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• UPDATE: Chilliwack fire crews respond to trailer fire in Rosedale - Chilliwack Progress

  31-05-2024 23:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Whitecaps look to capture road momentum for home game against Rapids

  31-05-2024 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It hasn’t been an easy month for the Vancouver Whitecaps.Between Major League Soccer play and a bid to defend their Canadian Championship title, the ‘Caps are playing nine games in six cities in 29 days.
  Now Vanni Sartini is asking his players to make one final push before next week’s international break. He wants the team to once again give its all when Vancouver (6-5-4) hosts the Colorado Rapids (6-6-4) on Saturday.“Put everything that you have in your
  
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• Florida sheriff’s office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home

  31-05-2024 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment.Body camera video shows that when the deputy arrived outside Fortson’s door, he stood silently for 20 seconds outside and listened, but no voices inside a
  
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• Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah placed on 15-day injured list with right elbow sprain

  31-05-2024 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday due to a right elbow sprain and was scheduled for an in-person evaluation with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Keith Meister next week.The 26-year-old right-hander, who missed the first five weeks of the season due to right shoulder inflammation, was removed in the second inning of Wednesday’s 3-1 win in Chicago after experiencing discomfort in his throwing arm.“Alek’s MRI revealed a right
  
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• Cowan fuelled by critics as he aims to keep proving them wrong at Memorial Cup

  31-05-2024 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAGINAW — Easton Cowan’s big-game reputation has only grown this season, but he’s had some added motivation pushing him to another level.
  The star right-winger of the London Knights was drafted in the first round (28th overall) in last year’s NHL draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, going higher than he was projected to go.
  In his only full season with London, he tallied 53 points (20 goals, 33 assists) in 68 regular-season games in 2022-23. He added 21 points (nine goals, 1
  
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• Canadian boxer Mckenzie Wright moves on at Olympic boxing qualifier in Bangkok

  31-05-2024 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BANGKOK — Canadian boxer Mckenzie Wright won a 5-0 decision over Argentina’s Aldana Florencia Lopez on Friday to advance to the round of eight in the women’s 50-kilogram division at a last-ditch Olympic qualifier.
  The 33-year-old from St. Davids, Ont., whose opponent was a bronze medallist at the 2022 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, meets Serbia’s Nina Radovanovic on Saturday.
  But Sara Kali, a 32-year-old from Montreal, lost her round-of-eight bout 5-0 to Ca
  
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• BC United caucus chair Lorne Doerkson defects to Conservatives

  31-05-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The caucus chair for the BC United party is defecting to the BC Conservatives, adding to the woes of the province’s official opposition.
  Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party’s numbers in the legislature to three.
  The move comes after talks between the two right-of-centre parties broke down amid failure to settle on a deal to avoid vote splitting in the fall provincial elec
  
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• BC United MLA defects, joins BC Conservatives

  31-05-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Conservative Party welcomed its third MLA to the party Friday (May 31) following the defection of Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson from BC United.
  According to a news release from the party, Doerkson was first elected as MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin in 2020. Doerkson, a long-time resident of the Cariboo-Chilcotin, has a diverse professional background. He spent 20 years in the newspaper industry, followed by roles in the automobile industry and financial services as a
  
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• Toronto FC gets Laryea back but no firm word on Insigne’s availability for D.C. game

  31-05-2024 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC gets Richie Laryea back after a three-month injury absence but Lorenzo Insigne’s status is uncertain ahead of Saturday’s game at D.C. United.
  Insigne missed Wednesday’s scoreless draw in Philadelphia to be back in Naples, Italy, for the birth of his third son, Mattia.
  “We’re doing everything we can on our side (to get him back). He is as well,” coach John Herdman said Friday. “There’s just one little wrinkle we’re trying to get ove
  
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• Irma Cooper-Burgermeister - Obituary - - Chilliwack Progress

  31-05-2024 22:16 via news.google.com
  
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• Serial killer Robert Pickton dies following prison assault

