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• Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria can stay for now, advocates say

  02-04-2024 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Advocates for a Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria say they have been granted temporary permission to stay in Canada.
  Quebec legislature member Guillaume Cliche-Rivard says an April 5 deportation order has been cancelled for Deborah Adegboye, her husband and their children.
  Cliche-Rivard, who is also an immigration lawyer, says federal immigration officials have granted the family a temporary residence permit that will allow them to remain in the country while they
  
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• PWHL effect infuses 2024 women’s world hockey championship

  02-04-2024 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UTICA, N.Y. — How the new Professional Women’s Hockey League will change the international game is the buzz heading into the 2024 women’s world hockey championship.
  The 10-country tournament opening Wednesday in Utica, N.Y., is the first world championship since the six-team PWHL began operating Jan. 1 in Canada and the United States.
  The rosters of defending champion U.S. and rival Canada are dominated by PWHL players with a combined 30. 
  “It’s one of the firs
  
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• B.C. to ban some ‘personal use’ evictions, stop rent increases over new children

  02-04-2024 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is making changes to rental laws, stopping bad-faith evictions, protecting families who add a child and helping landlords who have problematic tenants. 
  Premier David Eby says some landlords are tempted to use the “personal use” rule as an excuse to evict long-term tenants paying lower rents and then will quickly rent the unit to people paying much higher market rates.
  Changes to the laws would ban evictions for personal use in pu
  
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• Police investigate multi-tractor crash as carbon-levy protests continue in Alberta

  02-04-2024 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COCHRANE, ALBERTA, CANADA — Mounties in Alberta say they’re keeping traffic moving on the Trans-Canada Highway despite a roadside carbon-levy protest, and say five large farm tractors have already caused a multi-vehicle crash.
  Protesters slowed traffic on the Trans-Canada just west of Calgary on Monday to protest the scheduled hike in the federal carbon levy, which boosted gas prices at the pumps by about three cents a litre.
  That protest has continued but police say traffic is movin
  
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• Repair Cafe in Chilliwack to fix community's broken things - Chilliwack Progress

  02-04-2024 22:59 via news.google.com
  
  Repair Cafe in Chilliwack to fix community's broken things  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. records net loss of more than 8,600 in interprovincial migration in 2023

  02-04-2024 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia had more people moving out to other provinces in 2023 than those coming in the opposite direction for the first time in more than a decade, according to figures from Statistics Canada.
  The agency said B.C. recorded a net loss of 8,624 people in interprovincial migration last year, something that hasn’t happened since 2012.
  B.C. Premier David Eby said in response to the numbers that he is aware of the concerning trend and is taking the issue “head on,
  
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• B.C. Green Party has yet to field a candidate in two Chilliwack ridings

  02-04-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — For a political party that once received nearly 17 per cent of the provincial vote seven years ago, the B.C. Green Party under leader Sonia Furstenau may have its work cut out for itself going into this year’s election.
  With only five months until the writ drops for the 43rd provincial general election, the Greens have fielded less than 12 candidates among 93 ridings, and is polling at approximately 9.6 per cent in the latest Mainstreet Research survey. Another poll from
  
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• Boy, 11, killed by large dogs while visiting Edmonton home

  02-04-2024 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Police say an 11-year-old boy has died after he was attacked by two large dogs in an Edmonton home.
  Officers responded to the attack at the home in the city’s south side on Monday night.
  Police say the boy was severely injured and officers attempted life-saving measures until paramedics arrived.
  He was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The two dogs have been seized by animal control officers.
  Police say the owner of the dogs lives in the home where the boy had been visiting.&n
  
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• Family and friends recall ‘brave’ and ‘selfless’ aid workers killed in Israeli airstrike

  02-04-2024 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world Tuesday, as friends and relatives mourned the losses of those who were delivering food to besieged Palestinians with the charity World Central Kitchen.
  Killed were three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian. Some had traveled the world, participating in aid efforts in the aftermath of wars, earthquakes and wildfires.
  Not all of the workers h
  
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• B.C. introduces bill for First Nations land acquisition, holding rights

  02-04-2024 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government has introduced a bill that would give federally recognized First Nations the legal right to acquire and hold land in the province.
  B.C.’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations says in a statement that the changes to land title and property laws would allow First Nations to register at the land title office, “reducing discriminatory and racist barriers” for them to own land. 
  The statement says First Nations in the province ar
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps stand to profit if Bayern Munich sells Alphonso Davies

