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• US throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools, churches

  21-01-2025 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.
  The move reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigration agencies — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — from carrying out immigration enforcement in sensitive locations.
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• B.C. Premier David Eby asks Canadians to think carefully about spending money in U.S.

  21-01-2025 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Premier David Eby says British Columbians should rethink trips to the United States and purchases of American products, as the province establishes a task force to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs.
  He says the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports would be a “deliberate economic attack” on B.C. families and people should think carefully about spending money in a country that wants to do them economic harm.
  Eby told a news conference that Br
  
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• Dragons’ Den’s Arlene Dickinson says Kevin O’Leary’s ovations to Trump not helpful

  21-01-2025 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTEBELLO, QUE. — One of Canada’s “Dragons’ Den” stars is breathing fire at a former co-star over Canada’s approach to the Donald Trump White House.
  Arlene Dickinson, an investor who appears on the popular reality TV show, says former “Dragon” Kevin O’Leary’s recent comments are not helpful as President Trump continues to issue trade threats against Canada.
  O’Leary has promoted the idea of an economic union between Canada and the
  
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• From immigration to intelligence: 5 ways Trump’s executive orders could affect Canada

  21-01-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — While U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Canada is alarming enough, other measures he announced Monday after his inauguration could have their own implications for Canada.
  Here are five Trump directives that could affect Canadians:
  Pressure to scrap Facebook tax
  Canada implemented a digital services tax in June that applies to revenue from online services, such as advertising on social media platforms. Big Tech firms have said this undercuts their busi
  
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• Liverpool beats Lille to reach Champions League round of 16. Barcelona wins 9-goal thriller

  21-01-2025 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Liverpool became the first team to guarantee a place in the last 16 of the new Champions League format by beating Lille 2-1 on Tuesday, while Barcelona fought back from two goals down to stun Benfica 5-4 in a thriller.
  Harvey Elliott’s bouncing, deflected shot gave Liverpool its seventh win from seven games, just after 10-man Lille had equalized following Mohamed Salah’s opening goal.
  Liverpool needed a point at Anfield to be sure of reaching the round of 16 as one of the top eight t
  
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• Ambrose, Boreen, Coyne Schofield named PWHL’s stars of the week

  21-01-2025 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Montreal defender Erin Ambrose, Victoire forward Abby Boreen and Minnesota Frost forward Kendall Coyne Schofield have been named the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s three stars of the week.
  Ambrose was named first star after she assisted on five of the six goals the Victoire scored in a pair of wins last week.
  She had three assists in the Victoire’s 4-2 win over defending champion Minnesota on Friday in Laval, Que., and set up both goals in Montreal’s
  
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• Final report of foreign interference inquiry to be made public next Tuesday

  21-01-2025 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The final report of the federal inquiry into foreign interference is set for public release next Tuesday.
  The commission of inquiry’s most recent public hearings looked at the ability of agencies and officials to identify and counter foreign meddling.
  The inquiry also held a series of policy roundtables to help develop recommendations.
  In an interim report released in May, inquiry commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue said interference by China did not affect the overall res
  
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• Canadian women’s hockey team roster named to close out Rivalry Series with U.S.

  21-01-2025 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The 25 Canadian women tasked with closing out hockey’s Rivalry Series with the United States have been announced by Hockey Canada.
  Canada carries a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series into Halifax on Feb. 6 and Summerside, Prince Edward Island on Feb. 8.
  The Canadian women posted back-to-back wins of 4-1 and 5-4 in a shootout after dropping the opener 7-2 in November in the first three games played in the U.S.
  The roster for the Canadian leg resembles November’s with
  
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• Defender Daniel Nimick joins Forge FC after two seasons with Halifax Wanderers

  21-01-2025 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Forge FC has signed former Halifax Wanderers defender Daniel Nimick to a multi-year contract.
  The 24-year-old spent the last two years in Halifax colours, making 54 appearances in all competitions with 15 goals and six assists.
  In 2023, he was nominated for both Canadian Premier League Defender of the Year Award and the Players’ Player of the Year Award.
  “Daniel is a complete player who brings exceptional defensive ability, leadership, and a knack for making a significant impact at b
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder two years after Vancouver death

