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• ‘It’s going to be a really exciting year’: Rise taking shape ahead of NSL season

  11-02-2025 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — Stephanie Labbé has been busy.As sporting director for Vancouver Rise, she’s spent the last several months glued to her phone and computer, hand selecting players and personnel, and crafting a solid squad ahead of the Northern Super League’s inaugural season.The league will kickoff play in mid-April — right around the time Labbé is set to give birth to twins.Growing her family and soccer club simultaneously is tricky, she admitted, bu
  
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• Nanaimo, B.C., woman charged in fatal parking lot crash involving modified truck

  11-02-2025 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — A woman in Nanaimo, B.C., has been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death partially due to what police say were modifications made to her truck.
  RCMP say the 24-year-old driver was parked at Woodgrove Mall on March 21 last year when an 85-year-old woman parked her vehicle beside the truck.
  The elderly woman left her car and began walking to the mall, at the same time as the truck driver pulled out and turned left, hitting the victim and knocking her to
  
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• ‘Wouldn’t even hurt a fly’: Memorial grows for B.C. teen shot dead by police

  11-02-2025 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — A memorial of flowers, stuffed animals, condolence cards and cans of Orange Crush is growing for a 15-year-old Surrey, B.C., boy who died in a police shooting on Sunday.Friends, family members and strangers, many of them crying, have stopped at the memorial not far from the site where the Surrey high school student was killed.A statement from the Surrey School District says the student is from Clayton Heights Secondary School and counsellors are on the site to support studen
  
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• Former prime ministers call on Canadians to ‘show the flag’ as Trump pushes trade war

  11-02-2025 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to hit Canada with steep tariffs, several former prime ministers are calling on Canadians to express their national pride and “show the flag.”
  Saturday, Feb. 15 — Flag Day — marks the 60th anniversary of the Canadian flag.
  In a joint statement, former prime ministers Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper urge Canadians to fly the flag with pride as “never before.”
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• Chilliwack City Council to vote on proposed gas station, drive-through in Rosedale

  11-02-2025 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack councillors are set to consider a development variance application at their meeting Tuesday (Feb. 11) that would see a gas station and drive-through establishment built on the southwest corner of Yale Road and Annis Road in Rosedale.According to a staff report authored by planner Shamim Bahri from the City of Chilliwack, applicant Isabelle Ferreira hopes to build a service station containing two fuel islands with four gas pumps in a commercial building estimated at
  
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• Update: Chilliwack Council OK’s proposed gas station, drive-through in Rosedale - Fraser Valley Today

  11-02-2025 22:51 via news.google.com
  Update: Chilliwack Council OK’s proposed gas station, drive-through in Rosedale  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Former Mountie Kevin Brosseau named fentanyl czar in reply to Trump’s tariff threats

  11-02-2025 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government has named Kevin Brosseau, a former senior Mountie, to be the federal point person on fighting the spread of deadly fentanyl.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Brosseau’s role as fentanyl czar will involve working closely with U.S. counterparts to accelerate Canada’s efforts to detect, disrupt and dismantle the illicit trade in the drug.
  During his more than 20 years in the RCMP, Brosseau served as a deputy commissioner and the senior Mountie in
  
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• Chilliwack teams busy raising funds for the Coldest Night of the Year - Chilliwack Progress

  11-02-2025 22:34 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack teams busy raising funds for the Coldest Night of the Year  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Reports: Raptors sign newly acquired Ingram to three-year, $120-million extension

  11-02-2025 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed Brandon Ingram to a three-year, US$120-million contract extension, according to multiple media reports.
  ESPN, which first reported the signing, says the deal includes a player option for 2027-28.
  The Raptors acquired Ingram last week before the NBA’s trade deadline in a trade that sent a 2026 first-round pick from Indiana, their own 2031 second-round pick and veterans Bruce Brown and Kelly Olynyk to New Orleans.
  Raptors general manager Bobby
  
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• Catholic Diocese of Prince George, B.C., settles abuse lawsuit for $3.4M: lawyer

  11-02-2025 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man who says he was sexually abused by a teacher in the 1990s has reached a $3.4-million settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince George and St. Thomas More Collegiate.Lawyer Sandra Kovacs says in a statement that the settlement was reached just before the case was scheduled for a 23-day trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.The anonymous plaintiff claimed in the lawsuit that he was “groomed and sexually abused” in 1993 and 1994 by
  
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• B.C. man found guilty in 2022 double homicide, attempted murder

  11-02-2025 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man has been found guilty of a double murder and an attempted murder that happened in Surrey, B.C., more than two years ago.
  It says that, on July 30, 2022, police responded to reports of a shooting at the South Surrey Athletic Park and found three people suffering from gunshot wounds.
  The homicide team says Jordan Krishna and Robeen Soreni died of their injuries, while a third person was treated for life-threatening wounds.
  
