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• Royal Canadian Legion presents ‘First Poppy’ to Chilliwack Mayor to kick off annual fundraiser - Fraser Valley Today

  25-10-2024 23:59 via news.google.com
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• Royal Canadian Legion presents ‘First Poppy’ to Chilliwack Mayor to kick off annual fundraiser

  25-10-2024 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — On Friday, Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove joined The Royal Canadian Legion on Vedder Road for what’s known as the “First Poppy” kick-off event.
  The ceremonial event marks the start of the annual Poppy Campaign fundraiser for Veterans, which happens every year on the last Friday of October.
  The drive runs until November 11, with the aim of putting tens of millions of poppies on Canadians as a visual pledge to honour the country’s Veterans.
  “Inspired b
  
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• 'Do the right thing,' and forget fireworks, says Chilliwack mayor - Chilliwack Progress

  25-10-2024 23:49 via news.google.com
  'Do the right thing,' and forget fireworks, says Chilliwack mayor  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Underdog Vancouver Whitecaps take on powerhouse Los Angeles FC in MLS playoffs

  25-10-2024 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vanni Sartini accepts that the betting odds are against his Vancouver Whitecaps as they head into the Major League Soccer playoffs.He’s coined a new term, though, for the position his club will be in when they kickoff a best-of-three first-round series against the West’s top seed, Los Angeles FC, in California on Sunday.“We are the underdogs because they’re the No. 1 in the (Western Conference). And so it’s normal to be the underdogs,” the he
  
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• Toronto Raptors stars Immanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett out vs. Philadelphia 76ers

  25-10-2024 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Immanuel Quickley and Canadian RJ Barrett are out of the Toronto Raptors’ lineup tonight against the Philadelphia 76ers.
  Head coach Darko Rajakovic said that both would continue to rest as they recover from injuries.
  Quickley will not travel with the team to Minnesota for tomorrow night’s game against the Timberwolves.
  Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., will make the trip.
  Quickley landed hard on his tailbone in Wednesday’s home opener loss to the Cleveland Cavali
  
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• Calgary Wild announce Muhtaj first player signing, NHL player Morrissey club investor

  25-10-2024 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary Wild FC has named Afghanistan women’s soccer captain Farkhunda Muhtaj its first player signing and also announced Winnipeg Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey as an investor in the team.
  Wild FC is one of six Northern Super League teams that will begin play in 2025 in a Canadian women’s pro soccer league.
  Calgary’s club introduced Muhtaj and Morrissey at a Friday news conference in downtown Calgary.
  Muhtaj was captain of the Afghanistan women while the team p
  
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• Canada’s Denis Shapovalov eliminated in Swiss Indoors quarterfinals

  25-10-2024 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BASEL — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was eliminated from the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament Friday with a hard-fought 6-7 (7) 6-3, 7-6 (3) quarterfinal loss to France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
  Mpetshi Perricard dominated the deciding tiebreak, racing out to a 6-2 lead before winning with an ace on his second match point.
  The 21-year-old Frenchman put on a serving masterclass in the match, firing 27 aces and winning 75 per cent of service points, including 81 per cent on first
  
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• Back in Canada, skating star Ilia Malinin reflects on worlds triumph in Montreal

  25-10-2024 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — When Ilia Malinin stunned the crowd with his world championship performance in Montreal last March, he left the competition with much more than a gold medal hanging around his neck.
  The American figure skating star also took home a new sense of the heights he could reach.
  “Before I was not really so sure of what my skill level was and where I can push it,” Malinin said. “But now I’m starting to really figure it out.”
  If Malinin is only figuring it ou
  
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• Prince Caspian from the Narnia Series Set for Gallery 7 Stage in Abbotsford

  25-10-2024 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — One of the legendary fantasy novels from The Chronicles of Narnia series is set to hit the Gallery 7 Theatre this fall.
  Prince Caspian, written by noted novelist C.S. Lewis, starts a run at the Abbotsford Arts Centre in November with live, original music composed by Liam Whatley.
  “Our production, at least to my knowledge, is the first to be presented following the premiere of the play at the Shaw Festival in 2023,” Gallery 7 managing artistic director Ken Hildebran
  
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• B.C. port employers, foremen’s union return to negotiation table with mediator

  25-10-2024 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Employers and the union representing foremen at British Columbia’s ports will return to the negotiating table next week with a mediator in the latest push for a resolution in the labour dispute.
  The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it will meet Oct. 29 with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514, which represents about 700 port foremen.The statement says the negotiation session could be extended to Oct. 30 and 31 if necessary.
  
