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• Saskatchewan Party’s Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate

  17-10-2024 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning “biological boys” from using school changing rooms with “biological girls” if re-elected, a move the NDP’s Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids.
  Moe made the pledge Thursday at a campaign stop in Regina. He said it was in response to a complaint that two biological males had changed for gym class with girls at a school in southeast Saskatchewan.
  He said the ban would be his fir
  
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• Colorado gold mine where tour guide was killed and tourists trapped ordered closed by regulators

  17-10-2024 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident has been ordered to remain closed and not conduct tours while its operations are reviewed, state regulators said Thursday.
  In a statement, the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety said the decision to close the Mollie Kathleen Mine was made following an inspection after the Oct. 10 incident. The agency must determine if the death of Patrick
  
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• Leonard won’t play for Los Angeles Clippers to start the season while rehabbing knee, report says

  17-10-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard won’t play for the Los Angeles Clippers to start the season because of ongoing rehabilitation from inflammation in his right knee, according to a report.
  Citing unidentified sources, ESPN reported Thursday that Leonard will be sidelined indefinitely.He hasn’t played during the preseason, which concludes Thursday night at home against Sacramento.
  The two-time Finals MVP also hasn’t been involved in on-court contact during training cam
  
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• Bargains galore at week-long Chilliwack Rotary Book Sale - Mission City Record

  17-10-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  Bargains galore at week-long Chilliwack Rotary Book Sale  Mission City Record
  
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• Bargains galore at week-long Chilliwack Rotary Book Sale - Hope Standard

  17-10-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
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• Bargains galore at week-long Chilliwack Rotary Book Sale - Chilliwack Progress

  17-10-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  Bargains galore at week-long Chilliwack Rotary Book Sale  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Kenya’s Parliament removes the deputy president from office in an impeachment trial

  17-10-2024 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Senate voted Thursday to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest pains.Senators approved five of 11 grounds for impeachment against Gachagua, making him the first sitting deputy president to be removed from office in impeachment proceedings.The vote on the first of the five counts was 54-13, well above the two-th
  
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• Promise tracker: What the Saskatchewan Party and NDP pledge to do if they win Oct. 28

  17-10-2024 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan’s provincial election is on Oct. 28. Here’s a look at some of the campaign promises made by the two major parties:
  Saskatchewan Party
  — Continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa on natural gas until the end of 2025.
  — Reduce personal income tax rates over four years; a family of four would save $3,400.
  — Double the Active Families Benefit to $300 per child per year and the benefit for children with disabilities to $400 a
  
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• Charges recommended after dog dragged about 200 metres behind vehicle in Merritt: SPCA

  17-10-2024 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT — The BC SPCA says it has seized a dog after it was dragged behind a vehicle in Merritt.
  In a news release issued Thursday (Oct. 17), the BC SPCA’s Eileen Drever says the young collie mix was tethered to a vehicle and dragged about 200 metres.
  “He has abrasions to his front and back paw pads and hocks, (the joint between the dog’s hind leg and foot) and his nails were shredded,” said Drever. “He is also under weight with a body score of two out of nine
  
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• Ticats, Stampeders look to cap 2024 CFL season on a strong note

  17-10-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — There’ll be no playoff games this year for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats but head coach Scott Milanovich feels the club can get a head start on changing that narrative in 2025.
  Hamilton hosts Calgary on Friday night in a battle between two non-playoff teams. The Ticats will finish fourth in the East Division while the Stampeders remain fifth in the West, three points behind idle Edmonton with two regular-season games remaining.
  “There’s momentum that can be built at
  
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• Court upholds Abbotsford bylaw around homeless encampments

  17-10-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A spokesperson for the City of Abbotsford says the municipality welcomes a decision Thursday by a B.C. Supreme Court judge that upholds the city’s bylaw and closes the homeless encampment at Abbotsford City Hall.
  According to a statement Thursday (Oct. 17) from the City of Abbotsford, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sandra Sukstorf today released her decision to uphold the City of Abbotsford’s bylaw. Justice Sukstorf denied a judicial application by Matsqui-Abbotsford
  
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• Toronto FC promises change at the club after missing out on the playoffs yet again

  17-10-2024 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — MLSE president and CEO Keith Pelley and Toronto FC’s top officials have promised change at the ailing MLS club, which is sitting out the playoffs for the fourth straight season.
  Pelley says while the franchise’s entire organizational structure is under review, it is going to take some time to find the right answers.
  Coach John Herdman says he is looking for young, athletic and durable talent to help turn around a club which he said started the season strongly but fini
  
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• Canada women drawn with Scotland, Wales and Fiji at next year’s Rugby World Cup

