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• Canada’s Jacobs wins bronze at world men’s curling playdowns

  06-04-2025 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOOSE JAW — Canada’s Brad Jacobs defeated China’s Xiaoming Xu 11-2 on Sunday to win the bronze medal at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.
  Jacobs, vice Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert scored three points in the first end and pulled away by scoring five points in the fourth.
  Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller will play Scotland’s Bruce Mouat for gold later Sunday at the Temple Gardens Centre.
  The host team earned the top seed with an
  
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• Texas man is executed for the 2004 strangling and stabbing death of a young mother

  24-04-2025 01:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed Wednesday evening.
  Moises Sandoval Mendoza received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., authorities said. He was condemned for the March 2004 killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson.
  Prosecutors say Mendoza, 41, took Tolleson from her north Texas home, leaving her 6-month-old daughter
  
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• Harness racing owner Brad Grant tops Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame 2025 class

  24-04-2025 01:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Brad Grant is following in his father’s footsteps.
  The longtime harness-racing owner was named for induction into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame as a builder Wednesday. He joins his father, John, who went into the shrine in 1998, also as a builder.
  Brad Grant has, either solely or in partnership, owned Hambletonian winners Atlanta, Ramona Hill, and ’23 Hall of Fame inductee, Bulldog Hanover. Other notable millionaire horses owned by Grant include Its Academic,
  
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• Judge delays $2.8 billion NCAA settlement to address roster limit concerns, backs rest of plan

  24-04-2025 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The judge overseeing the sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement involving the NCAA and the nation’s five largest conferences delayed final approval of the plan Wednesday until it is modified to address concerns about roster limits.
  U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken signaled she is ready to approve the rest of the settlement but wants both sides to come up with a way to not harm current athletes who will lose their spots on teams. The settlement calls for scholarship limits to
  
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• Trump floats automobile tariff increase for Canada

  24-04-2025 00:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says at some point the automobile tariffs slapped on Canadian imports could increase while also indicating his administration is working on a deal with Canada.Trump put 25 per cent tariffs on all automobile imports to the U.S. earlier this month, with a partial carveout for vehicles made under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade.The North American automobile industry is deeply integrated, and vehicles cross between Canada and the U.S. multiple
  
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• VPD whistleblower alleges arrest quotas in Downtown Eastside crackdown

  24-04-2025 00:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s police watchdog says the Vancouver Police Board must look into an officer’s allegation that arrest quotas have been issued as part of Mayor Ken Sim’s “Task Force Barrage” initiative in the Downtown Eastside.
  An email from the anonymous whistleblower is on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the board along with a corresponding letter from the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner asking the board to take action.
  The
  
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• Impaired driver in B.C. going double the limit and on his way to get child: police

  24-04-2025 00:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO — A man from Nanaimo, B.C., faces a driving suspension, a speeding ticket and allegations of impaired driving for passing an unmarked police vehicle going 120 kilometres an hour over the posted limit.A statement from BC Highway Patrol says the man was pulled over at 11 a.m. on April 14 in the city for going at a speed of 210 km/h.
  Police say he told them he was going to pick up his child.Insp. Adam Tallboy with BC Highway Patrol says the driver gave two breath samples, both of whic
  
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• Black federal workers appeal decision to deny certification of class action lawsuit

  23-04-2025 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Black federal workers who launched a $2.5-billion lawsuit against the federal government are appealing the court’s decision to deny it certification.
  A Federal Court judge last month dismissed a motion to certify the proposed class action lawsuit launched in 2020 by Black public servants who alleged there was systemic racism in the public service.
  In an “order and reasons” document, Justice Jocelyne Gagné says the case did not meet the bar for a class acti
  
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• Canadian golfer Grewal excited for major return at Chevron Championship

  23-04-2025 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Savannah Grewal is still getting used to playing on the LPGA Tour, including normalizing playing in majors.
  Grewal, from Mississauga, Ont., is in her sophomore season on the top women’s golf circuit in the world and is one of three Canadians in the field at this week’s Chevron Championship, the first major of the year. Grewal said that after playing in three majors in 2024 she’s learned to take them as just another round of golf.
  “I feel every tournament on the LPGA is st
  
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• Carly Rae Jepsen, Lena Dunham adapting ’10 Things I Hate About You’ for Broadway

  23-04-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Carly Rae Jepsen has been tapped to help adapt the teen rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You” for the Broadway stage.
  Producers say the singer-songwriter from Mission, B.C., will write the music with Ethan Gruska, while Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang will write the book.
  The musical, produced by Mike Bosner, will be based on the 1999 movie from screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, which itself is a modern reimagining of William Shakespeare’s “The
  
