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• Toronto rookie Jonathan Mogbo assigned to G-League’s Raptors 905

  02-01-2025 16:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Rookie forward Jonathan Mogbo has been assigned to the G-League affiliate of the Toronto Raptors.
  Raptors 905 will host the Austin Spurs on Friday at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Ont.
  Mogbo has averaged 5.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists and 16.6 minutes over 34 NBA games, including six starts.
  However, his playtime has dropped considerably since backup centre Kelly Olynyk of Kamloops, B.C., returned to Toronto’s lineup after missing the start of th
  
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• O’Reilly nets hat trick as Predators burn Flames 4-1

  05-01-2025 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Ryan O’Reilly scored his fifth career hat trick on Saturday to lead the Nashville Predators to a 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames.
  Rookie centre Fedor Svechkov also scored for Nashville (13-20-7) while adding an assist for his first career multi-point game. Filip Forsberg had a pair of assists.
  That’s road wins on back-to-back nights for the Predators, who beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-0 on Friday.
  Mikael Backlund had the lone goal for Calgary (18-14-7), which has l
  
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• Oilers pounce on Kraken early en route to 4-2 win

  05-01-2025 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Vasily Podkolzin and Jeff Skinner scored in the first 5 1/2 minutes and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Seattle Kraken 4-2 on Saturday night for their third straight victory.
  Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl also scored, with Draisaitl wrapping it up with an empty-netter with 1:58 left — just six seconds after the Kraken pulled goalie Philipp Grubauer for an extra attacker.
  Calvin Pickard made 15 saves to help Edmonton improve to 24-12-3. Viktor Arvidsson had two as
  
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• Jets’ defencemen really feel the pain of losing 4-2 to Red Wings

  05-01-2025 05:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets were hurting from more than a third consecutive loss on Saturday.
  The 4-2 setback to the Detroit Red Wings came with a pair of injuries to defencemen — one that was manageable and one that’s up in the air.
  After taking a puck to the mouth in the first period that required an exit to get eight stitches, Josh Morrissey scored a goal in the second frame but it wasn’t enough for Winnipeg to avoid an 0-2-1 record in its past three games.
  “Bei
  
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• Dach, Caufield score in shootout as Canadiens roll past Avalanche 2-1

  05-01-2025 04:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — Kirby Dach and Cole Caufield scored in the shootout, Jakub Dobes had 22 saves in regulation, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Saturday night.
  Caufield had the regulation goal for Montreal, which wrapped up its road trip with a 4-2 record.
  Mackenzie Blackwood made 23 saves but could only stop one of three Canadiens in the shootout. Colorado had its season-high six-game winning streak snapped.
  Mikko Rantanen scored his 23rd of the season at 9:01 of
  
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• Red Wings soar past Jets 4-2 for fourth straight win

  05-01-2025 04:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond each scored power-play goals to help lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday that extended their winning streak to a season-high four games.
  Larkin added an empty-net goal and Alex DeBrincat also scored for Detroit. Raymond added one assist, Patrick Kane contributed a pair of helpers and Moritz Seider had three assists.
  Alex Lyon made 21 saves for the Red Wings (17-18-4).
  Josh Morrissey and Nikolaj Ehlers, wit
  
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• Matthew Knies nets hat trick as Leafs beat Bruins 6-4 in Auston Matthews return

  05-01-2025 04:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Matthew Knies recorded his first career NHL hat trick and Mitch Marner had a goal and four assists Saturday, lifting Toronto to a 6-4 win over the Boston Bruins in Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews return from injury.
  The line of Knies, Matthews and Marner had 13 points on the night with two assists and a goal for Matthews. Knies also had an assist on late empty-net goals by Marner and Matthews.
  Boston rallied from 2-0 and 3-2 down, with David Pastrnak tying the game at 3-3 jus
  
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• Matsuyama cards 11 birdies for a 62, leads Morikawa by 1 at Kapalua

  05-01-2025 03:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Hideki Matsuyama and Collin Morikawa put on a stripe show Saturday at Kapalua, each of them posting an 11-under 62 at vulnerable Kapalua that threatened to turn The Sentry into a two-man show in the PGA Tour opener.
  Matsuyama had a shot at tying the course record with a long eagle attempt from just short of the 18th green. He took two putts for birdie to maintain the one-shot lead he had over Morikawa at the start of the day.
  Morikawa holed a four-foot birdie putt on
  
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• Finland tops Sweden in overtime to make gold-medal game at world juniors

  05-01-2025 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finland is back in the gold-medal game at the world junior hockey championship.
  Benjamin Rautiainen scored on a power play at 9:22 of overtime to secure the country’s 4-3 victory over Sweden in the semifinals of the men’s under-20 tournament Saturday.
  The forward snuck a shot past Swedish goaltender Melker Thelin on a 4-on-3 man advantage with Vancouver Canucks prospect Tom Willander in the box for holding. It was Rautiainen’s second goal of the competition.Emil
  
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• Chiefs stranded in KC as ice shuts down airport and blizzard-like conditions sweep through Midwest

