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• Canadian Zach Edey goes big and sends Purdue to first Final Four since 1980 with a 72-66 win over Tennessee

  31-03-2024 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Purdue big man Zach Edey went for a career-high 40 points along with 16 rebounds and one big block Sunday to muscle the Boilermakers into the program’s first Final Four since 1980 with a 72-66 victory over Tennessee.
  The 7-foot-4 center, from Toronto, willed his way to a win in a back-and-forth thriller between the country’s top two players, edging out Tennessee’s All-American, Dalton Knecht, who finished with 37 points.
  Fittingly for this showdown, Edey sw
  
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• Turner homers and drives in 4 runs as Blue Jays gained split of 4-game series by beating Rays 9-2

  31-03-2024 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Justin Turner homered and drove in four runs as the Toronto Blue Jays gained a spit of a four-game series by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 9-2 on Sunday,
  After winning the opener 8-1 on Thursday, the Blue Jays were outscored 13-3 in losing the next two games. Toronto is 20-35 in road games against Tampa Bay since the start of the 2018 season.
  Randy Arozarena homered for the Rays. He also went deep in Saturday’s 5-1 win.
  Toronto ace Kevin Gausman, on a pitch c
  
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• Chilliwack City Council expected to invest in recycling infrastructure as Earth Month arrives

  31-03-2024 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — With the arrival of Earth Month in April, Chilliwack City Council is being asked to put their money where their mouth is and fund improvements at the Bailey Sanitary Landfill Recycling Depot.
  When Council meets Tuesday (Apr. 2), it will be considering a staff recommendation to purchase three refurbished compactors at a cost of nearly $90 thousand.
  According to the staff report, the facility can reduce the amount of trips required to truck recyclables out of the collection site
  
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• Small forest fire put out in Oka provincial park as Quebec fire season starts early

  31-03-2024 22:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A small forest fire has been extinguished in a provincial park west of Montreal, signalling an early start to the 2024 wildfire season.
  A spokesman for Quebec’s forest fire prevention society, known as SOPFEU, says the fire that broke out Saturday in Oka park was likely caused by a discarded cigarette. 
  Stéphane Caron said the 2.1-hectare blaze was put out by local fire departments, with firefighters from SOPFEU arriving earlier today to extinguish the remainin
  
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• Man fatally stabbed in Victoria, second person injured, police say

  31-03-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Police in Victoria are investigating after one person was killed in an alleged stabbing and a second was seriously injured.
  They say officers were called to the 700-block of Pandora Avenue at approximately 4 a.m. Sunday morning and found the body of a man.
  Police say a second victim was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  A statement from the Victoria Police Department does not provide details on the gender of the second victim.
  The statement says one person wa
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski, New Zealand’s Routliffe fall in Miami Open women’s doubles final

  31-03-2024 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe were on the wrong end of a comeback, falling 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 to Americans Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the Miami Open women’s doubles final on Sunday.
  After taking the first set, Ottawa’s Dabrowski and Routliffe found themselves behind 5-1 in the second.
  However, they forced a tiebreaker in which they fell behind 5-1 in as well before trying to rally but ultimately losing the set.
  In
  
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• Ontario man now holds world record as oldest kidney transplant recipient

  31-03-2024 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Walter Tauro says he didn’t even know what Guinness World Records were before he was recognized by the popular British corporation as the world’s oldest kidney transplant recipient earlier this month.
  “I never heard of it,” the 88-year-old said with a laugh during a Sunday phone interview from his home in Markham, Ont.
  But once he learned more about the organization that tracks human achievements and the extremes of the natural world, the retired realtor said he feels hap
  
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• Turkey’s opposition appears set to retain key cities, preliminary local election results show

  31-03-2024 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party appeared set to retain its control over key cities in Sunday’s local elections, preliminary results showed, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas.With some 20% of the votes counted, incumbent mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, was leading in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city and economic hub — according t
  