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• A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

  23-04-2025 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy.
  The lawsuit said the policy put in place by President Donald Trump has left the national trade policy subject to Trump’s “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.”
  It challenged Trump’s claim that he could arbitrarily impose tarif
  
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• Canada’s 2026 slogan for Olympic, Paralympic Games carries a subtext

  23-04-2025 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canada’s rallying cry for the next Winter Games has an undertone of the current geopolitical climate.
  Both Olympians and Paralympians will compete under the slogan “We Are All Team Canada” in less than a year in Milan-Cortina, Italy.Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive officer David Shoemaker says the message is about unity, but he acknowledges the recent surge in Canadian nationalism in the face of economic and sovereignty threats from the United States t
  
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• Quebec won’t drop legal alcohol limit despite fourth coroner’s recommendation

  23-04-2025 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault says the province will not be lowering the legal blood alcohol limit despite another coroner’s report released this week urging the province to act.
  Quebec is the only province that has not established a legal limit lower than the .08 — 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood — set in the Criminal Code.
  This week’s coroner’s report is the fourth in the past two years recommending provincial sanc
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps unfazed by Messi spotlight ahead of semifinal clash with Miami

  23-04-2025 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The home team might not be the main attraction for what is expected to be a capacity crowd when the Vancouver Whitecaps face Inter Miami FC Thursday night in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal.
  Many of the fans coming to BC Place Stadium will be excited about the prospect of seeing soccer legend Lionel Messi play in Vancouver.
  Whitecaps head coach Jesper Sorensen shrugged off his team taking second billing in its own building.
  “Lionel Messi for the pa
  
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• Senators look to bounce back at home down 2-0 to Leafs in Battle of Ontario

  23-04-2025 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Down 2-0 in their NHL first-round playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Ottawa Senators find themselves facing an uphill battle.
  The Senators are now back home, looking to draw on the hard lessons of the past few years and push back with everything they’ve got in Game 3 on Thursday.
  “I think it’s definitely, it’s not a series until somebody loses at home,” Ottawa forward Ridley Greig said Wednesday. “So, you know, we’ve got t
  
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• Canada women’s soccer coach Casey Stoney adds three full-tie assistants to her staff

  23-04-2025 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada women’s soccer coach Casey Stoney has added Natalie Henderson, Neil Wood and Ian Willcock as full-time members of her coaching staff.
  The three join performance analyst Yianni Michelis on Stoney’s staff. Wood was a member of former coach Bev Priestman’s staff at the Paris Olympics
  Henderson, a native of Newcastle, England, most recently was head coach of England’s women’s under-17 team and a lead coach at Newcastle United’s men’s academy. In 2017,
  
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• ‘To honour him’: Canadian Bishops, Métis leader attending funeral for Pope Francis

  23-04-2025 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Donald Bolen, the archbishop of Regina, is travelling to Vatican City for Saturday’s funeral of Pope Francis – a journey, he says, is to honour a pontiff who mirrored his vision and his compassion.
  “When (Francis) put out a book called ‘The Name of God is Mercy,’ I smiled. Because my episcopal motto is ‘mercy within mercy within mercy’ — very much that same understanding,” Bolen said in an interview.
  “I had enormous respect for Pope Fra
  
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• Versatile Jets forward Alex Iafallo ready to lend a hand on and off the ice

  23-04-2025 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Alex Iafallo is always willing to lend a helping hand — on and off the ice.
  The Winnipeg Jets forward has moved up and down the lineup this season without a complaint.
  He also signed a three-year contract extension before the NHL playoffs for less money than his previous deal.
  And during the COVID-19 pandemic, Iafallo bought and delivered dinners for his mom and dozens of her nurse co-workers at the Buffalo General Medical Center.“I think everybody has it in them, ju
  
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• Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to represent Canada at Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday

  23-04-2025 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will not be taking time away from the federal election campaign to attend the funeral for Pope Francis.
  He says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will represent Canada alongside a senior delegation at the Vatican ceremony on Saturday.
  A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister’s Office says the rest of the delegation hasn’t been finalized.
  Carney says it wouldn’t be right to leave Canada ahead of Monday’s vote.
  Pope Francis visited Canada in 2022 fo
  
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• Evander Kane to make season debut for Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 vs. Kings

  23-04-2025 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES — Evander Kane will return to the Edmonton Oilers lineup on Wednesday for his first game of the NHL season.Head coach Kris Knoblauch says both Kane, a winger, and defenceman John Klingberg will play for Edmonton in Game 2 of the team’s first-round playoff series against the L.A. Kings.
  Kane has not played since June 10, 2024 when the Oilers played the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup final.
  The bruising 33-year-old forward was on a line with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zac
  
