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• Vancouver FC says goodbye to Bitar - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 23:58
  Vancouver FC says goodbye to Bitar  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sale, coaching news loom over Whitecaps ahead of training camp - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 23:50
  Sale, coaching news loom over Whitecaps ahead of training camp  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Electric vehicle rebates paused as federal program runs out of money

  13-01-2025 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has paused an incentive program that offered Canadians rebates of up to $5,000 when buying or leasing electric vehicles.
  In an update on its website, Transport Canada says the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) Program has been paused as “funds have been fully committed.”
  The department says more than 546,000 vehicles have been sold or leased with incentives through the program since it began in 2019.
  In 2023 zero emissions vehicles acc
  
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• Montreal captain Marie-Philip Poulin named PWHL’s first star of the week

  13-01-2025 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Montréal Victoire forward Marie-Philip Poulin has been named the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s first star of the week.
  Poulin had two goals, including the game-winner, as the Victoire beat the Toronto Sceptres 4-2 before a sold-out crowd of 19,038 at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Wednesday as part of the league’s Takeover Tour of games hosted at neutral site venues.
  She added an assist as Montreal fell 4-2 to Minnesota at Denver’s Ball Ar
  
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• Mark Kilam having no trouble getting used to his new green-and-gold colours

  13-01-2025 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mark Kilam is having no trouble getting used to his new duds.
  Edmonton hired Kilam last month as its head coach. He joined the Elks shortly after being let go as Calgary’s special-teams co-ordinator/assistant head coach following 20 seasons with the Stampeders.
  But after two decades of donning red and white, the transition back to green and gold has been seamless for Kilam, who grew up in Lethbridge, Alta., and played linebacker with the Alberta Golden Bears.
  “The first football team
  
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• LETTER: No room at the inn for Chilliwack seniors - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 23:00
  LETTER: No room at the inn for Chilliwack seniors  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Head coach news, club sale loom for Vancouver Whitecaps ahead of training camp

  13-01-2025 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Question marks loom for the Vancouver Whitecaps as players filter back into the city ahead of training camp.During the off-season, the athletes heard from afar that head coach Vanni Sartini had been fired in mid-November. A month later came news that ownership was selling the Major League Soccer club.
  “We did not expect any of that, with the coach and then especially ownership,” veteran defender Ranko Vesleinovic said Monday. “But we couldn’t do anything
  
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• Brazilian winger Thiago Andrade on the move again, this time from Toronto to Osaka

  13-01-2025 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC has sold Thiago Andrade, completing a paper trek that has seen the Brazilian winger traded from New York City FC to San Diego FC, TFC and now Japan’s Cerezo Osaka in less than five weeks.
  The 24-year-old Andrade never made it to Toronto, which acquired him in a Dec. 11 draft-day deal.
  TFC sent San Diego FC its first-round draft pick (ninth overall) in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft and up to US$250,000 in conditional general allocation money if certain performance-based
  
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• Police investigating after man injured in fire outside Vancouver SkyTrain station

  13-01-2025 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver are looking for witnesses after a man was injured in a fire outside a SkyTrain station in the city.
  They say the 40-year-old man was found by a driver around 2 a.m. on Sunday outside the Main Street-Science World station.
  Police say that the motorist helped put the fire out before calling 911.
  They say the man suffered burns to his upper body and face, and was brought to a hospital for treatment but has since been released.
  Police say officers are reviewing
  
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• At least 100 illegal miners have died while trapped in a South African mine, group says

  13-01-2025 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group representing the miners said Monday.
  Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group told The Associated Press that a cellphone sent to the surface with some rescued miners on Friday had two videos on it showing dozens of bodies underground wrapped
  
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• Harm reduction advocates hope high court will ‘clarify’ Canada’s ‘Good Samaritan’ law

  13-01-2025 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Harm reduction advocates say a case before Canada’s high court will test the current Good Samaritan law that protects people from arrest after they call 911 asking for help for someone who has overdosed.The Supreme Court of Canada hearing Tuesday will hear arguments on the powers of police to arrest people at the scene of a drug overdose, and whether a 2017 law, known as the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, is clear about those powers.Lawyer DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian D
  
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• B.C. doc reflects on treating teen with avian flu for two months

