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• Canadian men prepare for Argentina and Copa opener with one eye on 2026 World Cup

  18-06-2024 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada steps onto the world soccer stage again Thursday with new leadership and a new plan.
  But while top-ranked Argentina and Lionel Messi loom large in Thursday’s Copa America opener in Atlanta, new Canada coach Jesse Marsch has his eye firmly set on 2026.
  Marsch, who took over the 49th-ranked Canadian men on May 13, has made no secret that Copa America challenges like World Cup champion Argentina, No. 32 Chile and No. 42 Peru, while special in themselves, are steps along the road to the
  
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• Catholic Church and B.C. First Nation unveil covenant on residential schools

  26-06-2024 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The leader of Vancouver’s Roman Catholic archdiocese says the church was wrong to administer residential schools in British Columbia, and he hopes a newly released covenant with a First Nation can act as a road map for redress.Archbishop J. Michael Miller and Tkemlups te Secwepemc First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir have told an online news conference the covenant signed earlier this year contains commitments from the Catholic Church, including full transparency of re
  
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• Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach facing eight additional charges: police

  26-06-2024 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, accused earlier this month of sex-related offences dating back decades, is now facing eight additional charges, police said Wednesday.Peel Regional Police said the 91-year-old founder of auto parts giant Magna was arrested again and charged with six counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted rape and one count of indecent assault on a female.
  They did not provide any details of those allegations but said investigators “have identified additiona
  
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• Bolivian president warns “irregular” military deployment under way in capital, raising coup fears

  26-06-2024 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Luis Arce warned Wednesday that an “irregular” deployment of troops was taking place in the capital, raising concerns that a potential coup was underway.
  He called for “democracy to be respected” on a message on his X account came as Bolivian television showed two tanks and a number of military in front of the government palace.
  Former Bolivian president Evo Morales, also in a message on X, denounced the movement of the mili
  
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• Jury recommends death penalty for ex-prison guard trainee who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank

  26-06-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A jury recommended Wednesday that a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago.The Highlands County jury voted 9-3 to recommend that Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for the Jan. 23, 2019, massacre at the SunTrust Bank in Sebring, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of Tampa. The jury deliberated less than three hours before reaching its verdict.
  The final decision rests with Circuit Judge Angel
  
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• World champion decathlete Pierce LePage won’t compete at Canadian Olympic trials

  26-06-2024 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — World champion decathlete Pierce LePage has received a medical exemption and won’t compete this week at the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic track and field trials.
  LePage, considered one of Canada’s biggest podium contenders for this summer’s Paris Games, won world championship gold last year and silver in 2022.
  Athletes hoping to be nominated to the Canadian Olympic or Paralympic team must compete at trials but can receive a written medical exemption from the
  
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• Eleven-year-old boy drowns after inflated tube flips in B.C. lake

  26-06-2024 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KIMBERLEY, B.C. — RCMP say an 11-year-old boy has drowned in Wasa Lake, north of Cranbrook in southeastern B.C.Police say the boy was out with two other children on Sunday on an inflated tube when it flipped in high winds and rough water.They say the boy wasn’t able to make it back to shore.Officers, with the help of a local resident, used a boat to search the lake and within a few minutes spotted the boy under the water.An officer jumped in to pull the boy to the surface and they im
  
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• Abbotsford PD cracks down on speed demons, impounds over 3 dozen vehicles in 48 hours

  26-06-2024 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Traffic Enforcement Unit of Abbotsford Police Department cracked down on excessive speeders during a traffic initiative last week, resulting in a whopping 42 vehicles that were impounded in 48 hours.
  According to a news release from Constable Art Stele, AbbyPD traffic cops focused on identifying and taking enforcement action against excessive speeding within Abbotsford. Cst. Stele said police honed in on commuter and high-traffic corridors using a covert and overt approach
  
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• City of Chilliwack says 7 intersection crosswalks have been upgraded for pedestrian safety

  26-06-2024 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says seven intersection crosswalks have been upgraded with rapid rectangular flashing beacons (RRFBs) throughout the city this spring to elevate pedestrian crossing visibility, including some on major roads like Young Road and Chilliwack River Road.In a social media post Wednesday (June 26), the City of Chilliwack says the upgrades occurred due to higher traffic volumes and visibility requirements, as part of the annual priority-based installation progra
  
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• Canada’s Andre De Grasse feeling rejuvenated after meeting 100m Olympic standard

  26-06-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse says he’s feeling like his old self after meeting the 100-metre entry standard for the Paris Olympics last week.
  De Grasse ran a season-best 10.00 seconds at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, for his fastest time since 2021.
  The six-time Olympic medallist is one of several athletes gearing up for the Paris Games this week at the Canadian Olympic track and field trials.
  The trials take place Wednesday through Sunday at Claude-Robilla
  
