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• Canadian swimmers McIntosh, Harvey finish 1-2 in women’s 200 free at Olympic Trials

  15-05-2024 00:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian teenage swimming sensation Summer McIntosh has her second straight victory at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials.
  She finished first in the women’s 200-metre freestyle at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. 
  The 17-year-old McIntosh, from Toronto, had a time of one minute 53.69 seconds. 
  Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Rivieres, Que., also finished inside the Olympic qualifying time in 1:55.44 to book her ticket for Paris.
  McIntosh secured a return trip to the
  
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• Survey essential to expansion of Abbotsford’s sports fields and courts amid inevitable community growth: city

  10-11-2024 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – Residents have just over three weeks to share their perspectives on the state of Abbotsford’s outdoor sports facilities and where they envision them over the next 15 years.
  Stage one of the city’s Sports Field and Sports Court Strategy began this past week with a community consultation, one of four main components that will lead to preliminary recommendations from city staff in the new year.
  The question is whether the city’s 53 sports courts and 59 outdoor f
  
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• Port employers ‘refusing to bargain,’ cut off talks in less than an hour: Union

  10-11-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that the union has so far rejected.A statement from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Ship & Dock Foremen Local 514 says a meeting with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service ended with the employers “refusing to bargain” and trying to “impose significant c
  
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• Nearly a dozen impaired drivers removed from Abbotsford roads ‘concerning’ ahead of ‘Red Nose’ launch: police

  10-11-2024 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – Ahead of campaigns targeting impaired drivers on Abbotsford roads this holiday season, the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) reported encountering nearly a dozen impaired drivers during Friday night patrols.
  In a social media post, the department shared that 11 drivers were removed from city roadways and highlighted the upcoming Operation Red Nose campaign, which will be announced on Wednesday.
  ‘This number is concerning,’ APD said. ‘Our officers will contin
  
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• Roma fires Juric for its 2nd coaching change this season

  10-11-2024 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Roma fired Ivan Juric to mark its second coaching change this season, with the move coming after a 3-2 home loss to Bologna on Sunday in Serie A.
  Juric replaced the popular Daniele De Rossi in September but hasn’t turned Roma’s fortunes around.
  The Giallorossi are in 12th place and only four points above the relegation zone.
  “We would like to thank Ivan Juric for his hard work these past weeks,” Roma said in a statement. “He handled a difficult env
  
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• Low-ranked Waring wins Abu Dhabi Championship for the biggest victory of his career

  10-11-2024 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Paul Waring carded a 6-under 66 to win the Abu Dhabi Championship for the biggest victory of his career on Sunday.
  The 229th-ranked Englishman was one stroke ahead overnight and finished on 24 under. He even surprised himself at how smoothly the fourth and final round went.
  “It was quite an easy day really, wasn’t it? It just means so much,” the 39-year-old Waring said. “To actually keep control of myself in the way that I did
  
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• CPL coach of the year finalist Benjamin Mora and York United FC part ways

  10-11-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Benjamin Mora, a finalist for Canadian Premier League coach of the year, has left York United FC after five months and 22 matches at the helm.
  The Toronto-based club said the parting was mutual.
  “We are grateful to Benjamín for everything he brought to the club,” York president and GM Ricardo Pasquel said in a statement Sunday. “Over the past five months, we achieved a lot and set new standards.
  “Benjamín led by example and instilled a sense
  
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• Canadians finish second, third overall in Red Bull Cliff Diving season standings

  10-11-2024 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYDNEY — Canadian women finished second and third in the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series after the eighth and final stop of the season.
  Australian Rhiannan Iffland won the Sydney event Sunday, and came out on top for the season, winning the King Kahekili Trophy for the eighth straight time. Canadians Molly Carlson and Simone Leathead placed second and third overall in the season.
  Carlson did not compete in Sydney due to a knee injury but had enough points to retain second spot. The 26-year-ol
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of November 10, 2024

  10-11-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Ryan DiabloAge: 34
  Height: 5’10” ft
  Weight: 170lbs
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Discharge of Firearm with Intent and Aggravated Assault
  Warrant in effect: October 30, 2024Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack
  Name: Clifford LauzonAge: 53
  Height: 5’11” ft
  Hair: Grey
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: November 5, 2024
  Parole Jurisdiction
  
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• Public memorial for Murray Sinclair, who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  10-11-2024 14:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A national commemorative ceremony is being held today in honour of Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools.
  Gov. Gen Mary Simon and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set to deliver remarks at the service being held at Canada Life Centre, the home arena of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets.
  Sinclair was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba and the second in Canada.
  He served as co-chair of the Aboriginal
  
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• ‘It is urgent’: Alberta military reservists eager to join Canadian Forces in Latvia