  13-01-2025 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the potential for more human H5N1 infections.While the patient was recently discharged from hospital with her case deemed rare, the two-month ordeal is being examined to better understand the path of avian flu from wild birds and poultry to humans, who get very sick.Dr. David Goldfarb, a medical microbiologist and pediatric infectious disease physician at BC Children’s Hospital,
  
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• Intelligence task force to monitor Liberal leadership race

  13-01-2025 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal party’s leadership race will be monitored by Canada’s elections intelligence task force for signs of foreign interference.
  National security adviser Nathalie Drouin says the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force will be watching the race.
  She says that while leadership campaigns are conducted by individual political parties, they play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of our democratic processes.
  The task force, set up in 2019
  
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• Captain Kyle Bekker signs multi-year contract to stay at CPL powerhouse Forge FC

  13-01-2025 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Captain Kyle Bekker, a four-time nominee for the Canadian Premier League player of the year and the award winner in 2020, has signed a multi-year contract to stay at Forge FC.
  The 34-year-old midfielder from Oakville, Ont., has been ever-present as the Hamilton-based side won CPL titles in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Forge was runner-up in 2021 and 2014.
  “Kyle has been the heart and soul of Forge FC since the very beginning,” Bobby Smyrniotis, Forge’s head coach and sporting dir
  
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• Canada settles class-action lawsuit by military members who alleged racism in uniform

  13-01-2025 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has settled a class-action lawsuit with military members who were subjected to racism during their time in the Armed Forces.The settlement is worth up to $150 million, and individual payments will range from $5,000 to $35,000.The claimants are people who served in the Canadian Armed Forces between April 1985 and Jan. 10, and experienced racism while in uniform.Anyone eligible for the settlement has the option of getting a personalized letter of apology from
  
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• B.C. starvation death inquest hears victim’s emaciated state, poor living conditions

  13-01-2025 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — Florence Girard was so small when she died that she “looked like a child” in her casket, her sister told a British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the death of the woman.Sharon Bursey told the inquest jury in Burnaby, B.C., that she was ready to quit her job to take care of Girard — who required round-the-clock care — had she known the seriousness of her sister’s condition.
  Bursey says Astrid Dahl, who was caring for Girard as part of a p
  
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• Redblacks re-sign veteran offensive lineman Bladek to one-year extension

  13-01-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks have signed offensive lineman Dariusz Bladek to a one-year contract extension, the CFL team announced Monday.
  Bladek started 17 games with the Redblacks last season after missing the entire 2023 campaign with the Toronto Argonauts due to an ankle injury.
  He attended mini-camp with the Baltimore Ravens in 2016 before being drafted in the second round, 11th overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2017.Bladek would go on to appear in 45 games with the Riders a
  
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• CPC announces $535,000 in medal bonuses for Canada’s Paris Paralympians

  13-01-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Paralympic Committee announced Monday that a total of $535,000 was awarded to Canadian athletes for their achievements at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
  The Paris Games marked the first distribution of the Paralympic Performance Recognition program, which was announced in January 2024.
  The program gives Paralympians the same incentive for winning medals that Canada’s Olympic athletes receive.
  Paralympians are awarded $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000
  
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• Quebec measles outbreak grows to 11 cases; officials warn of thousands of exposures

  13-01-2025 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government says thousands of people might have been exposed to measles at a shopping mall north of Montreal earlier this month, as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease continues to grow.
  Officials say the current outbreak that began last month has now reached 11 cases.The Health Department has listed dozens of potential exposure sites in Montreal and in suburbs to the north and south of the city.
  They say one of the recently discovered cases visited the Carref
  
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• Abbotsford man California-bound after winning six-figure Set for Life jackpot

  13-01-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford resident Brian Andrus can’t resist the allure of the Magic Kingdom after winning the top prize of B.C. Lottery Corporation’s Set for Life jackpot.
  In a news release from BCLC, Andrus and his family will be California-bound after winning Set for Life’s top prize of $675,000.“It was my day off and I was running errands, and redeeming some tickets from the holidays,” recalled Andrus. “I found out I won while sitting in my car and had
  
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• Jets goalie Hellebuyck named NHL’s first star of the week after reaching 300-win mark

