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• The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and philanthropist, has died at 88

  04-02-2025 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries, has died. He was 88.
  His Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili religious community announced that His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims,
  
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• Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, dead at 88

  04-02-2025 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims, has died at the age of 88.
  A post on social media from the Aga Khan Development Network says he passed away peacefully today in Lisbon, surrounded by his family.
  The Aga Khan was a key figure in an ethics scandal involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was found to have breached federal conflict of interest rules by vacationing on the Aga Khan’s private island in 2016.
  At the time, the ethics commi
  
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• Portuguese midfielder Xavier Venâncio joins Winnipeg’s Valour FC

  04-02-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Portuguese midfielder Xavier Venâncio has joined Valour FC of the Canadian Premier League on a one-year contract with an option for 2026.
  Venâncio, 25, arrives at Valour after making more than 60 appearances in Italy and Portugal since making his pro debut in 2018.Most recently he was with ASD Chieri Calcio in Italy’s Serie D, where he made 17 appearances with one goal and three assists. It was Venâncio’s second stint in Italy, after making his professional debut wi
  
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• Police bust drug-trafficking operation in eastern Fraser Valley - Chilliwack Progress

  04-02-2025 23:01
  Police bust drug-trafficking operation in eastern Fraser Valley  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta woman fined $15K after pleading guilty to importing serval cats

  04-02-2025 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKOTOKS, Alta. — An Alberta woman has been fined $15,000 after she pleaded guilty to illegally importing two serval cats into the province.Alberta Fish and Wildlife says it’s illegal to import or possess the large African wild cats except under strict permits that only zoos can usually obtain.Wildlife officers found the Okotoks, Alta., woman had purchased the servals in British Columbia and Quebec.
  She then brought them to Alberta with plans to breed them.The Edmonton Valley Zoo is n
  
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• Police disrupt ‘significant drug trafficking network,’ seize cars and cash in Chilliwack - CTV News

  04-02-2025 22:50
  Police disrupt ‘significant drug trafficking network,’ seize cars and cash in Chilliwack  CTV News
  
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• Drug trafficking operation dismantled in Chilliwack and Abbotsford - Voiceonline.com

  04-02-2025 22:50
  Drug trafficking operation dismantled in Chilliwack and Abbotsford  Voiceonline.com
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP, police partners dismantle ‘significant’ drug trafficking network in Chilliwack, Abbotsford

  04-02-2025 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack and their law enforcement partners from the region have dismantled what police are calling a “significant drug trafficking” network in the Fraser Valley.
  According to a statement from the Upper Fraser Valley media relations unit, Chilliwack RCMP teamed up with Indigenous Policing Services, AbbyPD and the Lower Mainland Integrated Emergency Response Team (IERT) to coordinate four search warrants across multiple locations in the Fraser Valley o
  
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• B.C. human rights commissioner wants study of police in schools after board’s firing

  04-02-2025 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s human rights commissioner says the provincial government has effectively made police liaison programs mandatory in schools with its firing of the Greater Victoria school board, while failing to provide a factual basis for the decision.
  Kasari Govender says in a letter to Education Minister Lisa Beare and Public Safety Minister Gary Begg that failure to fund research into the matter is contrary to the government’s human rights obligations “and
  
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• Ontario artist’s Super Bowl football design celebrates Indigenous culture

  04-02-2025 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Growing up, Quentin Commanda dreamt of playing in the NFL and reaching the Super Bowl.
  The pro football career never happened, but Commanda is closer to Super Bowl LIX than most. On Monday, the NFL unveiled a football designed by the 44-year-old Nipissing First Nation (Garden Village, Ont.) artist as part of its lead-up to Sunday’s game in New Orleans.
  “Football was something I was very passionate about growing up and the NFL was always something I kind of imagined playing in,”
  
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• Drug deaths in B.C. drop 13 per cent, hitting four-year low of 2,253

  04-02-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The BC Coroners Service says toxic drug deaths in British Columbia were down 13 per cent last year, with the toll now lower than any year since 2020.
  Chief Coroner Dr. Jatinder Baidwan says the decline is consistent with elsewhere in Canada and internationally, but doesn’t mitigate the fact that 2,253 people died of overdoses in B.C. last year, or the grief felt by their loved ones.
  A report issued by the service says about 70 per cent of those who died were between the ag
  
