OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade to replace the departing Justin Trudeau.
Candidates must declare by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 23 with a $50,000 deposit towards a $350,000 fee to enter the race. The winner will be named on March 9.
Here’s a quick look at who’s in and who’s out.
Who’s in
Chandra Arya
Arya became the first current member of the Liberal caucus to announce his candidacy just four days after Trudeau anno
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The slumping Vegas Golden Knights suffered another loss Thursday when they announced center William Karlsson is week-to-week with a lower-body injury.
The club recalled Tanner Laczynski and Brendan Brisson from its American Hockey League affiliate in Henderson, Nevada.
Karlsson, 32, has seven goals and 11 assists in 38 games this season, well off the pace of the 30-30 mark he posted last year. He doesn’t have a point in his past seven games.
The Golden Knights entere -
Quick quotes: Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Quebec secularism law
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge of Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, which prohibits public sector workers in positions of authority, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols on the job. Here are some quotes from politicians, advocacy groups and other prominent voices on the subject.
“Quebecers have chosen secularism; it was a collective and legitimate choice that represents the culmination of decades of debate -
The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.
Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA, the nation’s premier spy agency. The Texas Republican is a former federal prosecutor who emerged as a fierce Trump defender while serving as a congressman during Trump’s f -
Quebec maple syrup producers fear ‘major consequences’ if Trump tariffs go ahead
MONTREAL — Quebec’s maple syrup producers are worried their industry will take a big hit if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to slap 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports next month.
Joël Vaudeville, spokesman for Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, says his group’s 13,500 members expect sales will drop if the tariffs drive up the price of their products in the United States.
Vaudeville questions whether Americans, who in 2023 bought $368 million worth of -
Trump calls on OPEC to bring down cost of oil at World Economic Forum
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump told an elite global audience today that he is going to ask the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries to bring down the cost of oil.
He made the comments in a wide-ranging address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Trump, appearing via video link from the White House, said Saudi Arabia and OPEC didn’t show “a lot of love” by not acting on oil prices ahead of the U.S. election in November.
The president campaigne -
Italy’s top court upholds Amanda Knox’s conviction for falsely accusing man of murder
ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder, a sensational case that polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Altlantic.
Knox had appealed the conviction based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that said her rights had been violated by the police’s failure to provide a lawyer and adequate translator during a long night of que -
Sen. Lisa Murkowski to vote against Hegseth, first Republican to oppose a Trump Cabinet pick
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Thursday that she will vote against confirming Pete Hegseth to lead Pentagon, becoming the first Republican to oppose one of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.
The Alaska Republican’s decision comes ahead of a crucial test vote to advance Hegseth’s nomination toward confirmation.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
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Illegal encampment crops up in Chilliwack River Valley after deactivated dirt road gets unlawfully refilled - Fraser Valley Today
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Illegal encampment crops up in Chilliwack River Valley after deactivated dirt road gets unlawfully refilled
CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack cleanup volunteer Ross Aikenhead says it’s discouraging to see an illegal encampment crop up on what was supposed to be a permanently deactivated dirt road just off Chilliwack Lake Road.Aikenhead, who has been regularly petitioned regional and provincial authorities to take action against about the negative environmental impacts associated with backcountry camps, says a problematic encampment has been located near Borden Creek, a few kilometers past Thurston M -
A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which argue the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case law have cemented birthright citizenship.
The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by -
RVs destroyed after fire breaks out at homeless encampment north of Hope Wednesday night
HOPE — A spokesperson for the Hope RCMP Detachment says two recreational vehicles were completely destroyed after a fire broke out on a forest service road north of Hope Wednesday night.
According to a statement from Hope RCMP Staff Sgt. Michael Sargent, Mounties in Hope, Hope Fire Department and B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics were dispatched for the report of multiple RVs on fire in the area of American Creek Forest Service Road.
Sgt. Sargent says Hope Fire crews quickly extinguished t -
Maple Leafs recall veteran goaltender Matt Murray from AHL, demote Dennis Hildeby
TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs made a crease move Thursday.
The club recalled veteran goaltender Matt Murray from the American Hockey League and demoted rookie Dennis Hildeby.
Murray is 8-4-2 this season with the Toronto Marlies to go along with a .934 save percentage and an AHL-best 1.68 goals-against average.
The 30-year-old, who won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017, has three victories and two shutouts over the last week with the Leafs’ farm club, i -
Indigenous MP says he has the money and the signatures to contest Liberal leadership
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste says he has the money and the signatures he needs to join the federal Liberal leadership race.
Speaking in Halifax today to Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey chiefs from across Atlantic Canada, the Indigenous politician from Cape Breton made the announcement as a 5 p.m. eastern deadline for applications loomed in Ottawa.
