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• 66-year-old man in Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec dies in motorcycle collision

  22-06-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A 66-year-old man has died after two motorcyclists collided in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.
  The accident occurred on Friday at around 6:00 p.m. on Route 132 in Sainte-Luce.
  Provincial police say the man was in critical condition and taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.
  Police spokesperson Élizabeth Marquis-Guy says the man drove into a lane without noticing that another motorcyclist who was travelling in the same direction was slowing down.
  The other
  
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• ‘Politics in full sentences:’ Nenshi returns to public life as leader of Alberta NDP

  22-06-2024 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Before he launched a campaign that would see him take over as leader of Alberta’s New Democrats, Naheed Nenshi worried politics had become too polarized, too toxic for him.
  But ultimately that was why the man known for espousing “politics in full sentences” decided he had to return.
  “The players make the game. And if we abandon the game because it’s so awful, then the game will get worse,” Nenshi said in an interview before winning the party&rs
  
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• Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto celebrates 100th anniversary of unique course

  22-06-2024 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MARKHAM, Ont. — Women dressed as flappers, or in kilts with tam-o’-shanters, or carrying parasols, a few with tie-die shirts and headbands like the hippies of the 1960s, and hundreds of others got together to play golf and celebrate.
  The Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto continued its 100th anniversary festivities on Saturday with a tournament around the Stanley Thompson-designed course in Thornhill, Ont., with members encouraged to wear period clothes. Margaret Auld, the chair of c
  
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• Undefeated Riders eye fast start, home-and-home sweep against winless Ticats

  22-06-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Trevor Harris doesn’t want his team getting in the habit of snatching victories from the jaws of defeat.
  The 2-0 Roughriders are in first place in the CFL’s West Division after impressive comeback road victories over the Edmonton Elks and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  In those victories, 29-21 over the Elks on June 8 and 33-30 over the Ticats on June 16, the Riders were outscored 48-25 in the first three quarters. But in the fourth quarters,
  
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• De Bruyne seals Belgium’s 2-0 win over Romania to get Euro 2024 campaign on track

  22-06-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Kevin De Bruyne scored and Belgium got its European Championship campaign up and running after beating Romania 2-0 on Saturday.The No. 3-ranked Belgians shook off the shock of losing to Slovakia in their opening game with a dominant performance in front of the Belgium royal family at Cologne Stadium.Youri Tielemans gave Belgium a flying start with a goal from the edge of the area in the second minute.
  De Bruyne effectively killed the game off in the 80th after conve
  
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• Canadian cricketers joins marquee names from abroad in fourth edition of GT20 Canada

  22-06-2024 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and Pakistan captain Babar Azam, vice-captain Mohammad Rizwan and pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi are among the marquee cricket names slated to play in this summer’s GT20 Canada competition.
  The fourth edition of the T20 tournament runs July 25 to Aug. 11 in Brampton, Ont.
  The six-team competition features the defending champion Montreal Tigers, Toronto Nationals, Brampton Wolves, Vancouver Knights, Surrey Jaguars and Bangla Tigers Miss
  
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• FVRD encounters HR challenges as applicants flake out during the recruitment process

  22-06-2024 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District says it continues to experience challenges around recruitment due to a lack of experienced candidates or people flaking out during the application process.In a staff memo authored by Tina Mooney, FVRD manager of human resources and safety services, the district says it has posted 22 positions in 2024 thus far, but applicants aren’t doing themselves any favours by failing to respond to interview invites, rescheduling interviews multiple
  
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• No goals but selfies for Ronaldo in Portugal’s 3-0 win over Turkey at Euro 2024

  22-06-2024 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — There were no goals, one assist and three selfie-pursuing field invaders for Cristiano Ronaldo in Portugal’s 3-0 win over Turkey that secured a spot in the European Championship round of 16 on Saturday.
  Ronaldo was the center of attention as always at Westfalenstadion but not how he might have expected.
  The five-time world player of the year set up the third goal by Bruno Fernandes with an unselfish pass when he could easily have attempted a shot after being
  
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• Canada’s men’s volleyball team tops the Netherlands 3-2 to close out VNL prelims

  22-06-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANILA — The Canadian men’s volleyball team continued its roll with a win in its preliminary-round finale Saturday, guaranteeing itself a spot in the Volleyball Nations League quarterfinals.
  Stephen Maar had a team-high 18 points as Canada topped the Netherlands 3-2 for its fourth straight victory.
  The ninth-ranked Canadians posted set scores of 21-25, 25-22, 28-26,14-25,15-9. Canada improved to 8-4 with the quarterfinals set to begin June 27 in Lodz, Poland.
  “It was just a won
  
