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• PWHL New York changing coaches as Draper steps down, returns to Alberta

  12-05-2024 01:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PWHL New York is changing coaches after reaching a mutual agreement with Howie Draper, who decided to step down and return to his former job coaching the University of Alberta women’s hockey program, the league announced Saturday.
  The move comes a week after the Professional Women’s Hockey League closed its inaugural season with New York finishing last in the six-team standings with a 9-12-3 record.
  As part of the agreement, Draper will remain involved with New York in a special advi
  
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• Canada’s Maddie Szeryk rolls into LPGA Tour return after Texas Women’s Open win

  05-06-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Checking her email regularly has paid off for Canadian golfer Maddie Szeryk.
  The native of London, Ont., who resides in Texas, was going through her inbox three weeks ago when she noticed a message from the organizers of the Texas Women’s Open reminding her that there was still four days left to sign up for the tournament at Grapevine Golf Course.Seeing that it would be a great opportunity to tune up before she returned to the LPGA Tour, she decided to register.
  “I wasn’t playi
  
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• Chilliwack to host Canada Men’s U18 National Club Championships next year

  05-06-2024 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Championship hockey is returning to Chilliwack next year, marking the first time since 2017 that Canada’s men’s U18 National Club Championship will be held in British Columbia.Hockey Canada last week announced the host locations for Canada’s 2025 U18 national club championships, with the Esso Cup set for Lloydminster, Alberta, and the Telus Cup returning west to the Fraser Valley in B.C.
  From April 20-26, the Lloydminster Steelers of the Alberta Female Hockey
  
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• Lululemon sees Q1 net income hit $321M, revenues up 10%

  05-06-2024 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc. says its net income reached US$321 million in its first quarter, up from US$290 million a year earlier.
  The Vancouver-based apparel retailer’s net revenue for the period ended April 28 amounted to US$2.2 billion compared with about US$2 billion a year prior.
  The company, which reports its earnings in U.S. dollars, says its international net revenue alone was up 35 per cent from a year ago, while its net revenue attributable to the Americas rose by
  
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• McDavid says veteran Oilers built to handle ‘aggressive’ Panthers

  05-06-2024 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers know what to expect from the Florida Panthers. Lots of hits. Scrums after the whistle. A mix of skill and willpower.
  But the Oilers say they’re not intimidated by the physical challenges posed by the Panthers. They’ll be ready to answer the bell when the Stanley Cup final begins Saturday night.
  “Florida plays a fast game, in-your-face, aggressive,” said Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who leads the playoffs scoring race with 31 points.
  
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• Appeals court halts Trump’s Georgia election case while appeal on Willis disqualification pending

  05-06-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.
  The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday issued the order, which will prevent Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee from moving forward with pretrial motions while the appeal is pending.The appeals court on Monday docketed
  
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• New Jersey adopts public records law critics say tightens access to documents

  05-06-2024 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation on Wednesday overhauling access to the state’s public records, likely making it harder for the public and media to access some documents, according to critics.Murphy, a Democrat, said he acknowledged the disappointment of social justice, labor and other groups that vociferously objected to the bill.“If I believed that this bill would enable corruption in any way, I would unhesitatingly veto it,” Murphy sa
  
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• Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté fined $24,000 in Tahiti over cannabis use

  05-06-2024 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PAPEETE — A representative for Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté says the Canadian entrepreneur has been fined about $24,000 for cannabis possession in French Polynesia.
  Anne Dongois says a court in Papeete, on Tahiti’s northwestern coast, found Laliberté guilty on Tuesday of possessing and using cannabis.
  She says he was cleared of any other infractions.
  Laliberté was originally taken into custody by authorities in Tahiti in 2019 over claims of cannabis cul
  
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• Canadian cyclist Derek Gee finishes sixth in Criterium du Dauphiné time trial

  05-06-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEULISE — Canadian rider Derek Gee, who started the day wearing the leader’s yellow jersey, dropped to fourth overall after Wednesday’s time trial at Criterium du Dauphiné.
  The 26-year-old from Ottawa, however, performed well in placing sixth in the 33.4-kilometre fourth stage of the race, which runs through Sunday.
  Belgian Remco Evenepoel won the time trial, ahead of Josh Tarling of Wales and Olympic champion Primoz Roglic of Slovenia.
  Evenepoel moved into first place i
  
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• B.C. seniors feel ‘invisible and forgotten,’ new seniors advocate says

  05-06-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Seniors in British Columbia are feeling “invisible and forgotten” as their advocate says they are falling thorough the cracks in existing provincial support systems.
  In his first report as B.C.’s senior’s advocate, Dan Levitt says affordability was the top concern during visits with hundreds of seniors in more than 20 communities in April.
  He says one in four seniors in B.C. earn less than $23,000 a year, which is below the poverty line, and more seniors
  
