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• Toronto Raptors sign Canadian guard AJ Lawson to two-way contract

  11-12-2024 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed guard AJ Lawson to a two-way contract, the NBA team announced Wednesday.The six-foot-six, 185-pound guard from Toronto averaged 24.0 points, 6.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 35.1 minutes in 11 games (all starts) this season with the Long Island Nets, the G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets.
  Lawson has career averages of 3.4 points, 1.2 rebounds and 7.4 minutes in 57 career NBA games with the Dallas Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves over the
  
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• Elon Musk calls Trudeau ‘insufferable’ after remark on Kamala Harris defeat

  11-12-2024 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Billionaire Elon Musk called Canada’s prime minister an “insufferable tool” on his social media platform today.
  Musk’s comments were in response to Justin Trudeau likening Kamala Harris’s defeat in the U.S. presidential election to an attack on women’s rights and progress.
  This afternoon, Trudeau met with provincial and territorial premiers to discuss Canada’s approach to negotiations with the U.S.
  Canada is facing a threat of a 25 per cen
  
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• 'A Very Subdued Christmas' returns to Chilliwack stage - Chilliwack Progress

  11-12-2024 23:11 via news.google.com
  'A Very Subdued Christmas' returns to Chilliwack stage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UN General Assembly demands ceasefire in Gaza and backs UN agency helping Palestinian refugees

  11-12-2024 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban.
  The votes in the 193-nation world body were 158-9 with 13 abstentions to demand a ceasefire now and 159-9 with 11 abstentions to support the agency known as UNRWA.
  The votes culminated two days of speeches overwhelmingly calling for an end to the 14-month war between Israel a
  
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• Calgary Stampeders sign Parades to extension, restructure Adams’s contract

  11-12-2024 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders re-signed veteran kicker Rene Parades on Wednesday while also restructuring quarterback Vernon Adams Jr.’s deal.Calgary signed Parades to a two-year contract extension. The Canadian was scheduled to become a free agent in February.The Stampeders acquired Adams last month from the B.C. Lions. The club and player agreed to terms on a restructured contract for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
  Adams, an eight-year CFL veteran, posted a 6-3 record last season wi
  
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• Fraser Valley big rig driver facing impaired driver charges for allegedly hitting 4 parked cars

  11-12-2024 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT COQUITLAM — BC Highway Patrol officers are recommending two criminal charges of impaired driving after a 42-year-old semi truck driver from Surrey allegedly hit four parked vehicles in Port Coquitlam earlier this week.According to a statement from BC Highway Patrol spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin, the incident began on Monday, December 9, just before 3 p.m., when BCHP received a report of a semi-trailer driving erratically on the Mary Hill Bypass, Port Coquitlam. Before polic
  
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• Quebec police arrest five men in connection with three killings in 2023, 2024

  11-12-2024 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec police say they’ve arrested five men in connection with three killings over the last 18 months in Montreal and in a suburb just east of the city.
  Montreal police and Quebec provincial police say the suspects between the ages of 26 and 35 were arrested in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
  Two of the men were already detained in Quebec, and searches were conducted in Montreal, Cambridge, Ont., and Kamloops, B.C.
  The latest arrests follow a dozen others made this s
  
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• Hannah Kobayashi, missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search, is found safe

  11-12-2024 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons investigation in Los Angeles, has been found safe, police said Wednesday.
  Kobayashi vanished last month in Los Angeles. Other details about her disappearance, as well as where and how she was found, were not immediately available Wednesday, but police previously said she had voluntarily crossed the border into Mexico.
  “We are happy to learn that Hannah has
  
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• House approves $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors

  11-12-2024 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military.The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.
  The bill passed the House by a
  
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• ‘Satisfying victory’: Toronto man wins world Excel spreadsheet championships in Vegas

  11-12-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Toronto man who excelled to secure the title of a global spreadsheet champion last week calls his unusual achievement a “satisfying victory.”
  Michael Jarman won the Microsoft Excel World Championships in a Las Vegas arena on Dec. 4., after an hours-long competition in front of a couple of hundred people – and many others who watched the event on ESPN3 and YouTube streams.Competitors were tasked with solving “out-of-the-box problems” by using their knowledge of Exc
  
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• Canadian Kurtis Rourke leads upstart Hoosiers into U.S. college football playoffs

