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• German court convicts prominent far-right politician for using a Nazi slogan, imposes a fine

  14-05-2024 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALLE, Germany (AP) — A court on Tuesday convicted one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party of using a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to pay a fine.
  The verdict in Björn Höcke’s trial comes months before a regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia in which he plans to run for the governor’s job.
  The state court in the eastern city of Halle convicted Höcke of using symbols of an unconstitutional organization,
  
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• Scheffler builds 4-shot lead at Memorial; Hadwin remains in hunt

  09-06-2024 01:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler hit out of a bunker over the green and into the water. He hit a tee shot over a boundary fence and made a triple bogey. He three-putted his last hole. All that, and he posted a 1-under 71 and increased his lead Saturday in the Memorial.
  In his final start before the U.S. Open, Scheffler seized control despite a couple of blunders on a tough Muirfield Village course. He still built a four-shot lead, moving closer to his fifth PGA Tour victory of the yea
  
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• Roughriders rally to clip Elks 29-21 in regular-season opener

  09-06-2024 01:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Shawn Bane Jr. reeled in three touchdown passes as the Saskatchewan Roughriders came from behind to spoil Edmonton’s Canadian Football League home opener, defeating the Elks 29-21 on Saturday.
  The Elks started the scoring on their first possession with a 17-yard field goal from Boris Bede.
  Saskatchewan responded right back with a long drive capped off by quarterback Trevor Harris finding a wide-open Bane Jr. for a 27-yard passing major.
  After starting the second quarter wi
  
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• Four men charged with murder in targeted Surrey, B.C., shooting

  09-06-2024 01:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Police say the four men arrested Friday after a fatal shooting in Surrey, B.C., have been charged with first-degree murder.
  Surrey RCMP say investigators believe the shooting was targeted even though the victim had no history of police contact.Police say 28-year-old Yuvraj Goyal was found dead in a residential area in south Surrey after officers were called to the area to investigate a shooting Friday morning.
  They say four suspects in their early 20s were arrested hours aft
  
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• Kevin Gausman throws the first shutout of his 12-year career as Blue Jays beat A’s 7-0

  09-06-2024 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Gausman pitched the first shutout of his 12-year career, a five-hitter, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Saturday.
  A two-time All-Star who had never thrown a nine-inning complete game in the majors, the 33-year-old Gausman matched his season-high of 10 strikeouts and walked one. The right-hander threw 109 pitches, his fourth time this season topping the century mark.
  Gausman (5-4) allowed one run or fewer for the eighth time in 13 sta
  
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• Aid is delivered to Gaza from newly repaired US-built pier, US official says

  09-06-2024 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Badly needed aid has been delivered to Gaza from a newly repaired American-built pier, a U.S. official said Saturday, following problems that had plagued the effort to bring supplies to Palestinians by sea.
  The pier constructed by the American military was only operational for about a week before it was blown apart in high winds and heavy seas on May 25. The damaged section was reconnected to the beach in Gaza on Friday after undergoing repairs at an Israeli port.
  Crews d
  
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• Seaplane crashes into Vancouver’s Coal Harbour

  09-06-2024 00:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Emergency crews have responded to what appears to be a float plane crash in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour waters.
  Vancouver Fire Rescue Services Fire Chief Karen Fry says in a post on social media platform X that police and rescuers are at the scene of a “marine incident” in Coal Harbour on the Vancouver waterfront.
  Images and videos on social media show what appears to be a small plane partially submerged in the water with a SeaBus and several other vessels nearby
  
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• NHL boosts salary cap to $88 million for 2024-25 season

  09-06-2024 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The National Hockey League’s team salary cap is getting a significant boost, increasing by $4.5 million to US$88 million next season.
  The league and NHL Players’ Association announced the cap number for the 2024-25 season on Saturday.It’s the first significant increase in years, following modest $1 million raises to $82.5 million for 2022-23 and $83.5 million for 2023-24, reflecting the financial impact of the pandemic.The cap floor for next season will be $65 million.NHL teams
  
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• Canadian rider Derek Gee moves into third place overall at Critérium du Dauphiné

  08-06-2024 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ALBERTVILLE — Canadian rider Derek Gee finished fifth in Stage 7 of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Saturday to move into third place overall with one stage remaining in the Tour de France warm-up race.
  Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic, a favourite for the Tour, won the stage and leads the overall standings by 62 seconds over American Matteo Jorgenson. Gee is another 11 seconds back, some 43 seconds ahead of Russian Aleksandr Vlasov.
  Gee credited his Israel-Premier Tech teammates
  
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• Federal Court rejects bid to review not renewing licences of B.C. fish farms

  08-06-2024 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A federal Court has rejected a bid by two First Nations and salmon farm operators to review Ottawa’s decision to not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms in the waters off British Columbia.
  The written ruling from Judge Paul Favel says former fisheries minister Joyce Murray’s February 2023 decision not to renew the licences for farms around B.C.’s Discovery Islands met the “requirement of the duty to consult” and “did not brea
  
