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• Jays pitcher Max Scherzer day to day after receiving cortisone injection to thumb

  01-04-2025 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The pain of a cortisone injection to his ailing thumb isn’t what has Max Scherzer hurting.
  “It doesn’t feel good,” he said of the injection, “but you’ll take any pain to get out there. The pain’s not the problem. The pain is not being able to pitch and be out there. That’s what stinks … Not playing is the worst part.”
  The 40-year-old pitcher lasted three innings in his Toronto Blue Jay debut Saturday, then shut it down
  
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• Ovechkin scores his 893rd goal. He needs 1 to tie Gretzky and 2 to break the NHL record

  05-04-2025 01:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin did not take long to move one goal away from tying and two from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record.
  Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals’ home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. He took a pass from Dylan Strome behind the net and banked the puck off the far post and Knight’s back and in.After a few seconds, Ovechkin’s personal goal song, “Shake, Rattle & Roll” by Big Joe Tur
  
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• Ovechkin scores his 893rd career goal. He needs 1 to tie Gretzky and 2 to break the NHL record

  05-04-2025 01:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin has scored his 893rd career goal to move one back of tying and two away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record.
  Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals’ home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. He moved closer to making hockey history with Gretzky in attendance for the first time during the chase.
  Scoring in a fourth consecutive game, Ovechkin reached 40 goals for a 14th time in 20 seasons, which is the m
  
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• Edmonton Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl expected back before playoffs after sustaining lower-body injury

  05-04-2025 01:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl is “out short term” but should return “well before” the playoffs begin after sustaining a lower-body injury against the San Jose Sharks the previous night, head coach Kris Knoblauch said Friday.
  Draisaitl, who leads the NHL with 52 goals this season, didn’t practice Friday and won’t play against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. He missed the second half of the second period and all of the third p
  
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• Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick to miss end of Toronto Raptors season with injuries

  05-04-2025 00:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Brandon Ingram won’t make his Toronto Raptors debut this season.
  Head coach Darko Rajakovic says it “isn’t realistic” for Ingram to fully recover from a sprained ankle before Toronto’s season ends.
  Rajakovic also says that sophomore swingman Gradey Dick will be shut for the rest of the season with a bone bruise on his knee. Toronto has five games remaining heading into a meeting with Detroit on Friday.
  Ingram was traded by the New Orleans Pelicans to
  
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• Former B.C. teacher, 85, guilty of indecent assaults on his Grade 6 students

  05-04-2025 00:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER — A B.C. provincial court judge has found an 85-year-old former elementary school teacher guilty of nine sex-related charges, most involving his former Grade 6 students.There were 12 complainants, all male, who said Brian Moore assaulted them when they were children, ranging in age from seven to 12 years old.
  The trial heard that Moore was a teacher at a North Vancouver elementary school and often took some of his students on swimming, water-skiing and snow skiing trips.Jud
  
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• Chilliwack group returns for river spring cleaning this weekend

  05-04-2025 00:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As the Soowahlie First Nation prepares to clean up one end of the Chilliwack River and its surrounding area this weekend, a local group is hosting a biannual Adopt-A-River campaign tomorrow (Apr. 5).The Chilliwack/Vedder River Cleanup Society (CVRCS) has teamed up with the City of Chilliwack and the Fraser Valley Regional District for this spring’s cleanup event at Thompson Regional Park.“Under the City’s Adopt a River program, community groups adopt sections
  
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• Alonso and Soto power Mets past Blue Jays 5-0 in Citi Field opener

  05-04-2025 00:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso hit an early two-run homer, Juan Soto added an RBI double in his home debut at Citi Field and the New York Mets beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 on Friday.
  Tylor Megill (2-0) pitched two-hit ball over 5 1/3 innings and New York’s bullpen, off to a terrific start, took it from there as the Mets ended Toronto’s four-game winning streak.Soto and Brandon Nimmo each had an RBI double off rookie left-handed reliever Mason Fluharty in a three-run sixth. Starl
  
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• Canada’s Jacobs beats Austria’s Genner to secure top seed at world playdowns

  05-04-2025 00:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOOSE JAW — Canada’s Brad Jacobs defeated Austria’s Mathias Genner 8-2 to secure a semifinal berth at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert needed only seven ends to complete the victory at the Temple Gardens Centre.The Calgary-based team brought in alternate Tyler Tardi in the fifth end to give him his first taste of game action this week.The Canadians clinched first place and will take a 10-1 record into their round-
  
