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• Ukraine’s soccer victory provides welcome distraction from tragedy of war

  28-03-2024 02:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians have expressed pride and gratitude toward their men’s national soccer team for qualifying for the European Championship, a rare bit of good news and a welcome distraction from the war with Russia.
  Though celebrations after Ukraine’s 2-1 win over Iceland were muted as Russian missiles kept raining down on the country, the team’s success gives Ukrainians something to cheer for this summer when the tournament kicks off in Germany.
  President Vo
  
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• NHL roundup: Rangers grab 3-0 series lead with 3-1 win over Capitals

  27-04-2024 08:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vincent Trocheck had a power-play goal and a short-handed assist, Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves and the New York Rangers moved one win away from advancing by beating the Washington Capitals 3-1 in Game 3 Friday night, taking a 3-0 lead in their first-round NHL playoff series.
  The Rangers scored goals at even-strength 5 on 5, up 5 on 4 and down 4 on 5 in a special teams showcase from the Presidents’ Trophy winners who finished atop the NHL regular season in part beca
  
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• Hyman, Draisaitl score twice as Oilers beat Kings 6-1 and take 2-1 series lead

  27-04-2024 07:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES — Zach Hyman and Leon Draisaitl scored twice, and the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 6-1 on Friday to take a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series.
  Hyman increased his playoff-leading goal total to six. Draisaitl added an assist for the 50th of his career in the post-season.
  Evander Kane had a goal, an assist and a fight — known as a “Gordie Howe hat trick” — and captain Connor McDavid produced a goal and two assists for Edmonton,
  
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• Special teams carry Rangers to 3-1 win over Capitals, 3-0 series lead

  27-04-2024 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing seems to be able to knock the New York Rangers off their game, certainly not giving up a fluky bounce goal five minutes in or having seven penalties called on them.
  Again they responded to whatever the Washington Capitals threw at them, and now they’re one win away from the second round.
  Vincent Trocheck had a power-play goal and a short-handed assist, Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves and the Rangers beat the Capitals 3-1 in Game 3 Friday night, taking a 3-0 le
  
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• Kim opens 4-shot lead in LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship

  27-04-2024 05:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grace Kim opened a four-stroke lead Friday in the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship, shooting a 5-under 66 in tricky afternoon conditions at Wilshire Country Club.
  A stroke ahead after an opening 64, Kim had an eagle, four birdies and a bogey to get to 12-under 130. The 23-year-old Australian patiently worked her way around the tree-lined layup, trying not to get frustrated with the bumpy greens.
  “I think the less thoughts, the better,” Kim said. &ld
  
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• DeSmith stops 30 shots, Canucks edge Predators 2-1 to retake series lead

  27-04-2024 04:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE — J.T. Miller had a goal and assist and the Vancouver Canucks edged the Nashville Predators 2-1 to re-take the lead in their first-round playoff series. 
  Brock Boeser also scored for the Canucks and Quinn Hughes contributed a pair of helpers. 
  Luke Evangelista replied for Nashville late in the third period, scoring his first career playoff goal. 
  Juuse Saros stopped 10 of 12 shots for the Predators. The 12 shots was a franchise low for the Canucks.
  Casey DeSmith ha
  
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• Dodgers rout Jays as Ohtani makes first appearance in Toronto since free-agency snub

  27-04-2024 04:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Shohei Ohtani smashed a homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed Toronto 12-2 on Friday, months after he turned down a lucrative free-agent offer from the Blue Jays.
  Max Muncy’s three-run homer was part of a six-run third inning as Los Angeles (17-11) won its fifth straight. Will Smith had a home run, an RBI double, and a sacrifice fly as the Dodgers racked up 19 hits.
  Muncy, Freddie Freeman, Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts drove in runs with base hits and Andy Pages added a sacr
  
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• Globe wins seven newspaper awards; CP recognized for CSIS investigation

  27-04-2024 04:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Globe and Mail was the top winner at the National Newspaper Awards, which were handed out on Friday night.
  The Globe won nods in seven of the 23 regular categories. La Presse and the Toronto Star both won three awards, and the Brandon Sun and the Narwhal each had two.
  Thirteen other news outlets received one award each, including The Canadian Press, which was recognized in the investigations category for a project examining workplace abuse at Canada’s spy agency.
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• A list of NNA winners and finalists; Globe and Mail nabs seven

  27-04-2024 04:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The National Newspaper Awards were handed out in Toronto on Friday night. Here is the complete list of the winners and finalists:
  Arts and Entertainment:
  Winner: Matt Simmons, Cara McKenna and Marty Clemens, IndigiNews and The Narwhal, for their feature about the return of a stolen totem pole to Nisga’a Nation after almost a century.
  Finalists: Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail, for her stories on the Vancouver Art Gallery’s celebrated Group of Seven oil sketches that t
  
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• Arizona Cardinals take Canadian Adams in third round of NFL draft