  11-12-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The last six years have landed Canadian Kurtis Rourke firmly in the U.S. college football limelight.The 24-year-old Oakville, Ont., native will lead the upstart Indiana Hoosiers (11-1) into South Bend, Ind., to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (11-1) on Dec. 20 to open American university football’s expanded playoff bracket.
  Rourke transferred to Indiana last December to boost his NFL draft stock after five years at Ohio University, where he began as a backup to his older brother, Nathan
  
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• B.C. falls behind in meeting needs of seniors as population grows, says advocate

  11-12-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s seniors advocate says the province is falling behind in meeting the basic needs of its older residents.
  Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt says in a report that despite some investments in services for seniors, there are troubling statistics surrounding health care, long-term care, home care, housing, transportation and community services.
  While there are some positives in the report, such as seniors living longer and staying healthy longer, he says the numbers
  
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• Public inquiry called into conduct of Vancouver police in Myles Gray’s beating death

  11-12-2024 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A public hearing will be held to examine the conduct of seven Vancouver police officers in the beating death of Myles Gray, with Police Complaint Commissioner Prabhu Rajan saying there is “meaningful uncertainty as to what happened” that day in August 2015.
  In a statement issued by his office, Rajan says the alleged misconduct is serious, and it is “appropriate for the public to know that the best available evidence has been gathered, tested, and considered bef
  
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• Lawyer for Abdelrazik accuses former minister of exiling him through passport denial

  11-12-2024 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lawyer for Abousfian Abdelrazik has accused former foreign minister Lawrence Cannon of exiling the Montreal man by denying him a passport to return to Canada.
  Cannon told a Federal Court hearing today he did not exile Abdelrazik, but refused him an emergency travel document on national security grounds in the best interests of Canada.
  The Sudanese-born Abdelrazik, now 62, settled in Montreal as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in the 1990s.During a 2003 visit to his nativ
  
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• Canada’s world junior returnees battling for jobs: ‘No freebies’

  11-12-2024 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Brayden Yager had a visitor this fall.
  Hockey Canada player development coach Scott Walker was in town.
  And after the country’s stunning fifth-place finish at the previous year’s world junior hockey championship, the points of emphasis from the program’s brain trust couldn’t have been less complicated.
  “You can’t take it for granted,” Yager said. “You gotta earn everything you get.”The Winnipeg Jets prospect is among Canada&rsq
  
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• Officer receives suspension after two Mi’kmaq elver fishers left without boots

  11-12-2024 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A federal fisheries officer has been suspended for 10 days without pay for his role in arresting two Mi’kmaq elver fishers late at night and releasing them in only their socked feet.
  Kevin Hartling and Blaise Sylliboy, both in their 20s, were arrested on March 26 as they fished for baby eels near Shelburne, N.S.
  They said three fisheries officers confiscated their phones and hip waders before leaving them at a gas station about a 45-minute drive from where they had been fis
  
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• RCMP arrest Quebec man for alleged hate speech targeting Jews on social networks

  11-12-2024 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Que. — The RCMP say they’ve arrested a man in connection with alleged hate speech posted on social networks Telegram and X.
  The federal police force says in a statement today that its Integrated National Security Enforcement Team investigated the man from Rivière-du-Loup, Que., about 400 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  Police say he is facing charges of wilful promotion of hatred and wilful promotion of antisemitism.
  Police say the man was arrested in
  
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• Canada women’s rugby team headed to Southern Hemisphere in May for Pac Four Series

  11-12-2024 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian women’s rugby team is headed to the Southern Hemisphere in May to defend its Pacific Four Series title.
  The second-ranked Canadians will face No. 3 New Zealand on May 17 in Christchurch and No. 5 Australia on May 24 in Brisbane. Before that, Canada will take on the ninth-ranked U.S. some time in May at a location to be announced.
  The Canadian women won the Pacific Four title in May with a historic 22-19 win over reigning World Cup champion New Zealand in Christchurch.
  Canada h
  
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• Ja’Kobe Walter is NBA ready as Raptors search for Scottie Barnes’s replacement

  11-12-2024 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s an old adage that rookies don’t draw fouls in the NBA. It’s partly because veterans get the benefit of the doubt from referees and a little bit because young players don’t know how to draw defenders into fouls.
  Fortunately for Toronto Raptors freshman Ja’Kobe Walter, he plays like an old soul.
  The 20-year-old Walter is averaging seven points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists for the Raptors so far this season, but had a season-high 19 points in Mond
  
