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• White House says Israel and Lebanon have extended deadline for troop withdrawal to Feb. 18

  26-01-2025 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon (AP) — The White House said Sunday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon until Feb. 18, after Israel requested more time to withdraw beyond the 60-day deadline stipulated in a ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war in late November.
  Israel has said that it needs to stay longer because the Lebanese army has not deployed to all areas of southern Lebanon to ensure that Hezbollah does no
  
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• Qatar says agreement reached to release Israeli hostage, allow Palestinians to return to north Gaza

  26-01-2025 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Mediator Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The deal eases the first major crisis of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
  Qatar’s statement early Monday says Hamas will hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two other hostages before Friday. And on Monday, Israeli authorities will allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.
  The offic
  
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• Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan

  26-01-2025 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government.The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went missing in Kabul back in November, according to the Veterans Transition Network.Lavery had been working with the group to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.
  The Veterans Transition Network said he was believed to have been detained by the Afghan government.
  The country has been under
  
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• American speedskating star Jordan Stolz wins World Cup 500 metres in Calgary

  26-01-2025 23:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — American speedskating star Jordan Stolz has won the men’s 500 metres at a World Cup in Calgary.
  The 20-year-old has yet to lose a race this season in the 500, 1,000 and 1,500 metres.He went 3-for-3 at the Olympic Oval. Stolz won the 500 in a time of 33.85 seconds.
  The American will carry his unbeaten streak into the next World Cup in his home state in Milwaukee, Wis.
  Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que., the 2022 Olympic silver medallist in the distance,placed fifth.
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• B.C.-based climate activist deported to Pakistan after protest charges

  26-01-2025 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A British Columbia-based climate change activist says he’s looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food when he returns to his native Pakistan, as he was being deported from Canada on Sunday.
  Zain Haq and his Canadian wife were hoping for a last-minute intervention by either the public safety minister or the immigration minister to stop his deportation, but he says he’s “at peace” with his fate as he waited on board a plane departing from Toronto.
  Haq, who ple
  
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• Trump says Canada should become part of U.S. Our head of state isn’t weighing in.

  26-01-2025 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the “51st state,” as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.The heads of all major political parties resoundingly reject the idea, but Canada’s head of state, King Charles III, is not weighing in.A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said Trump’s takeover threat is “not something we would comment on.”Trump first made the su
  
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• Parks, Transit and Animal Control: what’s coming up for Fraser Valley Regional District’s Budget 2025

  26-01-2025 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — More people are flowing into Fraser Valley, which means more services– and more taxes.
  On Thursday (Jan. 23), the regional district’s Committee of the Whole met up to discuss the upcoming five-year budget.
  Residential taxes are up by an average of 9 per cent from 2024 across all municipalities in the regional district. Highlights of the cost breakdown are as follows:
  CITY OF ABBOTSFORDAverage tax increase: $3.90 (5%)
  Top contributors:
  Animal Control
  FVRD Parks:
  
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• Quebec man charged with second-degree murder after death in Montérégie region

  26-01-2025 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAINT-ANICET, Que. — A 55-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a death in Quebec’s Montérégie region on Saturday.The man appeared in court via video conference on Sunday.Quebec provincial police say they were called to a home in Saint-Anicet, Que., about 75 kilometres southwest of Montreal, at around 9 a.m. Saturday.They say the victim, a man in his 70s, was found unconscious and pronounced dead at the scene.A suspect was arrested at the scene,
  
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• VIDEO: Vancouver Giants bounce back, down Kelowna - Chilliwack Progress

  26-01-2025 21:41
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• One driver dead at scene of multi-vehicle crash on Metro Vancouver bridge

  26-01-2025 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The Surrey Police Service says one driver is dead and others have been injured in a multi-vehicle collision on the Patullo Bridge, a key route in Metro Vancouver.
  Police say the crash around 8:30 a.m. Sunday involved five vehicles, including a bus on the east end of the bridge.
  The bridge has been in both directions and police say detours and closures would “last throughout the day” as investigators probe the cause of the crash.Police say they were alerted to the
  