  31-05-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Serial killer Robert Pickton has died after he was assaulted in prison earlier this month, Quebec provincial police and Correctional Service Canada say.
  The correctional service says Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, died on Friday at the age of 74.
  It says in a statement that Pickton’s next of kin have been notified as well as victims who had registered to be told.
  It says an investigation is underway into the May 19 assault that involved anot
  
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• Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to murder Connecticut mom

  31-05-2024 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman convicted of helping her boyfriend plot and cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, during contentious divorce and child custody proceedings in Connecticut was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.
  A state judge in Stamford handed down the punishment to Michelle Troconis in the 2019 disappearance of Dulos, whose body has never been found since she disappeared from her New Canaan home.
  Troconis, 49, was convicted in March of conspiracy to
  
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• Yuka Saso and Minjee Lee set a target below par at tough Women’s Open

  31-05-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Minjee Lee and Yuka Saso, recent champions of the strongest test of golf, set the target Friday morning with a few mistakes, a few birdies and a steady diet of pars to share the lead midway through the second round of the U.S. Women’s Open.
  Lee, whose two majors include a Women’s Open at Pine Needles two years ago, made consecutive bogeys at the turn and then played mistake-free the rest of the way for a 1-under 69 at Lancaster Country Club.
  Saso, the Wome
  
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• NBA’s Mavs and NHL’s Stars chase a Dallas double with their deepest playoff run together

  31-05-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dereck Lively II of the Dallas Mavericks tossed the question back at the reporter when the rookie centre was asked if he knew why so many fans shouted “Stars” during the national anthem at his home games.
  “You tell me why,” Lively said, prompting the explanation that supporters of Dallas’ NBA team were offering a shout-out to fans of the NHL’s Stars, who for years have yelled their team’s nickname both times it comes up during “
  
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• US leaders invite Israel’s Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress

  31-05-2024 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Gaza.
  The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, along with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, has been in the works for
  
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• ‘Surely the dumbest’: Tories, NDP sling mud amid squabbles over Speakers’ neutrality

  31-05-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat as accusations fly over allegedly partisan online posts featuring MPs who sit in the Speaker’s chair.The squabbles over chair-holders’ neutrality — and parties’ hypocrisy — have been dominating the lead-up to a parliamentary summer break.
  Conservatives are chiding the NDP for posting the title of deputy assistant Speaker Carol Hughes on a party website near donation buttons, and for announcing
  
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• Judge approves settlement agreement for Nova Scotia’s Northern Pulp mill

  31-05-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has approved a settlement agreement between the owners of the Northern Pulp mill and the Nova Scotia government.
  The agreement is the result of a court-ordered mediation that began in April 2022 as part of the company’s creditor protection proceedings.
  Under the deal approved during a hearing today by Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, mill owner Paper Excellence has withdrawn a $450-million lawsuit against the province and will abandon pl
  
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• UVA to pay $9 million related to shooting that killed 3 football players, wounded 2 students

  31-05-2024 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday.
  The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, said Kimberly Wald, an attorney with the Miami-based Haggard Law firm, which represents the estate of D’Sean Perry. The other
  
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• Stars forward Jason Robertson feeling brotherly love in Western Conference final

  31-05-2024 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS — Jason Robertson is feeling the love in the Stanley Cup playoffs.The Dallas Stars winger scored his first post-season hat trick in Game 3 of the Western Conference final earlier this week. His brother, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson, posted a short video clip to social media in the aftermath of his older sibling celebrating a goal.The pair also chatted on the phone — hockey wasn’t the focus — ahead of Friday’s Game 5 with the Stars and Edmonton O
  
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• 1 Malaysian climber dead, 1 rescued near the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain

  31-05-2024 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North America’s tallest mountain following a summit push was rescued Friday, but his partner was dead, officials said. A third member of their team had been rescued this week after descending lower on Denali in Alaska.
  After days of cloudy, windy conditions, personnel from Denali National Park and Preserve on Friday morning were able to rescue the surviving climber at 19,600 feet (5,974 mete
  