  17-10-2024 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has been drawn with Scotland, Wales and Fiji in Pool B at next year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup in England.
  The Canadian women, who finished fourth at the last World Cup, are currently ranked second in the world while Scotland is No. 7, Wales No. 10 and Fiji No. 17
  Pool A consists of top-ranked England, No. 5 Australia, the ninth-ranked U.S. and No. 15 Samoa while Pool C is made up of No. 3 New Zealand, No. 6 Ireland, No. 11 Japan and No. 13 Spain. Pool D features No. 4 France,
  
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• Former Canadian Olympic athlete wanted in U.S. for murder, drug charges

  17-10-2024 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  American authorities say a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder is wanted in the U.S. on multiple charges stemming from his alleged involvement in a transnational drug trafficking ring and several murders in Ontario.
  Ryan James Wedding is one of 16 defendants named in an indictment filed in California, which details an operation that allegedly moved large shipments of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and California to Canada and other locations in the United States.
  U.S. authorities say the 4
  
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• Fundraiser started for family of missing Chilliwack father killed in crash - Chilliwack Progress

  17-10-2024 21:09 via news.google.com
  Fundraiser started for family of missing Chilliwack father killed in crash  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fundraiser started for family of missing Chilliwack father killed in crash - Abbotsford News

  17-10-2024 21:03 via news.google.com
  Fundraiser started for family of missing Chilliwack father killed in crash  Abbotsford News
  
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• Trudeau says death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ‘ends a reign of terror’

  17-10-2024 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip “ends a reign of terror.”
  The Israeli military declared today that it had killed Sinwar during a Wednesday battle and confirmed his death with a DNA test.
  Sinwar was one of the chief architects of the attack on Israel last October that prompted an Israeli ground invasion, and a conflict that has drawn in countries across the Middle East.Trudeau called Sinwar a &ldqu
  
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• A father and son are both indicted in a mass school shooting in Georgia

  17-10-2024 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia grand jury has indicted both a father and son in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.
  WAGA-TV, among other media, reported that the Barrow County grand jury meeting in Winder indicted 14-year-old Colt Gray on Thursday on a total of 55 counts including four counts of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, plus aggravated assault and cruelty to children. His father, Colin Gray, faces 29 counts including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaugh
  
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• CP Railway adjusts safety measures following B.C. train crash: safety board

  17-10-2024 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board says a mistake by a Canadian Pacific Railway supervisor set off a crash between a freight train and a railway work vehicle in Cache Creek, B.C.
  The board’s report says the supervisor was inspecting the main tracks on Dec. 29, 2022, in a vehicle that can operate on both roads and rail when he noticed a defect that needed repair.It says that while the man was repairing the track, an eastbound freight train crashed into the unoccupied veh
  
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• Harris says the killing of Sinwar is an opportunity ‘to finally end the war in Gaza’

  17-10-2024 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said Thursday the killing of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, by Israel “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”
  Speaking from a Wisconsin college campus where she was campaigning, Harris said the war “must end such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determi
  
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• Biden says Sinwar’s death is ‘good day’ for world, ‘opportunity’ for hostage deal, end to Gaza war

  17-10-2024 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world,” and called it an “opportunity” to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas and end the yearlong war in Gaza.
  Biden, in a statement, compared it to the feeling in the U.S. after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, s
  
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• Chilliwack Fire dispatched Thursday morning after helicopter hits building at Chilliwack Airport

  17-10-2024 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Multiple Chilliwack Fire Department engines were dispatched for an apparent helicopter crash at the Chilliwack Airport Thursday morning.According to a recording of the emergency call provided by Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, Chilliwack Fire Dept. Engines 1, 4, 1-2, and 4-2, along with Rescue 1, were dispatched at roughly 10:18 a.m. for the report of an aircraft that went into a building.The incident happened on the grounds of JoinAir at 8409 Lockheed Place, within the pre
  
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• Mom urges chiefs to vote in favour of landmark $47.8B child welfare reform deal

  17-10-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The representative plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Canada are urging First Nations chiefs to accept a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal.
  The deal was struck in July between Canada, the Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski Nation and the Assembly of First Nations after a nearly two-decade legal fight over the federal government’s underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services.
  The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal said that was discriminatory and task
  
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• Who is Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel says it has killed?