  02-04-2024 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Count the Vancouver Whitecaps among those watching Alphonso Davies’ future with Bayern Munich with interest.
  The Whitecaps will benefit from any future transfer, thanks to a sell-on clause negotiated in the Canadian star’s sale to the German powerhouse in July 2018. At the time, the Whitecaps said the fixed transfer fee and “additional compensation” could total more than US$22 million, a then-record for the league.
  A Whitecaps spokesman confirmed that the transfer agreeme
  
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• Suspension for Blue Jays reliever Genesis Cabrera trimmed to two games from three

  02-04-2024 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Toronto Blue Jays reliever Genesis Cabrera will begin serving his suspension Tuesday night after his three-game ban was reduced to two games on appeal.
  MLB announced the suspension on Sunday but Cabrera was available to the team during the appeal process. A settlement on the discipline was confirmed Tuesday afternoon by a Blue Jays spokesperson.
  On Saturday, Cabrera shoved Jose Caballero after the Rays shortstop was tagged out at third base in Toronto’s 5-1 loss to Tampa B
  
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• Leafs D Morgan Rielly set to return from injury; Marner ‘unlikely’ to play Wednesday

  02-04-2024 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly is ready to return.
  Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe told reporters following Tuesday’s practice the team’s No. 1 blueliner has recovered from an upper-body injury and will be available for Wednesday’s home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
  The 30-year-old Rielly, who has missed the last four contests, sits fifth in team scoring with seven goals and 44 assists in 65 games this season.
  Keefe added that star winger Mitch Ma
  
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• Court hears bid to toss Ibrahim Ali’s first-degree murder verdict over delays

  02-04-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The lawyer for a man found guilty of killing a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl is asking a judge to stay the jury’s verdict over unreasonable delays in getting the man to trial. 
  Ibrahim Ali has been in custody and charged with first-degree murder for more than 63 months, which his lawyer Kevin McCullough told a B.C. Supreme Court judge is more than double the allowable threshold set out by the Supreme Court of Canada. 
  Ali’s lawyer brought the so-called J
  
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• Blackhawks centre Connor Bedard named NHL rookie of the month for March

  02-04-2024 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Chicago Blackhawks centre Connor Bedard has been named the NHL’s rookie of the month for March.
  Bedard, from North Vancouver, B.C., had four goals and 13 assists in 14 games last month.
  He had a goal and four assists in a 7-2 win over Anaheim on March 12, becoming the fifth 18-year-old in NHL history to put up five points in a game.
  Bedard, the first-overall pick at the 2023 NHL draft, leads all rookies this season in goals (21), assists (36) and points (57) through 60 app
  
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• Poilievre requests Trudeau call meeting with premiers opposing federal carbon price

  02-04-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is requesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convene an emergency meeting with the country’s premiers to discuss the federal carbon price. 
  Poilievre circulated the letter today on social media following the $15-per-tonne increase to the consumer carbon price that kicked in on Monday.
  He has spent the past month travelling across the country, including in the Greater Toronto Area, Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, hosting &ld
  
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• Man convicted of murder in 2015 deaths of three eastern Ontario women dies in prison

  02-04-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An Ontario man convicted of murdering three women in Renfrew County has died in prison of what officials say were natural causes.
  The Correctional Service Canada says Basil Borutski died March 28 at Millhaven Institution in Ontario where he was serving at least a 70-year sentence for first and second-degree murder.
  Borutski was convicted in 2017 of first-degree murder in the deaths of 36-year-old Anastasia Kuzyk and 48-year-old Nathalie Warmerdam, and of second-degree murder in th
  
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• David Loewen - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  02-04-2024 18:48 via news.google.com
  
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• Injured Quinn, Smith drop out of Canada women’s roster for SheBelieves Cup

  02-04-2024 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Midfielder Quinn and midfielder/forward Olivia Smith have dropped out of Canada’s squad for the SheBelieves Cup due to injuries sustained at their clubs.
  They have been replaced by Emma Regan and Marie-Yasmine Alidou.
  Ninth-ranked Canada opens play against No. 10 Brazil on Saturday while the fourth-ranked U.S. faces No. 7 Japan, also in Atlanta. The two winners will face off for the title April 9 in Columbus while the losers meet to decide third place.
  The 28-year-old Quinn, who has won 10
  
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• Witnesses sought in possible hit-and-run: Mission RCMP

  02-04-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are looking for witnesses in connection with a possible hit-and-run that left a 20-year-old man with non-life-threatening injuries.
  Corporal Harrison Mohr with the Mission RCMP detachment says a South Asian male had just gotten off the No. 32 bus around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27 in the vicinity of 7th Avenue and Blott Street in Mission. The male was wearing a grey and black jacket, a grey hoody and blue jeans. He only walked a short distance before an unknow
  
