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• Abbotsford police investigate armed robbery on Mt. Lehman Rd.

  01-02-2023 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Detectives from the Abbotsford Police Department’s Major Crime Unit are investigating an armed robbery that happened Monday night at a gas station on Mount Lehman Road just north of Highway 1, not far from Highstreet Shopping Centre.On Monday, January 31, at 8:47 p.m., AbbyPD patrol officers were dispatched to a report of a robbery in progress at a local gas station in the 3200 block of Mount Lehman Road. The gas station was not identified by police, but it is believed t
  
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• Thousands of Helly Hansen sweaters recalled in Canada due to ‘flammability hazard’

  01-02-2023 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Health Canada says consumers should stop wearing certain Helly Hansen sweatshirts, sweaters and hoodies because they may be a “flammability hazard.”
  It says 128,680 of the affected items have been sold in Canada since August 2019. 
  Health Canada says treated brushed cotton fabrics in the clothing “either do not or may not comply” with Canada’s Textile Flammability Regulations.
  It also says that as of Jan. 9, Helly Hansen had not received any reports of incident
  
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• Police: Oregon kidnap suspect killed 2 men before cornered

  01-02-2023 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon — a man who spent little time behind bars for a similar crime in Nevada — killed two men before being cornered by officers and fatally shooting himself, police said Wednesday.
  Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital Tuesday night, hours after he shot himself while hiding in a crawlspace underneath a house in Grants Pass. In a news conference Wednesday, law enforcement officers revealed details on the inten
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs help BCHL set new NCAA scholarship mark ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  01-02-2023 23:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney accepts role in Calgary advising law firm

  01-02-2023 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Jason Kenney, more than three months after stepping down as Alberta’s premier, has landed a new role as a Calgary-based adviser in law firm Bennett Jones.
  Kenney, who is also a former federal cabinet minister, will work in the public policy group.
  Kenney says on Twitter he looks forward to the new job and that his work won’t include lobbying the provincial government or its agencies.
  He says Alberta’s ethics commissioner has signed off on his new role and Kenne
  
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• Veteran ‘keeper Sean Johnson happy to land in Toronto — and break bread with Drake

  01-02-2023 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Sean Johnson has yet to start a game for Toronto FC, but he has already got a taste of the city’s star power.
  In wooing the free agent goalkeeper, the MLS club took Johnson, his girlfriend Marissa and his agent to a Raptors game and dinner at Ristorante Sotto Sotto.
  “We had a special guest come over and say hello and kind of tell him a bit about Toronto,” related Toronto president Bill Manning without identifying the mystery visitor. 
  “It was a great
  
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• Wilkinson says ‘just transition’ bill for energy workers isn’t expected for months

  01-02-2023 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says legislation to oversee the government’s plan to protect jobs during the clean-energy transition is still months away.
  The minister had indicated recently that the long-promised “just transition” legislation could be tabled early this year.
  That prospect prompted outcry in Alberta, where the energy transition will have the biggest impact and provincial politicians are headed for a tightly contested election this s
  
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• Abbotsford International Airport nearly cracks 1-million passenger ... - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 22:06 via news.google.com
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: B.C.’s housing crisis worse than ever under NDP

  01-02-2023 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The current NDP government spends a considerable amount of time talking about the housing crisis. They make announcements, mention how difficult it is for the average person to afford a home or rent, and stress that everyone has the right to a good home. And yet, nothing seems to change.
  For the everyday people finding it harder than ever to make rent at the end of the month, or who see their dream of owning a home slipping away, it’s obvious that all the empty words from government have d
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: B.C.’s housing crisis worse than even under NDP

  01-02-2023 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The current NDP government spends a considerable amount of time talking about the housing crisis. They make announcements, mention how difficult it is for the average person to afford a home or rent, and stress that everyone has the right to a good home. And yet, nothing seems to change.For the everyday people finding it harder than ever to make rent at the end of the month, or who see their dream of owning a home slipping away, it’s obvious that all the empty words from government have do
  
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• Plan to target catalytic converter theft in play, Surrey mayor says - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 21:43 via news.google.com
  
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• Chandler Worthy signs contract extension with the Montreal Alouettes