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• Riders hope first in West Division is still in play when they host Stampeders

  25-10-2024 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The door to first place in the CFL’s West Division is open slightly for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but it may be firmly closed by the time they step on the field Saturday for their regular season finale.
  The 9-7-1 Riders are currently in second place in the West, one point behind the 10-7-0 Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Both teams play on Saturday, with the Bombers visiting the Montreal Alouettes before the Riders host the Calgary Stampeders.
  If the Bombers beat or tie the Aloue
  
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• 50 tonnes of ‘fatbergs’ removed from Richmond, B.C., sewers, Metro Vancouver says

  25-10-2024 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Workers in Metro Vancouver have chiselled away about 50 tonnes of so-called “fatbergs” that have clogged the sewer system and prompted a reminder to residents not to dump grease down the drain.Dana Zheng, a program manager with the Metro Vancouver regional district, says that while it isn’t the first time they’ve encountered the problem in the system, this latest discovery of hardened fat is the “most serious” they have seen in recent years.Zheng says workers
  
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• Legion kicks off Poppy Campaign in support of Chilliwack veterans - Chilliwack Progress

  25-10-2024 21:31 via news.google.com
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• New tool to study how climate change has shifted the odds of extreme cold weather

  25-10-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal government will begin this winter to quickly analyze how climate change is shifting the odds of extreme cold temperatures, broadening the application of the system it rolled out over the summer to study heat waves.
  Officials with Environment and Climate Change Canada say the results will show how much less likely a given cold wave has become because of human-caused climate change.
  Of the 37 heat waves they studied this summer, officials say all were made more likely due to climate ch
  
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• Montreal man charged with first-degree murder in Ottawa femicide: police

  25-10-2024 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ottawa police say a Montreal man has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of a woman on Thursday in front of two of her children.
  Fsha Tekhle, 36, was charged today for the killing of Brkti Berhe, 36, at a park near Uplands Drive in Ottawa’s south end, in what police called a femicide.
  Berhe was a married mother of four and police say Tekhle had a domestic relationship with one of her family members.
  Witnesses to the stabbing tried to provide aid to Berhe an
  
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• Trump visits Texas to tape Joe Rogan’s podcast and to criticize Harris on immigration

  25-10-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Donald Trump headed to Texas on Friday to talk about border security, a trip that comes as the former president escalates his already dark and apocalyptic rhetoric against illegal immigration in the race’s final stretch.
  While in Austin, Trump also will sit down with Joe Rogan, the nation’s most listened-to podcaster, creating another opportunity for the Republican nominee to highlight the hypermasculine tone that has defined much of his 2024 White House bi
  
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• A mutt known as ‘Houdini’ for his ability to elude capture is finally off the streets

  25-10-2024 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dubbed on social media as the “Houdini” of New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood, Scrim — a scruffy, mixed-breed dog that was on the lam for more than six months after escaping his yard — has finally been caught.The 13-pound (about six-kilogram) runaway was captured Wednesday night with the use of a tranquilizer dart. New Orleans news outlets report that he is missing a chunk out of his ear and has various abrasions. Also, X-rays revealed two p
  
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• Biden visits Native Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy

  25-10-2024 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated Indian children from their parents, calling it “blot on American history” in his first visit to Native Country.
  “It’s a sin on our soul,” said Biden, his voice full of anger and emotion. “Quite frankly, there’s no excuse that this apology took 50 y
  
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• Run for Hope raises $4K for Fraser Canyon Hospital, funds medical imaging chair

  25-10-2024 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF) has confirmed that just over $4,100 was raised during their Run for Hope campaign this month. The funds have been used to purchase a positioning chair for the Medical Imaging Department at Fraser Canyon Hospital.
  The event, held on October 5, attracted more than 100 runners and walkers who participated in a 5-kilometer trek along the Coquihalla River and through Thacker Park.
  FVHCF Executive Director Liz Harris said the chair wa
  
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• Wind warning for B.C.’s south coast with gusts up to 90 km/h expected overnight

  25-10-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Coastal British Columbia will see strong winds overnight with gusts that could reach speeds of between 90 and 110 kilometres per hour.Warnings from Environment Canada span the Greater Victoria area, the southern Gulf Islands, eastern Vancouver Island, southern parts of Metro Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.
  The weather office says most areas will see winds gusting up to 90 kilometres per hour before conditions are expected to ease Saturday morning, while winds over Haida Gwaii could peak at 110 kilome
  