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• Ottawa to launch $6B infrastructure fund to help build homes — with strings attached

  02-04-2024 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says upcoming federal budget will include a $6-billion infrastructure fund to support homebuilding, as well as a $400-million top-up to the housing accelerator fund.Trudeau is in Halifax alongside Housing Minister Sean Fraser as part of the government’s pre-budget tour, which aims to drum up attention and win back support on cost-of-living issues.The federal government says $1 billion will be available to cities for urgent infrastructure needs,
  
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• Biden and Xi hold first call since November summit, Chinese state media reports

  02-04-2024 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Tuesday in their first call since their November summit in California, Chinese state media reported.
  China’s state broadcaster said the two leaders exchanged views on China-US relations and on issues of mutual concern. The call comes amid rising tensions in the South China Sea and ahead of next month’s inauguration of Taiwan’s new president.Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
  
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• Carson Wentz agrees to a 1-year deal with the Chiefs to back up Patrick Mahomes, AP source says

  02-04-2024 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Carson Wentz has agreed to a one-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
  The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract hasn’t been announced.
  Wentz, the No. 2 overall pick in 2016, joins his fifth team in five years to back up three-time Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes. He spent last season with the Rams and led Los Angeles to a victory in the final game in his only start.
  Blaine Gabbert backed up Mah
  
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• Fire at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations kills at least 29 people

  02-04-2024 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations on Tuesday killed at least 29 people, officials and reports said. Several people, including managers of the club, were detained for questioning.
  At least one person was being treated at a hospital, the Istanbul governor’s office said in a statement.
  The Masquerade nightclub, which was closed for renovations, was on the ground and basement floors of a 16-story residential building in the Besiktas district on the Europe
  
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• Olynyk thriving as Raptors playmaking centre with Poeltl, Quickley and Barnes out

  02-04-2024 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — When starting point guard Immanuel Quickley stepped away from the Toronto Raptors, it was not obvious who would set up the team’s offence. All-star forward Scottie Barnes usually took over play-making duties with the team’s second unit, but he was already out with a broken hand.
  Enter six-foot-11 backup centre Kelly Olynyk.
  “Someone’s got to do it,” laughed Olynyk on Monday a day after leading Toronto with 11 assists in a 135-120 loss to the visiting
  
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• Canada’s Gushue tops New Zealand’s Hood 7-4 at world men’s curling championship

  02-04-2024 14:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SCHAFFHAUSEN — Canada’s Brad Gushue improved to 4-1 following a 7-4 nine-end victory over New Zealand’s Anton Hood at the world men’s curling championship on Tuesday.
  The two teams traded singles through the opening four ends before Gushue took control of things in the fifth with a steal of one, followed by a deuce in the sixth end to grab a 5-2 lead. 
  Canada maintained control, holding New Zealand (0-5) to one point in the seventh end, scoring two in the eighth, and
  
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• Single mom of two boys left homeless after weekend fire in Cultus Lake

  02-04-2024 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CULTUS LAKE — A single mom and her two boys ages 10 and 3 have been left homeless after their dryer caught fire and led to a structure fire at her home Sunday (Mar. 31), destroying their residence on Spruce Street in Cultus Lake.According to information from a GoFundMe started by local resident Ainsley Murdock, Serena and her boys, Lynden and Theo, lost everything when the home’s dryer caught fire and spread throughout the home within minutes at around 4:30 p.m. on Easter Sunday.The
  
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• Canadian-American citizen among seven aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

  02-04-2024 14:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Canadian-American citizen is among the seven aid workers who were killed by an apparent Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
  The World Central Kitchen says three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an Canadian-American dual citizen and a Palestinian working for the charity were in the process of delivering food that had arrived by sea on Monday when they were struck in the evening.
  The charity, which was founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and operates in several countri
  
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• One man detained following police incident on Watson Road in Chilliwack Monday evening

  02-04-2024 14:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — At least 10 police officers, including the presence of the Emergency Response Team, surrounded a home in a strata complex at 45286 Watson Road Monday evening, culminating in the detention and possible arrest of a male around 6 p.m.Social media abruptly lit up with reports of a heavy police presence in and around the Watson Willows townhouse complex. At least nine police units were stationed on both sides of Watson Road, including two that impeded access to the complex in its t
  
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• Senegal swears in former opposition figure, recently freed from prison, as new president

  02-04-2024 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal inaugurated Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president on Tuesday, completing the previously little-known opposition figure’s dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks.
  Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March 24 election, along with popular opposition figure and mentor Ousmane Sonko, following a political amnesty announced by outgoing President Macky Sall. It is the former tax inspector’s first time in ele
  
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• What is World Central Kitchen and how has it helped people in Gaza?

