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• These industries would be hit hardest by Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs

  29-01-2025 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump could be just days away from hitting Canada with punishing tariffs. Here’s a look at the industries that would be hit the hardest.
  Statistics Canada says the value of Canadian exports to the United States in 2023 exceeded $594 billion. More than 43 per cent of that came from just six industries: oil and gas extraction, oil and gas refining, auto manufacturing, aluminum production and processing, aerospace and crop and animal production.
  A 25 per c
  
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• Release denied for Chilliwack man accused of crashing into Mission shop owner - Maple Ridge News

  29-01-2025 23:50
  Release denied for Chilliwack man accused of crashing into Mission shop owner  Maple Ridge News
  
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• Release denied for Chilliwack man accused of crashing into Mission shop owner - Mission City Record

  29-01-2025 23:42
  Release denied for Chilliwack man accused of crashing into Mission shop owner  Mission City Record
  
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• Island chiefs condemn DFO's decision to increase herring harvest - Chilliwack Progress

  29-01-2025 23:42
  Island chiefs condemn DFO's decision to increase herring harvest  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Fraser Valley charities get $6,000 to help local animals - Chilliwack Progress

  29-01-2025 23:42
  Fraser Valley charities get $6,000 to help local animals  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Curling Canada seeks to ease broom tension ahead of national championships

  29-01-2025 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Curling Canada’s chief executive officer says the message to athletes competing in the upcoming men’s and women’s national championship is no one is cheating.
  Tension over broom technology has resurfaced at a high-stakes time as teams in Canada and around the world vie to represent their country at next year’s Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
  The World Curling Federation’s recent declaration that approved equipment remains within the rules and
  
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• CBC head calls for a ‘national conversation’ on Conservatives’ pledge to defund

  29-01-2025 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — With Donald Trump making “territorial claims,” the new head of CBC says defunding the public broadcaster could erode a pillar of Canada’s cultural identity.
  Marie-Philippe Bouchard, CEO of CBC-Radio-Canada, is calling for a “national conversation” on the Conservatives’ promise to defund and is launching a tour to get it started.
  She says it’s important for Canadians to be equipped with facts about the likely impacts of stripping away CBC&r
  
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• Canada’s top doctor concerned about measles outbreaks in Ontario, Quebec

  29-01-2025 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s top doctor says she is concerned about measles outbreaks with a growing number of cases acquired locally and spreading in Ontario and Quebec.Dr. Theresa Tam says the majority of recent infections reported in Canada were among people who were unvaccinated, including many children, and infants under one.
  Tam says all of the people who were recently infected were exposed to measles in Canada, rather than international travel, which was the initial source.
  Health Canada reported eight
  
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• Man City rallies to beat Club Brugge and advance in Champions League

  29-01-2025 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Manchester City flirted with a disastrous exit from the Champions League before rallying to beat Club Brugge 3-1 in a must-win game Wednesday and advanced to the knockout phase.
  Man City trailed 1-0 at halftime, and sat 26th in the 36-team standings, before the 2023 title-winner was sparked by substitute Savinho to avoid elimination. City finished 22nd.
  Paris Saint-Germain was also set secure its place in the top-24 teams entering the knockout rounds, leading 4-1 at Stuttgart
  
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• Lauren Lenentine learning from great skips as she prepares to be Team Einarson fifth

  29-01-2025 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Lauren Lenentine has yet to complete her first full quadrennial on the women’s curling scene and she’s already teamed with some of the best skips in the sport.
  The 2020 world junior champion played two seasons with Jennifer Jones, spent the past few months with Chelsea Carey and is now set to join Kerri Einarson at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  Not bad for a lead who’s still five months away from her 25th birthday.
  Her season with Carey now complete, Lenentine was recently
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks release veteran American defensive back Brandin Dandridge