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• FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign at end of Biden’s term in January

  11-12-2024 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job.
  At a town hall meeting with the bureau workforce, Wray said he would be stepping down “after weeks of careful thought.”
  Wray’s intended resignation is not unexpected considering that Trum
  
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• Montana Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling that allows gender-affirming care for minors

  11-12-2024 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors will remain temporarily blocked, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, after justices agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state’s constitutional right to privacy.
  The case against the Montana law now goes to trial before District Court Judge Jason Marks in Missoula. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in June, as well, after the Biden administration
  
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• Three Montreal schools to face Education Department probe over toxic climate

  11-12-2024 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Three French-language Montreal schools are facing an Education Department investigation after audits found multiple issues relating to a toxic climate.
  Education Minister Bernard Drainville says in a statement today the audits raised questions about the quality of educational services at the schools and flagged potential concerns for the physical or psychological safety of students.
  The audits had been ordered in October at La Voie, Bienville and Saint-Pascal-Babylon schools in
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps sign midfielders Ngando, Priso to new contracts

  11-12-2024 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have locked up a pair of midfielders, signing J.C. Ngando and Ralph Priso to new contracts.The ‘Caps announced the deals Wednesday, both of which run through the 2025 season, with club options for 2026 and 2027.
  Vancouver picked up Priso, a 22-year-old Toronto FC Academy product, in a trade with the Colorado Rapids in February.
  He saw action in 20 games across all competitions for the ‘Caps last season, registering a pair of assists.The White
  
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• Property owner stunned after tenant leaves Chilliwack rental home in complete disarray - Fraser Valley Today

  11-12-2024 19:11 via news.google.com
  Property owner stunned after tenant leaves Chilliwack rental home in complete disarray  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Property owner stunned after tenant leaves Chilliwack rental home in complete disarray

  11-12-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Longtime Chilliwack resident Tony Gore of the Gore Brothers construction family estimates it might take thousands of dollars to repair a rental home near Valley Toyota in Chilliwack after a tenant abandoned the residence in December and left the home in complete disarray.Gore provided Fraser Valley Today this week with pictures from the interior of the home depicting piles of garbage throughout the home, kitchen, bathroom and elsewhere. The doors were kicked in and a rodent in
  
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• B.C. First Nation to develop salmon hatchery with Fisheries Department

  11-12-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Tsilhqot’in National Government in British Columbia says it has formed a “historic partnership” with the federal Fisheries Department to develop a permanent salmon conservation hatchery in its territory.
  It says the hatchery will be managed by the nation, which is host to three salmon-bearing watersheds: the Chilcotin, the Chilko, and the Taseko rivers.
  The First Nation says the recovery of fish stocks has been a “long-standing nation-wide priority&r
  
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• BMX racer Molly Simpson looks to build on fifth-place finish at the Paris Olympics

  11-12-2024 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BMX racer Molly Simpson is still riding the high of a fifth-place finish at the Paris Olympics. But the 22-year-old from Red Deer, Alta., has plenty more to do.
  And as evidenced by a pair of recent first-place finishes at the USA BMX Grands in Tulsa, Okla., Simpson is still on the move.
  Simpson’s excitement at being in the Aug. 2 Olympic final was plain to see. Shaking a leg to stay loose, Simpson’s helmet-encased head bopped up and down to the music at raucous Saint-Quentin-en-Yveli
  
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• Abbotsford man wins big Lotto Max jackpot, eyes retirement savings

  11-12-2024 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — An Abbotsford man has the bigger picture in mind now that he’s won a $500,000 prize from the November 29, 2024 Lotto Max draw.B.C. Lottery Corporation announced Wednesday (Dec. 11) that Cory Maxwell matched 4/4 Extra numbers from the Lotto Max draw, earning him a cool half-million.“I was at home,” Maxwell said of the moment he realized he won after using the BCLC Lotto! App to check his ticket. “I didn’t believe it at first, it took me a little bi
  
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• Calgary’s Wilm takes bronze in 100-metre backstroke at short-course worlds

  11-12-2024 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST — Calgary swimmer Ingrid Wilm picked up her second medal of the short-course world championships Wednesday after finishing third in the women’s 100-metre backstroke.
  Wilm finished in 55.75 seconds, behind Americans Regan Smith (54.55) and Katherine Berkoff (54.93).
  Wilm also won a bronze in the event at the 2022 short-course championships in Melbourne, Australia.
  Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ont., the two-time 100-metre backstroke long-course champion, was sixth.
  Wilm teamed with
  