  05-01-2025 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were stranded at Kansas City International Airport on Saturday as an ice storm shut down operations, preventing their chartered jet from departing for their game against the Broncos on Sunday in Denver.
  The Chiefs tried to move up the flight as the weather, which had been predicted all week, bared down on Kansas City. But the plane they were expected to use was delayed in arriving, so the team had to stick with its mid-afternoon departure.
  The
  
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• Canada tops Slovakia 6-2 in opener at women’s U18 world hockey championship

  05-01-2025 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANTAA — Canada opened the women’s under-18 world hockey championship with a 6-2 win over Slovakia on Saturday.Hayley McDonald, Maxine Cimoroni, Danica Maynard, Chloe Primerano, Stryker Zablocki and Kate Viel scored for the Canadians, who pulled away with four goals in the third period.“I thought we were OK tonight, but we need to keep working hard,” Primerano said. “We did some things well, but we also need to play for a full 60 minutes.“We can’t just p
  
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• Police find human remains in burned SUV in Abbotsford, B.C. park

  04-01-2025 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Police in Abbotsford are investigating after officers found what are believed to be human remains inside a vehicle that was set on fire in Sumas Mountain Regional Park.
  They say officers responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Friday around 2:45 p.m. along the Forest Service Road in the park and arrived to find the red 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander ablaze.Police say firefighters extinguished the fire, which is when officers found the remains.
  They say the department&rsquo
  
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• Body found in burned out vehicle at Sumas Mountain Regional Park in Abbotsford

  04-01-2025 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford police are investigating the discovery of human remains in a burned out vehicle at Sumas Mountain Regional Park on Friday (Jan. 3) afternoon.
  Abbotsford Police Patrol Officers responded to a report of a vehicle fire at 2:46 p.m. along the Forest Service Road within the park. When Abbotsford Fire and Rescue Service extinguished the blaze, officers found what are believed to be human remains inside a red 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander.
  The Abbotsford Police Major Crime Uni
  
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• As domestic violence death toll mounts in N.S., calls come to fund support agencies

  04-01-2025 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Experts on domestic violence say a series of deaths in Nova Scotia over the past three months highlight the need to improve funding for the programs that battle the root causes of intimate partner violence.
  The latest deaths came on New Year’s Eve, as 39-year-old Matthew Costain allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend, 40-year-old Cora-Lee Smith, and her father, 73-year-old Bradley Downey, before being found dead from a self-inflicted gun wound.
  Nova Scotia’s legisla
  
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• Hockey Canada CEO Katherine Henderson ‘disappointed’ by early world junior exit

  04-01-2025 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Katherine Henderson shares in the disappointment.
  Hockey Canada’s president and CEO adds the national sport organization will do what’s necessary to avoid a repeat.
  The country was bounced from the world junior hockey championship at the quarterfinal stage for the second time in 12 months earlier this week — an ugly first for the program.
  Henderson and fellow executives held a press conference Saturday ahead of a pair of semifinal games the tournament hosts will
  
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• Quebec confirms 4 new cases in measles outbreak, warns of possible exposure

  04-01-2025 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s health department is warning people who may have been exposed to measles in several regions of the province to monitor for symptoms amid a new outbreak of the disease.
  Marie-Pierre Blier with the Quebec health department says four cases have been confirmed in the province as of Friday in connection to an outbreak that began last month.She says all of the confirmed cases acquired measles in the province, with the first person exposed to someone who lives outside Ca
  
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• Austrian Chancellor Nehammer says he will resign after talks on forming a new government fail

  04-01-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time.
  The announcement came after the People’s Party and the Social Democrats continued coalition talks a day after the liberal Neos party’s surprise withdrawal from discussions.“Unfortunately I have to tell you today that the negotiations have ended and will not be continued by the People’s Party,” Austrian Ch
  
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• Olympic champ Sara Hector wins World Cup giant slalom as former leader Federica Brignone falls

  04-01-2025 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Olympic champion Sara Hector won her second women’s World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday as Italian skier Federica Brignone fell in the first run.
  Hector, who was fastest in the first run, finished 1.42 seconds ahead of the 18-year-old Lara Colturi of Albania, to move atop both the GS and overall standings.
  The 34-year-old Brignone’s hopes of extending her lead in the GS standings ended when she fell in her first race since extending h
  
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• Here’s Kelce! Retired Eagles great Jason Kelce tries his hand as a late-night television show host

  04-01-2025 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jason Kelce chatted with the Linc — yes, the concrete and steel of the Philadelphia Eagles’ home stadium answered him with a pep talk — before the retired All-Pro lineman toured the city in his Eagles helmet car all while dressed in his Super Bowl parade Mummer’s costume. He parked the souped-up golf cart and tossed the keys ZZ Top-style ahead of the first day of his new job.
  He then dropped a profanity into the start of his monologue.
  Roll out T
  
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• Homicide team investigating death of woman found near a Port Moody, B.C., marina

  04-01-2025 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT MOODY, B.C. — RCMP says the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near a Port Moody, B.C., marina on New Year’s Day.
  Police said they were called to the Reed Point Marina around 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 1 when a person was reported in the water.
  They said the body of a woman in her 60s was pulled to shore with help from the Coast Guard.
  Homicide investigators now say the circumstances have been deemed suspicious and criminalit
  