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• Hundreds of young athletes return for 18th annual wrestling tournament in Abbotsford

  26-01-2025 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — More than 300 wrestlers from grades 1 to 12 are back on the grappling mats this Sunday (Jan. 26) at Abbotsford for the 18th Miri-Piri Wrestling Tournament.Athletes hail from various parts of B.C., but some have traveled all the way out from Alberta and Washington. The tournament has always been sorted by grade and weight division, but the girls’ wrestling program has grown large enough to become its own category, too. There are nearly 60 total female wrestlers competing&
  
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• Names of Australian Open runner-up Zverev’s past accusers shouted out during trophy ceremony

  26-01-2025 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Moments after Alexander Zverev’s loss in the Australian Open final Sunday, a person in the stadium yelled out the names of two of the tennis star’s ex-girlfriends who have accused him of physical abuse in the past, saying “Australia believes” them.
  As Zverev stood at a microphone waiting to speak during the trophy ceremony, a voice repeated the phrase three times. Some others in the crowd at Rod Laver Arena booed and whistled.
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• Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami gets 1st World Cup win of season. Lindsey Vonn finishes 13th

  26-01-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Swiss ski star Lara Gut-Behrami has finally found a way back to winning ways, with next month’s world championships looming.
  The defending overall World Cup champion overcame challenging course conditions Sunday to win the last super-G before the worlds for her first victory of the season, while Lindsey Vonn placed 13th.
  Gut-Behrami mastered the tricky turns in the middle part of the Kandahar course to earn career win No. 46, which put her in jo
  
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• Naomi Girma is women’s soccer’s first million-dollar player after moving to Chelsea from San Diego

  26-01-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Women’s soccer has its first million-dollar player after United States defender Naomi Girma moved from San Diego Wave to Chelsea on Sunday.
  Chelsea announced the signing of Girma without disclosing the fee but The Athletic and the BBC were among those reporting the English champions have spent 900,000 pounds ($1.1 million) on the transfer.
  That surpasses the world-record fee of $788,000 that Bay FC paid to sign Zambia striker Rachael Kundananji from Madrid CFF last year.
  It is the third ti
  
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• Rebels enter outskirts of Goma and close the airport in the eastern Congo hub

  26-01-2025 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in the country said, as thousands fled the fighting that also killed at least 13 peacekeepers.The Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, closing in on Goma, the provincial capital of around 2 million and a regional hub for security
  
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• Canadian teen surfer Erin Brooks ready for debut as full-time member of WSL top tier

  26-01-2025 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Having won in her lone appearance on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour as a wild card, Canadian teenager Erin Brooks now looks to leave her mark as a full-time member of pro surfing’s top tier.
  Conditions permitting, the season starts Monday at the Lexus Pipe Pro at Oahu’s famed North Shore, home to the testing Banzai Pipeline.
  “My goal is to make it two (wins) in a row,” Brooks said in an interview. “But we’ll see what happens.”
  The 17-yea
  
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• Canada women move up HSBC SVNS season standings with fourth-place finish in Perth

  26-01-2025 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PERTH — The Canadian women climbed two places to fifth in the HSBC SVNS overall standings after placing a season-best fourth Sunday at the Perth stop on the elite rugby sevens circuit.
  Unbeaten in pool play and a 27-5 quarterfinal winner over Brazil, Canada’s winning run ended in a 24-17 semifinal loss to eventual champion Australia. Trailing 19-0 at the half, the Canadians rallied to cut the margin to 19-17 on tries by Shoshanah Seumanutafa, Asia Hogan-Rochester and Carmen Izyk and
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of January 26, 2025

  26-01-2025 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Bryan SchapanskyAge: 51
  Height: 5’6” ft
  Weight: 201lbs
  Hair: Grey/Brown
  Eyes: Hazel
  Wanted: Possess Controlled Drug/Substance to Traffick x4
  Warrant in effect: January 20, 2025Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack
  Name: Eric John ViningAge: 39
  Height: 5’8” ft
  Weight: 220lbs
  Hair: BrownEyes: Brown
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: January
  