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• Complaints body probes military police’s handling of Lt.-Gen. Steven Whelan case

  11-12-2024 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Military Police Complaints Commission is investigating the military’s handling of the case against a former general who was ousted from his high-ranking position after a sexual misconduct complaint in 2021.
  Lt.-Gen. Steven Whelan was head of the military’s personnel when a woman who had been his subordinate accused him of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with her.He was charged by military police in 2022 with two counts of conduct to the prejudice of goo
  
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• Former Chilliwack resident passes at Mission correctional institution

  11-12-2024 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Correctional Service Canada says an inmate at Mission Institution died last week while in custody.
  CSC says the 33-year-old inmate has been identified as Tyler Damien Van Basten, who had been serving a prison term of three years, 11 months and 18 days since January 29, 2024.
  Van Basten’s next of kin have been notified about his passing.
  Published media reports suggest Van Basten’s sentence involved possession for the purpose of trafficking.
  As with all cases surroundi
  
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• Former Chilliwack resident passes at Mission correctional institution - Fraser Valley Today

  11-12-2024 17:50 via news.google.com
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• Former Raptors Carter, McGrady among 10 limited partners who’ve joined Bills’ ownership group

  11-12-2024 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — NBA Hall of Famers and former Toronto Raptors Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are among 10 limited partners who have joined the Buffalo Bills’ ownership group.
  The noncontrolling, minority interests were approved Wednesday by NFL team owners at the league’s winter meetings. This is the first time in franchise history that minority owners have been added.
  Terry and Kim Pegula bought the Bills for $1.4 billion from the estate of late Hall of Fame owner Ralph W
  
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• Montreal snow removal towing operation ends after gunshot fired

  11-12-2024 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal police say an argument over towing during a snow-clearing operation escalated to the point where a gunshot was fired.
  No one was injured by the bullet, which was allegedly fired by a 39-year-old man in the city’s east-end Pointe-aux-Trembles neighbourhood.
  Const. Antony Dorélas says at least one shot was fired toward two victims, and one of them — a 19-year-old man — had to be treated for shock.
  The man who was arrested is believed to be the own
  
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• Fraser Valley teen reported missing

  11-12-2024 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are asking for the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old girl who was last seen on Tuesday.According to a statement from Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr, 16-year-old Cassia Munro was reported missing on Tuesday, Dec. 10. She is described as a Caucasian female, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, 111 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
  Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Cassia Munro is urged to contact Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161.
  
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• Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death and fled to Eastern Europe has willingly returned to the US

  11-12-2024 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children and was believed to have been in Eastern Europe willingly returned to the U.S. after roughly four months and is in custody, a sheriff said Wednesday.
  Ryan Borgwardt “came back on his own” because of his family, Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said.
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  GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who f
  
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• FIFA names Saudi Arabia as 2034 World Cup host; Spain, Portugal and Morocco to co-host 2030 edition

  11-12-2024 16:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZURICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia has been officially confirmed by FIFA as host of the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer.
  The Saudi bid was the only candidate and was acclaimed by the applause of more than 200 FIFA member federations. They took part remotely in an online meeting hosted in Zurich on Wednesday by the soccer body’s president Gianni Infantino.
  The decision was combined with approving the only candidate to host the 2030 World Cup. Spain, Portugal and Morocco will co-host in a
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador ready to sign Churchill Falls deal

  11-12-2024 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Premier François Legault and his Newfoundland and Labrador counterpart Andrew Furey are set to sign an agreement Thursday ending a long-running dispute over the Churchill Falls hydroelectric complex.
  Legault confirmed that he will fly to St. John’s, N.L., later today.
  About 15 per cent of Quebec’s electricity comes from the Churchill Falls power plant in Labrador through a 1969 deal set to expire in 2041 that is widely seen as lopsided in favour of
  
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• Looking back: NHLers and what they would tell their younger selves

  11-12-2024 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nathan MacKinnon’s message would probably be pretty simple.
  The Colorado Avalanche centre — one of hockey’s hardest-working and intense talents — might even let his younger self know it’s OK to ease off the throttle ever so slightly at times.
  “The outcome is going to take care of itself,” he said. “And it takes a while just to let go of it. It’s hard. You want to force good things to happen, but it doesn’t really work like that.”
  