  13-01-2025 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck has been named the NHL’s first star of the week after reaching the 300-win mark.
  Hellebuyck became the third-fastest goaltender in NHL history to reach the exclusive milestone when he made 26 saves, including 11 in the third period, in a 5-2 win over Nashville on Tuesday.
  He followed that up with 22 saves in a 3-0 win over Colorado on Saturday as the Central Division-leading Jets improved to 29-12-3.
  Hellebuyck, the reigning Vezin
  
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• Judge clears the way for release of special counsel Smith’s report on Trump’s Jan. 6 case

  13-01-2025 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department can publicly release its investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case, a federal judge said Monday — the latest ruling in a court dispute over the highly anticipated document days before Trump is set to take office again.But a temporary injunction barring the immediate release of the report remains in effect until Tuesday, and it’s unlikely Cannon’s order will be the last word on the
  
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• Reservations open for spring 2025 camping season in British Columbia

  13-01-2025 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — B.C. Parks says campsites at many of its managed facilities can now be reserved for the upcoming spring 2025 camping season.
  The provincial agency made the announcement Monday (Jan. 13), saying campsites can be reserved four months ahead of the desired arrival date. Reservations for the May 2025 long weekend open this week for many BC Parks campgrounds that accept reservations.
  This year, 60 new campsites located in three BC Parks are being added to the reservation service. Th
  
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• MINTER: Container gardening becoming increasingly important - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 18:35
  MINTER: Container gardening becoming increasingly important  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec Liberals look to revive party’s electoral fortunes as leadership race begins

  13-01-2025 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec Liberal leadership race kicked off on Monday with candidates picking up endorsements, as the provincial party tries to broaden its appeal after years in the political wilderness.
  Four candidates have officially entered the race, including former federal Liberal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez; ex-Liberal MP and former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre; Charles Milliard, the former head of the federation of Quebec chambers of commerce; and tax lawyer Marc Bélanger.
  
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• Helicopter team rescues unconscious skier after fall at B.C.’s Mt. Cain

  13-01-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A search and rescue team on Vancouver Island says it rescued a man who suffered a “serious fall” while skiing at Mt. Cain this weekend.
  Comox Valley Search & Rescue says in a post to social media that members responded to rescue the unconscious 35-year-old from the mountain’s west bowl on Saturday.
  It says though the incident happened outside ski boundaries, the ski hill’s patrol team sprang to action and began rescue efforts including preparing for air assistance.
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• Group led by Oilers forward Zach Hyman buys OHL’s Brantford Bulldogs

  13-01-2025 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRANTFORD, Ont. — A group led by Edmonton Oilers forward Zach Hyman and his family have purchased the Ontario Hockey League’s Brantford Bulldogs.
  The league announced Monday that its board of governors has approved the sale of the Bulldogs by Ottawa Senators majority owner Michael Andlauer to a group including Hyman, his brother Spencer and father Stuart.
  The Bulldogs, who brought OHL hockey back to the Telephone City for the first time since 1984 last season, continue to generate a
  
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• U.S. benefits from Canadian trade at least as much as Canada: report

  13-01-2025 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A new report says the U.S. benefits at least as much from trade with Canada as Canada benefits.
  The report by economist Jim Stanford at the Centre for Future Work says claims by incoming U.S. president Donald Trump that the bilateral merchandise trade deficit constitutes a “subsidy” are false.
  He says Canada is the world’s largest market for U.S. exports and that the U.S. enjoys a large surplus in services trade with Canada, offsetting much of the deficit in m
  
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• Liberals start gathering signatures for potential leadership bids

  13-01-2025 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberals considering launching their own bids to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader are now making public appeals for support.
  Seven prospective leadership candidates now have forms posted on the Liberal party website to collect the signatures they require to enter the race.
  Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former central banker Mark Carney and former B.C. premier Christy Clark each have their forms up on the site.
  So do cabinet ministers Karina Gould and Jonathan Wi
  
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• Stolen mailboxes dumped in Abbotsford, Mission - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 17:24
  Stolen mailboxes dumped in Abbotsford, Mission  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Als head coach Maas expects veteran Bethel-Thompson to sign soon with CFL club

  13-01-2025 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jason Maas expects veteran quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson to be a Montreal Alouette sooner rather than later.
  Montreal acquired the rights to Bethel-Thompson from the Edmonton Elks last month for former starter Cody Fajardo.
  Bethel-Thompson, 36, is slated to become a CFL free agent Feb. 11 but Maas told reporters during a CFL zoom call Monday he anticipates Bethel-Thompson signing with Montreal very shortly.
  Bethel-Thompson threw for 3,748 yards and 24 touchdowns in 16 games with Edmonton in
  
