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• Navy commander relieved of his duty mid-deployment over ‘loss of confidence’

  07-02-2025 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A commander of a patrol frigate in the Royal Canadian Navy has been relieved of his duty mid-deployment due to what the navy calls a “loss of confidence.”
  A statement from the navy says the reasons for removing Cmdr. Adriano Lozer from command of the HMCS Ottawa “do not concern any form of misconduct.”
  The navy says the move was necessary “to ensure effective leadership” of the frigate with a crew of approximately 240 members as it continues its
  
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• Trudeau travelling to Lisbon to attend the Aga Khan’s funeral

  07-02-2025 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to Lisbon on Friday to attend the Aga Khan’s funeral.Trudeau is expected to depart for Portugal on Friday night and the funeral is to be held in Lisbon on Saturday.
  The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims, died Tuesday at the age of 88.
  Trudeau paid tribute to the Aga Khan that night, calling him a compassionate global leader who will be deeply missed by people around the world.
  The Aga Khan was a key fi
  
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• Boost Indigenous business to counter Trump’s tariff threats, leaders say

  07-02-2025 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats rattle Canadian investors, the head of a group representing thousands of Indigenous businesses is calling for governments and Canadians to boost their support of First Nations firms that have strong ties to the land and are less likely to move south.
  “We have relied on foreign investment and foreign actors to come to Canada to set up shop to manufacture, and the government highly subsidizes this. But what is the return on
  
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• Canucks trade defenceman Mark Friedman to Predators for future considerations

  07-02-2025 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks traded depth defenceman Mark Friedman to the Nashville Predators for future considerations Friday.
  The 29-year-old played five NHL games with Vancouver this season to go along with 20 appearances for the club’s American Hockey League affiliate in Abbotsford, B.C.
  Selected in the third round of the 2014 NHL draft by the Philadelphia Flyers, Friedman has 13 points (four goals, nine assists) across 93 career regular-season contests.
  The Toronto native h
  
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• Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID workers on paid leave

  07-02-2025 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave.
  U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday.
  The workers associations argue that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to shut down an agency enshrined in congressi
  
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• Missing plane in Alaska had sudden drop in elevation and speed before signal lost, Coast Guard says

  07-02-2025 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A single-engine plane flying over water in Alaska just south of the Arctic Circle with 10 people on board experienced a sudden loss in elevation and speed just before its signal was lost, authorities said Friday.U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Benjamin McIntyre-Coble also said that at least one of the searchers scouring miles of frozen tundra and flying over icy seas had found “some sort of item of interest” on Friday afternoon, but did not provide more specifics.
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• Alaska Legislature asks Trump to retain Denali’s name instead of change it to Mount McKinley

  07-02-2025 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.
  Trump, on his first day in office, signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley, an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.He said he planned to “restore the name of a gr
  
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• B.C. women being treated for HIV have shorter life expectancy than men, study shows

  07-02-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Antiretroviral treatment has increased the life expectancy of people living with HIV in British Columbia but a new study shows it is significantly lower for women than men.
  The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research paper, published in the peer-reviewed Lancet Public Health, points to an immediate need to address factors such as unemployment and unstable housing that adversely affect the health of women with HIV.
  The provincewide expansion of antiretroviral treatment comb
  
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• Packaged goods entrepreneurs network to ‘rise up’ and face U.S. protectionism

  07-02-2025 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Vancouver businesswoman Karen Danudjaja put out a casual social media call on Monday for a “roundtable” on how entrepreneurs could survive the potential hit of 25 per cent U.S. tariffs.
  Then the owner of Blume observed with surprise and delight as interest grew, and about 1,000 people accepted her webinar invitation to hear a panel of experts discuss “pivoting” to fresh markets.
  U.S. President Donald Trump agreed late Monday to delay by 30 days the imposit
  
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• Tory candidate won’t apologize for joking that polar bears could deal with homeless

  07-02-2025 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A candidate for leadership of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives says he won’t apologize for making a joke about tackling homelessness by letting polar bears roam free in Winnipeg.
  Wally Daudrich made the comment earlier this week in the Manitoba capital while speaking at one of the meet-and-greet events he has held recently.
  Daudrich, who runs an ecotourism and polar bear tour business in Churchill, Man., said there’s no homelessness issue in the northern town f
  
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• Toronto FC GM lifts the lid on the trade that sent Marshall-Rutty to Montreal

  07-02-2025 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Six months after shipping talented wingback/winger Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty to rival CF Montreal, Toronto FC GM Jason Hernandez opened up on the why behind the trade, warts and all.
  “Institutional failure” was his candid explanation in a Thursday night reception for Toronto season ticket-holders.
  Now 20, Marshall-Rutty was 15 when he signed a homegrown player contract in January 2020, becoming the youngest player in Toronto franchise history to sign for the first team.
  
