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• IHIT takes conduct of case involving a missing 34-year-old Fraser Valley woman

  19-12-2024 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Homicide investigators in B.C. have taken conduct of an investigation surrounding a missing 34-year-old woman who was reported missing in November.
  According to a statement IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Freda Fong, the family of Chantelle Moore reported her missing to the Surrey RCMP on November 18, 2024 after they had not heard from her for a prolonged period of time. Due to what IHIT says was a robust investigation led by Mounties in Surrey and Langley, investigators have determined t
  
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• LeBlanc says it’s not the government’s job to respond to everything Trump posts

  19-12-2024 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says it’s not the Liberal government’s job to respond to everything U.S. president-elect Donald Trump posts online.LeBlanc made those comments in response to a question about Trump repeatedly referring to Canada as a 51st state and Trudeau as its governor in social media posts.LeBlanc once again says Trump is joking and that there was “cheerful banter” at the dinner between the prime minister and the president-elect at Mar-a
  
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• Landslide on tracks stops Amtrak passenger runs between Seattle and Vancouver

  19-12-2024 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITE ROCK, B.C. — A landslide that blocked railway tracks has stopped Amtrak passenger service between Vancouver and Seattle.Amtrak says in a statement Thursday that the landslide near White Rock, B.C., led Burlington Northern Santa Fa Railway to place a 48-hour moratorium on passenger service.It’s unclear how extensive the slide is or if the tracks have been damaged.Amtrak says passengers who have reservations will be provided with bus service with similar departure times.The compa
  
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• Canadian swingman RJ Barrett out for Raptors vs. Nets due to illness

  19-12-2024 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian swingman RJ Barrett will miss tonight’s Toronto Raptors game against the Brooklyn Nets.
  Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., is out with an illness.
  Backup guard Davion Mitchell is questionable with a right shoulder strain.
  Barrett has been the backbone of the Raptors lineup as they grapple with a rash of injuries.
  He is averaging 23.5 points, 6.8 rebounds and 6.1 assists this season.
  Barrett has a 30.2 usage percentage, meaning that he’s involved in nearly a thi
  
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• Family says man received MAID on psychiatric day pass, files wrongful-death lawsuit

  19-12-2024 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The family of a 52-year-old man who received medical assistance in dying while on a day pass from a Vancouver psychiatric hospital has launched a constitutional challenge to the procedure’s legal framework.
  The notice of civil claim filed Friday at the B.C. Supreme Court says the businessman and father of three, who suffered chronic back pain and long-term mental illness, suffered wrongful death in December 2022.
  It accuses Dr. Ellen Wiebe and her clinic of malpractice, t
  
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• Canadian pitcher Soroka, Nationals agree to one-year, $9 million contract

  19-12-2024 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Canadian right-hander Michael Soroka agreed to a $9 million contract for the 2025 season with the Washington Nationals, who are in need of pitching as their rebuild continues and hope the 2019 NL All-Star can show the form he displayed before a pair of significant leg injuries.
  The 27-year-old from Calgary went 0-10 with a 4.74 ERA in 79 2/3 innings across 25 appearances for the Chicago White Sox last season, including nine starts. The White Sox finished 41-121, breaking
  
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• Soldiers to build portable bridges as military training returns to Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  Soldiers to build portable bridges as military training returns to Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian Matt Campbell advances at Paddy Power World Darts Championship

  19-12-2024 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — Canadian Matt (Ginja Ninja) Campbell never trailed but still had to hold off Serbian-Austrian Mensur (The Gentle) Suljovic to win his first-round match Thursday at the Paddy Power World Darts Championship.
  The tournament has a purse of 2.5 million pounds ($4,495,510) with 500,000 pounds ($899,100) going to the winner.
  Campbell took the opening set 3-2, hitting a double-20 after three misses. Trailing 2-0 in the second set, Suljovic reeled off a 137-checkout to prolong the set and
  
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• Forfeited Hells Angels clubhouse in Kelowna, B.C., sold to the city