  21-01-2025 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A suspect has been charged with second-degree murder more than two years after a man was killed in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
  A statement from Vancouver police says they were called on Jan. 17, 2023, to reports of a shooting inside the West Hotel rooming house.Officers found the body of 20-year-old Thunder Dennis inside.
  Police say their investigation led to the arrest of a suspect on Monday.
  Sixty-seven-year-old Jorge Marquez Medina has been charged with the murder.P
  
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• Canadian doc says WHO headquarters ‘stressed, devastated’ as Trump orders U.S. exit

  21-01-2025 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency.Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis.He says losing the large amount of funding the U.S. provides would threaten public health around the world, including in Canada.Pai
  
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• Wolf transfer from B.C. to Colorado complete, but state wildlife staff ‘threatened’

  21-01-2025 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Colorado wildlife officials say the capture of 15 grey wolves in British Columbia and their release in the U.S. state is complete, an operation they say led to unspecified threats against staff.
  The operation that began in B.C. on Jan. 10 and wrapped up on Saturday follows Colorado voters’ approval of a 2020 ballot initiative to reintroduce grey wolves to the state, where the animals are listed as endangered.
  But the program has stirred opposition, and a statement from Colorado Parks and W
  
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• Mother tells Halifax courtroom her life lost meaning after son was stabbed to death

  21-01-2025 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The grieving mother of a 16-year-old Halifax boy who was fatally stabbed last year delivered a heart-wrenching victim impact statement during a sentencing hearing today for two teens who have pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
  Speaking through an Arabic interpreter, Basima Al Jaji told youth court that the death of her son, Ahmad Al Marrach, has left her life without meaning.Al Jaji told Judge Elizabeth Buckle that she is still waiting for her son to walk through the front door of t
  
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• By the numbers on U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff claims for Canada and Mexico

  21-01-2025 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs starting Feb. 1 on Canada and Mexico because he says both countries are allowing a “vast number” of people and fentanyl to come into the United States.Here are some figures on border encounters, drug seizures and trade into America. Figures are from October 2023 to September 2024 unless stated otherwise.
  Fentanyl seizures at U.S.-Canada border: 20 kilograms
  Fentanyl seizures at all U.S. borders: 9,930 kilograms
  Apprehensions and expu
  
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• SD33 cancels January school board meeting

  21-01-2025 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack School District has cancelled its regular school board meeting this month.According to an email from Talana McInally, who works as the executive assistant to the Chilliwack Board of Education, the public board meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 has been postponed.McInally said the business scheduled for the January meeting was postponed in light of the provincial government’s amended budget timelines for the fiscal year.There were no anti
  
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• Promontory resident observes Chilliwack River Valley fire from his home Monday night, phones authorities

  21-01-2025 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Promontory resident Rob Silver-Fox says he’s witnessed a number of fires along Chilliwack Lake Road the past month or so, one of which he captured from his phone Monday night, in an area usually inhabited by unhoused residents.
  Silver-Fox called in the latest fire to emergency dispatch Monday night after seeing it from the living room window of his residence on Bridle Ridge Crescent in Promontory. He says the fire happened about mid-way across the river flood plain, in c
  
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• U.S. business groups warn CRTC’s CanCon rules could worsen trade conflict

  21-01-2025 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Groups representing U.S. businesses and big tech companies are warning the CRTC its moves to modernize Canadian content rules could worsen trade relations with the United States.
  They say the CRTC’s measures to implement the Online Streaming Act, which updated broadcasting laws to capture online platforms, could invite retaliation from the U.S.
  Those warnings — found in documents filed as part of a CRTC proceeding on a new definition of Canadian content — come as
  
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• Trans activist wants federal guidance on U.S. travel after Trump orders

  21-01-2025 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A prominent trans activist says she’ll be avoiding travel to the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender expression to male or female, and wants Canada to update trans citizens on travel safety guidelines south of the border.
  Trump declared Monday the U.S. will only recognize two sexes and that they are unchangeable, leaving Fae Johnstone, executive director of Queer Momentum, with questions.
  She says she doesn’t believe her passpo
  
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• B.C. First Nations leader reverses stance on Northern Gateway pipeline after Trump