  02-04-2024 13:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip after an apparent Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners.
  The group, which said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region soon, has been bringing desperately-needed food to Gazans facing widespread hunger and pioneered the recently launched effort to deliver aid by sea to Gaza. Its absence, even if temporary, is likely
  
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• In the news today: Key politicians to testify at foreign interference inquiry today

  02-04-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
  Han Dong to address foreign interference inquiry
  A federal inquiry into foreign interference is set to hear from the Independent MP at the centre of allegations about foreign meddling in Canadian elections.
  Han Dong left the Liberal caucus after it was alleged he willingly participated in Chinese interference efforts and won his seat with Beijing’s help in 2019 &mda
  
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• 3 children wounded in a school shooting in Helsinki, police detain a suspect

  02-04-2024 10:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — A shooting at a school in southern Finland wounded three children on Tuesday and police said a suspect was detained.Police said they received an alert at 09:08 a.m. over a shooting incident at a lower secondary school with some 800 pupils in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki.The Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat said the suspect was caught in the Helsinki area later Tuesday.No other details were immediately available.The Associated Press
  
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• Stranded orca calf remains in B.C. lagoon, breaching at regular intervals

  02-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZEBALLOS, B.C. — A stranded killer whale calf is showing signs of regular activity as it breaches every seven to 10 minutes in a lagoon near the northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos.
  The two year-old orca has been alone in the lagoon near Little Espinosa Inlet since March 23 when its mother became trapped by the low tide and died on the rocky beach.
  The orca calf is rising out of the water from a mid-section of the lagoon but it is staying clear of the narrow exit area that leads
  
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• Federal review must include Canada’s underreported forestry emissions: Enviro groups

  02-04-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nearly a dozen environmental groups are calling on the federal government to expand its review of Canada’s forestry sector emissions, saying the current scope fails to address their concerns about underreporting. 
  In an open letter, the groups say the federal government’s review must consider how forestry emissions are estimated in the first place.   
  The letter, signed by representatives from 11 environmental groups including Nature Canada, says the review’s sco
  
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• Uber legacy: Class-action lawsuit by taxi drivers against Quebec begins

  02-04-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A trial opens Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit accusing the Quebec government of wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars in the value of taxi permits by allowing ride-hailing company Uber to operate and then by abolishing the permit system.
  The government’s negligence led to the disguised expropriation of taxi licences — without proper compensation — in areas where Uber was offering its services, says the lawsuit by former permit holders.
  Quebec allowed Ube
  
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• MP Han Dong, political party officials set to address foreign interference inquiry

  02-04-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A federal inquiry into foreign interference is set to hear from the Independent MP at the centre of allegations about foreign meddling in Canadian elections.
  Han Dong left the Liberal caucus after it was alleged he willingly participated in Chinese interference efforts and won his seat with Beijing’s help in 2019 — claims he denies.
  Special rapporteur David Johnston found last May that there were “irregularities” observed with Dong’s 2019 nomination a
  
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• Roy Irwin - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  02-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP arrest man following theft and alleged threats - Abbotsford News

  02-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Aid group says Israeli strike kills 7 of its workers in Gaza, including foreigners

  02-04-2024 07:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike killed six international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver, the aid group said Tuesday, hours after it brought a new shipload of food into northern Gaza, which has been isolated and pushed to the brink of famine by Israel’s offensive.
  Footage showed the bodies of the dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Several of them wore protective gea
  
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• Blue Jackets score three goals in the second period to beat the Avalanche

  02-04-2024 07:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alex Nylander scored twice and the Columbus Blue Jackets used a three-goal second period to beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-1 Monday night for their second straight home win.
  Kirill Marchenko had a goal and an assist, Cole Sillinger also scored and Eric Gudbranson had two assists for last-place Columbus, which won consecutive games for just the fourth time this season. Daniil Tarasov stopped 46 shots in his first game against the Avalanche.
  Chris Wagner scored and Justus Annunen had 21 saves for t
  
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• Demonstrators gather for Monday’s anti-carbon tax protest between Chilliwack and Hope; RCMP say no arrests made