  19-12-2024 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A former Hells Angels clubhouse that was seized by the British Columbia government in 2023 after years of fighting in court has been sold to the City of Kelowna.A statement from Public Safety Minister Garry Begg says the sale of the home in Kelowna includes a “right of entry,” which means the province’s civil forfeiture office can take the property back if it is ever acquired and used for organized crime in the future.
  The property, with an assessed value of $1.25 million, was
  
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• Sammy Sosa appears to acknowledge PED use, apologizes; Cubs welcome him back into fold

  19-12-2024 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Sammy Sosa appeared to acknowledge using performance enhancing drugs during a career in which he hit more than 600 home runs, and the Chicago Cubs said they were ready to welcome back their former star.
  In a statement released Thursday through Aurora Global Consulting, Sosa said he is sorry for mistakes.
  “There were times I did whatever I could to recover from injuries in an effort to keep my strength up to perform over 162 games,” he said. “I never broke a
  
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• Sex trial: Quebec TV host Julie Snyder testifies against Just for Laughs founder

  19-12-2024 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec TV host and producer Julie Snyder told a civil trial today that she was sexually assaulted by Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon in Paris more than three decades ago.
  Snyder says that in 1991, when she was 23 years old, she was invited to stay at the apartment of the Just for Laughs company, and went to sleep and woke up to being sexually assaulted by Rozon.
  She says she stayed silent for years because she feared going public would damage her career, but she says she f
  
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• CPKC Holiday Train back for a 3rd straight year in Agassiz tonight, complete with a choir, food trucks, and more

  19-12-2024 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — The arrival of the CPKC Holiday Train is just hours away.The Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP) Holiday Train is back for a third straight year in Agassiz later today after two virtual concerts in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, as it seeks to entertain and raise money, food and awareness for local food banks in what should be an entertaining Christmas-time event.
  The CP holiday train 2024 began its annual tour of live events in November and will culminate with stops in B.C.
  
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• Trudeau’s ‘fixer’ Dominic LeBlanc steps up for prime minister in time of crisis

  19-12-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc is helping Justin Trudeau hold the house together even as a growing number of Liberals turn on the prime minister.
  As calls for Trudeau to resign grew louder following Chrystia Freeland’s shocking resignation Monday, LeBlanc headed over to Rideau Hall to be sworn in as the next finance minister.
  It’s not the first time the New Brunswick Liberal has stepped up for the prime minister at a time of crisis.
  Greg MacEachern of KAN Strategies, a longtime backr
  
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• Alberta says chief actuary’s pension plan report offers no estimate of its share

  19-12-2024 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it has heard back from Canada’s chief actuary on its bid to leave the Canada Pension Plan, but there’s no estimate on how much the province should get.
  The province has been waiting for months for the review and a figure.
  “We received their interpretation of the legislation, but it did not contain a number or even a formula for calculating a number,” Justin Brattinga, press secretary to Finance Minister Nate Horner, said in an
  
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• Hamilton’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, rest of Canada’s NBAers left wanting more in 2024

  19-12-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s best men’s basketball players were left wanting more in 2024.
  Hamilton’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished second in NBA MVP voting for the 2023-24 season, the best performance among a record-high 27 Canadians in the league. His Oklahoma City Thunder had a disappointing second-round exit in the NBA’s Western Conference playoffs, and Canada’s men’s senior team finished fifth at the Paris Olympics.
  Gilgeous-Alexander said that it was only
  
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• Pentagon says it doubled the number of US troops in Syria before Assad’s fall

  19-12-2024 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States doubled the number of forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group before the overthrow of President Bashar Assad’s government, the Pentagon said Thursday.
  The U.S. has previously said 900 troops were in Syria, but Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, announced that 2,000 were there and had been for a while.He told reporters that the increase in forces was temporary and they are there to augment the U.S. operations against the Isl
  
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• Ryan Reynolds ‘honoured’ and ‘a bit more officery’ after Order of Canada naming