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• Public service productivity study group not looking at remote work, says member

  26-01-2025 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada’s federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says.
  Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress and one of the group’s seven members, said remote work “is not part of anything that we’ve discussed at this moment” and she doesn’t know if the topic will be part of the study.
  The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, which is behind the study,
  
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• Upcycle old jewelry, carve soapstone at art classes in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  26-01-2025 14:35
  Upcycle old jewelry, carve soapstone at art classes in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian ice climbers bring thriving, nascent sport to world championship in Edmonton

  26-01-2025 14:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Even with a torrent of blood flowing from his mouth, knowing several of his teeth were bent out of place, Gord McArthur believed he could get back on the wall.
  Moments before, in the middle of a manoeuvre last February at the Ice Climbing World Cup in Edmonton, the Canadian ice climber was holding an axe handle in his mouth when he fell.
  On the way down, one of his ropes caught the tool, driving it into his mouth, fracturing his jaw and displacing his bottom teeth.
  “It was … like be
  
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• Jannik Sinner beats Alexander Zverev in 3 sets for his second Australian Open title in a row

  26-01-2025 12:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jannik Sinner claimed his second consecutive Australian Open championship on Sunday, never facing a single break point and using his complete game to outplay and frustrate Alexander Zverev for a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory in the final.
  Sinner, a 23-year-old Italian, is the youngest man to leave Melbourne Park with the trophy two years in a row since Jim Courier in 1992-93.Sinner rose to No. 1 last June, remaining there for every week since, and the gap between hi
  
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• Survey says more young Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust is exaggerated

  26-01-2025 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War.
  But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
  A panel survey commissioned by
  
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• Liberal leadership hopefuls campaigning in Quebec on Sunday

  26-01-2025 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former central banker Mark Carney is set to add another big endorsement to his growing pile of backers as Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce his endorsement today.
  Two sources who weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly, tell The Canadian Press Carney and Champagne will be campaigning in the minister’s riding all day. Yesterday in Toronto, Carney said he would run as an MP in the next election, regardless of what came of the
  
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• South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law, reports say

  26-01-2025 11:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Sunday indicted the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his imposition of martial law last month, news reports said.
  Yonhap news agency reported that the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office indicted Yoon over rebellion in connection with his Dec. 3 decree that plunged the country into massive political turmoil. Other South Korean media outlets have carried similar reports.Repeated calls to the prosecutors’ office w
  
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• ‘He drags guys along’: Quinn Hughes hitting new highs with Vancouver Canucks

  26-01-2025 09:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Quinn Hughes is not one to settle.Last season, the Vancouver Canucks’ captain won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenceman. Then he spent his off season further perfecting his game.
  The work is paying off — the 25-year-old American defenceman scored twice Saturday and powered the Canucks to a 2-1 victory over the league-leading Washington Capitals.Hughes now has 14 goals and 40 assists in 44 games this season. He leads Vancouver (27-17-10) in points and i
  
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• NHL roundup: Cam Talbot shines as Red Wings blank the Lightning 2-0

  26-01-2025 07:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Cam Talbot stopped 28 shots for his second shutout of the season as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on Saturday night.
  Marco Kasper redirected J.T. Compher’s shot at 9:55 of the second period, and Michael Rasmussen scored an empty-netter in the final minute to clinch Detroit’s victory.
  Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves for the Lightning, who were shut out for the first time this season and have lost three of four since beating the Red Wings
  
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• Hughes scores twice, Canucks snap Capitals’ win streak with 2-1 decision

  26-01-2025 06:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Quinn Hughes scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks beat the league-leading Washington Capitals 2-1 on Saturday.The performance extended Hughes’ point streak to five games with five goals and two assists across the stretch.Defenceman Filip Hronek contributed a pair of assists for the Canucks (21-17-10) and Kevin Lankinen stopped 32 of the 33 shots he faced.The lone Capitals goal from Pierre-Luc Dubois came at the 12:31 mark of the third period when he knocked in a loose p
  