  02-04-2024 06:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Demonstrators opposed to the increase in the carbon gas tax, and the entire carbon tax itself, gathered at the Hope Scale between Chilliwack and Hope Monday morning and afternoon (Apr. 1), waving flags and calling for an end to the carbon tax in a boisterous but peaceful gathering at the commercial weigh station under sunny skies and spring-like temperatures.
  According to video footage provided by Alexis Osorio, and provided with permission to Fraser Valley Today, demonstrator
  
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• Brandon Saad scores in OT to help the Blues beat the Oilers 3-2

  02-04-2024 06:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brandon Saad scored 2:09 into overtime, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Monday night.
  Brayden Schenn scored twice and Jordan Binnington stopped 35 shots to help St. Louis improve to 8-2-1 in its last 11 games. The Blues are three points behind Los Angeles for the second wild card in the Western Conference.
  Mattias Ekholm and Leon Draisaitl scored, and Stuart Skinner made 26 saves for Edmonton, which had won three straight.
  Saad scored his 25th goal
  
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• Paige Bueckers lifts UConn back to the Final Four with 80-73 win over JuJu Watkins and USC

  02-04-2024 06:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After being a spectator a year ago, Paige Bueckers is headed back to the Final Four after scoring 28 points and lifting UConn to a 80-73 win over Southern California in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Monday night.
  Bueckers outdueled fabulous USC freshman All-American JuJu Watkins, sparking a decisive run over the final five minutes that sent third-seeded UConn (33-5) to its 23rd national semifinal, the most of any school. Leading 65-64, the Huskies scored 11 str
  
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• Perfetti pots three points as Winnipeg Jets edge L.A. Kings 4-3

  02-04-2024 05:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Cole Perfetti scored twice and Kyle Connor contributed a trio of assists as the Winnipeg Jets snapped a six-game losing skid with a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.
  The Jets went on the game’s first power play midway through third period with the score tied 3-3. Perfetti fired a low shot past Kings goalie Cam Talbot two seconds after the man advantage expired.
  Josh Morrissey had a goal and assist and Sean Monahan also scored for the Jets (45-24-6). Perfett
  
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• Houston’s Blanco throws the first no-hitter in the majors this season in a 10-0 win over Toronto

  02-04-2024 04:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Ronel Blanco of the Houston Astros threw the first no-hitter in the major leagues this season, blanking the Toronto Blue Jays 10-0 on Monday night.
  The right-hander struck out seven and walked two. He walked George Springer to start the game and again with two outs in the ninth. When Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded out to end it, Blanco smiled broadly before raising his arms above his head just before being mobbed by teammates.It was the 17th no-hitter in Astros history and t
  
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• Matthews scores two more, Leafs hang on to beat Panthers in potential playoff preview

  02-04-2024 03:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 61st and 62nd goals of the season to go along with an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs built a 5-1 lead before hanging on late to down the Florida Panthers 6-4 in a potential first-round playoff preview Monday.
  Nick Robertson and Matthew Knies also had a goal and an assist each for Toronto (43-22-9), while Tyler Bertuzzi and David Kampf provided the rest of the offence. 
  Ilya Samsonov made 27 saves for the Leafs, who were minus five re
  
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• Josh Jung, Adolis García homer to power Rangers to 9-3 rout of Rays

  02-04-2024 03:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Dane Dunning took a one-hitter into the seventh inning and Josh Jung homered and drove in four runs Monday night to lead the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers to a 9-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
  In a rematch of clubs that met during the Rangers’ postseason run last fall, Dunning limited the Rays to Jose Siri’s third-inning double until Richie Palacios homered with one out in the seventh.
  The right-hander didn’t retire another
  
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• Caitlin Clark leads Iowa back to Final Four, scoring 41 points in 94-87 win over defending champ LSU

  02-04-2024 03:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Caitlin Clark made nine 3-pointers and finished with 41 points and 12 assists in a sensational performance as Iowa knocked defending national champion LSU out of the women’s NCAA Tournament with a 94-87 victory on Monday night, advancing the Hawkeyes to their second straight Final Four.
  Top-seeded Iowa (33-4) will play either UConn or Southern California in the national semifinals Friday night in Cleveland.
  “This one probably feels a little bit better. It&rs
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs ink Quinnipiac University standout Jacob Quillan

  02-04-2024 02:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed Quinnipiac University forward Jacob Quillan. 
  The team announced Monday it has agreed to a two-year entry-level contract with the 22-year-old native of Dartmouth, N.S. 
  The deal carries an average annual value of US$875,000 and begins in 2024-25.  
  Quillan had 17 goals and 29 assists in 39 games for Quinnipiac this season and was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s best defensive forward. 
  The six-foot, 201
  
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