  19-12-2024 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds thanked the country after he was named as an officer of the Order of Canada, saying the nation shaped and continues to inspire him.
  In a short statement, the B.C. native and movie superstar told Canada he was “yours forever — just a bit more officery now” and “deeply honoured” to the core of his soul.Reynolds was one of 88 people to be appointed to the Order of Canada this week alongside scientists, advoca
  
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• No charges against Mounties in arrest of prominent Alberta chief

  19-12-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Alberta’s police watchdog says there’s no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties used force to arrest a First Nation chief outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020.The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team also says there’s no evidence of racist treatment by officers against Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam.
  It says a confrontation began when an officer working alone was patrolling the parking lot of the Boomtown Cas
  
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• CP NewsAlert: N.B. government reverses changes to school gender identity policy

  19-12-2024 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has followed through on a campaign pledge to reverse policy changes by the previous government concerning sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
  Holt issued a statement today saying her recently elected Liberal government has revised Policy 713 to incorporate recommendations from the province’s child and youth advocate, as well as input from students, families and the LGBTQ+ community.
  In June 2023, the Progressive Conservati
  
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• Major League Soccer regular season to run Feb. 22 to Oct. 18 in 2025 with 30 teams

  19-12-2024 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Major League Soccer will kick off its 2025 regular season Feb. 22 with all three Canadian teams opening on the road.
  Inter Miami hosts New York City FC in the first of 13 games opening day. Montreal visits Atlanta while Toronto plays at D.C. United.
  The league grows to 30 teams in its 30th season with the addition of expansion San Diego FC, which opens play Feb. 23 at the champion Los Angeles Galaxy. Vancouver visits Portland in the other Feb. 23 game.
  The Whitecaps’ home opener is March 2
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Police union criticizes assault case’s handling after officer’s suicide

  19-12-2024 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The president of the Vancouver Police Union has criticized the handling of a sexual assault case that ended in the suicide of a Central Saanich Police officer.
  Ralph Kaisers says in a letter to members that was obtained by The Canadian Press that the “tragic loss” of the officer came after public statements that risked “undermining the presumption of innocence.”
  The comments Kaisers refers to were made in a Vancouver Police Department news release and by
  
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• Dozens get sick with ‘norovirus-like’ illness after eating raw B.C. oysters

  19-12-2024 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Health officials in British Columbia say at least 64 people have become sick after eating raw oysters from restaurants and retail locations.
  A statement from the BC Centre for Disease Control and the provincial health authority says the “norovirus-like” gastrointestinal illnesses have been reported since Nov. 1 in the Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health and Island Health regions.Federal agencies have closed some areas of the province to commercial shellfish harv
  
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• Canada Soccer reveals six finalists for its Players of the Year Award

  19-12-2024 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Lille forward Jonathan David, Nice defender Moïse Bombito and Celtic fullback Alistair Johnston are the men’s finalists for Canada Soccer Player of the Year.
  On the women’s side, the award is down to midfielder Jessie Fleming of the NWSL Portland Thorns, Lyon defender Vanessa Gilles and Roma striker Evelyne Viens.
  The winners will be announced Friday. The finalists, decided in a vote by Canadian media and coaches, were drawn from eight men’s and eight women
  
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• Former top aide to New York City’s mayor charged in a bribery conspiracy

  19-12-2024 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal indictment released Thursday charges the mayor’s former chief adviser, her son and two real estate investors in a bribery conspiracy.
  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., on Thursday announced the indictment of Ingrid Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn D. Martin II and real estate investors Raizada Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi in a conspiracy involving bribes of more than $100,000 while Lewis-Martin served as chief advisor to Mayor Eric Adams. Lewis-Martin a
  
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• Canada Post starts accepting commercial mail as it ramps up post-strike operations

