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• B.C. port employers say foremen’s union plans industry-wide strike vote

  26-07-2024 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The BC Maritime Employers Association says it has been told by a lawyer for the foremen’s union that an industry-wide strike vote will take place in coming weeks.
  The employers’ group says the lawyer for ILWU Local 514 informed them of the vote this week after a case management meeting with the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
  No one could immediately be reached for comment from the ship and dock foreman’s union, whose 730 members work at British Columbia&rs
  
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• Senators looking to take learning experience from loss to Devils

  18-10-2024 05:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Travis Green might not have liked the end result, but he’s counting on his team learning from the effort.
  Green’s Ottawa Senators were handed a 3-1 loss by the New Jersey Devils Thursday night in a game that highlighted the importance of sticking with things.
  “I thought both teams played pretty well,” said Green. “I thought we had a lot of the game that I liked, but I thought there’s a few moments where it got away. We got away from our game, an
  
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• Kulak scores twice and McDavid gets first goal of season as Oilers beat Predators 4-2

  18-10-2024 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brett Kulak scored twice and Connor McDavid added his first goal of the season to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-2 victory over the reeling Nashville Predators on Thursday night.
  Jeff Skinner also scored and Calvin Pickard made 25 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who have won consecutive games after beginning the season with a three-game skid.
  Filip Forsberg and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Juuse Saros made 32 saves for Nashville (0-4
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski, New Zealand’s Routliffe out of Japan Women’s Open after walkover

  18-10-2024 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OSAKA — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe are out of the Japan Women’s Open tennis tournament.
  Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Romania’s Monica Niculescu advanced to the final on Thursday by way of walkover.The fourth seeds were supposed to play the top-seeded Dabrowski and Routliffe in the semifinals.
  Bucsa and Niculescu will next face third-seeded Ena Shibahara of Japan and Laura Siegemund of Germany in the final.
  Dabrowski and Routliff
  
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• Dubreuil wins fifth straight 500m title at Canadian long track championships

  18-10-2024 04:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Laurent Dubreuil won his fifth straight men’s 500-metre speedskating national title on the opening day of the Canadian long track championships on Thursday.
  The Lévis, Que., native, also the reigning world championship silver medallist, topped the podium with a time of 34.721 seconds. Calgary’s Yankun Zhao (35.039) earned silver, while Anders Johnson of Burnaby, B.C., brought home bronze (35.194).
  “It was a good race overall. I had a great start at
  
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• Miller scores winner in OT, Vancouver tops Florida 3-2

  18-10-2024 04:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — J.T. Miller scored 2:09 into overtime and the Vancouver Canucks got their first win of the season, beating the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Thursday night.
  Teddy Blueger and Quinn Hughes had goals for Vancouver (1-1-2), with Kevin Lankinen stopping 26 shots.
  Anton Lundell got his fourth goal in the last three games for Florida (3-2-1) and Jesper Boqvist also scored for the Panthers, who got 30 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky.
  Florida remained without forwards Aleksander Barkov
  
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• Rittich stops 25 shots, Los Angeles Kings beat Montreal Canadiens 4-1

  18-10-2024 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — David Rittich bounced back with 25 saves in a 4-1 Los Angeles Kings victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.
  Alex Laferriere scored the go-ahead goal early in the second period and Mikey Anderson produced the equalizer for Los Angeles (2-1-2) after Montreal took a 1-0 lead in the first. Andreas Englund doubled the lead with just under three minutes remaining before Adrian Kempe added an empty-netter.
  Rittich stood tall one night after allowing four goals on 14 shot
  
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• Markstrom loses shutout bid late, leads Devils past Senators 3-1

  18-10-2024 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Jacob Markstrom turned away 30 shots Thursday night to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 3-1 win over the Ottawa Senators.On Monday, the Senators (2-2-0) scored eight goals against Los Angeles but struggled to get anything past Markstrom.
  Brady Tkachuk was the lone Senator to beat Markstrom, with a power-play goal with 65 seconds remaining in regulation.
  Anton Forsberg, who got his second straight start, was hoping to bounce back after getting pulled Monday but came out on the losin
  
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• Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson exits vs. Kings with upper-body injury

  18-10-2024 03:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson exited Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings with an upper-body injury.
  Matheson logged 7:35 in ice time during the first period but did not return to Montreal’s bench to start the second period with the game tied at 1.
  When or how Matheson sustained the injury was not immediately clear.
  The 30-year-old from Pointe-Claire, Que., has three assists in five games this season.
  Last season, Matheson posted 11 goals and 5
  
