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• Six people missing in fatal Montreal fire are from U.S., Ontario, Quebec: police

  20-03-2023 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The search continues for six people missing after a fire swept through a historic Old Montreal building last week.
  A Montreal fire department spokesman says firefighters will begin dismantling the second and third floors of the building today.
  Montreal police say the body of a woman was pulled from the rubble Sunday evening.
  Insp. David Shane says the police force’s fire unit used a drone to help locate the victim.
  Shane says the six people who are missing are from Quebec,
  
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• Macklem tries to stay out of the fray as MPs do their best to use him to score points

  05-05-2024 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem navigates a political minefield every time he testifies before the House of Commons finance committee. 
  Four times a year, members of Parliament get the chance to question the governor on monetary policy. 
  At a time when inflation and interest rates are both high, MPs — particularly Opposition ones — are eager to ask him about politically charged issues.
  Is the federal government spending too much? How much is carbon prici
  
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• Whitecaps play to scoreless draw against Austin FC in 50th anniversary match

  05-05-2024 07:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — On a night of celebration, the Vancouver Whitecaps endured their fair share of challenges as they played to a 0-0 draw against Austin FC on Saturday at BC Place.
  With 32,465 fans on hand for the Whitecaps’ 50th anniversary match — a team record for the Whitecaps’ MLS era — the club settled for a second straight draw to bring their record to 5-2-3 for the year, while snapping a two-game winning streak for Austin (4-3-4).
  The Whitecaps entered Saturday&rsq
  
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• Abbotsford Police Dept. seeks help locating elderly man

  05-05-2024 06:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford are appealing for public assistance in locating an 80-year-old man who was last seen Saturday afternoon (May 4).
  According to a statement from police, Ralph Hogan, 80, was last seen in the area of Hawthorne Avenue and McCallum Road in Abbotsford at approximately 2 p.m. Saturday.Hogan is described as 6 feet tall with a slim build, blonde hair, and green eyes. He was last observed wearing a Toronto Blue Jays hat, navy blue jacket, black pants, and grey shoes
  
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• Canada’s Nurse helps lift Sparks past Storm on home soil in WNBA pre-season action

  05-05-2024 06:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Canadian Kia Nurse had nine points in 19 minutes of action as the Los Angeles Sparks opened their WNBA pre-season schedule with a 84-79 win over the Seattle Storm on Saturday at Rogers Place.
  It was the second straight season a WNBA exhibition game took place and sold out in Canada. 
  Saturday’s contest comes on the heels of a sellout exhibition game at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena back in 2023. 
  There was an announced crowd of 16,655 that filled the arena.&nb
  
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• Surridge, Mukhtar, Zimmerman lead Nashville past Montreal 4-1

  05-05-2024 05:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Surridge scored twice in the second half to finish off his first career hat trick, Hany Mukhtar had three assists and defender Walker Zimmerman scored for each team as Nashville SC rolled to a 4-1 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday night, snapping a five-match winless streak.
  Surridge staked Nashville (2-3-5) to a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute, using an assist from Dru Yearwood to send a right-footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner
  
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• Blue Jays acquire right-handed reliever Joel Kuhnel from Astros

  05-05-2024 05:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired right-hander Joel Kuhnel from the Houston Astros in exchange for cash considerations.
  In a corresponding move, Kuhnel was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.
  The Blue Jays made the announcement Saturday night, some hours after a 6-3 road win over the Washington Nationals.
  Kuhnel, 29, has appeared in one game for the Astros this season and nine contests for the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys, combining to go 4-1 with a 5.40 earned-run average.
  The six-foot-five, 2
  
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• Pastrnak scores winner, Bruins down Leafs 2-1 in overtime in Game 7

  05-05-2024 05:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — David Pastrnak scored at 1:54 of overtime as the Boston Bruins downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in Game 7 to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Saturday.
  Hampus Lindholm scored in regulation and added an assist on the winner for the Bruins, who nearly blew another 3-1 series lead after losing out to the Florida Panthers at the same stage of the post-season last spring.
  Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves.
  William Nylander replied for the Leafs. Toronto battled b
  
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• Three Canadian relay teams qualify for Olympics at World Relays

  05-05-2024 05:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas — Canada has three tickets booked to the Paris Olympics in the relay events.
  The men’s 4×100-metre, women’s 4×100 and women’s 4×400 teams all qualified for the Games on Saturday night at the World Relays. The top two teams from each heat qualified for the Olympics and into Sunday’s final for their respective events.
  The quartet of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse ran a season-best 38.11 seconds in the me
  
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• Canada opens world para ice hockey championship with 19-0 win over Japan

  05-05-2024 05:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Dominic Cozzolino paced Canada with four goals and four assists in a 19-0 win over Japan on Saturday to open the world para ice hockey championship at WinSport Arena.
  Tyler McGregor and Liam Hickey each added three goals and four assists for Canada, which only needed one save from Adam Kingsmill in net.
  Adam Dixon, with a hat trick, Anton Jacobs-Webb, with two goals, Corbyn Smith, Micah Kovacevich, Vincent Boily and Auren Halbert also chipped in goals for the host team. 
  Can
  