  19-12-2024 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada Post has started accepting commercial volumes of letters and parcels as it works to get back to normal operations following a month-long strike.
  However, the postal service has warned that Canadians should expect delays into the new year as it deals with the backlog of mail.
  “With a large, integrated network of processing plants, depots and post offices across the country, stabilizing operations will take time,” it said in a release.
  “We remind all Canadia
  
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• Virani says new wrongful conviction commission will support women, racialized people

  19-12-2024 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says a new commission that will review potential wrongful convictions will help racialized and Indigenous Peoples seek justice who are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
  The law, named after David Milgaard and his mother, Joyce, will move the review process of cases away from the ministers, and will be replaced with an independent commission the government says will make it easier, faster and more fair for the potentially wrongfully convic
  
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• Alouettes sign defensive back Kabion Ento to two-year contract

  19-12-2024 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes signed American defensive back Kabion Ento to a two-year contract on Thursday, keeping him with the team through 2026.
  Ento recorded 56 defensive tackles, two interceptions and two forced fumbles in 18 regular-season games as a starter last season.
  The 28-year-old had 48 defensive tackles, three interceptions and a touchdown and helped the Alouettes win the Grey Cup in 2023, his first season in the CFL.
  He had an interception, a forced fumble and two pass
  
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• Former Uvalde schools police chief loses bid to toss criminal charges related to 2022 shooting

  19-12-2024 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of putting children at risk during a slow response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.Pete Arredondo said he was improperly charged and that the shooter was responsible for putting the victims in danger in the school attack on May 24, 2022. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed.
  Arredondo also said he was scapegoated for the halting police r
  
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• City of Chilliwack to tackle a multitude of public works projects in 2025 - Fraser Valley Today

  19-12-2024 18:25 via news.google.com
  City of Chilliwack to tackle a multitude of public works projects in 2025  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• City of Chilliwack to tackle a multitude of public works projects in 2025

  19-12-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack plans to take on a multitude of public projects in 2025, including the construction of three new parks, upgrade of four city parks, improvements to two municipal recreation centres, and several roadway projects.
  Mayor Ken Popove touched on some of these improvements during his weekly “Ask the Mayor” segment on 89.5 JR Country Thursday morning with Morning host Glen Slingerland.
  Three new parks will come on board in 2025, including Crestwood P
  
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• Trudeau to shuffle cabinet Friday as pressure for him to resign remains

  19-12-2024 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Friday morning.
  A government source confirms a swearing-in ceremony will take place at Rideau Hall.
  This comes at the end of a tumultuous week that saw Trudeau lose his finance minister and face a new swell of pressure within his caucus for him to resign.
  Before Chrystia Freeland’s bombshell resignation on Dec. 16 Trudeau had already been preparing a cabinet shuffle to replace five ministers who had told him they won&
  
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• Latest B.C. storm brings 140 km/h gusts to Vancouver Island amid wind, snow warnings

  19-12-2024 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Winds approaching 140 km/h have been hitting Vancouver Island weather stations after Environment Canada issued the latest in a series of wind warnings for the B.C. coast.
  It says the warnings cover exposed coastal sections of the island’s north and B.C.’s central coast, with a Pacific frontal system approaching.
  The weather agency forecast southeast winds up to 90 km/h, but winds exceeding 110 km/h were recorded at several stations Thursday morning, including Soland
  
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• Quebec professor charged for stealing scholarship money intended for foreign students

  19-12-2024 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec anticorruption police have arrested a former university professor for allegedly defrauding and extorting foreign students.
  Police say René Wamkeue used schemes to steal scholarship money that was intended for the foreign master’s and doctoral students he supervised.
  In a news release, the anticorruption unit known as UPAC says Wamkeue is facing charges of fraud, extortion and secret commissions.Police say Wamkeue worked from 2010 to 2017 as an engineering pro
  
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• Lions sign star defensive lineman Mathieu Betts to two-year extension