  17-10-2024 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight.
  In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew over years spent in Israeli prisons and who carefully studied his enemy.On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. There was
  
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• Raptors point guard Quickley questionable ahead of final pre-season game vs. Nets

  17-10-2024 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Immanuel Quickley is questionable for the Toronto Raptors final pre-season game.
  The guard has missed Toronto’s first four tune-up games with a sprained thumb.
  Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic says that Quickley has been cleared for all practice and team activities but that the team would be cautious about putting him into an actual game.
  Toronto visits the Brooklyn Nets on Friday to close out its pre-season, then hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday in its home ope
  
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• Trailer towed into Chilliwack River Valley earlier this year turns into an abandoned mess - Fraser Valley Today

  17-10-2024 19:10 via news.google.com
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• Trailer towed into Chilliwack River Valley earlier this year turns into an abandoned mess

  17-10-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack cleanup volunteer Ross Aikenhead says a trailer that was towed into the Chilliwack River Valley and dropped off earlier this year has now turned into an abandoned homeless camp rife with junk and unsightly blight, prompting him to ask regional and provincial authorities to step in with some kind of solution.
  Aikenhead, a longtime Chilliwack resident who contributes to cleanup efforts in the Fraser Valley in his spare time, says the abandoned trailer is located just
  
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• Car set on fire at home of owner of Old Montreal buildings hit by fatal arsons

  17-10-2024 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A vehicle was set on fire this morning in the driveway of the residence of a lawyer who owns two Old Montreal buildings that have burned down in the past two years and left nine people dead.
  Police did not formally identify the owner of the home but city property records show that the residence in Dorval, Que., an on-island Montreal suburb, belongs to Emile Benamor.
  The vandalism to the vehicle is at least the third criminal incident this month involving property owned by Benamo
  
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• Singh ‘doesn’t understand’ why Poilievre won’t get top security clearance

  17-10-2024 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it’s very disturbing that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t get the top-level security clearance needed to view classified documents on foreign interference.
  Singh says party leaders need to be briefed on top secret information, something he says is amplified by allegations that Indian agents played a role in extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday at a publ
  
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• Montrealer ordered to pay $35,000 fine for not declaring luxury watch at border

  17-10-2024 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Montreal business owner will have to pay a hefty fine after he imported a luxury watch without declaring it to customs.A Federal Court judge this week ruled that David Segall Blouin must pay a $35,000 fine and $11,400 in Quebec sales tax on a $115,000 watch he bought more than two years ago.Blouin flew to Philadelphia to buy the watch from a luxury dealer in August 2022, and returned to Montreal the same day but failed to declare the watch to customs.He had the empty watch box
  
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• Canadian veteran midfielder Desiree Scott to retire at end of NWSL season

  17-10-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Desiree Scott, a hard-nosed defensive midfielder who won 187 caps for Canada, has announced her retirement at the end of the National Women’s Soccer League season.
  The 37-year-old from Winnipeg, known as the Destroyer for her hard tackling, has spent seven pro season in Kansas City, for both FC Kansas City and Kansas City Current. She also played for the Utah Royals in the NWSL, England’s Notts County and the Vancouver Whitecaps women.
  “It is bittersweet to think about this mom
  
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• Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP - Cranbrook Townsman

  17-10-2024 18:01 via news.google.com
  Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP  Cranbrook Townsman
  
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• Snow warnings along B.C.-Yukon border as southern B.C. braces for atmospheric river

  17-10-2024 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has issued the first snowfall warnings of the season along the British Columbia and Yukon border, with accumulations up to 20 centimetres expected in some areas.
  The weather office says the snow will spread through southwestern Yukon starting today and will persist until Saturday.
  It says 10 centimetres of snow is expected in most regions, but predicts up to 25 centimetres in Swift River.But it says an arctic ridge of high pressure will clear the skies on Sun
  
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• OHL says it will co-operate with an investigation into sexual assault allegation

  17-10-2024 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Ontario Hockey League says it is taking recent sexual assault allegations against eight former players “very seriously” and will co-operate with any police investigation into the claims.
  A woman alleged in a CTV report that aired Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by eight OHL players in November 2014 at a house where a 19-year-old player she was in a relationship with was billeted while playing in the league. She said some of the players went on to play in
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Trudeau to shuffle his cabinet as four ministers plan to step down

  17-10-2024 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to shuffle his cabinet yet again after four more cabinet ministers informed the Prime Minister’s Office they won’t run in the next election.
  Filomena Tassi has announced she won’t be running for personal reasons, and a senior government source says Marie-Claude Bibeau, Carla Qualtrough and Dan Vandal also won’t be on the ballot.More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP - Langley Advance Times

  17-10-2024 17:09 via news.google.com
  Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP  Langley Advance Times
  
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• Missing Chilliwack woman could be in Surrey or Maple Ridge: RCMP - Chilliwack Progress

  17-10-2024 16:44 via news.google.com
  Missing Chilliwack woman could be in Surrey or Maple Ridge: RCMP  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP - Abbotsford News