  01-02-2023 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  American receiver/returner Chandler Worthy signed a two-year contract extension with the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday.
  Worthy was scheduled to become a free agent Feb. 14.
  The five-foot-eight, 177-pound Worthy had 47 punt returns for 547 yards (11.6-yard average) in 15 regular-season games last season. He also had 51 kickoff returns _ taking two back for touchdowns — for 1,220 yards (23.9-yard average).
  Worthy joined the Alouettes after spending time with the Toronto Argonauts (2017-202
  
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• ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor to be charged in U.S. may have victims in Canada: police

  01-02-2023 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Police in southern Alberta say they have been working with authorities in the United States in a sexual assault investigation involving a former actor in “Dances With Wolves.”
  Nathan Lee Chasing Horse, who is also known as Nathan Chasing His Horse, is accused of sexually assaulting girls as young as 13 and taking wives as young as 15.
  Las Vegas police also allege the assaults span two decades and happened in the U.S. and Canada.
  Chasing Horse, who was born on the Rose
  
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• Coffee with a Cop kicks off in Garrison with free coffee and open dialogue with the public

  01-02-2023 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The first instalment of what Chilliwack RCMP hopes will be a monthly event kicked off Wednesday morning at the Starbucks in Garrison as “Coffee with a Cop” drew over a dozen attendees and four constables, including high-ranking personnel.Officer-in-Charge for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, Superintendent Davy Lee, was on hand Wednesday morning alongside Inspectors Jeff Bowerman and Darren Pankratz, RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk, media relations spokesperson
  
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• Pelletier: Solving safe-sport crisis requires buy-in from all levels

  01-02-2023 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Sports are rife with stories of coaches facing allegations of maltreatment from a club or provincial organization, who, under the cover of jurisdictional borders, move to another club, province or even another sport, and no-one is the wiser.
  Abusive behaviour can go also unchecked at the grassroots level without universal rules around conduct, reporting and suspensions. 
  Six months after Canada’s new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner began hearing cases, Sarah
  
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• Junior star Connor Bedard filling hockey arenas in Western Canada

  01-02-2023 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Connor Bedard keeps packing arenas in Western Canada after his electrifying performance at the world junior men’s hockey championship.
  The 17-year-old Regina Pats forward, projected to be the first overall pick in June’s NHL draft, was expected to fill Calgary’s Saddledome on Wednesday after junior hockey buildings were at capacity in his previous five games.
  The Calgary Hitmen expanded ticket sales beyond the usual lower bowl to the Saddledome’s upper sec
  
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• Group says administrators at private school near Montreal ignored racism complaints

  01-02-2023 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A private school west of Montreal is promising action after allegations that for years administrators ignored complaints about racist bullying targeting two Black students.
  Joel DeBellefeuille, the founder of Montreal-based anti-racism group Red Coalition, says two teenage sisters who attend Collège Bourget in Rigaud, Que., have been called the N-word, spit on and had their hair pulled by other students.
  He says the family, which approached his organization with their con
  
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• Work conditions in long-term care must go beyond new standards: labour congress

  01-02-2023 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The head of the Canadian Labour Congress says new standards to improve the quality of long-term care are not enough to address the serious staffing issues that led to dismal and deadly conditions for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Experts with the non-profit Health Standards Organization this week released updated guidelines for delivering high quality long-term care, stressing the need to attract and keep enough workers in homes to properly look after the residents.
  They r
  
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• Hughes, Pastrnak, Dunn honoured as NHL’s three stars for January

  01-02-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — New Jersey centre Jack Hughes, Boston right-wing David Pastrnak and Seattle defenceman Vince Dunn have been named the NHL’s three stars for January.
  Hughes led the league with 13 goals and 23 points in 13 games and ranked second with 67 shots on goal to propel the Devils to a 9‑2-2 January. 
  He had at least a point in 12 of 13 games, including each of his last eight to close the month (seven goals, eight assists).
  Hughes recorded nine multi-point games, includin
  
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• Curling Canada under fire for limiting eligibility for pregnancy exemptions

  01-02-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Curling Canada was under fire Wednesday after limiting pregnancy exemption eligibility for teams hoping to add an out-of-province free agent at the national playdowns to just the top five rinks in the rankings.The exemption would allow a team to use a replacement player at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts even if the athlete didn’t play in the provincial/territorial championship or meet residency requirements.
  However, the decision meant 13 of the 18 teams that qualified for the Feb. 17-2
  