  21-01-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project linking Alberta to the Pacific Ocean.
  Grand Chief Stewart Phillip says while he “really fought against” Northern Gateway’s construction before it was scuttled in 2016, that was a “different time” and Canada now has “no choice” but to reconsider.
  That comes after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggested on
  
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• Ottawa Rapid goalkeeper combines PhD studies with Northern Super League career

  21-01-2025 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Newly signed to Ottawa Rapid FC, former Swedish youth international Mollie Eriksson is looking to help build the Northern Super League from the ground up.And with a degree in neuroscience behind her, the PhD student could be doing it as doctor/goalkeeper.“I sure hope so,” Eriksson, who grew up in Ottawa, said cheerfully.
  Eriksson is the first goalkeeper announced by Ottawa, whose biggest signing to date has been 37-year-old midfielder Desiree Scott, a veteran of 187 Canadian caps.
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• Mark Carney secures four key cabinet endorsements in race to become prime minister

  21-01-2025 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has secured the endorsements of four more current and former cabinet ministers.
  On Tuesday, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree and former housing minister Sean Fraser all threw their support behind Carney on social media.
  Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault also endorsed Carney while speaking to reporters at the Liberal cabinet retreat in Montebello, Que.
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• UFV-partnered program receives $23 million in funding for innovation training program

  21-01-2025 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The University of the Fraser Valley announced Monday (Jan. 20) it will share $23 million in federal funding with other institutions to expand a program that provides innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship training.
  According to a statement from the university, the federal sponsorship will help expand the National Invention to Innovation Network, a program that enables Canadian STEM and healthcare researchers in their mission to solve global challenges. The funding
  
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• Volleyball Canada names Giovanni Guidetti as new coach of women’s national team

  21-01-2025 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Giovanni Guidetti has been named the new head coach of the Canadian women’s volleyball team, Volleyball Canada announced Tuesday.
  The 52-year-old Italian has been the head coach of Turkish club Vakifbank Spor Kulubu since 2008.Vakifbank has won seven Turkish League titles, five FIVB Club World Championship gold medals and five CEV (European) Champions League titles under Guidetti’s watch.
  Internationally, Guidetti most recently led Serbia to a seventh-place finish at t
  
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• Downtown Chilliwack market to relocate, switch days in 2025 - Fraser Valley Today

  21-01-2025 18:39
  Downtown Chilliwack market to relocate, switch days in 2025  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Downtown Chilliwack market to relocate, switch days in 2025

  21-01-2025 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Downtown Chilliwack Community Market Society (DCCM), a community of local growers, crafters, and gatherers, will showcase its goods and products at a new venue on a different day of the week as it prepares for its 2025 market season.
  According to a social media post, the market will now convene Saturdays starting May 24 through to October 4, 2025 at Central Community Park on Victoria Avenue, not far from Five Corners. The market had been meeting in downtown Chilliwack near
  
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• Canada should focus on larger vision in talks with Trump administration: ambassador

  21-01-2025 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s return to the White House brought with it an executive order launching a study of the United States’ trade relationship with Canada, pushing the threat of devastating tariffs down the road — temporarily.
  Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman says it’s now time for Canada to shift its strategy in its conversations with the new administration, away from a transactional approach and toward a larger vision.
  Hillman t
  
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• Abbotsford's Bo Lokombo announces retirement from pro football - Chilliwack Progress

  21-01-2025 18:30
  Abbotsford's Bo Lokombo announces retirement from pro football  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lions veteran linebacker Lokombo announces his CFL retirement

  21-01-2025 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Bo Lokombo is calling it a career.The B.C. Lions veteran Canadian linebacker announced his retirement Tuesday. The six-foot-one, 230-pound Lokombo had 30 tackles, one special-teams tackle, three sacks and a forced fumble in 14 regular-season games in 2024.
  “At 34 years old, I felt it was the right time,” Lokombo said in a statement released by the Lions. “I want to be closer to my family.
  “The only thing I’m going to miss is competing with my broth
  
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• Chilliwack paint store impacted by fire to open temporary location next month

  21-01-2025 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Cloverdale Paint on Luckakuck Way in Chilliwack will open a new location in February after it was significantly damaged by a structure fire earlier this month.
  According to a social media post from the company, Cloverdale Paint says its Chilliwack store experienced a fire incident that resulted in a closure, but nobody was harmed or injured by the fire.
  “A few weeks ago, our location experienced a fire incident that caused a closure. We are relieved to share that no pers
  