  17-10-2024 16:44 via news.google.com
  Missing B.C. man en route to Cariboo 'sadly' found dead: Chilliwack RCMP  Abbotsford News
  
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• PBO projects deficit exceeded Liberals’ $40B pledge, economy to rebound in 2025

  17-10-2024 16:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government likely failed to keep its deficit below its promised $40 billion cap in the last fiscal year.
  However the PBO also projects in its latest economic and fiscal outlook today that weak economic growth this year will begin to rebound in 2025.
  The budget watchdog estimates in its report that the federal government posted a $46.8 billion deficit for the 2023-24 fiscal year.
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged a year ago
  
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• Supreme Court won’t hear spy service analyst’s appeal over discrimination case

  17-10-2024 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency.
  In March, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that found Sameer Ebadi should have followed the internal grievance procedures available to him.In the initial ruling, Federal Court Justice Henry Brown said the court lacked jurisdiction to address Ebadi’s statement of claim filed in January 2020.Ebadi, w
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP confirm missing man located deceased

  17-10-2024 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener has confirmed in a statement that the 43-year-old man who was reported missing on Monday, October 14, has sadly been located deceased.
  According to a brief statement released Thursday morning (Oct. 17) at 6:26 a.m., police say the cause of his death is not considered suspicious.
  Cpl. Kiener said in a statement. “The RCMP offers its condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.”
  Welch had been traveling fr
  
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• Israel says it is investigating whether Hamas’ top leader Sinwar was killed in Gaza

  17-10-2024 15:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday it was looking into whether Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a military operation in Gaza, while an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
  The military said in a statement that three militants were killed during operations in Gaza, without specifying where or elaborating further. It said
  
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• Buhai, Green and Shin lead in South Korea after 8-under 64s in first round

  17-10-2024 15:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa, Hannah Green of Australia, and Jenny Shin of South Korea each shot 8-under 64s to top the leaderboard after the first round of the BMW Ladies Championship on Thursday.
  The field is loaded with eight of the LPGA Tour’s top 10 players. It also includes 17 of the 18 winners this season on the tour.
  About the only key player missing is American Kelly Korda who withdrew with a neck injury.
  Haeran Ryu of South Korea was one shot off
  
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• Hunger experts say the risk of famine in Gaza remains high

  17-10-2024 14:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The international authority on hunger crises says the Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war.
  That’s even as the number of people facing the most extreme level of hunger has declined in recent months.
  The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, has warned of famine throughout the war. In its latest report, released Thursday, it says the situation could deteriorate in the coming months as the conflict rages into a second year and wint
  
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• Free drop-in wrestling program for youth continues with Chilliwack Grapplers - Chilliwack Progress

  17-10-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  Free drop-in wrestling program for youth continues with Chilliwack Grapplers  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Panel looking into Trump assassination attempt says Secret Service needs ‘fundamental reform’

  17-10-2024 14:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots. The review also found more systemic issues at the agency such as a failure to understand the unique risks facing Trump and a culture of doing “more with less.”The 52-page report issued Thursday took the Secret Service to tas
  
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• Maple Leafs winger Bobby McMann finding game after opening-night scratch

  17-10-2024 13:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Bobby McMann watched from the press box on opening night.
  Just over a week later, the Maple Leafs winger took a twirl as the first star.
  McMann went from healthy scratch to unlikely offensive focal point in just eight days, putting up two goals in Toronto’s 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday.
  The odd man out at the Bell Centre against the Montreal Canadiens, he’s slowly earning the trust of first-year head coach Craig Berube.
  “There’s a lo
  
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• In The Rings: Curling Canada still looking for Canadian Curling Trials title sponsor

  17-10-2024 13:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  With the Canadian Curling Trials just over a year away, Curling Canada is still looking for a title sponsor for the showcase event that determines this country’s representatives at the Winter Olympics.Tim Hortons served as title sponsor of both the trials and the national men’s championship — now called the Montana’s Brier — from 2005 until last year.Unlike the previous sponsorship package, the current deal with Montana’s BBQ & Bar does not include the tri
  
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• Bangladesh court issues arrest warrant for ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over deaths of protesters

  17-10-2024 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said.
  Prosecutor B.M. Sultan Mahmud said the Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal issued the arrest warrants in response to two petitions submitted by the prosecution.
  He said the
  
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• In the news today: Canada-India tiff triggers travel concerns, youth climate trial

  17-10-2024 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Canada-India tensions spark travel concerns
  As tensions escalate between India and Canada, some in the Indian diaspora say they’re concerned about how the situation might affect travel between the two countries.
  The federal government expelled six Indian diplomats on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role in violent crimes on Canadian soil, including
  
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