  29-01-2025 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks released veteran American defensive back Brandin Dandridge on Wednesday.Dandridge, 28, appeared in nine regular-season games in 2024, registering 28 tackles, two interceptions and a forced fumble.
  The five-foot-11, 180-pound Dandridge spent five seasons with Ottawa. He recorded 90 tackles, 11 interceptions, four forced fumbles and two defensive touchdowns in 40 regular-season contests.
  He was an East Division all-star in 2023.
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• Human smuggling attempt thwarted in Fort Erie, Ont., near U.S. border: authorities

  29-01-2025 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian authorities say they’ve intercepted a human smuggling attempt in Ontario’s Niagara region as part of a larger border security effort.The Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP say they caught one person jumping off a moving freight train as it entered Canada in Fort Erie, Ont.
  They say the intercept was part of Project Disrupt and Deter, launched in December and aimed at monitoring “vulnerable” areas along the International Railway Bridge that connects Fort E
  
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• B.C. assembles ‘war room’ to push back against U.S. tariff threats

  29-01-2025 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s premier is assembling a “war room” over the looming trade war between Canada and the United States, with President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian goods coming as soon as Saturday.
  A statement from Premier David Eby’s office says he is tasking a new cabinet committee with co-ordinating a “whole-of-government” approach aimed at protecting B.C. workers, businesses and the economy against the tariff threat.
  
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• Canadian tennis star Auger-Aliassime into Montpellier quarterfinals

  29-01-2025 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTPELLIER — Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Open Occitanie tennis tournament with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over France’s Arthur Cazaux on Wednesday.
  Auger-Aliassime, seeded second at the ATP 250 indoor hardcourt event, had 11 aces as he won the first set with little trouble before outlasting Cazaux in a second-set tiebreak,
  It was Auger-Aliassime’s 50th indoor harcourt win on the ATP Tour since 2022.Auger-Aliassime improved to 3-0
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Three staff injured in Halifax hospital assault

  29-01-2025 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s health minister says three hospital staff were injured in an assault by a patient this afternoon at the Halifax Infirmary emergency department.
  Halifax police say they responded to a weapons complaint at the hospital and have one person in custody.
  They say there is no threat to the public but are not releasing details of the condition of those injured.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Trump directing the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold migrants in US illegally

  29-01-2025 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.
  Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. The bipartisan measure means that people who are in the U.S. illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and poten
  
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• Abdelrazik’s lawyer cites ‘serial hypocrisies’ in final detention case arguments

  29-01-2025 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lawyer for Abousfian Abdelrazik accused the federal government of “serial hypocrisies” as closing arguments began on his client’s lawsuit over his prolonged detention in Sudan.
  Paul Champ argued during a Federal Court hearing today that federal officials contributed to the grave breaches of fundamental human rights that Abdelrazik suffered over a period of six years.
  The Sudanese-born Abdelrazik settled in Montreal as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in
  
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• Canada can strike back swiftly if U.S. imposes tariffs, experts say

  29-01-2025 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian international trade lawyers say that if the U.S. follows through on President Donald Trump’s threat to impose massive tariffs on Canada as early as Saturday, Ottawa could hit back with retaliatory tariffs almost immediately.
  Typically, Canada gives advance notice of any plan to impose tariffs and takes about a month to consult with industry representatives on tariff targets.
  But experts say the federal cabinet can skip that process and strike back within a day or tw
  
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• Damages in Jasper wildfire rise to $1.2B, goal to clear rubble for May construction

  29-01-2025 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JASPER, ALTA. — The Insurance Bureau of Canada says last year’s wildfire in Jasper, Alta., which destroyed one-third of the town’s homes and buildings, is the second costliest fire disaster in the country’s history.
  It says a revised estimate on total damage has increased to $1.23 billion from $880 million.
  The fire forced about 5,000 residents of the town and 20,000 visitors in Jasper National Park to flee in July.
  Flames destroyed 350 homes and businesses.
  The bureau sa
  
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• All six Liberal leadership candidates now registered with Elections Canada