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• Canadian rugby 7s men advance in last-chance Olympic qualifying tournament in Monaco

  22-06-2024 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONACO — Canada advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Rugby Sevens Repechage tournament Saturday but a 17-12 loss to Britain in the Pool B finale means it will face a tougher draw in the quest for the final men’s berth in the Paris Olympic field.
  The Canadians snapped a 29-game losing streak with a much-needed 31-12 win Friday over Uganda before dispatching China 33-14 Saturday at Stade Louis II.
  That set up a showdown with unbeaten Britain for top spot in the pool. The top two
  
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• Port-Cartier, Que. officials say forest fire situation unchanged after evacuations

  22-06-2024 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Officials from the municipality of Port Cartier, Que., on the province’s north shore say the situation remains stable after fires raging in the region prompted the mayor to declare a state of emergency and order the evacuation of about 1,000 of its residents.
  At a press conference on Saturday, Mayor Alain Thibault said the state of emergency declared on Friday has been extended to five days and described the evacuation of residents from specific neighbourhoods as quick but
  
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• Edmonton Oilers on the brink of a Stanley Cup win after improbable comeback

  22-06-2024 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A storybook Stanley Cup win is there for the Edmonton Oilers.
  A win away from rewriting some NHL history, the Oilers headed to Florida on Saturday for Monday’s Game 7 that seemed improbable a week earlier.
  No team in the NHL’s expansion era has trailed 3-0 in the Stanley Cup final and come back to win the best-of-seven championship.Only the 1942 Maple Leafs did it 82 years ago. Only four teams in NHL history have trailed a best-of-seven playoff series 3-0 and won it:
  
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• Late-night fire damages vacant house in downtown Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  22-06-2024 18:05 via news.google.com
  
  Late-night fire damages vacant house in downtown Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigating fire at abandoned house on Williams Street late Friday night

  22-06-2024 15:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP are investigating a fire that happened late Friday night (June 21) at an abandoned home at 9543 Williams Street, next to Central Pentecostal Church, in Chilliwack.
  According to a news release from Chilliwack Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Krista Minar, about 30 firefighters from Halls 1, 4, 5 and 6 were called to the home just after 11:30 p.m. Friday night. Firefighters arrived on the scene to discover flames coming from the front windows of a boarded-up
  
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• Alberta New Democrats to announce new leader to replace Rachel Notley

  22-06-2024 14:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Alberta’s Opposition NDP is set to announce its new leader today.
  Outgoing Leader Rachel Notley gave a farewell speech to party members Friday night.
  She says the party is the strongest it’s been in its history.
  Notley’s New Democrats swept to power as a majority government in 2015, ending a four-decade Progressive Conservative dynasty.
  She announced in January she was leaving the job, after the party lost its second consecutive election to the United Conservati
  
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• Conservatives avoid staking out clear position on supervised consumption sites

  22-06-2024 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As debate around the Liberals’ drug policy dominated parts of the spring House of Commons sitting, the Conservatives are offering little insight into what approach they would take when it comes to supervised consumption sites.
  When asked earlier this month if a future Tory government would look to change the application process for opening such centres, the party’s addictions critic said she couldn’t speculate.
  “But I do think that this has been politicized
  
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• ‘Build relationships on both sides’: Provinces make push ahead of U.S. election

  22-06-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Provinces are reaching out to Democrats and Republicans alike to make their case for co-operation, bolstering efforts by the federal government to ensure Canada is prepared for any outcome in the upcoming United States election.
  “I see provinces and Team Canada both ramping up their efforts,” said Laura Dawson, an expert on Canada-U.S. relations and the executive director of the Future Borders Coalition.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberals came to power i
  
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• Zach Hyman hits 70 goals in 2023-24, Oilers force Game 7 in Cup final

  22-06-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins could only watch.
  The Edmonton Oilers forward had just sprung linemate Zach Hyman on a breakaway in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final.
  “Waiting, waiting, waiting,” Nugent-Hopkins said.
  Hyman, as he’s done so many times this season and in these playoffs, made no mistake.
  The winger’s goal Friday night late in the second period gave the Oilers some breathing room at 3-0 on the way to a 5-1 victory over the Florida Panthers inside a rocking
  