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• Joly won’t say whether ‘abhorrent’ Trump pitch to clear Gaza means ethnic cleansing

  07-02-2025 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly won’t say whether she thinks U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip – but she is calling his recent comments “abhorrent.”
  Trump stunned leaders across the Middle East and beyond this week when he suggested that the Palestinian territory be cleared out and made into a U.S.-owned resort destination.
  Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says he has instructed Israeli’s mili
  
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• More active duty troops will head to US-Mexico border, bringing the total to 3,600

  07-02-2025 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday.
  That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 active duty troops at the border.
  The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because t
  
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• Latest scale aims to weigh if chubby endangered B.C. marmots have more babies

  07-02-2025 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver Island marmots can be a little shy when it comes to revealing their weight.
  Technicians and researchers with Vancouver Island University and the Wilder Institute are ready to deploy their latest version of an outdoor scale this summer to assess the health of the critically endangered species and determine if larger marmots have more babies.
  The scale is about the size of a laptop case and needs to be rugged enough to survive in the outdoors but not feel foreign to the house-cat-sized m
  
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• Booing of The Star-Spangled Banner reignites debate on national anthems in sports

  07-02-2025 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been a decades-long tradition in North America, but a Canadian professor of sport management says it might be time to re-examine the legitimacy of national anthems being played before games.
  Last weekend, sports fans in Canada voiced their displeasure with U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement he was raising tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports by 25 per cent. In hockey and basketball arenas across the country, they roundly booed the American national anthem before games
  
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• B.C. judge tosses drug evidence for ‘numerous and flagrant’ rights violations

  07-02-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VERNON, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A B.C. Supreme Court judge says Vernon RCMP committed “numerous and flagrant breaches” of an accused drug dealer’s Charter rights and colluded with civil forfeiture authorities to “bypass” due process obligations to avoid giving back a vehicle.The court issued two rulings on evidence collected by Vernon Mounties in a case against Nabil Abdelkader, who police believed was in the drug trade after finding methamphetamine and cocaine in
  
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• Fraser Valley real estate hits decade-high inventory amid trade war uncertainty

  07-02-2025 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — The ball is in the homebuyer’s court across Fraser Valley as thousands of new listings go up in January– a 166 per cent jump from December 2024.Fraser Valley Real Estate data shows 946 new listings in Abbotsford and Langley during the month, for a total of 1,605 residential properties. The City of Mission saw a 237 per cent hike, with 78 new listings.The east saw a 214 per cent increase as 342 homes went up in Chilliwack, Agassiz, Hope, and surrounding areas.
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• Capitals are one of just 2 NHL teams without a player in the 4 Nations Face-Off. It could help them

  07-02-2025 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, the Washington Capitals solidified themselves as a team to watch this spring.
  For much of the next two weeks, they’ll be watching everyone else.
  The Capitals are the only team in the league not to have a player chosen for the 4 Nations Face-Off international tournament between the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Finland, and one of just two without represent
  
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• Canada invests $72 million in satellite constellation to monitor active wildfires

  07-02-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONGUEUIL, Que. — Canada is investing $72 million on a novel satellite constellation that will monitor active forest fires across the country.
  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcement today at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters south of Montreal.
  He says the money will go to Ontario-based Spire Global Canada, which will develop the satellite constellation called WildFireSat.
  WildFireSat will consist of seven satellites that will enter orbit in 2029 to collec
  
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• CF Montreal beefs up defence with additions of Petrasso, Craig