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• Quebec premier says North American free-trade agreement should be reopened now

  04-02-2025 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Premier François Legault says talks should begin as soon as possible on renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement.
  Legault made the comments today in a special statement to the legislature, a day after United States Donald Trump paused for 30 days the implementation of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods and services.
  He says the uncertainty that is being created by constant threats of U.S. tariffs is like injecting “poison&rdqu
  
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• Ottawa defends its use of Emergencies Act before Federal Court of Appeal

  04-02-2025 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lawyer for the federal government says a judge mistakenly concluded it was unreasonable for the government to use the Emergencies Act in 2022 to quell protests in the national capital and at key border points.
  In his January 2024 ruling, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said he revisited the events with the benefit of a more extensive record of the facts and the law than the government had when it proclaimed a public order emergency.
  Lawyer Michael Feder, representing the go
  
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• Free skates, family bingo from City of Chilliwack for Family Day 2025 - Chilliwack Progress

  04-02-2025 21:43
  Free skates, family bingo from City of Chilliwack for Family Day 2025  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Remains of all 67 victims the deadly plane and chopper collision near Washington have been recovered

  04-02-2025 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The remains of all 67 victims of midair collision near Reagan National Airport have been recovered, authorities said Tuesday.
  The chief medical examiner is still trying to positively identify one set of remains, officials said in a news release.
  The news came Tuesday as crews continued to work to removed debris from the Potomac River, where the aircraft crashed last Wednesday night after colliding as the American Airlines flight was about to land at nearby Ronald Reag
  
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• Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him

  04-02-2025 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.
  “If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the U.S. government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran. “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”
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• Man injured in avalanche on Vancouver Island, taken by rescue helicopter to hospital

  04-02-2025 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — A man has been seriously injured in an avalanche on Vancouver Island and required the rescue helicopter to fly him directly to hospital for treatment.
  Metro Vancouver-based North Shore Rescue says in a social media post that the man was partially buried in a slide in the backcountry near the Mount Cain ski area on northern Vancouver Island on Sunday.North Shore Rescue, which was asked to help, says the victim was hypothermic and had multiple injuries.
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• Influential midfielder Alessandro Hojabrpour re-signs with CPL’s Forge FC

  04-02-2025 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Forge FC got a boost in advance of Wednesday’s CONCACAF Champions Cup game against Mexico’s CF Monterrey with news that influential midfielder Alessandro Hojabrpour is back in the fold.
  The 25-year-old from Vancouver has signed a multi-year contract to remain with the Canadian Premier League team. Hojabrpour’s previous contract expired at the end of the 2024.
  Hojabrpour was nominated for both the CPL Player of the Year award and the league’s Players’ Player of the Y
  
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• Canucks star Hughes to miss second straight game against Avalanche

  04-02-2025 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Quinn Hughes is set to miss a second straight game when his Vancouver Canucks host the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.The 25-year-old American defenceman briefly skated with his teammates Tuesday morning, then spoke with head coach Rick Tocchet and left the ice.Tocchet later said Hughes would not play against the Avs and his status going forward will be monitored day to day.Hughes also missed Vancouver’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.The reigning Nor
  
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• Canada presses on with trade diversification strategy as Trump blusters

  04-02-2025 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — While President Donald Trump is taking up all the space on the main stage by threatening to upend bilateral trade, Canada is busy working on other free trade deals in the background.
  Trade Minister Mary Ng tells The Canadian Press that Ottawa has inked a free-trade agreement with Ecuador, the sixth-largest economy in South America.
  She says it marks the 16th such deal signed since the government launched its trade diversification strategy eight years ago.Canada hasn’t had a
  
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• Calgary Stampeders sign veteran American receiver Dominique Rhymes

  04-02-2025 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders signed veteran American receiver Dominique Rhymes on Tuesday.
  The six-foot-four, 215-pound Rhymes was released Saturday by the Ottawa Redblacks. He had 72 receptions for 1,011 yards and two touchdowns in 18 regular-season games last season.
  Rhymes enters his eighth CFL season, having played for Ottawa (2017-19, 2024) and the B.C. Lions (2021-23). The move Tuesday reunites Rhymes with Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., as the two were teammates with th
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee

  04-02-2025 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Donald Trump director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee Tuesday despite concerns raised about her past comments sympathetic to Russia and a meeting with Syria’s now-deposed leader.
  A former Democratic congresswoman, Gabbard is one of Trump’s most divisive nominees, with lawmakers of both parties also pointing to her past support for government leaker Edward Snowden. But the Senate Intellige
  
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• Gang leader and another man charged after shooting in Fort Nelson, B.C.