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• Gerry Williams - Obituary - Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  22-06-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Gerry Williams - Obituary - Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• CN apologizes for whistles in Chilliwack, but cites safety after train death - Victoria News

  22-06-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  CN apologizes for whistles in Chilliwack, but cites safety after train death  Victoria News
  
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• Knoblauch’s challenge swings momentum in Edmonton’s Game 6 Cup final win

  22-06-2024 07:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — It seemed risky, but Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch was certain Aleksander Barkov’s goal was offside Friday.
  Knoblauch won a tide-turning coach’s challenge in the second period of Edmonton’s 5-1 win over the visiting Panthers to help send the Stanley Cup final to a Game 7 in Florida.
  Adam Henrique had just sent Rogers Place into paroxysms of joy by scoring Edmonton’s second goal when Barkov buried a loose puck seconds later.
  Halving the Oilers&
  
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• Nelly Korda shoots 81, sent packing early again at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

  22-06-2024 06:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAMMAMISH, Wash. (AP) — Nelly Korda was sent packing early again Friday in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, another shocking downfall after a dominating run.
  A stroke behind first-round leader Lexi Thompson after an opening 3-under 69, the top-ranked Korda shot an 81 in the second round to miss the weekend cut by a stroke. The round was the highest in a major championship by a top-ranked player since the inception of the ranking in 2006.
  Korda also missed the cuts in the U.S. Women
  
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• Oilers one win away from history after pushing Stanley Cup final to seventh game

  22-06-2024 05:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — If the Edmonton Oilers can show off their trademark resilience just one more time, they will make Stanley Cup history.
  Depth forward Warren Foegele had a goal and an assist as the Oilers forced a decisive Game 7 in this year’s Cup final with a 5-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Friday in front of a raucous Rogers Place crowd.
  The win moved the Oilers closer to breaking Canada’s Cup curse and has Edmonton on the cusp of becoming just the second team to come back fro
  
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• Adams, Hollins lead Lions to 26-24 win as Blue Bombers remain winless

  22-06-2024 05:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Vernon Adams Jr. threw a pair of touchdown passes to Alexander Hollins in a 26-24 B.C. Lions’ victory Friday that kept the Blue Bombers winless this season.
  Winnipeg has lost its first three games of the season for the first time since 2012.
  Adams connected with Hollins on a 71-yard catch-and-run score and a 29-yard TD reception. Hollins finished with seven catches for 215 yards.
  The Lions bumped their record up to 2-1 in front of 31,210 unhappy Bombers fans at Princess Au
  
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• Cheering fans jam Edmonton plaza as Oilers force winner-take-all Stanley Cup final

  22-06-2024 05:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Thousands of deliriously happy fans of the Edmonton Oilers roared as one, as the blue and orange ran over the Florida Panthers to set up a winner-take-all Game 7 in the Stanley Cup final.
  “We want the cup! We want the cup!” chanted fans inside Rogers Place, while the Oilers circled at centre ice with sticks skyward saluting all after a 5-1 win.
  Outside the arena, they whooped, hollered and cheered below the main viewing screen dominating the plaza known as the Moss P
  
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• Oilers force Game 7 of Stanley Cup final with 5-1 win over Panthers

  22-06-2024 05:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Oilers are one win from history. The Panthers are one loss from infamy.
  Zach Hyman scored his playoff-leading 16th goal and Stuart Skinner made 20 saves as Edmonton defeated Florida 5-1 on Friday to force Game 7 in the Stanley Cup final.Warren Foegele, with a goal and an assist, and Adam Henrique provided the rest of the offence before Ryan McLeod and Darnell Nurse added empty netters for the Oilers, who have stormed back with three consecutive victories to tie the title ser
  
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• Guardians take advantage of Blue Jays pitching wildness in 7-1 win

  22-06-2024 04:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Carlos Carrasco pitched six strong innings and Austin Hedges hit a two-run single when Toronto’s pitchers couldn’t find the strike zone, lifting the Cleveland Guardians to a 7-1 win over the Blue Jays on Friday night.
  The Guardians scored seven runs in the second inning as Jays rookie starter Yariel Rodríguez (0-2) and reliever Bowden Francis needed 70 pitches to get three outs.
  It was the most pitches thrown by the Blue Jays in an inning since June 21,
  
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• Tom Kim builds a 2-shot lead over Scheffler and Morikawa at Travelers Championship