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• Vermont police warn drivers returning from Montreal to check for hidden GPS devices

  31-03-2024 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Police in Burlington, Vt. say its residents are finding hidden AirTags and other GPS tracking devices on vehicles returning from Montreal.
  The Burlington Police Department said last week that it had received two separate reports in the past month from residents who discovered the devices on their vehicles.
  The force says the technology is allegedly being placed there by criminals, and is asking anyone who notices a suspicious device on their vehicle to call police.
  The warning c
  
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• Jays’ Cabrera handed three-game suspension, fine for role in bench-clearing incident

  31-03-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Génesis Cabrera has received a three-game suspension and a fine for his role in a bench-clearing incident in a 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay on Saturday.
  The amount of the fine of was undisclosed. However, Cabrera has filed an appeal so the discipline will be held in abeyance until the appeal process is complete.
  Cabrera shoved Rays shortstop Jose Caballero in the jaw in the midst of a verbal exchange after Caballero was tagged out at third base in the bottom of the seve
  
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• Indigenous music, fundraiser, folk songs coming to Chilliwack venue - Chilliwack Progress

  31-03-2024 18:30 via news.google.com
  
  Indigenous music, fundraiser, folk songs coming to Chilliwack venue  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Gushue tops defending champ Mouat of Scotland 8-4 at men’s curling worlds

  31-03-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland — Canada’s Brad Gushue improved to 3-0 following an 8-4 win over defending champion Bruce Mouat of Scotland at the world men’s curling championship on Sunday.
  Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., jumped out to a 4-1 edge through five ends before Mouat made a push.
  The Scottish rink made it a 6-4 game with two points in the eighth end.
  However, Gushue was able to reply with two of his own in the ninth before Mouat conceded the game.
  The game was a remat
  
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• ‘It’s the same game’: Playoff-bound Canucks look to veterans for post-season lessons

  31-03-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ian Cole vividly recalls how he felt before skating out for his first NHL playoff game. 
  “Honestly, I just remember being scared,” he said, punctuating his sentence with a mild expletive. 
  “You’re so scared because you know how important it is. You’re like ‘Just don’t make a mistake! Don’t make a mistake! Don’t make a mistake!’” 
  The fear didn’t last, but Cole’s playoff career did. The
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of March 31, 2024

  31-03-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Clayton SmithAge: 44
  Height: 5’7” ft Weight: 260lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Green
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: March 12, 2024Parole Jurisdiction: North Vancouver
  Name: Stephen MartinAge: 65
  Height: 6’1” ft Weight: 201lbs
  Hair: Black/Grey – Balding
  Wanted: Assault and Breach of Undertaking
  Warrant in effect: March 26, 2024
  Paro
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs clinch second with win in Nanaimo

  31-03-2024 14:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO — Matt Argentina’s shorthanded goal early in the third period snapped a tie and lifted the Chilliwack Chiefs to a 3 – 2 victory in Nanaimo Saturday night.With the win the Chiefs clinched second place in the BCHL Coastal Division in their final regular season game.Stone Rolston and Willyam Gendron also scored goals for Chilliwack who ended the season with a three-game winning streak.The Chiefs will open the playoffs Friday night at the Chilliwack Coliseum against the Lan
  
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• Nunavut celebrates 25th anniversary with optimism but also housing concerns

  31-03-2024 14:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — P.J. Akeeagok was a teenager in a tiny hamlet on the tip of Ellesmere Island, watching with anticipation when Nunavut was officially born. 
  Twenty-five years later, he is the premier of Canada’s youngest territory.
  “There was so much excitement, so much optimism in the air,” Akeeagok recalls of the time around April 1, 1999, when the map of Canada was redrawn to carve Nunavut out of the eastern half of the old Northwest Territories.
  “But we w
  
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• Ukrainians with Canadian visas face agonizing decisions about the future