If he makes the deadline, Battiste will become the only First Nations candidate in the race to replace Justin Trudeau, and the first Ind -
COLUMN: Strapping on the large popcorn feedbag - Chilliwack Progress
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CHILLIWACK's "Gone Gone Gone - Farewell To Friends Tour" Lands At Toronto's Legendary Massy Hall In May - bravewords.com
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Downtown Chilliwack market moves to new location, new day in May - Chilliwack Progress
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A taste of Lithuania set to open in downtown Chilliwack Thursday - Fraser Valley Today
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A taste of Lithuania set to open in downtown Chilliwack today - Fraser Valley Today
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A taste of Lithuania set to open in downtown Chilliwack today
CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack’s newest eatery offering unique Lithuanian cuisine is set to open its doors to the public today in downtown Chilliwack.Rasa Noreika, the owner of Baltic Bay European Rustic Kitchen at 9371 Mill Street, says she’s excited to offer kibins, a traditional hot meat pie affiliated with Karaites, and traditional meat dumplings when she opens Thursday (Jan. 23) from noon to 2 p.m.In the lead-up to her grand opening, Noreika says she has received an outpouring of -
Family of 13-year-old Quebec girl who went missing in 2005 still seeking answers
MONTREAL — The mother of a 13-year-old Quebec girl who vanished without a trace 20 years ago today says she still hasn’t given up hope of finding her.Françoise Algier’s last memory of her daughter, Mélina Martin, was dropping her off at a local winter festival in Farnham, Que., about 55 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
Algier says her daughter took off running toward the park, excited to see the sled dogs.
The two were supposed to meet later at a restaurant, but -
Abbotsford police seize gun, ammo during traffic stop of suspicious vehicle
ABBOTSFORD — Proactive policing can put repeat offenders back behind bars where they belong, particularly when frontline AbbyPD officers apprehend suspects who breach the conditions of their release.Abbotsford PD says its patrol members were conducting proactive patrols along Whatcom Road Wednesday (Jan. 22) when they observed a suspicious vehicle. Upon stopping the motorist, police conducted a check and discovered the male driver had violated the terms of his release agreement and conditi -
Teen who killed 3 girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England sentenced to over 50 years
LONDON (AP) — A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.
Judge Julian Goose said 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana “wanted to try and carry out mass murder of innocent, happy young girls.”
The judge said that he couldn’t impose a sentence of life without parole, because Rudakabana was under 18 at the time of the crime.
But the judge said he must serve more than 51 years be -
Chilliwack fire crews attack apartment blaze on Victoria Avenue - Chilliwack Progress
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RVs destroyed after fire breaks out at an encampment north of Hope Wednesday night
HOPE — A spokesperson for the Hope RCMP Detachment says two recreational vehicles were completely destroyed after a fire broke out on a forest service road north of Hope Wednesday night.According to a statement from Hope RCMP Staff Sgt. Michael Sargent, Mounties in Hope, Hope Fire Department and B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics were dispatched for the report of multiple RVs on fire in the area of American Creek Forest Service Road.Sgt. Sargent says Hope Fire crews quickly extinguished the -
Karina Gould submits paperwork to enter Liberal leadership race on deadline day
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould submitted her official paperwork to enter the race to replace Justin Trudeau today.
Gould said outside party headquarters in Ottawa that her party lost touch with Canadians at the end of the pandemic and needs to get better at listening.
Gould briefly touched on some of her policy ideas and said she thinks the party did not get the capital gains tax increase right.
Candidates only have until 5 p.m. today to declare they will run — al -
Veteran forward Mo Babouli rejoins Forge FC after stint with CPL rival York United
HAMILTON — Veteran forward Mo Babouli has rejoined Forge FC from local CPL rival York United FC.
The 32-year-old Babouli spent 2020 and 2021 with Hamilton-based Forge before signing with Toronto’s York in August 2022. He is signed through the 2025 Canadian Premier League season with Forge.
“We’re excited to have Mo back at Forge FC,” Bobby Smyrniotis, Forge’s sporting director and head coach, said in a statement. “He’s a fantastic player who knows -
PWHL’s Montreal Victoire to host Boston Fleet at Bell Centre on March 1
MONTREAL — The Montreal Victoire will host the Boston Fleet in a Professional Women’s Hockey League game at the Bell Centre on March 1.
Last season, a women’s hockey attendance record of 21,105 fans filled the building when Montreal lost 3-2 in overtime to Toronto on April 20 at the home of the NHL’s Canadiens.
The sellout crowd surpassed the previous high of 19,285 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Feb. 16.
Montreal played most of its home games at the 4,000-seat Ve -
B.C. residential school documentary ‘Sugarcane’ earns Oscar nomination - Chilliwack Progress
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CP NewsAlert: Ex-priest pleads guilty to indecent assaults of children in Nunavut
IQALUIT — Defrocked Catholic priest Eric Dejaeger has pleaded guilty to seven counts of indecent assault against children in Nunavut.
Court has heard the offences took place between 1978 and 1982 at or near the hamlet of Igloolik.
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AFC Toronto looks to its roots in signing three North Toronto Soccer players
TORONTO — AFC looked to its roots Thursday, announcing the signing of three local players who have gone on to make their mark outside of Toronto.
The new Northern Super League side has added goalkeeper Sierra Cota-Yarde, defender Sarah Rollins and midfielder Ivymae Perez.All three played for the North Toronto Soccer club led by members of the AFC Toronto management and coaching team.
“Recruiting local talent is important for us and we aim to sign high potential players ready to be a -
Record-setting ‘Emilia Pérez’ tops Oscar nomination list - Chilliwack Progress
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