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• Chilliwack paint store impacted by fire to open new location next month - Fraser Valley Today

  21-01-2025 17:49
  Chilliwack paint store impacted by fire to open new location next month  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Cutting energy to U.S. in response to Trump tariffs is ‘absurd,’ says Bloc leader

  21-01-2025 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The leader of the Bloc Québécois says Canada is playing with fire by suggesting it could cut oil or electricity exports to the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose tariffs on Canadian goods.
  Yves-François Blanchet’s position runs counter to that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and most premiers — including Quebec’s François Legault — who have said everything is on the table in negotiations
  
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• Survey open for all-season mountain resort near Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  21-01-2025 17:36
  Survey open for all-season mountain resort near Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Oath Keepers’ Rhodes and Proud Boys’ Tarrio released from prison after Trump Jan. 6 clemency

  21-01-2025 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order by President Donald Trump benefitting more than 1,500 defendants.Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile defendants Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what
  
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• HNIC broadcaster Scott Oake tells story of addiction, loss and hope in new book

  21-01-2025 16:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Scott Oake tells stories for a living.From the Olympic Games to the Stanley Cup finals, the veteran sports broadcaster has witnessed crowning achievements and crushing disappointments. Emotion-packed moments that stick with fans and viewers.Those tales of success, failure, triumph and heartbreak have never been his own. He’s simply a conduit.The story Oake tells in his book published this week — “For the Love of a Son: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Hope” — was th
  
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• RCMP says three alleged human smugglers charged with conspiracy in Quebec

  21-01-2025 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec RCMP say three men have been charged for allegedly planning to help smuggle people into the United States.
  Edward Alejandro Rojas Sanchez, 24, Julian Camilo Rojas Murcia, 27, and Fernando Esparza Dominguez, 33, are charged with conspiracy to commit an offence in the United States.
  Two of the suspects are from Montreal and one is from the city’s Laval suburb.
  The police force says an investigation by the Estrie integrated border enforcement team found that the suspec
  
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• Teck Resources expects copper production to rise this year

  21-01-2025 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. says it expects its copper production to total between 490,000 and 565,000 tonnes this year, helped by higher production at its Quebrada Blanca and Highland Valley Copper operations.
  The miner says the forecast is up from the 446,000 tonnes of copper it produced in 2024.
  In its outlook, Teck said zinc in concentrate production for 2025 is expected between 525,000 and 575,000 tonnes, down from the 615,900 tonnes it produced last year, as it faces declining gr
  
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• Inflation ticks lower to 1.8% in December, thanks in part to GST tax break

  21-01-2025 15:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate fell to 1.8 per cent in December, thanks in large part to the federal government’s temporary tax break.
  Statistics Canada’s consumer price index report on Tuesday said restaurant food purchases, and alcohol bought from stores contributed the most to the deceleration.
  The federal government introduced a temporary pause on taxes to those items in mid-December, along with tobacco and cannabis products, clothing, and some toys, among ot
  
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• Robinson wins World Cup giant slalom after Brignone and Hector fail to finish

  21-01-2025 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — Alice Robinson’s electric second won her the World Cup giant slalom after two of the biggest stars failed to finish the second run on Tuesday.
  With overall leader Federica Brignone and Olympic champion Sara Hector out of the running, there was a new face on the top step of the GS podium for the first time this season as Robinson finished 0.56 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami and 0.94 ahead of Paula Moltzan of the United States.
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• Australian Open: Novak Djokovic beats Carlos Alcaraz and gets closer to a 25th Grand Slam title

  21-01-2025 15:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic refused to let anything stop his pursuit of a record 25th Grand Slam trophy in the Australian Open quarterfinals. Not a problem with his left leg. Not an early deficit. And not the kid across the net, Carlos Alcaraz, who was making things difficult and eyeing his own bit of history.
  Djokovic overcame it all, just as he has so often along the way to so many triumphs, moving into the semifinals at Melbourne Park for the 12th time with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-
  
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• Israeli troops kill 6 and wound 35 in West Bank operation, Palestinian officials say