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• Canada condemns ‘horrifying’ violence in Haiti as political transition challenged

  25-10-2024 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada strongly condemns a new surge in gang violence in Haiti.
  In recent weeks, gang violence has increased in the Caribbean nation and the UN says gangs now control 85 per cent of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
  Kenya is leading a multinational security mission to restore order after gangs drove out the former prime minister with targeted attacks earlier this year.Canada has contributed $86 million since February to support t
  
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• Joly faces calls for probe in death of woman Canada refused to repatriate from Syria

  25-10-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Advocates want Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to call an impartial investigation into the death of a Canadian woman the federal government refused to repatriate from a Syrian detention camp.
  In a letter to Joly, Sen. Kim Pate and human rights activist Alex Neve say the Quebec woman died unexpectedly just over a week ago in Turkey.
  Pate and Neve were part of a delegation that met the woman and her six young children in 2023 in a Syrian camp run by Kurdish forces that
  
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• Chilliwack business sector sits down with Indigenous leadership - Chilliwack Progress

  25-10-2024 18:52 via news.google.com
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• Chris Armas finds a home in Colorado, wonders about what might have been in Toronto

  25-10-2024 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A pair of former Toronto FC coaches meet Saturday when the Los Angeles Galaxy hosts the Colorado Rapids in the first round of the MLS playoffs.
  But while Galaxy coach Greg Vanney left Toronto on his accord in December 2020 after winning trophies and setting franchise records, his replacement Chris Armas was shown the door after a disastrous 1-8-2 start to the 2021 season.After stints as an assistant coach with England’s Manchester United and Leeds United under Ralf Rangnick and Jesse Marsc
  
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• Different Stakes: Bombers look to clinch West title against East-champion Alouettes

  25-10-2024 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Saturday’s regular-season finale between the Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a clash between division leaders, though for one team the stakes are significantly higher.
  The Blue Bombers are looking to secure top spot in the West Division and a bye directly into the Western Final with either a win or a tie against the Alouettes.
  “We understand the ramifications of the outcome of this game, but you really can’t be thinking about the outcome through
  
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• Outlaws down Kodiaks 8-1, suffer losses to Abbotsford, Surrey and Chilliwack - Mission City Record

  25-10-2024 18:04 via news.google.com
  Outlaws down Kodiaks 8-1, suffer losses to Abbotsford, Surrey and Chilliwack  Mission City Record
  
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• ‘Intolerable’: Educators at youth detention centre accused of having sex with minors

  25-10-2024 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s social services minister says he’s disturbed by reports that educators at a detention centre for youth in Montreal had sexual relations with minor detainees.
  Lionel Carmant told reporters today that both the detention facility and the police are investigating to shed light on the allegations of sexual misconduct at the Cité-des-Prairies rehabilitation centre for troubled youth.
  La Presse reported that nine women employees at the detention centre had s
  
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• Putin ends BRICS summit that sought to expand Russia’s global clout but was shadowed by Ukraine

  25-10-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies on Thursday, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West’s “perverse methods.”
  The three-day summit in the city of Kazan was attended by leaders or representatives of 36 countries, highlighting the failure of United States-led efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
  The conflict came up repeatedly at the meeting, which saw the
  
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• Bottcher to make Team Gushue debut for Canada at Pan Continental curling playdowns

  25-10-2024 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Longtime skip Brendan Bottcher will be wearing Canada colours when he makes his return to the four-player game with Team Gushue at the upcoming Pan Continental curling championship.Bottcher is the new second for the St. John’s, N.L.-based team, which parted ways with E.J. Harnden earlier this month.“I’m excited to get out there at the Pan Continental,” Bottcher said. “I’m excited to be a part of the team and I’m excited to get moving. I think the team ju
  
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• Nico Echavarria shoots another 64 to lead the Zozo Championship by 2 shots after the second round

  25-10-2024 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INZAI CITY, Japan (AP) — Nico Echavarria shot a 6-under 64 on Friday — matching his 64 on Thursday — to lead by two shots over Taylor Moore and Justin Thomas after the second round of the Zozo Championship in Japan.
  Thomas shot 64 and Moore carded 67 with three others just three shots off the lead including Seamus Power, who had the day’s low round of 62 at the Narashino Country Club.
  Thomas has twice won the PGA Championship but is winless in two years on the PGA Tour.
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• Maja Stark takes 2nd-round lead at LPGA Malaysia with Marina Alex 1 stroke behind

