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• UPDATE: 1 person dead following apartment fire in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 23:28
  UPDATE: 1 person dead following apartment fire in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Blanket drive for Chilliwack unhoused to 'lend a hand' - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 23:28
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• Minnesota high court sides with Democrats in struggle with Republicans over control of state House

  24-01-2025 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Friday in a power struggle with Republicans that the chief justice said had left the state House of Representatives “completely dysfunctional.”
  The justices agreed with House Democratic leaders who argued that a quorum in the House was 68 members under the state constitution, not the 67 that Republicans claimed. The House GOP holds a 67-66 majority pending a special election to fill an empty seat that’
  
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• Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma

  24-01-2025 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.
  The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a charter school.
  The conservative-dominated high court has issued several decisions in recent years signaling a
  
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• Wildfire prompts Cavalry FC to be put on evacuation alert at California training camp

  24-01-2025 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHULA VISTA — Canadian Premier League champion Cavalry FC has been put on evacuation alert due to a wildfire near its pre-season training base outside of San Diego.
  The Calgary-based team said the travelling squad of 27 players and 11 coaching/support staff were alerted to the threat early Friday by authorities.The group is safe and in the training facility and awaiting further instruction from local authorities, the club said.“We first learned of the evacuation notice at 3:30 a.m. (
  
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• Freestyle ski star Kingsbury picks up 93rd career World Cup victory at moguls event

  24-01-2025 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WATERVILLE VALLEY — Canadian freestyle ski star Mikael Kingsbury won the gold medal at Friday’s World Cup men’s moguls event.
  The 32-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que., put down a run of 84.95 points in the second final to pick up the 93rd World Cup victory of his career.
  Kingsbury, now in his 16th season, has 133 medals in 154 World Cup events. He has three gold medals and a silver in five events this season.
  Nick Page of the United States was second with 83.55 points, followe
  
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• RCMP dismantle sophisticated property crime operation in Langley

  24-01-2025 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Roughly $1 million worth of stolen goods have now been recovered by Langley RCMP’s Drugs and Organized Crime Section (DOCS) following a three-week investigation.
  On December 17, 2024, DOCS began looking into a series of break-and-enters in the Lower Mainland. Investigators found a possible suspect and related property in south Langley’s Brookswood neighbourhood.Image: Some of the goods recovered by Langley RCMP / Langley RCMP
  Mounties executed a search warrant with th
  
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• Winger Marco Bustos rejoins CPL’s Pacific FC after two seasons in Sweden

  24-01-2025 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Marco Bustos, a nominee for the Canadian Premier League’s Player of the Year Award in 2020, has rejoined Pacific FC after two years in Sweden with Varnamo.The 28-year-old winger from Winnipeg, who has won six caps for Canada, has signed a contract that runs through 2026.
  “Marco is a player I’ve known for a long time now,” Pacific coach James Merriman said in a statement. “We know his motivation, his ambition and the standards that he brings to our team. He’s a
  
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• Psychiatrist: B.C. man who stabbed mom suffered schizophrenia psychosis - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 22:29
  Psychiatrist: B.C. man who stabbed mom suffered schizophrenia psychosis  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada captain Alphonso Davies sidelined by injury suffered playing for Bayern Munich

  24-01-2025 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MUNICH — Canada captain Alphonso Davies has been sidelined after suffering a muscle strain in his left hamstring in Bayern Munich’s 3-0 Champions League loss at Feyenoord on Wednesday.
  The German powerhouse said the injury was confirmed by a scan, adding the 24-year-old fullback from Edmonton will be out “for the time being.”Davies was substituted during first-half injury time.
  Asked about Davies’ condition at a news conference Friday ahead of Bayern’s Bundesl
  
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• Riviera tournament moving to Torrey Pines in San Diego because of LA wildfires

  24-01-2025 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The PGA Tour is relocating the Genesis Invitational out of wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles, announcing Friday it will be held Feb. 13-16 on the South course at Torrey Pines in San Diego with an emphasis on relief initiatives for victims of the fires.
  That gives Torrey Pines two tournaments in a span of four weeks.
  The tour said the $20 million signature event hosted by Tiger Woods would return to Riviera Country Club next year.
  Riviera was not damaged, but it is located in the Pacific Palisades com
  