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• Messi has a record-setting game with a goal and 5 assists in Inter Miami’s 6-2 win over Red Bulls

  05-05-2024 04:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi had a record setting night for Inter Miami.
  He scored a goal and had five assists as Inter Miami trounced the New York Red Bulls 6-2 on Saturday night — with the Argentine great and eight-time Ballon d’Or winner as the game’s best player setting no fewer than three Major League Soccer records in the effort.
  The six goal contributions, five assists and five assists in a half were all MLS records.Messi, who earned the MLS Player of
  
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• Bernardeschi scores twice to end goal drought, lift Toronto FC past FC Dallas

  05-05-2024 04:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Italian star Federico Bernardeschi ended a lengthy scoreless drought with a pair of goals and added an assist Saturday to help Toronto FC defeat FC Dallas 3-1 in MLS play, extending TFC’s winning streak to four games in all competitions.
  Bernardeschi had been shut out in 19 games since scoring twice in a 3-2 loss to CF Montreal on Aug. 20. But the stylish attacker, who has played a variety of roles this season, has still been an influential figure for TFC.
  And the former Ju
  
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• California man sentenced for trying to smuggle loaded handgun through Fraser Valley port of entry

  05-05-2024 03:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — A California man who tried to bring a prohibited gun into Canada without declaring it is paying a steep price for his ill-advised decision a little over a year ago.According to a news release from Canada Border Services Agency, Jerry Armas, a U.S. citizen from the Golden State, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for possessing and attempting to smuggle illegal firearms across the border.In March 2023, Armas attempted to enter Canada through the Douglas port of entry in Surrey wi
  
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• Trudeau acknowledges charges in Nijjar killing, calls for commitment to democracy

  05-05-2024 03:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged the charges laid Friday in relation to the murder of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
  Speaking Saturday at a Sikh Foundation of Canada gala at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Trudeau said Canadians have a fundamental right to live safely, free from discrimination and threats of violence. 
  Nijjar was shot last June in Surrey, and his death set off a wave of protests and rallies from local communities against diplomat
  
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• Canada’s Taylor Pendrith leads Byron Nelson as one of several seeking first PGA Tour victory

  05-05-2024 02:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Taylor Pendrith has been here before — holding or sharing a lead after three rounds on the PGA Tour.
  The Canadian was one of six among the top 10 on the leaderboard seeking a first tour victory at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. 
  Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., chipped in twice for consecutive eagles to kick-start an 8-under 63 on Saturday for a one-shot lead over second-round leader Jake Knapp.
  “I have no idea,” Pendrith said when asked if he’
  
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• Gausman tosses 5 1/3 scoreless innings, Kiermaier homers and Blue Jays beat Nationals 6-3

  05-05-2024 01:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Gausman pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings, Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run homer in his return from the injured list and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Washington Nationals 6-3 on Saturday to end a three-game losing streak.
  Gausman (2-3) allowed three hits while striking out eight. He walked two batters in the first inning, but settled in and later retired 10 straight — seven by strikeout — before leaving after Luis García Jr.’s one-out single i
  
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• Princess Anne lays wreath at B.C. veteran’s cemetery; receives 21-gun salute

  05-05-2024 00:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ESQUIMALT, B.C. — Princess Anne paid tribute to veterans buried at a cemetery in British Columbia today, laying a wreath to honour the more than 2,500 military personnel and family members buried there.
  The princess spent more than an hour touring the God’s Acre cemetery, a national historic site in Esquimalt, B.C., that dates back to 1868.
  The visit to the secluded, tree-covered cemetery is part of her three-day visit to B.C., which started Friday at North Vancouver with her partici
  
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• Paving work leads to closures along George Ferguson Way in Abbotsford

  05-05-2024 00:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford drivers who frequent George Ferguson Way could be in for a frustrating two weeks as closures are planned to allow for paving to be completed.
  According to the City of Abbotsford, paving is scheduled to begin Sunday morning (May 5) and continue to May 17 along George Ferguson Way between Gladys Avenue and Babich Avenue.
  Image: A map showing the portion of George Ferguson Way that will be impacted by paving from May 5 to May 17. / City of Abbotsford website
  A complete
  
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• Montreal launches cruise season with ship that protected 1,500 Ukrainian refugees

  04-05-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Cruise ship Staff Capt. Rakesh Prasad can’t forget the traumatized expressions on the faces of hundreds of Ukrainians who boarded Holland America’s Volendam in April 2022.
  The 1,500 refugees, who had fled their homeland two months earlier after Russia’s invasion triggered an ongoing war there, boarded the ship with their scant possessions largely packed in plastic bags. The ship they boarded at the Port of Rotterdam would be their home for the next six months.
  