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• Canada Post says 25% stamp price increase takes effect today

  13-01-2025 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The cost to send a letter in Canada is increasing by about 25 per cent, effective today.
  Canada Post says the cost of stamps for domestic mail bought in a booklet, coil or pane has increased by 25 cents to $1.24 per stamp.The cost of a single domestic stamp is now $1.44, up from $1.15.
  Canada Post proposed the increase in September last year. It says the higher price is required to better align stamp prices with the rising cost of providing letter mail service to all Canadians.
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• UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirms ‘significant damage’ at Chilliwack convenience store after attempted break and enter - Fraser Valley Today

  13-01-2025 16:54
  UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP confirms ‘significant damage’ at Chilliwack convenience store after attempted break and enter  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Police called to Chilliwack convenience store after attempted break and enter Sunday

  13-01-2025 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The owner of a Chilliwack convenience store says a pickup truck forcibly backed into his retail business during an attempted break and enter over the weekend.The store owner, who goes by Moe and operates the store with his wife, says the incident occurred at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning (Jan. 12).
  Police were quick to respond to the scene, arriving at the store before the owner could. The suspects were unable to gain access to the building, but the fallout from the incident
  
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• British heavyweight Tyson Fury announces retirement from boxing again, one month after Usyk defeat

  13-01-2025 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — British heavyweight Tyson Fury has retired from boxing — again — one month after losing a rematch with Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk.
  The 36-year-old Fury announced the decision in a short video posted on his Instagram account on Monday, which included a cryptic message.
  “Hi everybody, I’m going to make this short and sweet. I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing,” Fury said. “It’s been a blast, I’ve loved every single
  
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• Man allegedly draws gun in Abbotsford business - Chilliwack Progress

  13-01-2025 16:39
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• Cultus Lake Park Board could ban resale of Sunnyside Campground reservations

  13-01-2025 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CULTUS LAKE — Cultus Lake Park Board commissioners are set to consider changes to the campground reservation system at Sunnyside Campground that would adjust the parameters on which confirmed reservations are updated and adjusted.
  According to agenda item 7a. on this Wednesday’s agenda, the five-member park board could give first, second and third (final) reading to amendments to its existing bylaws pertaining to Sunnyside Campground, which is managed by the park board.
  Park board st
  
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• Man enters business, threatens staff member with gun: Abbotsford PD

  13-01-2025 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say they were called to a business on Peardonville Road last week after a man allegedly entered a business needing help with his vehicle before pulling a gun and threatening a staff member of the business.
  According to a statement from police, AbbyPD patrol officers were dispatched on Monday, January 6 at 4:43 p.m. to the 30900 block of Peardonville Road. An employee of a business in the area told authorities that an unknown man entered their business and
  
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• No indication Trump will back down on tariffs, but retaliating not the answer: Smith

  13-01-2025 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she received no indication from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend that he plans to back down on implementing hefty tariffs on Canadian products.
  But Smith says cutting off oil and gas exports to the south in retaliation, which is something the federal government hasn’t ruled out, isn’t feasible.
  She says the federal government should never “threaten” something it can’t afford to do.
  Smith visited
  
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• Losing a loved one propelled Chilliwack commercial lender to start a radon mitigation business

  13-01-2025 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — With a background in mortgage brokerage, financial planning and investment advising, Chilliwack-area resident Lisa Klee embodies the type of person that would start her own business on top of her regular job as a commercial lender.The impetus behind her drive to start a radon detection and mitigation business, however, was underscored by difficult and painful circumstances. Klee says there have been multiple diagnoses of cancer over the past decade within her family, including
  
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• Former England captain Casey Stoney named head coach of Canadian women’s soccer team

  13-01-2025 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Former England captain Casey Stoney has been named coach of the Canadian women’s soccer team.
  The 42-year-old Stoney most recently was coach of the San Diego Wave. Stoney joined the NWSL expansion team in 2021 and was named the league’s coach of the year in 2022 but was let go last June with the Wave mired in a seven-game losing streak.
  Stoney has signed a three-year contract with Canada Soccer that runs through the next World Cup, with an option for 2028.
  The sixth-ranked Canadian w
  