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• B.C. chief wants Oscar-nominated residential school film to be part of curriculum

  24-01-2025 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — An Oscar-nominated documentary about deaths, abuse and missing children at a former British Columbia residential school should be shown in schools across Canada, says a First Nations leader.
  The film “Sugarcane,” directed by Secwépemc artist Julian Brave NoiseCat from Williams Lake in the B.C. Interior, and Toronto journalist Emily Kassie, received an Academy Award nomination this week for best documentary feature.
  Williams Lake First Nation Chief W
  
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• Dog rescued from mobile-home fire in Popkum - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 21:57
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• TSB investigators deployed after boat crash and sinking near Squamish, B.C.

  24-01-2025 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it has deployed a team of investigators after a collision and sinking of a workboat near Squamish, B.C., last month.
  It says the incident happened on Dec. 18.Liam MacDonald, a spokesman for the agency, says a tug boat called the Haisla Northwind, which was carrying three people and towing a barge, struck the workboat in Howe Sound.MacDonald confirms the workboat sank as a result of the crash.
  He says the sole crew member aboar
  
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• Canada Post gets $1-billion loan from federal government amid financial struggles

  24-01-2025 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is providing a $1-billion loan to Canada Post to help the Crown corporation continue operating amid “significant financial challenges.”
  Canada Post says it was notified it will receive the $1.034 billion in repayable funding through the 2025-26 fiscal year.
  Canada Post says that while the funding will help it “maintain its solvency and continue operating,” the loan will not solve its structural issues. It says it has incurred signific
  
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• B.C. climate activist couple to live in Pakistan if deportation proceeds

  24-01-2025 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia climate activist Zain Haq and his wife Sophia Papp are planning to live together in Pakistan if his threatened deportation proceeds on Saturday, and blame his imminent expulsion on bureaucratic failings by immigration officials.
  Haq, a Pakistani citizen who co-founded activist group Save Old Growth as an international student, was granted a temporary resident permit last April, pausing deportation to allow his spousal application for permanent residency to be p
  
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• Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking reproductive health care facilities

  24-01-2025 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.Justice Department chief of staff Chad Mizelle said in a memo obtained by The Associated Press that prosecutions and civil actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or “FACE Act” will
  
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• Mission Fire gives away free smoke alarms in latest campaign

  24-01-2025 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — More than 1,100 homes in Mission can now receive a free smoke alarm from the Mission Fire Rescue Service after an announcement on Thursday (Jan. 23).“Safety is one of our key strategic priorities and we are looking to address it at every level, but prevention is one of our most important priorities,” said Mayor Paul Horn in a release. “There’s no question that smoke detectors are one of the simplest ways to keep your family safe so we hope that people will
  
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• Bill Blair says Canada could hit NATO target in 2 years, but doesn’t commit

  24-01-2025 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn’t commit to doing so.
  NATO members have all committed to spend the equivalent of two per cent of its GDP on defence but Canada has consistently failed to reach that target.
  Last summer, following backlash from Republican lawmakers in the U.S., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadian defence spending would hit the two per cent marker in 2032.
  But
  
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• Critics denounce Vancouver mayor’s ‘Trumpian’ plan to ‘integrate’ Downtown Eastside

  24-01-2025 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Critics are denouncing Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s plan for revitalizing the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, with former councillor Jean Swanson saying his proposal to pause supportive housing construction is “Trumpian.”
  Swanson, an anti-poverty activist, says Sim’s plans to pause net new supportive housing units in Vancouver and reduce the concentration of social services in the Downtown Eastside are “not compassionate” and are akin to victim
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps pick up Canadian forward Jayden Nelson from Norwegian club

  24-01-2025 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Canadian forward Jayden Nelson ahead of the Major League Soccer season.The ‘Caps announced the move Friday, saying the 22-year-old athlete from Brampton, Ont., has agreed to a contract through the 2028 season with a club option for 2029.Nelson comes to Vancouver from Norwegian club Rosenborg where he contributed eight goals and nine assists across 44 appearances.The five-foot-nine, 160-pound Nelson came up through the Toronto FC acade
  