  04-02-2025 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT NELSON, B.C. — A man well known to police and identified in the courts as a gang leader faces charges in connection with a shooting in Fort Nelson, B.C.Police say Jarrod Bacon has been charged with aggravated assault, while John Chasse faces an assault charge in connection with the shooting that sent one person to hospital last Wednesday.
  Mounties say one of the men was arrested Friday during a traffic stop, and the other was arrested after a search warrant was executed on a home that
  
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• Trump envoy calls Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce ‘preposterous’

  04-02-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy said Tuesday that a three to five year timeline for reconstruction of Gaza, as set out in a temporary truce agreement, is not a viable post-war plan for the battle-torn territory.
  The renewed call by the Trump administration on Arab nations to relocate displaced Palestinians comes as Trump is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House later Tuesday.
  “To me, it is unfair to explain to
  
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• 2025 Matthew Hutchinson Award Winners- First Responders Night

  04-02-2025 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
   The Chilliwack Chiefs are proud to announce our 2025 Matthew Hutchinson Memorial Award winners. Award recipients were each nominated by their peers for excellence in their field and exceptional community service. This season’s recipients include members of the Chilliwack Fire Department, Ambulance Paramedics of BC, BC Corrections, Correctional Service of Canada, Search and Rescue, RCMP, and Chilliwack General Hospital. 
  Award winners will be honoured this Saturday, February
  
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• Lindsey Vonn’s new titanium knee holds up fine in her 1st training run at the skiing worlds

  04-02-2025 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Big jumps. Lots of terrain. Steep pitches.
  The downhill course at the Alpine skiing world championships would have been a challenge for Lindsey Vonn’s aching legs before she retired in 2019.
  Now that she’s replaced part of her right knee with titanium? No problem.
  “This is probably the worst hill for someone with bad knees, but I felt great,” Vonn said after placing 20th in the opening training session Tuesday. “None of the
  
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• Trina Hunt’s husband charged with indignity to human remains 4 years after death

  04-02-2025 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT MOODY, B.C. — The husband of a Metro Vancouver woman whose body was found almost four years ago now faces charges connected to the death.Trina Hunt was reported missing on Jan. 18, 2021, and her burned body was found in March of that year near Hope, B.C.The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the BC Prosecution Service has approved one count of indignity to human remains against 52-year-old Iain Hunt.
  It says that a charge is laid when a person neglects to perform their legal
  
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• Opposition parties call for Parliament’s return after Trump hits pause on tariffs

  04-02-2025 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives and New Democrats say the government needs to recall Parliament within the next month to act on U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
  On Monday, Trump agreed not to impose punishing tariffs on Canadian imports until March 4 after striking a deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over two phone calls.
  Trudeau says he presented Trump with the federal government’s plan to secure the border and tackle fentanyl production and trafficking.
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• ‘Fentanyl czar’ will serve as liaison between U.S. and Canada, minister says

  04-02-2025 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says Canada’s new “fentanyl czar” will serve as a liaison between Canada and the U.S. on cross-border efforts to curb fentanyl traffic.
  McGuinty was in Emerson, Man., this morning attending a border security exercise.
  Ottawa announced the new position on Monday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports.
  Those tariffs were to have taken effect today but
  
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• First military flight to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart, official says

  04-02-2025 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay was set to depart Tuesday, a U.S. official said. It is the first step in what is expected to be a surge in the number of migrants held at the Navy base in Cuba, which for decades was primarily used to detain foreigners associated with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
  President Donald Trump has eyed the facility as a holding center and said it has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000.D
  