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• Trudeau congratulates Modi re-election, raises rule of law in India relationship

  05-06-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is congratulating his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his re-election, while reinforcing the importance of the rule of law.
  Modi won a weeks-long election Tuesday, securing a majority but losing more seats than widely expected to opposition parties.
  Despite huge amounts of trade between Canada and India, relations have been strained for years over efforts by some Canadians to advocate for a separate Sikh homeland to be carved out of India.
  Those t
  
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• Canada drawn with France, Brazil and Fiji at FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia

  05-06-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has been drawn in Group B with France, Brazil and debutante Fiji for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
  The draw for the newly expanded 24-team tournament, which runs Aug. 31 to Sept.22 in Colombia, was held Wednesday in Bogota.France has made the tournament semifinals four times, missing out on the final four in 2022 in a penalty shootout loss to Japan. The French were runners-up in 2016 and third in 2014, when Canada hosted the tournament.
  France booked its ticket to Colombia as the
  
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• Vancouver Canucks promote Svejkovsky to assistant coach, expand Sedins’ roles

  05-06-2024 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have made some coaching changes, including promoting skills coach Yogi Svejkovsky to an assistant role.The team says Daniel and Henrik Sedin are also getting bigger coaching roles where they will be more involved with the day-today activities of both the NHL club and its American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks.The moves follow an announcement last week that Vancouver had “mutually parted ways” with assistant coach Mike Yeo.The
  
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• Trial to begin Thursday in murder-conspiracy case tied to Coutts border blockade

  05-06-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The trial for two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the border protest at Coutts, Alta., is set to begin Thursday.
  Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert were arrested after RCMP found a cache of guns, body armour and ammunition in trailers in the community in February 2022.
  Mounties said at the time that they seized long guns, handguns, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and body armour.A five-man, nine-woman jury was selected Friday, but the trial
  
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• PBO accuses Liberals of hiding economic analysis of carbon pricing

  05-06-2024 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux is accusing the federal government of hiding its own economic analysis that confirms carbon pricing has a negative overall effect on Canadian households.
  Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the accusation is ridiculous.
  Giroux is battling with the Liberals after he admitted recently that his office’s own analysis of the carbon price was flawed.
  While the analysis said it only looked at the impact of the consumer carbon levy, i
  
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• House Republicans issue criminal referrals against James and Hunter Biden, alleging false tesitmony

  05-06-2024 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued criminal referrals Wednesday against Joe Biden’s son and brother, accusing the president’s family members of making false statements to Congress as part of year-long impeachment inquiry.The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways & Means committees sent a letter to the Justice Department recommending prosecution of the Hunter Biden and James Biden.
  For months, Republicans have pursued an impeachment inquiry s
  
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• Weather window may help search for three missing mountaineers: B.C. RCMP

  05-06-2024 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — Police and rescue teams hope a window of good weather will help the search for three mountaineers lost since Friday on Mount Garibaldi in British Columbia.
  A Squamish RCMP spokeswoman says the clearing conditions could allow an aerial assessment of the area before search and rescue teams are deployed in the “complex terrain.”
  The lost climbers were reported overdue on May 31 and were last seen on Atwell Peak on the southern edge of Mount Garibaldi, about 70 kil
  
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• Raed Jaser, convicted in Via Rail terror plot, loses appeal

  05-06-2024 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ontario’s highest court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of one of the two men found guilty of terrorism charges in a plot to derail a passenger train between Canada and the U.S.
  Raed Jaser had challenged the outcome of the 2015 trial on several grounds, including that his case should have been severed from that of his co-accused, Chiheb Esseghaier – something he requested twice, unsuccessfully.
  Esseghaier, who was self-represented, refused to meaningfully participate in t
  
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• Jesse Marsch likes what he see in first camp in charge of Canadian men

  05-06-2024 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jesse Marsch likes what he’s seen at his first camp in charge of the Canadian men’s soccer team.
  “All the things that I felt about the team and the optimism I have had has been exceeded by the work that’s been done,” Marsch said Wednesday in Rotterdam. “And I think a lot of that comes down to not just the quality and the talent in the team but the quality of the character.”
  Marsch cited the players’ selflessness and “drive to be successful as
  
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• ATV incident on Harrison East FSR seriously injures 2 males

  05-06-2024 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON EAST FOREST SERVICE ROAD — An ATV accident on Harrison East Forest Service Road Tuesday night (June 4) north of Agassiz has seriously injured two males, according to the Agassiz RCMP detachment.
  Sgt. Andy Lot of the Agassiz RCMP detachment told Fraser Valley Today over the phone Wednesday morning that B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics, Kent Harrison Search and Rescue, and Agassiz RCMP were dispatched sometime after 10:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a single-vehicle ATV crash.
  