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• Rolling Vancouver Whitecaps set for tough test against surging Colorado Rapids

  04-04-2025 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have been on a roll to start the Major League Soccer season.The Whitecaps (4-1-1) head into the weekend sitting atop the Western Conference standings and tied for the league lead in points (13) with Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami.But the club’s toughest test is yet to come.On Saturday, Vancouver will host the Colorado Rapids (3-1-2), who are chasing them for the No. 1 spot. A win would vault the Rapids over the ‘Caps into the top of the tab
  
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• Oilers star Draisaitl expected back from injury in time for playoffs

  04-04-2025 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES — Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch says there is no timetable for Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl to return from his latest injury, but he expects to have his leading scorer back before the playoffs.
  Knoblauch updated reporters on Draisaitl’s status as the team practised in Los Angeles. Draisaitl did not skate in Friday’s session and Knoblauch confirmed he would not play in Saturday’s game against the Kings.
  Draisaitl left Edmonton’s 3-2 win over the Sharks o
  
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• Toronto Argonauts re-sign global punter John Haggerty

  04-04-2025 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Global punter John Haggerty re-signed with the Toronto Argonauts on Friday.
  Contract details weren’t divulged. Haggerty became a free agent Feb. 11.Haggerty, a 30-year-old Australian, was an East Division all-star in 2024 after posting the CFL’s second-best punt average of 50.3 yards, a career high.The six-foot-five, 225-pound Haggerty averaged a league-best 48 yards per punt in 2023 and was again a division all-star in 2022.
  Toronto selected Haggerty fourth overall i
  
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• Carney, Singh pledge support for CBC to defend sovereignty, fight misinformation

  04-04-2025 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh expressed support Friday for federal spending to ensure a strong national public broadcaster, a notion Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dismissed as something Canada simply can’t afford.On the federal election trail, Carney and Singh each said a healthy CBC/Radio-Canada is crucial to protecting the country’s sovereignty in the face of attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump and the general rise of misinf
  
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• Supreme Court allows Trump administration to cut teacher-training money, for now

  04-04-2025 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts, while a lawsuit continues.
  The justices split 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three liberal justices in dissent.
  The cuts had been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in Boston, who found that they were already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shor
  
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• LA County reaches $4 billion agreement to settle sexual abuse claims at juvenile facilities

  04-04-2025 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday.
  The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County board of supervisors, would be the largest in history and have long-lasting financial effects for the county, officials said.
  “On behalf of the County, I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who was harmed by these reprehensible acts,”
  
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• Police seize cocaine, fentanyl, Tesla Model 3 in joint Lower Mainland investigation

  04-04-2025 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — Police have found a number of drugs, cash and guns after a week-long investigation across the Lower Mainland, including the Fraser Valley.Source: Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia
  According to a news release on Friday (Apr. 4), the Uniform Gang Enforcement Team found the items between March 18 and March 24 in areas ranging from Chilliwack and Maple Ridge to Surrey and Langley. The seized items include:Three firearms: a shotgun, a semi-automat
  
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• B.C. touts speed of major housing program to mark one-year anniversary

  04-04-2025 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s government celebrated the first anniversary of one of its cornerstone housing programs at the groundbreaking of a 179-unit rental building in North Vancouver, which it says went from concept to construction in 14 months.
  Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says approximately 1,400 homes are underway since the start of the BC Builds program with nearly 2,500 more in various stages of early development.
  The $950 million multi-year program provides grants a
  
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• Judge blocks Trump from dismantling agency that funds community groups in Latin American countries

  04-04-2025 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling an independent agency that distributes grant money to community development groups in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
  U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that the administration doesn’t have the authority to remove the head of the Inter-American Foundation, which is governed by a bipartisan nine-member board.
  Congress created the foundation more than 50 years ago. It has
  
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• Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

  04-04-2025 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults and children, died Friday, according to Archbishop of Washington Robert McElroy. McCarrick was 94.
  The McCarrick scandal created a crisis of credibility for the church, primarily because there was evidence Vatican and U.S. church leaders knew he slept with seminarians but turned a blind eye as McCarrick rose t
  
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• After the Whitecaps, Toronto FC faces another tough test in visit to Inter Miami

  04-04-2025 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — One week after holding the Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps to a scoreless draw at BMO Field, winless Toronto FC hits the road to take on league-leading Inter Miami on Sunday.Miami (4-0-1) and Lionel Messi top the Supporters’ Shield standings, 11 points and 25 places ahead of TFC (0-4-2).“Certainly another huge, huge test for us,” said Toronto coach Robin Fraser. “We don’t even need to go into the amount of talent that they have on that
  