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• Devils’ goalie Allen thrilled to net 4-3 win in return to Montreal

  26-01-2025 06:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Ask most NHL players and they will say there is something special about playing games at Montreal’s Bell Centre, particularly on a Saturday night.
  For New Jersey Devils goaltender Jake Allen, a former member of the Montreal Canadiens, those sentiments take on a whole new meaning.
  “Obviously, it was important for me to come back here,” said Allen, who made 29 saves in the Devils 4-3 overtime win over the Canadiens on Saturday.
  “It was just fun to come back
  
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• Belarus strongman set to win a 7th term in an election the opposition calls a farce

  26-01-2025 06:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power.
  “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together. The phrase is what groups of voters responded in campaign videos after supposedly being asked if they wanted him to serve again.
  But his
  
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• Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region, WHO chief says

  26-01-2025 05:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X.Officials and others in the capital of North Darfur province had cited a similar figure Saturday, but Ghebreyesus is the first international source to provide a casualty number.&ldq
  
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• Pinto’s thrilled Senators’ lucky goal helps beat rival Leafs 2-1

  26-01-2025 05:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators were in hostile territory on Saturday night despite playing in their home rink.
  The Senators are no strangers to seeing a sea of blue and white in the stands when hosting the Maple Leafs in Ottawa, making it all the more satisfying to send those fans home disappointed.
  Shane Pinto scored the game winner midway through the third and held off the Leafs’ (30-18-2) offence to record a 2-1 win.
  “Obviously I don’t want to chirp them, but to send the
  
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• Raptors sweep two-game set in Atlanta, beating Hawks 117-94

  26-01-2025 04:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Scottie Barnes had 24 points and 11 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors swept a two-game set in Atlanta for their season-high third straight victory, beating the Hawks 117-94 on Saturday night.
  RJ Barrett and Chris Boucher added 23 points each for Toronto. The Raptors beat Atlanta 122-119 on Thursday night.
  Vit Krejci led the Hawks with 20 points. Trae Young had 16 points. The NBA assist leader didn’t have an assist in the first three quarters and finished with four.
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• Kuzmenko scores twice as Flames hold off Wild for 5-4 win

  26-01-2025 04:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Andrei Kuzmenko had two goals and an assist, and the Calgary Flames used their power play to beat the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Saturday night.
  Kuzmenko and Rasmus Andersson each had a power-play goal, and Martin Pospisil and Clark Bishop also scored for Calgary. Dustin Wolf made 21 saves.
  Minnesota pulled within one on Mats Zuccarello’s 12th goal with 27 seconds left. But that was it for the Wild.
  Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno and Frederick Gaudreau also scored
  
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• Hughes scores in OT as Devils edge Canadiens 4-3

  26-01-2025 04:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Jack Hughes scored at 4:06 of overtime to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night at Bell Centre.
  Jake Allen, making his first regular-season start against the Canadiens since being traded by Montreal to the Devils on March 8, 2024, made 29 saves in the win.New Jersey (28-17-6) has now won two straight games after having dropped nine of their previous 11.
  Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield and Alexandre Carrier scored for the Canadiens (24-2
  
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• Pinto lifts Senators to 2-1 win over Maple Leafs

  26-01-2025 04:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Shane Pinto spoiled the night for thousands of Toronto Maple Leafs fans on Saturday night.
  With the Toronto Maple Leafs (30-17-2) making their lone visit to the nation’s capital this season there seemed to be a higher than normal contingent of Leafs faithful in the stands.
  Chants of “Go Leafs Go” easily drowned out those by the hometown Ottawa Senators’ fans until Pinto broke a 1-1 deadlock midway through the third period.
  Pinto scored his ninth of the seas
  
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• Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

  26-01-2025 03:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create virtual clean slate.
  During a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier
  
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• Sailor dead after a boat capsized in Bedford Basin: Royal Canadian Navy

