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• ‘Fat Leonard,’ Navy contractor behind one of the military’s biggest scandals, sentenced to 15 years

  05-11-2024 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S. Navy officers, federal prosecutors said.
  U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino also ordered Francis to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy and a $150,000 fine, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He was also ordered to forfeit $35 million in &
  
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• B.C. man charged with second-degree murder in death of estranged wife

  05-11-2024 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTROSE, B.C. — A man has been charged with killing his estranged wife in Montrose, B.C.
  Police in the West Kootenay community say officers were dispatched Monday after a report of a man assaulting a woman on the front lawn of a home.
  A statement from the RCMP’s southeast district major crime unit says officers and paramedics found Lindsay Danchella suffering from “significant injuries.”
  The Mounties say Danchella was taken to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital, whe
  
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• Breeders’ Cup victory caps successful partnership between Attard, Moira

  05-11-2024 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been quite a ride for trainer Kevin Attard and Moira.
  The heralded filly earned Attard his first King’s Plate win in 2022 en route to being named Canada’s horse of the year. After finishing fifth in the ’22 Breeders Cup Filly & Mare race, Moira ended last season by taking third in the event at Santa Anita.
  The third time was the charm Saturday at Del Mar as Moira, with Flavien Prat aboard, held off favourite Cinderella’s Dream for the stirring half-length v
  
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• Voters deciding dozens of ballot measures affecting life, death, taxes and more

  05-11-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  While electing officials to make and enforce laws, voters in dozens of states are also deciding on more than 140 ballot proposals affecting the way people legally live, work and die.As 10 states consider measures related to abortion or reproductive rights on Tuesday’s ballots, about a half-dozen states are weighing the legalization of marijuana for either recreational or medical use. About two dozen measures are focused on future elections, including several specifically barring noncitizen
  
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• Trump snaps at reporter when asked about abortion: ‘Stop talking about that’

  05-11-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump is refusing to say how he voted on Florida’s abortion measure — and getting testy about it.The former president was asked twice after casting his ballot in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday about a question that the state’s voters are considering. If approved, it would prevent state lawmakers from passing any law that penalizes, prohibits, delays or restricts abortion until fetal viability — which doctors say is sometime after 21 w
  
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• Abortion is on the ballot in nine states and motivating voters across the US

  05-11-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in nine states are deciding whether their state constitutions should guarantee a right to abortion, weighing ballot measures that are expected to spur turnout for a range of crucial races.
  Passing certain amendments in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota likely would lead to undoing bans or restrictions that currently block varying levels of abortion access to more than 7 million women of childbearing age who live in those states.
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• A tiny village in India where Kamala Harris has ancestral roots is praying for her victory

  05-11-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THULASENDRAPURAM, India (AP) — The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered to pray for Kamala Harris, a gaggle of reporters jostled for space and camera angles.
  There’s little to distinguish the village of Thulasendrapuram from any other rural community in Tamil Nadu, except its connection to a woman who could become America’s first leader with South Asian roots.
  As mil
  
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• A sharply divided America decides between Trump and Harris

  05-11-2024 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided America weighed a stark choice for the nation’s future Tuesday as a presidential campaign marked by upheaval and rancor approached its finale.
  Voters were deciding whether to send Republican Donald Trump back to the White House or elevate Vice President Kamala Harris to the Oval Office. With just hours until polls closed, tens of millions of Americans added their ballots to the 84 million cast early as they chose between two candidates with drastically dif
  
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• Memorial to take place in Winnipeg for judge, senator, TRC chair Murray Sinclair

  05-11-2024 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A public memorial honouring Murray Sinclair is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.The event, which is being organized by the federal and Manitoba governments, will be at Canada Life Centre, home of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets.
  Sinclair was a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools.He died Monday in a Winnipeg hospital at the age of 73.
  A teepee and a sacred fire have been set up outside the Manitoba legislature f
  
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• Voting period marked by massive early turnout ends with few problems, generally smooth Election Day

  05-11-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After an election season marked by concerns over disinformation, foreign influence and worrisome threats to election workers and voting systems, Election Day unfolded relatively smoothly nationwide with only scattered disruptions and delays.
  Leading into Tuesday, more than 82 million Americans had already cast their ballots in a largely successful early voting period with high turnout despite some hiccups and frustrations in the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania.A
  