  25-10-2024 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Maja Stark shot a 6-under 66 Friday to take the lead after two rounds of the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship, with a 34-year-old American just one stroke behind.
  Storms forced an early stop to play, with about 12 players — all of them several strokes out of the lead — having to halt their rounds but they were able to complete them later Friday.
  Stark had a two-round total of 12-under 132 on the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club course. The
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Oct. 25 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  25-10-2024 14:52 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Oct. 25 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil’s Amazon

  25-10-2024 14:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite assessment.
  The breadth of forest that has been lost or degraded was revealed as smoke that has blanketed the country cleared, thanks to rains that may be ending the worst drought Brazil has ever recorded.
  “The data is exceptionally alarming, it’s a very abrupt surge,” Ane Al
  
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• Canada’s Andreescu, Fernandez fall in quarterfinals at Tokyo’s Pan Pacific Open

  25-10-2024 14:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOKYO — Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez were eliminated in the quarterfinals at the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Friday.
  Andreescu was ousted after dropping a 6-2, 6-1 decision to Britain’s Katie Boulter.Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., won only 45 per cent of points on first serve in the match, which lasted just 62 minutes. Boulter won 87 per cent of first-serve points.Boulter will next play Russian Sofia Kenin in the semifinals on Saturday.
  Leylah Fernandez of Laval,
  
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• Buoyed by squash’s Olympic inclusion and date change, Canadian Women’s Open on rise

  25-10-2024 12:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — When Squash Canada CEO Jamie Nicholls thinks about the impact Pro Squash Association tournaments have had in this country, a conversation with former world No. 1 Jonathon Power comes to mind.
  “He mentioned to me one time, ‘If you want to be the best in the world, you have to actually see the best in the world,'” Nicholls said. “That really resonated with me.”
  It’s one of the reasons why Nicholls is so proud to see the growth of the Canadian Wom
  
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• Death toll from deadly storm that struck the Philippines rises to 65

  25-10-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine provincial police chief said Friday that 33 people were killed mostly in landslides set off by Tropical Storm Trami in a province south of Manila.
  The deaths caused by landslides and flash floods in Batangas province brings to 65 the overall death toll from Trami, which blew away Friday from the northwestern Philippines, Batangas police chief Col. Jacinto Malinao Jr. said.
  Eleven other villagers remain missing Malinao Jr. told The Associated Press by
  
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• In the news today: Most Canadians would back Harris in U.S.: poll

  25-10-2024 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Most Canadians would back Harris in U.S.: poll
  If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.
  In a new survey from polling firm Leger, 64 per cent of Canadian respondents said if they could cast a ballot, they’d put their support behind vice-president Harris while 21 per cent would support former president Donald Trump. Fifteen per
  
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• Natural gas producers await LNG Canada’s start, but will it be the fix for prices?

  25-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Natural gas producers in Western Canada have white-knuckled it through months of depressed prices, with the expectation that their fortunes will improve when LNG Canada comes online in the middle of next year.
  But the supply glut plaguing the industry this fall is so large that not everyone is convinced the massive facility’s impact on pricing will be as dramatic or sustained as once hoped.
  As the colder temperatures set in and Canadians turn on their furnaces, natural gas
  
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• Mail-in ballot figures coming for each B.C. riding, may make election outcome clearer

  25-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Elections BC is expected to provide a breakdown today of the number of uncounted mail-in and absentee ballots in each of British Columbia’s 93 ridings, potentially making clearer the outcome of the weekend’s nail-biting vote.
  There are about 65,000 of the ballots to count between tomorrow and Monday, which could solidify results from election night, or may even flip some ridings.A handful of ridings remain too close to call after Saturday’s election, in which n
  
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• Canadian consensus on immigration under threat, but not gone: immigration minister

  25-10-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada’s long-held consensus on immigration is under threat, but has not disappeared.
  On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to slash Canada’s immigration targets by 20 per cent next year and admitted his government did not get the balance right after the COVID-19 pandemic.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused the Liberals of trying to correct course after destroying the national consensus on immigration
  
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• New regulations allow Canada Post to ship restricted firearms returned in gun buyback

  25-10-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is giving Canada Post the ability to store and transport restricted firearms in new regulations that bring the retail gun buyback program one step closer to beginning.An order in council dated Oct. 16 allows for restricted assault-style firearms to be removed from safes, transported and ultimately destroyed.More than 1,500 models of firearms were restricted in May 2020 after a mass shooting in Nova Scotia left 23 people dead, including the gunman.Public Safe
  