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• Argos to host Alouettes in battle of unbeaten East Division rivals

  26-06-2024 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Another week another road game for Cody Fajardo and the Montreal Alouettes.
  Montreal (3-0) visits the Toronto Argonauts (2-0) on Friday night in a battle of unbeaten East Division rivals. It will mark the third time in four games the defending Grey Cup champions will play on the road, while the Argos has yet to leave BMO Field.
  And home field has definitely been good to Toronto, which is riding an 11-game win streak that dates back to last season, However, Montreal also comes in having won its l
  
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• Vancouver Police release video showing suspect in synagogue arson

  26-06-2024 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver have released video showing a man who is believed to have set fire to the front entrance of a synagogue last month in the hope that someone may recognize the suspect.The security video shows a man wearing a dark jacket, light ball cap and a medical face mask approaching the front steps of the Schara Tzedeck synagogue on Vancouver’s Oak Street on May 30 with a time stamp of 9:41 p.m.The man is carrying a clear bottle with liquid inside, and he unscrews
  
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• Child drowns at B.C. lake: RCMP

  26-06-2024 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASA LAKE — Mounties in Kimberley, B.C. say a child drowned in Wasa Lake last weekend.According to a news release from police, Kimberley RCMP officers were dispatched on Sunday, June 23 after an inflated tube carrying three children flipped over due to high winds and rough waters. Police say one of the children, an 11-year-old boy, did not make it to shore.With the assistance of a local resident, officers utilized a boat to search the lake and observed the child underneath the water within
  
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• Lumsden named Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton’s high-performance director

  26-06-2024 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Two-time world championship silver medallist and three-time Olympian Jesse Lumsden has been named Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton’s high-performance director.
  Canada’s governing body for bobsled and skeleton announced the move in a release Wednesday.He replaces Chris Le Bihan, who parted ways with the organization in February.
  Lumsden helped Canada win silver in two-man bobsled at the 2012 and 2017 world championships.
  He represented Canada in both the two- and four-man com
  
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• Romania and Slovakia draw 1-1 to send both into the round of 16 at Euro 2024

  26-06-2024 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Romania and Slovakia got the 1-1 draw that sent both teams into the round of 16 at the European Championship on Wednesday, with the Romanians topping Group E ahead of Belgium.
  During a thunderstorm and pounding rain midway through the second half, both teams chased a winning goal in a frenetic spell of play despite the tied score suiting them both.
  Romania advanced atop the group with Slovakia in third because second-place Belgium drew 0-0 with last-place Ukraine,
  
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• Belgium advances to last 16 at Euro 2024 after 0-0 draw, Ukraine eliminated

  26-06-2024 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Belgium advanced to the last 16 of the European Championship after a 0-0 draw with Ukraine on Wednesday, and the Ukrainians became the first team with four points in a group to be eliminated.
  All four teams in Group E at Euro 2024 finished with four points. Romania ended up first, followed by Belgium and Slovakia. Ukraine was last on goal difference.
  The third-ranked Belgians nearly had a different ending when Ukraine substitute Ruslan Malinovskyi tried to score d
  
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• MP Brad Vis says B.C. NDP govt. partly responsible for Abbotsford not getting disaster funding

  26-06-2024 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford-area MP Brad Vis is pointing the finger at the B.C. NDP government for not approving disaster mitigation funding for the City of Abbotsford.In a news release dated Monday, June 24, Vis joined fellow MPs Ed Fast (Abbotsford) and Tako van Popta (Langley) in slamming the Trudeau government’s decision not to support the City of Abbotsford’s application for funding connected to the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund. The support would have allowed the ci
  
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• Fourteen-year-old Pan Am champion De Fazio Ebert named to Olympic skateboard team

  26-06-2024 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Fourteen-year-old Fay De Fazio Ebert has been named to Canada’s skateboard team for the Paris Olympics.
  The roster, announced Wednesday by Canada Skateboard and the Canadian Olympic Committee, also includes Miles Berger of Kamloops, B.C., Ryan Decenzo of Delta, B.C., and Cordano Russell of London, Ont.
  De Fazio Ebert, from Toronto, is likely to be the youngest competitor on Canada’s Olympic delegation. She won a gold medal in the women’s park event at the 2023 S
  
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• District of Kent to hold free “Slide into Summer” event this week at Ferny Coombe Pool

  26-06-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Right after school recesses for the summer in SD78, the District of Kent will hold a free community event entitled “Slide into Summer” later this week at the Ferny Coombe Pool, 6820 Pioneer Avenue, along with free hot dogs.The free event happens Friday, June 28 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ferny Coombe Pool (6820 Pioneer Ave), and will feature an inflatable slide, pool games, pool crafts, and barbecue for the community. Super Valu, an Agassiz supermarket, has generous
  
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• The Supreme Court seems poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, a Bloomberg News report says