  29-01-2025 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The six candidates running for Liberal leadership have now all registered with Elections Canada, which monitors their fundraising activities as political leadership contestants under the law.
  The various campaigns blasted out emails Wednesday top supporters declaring they are officially confirmed to run in the race after the Liberal party made it official on Tuesday.
  The official running consists of Liberal MPs Karina Gould, Chrystia Freeland and Jaime Battiste, former Bank of Can
  
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• Lawyers reach a deal on dividing a $4B settlement for Hawaii wildfire victims

  29-01-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A last-minute deal reached between lawyers representing victims of a deadly Hawaii wildfire has averted the need for a trial to determine how to split a $4 billion settlement.
  The unusual trial had been expected to delve into difficult questions about survivors’ losses. Some victims were ready to take the witness stand, while others submitted pre-recorded testimony, describing pain made all the more fresh by the recent destruction in Los Angeles.
  But soon after the tr
  
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• Rockets’ Dillon Brooks fined $25,000 for using profane language in televised interview

  29-01-2025 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Houston Rockets forward Dillon Brooks was fined $25,000 by the NBA Wednesday for using profane language during a post-game television interview.
  The offending comments came when Brooks and sophomore guard Amen Thompson were interviewed on the court following the Rockets’ 114-112 victory over the Boston Celtics on Monday at TD Garden.
  Brooks, from Mississauga, Ont., had 36 points in the game thanks to a career-high 10 three-pointers.
  Thompson had 33 points and hit the game-winning shot at t
  
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• Ontario judge begins hearing arguments over landmark $32.5-billion tobacco settlement

  29-01-2025 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — An Ontario judge has begun hearing arguments about whether to approve a landmark $32.5-billion settlement that would see three major tobacco companies compensate provinces, territories and ex-smokers.
  The settlement between the companies — JTI-Macdonald Corp., Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges — and their creditors received unanimous support from those creditors in a vote held in mid-December.
  Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Geoffrey
  
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• Leader of rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named country’s interim president

  29-01-2025 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad last month was named on Wednesday the country’s interim president, following a meeting of the former insurgent factions.The appointment of Ahmad al-Sharaa, a rebel once aligned with al-Qaida, as the country’s president “in the transitional phase,” was expected. The announcement was made by the spokesperson for Syria’s new, de facto government’s military
  
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• Specialist wait lists for B.C. patients grow to 1.2 million people: doctors groups

  29-01-2025 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Two doctors groups in British Columbia say there is a “wait-list crisis” for specialists that is severely compromising the health and well-being of residents.Doctors of BC and the Consultant Specialists of BC say they surveyed nearly 1,000 specialists and found that about 1.2 million patients are waiting too long to see a health expert in areas such as cardiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, and urology.
  The groups say in a statement that 63 per cent of the surve
  
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• Earlybird RV Show and Sale celebrating 30th anniversary in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  29-01-2025 20:29
  Earlybird RV Show and Sale celebrating 30th anniversary in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Staggering’ number of families struggle in B.C.’s system for disabled kids: advocate

  29-01-2025 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s children’s representative says in the 18 years her office has been in place, the province has been slow to respond to the growing needs of children with disabilities and their families, often reacting to tragedies rather than making improvements.
  With a promised change on the horizon, Jennifer Charlesworth says B.C. needs a collective approach across ministries to ensure that critical progress actually happens.
  The latest report from her office says up to 83,000 yo
  
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• Ukrainians worry as their three-year emergency visas soon expire

  29-01-2025 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ukrainian Canadian Congress is warning that many of the 300,000 Ukrainians who arrived in Canada under three-year emergency visas face an uncertain future because their temporary residencies are about to expire.
  Executive Director Ihor Michalchyshyn says he met with Immigration Minister Marc Miller last week to ask his department to automatically renew the visas for another three years.
  Miller said last week that the Ukrainians must apply for an extension to a working permit o
  
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• With highest number of shelter beds per capita, City of Chilliwack calls on B.C. govt. to make changes - Fraser Valley Today

  29-01-2025 20:00
  With highest number of shelter beds per capita, City of Chilliwack calls on B.C. govt. to make changes  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack - Vernon Morning Star