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• Judge moves legal case of detained Turkish Tufts University student to Vermont

  04-04-2025 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday moved the case of a detained Tufts University doctoral student to Vermont, where the Turkish national was briefly held before being moved to an immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
  Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25. After being taken to New Hampshire and then Vermont, she was put on a plane the next day and moved to an Immigration and Customs Enfo
  
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• ‘Stabilizing force’: Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck putting in MVP-calibre season

  04-04-2025 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Connor Hellebuyck will knock on Scott Arniel’s door or pull his head coach aside for a brief chat.
  The Winnipeg Jets goaltender usually has one specific question before a road trip.
  “What days we have off and should he bring his fishing gear?” Arniel said with a smile. “He’s extremely focused there … and then when he gets to the rink, he does not want to get scored on.”Opponents have once again found that a challenge in 2024-25.The two-time Vézin
  
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• The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says

  04-04-2025 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expelled Kilmar Abrego Garcia last month despite an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that shielded him from deportation to his native El Salvador, where he faced likely persecution by local gangs.The judge’s ruling came shortl
  
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• Commissioner in high spirits as Canadian Premier League kicks off its seventh season

  04-04-2025 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian Premier League commissioner Mark Noonan is in high spirits as the league kicks off its seventh season this weekend.
  “I feel great, but never satisfied,” he said in an interview. “We still have so much opportunity to capture, so much to do. But we’ve made amazing progress on the field and off the field.”
  He points to Forge FC knocking out CF Montreal in the quarterfinals of last year’s Canadian Championship before falling to Toronto FC on the away goal
  
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• A look at the eight-team Canadian Premier League as it kicks off Season 7

  04-04-2025 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A look at the Canadian Premier League, which kicks off its eighth season Saturday:
  Schedule: Each of the eight teams play 28 games (14 home and 14 away) during the regular season, meeting the seven other clubs twice at home and twice on the road.
  Postseason: Five teams will make the playoffs, which start with a No. 4 versus No. 5 matchup, with the winner joining the top three sides. The championship game will be played Nov. 8 or Nov. 9, depending on which team earns the right to host the final.
  
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• Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman lands on injured list following fall in his shower at home

  04-04-2025 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman’s fall landed him on the injured list.
  The Los Angeles Dodgers placed their star slugger on the 10-day IL on Thursday after the World Series MVP sprained his surgically repaired right ankle in a slip in the shower at home last weekend. The incident happened Sunday, an off day for the defending champions.
  Freeman has played in just three games so far. He missed the opening series against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo with left rib discomfort and sat out
  
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• Capitals goalie Logan Thompson is expected to miss at least a couple of games with injury

  04-04-2025 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson is expected to miss at least a couple of games because of injury, coach Spencer Carbery said Friday.
  “I won’t call him day-to-day,” Carbery said.
  Thompson left the Capitals’ game at Carolina on Wednesday night after the first period with what the team called an upper-body injury. It was not exactly clear when he got hurt, but Thompson took a puck off the mask that knocked it off his head during his
  
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• No police offence found in 2022 crash injuring 4 people near Agassiz

  04-04-2025 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — B.C.’s police watchdog has finished investigating a 2022 crash that left four people seriously injured in the Harrison Mills area near Agassiz.At about 12:40 a.m. on September 17, 2022, police tried to conduct a traffic stop on a Toyota Matrix possibly harboring people associated with several crimes in the Fraser Valley in the days prior.The Matrix did not stop and collided with an uninvolved civilian car, a Honda CRV, in the 3800-block of Lougheed Highway.
  The two CRV occu
  
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• Defensive back Deontai Williams willing to play wherever Lions want him to in ’25

  04-04-2025 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Deontai Williams will report to the B.C. Lions’ training camp next month with an open mind.
  The six-foot, 205-pound Florida native signed a two-year deal with B.C. in free agency after spending his first two CFL seasons with Saskatchewan. Williams played cornerback with the Roughriders but was at safety with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks in 2022.
  Williams and veteran Garry Peters give B.C. two quality cornerbacks. But Williams is open to playing wherever the Lions want him to in 2025.
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• Quebec’s high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing

  04-04-2025 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government’s request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.
  In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province’s high court said the negative impacts of random stops on racialized people outweigh the benefits to the general public of letting them continue.
  Instead, Court of Appeal Justice Stéphane Sansfa&cc
  
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