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• Control of Congress is at stake and with it a president’s agenda

  05-11-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine which party holds the majority and the power to boost or block a president’s agenda, or if the White House confronts a divided Capitol Hill.
  The key contests are playing out alongside the first presidential election since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but also in unexpected corners of the country after what has been one of the most chaotic congressi
  
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• Canada’s AWA Racing prepares for 24 Hours of Le Mans after automatic invitation

  05-11-2024 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Orey Fidani has a simple formula for preparing for an endurance car race.
  He just drives.
  Fidani is a driver for AWA Racing, an IMSA SportsCar Championship team that has qualified for next year’s edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Fidani has had the famed endurance race on his bucket list for years but his preparation will remain straightforward.
  “I just push myself. I push myself and practice and test more, try to be in the car longer,” said Fidani. “Honestly, I just pu
  
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• The Kids are All Right: Next-gen wave arrives on world curling scene

  05-11-2024 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When veteran curlers Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols entered the locker room at the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard for their season-opening bonspiel, they were expecting to see many of their usual opponents.Instead they got a first-hand look at the new generation that’s set to make a mark on the Roaring Game.
  “We looked around and we didn’t recognize a lot of the faces,” Gushue said. “A lot of new younger teams are on the scene, especially the international teams.”Th
  
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• Alex Ovechkin is scoring and helping teammates and the Washington Capitals are off to a hot start

  05-11-2024 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Alex Ovechkin approached linemates Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas after the second game of the Washington Capitals’ season to do some film study.
  The trio who had never before played together watched their shifts from that game, and Ovechkin thought they needed to be more predictable, hesitate less and find one another for passes quicker.
  It worked, and the result has been a hot start for the Capitals and their 39-year-old captain who is approaching one of hoc
  
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• Proposed $32.5B tobacco deal not ‘doomed to fail,’ judge says in ruling

  05-11-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — An Ontario judge says any outstanding issues regarding a proposed $32.5 billion settlement between three major tobacco companies and their creditors should be solvable in the coming months.
  Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz has released his reasons for approving a motion last week to have representatives for creditors review and vote on the proposal in December.
  One of the companies, JTI-Macdonald Corp., said last week it objects to the plan in its current fo
  
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• Merry & Bright festive extravaganza returns to the Fraser Valley

  05-11-2024 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — The Merry & Bright Christmas holiday extravaganza featuring festive facades and authentic backdrops is making a return to the Fraser Valley again this year.The Hollywood-style backlot at Martini Town has been transformed into a festive spectacle replete with Christmas holiday decorations, expanded sets and new seasonal attractions. Visitors to Merry & Bright will get a chance to experience the wonder at the unique outdoor film set often seen in popular movies and TV serie
  
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• Fatal northern Quebec police shooting followed drunk driving call, watchdog says

  05-11-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The province’s police watchdog is providing some new details about a police shooting that left one man dead and a second seriously injured in a remote northern Quebec village.
  The watchdog, known as the BEI, says Nunavik police received a 911 call for someone who was allegedly trying to drive while impaired at about 4:10 a.m. Monday in Salluit, an Inuit fly-in village about 1,850 kilometres north of Montreal.
  A statement today from the watchdog says two officers arrived at
  
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• Former world title contender Troy Amos-Ross headed to Boxing Canada Hall of Fame

  05-11-2024 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Twelve years after his last fight, former world title contender Troy (The Boss) Amos-Ross is headed to the Boxing Canada Hall of Fame.
  Egerton Marcus, his cousin and 1988 Olympic silver medallist as a middleweight, is also being inducted.
  Other inductees are Olympians Jamie Pagendam, Raymond (Sugar Ray) Downey, Howard Grant and Domenic (Hollywood) Filane, former amateur world champion Jennifer Ogg and former Olympic boxing coach Colin MacPhail.
  “It’s incredible,” said the 49-ye
  
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• B.C.’s chief electoral officer defends election integrity after ‘human errors’

  05-11-2024 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s chief electoral officer says “extremely challenging weather conditions” and a new voting system factored into human errors that saw ballots go uncounted in the provincial election — though none were large enough to change results.Anton Boegman says the agency is investigating the mistakes to “identify key lessons learned” to improve training, change processes or make recommendations for legislative change to ensure “errors can be preve
  
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• Stó:lō veterans in Chilliwack to be remembered with ceremony - Chilliwack Progress