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• Canadian women’s soccer coach says foiled plan to attack Olympic matches ‘a concern’

  31-05-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canadian women’s national team coach Bev Priestman says news of a foiled plan to attack soccer matches at the Paris Olympics is “a concern.”
  French authorities on Friday handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending soccer games at this summer’s Olympics. The interior minister said it was the first such thwarted plot targeting the Games, which start in eight weeks as France is on its highest threat
  
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• Chilliwack family cherishes time as Valley Huskers billet, hopes more families open their doors

  31-05-2024 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack resident Brenna Ruetz has seen first-hand the multiple benefits that came when she and her family opened up their home to a Valley Huskers football player.Ruetz, whose family has been billeting for the Valley Huskers and other local sports teams for the past few years, attests to the positive impact upon her own twin boys.“Our billet boys have become our family,” said Ruetz, who is heavily involved with the Valley Huskers. “They are great mentors a
  
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• Biden says Hamas is ‘no longer capable’ of carrying out another major attack against Israel

  31-05-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel as he urged Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release remaining hostages for an extended cease-fire.
  Biden addressed the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war as the Israeli military confirmed on Friday that its forces are now operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city.
  “This is truly a d
  
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• Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’

  31-05-2024 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was found guilty and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible, for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
  His comments came the day after the conclusion of Trump’s criminal trial in New York, when the former president was convicted on all 34 felony charges in a hush money case stemming from the 2016 election.Biden for mon
  
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• MacIntyre takes second-round clubhouse lead at RBC Canadian Open; Hughes low Canadian

  31-05-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre had a 4-under 66 to take the clubhouse lead in the second round of the RBC Canadian Open.
  He’s at 10-under overall to sit three shots clear of the pack with the afternoon wave starting to play.
  First-round leader David Skinns of England had a 1-over 71 round to drop back into a tie for second at 7 under.
  Mackenzie Hughes of nearby Dundas, Ont., fired a 6-under 64 to rocket 30 spots up the leaderboard into a tie with Skinns and others.
  The
  
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• Hockey Canada announces women’s and girls’ steering committee

  31-05-2024 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Hockey Canada has formed a committee of stakeholders to help structure the organization’s next women’s and girls’ hockey strategic plan.
  The governing body made the announcement at a news conference Friday at a women’s and girls’ hockey symposium with representation from all 13 of Hockey Canada’s member associations.
  Former national team player and current Hockey Canada board member Gillian Apps will chair the committee, which will oversee a d
  
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• Chilliwack Fire Dept. called to overnight crash on Chilliwack River Road: witness

  31-05-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Fire Department and B.C. Ambulance Service were reportedly called to the 7100 block of Chilliwack River Road overnight after a vehicle reportedly struck a power pole, according to a description from a nearby resident.Chilliwack Hailey VanBasten says she was almost asleep when she heard a crash near an address in the 7100 block of Chilliwack River Road at about 2 a.m. early Friday morning (May 31), followed by the sound of a vehicle engine revving up.” I got ou
  
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• Abbotsford firefighters agree to labour deal with City of Abbotsford

  31-05-2024 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Just days after the City of Mission reached a three-year deal with its firefighters, the City of Abbotsford and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 2864 have ratified a collective agreement for the three-year period of January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024.“We are pleased with this new agreement that supports the residents of the City of Abbotsford, while also being equitable for both IAFF and the City,” said Abbotsford City Manager Peter Spa
  
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• Forecasters warn B.C. to prepare for hot summer: forecast outlook

  31-05-2024 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Forecasters say British Columbia should prepare for hotter than normal temperatures in June.
  An outlook from Environment Canada says the first week of June will be cooler than normal across most of B.C. but the rest of the month is likely to feature above-normal temperatures across the province.
  The longer-term outlook for June to August says there is a high probability of above-normal temperatures across the B.C. Interior and “moderate probabilities” of near-normal
  
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• Panthers set team attendance record, fuelled by another deep Stanley Cup playoff run