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• IHIT involved in investigation into suspicious death in Port Moody

  04-01-2025 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT MOODY – Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was discovered at Reed Point Marina on New Year’s Day.
  Port Moody Police responded to a report of a deceased person in the water at the marina, located at 850 Barnet Highway, at approximately 9:19 a.m. on January 1. With assistance from the Coast Guard, authorities recovered the body of a woman in her 60s.
  The Port Moody Major Crime Section initiated the investigation, but the Integrated Homicide Investi
  
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• CF Montreal loans forward Matias Coccaro to Atlas FC, signs midfielder Adedokun

  04-01-2025 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal has loaned forward Matias Coccaro to Atlas FC of Mexico’s Liga MX for the rest of the year.The transaction includes a loan fee and a permanent transfer option at its conclusion, the MLS team said in a release.
  Also Saturday, the club signed midfielder Michael Adedokun to a one-year contract that includes option years in 2026, ’27 and ’28.Adedokun, who won the 2024 MAC Hermann Trophy as player of the year in NCAA Division 1 soccer, was selected with
  
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• Homan and Bottcher beat Epping and Weagle in mixed doubles curling semifinal

  04-01-2025 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIVERPOOL, N.S. — Brendan Bottcher and Rachel Homan qualified for the final at the Canadian mixed doubles curling trials on Saturday with an 8-6 victory over John Epping and Lisa Weagle at Queens Place Emera Centre.
  Bottcher and Homan will play Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman in the final later in the day. The winning duo will wear the Maple Leaf at the 2026 Milan Olympics if Canada qualifies.
  The semifinal turned in the seventh end with the game tied 4-4. Weagle left her freeze attempt
  
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• Resident near Montreal injured in home invasion, struck with handgun

  04-01-2025 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A man in his 50s was injured after being struck by a handgun during an overnight home invasion on Montreal’s South Shore.
  Longueuil police say three suspects broke into a home in the St-Hubert borough at around 12:45 a.m. today.
  Spokesperson Mélanie Mercille says the victim was not transported to hospital and that a woman in her 50s and a child were also present at the time of the invasion but were unharmed.Mercille says the suspects fled after stealing money as wel
  
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• Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews ready to return after six-game injury absence

  04-01-2025 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews says he is ready to return.
  Matthews confirmed the news this morning ahead of Toronto’s home game against the Boston Bruins.
  The star centre missed the last six games with an undisclosed upper-body injury, last playing Dec. 20.The Leafs had gone 3-3-0 in his absence.Matthews, who also missed nine games in November, was flanked by Matthew Knies and Mitch Marner at the morning skate.
  The Leafs star, who won the Rocket Richard Trophy last se
  
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• Influenza cases on the rise across B.C.

  04-01-2025 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — BC Centre for Disease Control says it is seeing an increase in cases of influenza across the province.
  The provincial health agency says that during it’s latest period between December 22 and 28, respiratory syncytial virus activity was also elevated.
  The agency says the number of health care visits for respiratory illness in B.C. continues to rise, and is comparable to last season.
  It says COVID-19 activity remains stable in B.C., but “shows early signs of an incre
  
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• Jimmy Carter’s 6-day state funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

  04-01-2025 16:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president’s life began more than 100 years ago.A motorcade with Carter’s flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the late president were serving as pallbearers and walking alongside the hearse as it left the medical center’s campus.The Carter family, including the former presiden
  
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• WestJet denies compensation to Taylor Swift fan after flight cancellation

  04-01-2025 15:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — WestJet has denied compensation to a devout Taylor Swift fan whose cancelled flight triggered a 10-hour drive through the night from Prince George to make the singer’s shows in Vancouver last month.
  Carol Hansson says she and other Swifties on the flight incurred hundreds of dollars in costs after the cancellation less than 24 hours before Swift took the stage for the first of three concerts at BC Place.
  She says the Calgary-based airline told her the cancellati
  
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• ‘Support better care’: Advocates argue need for mental health emergency service

  04-01-2025 14:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Khalil Dorival knows what it’s like to feel lonely.The Toronto-based mental health advocate has struggled with social anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.“I really suffered in silence, and I used many ways to cope in unhealthy and toxic ways,” he says, adding he turned his life around and uses his story to try to help others.
  Dorival is a crisis worker with Toronto Community Crisis Service, a project launched in 2022 that responds to mental health crisis calls and wellnes
  
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• ‘It’s beautiful to see’: Regina non-profit looks to open ribbon skirt regalia library

  04-01-2025 14:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — It’s not uncommon for Claire Tuckanow to hear a sewing machine whirring in the background while she works inside Regina’s mâmawêyatitân centre.
  The Métis-Cree woman from Okanese First Nation says it’s usually one of the three dozen young people she’s been working with to make their own ribbon skirts.
  “They’re like, ‘Can we just come and make a ribbon skirt?'” said Tuckanow.
  “It’s beautiful to see
  
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