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• Doug Collins confirmed as veterans affairs secretary as Trump Cabinet takes shape

  04-02-2025 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs, putting the former congressman and Iraq War veteran at the helm of a department that provides crucial care to America’s veterans.Collins, a former Air Force chaplain, was confirmed on a 77-23 vote, becoming the latest addition to President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.“We must take care of our brave men and women in uniform, and Doug will be a great advocate for our active duty
  
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• FBI agents sue over Justice Dept. effort to ID employees involved in Trump-related investigations

  04-02-2025 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries that agents fear could be a precursor to discipline or termination.
  The class-action complaint was filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington.Eric Tucker And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press
  
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• Fact-checking Trump’s executive order threatening tariffs on Canada

  04-02-2025 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — To justify his executive order imposing stiff tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, U.S. President Donald Trump cited an “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl.”
  Trump agreed Monday to pause the planned tariffs against Canada and Mexico for 30 days in response to both countries promising to bolster border security.
  Here’s a look at some of the claims Trump made in his recent executive order and an accompanying
  
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• Canada captain Alphonso Davies stays put, re-signs with Bayern Munich

  04-02-2025 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alphonso Davies has re-signed with Bayern Munich, ending a lengthy romance with other big-name clubs reportedly interested in the Canada captain.
  The new deal runs through June 30, 2030.
  Davies’ existing contract with the German powerhouse expires June 30, prompting transfer talk with the likes of Spanish giant Real Madrid as talks with Bayern dragged on.
  The 24-year-old from Edmonton is currently sidelined by a muscle strain in his left hamstring suffered Jan. 22 in a 3-0 Champions League
  
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• Charge of indignity to human remains laid against husband of woman found dead south of Hope

  04-02-2025 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOWER MAINLAND — A spokesperson for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the husband of a woman found dead south of Hope nearly four years ago has been charged with indignity to human remains.
  According to a statement from IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Freda Fong, the B.C. Prosecution Service has approved one count of indignity to human remains against 52-year-old Iain Hunt, the husband of Trina Hunt.
  IHIT says this charge arises when a person fails to perform their legal duty to bury
  
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• Charge of indignity to human remains laid against husband of woman found dead south of Hope in 2021

  04-02-2025 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOWER MAINLAND — A spokesperson for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the husband of a woman found dead south of Hope nearly four years ago has been charged with indignity to human remains.
  According to a statement from IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Freda Fong, the B.C. Prosecution Service has approved one count of indignity to human remains against 52-year-old Iain Hunt, the husband of Trina Hunt.
  IHIT says this charge arises when a person fails to perform their legal duty to bury
  
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• City of Chilliwack completes upgrades to municipal rec centre

  04-02-2025 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says it has finalized several upgrades to the fitness area and weight room at the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre on Corbould Street.In a social media post, city staff say the recreation centre upgrades began in August 2024 by replacing the old strength machines with newly acquired equipment.The City has also improved the user experience at the rec centre by adding new cardio machines (e.g., treadmills or ellipticals) and upgrading the warm-up and cool
  
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• City of Chilliwack completes upgrades to municipal rec centre - Fraser Valley Today

  04-02-2025 18:39
  City of Chilliwack completes upgrades to municipal rec centre  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Raptors swingman Barrett in concussion protocol, ruled out against visiting Knicks

  04-02-2025 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Raptors swingman RJ Barrett is in concussion protocol and has been ruled out of Toronto’s game Tuesday night against visiting New York.
  Barrett appeared to hit his head on the floor and was slow to get up after scoring a layup late in Toronto’s 115-108 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday afternoon at Scotiabank Arena.
  He stayed in the game and practised with the team Monday.
  Barrett missed most of the pre-season and the first three games of the regular season
  
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• Fernandez into second round at Abu Dhabi Open with win over Uchijima

  04-02-2025 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABU DHABI — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the Abu Dhabi Open tennis tournament on Tuesday with a 7-6(3), 7-6(0) win over Japanese lucky loser Moyuka Uchijima.
  Fernandez, the tournament’s eighth seed, had eight double faults and struggled with her second serve against Uchijima, who was called into action after Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova withdrew from the tournament.
  But the 22-year-old from Laval, Que., won 14 of 17 points in the tiebreaks t
  