  07-02-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montréal has beefed up its defence ahead of the Major League Soccer season.
  The team announced Friday that it has added Canadian defender Luca Petrasso and American defender Brandan Craig. Both players are signed through 2025, with options for 2026 and 2027 on Petrasso’s deal and an additional option year for Craig.
  The 24-year-old Petrasso, from Toronto, last played in MLS in 2023 with Orlando City. He played in Italy last year on loan with Serie C club US Tries
  
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• As Ottawa explores new uses for AI in the public service, experts call for caution

  07-02-2025 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As the federal government explores new ways to use artificial intelligence, it’s also being warned to keep the technology away from criminal justice, policy-making and hiring.
  Then-president of the Treasury Board Anita Anand announced in April the federal government is drafting an AI strategy, due to be released this spring.
  The government ran consultations on the strategy last fall and received almost 300 submissions from researchers, unions, Indigenous organizations and ot
  
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• Three men in Quebec accused of smuggling people from the U.S. into Canada

  07-02-2025 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The RCMP say three men in Quebec have been charged for helping to smuggle people into Canada from the United States.During two separate events last year, the three men were intercepted in vehicles near the U.S. border in the Montérégie region southwest of Montreal, allegedly waiting to pick up people who had crossed into Canada illegally.Muhammet Akca, 41, is charged with conspiring to facilitate the illegal crossing of several people in 2024 and is scheduled to ap
  
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• Jays GM says Max Scherzer’s arrival raises the bar for everyone in the organization

  07-02-2025 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins says having veteran pitcher Max Scherzer, with his experience and compete level, raises the bar for the whole organization.
  Scherzer is coming off an injury-disrupted season with Texas but says he is right where he needs to be ahead of spring training. And he believes he can still pitch at a very high level.
  The 40-year-old right-hander, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, has signed a one-year US$15-million contract with the Jays.
  He says he
  
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• Ford urges Ottawa to move faster to satisfy U.S. border security demands

  07-02-2025 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is criticizing the federal government over the time it’s taking to appoint what he calls a border czar.
  Ford says the Trump administration has made it clear that security along the Canada-U.S. border must be tightened, and he wants Canada to move more quickly.
  Speaking on the provincial campaign trail today in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ford says he’s sick and tired of politicians talking but not acting.Early th
  
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• B.C. police watchdog says no offence committed on fatal 2024 collision in Langley

  07-02-2025 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) has concluded its investigation of a car crash that took the life of one person and injured another.Early morning on March 18, 2024, a Langley RCMP officer tried to conduct a traffic stop on a black Mazda driving east of 16 Avenue.The Mazda did not stop and crashed into another vehicle at the intersection of 16 Avenue and 264 Street. The other car’s driver was unharmed, but the Mazda driver and her male passenger were both injured
  
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• Ingram trade an ‘incremental step’ in Raptors’ rebuild, says GM Bobby Webster

  07-02-2025 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s not the type of trade rebuilding teams generally make.
  Yet the Toronto Raptors (16-35) flipped the script on Thursday, sending the New Orleans Pelicans a 2026 first-round pick from Indiana, their own 2031 second-round pick and veterans Bruce Brown and Kelly Olynyk for pending free agent Brandon Ingram.
  For a Raptors team that sits 13th in the Eastern Conference and may be paying more attention to its draft lottery odds than its playoff chances, the trade at first blush
  
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• Armed man arrested in Vancouver after barricading himself in taxi

  07-02-2025 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Police say more than 25 officers and its K9 unit were deployed in the city’s downtown Thursday night to arrest an armed suspect who was wanted Canada-wide on parole violations.
  They say that a police sergeant was on patrolling around 7 p.m. when a witness flagged him over to report a man with a gun entering a building near Seymour and Nelson streets.
  Police say more than two dozen officers were called to help search for the suspect.
  They say he was found around
  
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• Q’aLaTKu7eM Community School celebrates first graduate - Chilliwack Progress

  07-02-2025 17:43
  Q’aLaTKu7eM Community School celebrates first graduate  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec zoo announces death of Shaboola, first white rhino born in Canada

  07-02-2025 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec zoo says it’s mourning the death of Shaboola, a 45-year-old white rhino who was the first of her species born in Canada.
  The Granby zoo announced this week the rhino had been euthanized after her health had recently declined.
  Shaboola was born at the Toronto Zoo on Oct. 13, 1979, which according to the Granby zoo made her the oldest white rhino in Canada and the third oldest female in North America at the time of her death.“Shaboo,” as she was called,
  
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• Long-term care home replacement for Chilliwack in procurement phase - Chilliwack Progress

  07-02-2025 17:20
  Long-term care home replacement for Chilliwack in procurement phase  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bradley Centre replacement for Chilliwack in procurement phase - Chilliwack Progress

  07-02-2025 17:20
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• ‘These Games are very unique’: Invictus Games bring community, competition to B.C.