  19-12-2024 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions have signed star defensive lineman Mathieu Betts to a two-year contract extension, the CFL club announced Thursday.
  Betts was eligible to become a free agent this February.
  The lineman from Montreal registered 13 defensive tackles and two sacks in seven regular-season games after rejoining B.C. following a stint with the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
  He also scored his first career touchdown on an interception return in a victory over Calgary on Oct. 4.
  Betts had a
  
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• NDP seeks distance from Liberals, sees fight in next election is with Conservatives

  19-12-2024 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh began 2024 by propping up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government. He is ending the year calling for Trudeau’s resignation.
  Singh’s gradual effort to limit his alliance with the Liberals hastened this week after Trudeau’s finance minister quit, plunging the government into more political chaos and raising questions about whether Trudeau can even stay on as prime minister much longer.
  But Singh is still not putting any ki
  
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• Nancy Karetak-Lindell, former MP, appointed as Nunavut Senator

  19-12-2024 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The first person to ever serve as the member of Parliament for Nunavut is being appointed to the Senate.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce the appointment of Nancy Karetak-Lindell to fill Nunavut’s only Senate seat today.
  She was elected to Parliament in 1997 after playing a key role in negotiations to establish Nunavut as its own political riding two years before it achieved status as a territory.
  She would represent the territory for more than a decade and served
  
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• Agassiz-area host families needed to house Japanese exchange students in 2025

  19-12-2024 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Agassiz-area families are invited to welcome international exchange students into their homes as part of a program through the Fraser-Cascade School District.
  Mika Hampton from Space Canada says the organization is looking for host families who will host students from Japan for a month. The students arrive on Valentine’s Day, February 14, and leave Sunday morning, March 16.
  Hampton says the students will attend the secondary school in Agassiz on weekdays and would like to s
  
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• Yager named captain, Molendyk and Ritchie alternates for Canada’s world junior team

  19-12-2024 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Centre Brayden Yager has been named captain of Canada’s team for the upcoming world junior hockey championship.
  Hockey Canada announced the team’s leadership group Thursday, with Tanner Molendyk and Calum Ritchie named alternate captains for the tournament that starts Boxing Day in Ottawa.
  Yager, a Winnipeg Jets prospect, has a goal and three assists in two games with the Lethbridge Hurricanes since joining the Western Hockey League team via trade on Dec. 2. He had 30
  
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• Oklahoma man dies by lethal injection in the nation’s final execution of 2024

  19-12-2024 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.
  Kevin Ray Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, state Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution of the year, and it took place on Underwood’s 45th birthday.Oklahoma uses a three-drug lethal
  
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• Stanford receiver Ayomanor chasing second straight Cornish Trophy honour

  19-12-2024 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Elic Ayomanor is looking to join a select group.
  The Stanford Cardinal receiver is a finalist for the Jon Cornish Trophy, presented annually to the top Canadian playing football in the NCAA. Ayomanor, of Medicine Hat, Alta., captured the award last year and is looking to join Victoria’s Nathan Rourke (2017-18) and John Metchie III, of Brampton, Ont., (2020-21) as two-time winners.
  The other finalists, also announced Thursday, are Boise State safety Ty Benefield, Rutgers linebacker Dariel D
  
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• NSL’s Montreal Roses sign Canadian forward Tanya Boychuk

  19-12-2024 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Roses announced the signing of Canadian forward Tanya Boychuk on Thursday.
  Boychuk joins the Northern Super League team after leading Swedish club Vittsjö GIK with seven goals this year in the Damallsvenskan, the country’s top league.
  The 24-year-old from Edmonton also played for Throttur Reykjavik FC in Iceland’s top league in 2023.
  Boychuk played college soccer at the University of Memphis, earning two selections to the AAC All-Conference First Te
  
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• Major League Soccer lifts the lid on how much general allocation money clubs have

  19-12-2024 16:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Think of it as a moment of transparency in a league rife with confusing, ever-changing salary and roster rules.
  In a first, Major League Soccer has revealed the amount of general allocation money (GAM) each of its 30 clubs has to use in 2025.General allocation money is essentially an artificial mechanism to allow MLS teams more bang for their buck in building their roster. It is one of several ways clubs can extend their spending power under what the league bills as its “salary cap budget.
  