  27-04-2024 04:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT, Maine — Isaiah Adams is an Arizona Cardinal.
  Arizona selected the Illinois offensive lineman with the seventh pick of the third round, No. 71 overall, of the NFL draft on Friday night.
  Adams, of Ajax, Ont., was the first Canadian selected in this year’s draft. He was a two-year starter at Illinois, serving as a captain in 2023. 
  He made 25 straight starts at Illinois, earning third-team All-Big Ten honours in 2022 and was an All-Big Ten honourable mention in 2023.
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• No. 1 NFL draft pick Caleb Williams realizes all eyes are on him

  27-04-2024 03:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Caleb Williams seemed unfazed by it all.
  The former Southern California star was ready to embrace the attention after the Chicago Bears grabbed him with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. The prized quarterback knows all eyes are on him in a city craving a consistent winner. And to that, Williams said bring it on.
  “I’m always going to have scrutiny,” he said at a news conference Friday, a day after the Bears drafted him. “I do things like pain
  
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• McIlroy, Lowry tied for lead in Zurich Classic; Hadwin and Taylor one shot back

  27-04-2024 02:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry held onto a share of the lead Friday in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, with the Irish duo shooting a 2-under 70 in alternate play in the PGA Tour’s only team event.
  The teams of Davis Thompson-Andrew Novak, Ryan Brehm-Mark Hubbard and Aaron Rai-David Lipsky matched McIlroy and Lowry at 13-under 131 at TPC Louisiana. They will play best ball Saturday and close with alternate shot Sunday.
  Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele, the 2
  
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• De Grasse tops men’s 200m leaderboard at East Coast Relays in outdoor season debut

  27-04-2024 02:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Andre De Grasse enjoyed a successful outdoor season debut in the men’s 200 metres at the East Coast Relays on Friday.
  De Grasse of Markham, Ont., ran 20.11 seconds in the opening heat, finishing with the top time among all competitors across the 15 heats.
  The 29-year-old competed in two indoor events in the 60 metres this year, but his first outdoor event of 2024 on Friday comes after an explosive finish to a trying 2023 season. 
  After placing sixth at world
  
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• B.C. sex offender pleads guilty to breaching supervision order following manhunt

  27-04-2024 02:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A high-risk sex offender who went on the run for 10 days in Vancouver has pleaded guilty to breaching his long-term supervision order and failing to attend court. 
  The province’s prosecution service confirmed that Randall Hopley entered the guilty pleas in provincial court on Friday.
  Hopley walked away from a halfway house in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after cutting off his ankle monitor in November.
  The public manhunt ended when investigators said Hopley tu
  
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• Evacuation alert lifted as wildfire in northeastern B.C. now ‘held’

  27-04-2024 01:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHETWYND, B.C. — An evacuation alert for residents in areas around Chetwynd, B.C., has been lifted just days after a wildfire forced some residents from their homes. 
  Peace River Regional District in B.C.’s northeast cancelled the alert and lifted a state of local emergency that had been in place. 
  BC Wildfire Services lists the nearby 76-hectare Wildmare Creek fire as “being held” after it led to the first evacuation order of the wildfire season in the province
  
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• Lytton RCMP opens temporary detachment nearly 3 years after its previous building burned

  27-04-2024 01:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LYTTON — Nearly three years after a devastating fire burned 90 per cent of Lytton, including its RCMP detachment, Mounties in this rural community located approximately a half hour north of Boston Bar now have a temporary new building they can call home for the time being.
  According to a news release from the B.C. RCMP, the Village of Lytton and residents of the surrounding communities welcomed the new RCMP detachment on Thursday, April 25 where more than 60 people attended the opening of
  
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• Tornado tears through Nebraska, causing severe damage in Omaha suburbs

  27-04-2024 00:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, destroying homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Injuries were reported but it wasn’t yet clear if anyone was killed in the storm.
  Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people.
  Photos on social media showed heavily dama
  
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• Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison

  27-04-2024 00:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests.Jeremy Cooper faced up to three years in prison. He administered a dose of the sedative ketamine to McClain, 23, who had been forcibly restrained after police stopped him as he was walking home in a Denver suburb in 2019.The sentencing caps a
  
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• Retiring CFL star Harris talks new documentary, overcoming mental health struggles

  26-04-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Andrew Harris is leaving football as one the greatest running backs in CFL history. But he says that he once went from the exhilaration of winning the 2019 Grey Cup with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the lowest he could go.
  “When you’re having suicidal thoughts, that’s about as rock bottom as you can get,” Harris told a group of local reporters on Friday. “That’s where I was at. I mean, COVID was tough on a lot of people, but I was really in th
  
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• Blue Jays pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann out with nerve inflammation in elbow

  26-04-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Blue Jays pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann will miss about seven to 10 more days with a sore elbow.
  Toronto manager John Schneider says that the 21-year-old left-hander has ulnar nerve inflammation.
  The diagnosis comes after Tiedemann met with team doctors earlier this week.
  It’s the best possible outcome after the triple-A Buffalo Bisons put him on the seven-day injured list on April 19.
  Tiedemann (0-1) had a 5.63 earned-run average through three starts, striking out 10 o
  