  07-02-2025 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Patrick Levis was lost.
  The Canadian Armed forces major was paralyzed after having surgery to remove a pineapple-sized tumour from his abdomen. His new reality only made worse the post-traumatic stress disorder he was already living with following decades as an infantry officer.
  Then Levis found the Invictus Games.
  “When I first became ill and became disabled following my surgery, I had lost my identity,” he said. “Because I always had done sports and I was in
  
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• ‘They’ve stepped up’: Carey Price backs Canada’s goaltending ahead of 4 Nations

  07-02-2025 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Carey Price remembers the unending pressure.
  The nation’s eyes turn to the crease every time Canada laces up its skates and straps on the pads at an international hockey tournament. The intense goaltending spotlight — regardless of the level — can be all-encompassing.
  Price was under that microscope at the 2007 world junior hockey championship and the 2014 Olympics before again taking centre stage at the 2016 World Cup.
  “Those types of situations are why you play,”
  
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• Canada added 76,000 jobs in January as unemployment rate fell to 6.6%

  07-02-2025 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s labour market added another 76,000 jobs in January, beating economist expectations.
  Statistics Canada’s labour force survey on Friday also said the unemployment rate ticked down again 0.1 percentage points to 6.6 per cent.
  It’s the second consecutive monthly decline, following a recent peak in November of 6.9 per cent.
  Economists polled by Reuters expected about a third of that job growth, and for the unemployment rate instead to rise slightly.
  The manuf
  
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• AI chatbot from Chinese firm DeepSeek restricted from some government phones

  07-02-2025 16:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal government has restricted Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s chatbot from some of its mobile devices and is recommending other agencies and departments follow suit.
  A memo from the Treasury Board Secretariat’s chief information officer Dominic Rochon says the move is being made because of “serious privacy concerns.”
  He says those concerns include DeepSeek’s “inappropriate” collection and retention of sensitive personal informa
  
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• 'Immensely proud': Okanagan father-son fire-fighting duo honoured - Chilliwack Progress

  07-02-2025 16:28
  'Immensely proud': Okanagan father-son fire-fighting duo honoured  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Another De Rosario to wear Toronto FC first-team colours this season

  07-02-2025 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC will have another De Rosario wearing first-team colours this year.
  Goalkeeper Adisa De Rosario, the son of former TFC captain and Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Dwayne De Rosario, has signed a first-team contract as a homegrown player through 2026 with club options for 2027 and 2028.The 20-year-old De Rosario becomes the 35th player in club history to sign for the first team from the academy.
  The younger De Rosario, whose TFC 2 contract expired at the end of last year, wi
  
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• Wisconsin Supreme Court says swing state’s embattled elections chief can remain in post

  07-02-2025 15:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate.
  Republicans who control the state Senate tried to fire Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe in 2023, leading the commission to sue in an effort to keep Wol
  
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• Denis Coderre’s leadership bid rejected by Quebec Liberal Party

  07-02-2025 14:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — The Quebec Liberal Party says it won’t accept the candidacy of former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre for its vacant leader job.
  The party says in a statement today that its electoral committee has ruled that Coderre’s candidacy is inadmissible.
  It says on the social media platform X that Coderre has the right to file an appeal within five days of the committee’s decision.
  Coderre’s candidacy had been in limbo for some time and last week, the party said
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs to honour 7 first responders with memorial awards - Chilliwack Progress

  07-02-2025 14:30
  Chilliwack Chiefs to honour 7 first responders with memorial awards  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Cyprus jails Syrian man over the death of a 3-year-old girl on overloaded migrant boat