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• Three teenage girls charged in violent B.C. transit attacks

  18-10-2024 02:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Three teenage girls have been charged with assault after two separate violent attacks took place on Metro Vancouver’s transit system.
  Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the assaults happened on July 11, the first of which was on board a SkyTrain while it travelled from New Westminster to Surrey.
  Police say a 16-year-old student was attacked by the three suspects after she tried to prevent one of them from prying open the doors while the train was moving.
  The a
  
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• Republicans say they’re appealing a Georgia judge’s ruling that invalidates seven election rules

  18-10-2024 01:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — National and state Republicans on Thursday appealed a judge’s ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia’s State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
  The Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are appealing a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, who ruled Wednesday that the State Election Board did not have the authority to pass the rules and ordered it to immediat
  
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• Amber Alert issued for five-day-old baby in Saskatchewan

  18-10-2024 01:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RCMP in Saskatchewan have issued an Amber Alert after a newborn baby was allegedly abducted from a health centre in the community of Montreal Lake.
  Police say they were told this afternoon that five-day-old Koda Moccasin had been taken from the community, roughly 100 kilometres north of Prince Albert.
  The baby boy was last seen wearing a blue sleeper.
  RCMP say the child was taken by 35-year-old Merlin Junior Crookedneck, described as being five-foot-11, with a stocky build, short dark hair and b
  
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• Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death

  18-10-2024 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward.
  Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He pleaded guilty in a rampage that began when he broke into the home where his estranged girlfriend had taken refuge.
  Dearman had dropped his appeals this year. “I am guilty
  
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• Here are the key numbers in the deal proposed by three tobacco giants

  18-10-2024 01:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay billions of dollars to provincial and territorial governments as well as smokers across Canada as part of a corporate restructuring process set off by a legal battle over the health effects of smoking.
  Here are the key numbers of the proposal, based on a court filing as well as one of the parties in the Quebec class action.
  $24.725 billion: Amount to be paid to the provinces and territories.
  $6 billion: The share of the amount for provinces and territori
  
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• Canada’s Pendrith shoots 61 in first start since the Presidents Cup and leads in Las Vegas

  18-10-2024 00:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Taylor Pendrith took two weeks off after the Presidents Cup and didn’t miss a beat, matching his career-low on the PGA Tour with a 10-under 61 that gave him an early three-shot lead in the Shriners Children’s Open on Thursday.
  Pendrith missed only one fairway and one green at the TPC Summerlin, both on the same hole. He pulled his tee shot on the 18th hole — his ninth — had to pitch out sideways, hit wedge to 7 feet and saved his par.
  The rest was a steady diet of big dri
  
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• Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5 billion to provinces, smokers in proposed deal

  18-10-2024 00:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to some 100,000 Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle.
  The companies — JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. — filed a proposed plan of arrangement in an Ontario court today after more than five years of negotiations with their creditors.
  Th
  
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• RCMP say girl’s death in Alberta lake could be criminal

  18-10-2024 00:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WABAMUN, Alta. — Mounties say they’re treating the death of a five-year-old girl pulled from an Alberta lake as a criminal matter.
  RCMP said Sunday that two people had been found after a canoe overturned on Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton.
  They said bystanders recovered the girl from the lake and, despite life-saving efforts, paramedics declared her dead at the scene.A 35-year-old woman was also pulled from the water by other watercraft in the area.Mounties are now saying they’ve
  
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• Judge grants Texas lawmakers’ unusual effort to pause execution in shaken baby case

  18-10-2024 00:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) —A judge on Thursday granted a request from Texas lawmakers to delay the execution of a man who was scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
  But the judge’s order was expected to be quickly appealed by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.The order was granted around the same time the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution, though Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote to urge Tex
  
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• India again rejects Canada’s claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists

  18-10-2024 00:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — India’s foreign ministry says Ottawa is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims it is behind widespread crimes in Canada.
  The federal government ordered India’s top envoy to leave the country on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role in extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.
  In a news conference today, India denied it has worked with criminal organizations to
  
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• For Harris, complicated politics are at play as she calls for end to war, discusses Sinwar’s death

  18-10-2024 00:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Kamala Harris said Thursday that Israel’s killing of Hamas’ top leader offers “an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza,” talking plainly about next steps even as the pro-Palestinian demonstrators who gathered outside her campaign event underscored the complicated politics at play.
  The Democratic presidential nominee said the war “must end such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends and the Palestinia
  
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• Saskatchewan Party’s Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate