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• Robert Miller too sick to defend himself against sex charges, his lawyers say

  05-06-2024 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Lawyers defending Quebec billionaire businessman Robert Miller against sex crime charges have filed an application for a stay of proceedings, saying he is too sick to appear in court.
  The founder of Future Electronics was arrested last week on 21 sex charges involving 10 complainants, many of whom were minors when the alleged offences occurred between 1994 and 2016.
  The application says the 80-year-old Miller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1996 and is now in the
  
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• Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate for first time in more than four years

  05-06-2024 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada marked a major turning point in its fight against inflation on Wednesday as it lowered its key interest rate for the first time in more than four years, making it the first central bank in the G7 to cut rates.
  Governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank has more confidence inflation is moving closer to its two per cent target, citing various indicators that suggest price pressures have retreated.
  “If inflation continues to ease, and our confidence that inf
  
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• Wisconsin warden jailed hours before news conference on prison death investigations

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin was jailed on Wednesday hours before a scheduled news conference where officials were expected to announce even more arrests stemming from investigations into inmate deaths at the troubled lockup.
  The arrest of Randall Hepp, who has been warden of the Waupun Correctional Institution since 2020, comes as the head of the state prison system urged the county sheriff to keep the probes open, saying dozens of workers were
  
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• Putin takes questions from international journalists for first time since inauguration

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions Wednesday from international journalists for the first time since his inauguration at a roundtable session on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
  He faced questions from senior news leaders of international news agencies, including The Associated Press.
  The Russian leader has used the annual forum as a showcase for touting Russia’s development and seeking investors. While meeti
  
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• Mirra Andreeva defeats No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka to reach the French Open semifinals at age 17

  05-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Mirra Andreeva, an unseeded 17-year-old from Russia, surprised No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 at the French Open on Wednesday to become the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist since Martina Hingis at age 16 in 1997.
  “I tried to play brave,” Andreeva said. “And I managed to win.”
  She is also the youngest player to eliminate someone ranked No. 1 or 2 at Roland Garros since Monica Seles — like Hingis, now a member of the International Tenn
  
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• Chilliwack council calls B.C. government’s forced housing plans in Bill 44 ‘undemocratic’

  05-06-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — In a rare formal statement aimed at the provincial government, Chilliwack City Council says it is frustrated over legislation by the B.C. government that mandates significantly more housing without considerations for infrastructure or resident feedback.According to a news release Wednesday morning (June 5), the Chilliwack council asserts that it has long supported responsible housing and affordable housing projects in a way that balances the needs and wants unique to the Chill
  
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• Maple Leafs add former Islanders head coach Lambert to Berube’s staff

  05-06-2024 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired former New York Islanders head coach Lane Lambert as an associate coach on Craig Berube’s staff.
  The 59-year-old Lambert posted a 61-46-20 record as Islanders head coach.
  He was promoted from associate coach after Barry Trotz was fired following the 2021-22 season and led the Islanders to the playoffs the following campaign, where they lost to Carolina in the first round.
  He was fired midway through the 2023-24 season and replaced with Pat
  
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• Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested after occupying Stanford University president’s office

  05-06-2024 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford University said 13 people were arrested as law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building early Wednesday that houses the university president and provost offices, with the school saying there was damage inside and outside the building.
  The takeover began near dawn on the last day of classes for the spring quarter. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside while other linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported.
  
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• Canadian flyweight Denis Puric no stranger to tough fights in Thailand

  05-06-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Having survived a fight in a Thai prison, there isn’t much that fazes Canadian kickboxer Denis (The Bosnian Menace) Puric.
  The 39-year-old Puric, now fighting under the One Championship banner, has seen it all.
  The Hamilton-based fighter is back in Thailand, this time facing local favourite Rodtang (The Iron Man) Jitmuangnon in the co-main event of “One 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II” on Friday at Bangkok’s Impact Arena.
  Puric is no stranger to Thailand, having lived and
  
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• Man to serve 12 months house arrest in fatal hit-and-run of 7-year-old Ukrainian girl

  05-06-2024 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A driver who struck and killed a seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee in Montreal in 2022 has been sentenced to 12 months of house arrest.Juan Manuel Becerra Garcia apologized to the girl’s family today at the courthouse following his sentencing, after pleading guilty last month to failing to stop after an accident.Seven-year-old Mariia Legenkovska was walking to school with her brother and sister on Dec. 13, 2022, when Becerra Garcia’s Jeep Grand Cherokee ran into her.H
  
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