  31-05-2024 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The on-ice success story for the Florida Panthers is easy to see: They’re one win away from a second consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Final.
  The off-ice success isn’t hard to figure out, either.
  With an 18th sellout of the season expected for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final on Saturday night, when the Panthers play host to the New York Rangers, Florida has already lured more fans to its rink this year than in any other in the team’s 30-seaso
  
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• El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele’s inauguration

  31-05-2024 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele’s inauguration on Saturday.The country’s National Police said the plot involved “veterans” of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, an apparent reference to former leftist guerillas.Police posted photos of small cylinders of explosives with fuses and sacks of ammonium nitrate on the force’s social medi
  
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• Federal government says funding has restored threatened frog’s habitat in Quebec

  31-05-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says $8.2-million spent since 2022 has successfully restored several Quebec wetlands inhabited by the threatened western chorus frog.Guilbeault said in a news release today the money from the Canada Nature Fund has brought new life to wetlands in the Montérégie region, south of Montreal, and in western Quebec’s Outaouais region.
  The money given to Nature-Action Québec, Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nature
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from May 24 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  31-05-2024 18:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Unifor alleges Amazon ramped up hiring at B.C. warehouse ahead of union vote

  31-05-2024 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Unifor has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Amazon amid a vote by workers at a Delta, B.C., warehouse over whether they want to join the union.The union claims Amazon beefed up its workforce as Unifor was in the midst of a union drive to try and weaken support.
  Amazon denies the allegations and has said it plans to appeal the labour board’s decision to call a vote.The vote by the warehouse workers closes at noon B.C. time, but Unifor’s Western regio
  
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• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez falls to Ons Jabeur in French Open third round

  31-05-2024 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez is out of the French Open after losing 6-4, 7-6 (5) to Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the third round Friday.
  The eighth-seeded Jabeur hit three aces and won 93 points to 79 for Fernandez en route to taking the match in one hour 53 minutes.
  The No. 31 Fernandez of Laval, Que., had five double faults. Fernandez has lost all four of her matches against Jabeur.
  Jabeur, who reached the quarterfinal last year, moved on to the fourth round for the fourth time in
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from May 31 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  31-05-2024 18:44 via news.google.com
  
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from May 31 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fast bowler Jeremy Gordon banking on Canada impressing at ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

  31-05-2024 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jeremy Gordon has taken off his banker’s hat and put on his cricket cap for Canada at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
  The 37-year-old from Toronto, when not in the office as a senior support analyst at Scotiabank, bowls at 140 km/h on the cricket pitchGordon and fellow fast bowler Kaleem Sana will lead the Canadian bowling attack against the co-host U.S. in the opening match of the T20 World Cup on Saturday at the Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium some 20 kilometres west of Dallas.
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• Stars head coach Pete DeBoer ‘optimistic’ defenceman Chris Tanev plays in Game 5

  31-05-2024 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS — Dallas Stars head coach Pete DeBoer is “optimistic” defenceman Chris Tanev will be available for tonight’s Game 5 of the NHL’s Western Conference final against the Edmonton Oilers.
  The shutdown blueliner didn’t return after taking a shot off his right foot in the second period Wednesday.Edmonton took that one 5-2 to even the best-of-seven series 2-2.
  Tanev, who is listed as a game-time decision, is averaging 22 minutes 33 seconds of ice time in the pl
  
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• Trump delivers rambling response to guilty verdict, falsely blasting ‘rigged trial,’ slamming Cohen

  31-05-2024 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system Friday as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid.
  Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake tower in Manhattan on Friday, his return to campaigning a day after he was convicted of trying to illegally influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records to hi
  
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• Trudeau government mum on Donald Trump conviction, vows to work with any U.S. leader

  31-05-2024 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian government is remaining quiet after a New York court convicted former U.S. president Donald Trump as a felon.
  Trump, who is expected to lead the Republicans into the next U.S. election, was found guilty Thursday on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial.
  The Prime Minister’s Office is not providing an immediate comment on the verdict, while Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly only says that Canada will work with whoever leads the U.S. after this
  