  21-01-2025 13:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel launched a large military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that the Palestinian Health Ministry said had killed at least six people and wounded 35.
  Israel announced a “significant and broad military operation” against Palestinian militants in the city. Jenin has seen repeated Israeli incursions and gunbattles with militants in recent years, even before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack ignited the war in Gaza.
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• Israeli troops kill 6, wound 35 in West Bank operation, Palestinian officials say

  21-01-2025 13:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin has killed at least six people and wounded 35 others.Israel on Tuesday announced a “significant and broad military operation” against Palestinian militants in the city.The Associated Press
  
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• On thin ice: Canadian speedskaters fear loss of ice at Calgary’s Olympic Oval

  21-01-2025 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The fastest ice in the world is on borrowed time.
  Calgary’s Olympic Oval is a legacy of the 1988 Winter Games in the city and the oldest of three covered speedskating ovals in Canada.
  The building that turns 38 years old this year has been a centre of international, university and community sport well past its expected life cycle.
  Speedskaters who trained there have produced 36 Olympic medals with Catriona Le May Doan, Cindy Klassen, Clara Hughes and Denny Morrison among th
  
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• Parts of tundra releasing more carbon than they absorb: study

  21-01-2025 11:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, upending a millennia-old trend.The study published in academic journal Nature Climate Change suggests many tundra regions may have started to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb, calling it a “noteworthy shift in carbon dynamics.”
  The study suggests one of the main drivers of that shift could be thawing permafrost, frozen ground that covers almost half of Canada&rs
  
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• More than a third of Canadians turn to online info due to lack of doctor access: poll

  21-01-2025 11:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.The online survey by the Canadian Medical Association and Abacus Data conducted last November found that 37 per cent of respondents used medical advice they found online because they couldn’t access a doctor or a medical professional for help.Twenty-three per
  
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• Fred Graves Obituary (August 21, 1933 - January 13, 2025) - Chilliwack, BC - The Times Colonist - Legacy.com

  21-01-2025 10:50
  Fred Graves Obituary (August 21, 1933 - January 13, 2025) - Chilliwack, BC - The Times Colonist  Legacy.com
  
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• Landslides and flash floods on Indonesia’s Java island leave 17 dead and 8 missing

  21-01-2025 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered the bodies of at least 17 people who were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java, officials said Tuesday. Eight people were missing.
  Torrential rains on Monday caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through nine villages in Pekalongan regency of Central Java province, as mud, rocks and trees tumbled down on mountainside hamlets, said Berg
  
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• In the news today: Trump signals tariffs may be coming Feb. 1

  21-01-2025 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Trump signals tariffs may be coming Feb. 1
  U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his administration could move ahead with with 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on Canadian imports on Feb. 1.He delivered the deadline on Monday evening at the White House as he signed a stack of unrelated executive orders.The February date comes after Trump officials, speaking anonymously, suggested to reporters that
  
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• Starmer says the killing of 3 girls must lead to ‘fundamental change’ in how state protects citizens

  21-01-2025 10:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that the killing of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class must lead to “fundamental change” in how the British state protects citizens.
  Starmer said the government must also answer “tough questions” about how authorities failed to stop a violence-obsessed teenager before he stabbed three young girls to death in the seaside town of Southport in July.
  In a televised statement, the prime minister said th
  
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• Liberal leadership hopefuls distance themselves from carbon pricing

  21-01-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The three frontrunners in the Liberal leadership race have all backed away — to one degree or another — from the Liberal government’s keystone climate policy in a bid to take a major Conservative line of attack off the table.
  The Liberals first campaigned on a carbon price in 2008 and moved to make it happen following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election win in 2015.
  It was first implemented in 2019 and is a critical piece of the federal climate plan. I
  
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• Justin Trudeau to speak after Donald Trump muses about tariffs coming Feb. 1

  21-01-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTEBELLO, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to speak with media today,the first time he’ll take questions since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington.
  Trudeau is huddling with his team in Montebello, Que., for the government’s annual winter cabinet retreat, which will be his last before he steps aside in March.
  Usually scheduled to coincide with the return of Parliament after the holidays, the retreat this year is instead focused on the Canada-U.
  
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