  31-03-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — It was 4:40 in the morning when bombs started to drop on Lilyia Dvornichenko’s hometown of Kharkiv in Ukraine, just an hour from the Russian border.
  Her jaw is set and her tone is matter-of-fact as she describes the first terrifying moments two years ago when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of her country. 
  “Everybody thought it was gonna be over tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow it will be over,” she says, recalling her journey while sitting in a hotel cof
  
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• ‘Like a cartel:’ Shootings point to turf war over rights to screen South Indian films

  31-03-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The day Thomas Sajan was expecting to see a South Indian action epic at a theatre in British Columbia, a spate of shootings thousands of kilometres away disrupted his plans. 
  Sajan, a self-described South Indian film fanatic, said he had been waiting months to see Malaikottai Vaaliban, a blockbuster Malayalam-language film about an aging warrior who reigns over a vast desert.  
  Hours before the scheduled showtimein late January, Cineplex sent a message saying
  
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• Group of Tim Hortons franchisees in Quebec sue brand owner for $18.9 million

  31-03-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Several Quebec Tim Hortons franchisees are taking the brand’s owner to court, blaming what they describe as unreasonable constraints in the company’s licensing agreements for lower-than-expected profits.
  In a lawsuit filed in Quebec Superior Court on Thursday, 16 companies with Tim Hortons franchise licences allege the TDL Group Corp.’s contracts “place it in a position of absolute dominance” over their combined 44 restaurants.
  “Through these
  
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• Nazem Kadri paces Flames to 4-2 win over Kings with goal and assist

  31-03-2024 07:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Nazem Kadri had a goal and an assist for the Calgary Flames in a 4-2 win over the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.
  Martin Pospisil, Blake Coleman and MacKenzie Weegar also scored for the Flames (34-34-5) who halted a five-game losing skid. 
  Andrei Kuzmenko contributed a pair of assists. Calgary goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 16 saves for the win.
  But with nine games remaining in the regular season, the Flames were all but out of playoff contention. Calgary posted a 5
  
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• Canadian featherweight Kyle (The Monster) Nelson wins third straight in the UFC

  31-03-2024 07:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Canadian featherweight Kyle (The Monster) Nelson won his third straight UFC fight Saturday, stopping American (Senor Perfecto) Bill Algeo in the first round on a UFC Fight Night card.
  The 32-year-old from Huntsville, Ont., who also spends time training in Stoney Creek, Ont., is now unbeaten in his last four fights (3-0-1) after losing four of his first five bouts in the promotion.
  Canadian-based Lupita (Loopy) Godinez, ranked 10th among UFC strawweights, lost a decisi
  
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• Late Raposo goal gives Vancouver Whitecaps 3-2 win over Portland Timbers

  31-03-2024 06:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ryan Raposo rescued a win for the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, lifting the Major League Soccer team to a 3-2 win over their regional rivals, the Portland Timbers. 
  Ryan Gauld and Fafa Picault put away first-half strikes for the ‘Caps (3-1-1), but the Timbers (2-3-1) roared back with goals from Evander and substitute Felipe Mora in the second.
  Picault, Ali Ahmed and Alessandro Schopf all contributed assists for the home side.
  Vancouver goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka mad
  
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• Vancouver Canucks clinch first playoff spot since 2020

  31-03-2024 04:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have officially secured a spot in the NHL playoffs, thanks to some help from their Western Conference opponents. 
  The Canucks (45-20-8) were off Saturday, but clinched their berth after the Vegas Golden Knights edged the Minnesota Wild 2-1 in overtime and the slumping San Jose Sharks posted an improbable 4-0 win over the St. Louis Blues. 
  Vancouver has not played a post-season game since the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season when they made it throug
  
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• Matthews scores 60th as Leafs blank Sabres 3-0