  29-01-2025 19:59
  Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack  Vernon Morning Star
  
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• Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack - North Delta Reporter

  29-01-2025 19:59
  Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack  North Delta Reporter
  
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• Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  29-01-2025 19:59
  Fair approach to shelter beds needed throughout B.C.: City of Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion

  29-01-2025 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  The Monday evening order from the White House Office of Management and Budget sparked uncertainty over a crucial financial lifeline for states, schools and organizations that rely on trillions of dollars from Washi
  
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• Young Canadians set for CONCACAF under-17 qualifier in Bermuda next month

  29-01-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ten players from the three Canadian MLS teams’ academies have been named to Canada’s roster for CONCACAF under-17 men’s qualifying play next month.
  A single-round format sees the 35 participating teams in North and Central America and the Caribbean split into eight groups. Canada will play in Group A alongside host Bermuda, Curacao, Anguilla, and Turks and Caicos Island, with matches slated for Feb. 7-16.
  The group winners qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which runs Nov. 5-
  
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• Toronto teen hurt while celebrating Philadelphia Eagles win dies from his injuries

  29-01-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A U.S. college student from Toronto who climbed a street pole and fell while Philadelphia Eagles fans celebrated the team’s victory in Sunday’s NFC championship game has died from his injuries.
  Temple University announced the death of Tyler Sabapathy, 18, in a statement posted Tuesday night on the school’s website.Sabapathy was an accomplished gymnast who was a freshman studying in the school’s College of Public Health, where he was majoring in exercise and sport science.
  
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• CFL free-agency window set to officially open at noon ET on Sunday

  29-01-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The CFL’s free-agency process will kick into high gear Sunday.
  That’s when the league’s free-agency window will open, allowing CFL teams to talk freely with any pending free agents and/or their representatives. That will officially begin at noon ET on Sunday.
  Agents representing CFL players must be registered with the CFL Players’ Association.
  The CFL implemented this process in 2020. The aim was to curb tampering while allowing potential free agents to ge
  
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• Calgary to host 2026 women’s world curling championship at WinSport

  29-01-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary will host the women’s world curling championship in 2026.
  The tournament will be held March 14-22 at WinSport’s Markin MacPhail Centre, which was the site of the 2024 Canadian women’s championship won by Rachel Homan.
  The Markin MacPhail Centre has hosted numerous national and international curling events in recent years.
  It served as a curling bubble in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic when the national men’s and mixed doubles championship, world
  
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• IIO urges witnesses to come forward after Abbotsford man suffers injuries

  29-01-2025 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD – B.C.’s civilian watchdog is urging witnesses to come forward after a man sustained serious injuries following an alleged domestic dispute in late December 2024.
  AbbyPD received a call on Dec. 26, 2024, at approximately 8:10 p.m., about an alleged domestic dispute between a man and woman. The caller phoned police to say the man and woman had gone into different units in an apartment building in the 2000 block of Eleanor Avenue in Abbotsford.
  When officers arrived to speak
  
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• With highest number of shelter beds per capita, City of Chilliwack calls on B.C. govt. to make changes

  29-01-2025 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council issued a statement Wednesday (Jan. 29) urging the B.C. government to take a more equitable approach to shelter bed locations after learning that Chilliwack has the highest number of shelter beds per capita in all Lower Mainland cities.
  According to a news release, municipal staff have calculated that Chilliwack has 2.69 shelter beds per 1,000 population. By comparison, many other Lower Mainland communities, except for Vancouver, range from zero to 1.61
  
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• Judge set to sentence former Sen. Bob Menendez, who was convicted of taking bribes of cash and gold

  29-01-2025 18:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces the likelihood of a long prison term when he is sentenced Wednesday for selling his once-considerable clout in Washington for gold bars, a luxury car and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash bribes.
  Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to give the Democrat 15 years behind bars for crimes that include acting as an agent of the Egyptian government.
  Menendez’s lawyers say he deserves less than two years in prison, citing his deca
  
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• Fraser Valley man hospitalized with extensive injuries after hit and run