  10-11-2024 14:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUFFIELD, Alta. — A pair of 105-mm howitzers bark constantly as they turn plywood tank targets into kindling kilometres away on the windswept landscape of one of Canada’s largest military bases.
  It’s a once-a-month weekend training session at Canadian Forces Base Suffield, 260 kilometres southeast of Calgary, for 158 members of 41 Canadian Brigade Group, composed of Army Reserve units in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.They range in age from 18 to 49 and include a high sc
  
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• COP29 primer: Canada’s priorities at the global climate talks, and the Trump impact

  10-11-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada could be an important consensus builder at this year’s international climate negotiations, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said, while downplaying concerns that Donald Trump’s presidential election victory could hamper the talks.“Our window to keep global average temperatures from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing fast on us, so we need everyone to be pulling in the same direction,” Guilbeault said in an interview ahead of the talk
  
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• A new generation is bringing people back to abandoned Newfoundland towns

  10-11-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HICKMAN’S HARBOUR, N.L. — Brian Avery was three years old when he and his parents packed their belongings into a boat and pulled away from Deer Harbour, N.L., leaving behind their home, their way of life and centuries of family history.
  The Averys and their neighbours were abandoning their community on Random Island in Trinity Bay as part of Newfoundland and Labrador’s resettlement program. Their boats were pointed toward Clarenville, N.L., and larger towns beyond, where roads,
  
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• Palestinian hospital official says 17 killed in Israeli strike on northern Gaza

  10-11-2024 10:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The director of a hospital in the Gaza Strip says it has received 17 bodies after an Israeli strike on a home in the northern part of the territory.Dr. Fadel Naim, director of the Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza City, said the dead include nine women.He said they were killed in a strike on a home in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya, where Israel has been carrying out an offensive for over a month.The Associated Press
  
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• Port workers’ union accuses BC Maritime Employers Association of ending talks early

  10-11-2024 09:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early.
  The International Longshore and Warehouse Local 514 says the BC Maritime Employers Association ended federally mandated talks with a mediator less than an hour after they began late Saturday afternoon.
  The employers association said in an evening statement each side met separately with a mediator in Vancouver, but tha
  
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• ‘We know it’s gonna improve’: Igniting power play key to Oilers’ climb

  10-11-2024 08:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Edmonton Oilers may have found the break they were looking for.After struggling through the first month of the NHL season, the Oilers trounced the Vancouver Canucks 7-3 on Saturday.“It was a step in the right direction, for sure,” captain Connor McDavid said of the victory. “Not an easy building to win in, a team that obviously we’ve got lots of history with and this is a great win. Hopefully it’s something that we can build on.”
  Edmonton
  
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• Harden, Powell score 24 points apiece as Clippers edge Raptors 105-103

  10-11-2024 07:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — James Harden had 24 points and 12 rebounds, Norman Powell added 24 points and the Los Angeles Clippers barely hung on to beat the Toronto Raptors 105-103 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory.
  Ivica Zubac had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Clippers, who have won three straight at Intuit Dome after starting 0-4 in their lavish new home.
  Ochai Agbaji and Immanuel Quickley scored 21 points apiece for the Raptors, who have lost three straight and seven
  
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• NHL roundup: Peterka scores lone shootout goal in Buffalo’s 3-2 win over Calgary

  10-11-2024 07:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — JJ Peterka scored the lone shootout goal, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Saturday.
  Tage Thompson and Zach Benson scored first-period goals, and the Sabres earned their third consecutive win. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 24 shots through overtime and all three that he faced in the shootout.
  Thompson scored on a power play at 13:37. It was his team-leading 10th goal of the season.
  Mikael Backlund and Matt Coronato scored for Calgary, which had won
  
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• Gushue, Homan advance to Co-op Canadian Open finals

  10-11-2024 07:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NISKU, Alta. — Brad Gushue and Bruce Mouat will meet in Sunday’s championship final of the Co-op Canadian Open.
  Gushue’s team from St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador — consisting of third Mark Nichols, second Brendan Bottcher and lead Geoff Walker — defeated Yannick Schwaller of Geneva, Switzerland 6-2 in Saturday’s semifinal of the Grand Slam of Curling event.
  Gushue scored a single in the second end, then had steals of one in the third and fourth end
  
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• McDavid puts up three points, Edmonton Oilers rout listless Vancouver Canucks 7-3

  10-11-2024 06:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Connor McDavid scored and notched a pair of assists as the Edmonton Oilers trounced the Vancouver Canucks 7-3 on Saturday.Connor Brown added two goals, and Leon Draisaitl and Brett Kulak each added a goal and a helper for the Oilers (7-7-1). Corey Perry and Victor Arvidsson also found the back of the net and Mattias Janmark contributed three assists.
  Stuart Skinner stopped 17 of the 20 shots he faced in front of a crowd that cheered and jeered the Edmonton goalie.The Canucks (7
  
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• ‘We’ve got to find a way’: Canadiens searching for answers amid ugly losing streak

