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• Thomas hits grand slam off Skubal, Guardians down Tigers 7-3 to reach AL Championship Series

  12-10-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Lane Thomas hit a grand slam off Tarik Skubal and Cleveland beat the Detroit Tigers 7-3 on Saturday in Game 5 of their AL Division Series, moving the Guardians into another postseason matchup against the Yankees.
  Cleveland will meet New York in the ALCS, setting up a series between two teams that have crossed paths six previous times in October. They last met in 2022, with the Yankees taking their ALDS in five games.
  Game 1 is Monday in the Bronx.
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• Eby says no place for violence in politics as RCMP probe Campbell River bomb threat

  12-10-2024 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — New Democrat Leader David Eby says violence should have no place in politics after a party campaign office in Campbell River was evacuated following a bomb threat.
  Eby, who was campaigning Friday in the Vancouver Island city, says today he was not in the campaign office when the threat was received.
  He says at a campaign stop in Langley that he is grateful for the courage of the office staff who were told to temporarily evacuate by the RCMP, who are investigating the incide
  
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• Canada tops host Czechia 1-0 in OT to advance to International Para Hockey Cup final

  12-10-2024 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OSTRAVA — Rob Armstrong scored the game-winning goal 1:14 into overtime to lift Canada to a 1-0 victory over Czechia and into the gold-medal game of the International Para Hockey Cup on Saturday.
  Corbin Watson earned a 16-save shutout for Canada.
  “I think I blacked out during the goal,” Armstrong said. “It was a hard-fought game. We were just trying to get something going towards the net. I was able to break off on a bit of a rush and as soon as I shot the puck and I saw
  
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• Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates offer solutions for provincial debt - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2024 21:00
  Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates offer solutions for provincial debt  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sharks place rookie Macklin Celebrini on IR with a lower-body injury

  12-10-2024 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks placed rookie Macklin Celebrini on the injured reserve list on Saturday with a lower-body injury.
  The move came two days after Celebrini made an impressive debut by recording a goal and an assist in an overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues.
  The 18-year-old Celebrini was picked first overall in June and is being counted on to help spark a rebuild in San Jose. He was hampered in the preseason with a lower-body injury. Coach Ryan Warsofsky said Celeb
  
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• RCMP responded to over 400 calls intimate partner violence last year in Mission

  12-10-2024 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION – Amid a campaign to raise awareness of intimate partner violence, Mission RCMP revealed they received 418 calls related to domestic incidents last year.
  A week after the launch of the 13th annual Purple Light Nights campaign recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the detachment said all of the calls involved someone who was hurt, felt unsafe, or needed help.Not every call involved physical violence, according to Mission RCMP Victim Services.
  Unit coordinator Stephanie Atzi
  
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• Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who sought Scotland’s independence, dies at 69

  12-10-2024 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland who for decades championed Scotland’s independence from the U.K., has died. He was 69.
  Anas Sarwar, leader of Scottish Labour, on Saturday confirmed Salmond’s death and said Salmond was a “central figure in politics for over three decades.”
  Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014, but lost, gaining 45% of the vote.
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• Bullet fired, window smashed at Jewish school in Toronto’s north end: police

  12-10-2024 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Police say they are investigating after a bullet was fired at a Jewish girls’ school in Toronto’s north end.Toronto Police Service says the shooting targeted Bais Chaya Mushka elementary school at around 4 a.m. Saturday.
  The same school was the target of another shooting in May, and police say a key part of the investigation is to find out whether two incidents are connected.Insp. Paul Krawczyk says the school was empty at the time of the shooting and no one was harme
  
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• Record number of voters on first day of advance voting in BC, over 12K from Fraser Valley

  12-10-2024 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA – Elections BC reported that Thursday saw the highest number of votes ever recorded for the first day of advance voting across the province.
  The non-partisan office responsible for conducting the 43rd general election reported that 171,381 ballots were cast in BC on Oct. 10, surpassing the previous first-day record of 126,491 set in 2017.
  Yesterday 171,381 voters voted on the first day of advance voting. This is the most votes ever on an advance voting day in a BC election, beatin
  
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• Canada’s Fernandez, Indonesia’s Sutjiadi ousted from Wuhan Open in semifinals

  12-10-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WUHAN — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi will not be moving on to the Wuhan Open final.The pairing lost 7-5, 6-2 to Americans Jessica Pegula and Asia Muhammad in the women’s doubles semifinals at the tennis tournament on Saturday.
  Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Sutjiadi won 72.2 per cent of their first-serve points but failed to convert on all three of their break point opportunities.
  The duo had defeated Australia’s Ellen Perez and Nicole Me
  
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• 2 men charged with second-degree murder, arson after Old Montreal fire killed 2

  12-10-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Two men have been charged with second-degree murder and arson after a fire erupted in an Old Montreal building, killing a mother and daughter from France.
  Justin Fortier-Trahan, 20, and Juventino Hernandez Pelaez, 18, were charged in the deaths of Léonor Geraudie, 43, and her seven-year-old daughter Vérane Reynaud Geraudie, who were in the building when it caught fire Oct. 4.The two men also face a charge of arson causing bodily harm in connection to another man, a
  