  29-01-2025 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DELTA — Police in Delta are looking to speak with the driver of a vehicle after it struck a pedestrian earlier this week, leaving the victim with serious and extensive injuries.
  According to a news release from the Delta PD, officers were dispatched Sunday, January 26 at approximately 7 a.m. for the report of a pedestrian-involved collision at 66th Avenue and Scott Road in Delta. On arrival, officers located a seriously injured man who was later identified as a 23-year-old Surrey man.
  The
  
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• Author says Montreal library refuses to host English book club, citing language laws

  29-01-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Montreal author is speaking out after a local library cited Quebec’s language laws in refusing his request to host an English-language book club.
  Christopher DiRaddo says he recently approached the Père-Ambroise library in the Ville-Marie borough to host gatherings for the Violet Hour book club, which focuses on LGBTQ+ literature.
  He was told in an email, viewed by The Canadian Press, that the space had already been booked, but also that Quebec’s language la
  
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• Barring getting a new striker, Toronto FC looks to score by committee this season

  29-01-2025 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Barring the acquisition of a new striker, it will be scoring by committee for Toronto FC this season.
  Toronto FC elected not to bring back Prince Owusu, its leading scorer last season, and the German forward, whose nine goals came at a cost of US$807,500, is now wearing CF Montreal colours. That leaves a Toronto first-team roster that combined for just 28 goals last season.
  “From what we’ve seen in training and scrimmage games and 11-vs.-11s is that we’re getting contributions
  
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• NDP urges action on pharmacare, dental care as health ministers meet in Halifax

  29-01-2025 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s provincial and territorial health ministers are meeting with their federal counterpart in Halifax this week, and the New Democrats are urging them to ink pharmacare deals.
  The national pharmacare law calls for the federal government to sign deals with provinces and territories to start funding coverage of birth control and diabetes medications.Federal Health Minister Mark Holland has said he hoped to have deals signed by this spring, but so far only B.C. has signed
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP responds to overnight vehicle incident near Little Mountain: witness

  29-01-2025 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A witness says Chilliwack RCMP members were called to the Little Mountain area of Chilliwack early Thursday morning after a vehicle wound up in a ditch.According to a Chilliwack resident who drove through the area, a smaller four-door vehicle landed in a ditch on Yale Road near Hillcrest Drive, about four kilometers east-northeast of downtown Chilliwack.A witness told Fraser Valley Today that the vehicle was unoccupied when she drove through the area, but did see what appeared
  
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• President Donald Trump appeals his New York hush money conviction

  29-01-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has appealed his New York hush money conviction, seeking to erase the verdict that made him the first person with a criminal record to win the office.
  Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn his conviction last May on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
  The case involved an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 20
  
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• Justice Dept. abandons criminal proceedings against 2 Trump co-defendants in classified records case

  29-01-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.
  Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were both charged with conspiring with the president to obstruct an FBI investigation into the hoarding of classified documents that Trump took with him when he left the White House after
  
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• Justice Department drops criminal proceedings against Trump co-defendants in classified records case

  29-01-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.
  Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were charged with conspiring with Trump to obstruct an FBI investigation into the hoarding of classified documents that the Republican took with him when he left the White House a
  
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• Hamas is set to free 3 Israelis and 5 Thais in next hostage release, officials say

  29-01-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, as well as five Thai nationals during the next hostage release, slated for Thursday, officials from Israel and Hamas said as a tenuous ceasefire between the sides moves ahead.
  The officials named the Israeli women as Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and the man as Gadi Moses, 80. The officials, who spoke on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the me
  
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• Invictus Games 2025 medals unveiled in Vancouver

  29-01-2025 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Organizers of the 2025 Invictus Games, which kick off next weekend in Vancouver, have unveiled the medals that will be awarded to athletes over the nine days of competition.
  The charity says in a news release that the 462 medals were designed by four First Nations artists and will be presented at 167 ceremonies throughout the event.
  The Games were founded about a decade ago by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, to champion post-injury achievements of wounded, injured and sick milita
  
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