  22-06-2024 03:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Tom Kim is looking at the long term with his golf game and is getting short-term results at the Travelers Championship, where he followed an opening 62 with a 5-under 65 on Friday for the lowest 36-hole score of his career and a two-shot lead.
  Kim had to settle for eight straight pars on the soggy TPC River Highlands and still finished at 13-under 127, two shots ahead of a group that includes Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa.
  Scheffler, coming o
  
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• Update: 1 person deceased after being struck in Lac La Hache

  22-06-2024 03:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UPDATE AT 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY: A spokesperson for 100 Mile House RCMP (B.C.) says one person has died after being struck in what were two separate incidents Friday. On Friday, June 21, at approximately 1 p.m., 100 Mile House RCMP and BCHP responded to the report of a collision involving a bus carrying school age children, on Highway 97 at Butler Road in Lac La Hache.
  There was a subsequent collision on the highway where a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS)
  
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• Canada Selects name training squad for rugby game against Vancouver Highlanders

  22-06-2024 02:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Peter Nelson and Kainoa Lloyd highlight the 26-man Canada Selects training squad for a June 28 game against the fledgling Vancouver Highlanders at Burnaby Lake Rugby Club.
  Nelson, Lloyd join Siaki Vikilani and Sion Parry as members of the Selects squad who have already won senior caps for Canada.
  The June 28 game is the opener of a free doubleheader that marks the debut of the Highlanders, an invitational side. A Highlanders reserve side will take on the Barbados national team in the nightcap.
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• Pedestrian dies after bus carrying elementary school pupils crashes in B.C. Interior

  22-06-2024 02:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. — A pedestrian is dead after a bus carrying elementary school students crashed and ran off a highway in British Columbia’s central Interior.
  Police say the person was struck on Highway 97 in a second collision in the aftermath of the bus crash, that resulted in numerous people being taken to hospital with varying injuries.
  Police say there were more than 30 children and adults on the bus that went down an embankment, and all have been accounted for.
  The BC Highwa
  
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• Pedestrian killed, occupants injured in Cariboo school bus crash Friday

  22-06-2024 02:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAC LA HACHE, B.C. — RCMP say a pedestrian was killed at the scene of a school bus that crashed in the Cariboo Friday (June 21).
  Police and BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) personnel responded to Highway 97 at Butler Road in Lac La Hache just before 1:00 p.m. Friday.
  A school bus had careened down an embankment at that location. Speaking to the 100 Mile House Free Press, School District 27 superintendent Chris van der Mark said the bus remain upright as it descended.
  Shortly after that
  
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• Attacker of Nancy Pelosi’s husband also found guilty of kidnapping and could face more prison time

  22-06-2024 01:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court was also convicted Friday of aggravated kidnapping by a state court which could put him behind bars for life.
  A federal judge last month sentenced David DePape to 30 years in federal prison for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi.
  A San Francisco jury on Friday found DePape also guilty of first-degree burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, threatening a fam
  
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• Billionaire businessman James K. Irving dead at 96

  22-06-2024 01:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN, N.B. — The family of Canadian billionaire businessman James K. Irving has announced his death at the age of 96, just over a month after the death of his younger brother, Arthur.
  Along with late brother John, they were sons of New Brunswick industrialist K.C. Irving and were among Canada’s richest people.James Irving was the chairman of the privately owned J.D. Irving, based in Saint John, N.B., a conglomerate with interests spanning manufacturing, infrastructure, shipbuildi
  
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• Canadian Michael Dufort shakes his head after losing split decision at PFL 5

  22-06-2024 01:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Lightweight (The Canadian Badass) Michael Dufort lost a split decision to American Adam (The Bomb) Piccolotti on the PFL 5 undercard Friday.
  The judges scored it 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 for the 35-year-old Piccolotti, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu from California.Cagenomics, which keep stats for the mixed martial promoter, had Dufour with a 92-35 edge in strikes, with 31 of those coming on the ground. Inside the cage, the 30-year-old from Montreal shook his head at the d
  
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• Judge orders Quebec to pay over $144M to taxi permit holders for abolishing permits

  22-06-2024 00:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Superior Court judge has ordered the Quebec government to pay more than $144 million to several thousand former taxi permit holders in the province.
  Justice Silvana Conte ruled that the government dispossessed drivers of their property when it abolished the permit system, and didn’t adequately compensate them.
  Taxi drivers launched a class-action lawsuit against the government in connection with the arrival of ride-hailing company Uber, which drove down the value of thei
  
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