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• World champion figure skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek to become Canadian citizen

  11-12-2024 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — World champion figure skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek is becoming a Canadian citizen.
  Stellato-Dudek will take the oath of citizenship on Wednesday in Montreal, after which she’ll be eligible to represent Canada at the Olympic Games.
  The 41-year-old pairs skater won gold with partner Maxime Deschamps at the world championships in March, becoming the oldest woman to win a world figure skating title.
  Born and raised in the United States, Stellato-Dudek has lived in Canada and r
  
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• US warns Russia may be ready to use new lethal missile against Ukraine again in ‘coming days’

  11-12-2024 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that Russia may use its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again in “coming days,” a U.S. official said Wednesday.
  The experimental Oreshnik missile is seen by U.S. officials more as an attempt at intimidation than a game-changer on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive information.
  The official said Russia h
  
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• Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds

  11-12-2024 13:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such thing, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
  That displeasure tracks with the bipartisan uproar in Washington that ignited over the president’s about-face. The survey found that a relatively small share of Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of
  
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• An explosion in the Afghan capital kills the Taliban refugee minister, officials say

  11-12-2024 12:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister, Interior Ministry officials said.The explosion struck inside the ministry and killed Khalil Haqqani, the refugee minister, officials said.He is the most high-profile casualty of a bombing in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
  Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads a powerf
  
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• In the news today: BoC expected to cut interest rates again today

  11-12-2024 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  BoC widely expected to cut interest rates today, odds leaning toward half-point cut
  The Bank of Canada is set to make its final interest rate announcement of the year this morning. Forecasters are widely expecting a half-percentage point interest rate cut. That would bring the Bank of Canada’s key rate down to 3.25 per cent. The November labour force survey solidified those expectations, as the l
  
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• Trudeau set to speak with premiers to tackle Trump’s tariff plan

  11-12-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to meet with provincial and territorial premiers this afternoon to talk Canada-U.S. relations.
  The premiers will virtually discuss a joint plan to tackle the threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports by incoming U.S. president Donald Trump.
  The meeting is the first time Trudeau will address the premiers following his dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
  It comes one day after Trump made a social media post referring to Trudeau as
  
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• Tensions rising between Canada Post, union as strike nears four-week mark

  11-12-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada Post and the union representing postal workers are in a war of words as a countrywide strike enters its 27th day.
  The Canadian Union of Postal Workers pushed back on recent criticisms from Canada Post in a bulletin to members Tuesday evening, giving a list of proposals it said are meant to bring the two parties closer together.
  The statement came after Canada Post said Monday that the union’s latest proposals widen the gap between the two parties, claiming in some cases the union ha
  
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• BoC widely expected to cut interest rates today, odds leaning toward half-point cut

  11-12-2024 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is set to make its final interest rate announcement of the year this morning.Forecasters are widely expecting a half-percentage point interest rate cut.
  That would bring the Bank of Canada’s key rate down to 3.25 per cent.The November labour force survey solidified those expectations, as the latest employment figures showed the jobless rate rose to 6.8 per cent.
  The central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point in October in r
  
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• Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko looks to build on first start of the season

  11-12-2024 08:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It was a whirlwind day for Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko.Nearly eight months after he was injured in the first game of Vancouver’s playoff run, Demko returned to the crease Tuesday for his first start of the season.“I’ve talked about managing expectations and not putting too much weight on that first game back, but obviously, as the moment builds, you’re excited to play and you want to perform,” he said. “So definitely a little bit
  
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• Israeli strike on northern Gaza kills 19, Palestinian medics say

  11-12-2024 07:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike on a home where displaced people were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 19 people.That’s according to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which received the casualties on Wednesday after the overnight strike in the town of Beit Lahiya.There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Israel has been waging a renewed offensive against Hamas militants in northern Gaza since early October.
  Hospital re
  
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• NHL roundup: Avalanche defeat Penguins 6-2, Rantanen records 10th career hat trick

  11-12-2024 07:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mikko Rantanen collected his 10th career hat trick and added two assists as the Colorado Avalanche beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 on Tuesday night.
  Rantanen, playing in his 600th game, flipped in a puck over Tristan Jarry late in the first period, beat Jarry from in close early in the second and added an empty netter in the third.Nathan MacKinnon added a goal and four assists for Colorado. Valeri Nichushkin and Artturi Lehkonen also scored for the Avalanche.
  Scott Wedge
  
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