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• ‘I was very high on him’: Cup coaches Paul Maurice, Kris Knoblauch have history

  08-06-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE — Paul Maurice saw a younger version of himself.
  He just didn’t think the fit was right.
  The Winnipeg Jets head coach was interviewing candidates to fill an assistant role in 2016. Kris Knoblauch was No. 16 on a list of 17 names vying for the job.
  “He was a young guy at that time,” said Maurice, now the Florida Panthers bench boss. “You sit down and 10 minutes in you’re going, ‘This guy’s a head coach.’ He’s just wired. Very cle
  
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• Montreal City Hall reopens its doors after delays, increases to renovation costs

  08-06-2024 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal’s City Hall reopened its doors to the public today after five years worth of renovations that took longer than expected and ran over budget.Long lines of visitors snaked around the revamped heritage building waiting for their chance to see the $211 million upgrade that began in 2019.
  Hundreds of wooden and stained-glass windows were restored, and the building now features an outdoor terrace and a permanent museum exhibit.
  City counsellor Ericka Alneus says she exp
  
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• Dukes, Argos to kick off ’24 season hosting B.C. Lions

  08-06-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Cameron Dukes and the Toronto Argonauts won’t exactly be easing into the 2024 season.
  Dukes will start Sunday when Toronto hosts B.C.The Lions, after consecutive West Division final appearances, have been pegged by some as favourites to play in the Grey Cup on Nov. 17 at B.C. Place Stadium.
  “They’re talented,” Dukes said of B.C.’s defence. “They’re going to fly around, a disciplined defence that’s coached well.
  “It’s goi
  
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• Lewis Hamilton posts fastest lap in third free practice at Canadian GP

  08-06-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest lap in a free practice session ahead of qualifying Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix.
  Hamilton, a seven-time winner in Montreal, drove around Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one minute 12.549 seconds to finish ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (1:12.923) and Mercedes teammate George Russell (1:12.957).Montreal’s Lance Stroll was fourth for Aston Martin (1:13.026).
  McLaren’s Lando Norris and Aston Martin’s
  
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• PWHL champions Minnesota lets go of general manager Natalie Darwitz

  08-06-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  One week after winning the Professional Women’s Hockey League championship, Minnesota general manager Natalie Darwitz is without a job.
  The league announced Saturday that the team had “parted ways” with Darwitz.
  Darwitz, a three-time Olympic medallist with the U.S. national team and member of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame, was hired in September 2023.
  She assembled the Minnesota team that captured the inaugural Walter Cup in a five-game series with Boston
  
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• Calgary water conservation progress made as crews repair water main break: officials

  08-06-2024 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Officials in Calgary say the city has made progress in reducing water use amid a major water main break, but the threat of running dry remains if residents don’t keep up the effort.The city’s water services and emergency management officials say water supply and demand have mostly evened out, but it will still take days before the situation is resolved.
  Calgary was put under a water emergency after a major feeder main in the northwest fractured Wednesday night, flooding streets and r
  
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• Hope Search and Rescue activated for 3 rescue efforts Friday – all in one hour

  08-06-2024 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — When the weather warms up and summer arrives, the calls for service involving search and rescue personnel seem to increase.
  On Friday, June 7, Hope Volunteer Search and Rescue experienced this first-hand when they were activated to rescue an injured hiker on the Hope Lookout Trail at 3:08 p.m., the first of three calls for service in just one hour alone.B.C. Emergency Health Services asked Hope Fire Department crews to respond to this call for service on the Hope Lookout Trail. The
  
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• Canada men set for another tough challenge in second-ranked France in soccer friendly

  08-06-2024 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The leaning curve for Canada under new coach Jesse Marsch continues Sunday, with another potentially hard lesson waiting in the form of second-ranked France.
  The Marsch era started Thursday with the 49th-ranked Canadian men blanked 4-0 by the seventh-ranked Netherlands in Rotterdam.It won’t be any easier at the Stade Matmut Atlantique in Bordeaux. The French have lost just two of their last 13 outings (10-2-2) — both defeats at the hands of Germany — since losing a penalty shoo
  
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• Iga Swiatek wins her third consecutive French Open women’s title by defeating Jasmine Paolini

  08-06-2024 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final on Saturday.
  The top-seeded Swiatek trailed 2-1 early in Court Philippe Chatrier before taking the next 10 games to claim the opening set and go up 5-0 in the second. She stretched her winning streak at Roland Garros to 21 matches and her career record at the place is now 35-2.
  The 23-year-old from Poland is the first woman with three troph
  
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• Relief for family as Ibrahim Ali receives life sentence for murder of Burnaby girl