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• Competition Bureau to investigate industry claims of sustainable ... - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta promising changes to campuses amid university ‘woke’ free ... - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘We’re all Tyre’: Mourners gather for Nichols’ funeral

  01-02-2023 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends gathered Wednesday for a funeral intended to celebrate his life three weeks after he died following a brutal beating by Memphis police that has sparked a new round of calls for police reform.
  In the three weeks since Nichols’ death, five police officers were fired and charged with murder. Their specialized unit was disbanded. Two more officers have been suspended. Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a
  
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• Liberals set to introduce law delaying expansion of medically assisted dying regime

  01-02-2023 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is expected to introduce a law as early as Thursday to delay the extension of medically assisted dying eligibility to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder.
  Justice Minister David Lametti announced in December that Ottawa intended to seek the delay after hearing concerns the health-care system might not be prepared for an expanded regime, but he did not offer a timeline on the length of the delay. 
  An update to assisted dying law t
  
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• Passengers disarm gunman who killed DC employee, shot others

  01-02-2023 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed man shot three people, killing one, in a Wednesday morning rampage in the nation’s capital that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him.Authorities were still piecing together the chaotic series of events that left two people with gunshot wounds to the leg and a Metro employee shot dead. The shooter is in police custody and has not been publicly identified.
  Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief A
  
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• Drug users say B.C. ‘fight continues’ during decriminalization amid safe supply calls

  01-02-2023 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Members of an advocacy group for drug users have gathered to celebrate the start of decriminalization in British Columbia and discuss how they will “fight back” against any efforts to seize illicit substances that meet the 2.5-gram threshold allowed under the first such policy in Canada.
  The meeting at the office of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) on the first day of the new policy began with a man handing out “know your rights” cards.
  T
  
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• John Herdman says while he has got job offers, he is staying on as Canada coach

  01-02-2023 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  John Herdman is staying put.
  After a morning of speculation fuelled by a New Zealand report that the Canada men’s soccer coach had agreed to take over the 105th-ranked All Whites, Herdman and Canada Soccer put out the fire with a statement.
  Herdman says while he has received several jobs offers in recent months, including one from New Zealand Football, he has turned them down.
  “I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “We still have a job to do.”
  Earl Cochrane, Canad
  
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• Former Tory interim leader, longtime Manitoba MP Candice Bergen stepping down

  01-02-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former Conservative interim leader and longtime Manitoba member of Parliament Candice Bergen has announced she is stepping down. 
  Bergen said in a video posted to Twitter that she submitted a letter of resignation as the representative for Portage-Lisgar after meeting with her party’s caucus. 
  The MP said last September, after serving as interim leader of the party following the ouster of former leader Erin O’Toole, that she was not planning to run in another
  
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• Maple Leafs happy to be on Pendrith’s golf bag as Canadian partners with Arnett

  01-02-2023 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Will Arnett and Taylor Pendrith love the Toronto Maple Leafs.And the Maple Leafs? They love them right back.
  Pendrith, a PGA Tour player from nearby Richmond Hill, Ont., debuted a new golf bag emblazoned with the Maple Leafs logo on Wednesday ahead of the first round of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
  Actor Will Arnett of “Arrested Development” and “BoJack Horseman” fame — who is also a noted supporter of his hometown team — will be Pendrith’s p
  
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• Construction underway on retail stores in Popkum at Hwy. 9, Yale Rd.

  01-02-2023 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Construction on a forthcoming mix of retail stores is underway near the roundabout intersection of Highway 9 and Yale Road in Popkum.Framing for a mix of dining and shopping options at 52964 Yale Road is ongoing as contractors build a shopping complex that will eventually house a Dairy Queen restaurant, Starbucks coffee, and four other businesses that the Fraser Valley Regional District has labeled as health, beauty, cell phone, and “Iris.”Residents of Popkum, as w
  
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• Business Excellence Awards event recognizes 12 exemplary Chilliwack-area businesses, individuals