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• Majority of Canadians would vote for Kamala Harris in U.S. election: poll

  25-10-2024 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.
  In a new survey from polling firm Leger, 64 per cent of Canadian respondents said if they could cast a ballot, they’d put their support behind vice-president Harris while 21 per cent would support former president Donald Trump. Fifteen per cent weren’t sure what they would do.Those who intend to vote Conservative in the next Canadian election were split o
  
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• 4 astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton

  25-10-2024 09:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.
  A SpaceX capsule carrying the crew parachuted before dawn into the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast after undocking from the International Space Station mid-week.The three Americans and one Russian should have been back two months ago. But their homecoming was stalled by problems with Boeing’s n
  
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• Panthers beat Rangers 3-1 as Bobrovsky reaches career milestone

  25-10-2024 07:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves for his 400th career win, and the Florida Panthers defeated the New York Rangers 3-1 on Thursday.
  Anton Lundell and Carter Verhaeghe scored early first-period goals for Florida. Lundell opened the scoring 44 seconds in, beating Igor Shesterkin alone in the slot. Verhaeghe added to the Panthers’ lead at the 2:42 mark.
  Alexis Lafreniere scored 4:44 into the game to halve Florida’s early lead, but it was the only time New York was abl
  
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• Nikolaj Ehlers scores OT goal to lift unbeaten Winnipeg to 4-3 win over Seattle

  25-10-2024 07:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Nikolaj Ehlers scored the winning goal 1:26 into overtime, and the Winnipeg Jets remained unbeaten this season with a 4-3 win over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night.
  Nino Niederreiter had two goals for Winnipeg, Gabriel Vilardi scored one and Connor Hellebuyck had 29 saves as the Jets improved to 7-0.
  Matty Beniers had two goals and an assist for Seattle.
  Beniers scored first at 11:27 of the first period to put the Kraken ahead 1-0. Seattle’s lead disappeared in the
  
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• Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho contributing in ways big and small to NHL team’s success

  25-10-2024 07:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — When Sebastian Aho isn’t doing the big things, he’s doing the little things to help the Carolina Hurricanes win games.
  With an assist on Carolina’s opening goal and a pivotal faceoff win that led to the team’s second goal, the centre helped set in motion the Hurricanes’ 4-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday at the Saddledome.
  The Hurricanes (4-2-0) cooled off Calgary in handing the Flames (5-1-1) their first loss in regulation this season.Carol
  
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• An Israeli airstrike on a journalist compound kills 3 TV staffers, state news says

  25-10-2024 06:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday.
  The Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its staffers were among the journalists killed early Friday. Al-Manar TV of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said its camera operator Wissam Qassim was killed in the airstrike on the Hasbaya region, that has been spared much of the fighting along the border s
  
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• ‘Lazy hockey’: Blues down Leafs in Berube’s first game against St. Louis since firing

  25-10-2024 06:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Craig Berube ran a gauntlet of emotions Thursday morning.
  The Maple Leafs head coach was poised to face the St. Louis Blues — the team he led to its only Stanley Cup victory in 2019, and the one that fired him last December — looking for a bounceback performance from his group following an ugly effort two nights earlier.
  Berube was all smiles, evening joking with reporters he didn’t know the location of his championship ring.
  The feeling was decidedly different
  
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• Carolina Hurricanes cool off Calgary Flames with a 4-2 win

  25-10-2024 06:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Carolina Hurricanes handed the Calgary Flames their first loss in regulation this season with Thursday’s 4-2 victory at the Saddledome.
  Martin Necas had a goal and an assist, Jack Roslovic also scored, Seth Jarvis had a power-play goal and Eric Robinson scored into an empty net for Carolina (4-2-0).
  Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves for the win and assisted on Robinson’s empty-netter.
  Sebastian Aho’s assist extended his points streak to fiv
  
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• An extra point for the Warriors: NBA finds a missed free throw actually went in

  25-10-2024 06:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Golden State’s blowout win at Portland on Wednesday got a little better on Thursday.
  One point better, to be precise.
  The NBA found a scoring error, one where the Warriors weren’t credited with a free throw that De’Anthony Melton made with 2 minutes left in the third quarter. The league revealed the miscue on Thursday, changing the final score from 139-104 to 140-104.
  Statisticians at the game recorded Melton as having missed both free throws in that seque
  
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