  05-11-2024 20:49 via news.google.com
  Stó:lō veterans in Chilliwack to be remembered with ceremony  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Liberals propose seven-year extension for information commissioner Caroline Maynard

  05-11-2024 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Information commissioner Caroline Maynard is slated to answer questions from MPs today on her proposed reappointment.
  The Liberal government recently nominated Maynard to serve another seven-year term.
  Kevin Lamoureux, parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, asked that the nomination be referred to the committee on access to information, privacy and ethics.
  Maynard, an ombudsman for users of the federal Access to Information Act, began her current seven-year term o
  
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• PHOTOS: Windstorm wreaks havoc on Chilliwack roads - Hope Standard

  05-11-2024 20:24 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: Windstorm wreaks havoc on Chilliwack roads  Hope Standard
  
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• House of Commons committee recalls Tom Clark to talk New York City condo

  05-11-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative MPs want Canada’s consul general in New York to testify at a House of Commons committee again about the purchase of a new official residence in Manhattan.
  Members of the House operations committee are looking into the purchase and want Tom Clark to answer more questions after new information emerged today about his involvement in the government’s purchase of the $9-million condo near Central Park.
  Clark previously told the committee that he had no role wha
  
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• PHOTOS: Windstorm wreaks havoc on Chilliwack roads - Chilliwack Progress

  05-11-2024 20:17 via news.google.com
  PHOTOS: Windstorm wreaks havoc on Chilliwack roads  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fatality inquiry into Alberta boxer’s knockout death recommends better oversight

  05-11-2024 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The judge leading a fatality inquiry into the knockout death of a boxer is recommending changes to how the sport is regulated and how head injuries are monitored.Timothy Hague, who was 34, competed in a boxing match licensed by the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission in June 2017 when his opponent, Adam Braidwood, knocked him unconscious.Hague came to and was able to walk to the dressing room, where he vomited, and was then taken to hospital where he underwent surgery for a lar
  
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• Andreescu withdraws from Canada’s BJK Cup team ahead of its title defence in Spain

  05-11-2024 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from Canada’s team in the Billie Jean King Cup finals.
  Tennis Canada said in a release that Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., is focusing on her health after she battled injuries throughout the season.She returned from a nine-month absence due to a back injury at this year’s French Open before taking more time off following a first-round exit at the U.S. Open, where she was champion in 2019.
  She recently returned to play two events in J
  
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• Chilliwack Fire tackles detached garage fire at vacant home Monday night - Fraser Valley Today

  05-11-2024 19:34 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Fire tackles detached garage fire at vacant home Monday night  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack Fire tackles detached garage fire at vacant home Monday night

  05-11-2024 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Multiple Chilliwack firefighters from two fire halls were dispatched Monday night (Nov. 4) to the 8800 block of Nowell Street for a garage fire on the property of a vacant home.
  Assistant Fire Chief Krista Minar told Fraser Valley Today over the phone Tuesday morning that firefighters from Halls 1 (Cheam Avenue) and 4 (South Sumas Road) were dispatched just after 9:30 p.m. A detached garage sustained some minor damage.The vacant home itself wasn’t impacted, and there wer
  
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• Biopic on Chilliwack hero Piper Richardson has new funding deadline - Chilliwack Progress

  05-11-2024 19:30 via news.google.com
  Biopic on Chilliwack hero Piper Richardson has new funding deadline  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec schools want exemption from foreign student cap, but minister unmoved

  05-11-2024 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec universities and public colleges say they should be exempt from the government’s plan to reduce the number of international students in the province, but the immigration minister says that’s unlikely.The schools say a bill tabled last month would hurt their ability to attract top talent from around the world.But Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge says it’s “not reasonable” to think the government could cut the number of foreign
  
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• Chilliwack Airport records highest wind gusts in the Fraser Valley Monday - Fraser Valley Today

  05-11-2024 19:05 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Airport records highest wind gusts in the Fraser Valley Monday  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Wind gusts exceeded 80 km/hr Monday in Chilliwack, highest in the Fraser Valley

  05-11-2024 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Perhaps there was a reason Chilliwack had at least 20 power outages at the height of Monday’s wind storm.
  According to Environment Canada, the weather station at the Chilliwack Airport recorded a remarkable wind speed of 85 kilometers an hour at one point Monday, as fierce winds battered the Fraser Valley and coastal areas in the Lower Mainland.Environment Canada says wind gusts exceeding 100 km/hour were recorded at three Vancouver Island locations, while Chilliwack Air
  