  01-02-2023 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Organizers of the 28th annual Business Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce, pulled out all the stops Saturday night (Jan. 28) during a gala celebration at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre.
  The event featured a champagne reception, a special First Nations performance by the Spindle Whorl dancers whose ages range from two up to 69 years old, a game show in which businesses shared some of the funnier responses they get from today’s job applicant
  
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• NDP seeks to probe federal contracts with other consulting firms — not just McKinsey

  01-02-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The NDP is calling on the a House of Commons committee to expand its study of federal contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company and include other consulting firms that have received large contracts.
  New Democrat MP Gord Johns is bringing forward a motion to expand the scope of the study to include other firms including Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, KPMG, and Ernst & Young.
  McKinsey has received attention in recent weeks after media reports highlighted the rapi
  
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• IHIT asks public for help to solve Mission homicide - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 18:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Trudeau says Quebecers are not racist as he stands by Elghawaby appointment

  01-02-2023 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s new special representative on combating Islamophobia is the perfect person to help Canadians grapple with difficult conversations about religion.
  Quebec politicians including Premier François Legault want Trudeau to rescind the appointment of Amira Elghawaby to the role because of comments she made in a 2019 column.
  The column cited polling data to say that “a majority of Quebecers” who supported Bill 21 also hel
  
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• Former Alberta top doctor, Deena Hinshaw, finds temporary public health post in B.C.

  01-02-2023 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The former chief medical officer of health in Alberta, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, has a new short-term role as the deputy provincial health officer in British Columbia.
  B.C.’s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, says Hinshaw joins on a six-month contract while the province’s permanent deputy health officer is on temporary assignment.
  Hinshaw, who had been the public face of Alberta’s COVID-19 response, was removed from the post last fall shortly after Premier
  
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• MPs to vote on proposal to resettle 10,000 displaced Uyghur people

  01-02-2023 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Members of Parliament will vote this afternoon on whether Ottawa should start a refugee program to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs fleeing persecution in China.
  Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi proposed the motion last June, calling on the government to launch a program in 2024 to bring Uyghurs and other Muslims of Turkic origin to Canada.
  The UN Human Rights Office reported last August that China is committing “grave human rights violations” against Uyghur people, and that some who f
  
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• Goalie Ilya Samsonov expected to start for Maple Leafs against Bruins

  01-02-2023 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Goaltender Ilya Samsonov is expected to start for the Toronto Maple Leafs when they host the Boston Bruins tonight.
  It will be Samsonov’s eighth consecutive game in net for the Maple Leafs.
  He was scheduled to get last Friday’s game against the Ottawa Senators off before Matt Murray was hurt in warm-ups, forcing Samsonov back between the pipes.
  Samsonov is 5-1-1 over his last seven starts with a .925 save percentage and 2.24 goals-against average.
  Toronto head coach S
  
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• Competition Bureau to investigate industry claims of sustainable forestry management

  01-02-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal Competition Bureau has started an inquiry into whether industry claims that vast stretches of Canadian forest are sustainably managed constitute false advertising. 
  The inquiry comes in response to a complaint filed by the environmental law group Ecojustice, acting on behalf of eight environmental groups.
  Those groups allege that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which claims to set rigorous standards for industry, doesn’t do what companies claim it does.
  The groups say
  
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• Canada coach Priestman names women’s camp roster ahead of SheBelieves Cup

  01-02-2023 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada women’s soccer coach Bev Priestman has named an 18-player roster for a camp in advance of the SheBelieves Cup, with reinforcements expected to arrive once the FIFA international window opens.
  The camp will run Feb. 8-12, with Priestman slated to announce her tournament roster ahead of Canada’s opening match Feb. 16 against the top-ranked U.S. in Orlando.
  The sixth-ranked Canadians then play No. 9 Brazil on Feb. 19 in Nashville and No. 11 Japan on Feb. 22 in Frisco, Texas.
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• Poilievre says Tories will support studying federal childcare bill in committee

  01-02-2023 17:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre says Conservatives will support sending the Liberal government’s childcare bill for further study, but he’s stopping short of endorsing the national plan. 
  Speaking to reporters before his weekly caucus meeting, the Tory leader says his MPs will back sending Bill C-35 — currently being debated in the House of Commons — to a parliamentary committee.
  In December, Families Minister Karina Gould tabled the legislation, which seeks to enshr
  