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• Jordan Binnington gets nod in goal for Canada in 4 Nations opener

  11-02-2025 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Jordan Binnington will open the 4 Nations Face-Off in the spotlight.
  Head coach Jon Cooper announced the St. Louis Blues goaltender will start for Canada against Sweden when the countries raise the curtain on the tournament Wednesday night at the Bell Centre.
  The 31-year-old got the nod ahead of Vegas Golden Knights netminder Adin Hill and Montreal Canadiens counterpart Sam Montembeault
  Binnington backstopped St. Louis to a Stanley Cup victory in 2019, but doesn’t have gre
  
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• Insigne comes on late in Toronto FC’s 1-0 loss to Colorado in Florida friendly

  11-02-2025 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC conceded an 84th-minute goal in a 1-0 loss Tuesday to the Colorado Rapids in an MLS pre-season friendly that once again saw Italian star Lorenzo Insigne not figure in the initial starting 11.
  Colorado ended the scoreless deadlock in Palm Beach, Fla., when Brazilian forward Rafael Navarro, who scored 15 goals in league play last season, knocked home a corner from fellow designated player Djordje Mihailovic.
  Toronto coach Robin Fraser fielded a first-team lineup to start the game, which
  
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• Meta’s $9-million class-action settlement presented to Quebec judge for approval

  11-02-2025 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec judge was presented with details today of a $9-million settlement that Facebook’s parent company has agreed to pay in a class-action lawsuit over alleged privacy violations.
  Superior Court Justice Dominque Poulin will have to decide whether to accept the terms of the deal that was made public last year.
  In the class action, plaintiffs accused Facebook of knowingly violating the rights of users by sharing their personal and private information with third parties.
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• B.C. elementary music teacher suspended after child pornography charge

  11-02-2025 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SOOKE, B.C. — A Vancouver Island school district says an elementary school teacher has been charged with accessing child pornography.
  Court records show the man faces a charge for an offence alleged to have been committed last March in Central Saanich, B.C.
  The Sooke School District says it has employed the teacher since 2016, and he most recently worked as a music teacher at David Cameron Elementary and Wishart Elementary before then.
  However, it says “due to unrelated circumstances
  
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• Two men arrested, warrant issued for third in shooting of Winnipeg soccer player

  11-02-2025 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Police have charged two men and issued a warrant for a third in a deadly shooting outside a Winnipeg soccer complex.
  Police were called to the complex in July during the Canada African Cup of Nations soccer tournament, where they found one of the players, 22-year-old Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi, with gunshot wounds.Police said at the time they believed the shooting was targeted and not directly connected to the soccer event.
  Const. Dani McKinnon says one of the accused was an acquai
  
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• Toronto Sceptres forward Spooner activated off LTIR, will make debut against Frost

  11-02-2025 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Sceptres are getting a big boost with the return of star forward Natalie Spooner.
  The Professional Women’s Hockey League team announced that Spooner has been activated from long-term injured reserve and will make her season debut in Tuesday’s home game against the defending champion Minnesota Frost.
  Spooner was the most valuable player of last year’s inaugural PWHL season with a league-leading 20 goals and 27 points.
  But the 34-year-old from Toronto
  
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• B.C. college basketball championships moved after alleged abuse of trans player

  11-02-2025 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The B.C. women’s college basketball championship is being relocated from a school whose coach and players allegedly mistreated a transgender opponent.
  A spokesman for the Pacific Western Athletic Association said Tuesday that Columbia Bible College will no longer host the championships from Feb. 27 to March 1 as scheduled, with a new venue yet to be determined.
  Columbia Bible College, an evangelical Mennonite bible college in Abbotsford, B.C., did not immediately respond to a request for c
  
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• Teen’s body recovered after fall through ice on B.C.’s Shuswap Lake

  11-02-2025 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALMON ARM, B.C. — The body of an 18-year-old man has been recovered from Shuswap Lake in British Columbia’s Interior after he fell through the ice over the weekend.
  Police say in a statement that the RCMP’s underwater recover team found the teen’s body on Monday.
  Salmon Arm Search and Rescue, the fire department and BC Emergency Health Services were called to the scene on Saturday to help search for the man.
  Staff Sgt. Simon Scott, the Salmon Arm RCMP detachment commande
  
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• Leger poll: Carney as leader would have Liberals tied with Conservatives

  11-02-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new poll suggests that if Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race, he would erase the massive lead the Conservatives have enjoyed for the past year and a half.
  A Leger survey suggests a Carney-led party would boost Liberal support by six points to 37 per cent, putting them in a dead heat with the Tories.
  The poll says the Liberals are currently at 31 per cent support, the Conservatives are still riding high in majority territory at 40 per cent and the New Democrats are trai
  
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• Russia has released detained American teacher Marc Fogel, the White House says

  11-02-2025 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained in Russia, has been released, the White House announced on Tuesday.
  Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, left Russian airspace with Fogel, a history teacher from Pennsylvania, and he’s expected to be reunited with his family by the end of the day.
  Fogel was arrested in August 2021, and he was serving a 14-year prison system. His family and supporters said he was traveling with medically prescribed mariju
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs Add Dwayne Jean Jr to Roster

  11-02-2025 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Chilliwack Chiefs finished their roster construction yesterday ahead of the BCHL trade deadline with the signing of 20-year old forward, Dwayne Jean Jr. 
  A First Nations Dene/Cree from the Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta and proudly from the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, the 5’11 190 pound forward has spent this season with the Whitecourt Wolverines in the AJHL after spending the previous two seasons in the WHL with the Tri-City Americans and Red Deer Rebels organizations
  