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• Gushue tops Carruthers in opening draw at Grand Slam of Curling’s Co-op Canadian Open

  05-11-2024 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NISKU, Alta. — Brad Gushue defeated Reid Carruthers 6-1 on Tuesday morning in a matchup of Canadian skips at the Co-op Canadian Open.Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., scored three in the sixth end for the win over his Winnipeg-based opponent.
  In other games, Italy’s Joel Retornaz dumped Calgary’s Kevin Koe 8-3, Sweden’s Niklas Edin topped Scotland’s James Craik 8-3 and Scotland’s Ross Whyte defeated Switzerland’s Michael Brunner 7-4.
  Three more draws
  
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• Calgary rider Alex Volstad joins EF-Oatly-Cannondale pro cycling team

  05-11-2024 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary teenager Alex Volstad, a two-time Canadian junior road race champion, is joining the EF-Oatly-Cannondale cycling team next season.
  Volstad, 18, joins fellow Canadian Alison Jackson (Vermilion, Alta.), Clara Emond (Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que.) and Magdeleine Vallieres (Sherbooke, Que.) in EF-Oatly-Cannondale colours.“Next year, I just want to learn as quickly as I can and to get the hang of elite racing,” Volstad said in a statement. “I’ll help my teammat
  
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• Second-lowest salmon run on Fraser River in over 100 years: Former fisheries officer

  05-11-2024 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER RIVER — A former fisheries officer from Kamloops is sounding the alarm on what he believes is neglect from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
  Randy Nelson, along with the BC Wildlife Federation, issued a news release highlighting a drastic decrease in DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) patrols of the Fraser River, leading to thousands of salmon being poached from river systems around the province.
  The salmon return for the Fraser River in 2024 is the lowest on rec
  
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• Lights back on for almost all BC Hydro customers who lost power in strong winds

  05-11-2024 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s Crown utility says crews have restored power to 95 per cent of some 290,000 businesses and homes that were in the dark at some point Monday as strong winds battered coastal areas and parts of the central Interior.
  BC Hydro says crews have been working around the clock to replace dozens of spans of power lines as well as power poles knocked down by toppled trees.
  Environment Canada had issued now-lifted wind warnings for most of the south and central coast, including Metr
  
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• Business groups say B.C. port stoppage will hurt companies, Canadian economy

  05-11-2024 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Business groups say the work stoppage at B.C. ports is the latest in a run of supply chain disruptions affecting Canadian companies and the country’s economy.Employers at most of the province’s ports locked out their workers Monday in a dispute involving roughly 700 unionized foremen.
  The workers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 have been without a contract since March 2023.
  On Friday, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters said the disruptio
  
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• Preparation for next president started months ago, Trudeau’s cabinet says

  05-11-2024 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says the Trudeau government is in a better position to manage trade negotiations with the next American president than it was the last time it signed a deal with the U.S. and Mexico.
  Although they’ll be watching the election results closely, several cabinet ministers who are expected to be involved in upcoming trade talks say they’ve been laying the groundwork for months.
  Former president Donald Trump and his Democratic oppo
  
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• Eleven-year-old boy struck and killed by truck in Montreal

  05-11-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — An 11-year-old boy died after he was hit by a truck Monday evening in Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.
  Police say they received numerous calls at around 7:30 p.m. about the collision at the corner of Parc and Bernard avenues.
  Early information collected by police indicates the driver was heading south down Parc when he turned right on Bernard and struck the boy, who was crossing the street.
  The child suffered serious injuries and was transported to hospital where he
  
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• Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews out day-to-day with upper-body injury

  05-11-2024 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews will miss Tuesday’s game against the Boston Bruins with an upper-body injury.
  The Toronto centre, who’s listed as day-to-day, has five goals and 11 points in 13 contests this season.
  Matthews picked up an assist and played more than 22 minutes in Sunday’s 2-1 overtime road loss to the Minnesota Wild.
  The three-time Maurice (Rocket) Richard Trophy winner led the NHL with 69 goals in 2023-24 — the most by a player in more
  
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• French court convicts 18 in a major trial that casts light on the deadly migrant-smuggling trade

