
  
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