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• Major sporting events a ‘prime target’ for cybercriminals, federal centre warns

  31-05-2024 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian officials warn that major international sporting events are prime targets for cybercriminals and hacktivists looking to fatten their wallets, promote their causes or pilfer secrets.
  A new bulletin from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says criminals operating online will very likely try to extort organizations involved in — or located near — major sporting events.
  It says they may also try to ensnare individuals, including spectators, through phishing em
  
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• Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

  31-05-2024 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications.
  The ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, is the latest decision to uphold Texas’ abortion ban, which critics say does not offer enough clarity over when exceptions are allowed.
  “Texas law permits a life-saving abortion,” the court wrote i
  
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• Northern lights possible over Canada after sunspot behind big solar storm returns

  31-05-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The northern lights could return to the sky over parts of Canada as a sunspot that contributed to a recent stunning aurora display rotates back Earth-side.
  A sunspot that earlier this month unleashed a series of solar flares and the largest in nearly two decades has turned back toward Earth and let loose another powerful, but less intense, flare this week.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which rates geomagnetic storms on a five-point scale, is forecasting a moderate G2 s
  
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• Police arrest ‘many’ at Israel-Hamas war protest at UC Santa Cruz, school says

  31-05-2024 16:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Many people were arrested, the university said.Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and video from local news stations showed officers telling people to leave, then taking away signs and part of a barricade. There appeared to be some pushing and
  
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• French security authorities foil a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics

  31-05-2024 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — The French interior minister said Friday that security authorities have foiled a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics.
  Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that the members of the General Directorate of Internal Security arrested an 18-year-old man from Chechnya on May 22 on suspicion of being behind a plan to attack soccer events that will be held in the city of Saint-Etienne, southwest of Lyon.According to the initial investigation, the man was preparing an
  
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• Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia registers as independent, citing ‘partisan extremism’

  31-05-2024 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Body
  Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Friday he has registered as an independent, raising questions about his future political plans.
  Manchin, who would have faced a tough reelection in November if he had chosen to run, has long been an outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and an obstacle to many of President Joe Biden’s legislative priorities.
  He said in a statement that over the last 15 years he has seen both major political parties leave
  
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• ‘Unflappable’ Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger back in form after trying season

  31-05-2024 16:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS — Jake Oettinger will never again take his health for granted.
  Professional athletes — especially the younger ones — often have a feeling of invincibility.The Dallas Stars goaltender knows what that’s like. And the sinking, helpless feeling when it’s taken away.
  It was abruptly decided last July a lingering ankle injury Oettinger played through during the 2022-23 campaign and playoffs required surgery. The procedure cost him most of his summer workout schedul
  
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• Incendiary device thrown at Vancouver synagogue, says Jewish federation

  31-05-2024 16:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver says an “incendiary device” was thrown at the front doors of a synagogue in the city and police are investigating.
  It says in a statement online that the incident occurred at the Schara Tzedeck synagogue on Oak Street at around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday and that damage was minor and no one was hurt.
  The federation calls the alleged incident a “deliberate act of hate” and an “attempt to intimidate” the Je
  
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• Coco Gauff moves into fourth round on another rain-disrupted day at the French Open

  31-05-2024 15:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff advanced to the fourth round of the French Open on Friday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Australian Open semifinalist Dayana Yastremska.
  The No. 3-seeded Gauff pressured her opponent into committing 38 unforced errors on Court Philippe Chatrier, and converted five of her 11 break points.
  After several seeded players were knocked out of the tournament on Thursday, Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto pulled off another upset by defeating No. 17 Liudmila Samsonova 7-6 (4),
  
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• Israel confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city

  31-05-2024 15:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has confirmed that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city.
  The military said in a statement Friday that its troops in central Rafah had uncovered Hamas rocket launchers and tunnels and dismantled a weapons storage city of the group.
  Israel launched its ground assault into the city on May 6 and has mainly been operating in its eastern districts and close to the border with Egypt. This week
  
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