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• Rubio says El Salvador’s offer to jail violent American criminals faces ‘legalities’

  04-02-2025 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
  Rubio called it “a very generous offer” and said that it would allow the U.S. to outsource the cost of some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States. But he noted that “we have a Constitution” and the Trump administration “will have to
  
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• More snow closes many schools and campuses, amid B.C. freeze

  04-02-2025 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A fresh blast of snow has shut many schools in Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island as frigid weather brings temperatures as low as -39 Celsius to other parts of British Columbia.
  Among those hit by the closures are schools in North Vancouver, West Vancouver and Greater Victoria.
  Numerous on-campus classes are also cancelled at institutions including the University of B.C. in Vancouver, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Victoria.
  Environment Canada says in a prelim
  
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• National Bank completes acquisition of bank with several Fraser Valley branches

  04-02-2025 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — National Bank yesterday (Feb. 3) finalized the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Canadian Western Bank, which has several Fraser Valley locations.CWB wrote in its website that there no immediate changes to client relationships or business operations, and that its existing customers should reach out to their primary CWB contact with any questions or concerns. Canadian Western Bank has branches in Abbotsford, Langley and Surrey.On its end, National Bank sa
  
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• ‘More money is coming’: Canada’s Nurse on one-year deal with WNBA’s Chicago Sky

  04-02-2025 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Newly signed Chicago Sky guard Kia Nurse chose her free-agency destination carefully.
  Currently in Nashville, Tenn., for her first Athletes Unlimited basketball season, Nurse tapped into the experience of the 39 players around her to help assess whether Chicago would be a good fit. This was in addition to the regular team meetings that take place around free agency.
  When it came time to decide on a contract length, with the WNBA collective bargaining agreement set to expire at season’s end
  
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• Chilliwack Jets take advantage of power plays against Aldergrove Kodiaks - Chilliwack Progress

  04-02-2025 18:00
  Chilliwack Jets take advantage of power plays against Aldergrove Kodiaks  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec union group urges Amazon boycott after warehouse closure announcement

  04-02-2025 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec labour group is urging governments and the public to boycott Amazon after the retail giant announced the closure of its seven warehouses in the province.
  CSN president Caroline Senneville describes Amazon’s January decision to close the facilities as an attempt to shut down unionization efforts and to avoid signing its first North American collective agreement.
  The Confédération des syndicats nationaux says the closures, which come after workers at a
  
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• Hernandez Gray, Chukwu lead Canadian women into CONCACAF U-20 qualifying play

  04-02-2025 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Midfielder Jeneva Hernandez Gray and high-scoring forward Annabelle Chukwu lead Canada’s 21-player squad for CONCACAF women’s under-20 qualifying play later this month.
  The first round of CONCACAF qualifying features 24 countries divided into six groups. The top team in each group will move on to the CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship later this year, joining the pre-seeded United States and Mexico.Canada will play in Group E alongside host Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda and Domi
  
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• How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon

  04-02-2025 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.That’s good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that impact and containing older rocks in original condition.
  U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area
  
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• Westbound Highway 1 toward Vancouver clogged at Port Mann Bridge: BC Highway Patrol

  04-02-2025 16:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — The wintery conditions might be ideal for skiing, but they’re not ideal for driving into Vancouver on Highway 1.For the second day in a row, BC Highway Patrol is urging motorists to delay unnecessary travel plans as multiple collisions in both directions on Highway 1 near the Port Mann Bridge are causing extreme traffic delays.Image: Google Maps / Google Maps traffic showing extensive delays on Highway 1 Tuesday morning at about 7:45 a.m.
  As a result, BC Highway Patro
  
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• Momentum beginning to swing in Vancouver housing as January sales rise

  04-02-2025 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The number of homes that changed hands in the Vancouver area rose again last month, but the city’s real estate board says new listings outpaced demand as sellers showed they’re eager to enter the market.
  Greater Vancouver home sales totalled 1,552 in January, up 8.8 per cent on a year-over-year basis, but still 11.3 per cent below the 10-year seasonal average for the month.
  There were 5,566 newly listed properties, a 46.9 per cent increase from January 2024.
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