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• Utah Hockey Club’s bid to trademark ‘Yeti’ for team name hits snag

  24-01-2025 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused a request by the NHL’s Utah Hockey Club to trademark the name Utah Yetis.
  The USPTO issued a refusal Jan. 9, citing the “likelihood of confusion” with other notable brands using the name, such as Yeti Coolers. KSL.com first reported news of the refusal earlier this week.
  The team has three months to file a response to what is described as a “nonfinal office action” to keep the application a
  
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• Jaguars hire Bucs OC Liam Coen as head coach after making necessary moves

  24-01-2025 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars hired Tampa Bay offensive coordinator Liam Coen as the eighth head coach in franchise history Friday, capping a covert operation that included owner Shad Khan moving on from general manager Trent Baalke and Coen reversing course with the Buccaneers.
  The sides officially agreed to terms a day after Coen called Bucs coach Todd Bowles and others to tell them he planned to sign with Jacksonville.
  “To repeat my message earlier this week,
  
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• State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide

  24-01-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Friday froze new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.
  The sweeping order threatened a quick halt to countless projects globally aiding health, education, development, job training and other efforts by the United States, the largest provide of foreign aid. It appears to begin enforcement of a pledge to eliminate aid programs that Presid
  
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• B.C. police watchdog investigating overnight collision on Mission Bridge

  24-01-2025 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) is now looking into the early Friday (Jan. 24) crash along Highway 11 in Abbotsford.At about 12:30 a.m., Abbotsford police tried to stop a Ford Mustang in Mission for a Motor Vehicle Act violation. The driver failed to stop, and was then reported to continue southbound towards Mission Bridge.The suspect’s vehicle crashed head-on with a civilian Hyundai Elantra on the bridge. Both drivers were taken to hospital for non-l
  
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• Province returns Mission area land to LMS Society under historic agreement

  24-01-2025 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — The province has returned title to lands east of Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission to the LMS Society, marking a significant milestone under the Í:xel Sq’eq’ó agreement signed in July 2021. The LMS Society, representing the Leq’á:mel, Matsqui, and Sumas First Nations, celebrated the return as a step toward reconciliation and community development.
  The lands, now subdivided, include a 50-hectare parcel to be leased to the City of Mission
  
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• RCMP union says Manitoba, Saskatchewan face severe staffing stresses

  24-01-2025 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA — The union representing front-line Mounties says it has not seen an internal RCMP memo calling for short-term staff transfers to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but says those provinces are under severe workload stress.
  Bobby Baker, the National Police Federation’s director for the Prairies, says it’s not unheard of for there to be a call to shift officers between jurisdictions temporarily.But he says most often it’s confined to the three northern t
  
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• ‘You better pray we get elected’: Doug Ford says he will call snap Ontario election

  24-01-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump as a justification.
  That election call would send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, more than a year before the June 2026 fixed election date.
  “With a strong mandate, we will be able to fight with Donald Trump to make sure we stop the tariffs,” he said Friday at the press conf
  
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• New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom out 4-6 weeks with knee injury

  24-01-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom will be out 4-6 weeks with a sprained MCL in his knee, the team announced Friday.
  Markstrom was injured in the second period of the Devils’ 5-1 win over the Bruins on Wednesday when Boston forward Justin Brazeau crashed into him.
  “Markstrom will miss the remainder of the club’s games leading into the Four Nations break,” the Devils said in a statement. “He will begin a rehab program under the gui
  
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• Ottawa to review ‘business relationship’ with Amazon following Quebec shutdown

  24-01-2025 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal industry minister is calling for a review of Ottawa’s “business relationship” with Amazon after the company said it will close all seven of its warehouses in Quebec.
  The closure will eliminate 1,700 permanent jobs and 250 temporary ones, and comes after workers at an Amazon warehouse in the Montreal suburb of Laval, Que. managed to unionize in May.
  Amazon is dismissing the suggestion that the closures are linked to a unionization push in the province
  
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• Ottawa planning processing centre for asylum seekers in Quebec near U.S. border

  24-01-2025 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada.
  Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.
  In an email, the Canada Border Services Agency says the planned processi
  
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• Call for male-targeted prevention programs to address N.S. domestic violence epidemic

  24-01-2025 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Long before Brenda Tatlock-Burke was killed by her husband in October, there were signs of his controlling and coercive behaviour.“As my mom’s kids, if we said something he disapproved of, we were literally not allowed to go and see her,” Tatlock-Burke’s daughter, Tara Graham, said of her stepfather, retired RCMP officer Mike Burke. “He did that with friendships and relatives of hers over the years. He was controlling the money, the finances.”
  