  26-06-2024 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, according to Bloomberg News, which said a copy of the opinion briefly posted Wednesday on the court’s website.The document suggests the court will conclude that it should not have gotten involved in the case so quickly and will reinstate a court order that had allowed hospitals in the state to perform emergency abortions to protect a preg
  
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• Stakusic into third round of Wimbledon qualifying, Diallo and Galarneau eliminated

  26-06-2024 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Canada’s Marina Stakusic is a win away from qualifying for her first Grand Slam main draw.
  The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., moved on to the third round of women’s qualifying at the All England Club with a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 win over France’s Chloe Paquet on Wednesday.
  After winning a close second set with three straight points in the tiebreaker, Stakusic took a 5-0 lead in the third before wrapping the game with a forehand winner on match point.
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• Trudeau’s cabinet all ears to the concerns of Canadians as political fortunes fall

  26-06-2024 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Several federal cabinet ministers say they are all ears to what disgruntled voters are saying in the aftermath of a Toronto byelection defeat in what was considered a safe Liberal riding.
  Although the ministers expressed openness to hearing out Canadiansturned off by the Liberals and Justin Trudeau, none could say how their team plans to address those concerns.
  Immigration Minister Marc Miller, Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks and Karina Gould, on parental leave from her gove
  
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• New Quebec language rules require store signs to be two-thirds in French

  26-06-2024 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government has published new rules requiring French to take up most of the space on storefronts and outdoor commercial signs.
  The province wants French to be the dominant language on commercial signs, even where the business name is in English.Stores like Canadian Tire will have to include generic terms or descriptions in French on their storefronts that take up twice as much space as the English brand name.
  The regulations also strengthen French language requirements
  
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• Former Honduran president sentenced for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US

  26-06-2024 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for his conviction on charges that he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the United States.
  Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernández to 45 years in a U.S. prison and fined him $8 million. A jury convicted him in March in Manhattan federal court after a two-week trial, which was closely followed in his home c
  
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• Hall of Famer Glen Sather retires after six decades, highlighted by building the Oilers’ dynasty

  26-06-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hockey Hall of Famer Glen Sather, who built and coached the NHL’s last great dynasty with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and helped resurrect the New York Rangers in the early 2000s, is retiring after six decades in the sport as a player, coach and executive.
  The Rangers announced the retirement on Wednesday, two days after the NHL season ended with the Panthers beating the Oilers in Game 7 for the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. Coincidently, the Panthers knoc
  
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• Szeryk, Rivers qualify for CPKC Women’s Open after turning pro at B.C. Women’s Open

  26-06-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As Ellie Szeryk lined up her final putt to seal the win at the B.C. Women’s Open, she spied longtime friend Brooke Rivers lurking around the green with a bottle of water.
  Sure enough, when Szeryk made the putt, the chase was on with Rivers trying to douse her with water.
  “I ran as far as I could, but she still got me quite good,” Szeryk said with a laugh. “But it was fun. In golf you usually do that to your really good friends when they win.“So it was really sweet t
  
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• NHL and Fanatics unveil new jerseys for the 2024-25 season

  26-06-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Fanatics and the NHL on Wednesday unveiled new on-ice player jerseys for the 2024-25 season, which officials say have been tested and refined well before making their debut in games this fall.
  It is the first time the company has designed and made in-game uniforms with its own branding for a major North American professional sports league. Fanatics, which was criticized for Major League Baseball uniform issues that MLB and the MLB Players Association later said Nike was responsible for and was f
  
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• Alex Morgan left off the 18-player U.S. soccer roster headed to the Olympics

  26-06-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Veteran forward Alex Morgan won’t be going to the Paris Olympics after surprisingly being left off the roster by U.S. national team coach Emma Hayes.
  Morgan, a three-time Olympian and two-time Women’s World Cup winner, was the most notable absence on the 18-player list announced Wednesday by Hayes.
  The roster, the youngest for the U.S. since 2008, signals a shift in the team as it looks toward the 2027 Women’s World Cup under Hayes.
  The 34-year-old Morgan missed more than a mon
  
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• Feds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, for attempting to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K

  26-06-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged on Wednesday for trying to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday.
  Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Said Shafii Farah, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah and Ladan Mohamed Ali were each charged with one count of conspiracy to bribe a juror, one count of bribery of a juror and one count of corruptly influencing a
  
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• Lawyers looking for thousands of families owed money by Veterans Affairs

  26-06-2024 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Lawyers are trying to get in touch with hundreds of thousands of people who are owed money through a class-action lawsuit against Veterans Affairs.
  The suit was launched after the Veterans Ombudsman found the government had been improperly calculating the disability pensions and benefits of some clients starting in 2003.The government reached an $817-million settlement in April with a group of former military and RCMP members.
  Around 117,000 veterans will get their payouts from th
  
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