  31-03-2024 04:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 60th goal, Ilya Samsonov stopped 34 shots and Toronto beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-0 on Saturday night in front of a distinctly raucous Maple Leafs-backed road crowd.
  Captain John Tavares scored the opening goal in his 1,100th NHL game, and Nicholas Robertson also scored in helping the Maple Leafs maintain their hold on third place in the Atlantic Division.
  Matthews became the league’s first two-time 60-goal scorer in 30 years,
  
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• Sporting Kansas City scores three times in second half to beat Toronto FC 3-1

  31-03-2024 04:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Goalkeeper Luka Gavran kept Toronto in the game for close to an hour before goals by Remi Walter, Jake Davis and Alenis Vargas lifted Sporting Kansas City to a 3-1 win over Toronto FC in Major League Soccer play on Saturday.
  Jonathan Osorio scored a consolation goal for Toronto in the 97th minute, knocking home a Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty cross.
  It was an entertaining first half with no goals but some big saves at both ends. Gavran, continuing to deputize for injured starter Sean J
  
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• Senators win fifth straight by beating Jets 3-2

  31-03-2024 04:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Brady Tkachuk scored the winning goal on the power play with 1:45 left in the game to give the Ottawa Senators a 3-2 victory over the wallowing Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night.
  Ridly Greig and Boris Katchouk also scored for the Senators.
  Mark Scheifele and Nikolaj Ehlers replied for Winnipeg.
  Joonas Korpisalo made 26 saves for Ottawa (33-36-4), which extended its winning streak to five games.
  Connor Hellebuyck stopped 24 of 27 shots for Winnipeg (44-24-6) before their fourth str
  
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• Hurricanes storm past Canadiens 3-0

  31-03-2024 04:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Carolina Hurricanes’ special teams highlighted a 3-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday at the Centre Bell.
  Jordan Staal, Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis scored for Carolina (47-21-7), which halted Montreal’s (28-33-12) three-game win streak.
  While Carolina opened the game with plenty of offensive pressure, it was Montreal which had the first chance.
  As the first minute expired, Mike Matheson appeared to score from a tight angle, but in reality hit bot
  
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• Two people sent to hospital in Chilliwack fire Saturday - CityNews Vancouver

  31-03-2024 01:50 via news.google.com
  
  Two people sent to hospital in Chilliwack fire Saturday  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• Arozarena homers, drives in two as Rays beat Jays 5-1

  31-03-2024 00:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Randy Arozarena homered and drove in two runs, celebrating his solo shot by signing autographs for fans after returning to the dugout, to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.
  Right-hander Zack Littell (1-0) allowed four singles over six scoreless innings for the Rays, who have won two straight after losing by six runs to their AL East rivals on opening day.
  Arozarena, a first-time All-Star a year ago, had an RBI single
  
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• Eagles tribute band ready to 'take it to the limit' at Chilliwack concert - Chilliwack Progress

  31-03-2024 00:34 via news.google.com
  
  Eagles tribute band ready to 'take it to the limit' at Chilliwack concert  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Scheffler overcomes double bogey, part of 5-way tie in Houston Open

  31-03-2024 00:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Scottie Scheffler made double bogey from what he thought was a good shot, responded with back-to-back birdies and finished with a 4-under 66 on Saturday to be part of a five-way tie for the lead in the Houston Open.
  Scheffler is trying to become the first player since Dustin Johnson in 2017 to win three consecutive PGA Tour starts, and he would appear to be in the pole position among players with so little experience at winning on tour.
  David Skinns, a 42-year-old from Engla
  
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• Dog named ‘Hero’ kept stuck owner warm and safe from coyotes for 2 days: police

  31-03-2024 00:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A dog named Hero lived up to his name earlier this week after spending two days by his stranded master’s side, keeping his owner warm and even fending off coyotes while the man waited to be rescued from a muddy ditch in southern Alberta.
  The dog’s bravery and devotion have earned widespread plaudits online and prompted one local animal rescue organization to raise money to cover vet bills for Hero and other pets inadvertently drawn into the 48-hour saga.
  “It touched my heart. I
  
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