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• Canada’s Syla Swords eyes Olympic chance after closing impressive high school career

  26-04-2024 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Following the recent end of an impressive high school career, the goal for Syla Swords has shifted to making the Canadian women’s basketball team heading to Paris.
  Swords, from Sudbury, Ont., is a five-star recruit who committed to Michigan for the fall as the Wolverines’ highest-ever ranked prospect at No. 11. 
  After falling in the high school national championship game with Long Island Lutheran, Swords played in three major events this month: the Nike Hoop Summit, McDonald&rsq
  
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• Canadian women’s rugby team opens Pacific Four Series against U.S. in California

  26-04-2024 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canada women’s rugby team sees its first action of 2024 on Sunday when it opens the Pacific Four Series against the ninth-ranked United States in Carson, Calif.
  The game is the first for the fourth-ranked Canadians since November, when they finished runner-up to No. 1 England at the WXV tournament. Canada has won eight straight matches over the U.S., including a 50-17 victory to begin last year’s Pacific Four Series.
  Sunday’s match is one-half of a doubleheader at Dignity H
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. asks Health Canada to make drug use in public illegal again

  26-04-2024 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is asking Health Canada to “urgently change” the province’s decriminalization policy to stop drug use in public. 
  Premier David Eby says in a statement the change would make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including inside hospitals, on transit and in parks. 
  The U-turn by the provincial government comes after repeated criticisms about the decriminalization polices from local politicians, health workers
  
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• B.C. introduces measures to halt illicit drug use in public spaces

  26-04-2024 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia is introducing measures to make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including hospitals, on transit and in parks. In a news conference Friday (Apr. 26) Premier David Eby said the importance of public safety while ensuring access to treatment for those struggling with addiction, is important for his government.
  “Keeping people safe is our highest priority,” said Premier David Eby in a government news release. “While we are caring and
  
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• Spence has two goals and assist, Canada thumps Czechia 6-0 at U18 hockey worlds

  26-04-2024 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANTAA, Finland — Malcolm Spence had two goals and an assist as Canada thumped Czechia 6-0 in a penalty-filled affair Friday at the world men’s under-18 hockey championship.
  Tij Iginla also had two goals and Carter George made 26 saves for the shutout
  Gavin McKenna had a goal and two assists and Carson Wetsch also scored as Canada improved to 2-0. Captain Porter Martone had three assists.
  Czech starting goaltender Jakub Milota allowed four goals on nine shots before being replaced by
  
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• Giannis Antetokounmpo ruled out of third game in Bucks-Pacers playoff series

  26-04-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has been ruled out of Game 3 of the NBA playoff series against the Indiana Pacers.
  Bucks coach Doc Rivers said Thursday that Antetokounmpo did more at practice than he had been during a nearly three-week absence with a strained left calf, though he still avoided live workouts. Instead, the Bucks waited till Friday to make the announcement on social media.
  The league’s two-time MVP has not played since getting hurt April 9
  
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• President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

  26-04-2024 21:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue.
  Trump said he was ready, though he questioned Bidens’s willingness.
  Biden’s comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked him whether he would participate in debates against Trump.
  “I am, somewhere. I don’t know when,” Biden
  
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• Schmidt returns to lineup for Jets in Game 3, fellow defenceman Stanley to sit

  26-04-2024 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER — The Winnipeg Jets are making a lineup change after splitting the first two games of their first-round NHL playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche.
  Head coach Rick Bowness says that Nate Schmidt will be in the lineup for Game 3 on Friday night and fellow blueliner Logan Stanley will sit.
  Schmidt was a healthy scratch for Winnipeg’s 7-6 win in Game 1 as well as the Jets’ 5-2 loss in Game 2 at Canada Life Centre.
  He’s expected to play with Dylan Samberg. It&rs
  
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• Abbotsford set to introduce over 220 shelter spaces to combat homelessness

  26-04-2024 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The provincial government and the City of Abbotsford are set to roll out over 220 new shelter spaces and supportive homes. The initiative was announced Friday (Apr. 26) morning in Abbotsford. It was formalized through a memorandum of understanding (MOU), with a goal to provide immediate support to individuals experiencing homelessness in the community.
  “Homelessness is a problem that affects everyone, and programs, such as Homeless Encampment Action Response Temporary Ho
  
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• Fatal B.C. stabbing victim may have chased suspect, investigators say

  26-04-2024 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITE ROCK, B.C. — Police say the man killed in a fatal stabbing attack in White Rock, B.C., earlier this week may have tried to chase down the suspect who stabbed him.
  Homicide investigators say witnesses told them that Kulwinder Singh Sohi, 26, was seen in a physical altercation with the suspect before giving chase on the White Rock Promenade on Tuesday evening.
  Sohi was attended by emergency responders at the scene after the attack but died from his injuries.
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