  07-02-2025 13:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court sentenced a Syrian national to three years in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl from dehydration aboard an overloaded migrant boat that was adrift for six days without adequate supplies of food and water.
  The Attorney-General’s Office said Friday the Famagusta criminal court ruled that the 48-year-old captain had failed to ensure the safety of the 60 Syrian migrants aboard the small wooden cra
  
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• UK announces plans to demolish shell of Grenfell Tower almost eight years after fire that killed 72

  07-02-2025 13:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government on Friday announced plans to dismantle the remains of London’s Grenfell Tower, almost eight years after the deadliest fire in Britain since World War II swept through the high-rise apartment building, killing 72 people.
  Some of those who lost loved ones in the fire that broke out in the early morning hours of June 14, 2017, have criticized the decision because they wanted to preserve the building’s charred skeleton as a monument to those who di
  
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• Toronto FC GM says hunt for new talent continues with movement the other way possible

  07-02-2025 13:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC GM Jason Hernandez says reinforcements are coming.And there could also be movement out the door before Toronto opens MLS regular-season play Feb. 22 with Hernandez suggesting the future of Italian designated players Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi may not be at the club.
  Hernandez, noting the club gets inquiries about both players at every transfer window, said discussions continue with Insigne’s camp. And he reiterated the words of MLSE president and C
  
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• Swiss skier Marco Odermatt in gold medal position in the men’s super-G at worlds

  07-02-2025 12:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Marco Odermatt was in line to win the men’s super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after the top-ranked racers completed their runs.
  The Swiss skier beat Raphael Haaser of Austria by one second. Adrian Smiseth Sejerstad of Norway was 1.15 seconds behind Odermatt in third.
  It would be the first super-G medal from a major event for Odermatt, the three-time overall World Cup champion who is the Olympic giant slalom champion. He wo
  
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• ICC condemns sanctions by Trump administration and pledges to continue its work

  07-02-2025 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Friday called on its member states to stand up against sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump, saying the move was an attempt to “harm its independent and impartial judicial work.”
  The White House issued the executive order on Thursday in response to what it called “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.” It was referring to the arrest warrant the ICC issue
  
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• In the news today: StatCan to release January jobs report

  07-02-2025 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  Statistics Canada set to release January jobs report today
  Statistics Canada is set to release its January jobs report this morning. Economists polled by Reuters expect Canadian employers added 25,000 jobs in the month and are predicting the unemployment rate moved higher to 6.8 per cent. This comes after Canada added 91,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.7 per cent. RBC E
  
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• Statistics Canada set to release January jobs report today

  07-02-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to release its January jobs report this morning.Economists polled by Reuters expect Canadian employers added 25,000 jobs in the month and are predicting the unemployment rate moved higher to 6.8 per cent.This comes after Canada added 91,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.7 per cent.
  RBC Economics says business sentiment remains subdued as consumer demand has slowed. Hiring intentions have also fallen sharply.
  Despite receiving
  
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• Ontario votes: Opposition leaders campaigning in northern cities, Ford in Toronto

  07-02-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Most of Ontario’s main party leaders will be courting voters in northern parts of the province today, as Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford returns to Toronto.NDP Leader Marit Stiles is set to make an announcement this morning in Sault Ste. Marie, before attending a local winter festival.Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie will be campaigning in Thunder Bay, while Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner is heading to Parry Sound.Ford, meanwhile, is set to make an announcement in Toronto’s
  
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• Liberal leadership candidates will have to clear $125,000 hurdle today

  07-02-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal Liberal leadership candidates will have to cross another hurdle today to remain in the race — a payment of $125,000 to the party.
  The party requires candidates to pay a total entrance fee of $350,000 in instalments.
  The candidates still in the race have made two initial payments of $50,000 each — one payment to launch their campaigns and the second to obtain access to the party’s membership list.
  Those candidates who meet today’s deadline will still
  
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• Trump and drones: Security officials prep for return of world leaders to Alberta

  07-02-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — A security expert says those who remember how tight the security was when world leaders gathered in the Alberta backcountry two decades ago better buckle up this June when U.S. President Donald Trump comes to call.
  And Stephen Scott, an RCMP tactical troop team leader in 2002 and now a security expert and private investigator, says the new security X factor is drones.
  Scott said the tiny flying machines can be utilized for plotting an attack or even surveillance.“It’s
  
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