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• Harris’ doctor reports she’s ‘excellent health.’ Her campaign wants to draw a contrast with Trump

  12-10-2024 14:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter released Saturday that summarizes her medical history and status.Dr. Joshua Simmons, a U.S. Army colonel and physician to the vice president, wrote that Harris, 59, maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent physical last April was “unremarkable.”
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• Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates weigh on B.C. health care issues - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2024 14:30
  Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates weigh on B.C. health care issues  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates weigh in on B.C. health care issues - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2024 14:30
  Election Q&A: Chilliwack candidates weigh in on B.C. health care issues  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Messier says ‘change’ is inevitable as the NHL enters streaming era on Amazon

  12-10-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Over his quarter century in the National Hockey League, Mark Messier witnessed sweeping technological changes to the game, from the advent of lighter hockey sticks to the use of video reviews.
  Now, the Canadian Hall of Famer believes hockey is poised for another leap as it moves into the streaming era.Messier will be among the on-air talent for Amazon Prime Video’s new NHL broadcast, “Prime Monday Night Hockey,” the league’s first exclusive national broadc
  
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• Chilliwack's weather forecast for October 12: Sunny skies with light wind - The Weather Network

  12-10-2024 11:00
  Chilliwack's weather forecast for October 12: Sunny skies with light wind  The Weather Network
  
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• Goalie Kevin Lankinen ‘living day by day’ with Vancouver Canucks

  12-10-2024 08:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Kevin Lankinen has made a point of focusing on what’s in front of him — whether it’s a puck or an opportunity.The goalie stuck to that ideal Friday as he made his debut for the Vancouver Canucks (0-0-2).“Living day by day has kind of been my motto the last few years,” he said after the Canucks dropped a 3-2 shootout decision to the Philadelphia Flyers (1-0-0).
  “Not look too far ahead, not look too far behind, and just put my best foot forward
  
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• Lightning score three goals in the third-period to beat Hurricanes 4-1

  12-10-2024 07:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored a third-period hat trick to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 in Friday night’s season opener for both teams.
  Kucherov beat Hurricane goaltender Frederick Andersen for the go-ahead power-play goal 11:06 into the third with a low slapshot on the glove side. The Lightning winger then iced the game empty-net goals at 17:52 and 19:44. Brayden Point also scored a power-play goal for the Lightning to open the scoring.
  
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• Flyers open NHL campaign with 3-2 shootout win over Canucks

  12-10-2024 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Morgan Frost scored in the fifth round of the shootout and the Philadelphia Flyers opened their season with a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.Tyson Forester and Cam York had goals for the Flyers (1-0-0) in regulation, while Samuel Ersson stopped 24 of the 26 shots he faced.Teddy Blueger and Nils Hoglander scored for the Canucks (0-0-2), and Kevin Lankinen made 30 saves in his debut for Vancouver.It marked the second straight game where the Canucks lost in extra
  
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• Scheifele scores late in third, adds OT winner in Jets’ 2-1 win over Blackhawks

  12-10-2024 06:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Not only did Mark Scheifele win the game for the Winnipeg Jets, he recorded a significant milestone in doing so.
  The Winnipeg Jets assistant captain scored his 299th career NHL goal with 1:04 left in regulation to tie the game 1-1. Scheifele added his 300th goal just 38 seconds into overtime to give the Jets a hard-fought 2-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in their home-opener on Friday night.
  Scheifele’s face lit up after scoring No. 300, admitting it was pretty sati
  
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• Argonauts top Blue Bombers 14-11 to end Winnipeg’s eight-game win streak

  12-10-2024 05:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Toronto defenders sacked Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros seven times to help the Argonauts earn a 14-11 victory Friday that secured a playoff spot and denied the Blue Bombers’ attempt to clinch first place in the CFL West Division.
  Toronto’s victory (9-7) eliminated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from post-season play and moved the Argonauts into second place in the East Division, one point up on the Ottawa Redblacks (8-6-1), who play the Alouettes in Montreal on Monday.
  
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• Trade minister says she is ‘disappointed by report of caucus revolt to oust Trudeau

  12-10-2024 05:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Trade Minister Mary Ng says she has full confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as word began to spread late Friday about a growing revolt against his leadership within the Liberal caucus.
  Ng is travelling back to Canada with Trudeau from Laos, where they were attending a summit of southeast Asian countries.
  CBC News reported that in Trudeau’s absence, a number of MPs had meetings over the last several days pushing each other to commit to call for his resignation.
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• Scheifele scores late in third, adds OT winner to give Jets a 2-1 win over Blackhawks