  05-11-2024 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LILLE, France (AP) — A French court found 18 people guilty Tuesday in a major migrant-smuggling trial that shed light on the lucrative but often deadly clandestine business of transporting people on flimsy boats across the perilous sea from France to the U.K.
  The defendants were swept up in a pan-European police operation in 2022 that led to dozens of arrests and the seizure of boats, life jackets, outboard engines, paddles, and cash.
  The court in Lille, northern France, sentenced one of t
  
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• Mission RCMP seeks identity of man who allegedly stole charity box containing donations

  05-11-2024 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly stole donated money from a charity box at a Tim Hortons location in late October.
  According to a brief statement from police, a charity box meant to collect donations for Tim Hortons Camp Day was stolen from the counter of the fast food restaurant on London Avenue on Friday, October 25. Police say a man entered the store at approximately 7:10 p.m., allegedly stole the donation box and wa
  
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• Tuesday - Nov. 5, 2024 - More than pickleball plotted for Chilliwack rec facility - Fraser Valley Current

  05-11-2024 15:35 via news.google.com
  Tuesday - Nov. 5, 2024 - More than pickleball plotted for Chilliwack rec facility  Fraser Valley Current
  
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• Train derailment in Abbotsford causes road closure near U.S. border

  05-11-2024 15:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department says the rail crossing at 4 Avenue and West Railway Avenue will be closed until further notice after a train derailed overnight.
  In a brief social media post at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday morning, AbbyPD says there were no injuries or damage associated with the derailment.Police say they are waiting for heavy machinery to arrive, and motorists should expect delays in the area.An image shared by AbbyPD shows a rail car off the tracks near the railroad cr
  
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• French court convicts 18 in a trial casting light on the deadly migrant smuggling trade

  05-11-2024 15:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LILLE, France (AP) — A French court in Lille on Tuesday found 18 defendants guilty in a migrant smuggling trial linked to the dangerous English Channel crossings.
  The group was charged after a 2022 police operation across Europe led to several arrests and the seizure of boats, life jackets and cash.
  One of the ringleaders, from Iraq, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 200,000 euros ($218,000). Most of the defendants were not in court for the sentencing. Some attended the trial r
  
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• Demonstration outside Brampton Hindu temple broken up after weapons spotted: police

  05-11-2024 15:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Hindu temple in Brampton, Ont., where violence erupted over the weekend was the site of another demonstration on Monday night that police broke up after they say weapons were spotted in the crowd.Peel Regional Police said in social-media updates that the demonstration was declared an unlawful assembly shortly before 10 p.m., after officers saw weapons “within the demonstration.”
  Police say the demonstration converged at an intersection outside the Hindu Sabha Mandir temple, shuttin
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Routliffe pick up second win at WTA Finals

  05-11-2024 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIYADH — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe remain undefeated in women’s doubles at the WTA Finals.The 2023 U.S. Open champions, seeded second at the event, secured a 1-6, 7-6 (1), (11-9) super-tiebreak win over fourth-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in round-robin play on Tuesday.
  The season-ending tournament features the WTA Tour’s top eight women’s doubles teams.
  Dabrowski and Routliffe lost the first set in 22 minu
  
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• A week after Spain’s floods, families hold out hope that loved ones are not among the dead

  05-11-2024 14:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEDAVI, Spain (AP) — Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise.
  He never came back.
  One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her father is alive and among the unknown number of the missing.
  “He was like many people in town who went out to get their car or motorbike to safety,” the 27-year-old told The Associated Press. “The flash flood caught him outside, and h
  
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• Iran official claims Iranian-German prisoner died before being put to death

  05-11-2024 12:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official claimed Tuesday that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran could execute him — directly contradicting the country’s earlier announcement he had been put to death.The comment by Asghar Jahangir comes as Germany has shut down Iranian consulates over Sharmahd’s death.The judiciary’s Mizan news agency quoted Jahangir as saying: “Jamshid Sharmahd was sentenced to death, his sentence was re
  
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• Former athletes lean on each other to lead Canada’s luge, bobsled teams

  05-11-2024 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Sam Edney and Jesse Lumsden sat on a bench on Parliament Hill during an athlete celebration after the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
  Having just represented Canada in their sliding sports — Lumsden in bobsled and Edney in luge — the two men pondered their futures together.
  “There was actually one moment about, are we going to keep going? Talking about, what are each of us going to do? What’s the next four years look like?” Edney recalled a decade later.
  
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