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• Volunteers clean up yet another Chilliwack River Valley homeless camp

  13-01-2025 16:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Nearly a dozen volunteers took time out of their weekend to clean up yet another homeless encampment in the Chilliwack River Valley.Chilliwack resident and environment cleanup volunteer Ross Aikenhead says the site of the homeless encampment was 4.1 kilometers off Chilliwack Lake Road, located on Chipmunk Creek Forest Service Road.The effort Sunday attracted roughly 10 people, resulting in one truckload of garbage being removed in addition to Aikenhead’s dump trailer ful
  
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• Toronto FC trades rights to German forward Prince Owusu to CF Montreal

  13-01-2025 15:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC has traded the rights to German forward Prince Owusu to CF Montreal in exchange for up to US$250,000 in general allocation money (GAM).
  Toronto gets $100,000 in 2025 GAM and $75,000 in 2026 for the right of first refusal for Owusu. The deal also includes $75,000 in conditional allocation money.Allocation money can be used to “buy-down” a player’s salary cap hit. MLS clubs worked under a salary budget of US$5.47 million last season.
  In essence, the dea
  
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• Nick Taylor comes through in the clutch. Now he wants more chances to be there

  13-01-2025 15:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Nick Taylor never looked more clutch than when he birdied the 18th hole three times in the WM Phoenix Open, first to force a playoff and the last to win it.And then he went 23 starts over 11 months without a top 10.
  Who can forget that 70-foot eagle putt to win the Canadian Open before a delirious home crowd? During the next seven months and 12 tournaments, he had only one top 10.
  The trade-off for the 36-year-old Canadian are the trophies — one in each of the last th
  
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• Lululemon raises fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share forecast

  13-01-2025 15:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc. has raised its forecast for revenue and earnings per share for its fourth quarter following a strong holiday season.
  Lululemon chief financial officer Meghan Frank says shoppers during the holiday season responded well to the company’s offerings, enabling it to increase its fourth-quarter guidance.
  The athletic clothing retailer, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says it now expects net revenue in the range of US$3.56 billion to US$3.58 billi
  
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• Minister makes first trip to Syrian border area after Assad regime ends

  13-01-2025 15:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen and MP Omar Alghabra have made the first Canadian delegation visit to the border region of Turkey and Syria since the fall of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria.
  During the visit, Hussen announced $17.25 million in funding for humanitarian assistance including clean water and food, protection services, sanitation and health services.
  The pair also went to Qatar where they met with that country’s minister of state for internationa
  
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• Auger-Aliassime downs Struff to reach Australian Open second round

  13-01-2025 14:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE — Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime cruised into the second round of the Australian Open on Monday with a 6-3, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 win over Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff.
  The 29th-seeded Canadian, who won the Adelaide International last week for his sixth ATP title, controlled the match, firing 19 aces to Struff’s 15 and committing just one double fault to Struff’s four.Auger-Aliassime won 85 per cent of his first-serve points and broke Struff eight times.
  
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• AFC Toronto adds experience by signing veteran South Korean defender Hong Hye-ji

  13-01-2025 14:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — AFC Toronto has added experience to its backline in the form of veteran South Korean international Hong Hye-ji.
  The 28-year-old centre back has won 40 senior caps for Korea and featured at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and two FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cups.
  Hong, who captained Korea at the 2016 U-20 tournament in Papua New Guinea, was named Korea Football Association Young Player of the Year in 2015.
  The Korean joins the fledgling Northern Super League from South Korean p
  
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• In the news today: Field narrows among big-name Liberal leader hopefuls

  13-01-2025 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Field narrows among big-name Liberal leader hopefuls
  As a race to elect a new Liberal leader quickly approaches, a high-profile candidate appears set to throw their hat into the ring.
  Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is expected to launch his bid to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after signalling plans through his campaign team.
  Former B.C. premier Christy Clark has said she is also de
  
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• Weekend announcements narrow field of high-profile Liberal leadership prospects

  13-01-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As a race to elect a new Liberal leader quickly approaches, a high-profile candidate appears set to throw their hat into the ring.
  Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is expected to launch his bid to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after signalling plans through his campaign team.
  Former B.C. premier Christy Clark has said she is also debating whether to put her name forward, telling CBC Radio’s “The House” she was “very seriously” consid
  
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