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• IHIT called to Mission after 25-year-old dies; suspect in custody

  04-05-2024 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Police in Mission say detectives from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) have been called out to a rural property in Mission after a 25-year-old man died overnight.
  According to a statement from Mission RCMP, police in Mission were notified by B.C. Ambulance Service on Friday night, May 3 shortly before 11 p.m. that paramedics had responded to a report of an incident inside a home in the 30000 block of Dewdney Trunk Road.
  Officers attended the residence and witness
  
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• Update: Mission RCMP says the missing teenager has been safely located

  04-05-2024 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission say the 16-year-old girl who was reported missing on Friday (May 3) has been safely located.
  All identifying information about the missing person has been removed.
  
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• Mission RCMP seeks help finding missing teenager

  04-05-2024 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission say a 16-year-old girl has gone missing.
  According to a brief news release Saturday (May 4) just before noon, police in Mission are asking for help in locating Haleigh Clarke, who was reported missing on Friday, May 3. She was last seen on Friday as well.Description of Haleigh Clarke:Caucasian female
  16 years
  Brown eyesPolice did not provide Clarke’s height or what she was last seen wearing, or where she might be heading.Anyone with information on the wh
  
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• Canada Soccer increases membership fees starting in 2025 to help improve revenue

  04-05-2024 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Financially challenged Canada Soccer took a step toward improving its bottom line Saturday, voting to increase its annual membership fee for players by $4 starting in 2025.
  Soccer players will pay a $13 fee, up from $9 in what Canada Soccer says is the first membership fee hike since 2017.Canada Soccer also has a new president-elect in Peter Augruso. The president and chair of Ontario Soccer ran unopposed after incumbent Charmaine Crooks announced before the vote that she would not seek re-elect
  
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• Real Madrid wins the Spanish league after Barcelona loses at Girona

  04-05-2024 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid has won its record-extending 36th Spanish league title after increasing its lead over second-place Girona to an insurmountable 13 points with four games remaining.
  Madrid reclaimed its domestic crown after beating Cadiz 3-0 earlier Saturday, and Barcelona then lost 4-2 at Girona. Only a victory by Barcelona would have stopped Madrid from celebrating.
  Madrid also has a chance to add to its unequaled 14 European Cups. Madrid hosts Bayern Munich in the Cham
  
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• City of Mission begins work to update Official Community Plan

  04-05-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The City of Mission has launched its effort to update its Official Community Plan (OCP) and is inviting community members to contribute their insights and priorities through the ‘Engage Mission’ online survey.
  The OCP serves as a crucial roadmap for the city’s responsible growth and development, outlining a vision for the future while guiding decision-making processes for Council, residents, and stakeholders involved in city-building efforts.
  Mission Mayor Paul
  
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• Matthews skates ahead of Game 7, status unclear with Leafs’ season again on the line

  04-05-2024 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — Auston Matthews was back on the ice with his teammates Saturday.
  The Maple Leafs centre snapped the puck around, took part in drills and seemed to be moving well at Toronto’s morning skate.
  Whether or not Matthews returns to the action with his club’s season once again on the line remains to be seen.
  The ailing sniper hasn’t been ruled out for Game 7 of the Leafs’ first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins, but head coach Sheldon Keefe seemed to s
  
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• Canadian rugby women blanked 24-0 by France in Singapore Sevens Cup quarterfinal

  04-05-2024 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SINGAPORE — Canada’s rugby sevens women were blanked 24-0 by France in Saturday’s Cup quarterfinal at the Singapore Sevens.
  The Canadians, who stand fifth in the season standings after six events, saw both Olivia de Couvreur and Julia Greenshields sent to the sin-bin.
  Canada advanced to the quarterfinals as one of the two best third-place finishers after finishing third in Pool A following losses to No. 7 Ireland (5-0) and No. 1 New Zealand (31-7) sandwiched around a win over N
  
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• Snakes almost on a plane: TSA discovers a bag with small snakes in passenger’s pants

  04-05-2024 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last week — a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s pants.
  According to an X post by the Transportation Security Administration, officers at the Miami International Airport found the small bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s trousers on April 26 at a checkpoint.The post included a photo of two small snakes that were found in what appeared to be a sunglasses bag. TSA said the snakes were turned o
  
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• Judge to rule on validity of Quebec language law because it delays English verdicts

  04-05-2024 16:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec court judge will decide whether the province’s new language reform is constitutional because a section of the law systematically delays the delivery of verdicts handed down in English.
  Judge Dennis Galiatsatos raised the question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charged with criminal negligence causing the death of a cyclist. 
  In a May 1 decision, Galiatsatos said he will rule on the validity of a section of Quebec’s langu
  
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• FVRD says Grant-in-Aid Programs are vital to vibrant Fraser Valley communities

  04-05-2024 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) says the impact of its Grant-in-Aid programs are providing vital contributions to initiatives across the region.
  Funding last year supported dozens of organizations ranging from the Fraser Valley Mountain Bikers Association to the Chilliwack Vedder River Cleanup Society.In a news release Jason Lum, FVRD Board Chair, says the significance of the financial support is essential for both electoral areas and regional-based activities. &ldq
  
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