  10-11-2024 05:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Nick Suzuki felt his group did some good things. Kirby Dach had no issue with the effort.
  And Josh Anderson is convinced a solitary win will get the ball rolling.
  Those brave words and positive vibes aside, the Canadiens are digging themselves a deep hole a month into the NHL season.
  Montreal fell 4-1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday in a meeting of Original Six rivals that resigned the team to its sixth straight loss.
  “Work ethic and attitude,” Suzuki, the unde
  
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• Ullmark wins in return to Boston as Senators edge Bruins 3-2 in overtime

  10-11-2024 04:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored 21 seconds into overtime, lifting Ottawa to a 3-2 victory over the Bruins on Saturday night and handing a win to Linus Ullmark in his return to Boston.
  The 31-year-old Ullmark was traded by Boston to Ottawa in June. The 2023 Vezina Trophy winner went 88-26-10 in three seasons with the Bruins, but he was replaced by Jeremy Swayman for most of last season’s playoffs.
  Tkachuk beat Swayman with a wrist shot from the right circle at the end of a 2-on-1 b
  
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• Messi and Inter Miami ousted from MLS playoffs. Atlanta United upsets top seeds 3-2 in Game 3

  10-11-2024 04:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — There will be no MLS Cup for Lionel Messi and Inter Miami this year. Atlanta United saw to that with a massive upset, sending the game’s most decorated player and biggest-spending team home earlier than anyone imagined.
  Jamal Thiaré scored twice, Bartosz Slisz’s header in the 76th minute was the winner, and Atlanta United stunned Inter Miami 3-2 on Saturday night to win their best-of-three first round MLS Cup playoff series in three games.
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• Marner extends point streak to eight games, Maple Leafs heap more misery on Canadiens

  10-11-2024 04:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to eight games in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
  William Nylander, with a goal and an assist of his own, John Tavares and Conor Timmins also scored for Toronto (9-5-2), which has won three straight.
  Joseph Woll made 20 saves. Morgan Rielly picked up an assist to become the third Leafs defenceman to reach 400 in his career, joining Borje Salming (620) and Tomas Kab
  
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• Democrat April McClain Delaney wins a US House seat in a competitive Maryland race

  10-11-2024 03:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Democrat April McClain Delaney narrowly won a U.S. House seat in Maryland’s most competitive congressional races that came to focus on reproductive rights and the economy.
  The state’s sprawling 6th Congressional District covers a wide swath of rural Maryland as well as more affluent liberal suburbs of Washington, D.C. The close race wasn’t called until Saturday, four days after Election Day.
  A mother of four daughters whose husband previously represented
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Blue Bombers advance to Grey Cup

  10-11-2024 03:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are going to the Grey Cup for the fifth consecutive CFL season.
  The Blue Bombers defeated the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders 38-22 in today’s West Division Final and will face the Toronto Argonauts in the 111th Grey Cup game on Sunday, Nov. 17, at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Republican US Rep. Eli Crane wins second term in vast Arizona congressional district

  10-11-2024 03:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Eli Crane has won reelection in a Republican-leaning congressional district covering vast swaths of rural Arizona.
  Crane faced a spirited challenge from Democrat Jonathan Nez, the former Navajo Nation president, in the 2nd District race. Nez was vying to become the first Native American to represent Arizona in Congress.
  The district covers much of northeastern Arizona and dips south to the northern Tucson suburbs. It includes 14 of the 22 federally recognized trib
  
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• University roundup: Rams beat Huskies 19-14 to hoist Hardy Cup

  10-11-2024 02:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON, Sask. — The University of Regina Rams are BioSteel Hardy Cup champions after defeating the rival University of Saskatchewan Huskies 19-14 in Saskatoon on Saturday in the first all-Saskatchewan Canada West final in 22 years.
  The Huskies led 14-11 at halftime, but the Rams scored eight points in the third quarter to pull ahead for good.
  Both teams finished with 19 first downs and 300-plus yards total offence.
  Rams’ quarterback Noah Pelletier was 23 of 33 passing for 228 yard
  
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• Canadian strawweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson wins third straight in UFC

  10-11-2024 02:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Canadian strawweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson, using her ground game to control the action, won a unanimous decision over Brazil’s Luana Pinheiro on the main card of a UFC Fight Night on Saturday.
  The judges scored it 29-27, 29-28, 29-28 for Robertson (15-8-0), who should climb the rankings with her third straight win and fourth in her last five.
  Pinheiro, who trains out of Los Angeles, is ranked 13th among UFC 115-pound contenders while Robertson is No. 14.
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• First presumptive human case of avian flu acquired in Canada detected in teen

  10-11-2024 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected in B.C.
  A statement from the office of the provincial health officer says a teenager in the region covered by Fraser Health tested positive for bird flu, and the teen is currently getting treatment at BC Children’s Hospital.
  The statement says the positive test was done by the BC Centre for Disease Control, and samples are on their way to Winnipeg’s natio
  
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