  17-10-2024 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning “biological boys” from using school changing rooms with “biological girls” if re-elected, a move the NDP’s Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids.
  Moe made the pledge Thursday at a campaign stop in Regina. He said it was in response to a complaint that two biological males had changed for gym class with girls at a school in southeast Saskatchewan.
  He said the ban would be his fir
  
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• Colorado gold mine where tour guide was killed and tourists trapped ordered closed by regulators

  17-10-2024 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident has been ordered to remain closed and not conduct tours while its operations are reviewed, state regulators said Thursday.
  In a statement, the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety said the decision to close the Mollie Kathleen Mine was made following an inspection after the Oct. 10 incident. The agency must determine if the death of Patrick
  
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• Leonard won’t play for Los Angeles Clippers to start the season while rehabbing knee, report says

  17-10-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard won’t play for the Los Angeles Clippers to start the season because of ongoing rehabilitation from inflammation in his right knee, according to a report.
  Citing unidentified sources, ESPN reported Thursday that Leonard will be sidelined indefinitely.He hasn’t played during the preseason, which concludes Thursday night at home against Sacramento.
  The two-time Finals MVP also hasn’t been involved in on-court contact during training cam
  
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• Kenya’s Parliament removes the deputy president from office in an impeachment trial

  17-10-2024 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Senate voted Thursday to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest pains.Senators approved five of 11 grounds for impeachment against Gachagua, making him the first sitting deputy president to be removed from office in impeachment proceedings.The vote on the first of the five counts was 54-13, well above the two-th
  
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• Promise tracker: What the Saskatchewan Party and NDP pledge to do if they win Oct. 28

  17-10-2024 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan’s provincial election is on Oct. 28. Here’s a look at some of the campaign promises made by the two major parties:
  Saskatchewan Party
  — Continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa on natural gas until the end of 2025.
  — Reduce personal income tax rates over four years; a family of four would save $3,400.
  — Double the Active Families Benefit to $300 per child per year and the benefit for children with disabilities to $400 a
  
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• Charges recommended after dog dragged about 200 metres behind vehicle in Merritt: SPCA

  17-10-2024 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT — The BC SPCA says it has seized a dog after it was dragged behind a vehicle in Merritt.
  In a news release issued Thursday (Oct. 17), the BC SPCA’s Eileen Drever says the young collie mix was tethered to a vehicle and dragged about 200 metres.
  “He has abrasions to his front and back paw pads and hocks, (the joint between the dog’s hind leg and foot) and his nails were shredded,” said Drever. “He is also under weight with a body score of two out of nine
  
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• Ticats, Stampeders look to cap 2024 CFL season on a strong note

  17-10-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — There’ll be no playoff games this year for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats but head coach Scott Milanovich feels the club can get a head start on changing that narrative in 2025.
  Hamilton hosts Calgary on Friday night in a battle between two non-playoff teams. The Ticats will finish fourth in the East Division while the Stampeders remain fifth in the West, three points behind idle Edmonton with two regular-season games remaining.
  “There’s momentum that can be built at
  
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• Court upholds Abbotsford bylaw around homeless encampments

  17-10-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A spokesperson for the City of Abbotsford says the municipality welcomes a decision Thursday by a B.C. Supreme Court judge that upholds the city’s bylaw and closes the homeless encampment at Abbotsford City Hall.
  According to a statement Thursday (Oct. 17) from the City of Abbotsford, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sandra Sukstorf today released her decision to uphold the City of Abbotsford’s bylaw. Justice Sukstorf denied a judicial application by Matsqui-Abbotsford
  
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• Toronto FC promises change at the club after missing out on the playoffs yet again

  17-10-2024 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — MLSE president and CEO Keith Pelley and Toronto FC’s top officials have promised change at the ailing MLS club, which is sitting out the playoffs for the fourth straight season.
  Pelley says while the franchise’s entire organizational structure is under review, it is going to take some time to find the right answers.
  Coach John Herdman says he is looking for young, athletic and durable talent to help turn around a club which he said started the season strongly but fini
  
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• Canada women drawn with Scotland, Wales and Fiji at next year’s Rugby World Cup

  17-10-2024 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada has been drawn with Scotland, Wales and Fiji in Pool B at next year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup in England.
  The Canadian women, who finished fourth at the last World Cup, are currently ranked second in the world while Scotland is No. 7, Wales No. 10 and Fiji No. 17
  Pool A consists of top-ranked England, No. 5 Australia, the ninth-ranked U.S. and No. 15 Samoa while Pool C is made up of No. 3 New Zealand, No. 6 Ireland, No. 11 Japan and No. 13 Spain. Pool D features No. 4 France,
  
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