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• Connor McDavid continuing to raise the bar: ‘We need to talk about it more’

  01-02-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jay Woodcroft is in a unique position.
  The Edmonton Oilers head coach has a front-row seat — and behind-the-scenes access — to the daily process of greatness going to work.
  And even in a season where Connor McDavid looks poised to reach statistical heights not seen in nearly three decades, Woodcroft concedes there are times hockey’s best is taken for granted.
  “Top of his field,” the Oilers’ second-year bench boss said of Edmonton’s captain. “You al
  
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• Health-care deal should come shortly after Feb. 7 meeting with PM: Ford

  01-02-2023 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday he hopes the provinces can reach a health-care deal with the federal government shortly after their meeting next week with the prime minister.
  Ford echoed recent comments from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that a deal will not be signed at the meeting set for Feb. 7.
  “But we should be striking a deal shortly thereafter,” Ford said after making an unrelated announcement in Brampton, Ont.
  “We can’t keep draggin
  
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• Tide begins to turn on shark and ray populations in Northwestern Atlantic: study

  01-02-2023 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Researchers say improved fisheries management and conservation are turning the tide on shark and ray population declines in the Northwest Atlantic.
  The study published last week in PNAS journal, titled “Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays,” says the results show how well-enforced governance coupled with science-based fishing limits can help aquatic life recover.
  Lead author Nathan Pacoureau from Simon Fraser University says declines have been halted
  
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• Tanker breaks down in Suez Canal, but traffic not disrupted

  01-02-2023 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in the global waterway was unaffected, a canal spokesperson said.
  The Bahamas-flagged Grace Emilia suffered a malfunction of its rudder and tugboats pulled it to the side of the canal to allow other vessels to pass, said Geroge Safwat, a spokesperson for Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority.
  He told The Associated Press that the north-bound tanker stopped working in the southern par
  
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• Missy, Willie and George Michael among Rock Hall nominees - Chilliwack Progress

  01-02-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Biden lawyer: FBI searching Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, home

  01-02-2023 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Wednesday was conducting a planned search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, the president’s personal lawyer said.
  The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom review of his Wilmington, Delaware home on Jan. 20, when agents located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes.
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• Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame to welcome Barfield, Boucher, Harden, Wiwchar

  01-02-2023 15:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023 includes Jesse Barfield, Denis Boucher, Rich Harden and Joe Wiwchar.
  They will be inducted on June 17 in a ceremony at the Hall of Fame grounds in St. Marys, Ont.Barfield hit 179 home runs over parts of nine seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays. The Joliet, Ill., native also spent four years with the New York Yankees.
  Boucher, a Montreal native, played for the Blue Jays and Expos over his 10-year pro career and later served as a pitching coa
  
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• Danish club says Norwegian international centre back Sigurd Rosted headed to Toronto

  01-02-2023 15:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Denmark’s Brondby IF says Norwegian international defender Sigurd Rosted is headed to Toronto FC.
  Brondby said farewell to the 28-year-old centre back on its official Twitter account, saying the defender was travelling to Toronto “to negotiate his personal terms.”
  Rosted started his career as a youth with Kjelsas IL before moving to Sarpsborg 08 FF, another Norwegian club, in 2015. In 2018, he joined Belgium’s KKA, transferring to Brondby in the summer of
  
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• Tom Brady retires, insisting this time it’s for good

  01-02-2023 14:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady, who won a record seven Super Bowls for New England and Tampa, has announced his retirement.
  Brady — the most successful quarterback in NFL history, and one of the greatest athletes in team sports — posted the announcement on social media Wednesday morning, a brief video lasting just under one minute.
  “Good morning guys. I’ll get to the point right away,” Brady says as the message begins. “I’m retiring. For good.”
  
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• Xavier McKeever carves out own cross-country ski path amid family legacy

  01-02-2023 12:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Xavier McKeever is no stranger to cross-country skiing’s biggest stages. 
  As the son of two Olympians and the nephew of one of Canada’s most-decorated Para athletes, he has long seen what it takes to compete at the sport’s highest level.
  Now the 19-year-old from Canmore, Alta., is taking his family’s experience and carving his own tracks in the snow.
  “My family, we’re very involved in the sport,” he said in a phone interview from Whistler, B.C. &ldq
  
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