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• Auschwitz survivor says he was alarmed by Elon Musk’s gesture at Trump event

  24-01-2025 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — David Moscovic, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, says it’s scary to see things he never thought he would see again — such as a powerful man like Elon Musk using a “German salute.”
  Moscovic, who lives in Ottawa, is referring to the tech mogul making a straight-arm gesture similar to a Nazi salute as he addressed the crowd assembled for U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration event on Monday.
  Musk says it was a gesture meant to convey to the crowd t
  
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• Colombia president decrees emergency powers to restore order in coca region wracked by rebel combat

  24-01-2025 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.
  President Gustavo Petro’s decree gives him 90 days, which can be extend, to impose curfews, restrict traffic and take other steps that would normally violate Colombians’ civil rights or require congressional approval.
  It is the first time in mo
  
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• Land-transfer finalized in agreement between Mission, province, First Nations - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 19:14
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• World Curling permits firmer foam broom heads despite elite curlers’ concerns

  24-01-2025 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PERTH — The World Curling Federation says it won’t remove approved broom heads from competition despite recent concerns among elite curlers about foam firmness changing the trajectory of stones.
  The world’s top 30 teams released a joint “proposal for fair play” before the WFG Masters in Guelph, Ont., earlier this month amid worries new firmer foam products in some manufacturers’ broom heads gave sweepers too much control over delivered stones.
  The WCF says in
  
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• Harris left off Team Einarson’s 2025 Canadian women’s curling championship roster

  24-01-2025 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Four-time Canadian champion Kerri Einarson is sticking with her current lineup for the upcoming Scotties Tournament of Hearts despite the reinstatement of lead Briane Harris.
  Her team announced its lineup for the Canadian women’s curling championship Friday, with Einarson at skip joined by third Val Sweeting, second Karlee Burgess and lead Krysten Karwacki.
  The team says a fifth player will be announced shortly to serve as an alternate.
  Harris has not played since being notified of a posit
  
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• FBI arrests a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of Vermont Border Patrol agent

  24-01-2025 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.Teresa Youngblut, 21, was charged in Monday’s killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, the FBI said. It said Youngblut and a German man who died in the firefight had been under surveillance for several days.
  According to an FBI affidavit, Maland stopped Youngblut and Felix Baukholt on Interstate 91 in Coventry on Monday because Baukho
  
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• Former chief trade negotiator says Alberta undermining Canada in U.S. tariff talks

  24-01-2025 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ottawa’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada’s attempts to prevent the U.S. from levying damaging tariffs.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rallied most of the premiers to agree that all sectors of the Canadian economy could be deployed to fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada.
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said that Canada should not threaten
  
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• 42-year-old woman killed, son arrested in Montreal’s first homicide of the year

  24-01-2025 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A 42-year-old woman is dead and her 21-year-old son has been arrested in what Montreal police say is the city’s first murder of the year.
  Police spokesperson Mariane Allaire Morin says a 911 call came in Thursday morning for a welfare check at a home in the LaSalle borough, west of downtown Montreal.Inside the home, officers found the woman’s body, which showed signs of violence.Allaire Morin says the 21-year-old was arrested later in the day and the death was offici
  
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• Trump proposes ‘getting rid of FEMA’ while visiting North Carolina

  24-01-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was considering “getting rid of FEMA” as he visited hurricane-battered North Carolina on Friday during the first trip of his second term.
  The comment, made during a briefing on the monthslong recovery from Hurricane Helene, was the latest signal of how Trump is planning sweeping changes to the federal government’s role in managing catastrophes.
  “FEMA has been a very big disappointment,” the Republican presid
  
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• London court clears way to extradite US mother accused of killing 2 of her children in Colorado