  26-01-2025 02:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Royal Canadian Navy says a sailor has died in the Bedford Basin after a boat capsized.
  The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Halifax-area bay when it overturned and capsized around 10 p.m. on Friday.
  It says a rescue effort by the Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre Halifax dispatched two ships from the Canadian Coast Guard, and pulled both sailors from the water.The Navy says the sailors were met by paramedics and transferred to a Hali
  
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• English holds off Stevens to win Farmers Insurance Open by a shot

  26-01-2025 02:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Harris English held off hard-charging Sam Stevens to win the Farmers Insurance Open by one shot Saturday, securing his fifth career PGA Tour victory with a 1-over 73 in challenging weather at Torrey Pines.
  English finished his first tour win since 2021 at 8-under 280. Stevens began the day six shots off the lead, but surged into contention with a 4-under 68 for the best final round in this edition of a tournament with a tradition of furious final-day rallies.
  His impressiv
  
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• Oilers show ‘mental resiliency’ in tough climb to top spot

  26-01-2025 01:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — It hasn’t been easy, but it is now one, two, three for the Edmonton Oilers.
  After a tough start to the season in the wake of losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final to the Florida Panthers, the Oilers came away with a narrow 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday that left them sitting in first in the Pacific Division, second in the Western Conference and third overall in the NHL with a record of 31-15-3.
  “It’s huge to get first place,” said Oilers go
  
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• Trudeau meets with families of victims of deadly 2017 Quebec mosque attack

  26-01-2025 01:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the families of six men who were killed at a Quebec City mosque, days before the anniversary of the 2017 attack.
  Eight years ago, on Jan. 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette killed six men at the Centre culturel islamique du Québec and this year the centre has planned several events to mark the tragedy.
  Trudeau met in the basement of the mosque on Saturday evening with men, women and children whose relatives were victims of the
  
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• Nurse, Miller ‘put on a show’ for Sceptres at Scotiabank Arena

  26-01-2025 01:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO —
  Sarah Nurse, Hannah Miller and the Toronto Sceptres have taken a shine to performing at the Maple Leafs’ home.
  Nurse checked in with the late-game winner and Miller scored twice as the Sceptres squeaked out a 4-2 win against the New York Sirens before 19,102 passionate Professional Women’s Hockey League fans on Saturday.
  The crowd for the second Battle on Bay Street was slightly smaller than the 19,285 for the first Sceptres game at Scotiabank Arena last Feb. 16, when
  
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• Nugent-Hopkins scores twice, Oilers edge Sabres 3-2 without McDavid

  26-01-2025 01:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oilers won their second game in a row, knocking off the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 on Saturday.
  Jeff Skinner also scored for the Oilers (31-15-3), who have won 10 of their last 13 games and moved into first place in the Pacific Division, one point up on the idle Vegas Golden Knights.Edmonton is also second in the Western Conference, four points back of Winnipeg.
  The Oilers remained without star forward Connor McDavid, serving the f
  
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• Youth arrested after police obstruction in Langley street racing incident

  26-01-2025 00:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — A teenager is facing several charges, including assaulting a police officer, after some Friday night mayhem at an illegal racing event.On January 24, just after 11 p.m., Langley RCMP responded to a motor vehicle incident complaint near Gloucester Way. An officer who arrived on scene said there were roughly 200 young people in the area who participated in street racing and stunting.The crowd became unruly while the officer issued several traffic violation tickets and worked to get
  
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• Stolz victorious again, Ghiotto sets world record in World Cup speedskating

  26-01-2025 00:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — American speedskating star Jordan Stolz stayed undefeated this World Cup season with a victory in the men’s 1,000 metres in Calgary.
  The 20-year-old from West Bend, Wis., also won the 1,500 metres at the Olympic Oval where he’ll also race the 500 metres. Stolz has yet to lose a World Cup race over the three distances this season.
  Italian speedskater Davide Ghiotto set a world record in the men’s 10,000 metres en route to gold.
  Ghiotto crossed the line in 12 minu
  
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