  12-10-2024 05:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele scored two late goals, the second in overtime, to salvage a 2-1 victory for the Jets over the Chicago Blackhawks.
  The Jets’ home-opener was played before 14,564 fans at Canada Life Centre on Friday night – just short of a sellout on the same night the Winnipeg Blue Bombers sold out their CFL game against the Toronto Argonauts.
  Scheifele scored 38 seconds into overtime on a setup from Kyle Connor.
  Ryan Donato had scored late in the seco
  
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• Yamamoto outduels Darvish in historic matchup as Dodgers beat Padres 2-0 to reach NLCS

  12-10-2024 04:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto outdueled Yu Darvish in a historic playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers got home runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Friday night and advance to the National League Championship Series.
  Yamamoto allowed two hits over five innings for the Dodgers before being pulled after 63 pitches in a decisive Game 5 between heated rivals who were meeting in an NL Di
  
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• Boucher has 22 points for Raptors in 113-95 pre-season loss to Wizards

  12-10-2024 04:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Chris Boucher scored 22 points for the Toronto Raptors in a 113-95 pre-season loss to the Washington Wizards on Friday night.
  Boucher, who grew up in Montreal, added seven rebounds. Scottie Barnes had 16 points and eight rebounds for Toronto.Kyle Kuzma led the hometown Wizards with 22 points.The Raptors fell to 1-1 in pre-season play.
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 11, 2024.
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• Stephan Jaeger chips in twice and shoots 63 to lead Black Desert Championship

  12-10-2024 04:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IVINS, Utah (AP) — Stephan Jaeger made up for a three-putt from 10 feet by chipping in for birdie on consecutive holes Friday for an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead before the second round was suspended by darkness at the inaugural Black Desert Championship.
  The PGA Tour’s return to Utah for the first time in 61 years has been greeted with low scoring on the Tom Weiskopf design carved out of an ancient black lava field.
  Jaeger was at 14-under 128 — by three shots his l
  
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• Vet tranquillizer increases overdose deaths in Yukon, health minister says

  12-10-2024 03:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says its coroner’s service is investigating six suspected toxic drug deaths between Sept. 23 and Oct. 4.A statement from the health minister says four of the deaths are confirmed as related to toxic drugs, bringing the total number of drug overdoses in the territory this year to 12.It says an investigation into the other two deaths is expected to be completed in the coming days.Health Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee says a key concern with the tragic surg
  
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• Mercury found in water near Yukon mine disaster, Yukon government says

  12-10-2024 01:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says mercury levels that “exceeded the water quality objective” were found in a creek near the site where a mine’s ore containment facility failed, causing a torrent of cyanide-contaminated rock to escape in June.
  A statement from the government says high levels of cyanide and dissolved metals continue to be detected in the groundwater at testing sites closest to the Eagle Gold mine slide where millions of tonnes of ore was released.
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• Four-metre-long Great White Shark washes up on B.C. beach

  12-10-2024 01:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A four-metre-long Great White Shark has washed up on a British Columbia beach.The Fisheries Department says their scientists confirmed the species by analyzing its tooth shape and the shape of its tail fin.The department says in a statement the male shark, which was found on a Haida Gwaii beach, had been feeding on seals, a common prey for great whites.The statement says the sharks are rare in B.C. waters, but sightings are not unheard of and they can be found from the Gulf of California up to t
  
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• LETTER: Chilliwack Progress coverage helped bring end to illegal dumping - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2024 01:41
  LETTER: Chilliwack Progress coverage helped bring end to illegal dumping  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak

  12-10-2024 01:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.
  Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit filed in federal court.Agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other pe
  
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• Report clearing Vancouver police in Myles Gray beating death ‘flawed,’ lawyer says

  12-10-2024 00:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The lawyer for the family of a man beaten to death by Vancouver police says a disciplinary report clearing the officers of wrongdoing was flawed and didn’t consider key evidence.Ian Donaldson, lawyer for the family of Myles Gray, says the report by former Delta police chief Neil Dubord found allegations of misconduct in the 2015 death unsubstantiated.
  Donaldson says the report may have found the seven officers involved in Gray’s beating death didn’t commit mis
  
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• Report says at least 55 children died or disappeared at B.C. residential school

  12-10-2024 00:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A British Columbia First Nation says at least 55 children died or disappeared while attending a residential school near Williams Lake, more than triple the number recorded for the institution in the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation memorial register.
  The figure is contained in an interim report into the St. Joseph’s Mission Indian Residential School by the Williams Lake First Nation.
  It says investigators will finalize ground-penetrating radar surveys this year and hold meeting
  
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• Stampeders look to avoid going winless versus Elks, finish woeful season strong

  12-10-2024 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Not much has gone right for the Calgary Stampeders this season, but head coach Dave Dickenson wants a strong finish from his team.
  Since defeating the Toronto Argonauts 27-23 on Aug. 4, the Stampeders (4-10-1) have been mired in a woeful 0-6-1 stretch that has seen them fall out of the CFL playoff picture.
  Although it will be too little, too late for his team, Dickenson has high hopes that the Stampeders can end their slump when they take on the Edmonton Elks (5-11) on Saturday a
  
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