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• Lindsey Vonn hits back at critics who think she’s crazy to return to ski racing at age 40

  19-12-2024 16:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Lindsey Vonn didn’t just pop into the hospital one day, get a new titanium knee and then decide on the way out that she wanted to return to downhill ski racing.
  It’s been a long, calculated process involving several minor and some major knee surgeries, careful vetting of the medical issues involved and then months of on-snow testing in New Zealand, Austria and Colorado to see how her body and new knee would react at age 40.
  So now that she’s
  
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• Suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO will return to New York to face murder charges

  19-12-2024 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO will return to New York to face murder charges after agreeing to be extradited Thursday during a court appearance in Pennsylvania where he was arrested last week after five days on the run.
  Luigi Mangione waived a preliminary hearing on the Pennsylvania charges in exchange for the prosecutor giving him a 20-page investigative report from the Altoona Police Department.
  Mangione also waived extradition to Ne
  
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• Appeals court removes prosecutor Fani Willis from Georgia election case against Trump and others

  19-12-2024 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others but did not dismiss the indictment, leaving the future of the prosecution uncertain.
  The case against Trump and more than a dozen others had already been largely stalled for months while the Georgia Court of Appeals considered the pretrial appeal.The new ruling means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’
  
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• ‘Special with the puck’: Canadian phenom McKenna ready for liftoff at world juniors

  19-12-2024 15:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Willie Desjardins has always cut an intense figure behind the bench.Every so often when he was guiding the Vancouver Canucks from 2014 through 2017, the razor-focused head coach would crack a smile at something Henrik and Daniel Sedin — a pair of future Hall of Famers — had pulled from their bag of tricks.Desjardins now experiences eerily similar moments watching Gavin McKenna from the same perch with the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers.And he expects Canadians will
  
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• NHL begins production on a 2nd season of the league’s all-access ‘Faceoff’ docuseries

  19-12-2024 15:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL has begun production on the second season of an all-access, behind-the-scenes show with the makers of the popular “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” series.
  The league, in announcing the continuation of the show Thursday, said Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk is the first player confirmed to be involved in Season 2 of “Faceoff: Inside the NHL,” premiering sometime in 2025.Tkachuk made an appearance in the first season along with members of hi
  
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• UFV women’s soccer program signs two more talented players from the area

  19-12-2024 15:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Two more promising players have signed with the UFV women’s soccer program, giving head coach Ari Adams even more options amid an exceptionally talented roster next fall.
  UFV announced Wednesday (Dec. 18) that it has welcomed Coquitlam midfielder Anastasia Kalpidis and Langley winger Alivia Newman to the team’s 2025 recruiting class. Both are standouts with Surrey United SC.The two players join McKenna Toop, Kyla Kerr, Jassica Landhre, and Sadie Welsh who were prev
  
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• Abbotsford donor fueled by personal experience with cancer at Abbotsford Hospital

  19-12-2024 15:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — True to his company’s name, Abbotsford resident Jonathan Christian wanted to make things happen after a positive experience he had with the health care system in the Fraser Valley.As the founder of We Make Stuff Happen, a digital marketing firm, Christian became an outspoken advocate for health care services once he had a cancerous spot removed from his forehead at Abbotsford Regional Hospital.Christian took it a step further and donated $20,000 to the Fraser Valley Heal
  
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• Cultus Lake reports uptick in incidents of theft ahead of Christmas

  19-12-2024 15:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Cultus Lake Park staff say they’ve identified a noticeable increase in theft ahead of Christmas, prompting the park to issue a reminder to residents on social media.
  According to a social media post dated Wednesday night (Dec. 18), Cultus Lake Park Board personnel are reporting an increase in various types of theft over the past several weeks.Park board staff say they plan to increase surveillance during the holiday season and are asking residents for their support by co
  
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