  24-01-2025 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — A London judge on Friday rejected a U.S. mother’s challenge to her extradition to face murder charges in Colorado in the deaths of two of her young children.
  The ruling by Judge John Zani at Westminster Magistrates’ Court clears the way for the British government to order Kimberlee Singler’s return to America.
  Singler, 36, is accused of two counts of first-degree murder in the December 2023 shooting and stabbings of her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son
  
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• Quebec man sentenced to 30 years in U.S. prison for selling fake Xanax on dark web

  24-01-2025 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Quebec man has been sentenced to 30 years in United States federal prison for his role in an international drug ring that imported millions of fake Xanax pills into that country.
  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says Arden McCann, 37, has been sentenced by a judge in Georgia for being “one of the largest drug vendors” on the dark web — a hidden part of the internet accessible through specialized software.
  McCann was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in June 2022 to s
  
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• Documentary releasing on journey of Aldergrove's 'The Blind Kid' - Chilliwack Progress

  24-01-2025 17:47
  Documentary releasing on journey of Aldergrove's 'The Blind Kid'  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Sense of closure’: Court weighs sentence for ex-priest who abused Nunavut children

  24-01-2025 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT — The Crown and defence are recommending a prison sentence of six years for a former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to indecent assault against several Inuit children decades ago.A courtroom in Iqaluit has heard horrific details of the sexual abuse Eric Dejaeger inflicted on six girls and one boy between 1978 and 1982 in the hamlet of Igloolik, Nvt.Victim impact statements were delivered Thursday by the five surviving complainants, who described how the assaults led to addictio
  
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• ‘Used that as fuel’: Kadri says pre-season doubters spurring Flames’ playoff push

  24-01-2025 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nazem Kadri paid close attention as the exit continued to swing open.The Calgary Flames shipped a boatload of veterans out of town last season. The organization had made the decision to start a rebuild.The club traded defencemen Noah Hanifin, Chris Tanev and Nikita Zadorov, while forward Elias Lindholm was also sent packing. Calgary then dealt goaltender Jacob Markstrom to the New Jersey Devils in June after months of speculation.Kadri, who signed a big-money contract in 2022 and still had five
  
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• Toronto FC coach Fraser sees more attacking role for Italian star Bernardeschi

  24-01-2025 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  New Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser says he plans to deploy Italian star Federico Bernardeschi, converted to wingback last season under John Herdman, in a more attacking role this year.
  And there could also be a shift for fellow designated player Lorenzo Insigne.
  Fraser says depending on formation, he can see Bernardeschi playing as a winger, forward or attacking midfielder underneath the striker, likely on the right side.
  “I don’t intend to play him as a wingback,” Fraser said F
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks re-sign all-star defensive back Adarius Pickett

  24-01-2025 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Ottawa Redblacks have re-signed defensive back Adarius Pickett to a one-year contract extension, the team announced on Friday.
  Pickett, a two-time East Division all-star and 2023 CFL all-star, recorded 52 tackles, one sack and an interception in 13 games last season before suffering a season-ending Achilles injury.
  The 28-year-old also contributed 14 special teams tackles.
  Pickett previously played for the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes before joining Ottawa in 2024.
  The native of
  
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• Las Vegas Raiders are negotiating a deal to hire Pete Carroll as their head coach, AP source says

  24-01-2025 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Las Vegas Raiders are negotiating a deal to hire Pete Carroll to be their new head coach, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday.
  The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract hasn’t been finalized.
  The 73-year-old Carroll returns to the sideline after leading Seattle to two NFC championships and the franchise’s only Super Bowl title during a 14-year stretch that ended following the 2023 season.
  He joins a team that’s p
  
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• Two sent to hospital in overnight collision along Highway 11 in Abbotsford

  24-01-2025 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A 32-year-old man was arrested early Friday (Jan. 24) morning after fleeing a traffic stop and causing a head-on collision on Highway 11.
  Abbotsford police attempted to stop a Mustang in the Mission area at approximately 12:30 a.m. for a Motor Vehicle Act violation. The driver failed to comply, fleeing southbound in the northbound lanes of Highway 11, police said.
  The suspect’s vehicle collided head-on with a civilian vehicle traveling northbound. Emergency responders tr
  
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