  08-06-2024 14:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The brother of a 13-year-old girl murdered in 2017 says he hopes his sister’s killer is never granted parole. Ibrahim Ali was convicted in the first-degree murder of the Burnaby girl and on Friday, received a life sentence without the chance of parole for 25 years.
  The girl’s brother, who can’t be identified because of a publication ban on the girl’s name, says he now feels a sense of relief.
  Last December a jury took less than 24 hours to reach a guilt
  
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• Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7

  08-06-2024 13:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Saturday it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, in the largest such hostage recovery operation since the war with Hamas began in Gaza.The army said it rescued Noa Argamani, 25; Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 40, in a complex special daytime operation in Nuseirat. The hostages were rescued in two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat, it said.
  Hamas kidnapped some 250 hostages during its attack
  
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• Animals on the lam: Welfare group documents exotic animal escapes, attacks

  08-06-2024 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lot of Canadians have heard of Darwin, the Ikea monkey, who was found wandering a parking garage at the furniture chain’s North York store wearing a shearling coat and a diaper.
  Many were equally fascinated and horrified last December after a kangaroo named Nathan escaped as he was being transported between zoos and went on the lam in Oshawa, Ont., in frigid winter temperatures.
  But have you heard about the alligator that escaped a truck in Montreal and went for a stroll t
  
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• Canada’s Morales Williams wins men’s 400 metres at NCAA track and field championships

  08-06-2024 07:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EUGENE — Christopher Morales Williams continued his winning ways at the NCAA track and field championships.
  The 19-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., won the men’s 400-metre race on Friday in 44.47 seconds.
  Morales Williams, a sophomore running for Georgia, beat Alabama’s Samuel Ogazi and Florida’s JeVaughn Powell.
  Morales Williams already owns the Canadian record in the 400 metres.
  He won the 400 at the Southeastern Conference outdoor championships in 44.05 seconds on May 11.
  
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• Abbotsford PD spokesperson asks public not to risk their safety in search for missing 65-year-old rower

  08-06-2024 06:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is appealing to the public to leave it to the experts as the search for a 65-year-old missing rower carries on for a third day.According to an email Friday afternoon from Constable Art Stele, spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department, police say they have been utilizing all available resources to assist in the search for the unidentified 65-year-old rower ever since he went missing on Tuesday, June 5.“At the time of writing this e
  
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• JJ Bleday hits leadoff homer in 9th to give the A’s a 2-1 victory the Blue Jays

  08-06-2024 06:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — JJ Bleday hit the first pitch of the ninth inning from Chad Green over the right-field wall to give the Oakland Athletics a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.
  Mason Miller (1-0) struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth for the win in a speedy game of 2 hours, 7 minutes.
  After an offseason committed to getting stronger, Bleday launched his first career walkoff home run. He is the only A’s player to appear in all 65 games and eight of his nine homers
  
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• Calgary Stampeders down Hamilton Tiger-Cats 32-24 in season-opener for both clubs

  08-06-2024 06:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders opened their 2024 CFL season with a 32-24 win Friday over the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  Veteran Stampeders’ kicker Rene Paredes scored 20 points with his foot. The 39-year-old was a perfect 6-for-6 in field-goal attempts from 52, 43, 42, 37, 36, and 25 yards, plus two converts in front of an announced crowd of 19,741 at McMahon Stadium
  Clark Barnes and rookie Cam Echols each had a touchdown catch for Calgary. Quarterback Jake Maier competed 21 of
  
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• Blue Jays pitcher Manoah to have reconstructive right elbow surgery and miss the rest of the season

  08-06-2024 03:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah will undergo reconstructive right elbow surgery and miss the rest of the season.
  The decision came after Manoah was examined by Dr. Keith Meister, who will perform the operation on June 17. Manager John Schneider said it was unclear what exactly would be done, whether a full Tommy John ligament replacement or a procedure to place an internal brace into the elbow joint — more was to be known once Meister saw the state of Man
  
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• Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash

  08-06-2024 02:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
  “The family is devastated,” Greg Anders said. “He
  
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• Scottie Scheffler’s big finish gives him a 3-shot lead over Abbotsford’s Hadwin at the Memorial

  08-06-2024 02:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is only making it look easy right now. It didn’t feel that way Friday on a firm course in gusty wind, where he finished strong for a 4-under 68 to go from a tie to a three-shot lead in the Memorial.
  Scheffler hit a 3-iron into the wind that narrowly cleared the bunker and rode the slope to 8 feet for eagle on the par-5 15th, and he closed with two solid par saves and a shot from a fairway bunker to 12 feet for birdie on the last
  
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• Scottie Scheffler’s big finish gives him a 3-shot lead at the Memorial

  08-06-2024 02:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is only making it look easy right now. It didn’t feel that way Friday on a firm course in gusty wind, where he finished strong for a 4-under 68 to go from a tie to a three-shot lead in the Memorial.
  Scheffler hit a 3-iron into the wind that narrowly cleared the bunker and rode the slope to 8 feet for eagle on the par-5 15th, and he closed with two solid par saves and a shot from a fairway bunker to 12 feet for birdie on the last
  
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