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• Volunteers clean up garbage strewn throughout riverfront site in Hope

  23-04-2025 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — Volunteers from Hope and Chilliwack alike teamed up over the Easter long weekend to remove a multitude of accumulated garbage near a riverfront site in Hope.
  Aided by longtime Chilliwack resident Ross Aikenhead, Jim Lasser from Tri-West Contracting, and others like backhoe operator Darcy Baker, volunteers spent hours lending a hand near Fraser Avenue and Water Avenue in Hope, that resulted in three three heaping trailer loads of garbage, over 10 tires, at least 20 propane tanks and
  
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• Man missing, woman and infant found alive on shore after B.C. boat accident

  23-04-2025 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGFORD — A man is missing after three people, including an infant, were thrown overboard in a boating accident on Finlayson Arm northwest of Victoria.West Shore RCMP say they responded to a report of an unoccupied boat on the ocean inlet of Finlayson Arm Tuesday evening.The Canadian Coast Guard and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre sent out search crews and say a mother and her infant were found on the shore and rescued.However, 43-year-old Ryan Mazar remains missing.Police say crews
  
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• China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’

  23-04-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.
  “We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.
  “China is Canada’s opportunity,
  
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• Andreescu cruises into second round at Madrid Open with 6-2, 6-4 win over Kessler

  23-04-2025 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADRID — Bianca Andreescu made a triumphant return to WTA 1000-level tennis Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over McCartney Kessler of the United States in first-round action at the Madrid Open.
  The 24-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., converted all four break-point chances against Kessler. The American was far less opportunistic, making just one of her eight break-point chances count.
  Andreescu had three aces to just one double fault on the clay court in Madrid and won 54.6 per cent of total
  
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• B.C. invests $11 million on value-added lumber manufacturing amid U.S. uncertainty

  23-04-2025 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is investing up to $11 million toward four projects in the province aimed at boosting the local mass-timber manufacturing sector.
  Jobs and Economic Development Minister Diana Gibson says in a statement that the funding comes at a time when government investment is needed to strengthen “homegrown B.C. companies” in the forestry sector that provide value-added manufacturing for the province’s lumber supply.
  Gibson says the funding
  
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• Forward Vilardi to travel with Jets for Games 3 and 4 against St. Louis

  23-04-2025 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Gabriel Vilardi will travel with the Winnipeg Jets on their upcoming road trip to St. Louis.The talented winger practised with the team again Wednesday in a yellow non-contact jersey. Head coach Scott Arniel said he’ll be on the flight to Missouri.The Jets play the Blues in Game 3 of their Western Conference opening-round playoff series on Thursday and hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NHL contest. Game 4 is Sunday.Arniel said winger Nikolaj Ehlers (lower body) won&rsqu
  
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• Vancouver’s PWHL expansion team will play out of Pacific Coliseum next season

  23-04-2025 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Professional Women’s Hockey League has taken its first step in a bigger plan to grow the league.
  The PWHL announced an expansion franchise for Vancouver on Wednesday to add a seventh team to start play next season. The league started in 2023 with six teams in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, New York, Boston and Minnesota, and is approaching the end of its second campaign.
  The expansion team, which will operate as PWHL Vancouver until a permanent name is announced, will pla
  
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• Chilliwack council sets public hearing for apt. complex purchased by RAN for women’s supportive housing

  23-04-2025 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack councillors have given first and second reading, but not final approval, for a rezoning application of a four-unit apartment complex on Maple Avenue that was purchased by Ruth and Naomi’s for a women’s supportive housing complex.
  According to a staff report from City of Chilliwack senior planner Adam Roberts, Ruth and Naomi’s Mission (RAN) purchased the property at 46209 Maple Avenue in early 2024 and started interior renovations of the building so
  
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• Quebec not ruling out expanding religious symbol ban to daycare workers: minister

  23-04-2025 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC CITY — The Quebec minister responsible for secularism says the government isn’t ruling out expanding its religious symbols ban to include daycare employees.
  Jean-François Roberge says “everything is on the table” when it comes to strengthening secularism in the province, including extending the law known as Bill 21 to include more categories of public employees.
  However, he said today the government will wait for the recommendations from a government-appoint
  
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• Chilliwack council sets public hearing for apt. complex purchased by RAN for women’s supportive housing - Fraser Valley Today

  23-04-2025 19:55 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack council sets public hearing for apt. complex purchased by RAN for women’s supportive housing  Fraser Valley Today
  
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