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• Ski resort proposed near Chilliwack 'an environmental snow job,' says Wilderness Committee - Chilliwack Progress

  11-02-2025 19:30 via news.google.com
  Ski resort proposed near Chilliwack 'an environmental snow job,' says Wilderness Committee  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Over 1,500 customers without power in Lake Errock, Highway 7 corridor Tuesday morning

  11-02-2025 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE ERROCK/DEROCHE — BC Hydro says over 1,500 customers in Lake Errock, Deroche and the Highway 7 corridor are without power Tuesday morning.
  According to the BC Hydro online dashboard, 1,530 customers in west Harrison Mills, Lake Errock, Deroche and Dewdney lost power at 9:47 a.m. for an unspecified reason. The cause is under investigation.Crews have been assigned and are expected to arrive by approximately 11 a.m.There is one smaller power outage in Chilliwack Tuesday morning, but that
  
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• Chilliwack brewery honored at annual awards gala

  11-02-2025 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A popular Chilliwack brewery known for its extensive pizza lineup and appealing outdoor venue in a picturesque country setting has been honored with an award at the 30th annual Business Excellence Awards.
  Farmhouse Brewing, located at Lickman Road and South Sumas Road in Chilliwack, won the Agricultural Excellence award Saturday night in a 90-minute ceremony at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre.
  In a Facebook post acknowledging the honor, the company overflowed with gratitude.
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• Trump, hosting Jordan’s king, renews his insistence that the US can control and redevelop Gaza

  11-02-2025 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his suggestions that Gaza could be emptied of residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area — a plan that could likely only work if the Arab nation agrees to accept more refugees.The pair met in the Oval Office, where Trump suggested he wouldn’t withhold U.S. aid to Jordan or countries like Egypt, other Arab nations, if they don’t
  
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• 2008 Olympic champion Eric Lamaze banned from equestrian until 2031 for breaking doping rules

  11-02-2025 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Equestrian rider Eric Lamaze, an Olympic champion in 2008, has been banned from the sport until 2031 after a second four-year doping suspension was imposed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  The court’s judges ordered the Canadian star to serve the latest ban for evading a doping control in the Netherlands in 2021, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) said in a statement Monday.
  That ban will not start until the expiry in September 2027 of a
  
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• Chilliwack’s only farm-based brewery honored at annual awards gala - Fraser Valley Today

  11-02-2025 19:14 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack brewery honored at annual awards gala - Fraser Valley Today

  11-02-2025 19:14 via news.google.com
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• Upper Fraser Valley RCMP superintendent takes on new job - Chilliwack Progress

  11-02-2025 19:06 via news.google.com
  Upper Fraser Valley RCMP superintendent takes on new job  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Eagles’ Super Bowl-winning coordinator Kellen Moore will become Saints head coach, AP source says

  11-02-2025 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kellen Moore, who oversaw the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles ‘ offense this season, has agreed to return to the site of his latest triumph as the next coach of the New Orleans Saints, a person familiar with his decision told The Associated Press.
  The 36-year-old Moore would join an organization that has been floundering since the retirement of quarterback Drew Brees and departure of Super Bowl-winning coach Sean Payton. The Saints haven’t made the pl
  
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• Winnipeg Blue Bombers kick off start of CFL free agency by signing two receivers.

  11-02-2025 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers kicked off the start of CFL free agency Tuesday by coming to terms with Canadian receiver Gavin Cobb on a one-year deal.
  The move was announced 14 minutes into the free-agent period.
  Cobb joins the Bombers after spending the last two seasons with Edmonton, recording 18 catches for 308 yards and two touchdowns in 29 regular-season games.
  Cobb also returned 20 punts for 211 yards and 20 kickoffs for 428 yards.
  Shortly afterwards, Winnipeg agreed to terms with American rec
  
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• Missing 18-year-old man located deceased after falling through ice: RCMP

  11-02-2025 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SHUSWAP LAKE — Mounties in British Columbia say an 18-year-old man has been located deceased after falling through the ice at Shuswap Lake over the weekend.
  According to a statement from police spokesperson Corporal James Grandy from RCMP E Division, Salmon Arm RCMP officers received a report on Saturday, February 8, just after 2 p.m., that an 18-year-old male had fallen through the ice on Shuswap Lake, between the Raven subdivision and Sandy Point in Salmon Arm.
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• Canada’s privacy czar launches investigation into student information data breach

  11-02-2025 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal privacy watchdog says he has launched a formal investigation into a cybersecurity breach involving a student information system used across Canada.
  Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says the probe was launched after his office received a breach report from U.S.-based PowerSchool, which provides the affected software, and a complaint about the incident.
  PowerSchool has told school boards in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta and elsewhere across North Americ
  
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• Abandoned fifth wheel torched in the Chilliwack River Valley, cutting telecom services to Post Creek residents - Fraser Valley Today

  11-02-2025 18:09 via news.google.com
  Abandoned fifth wheel torched in the Chilliwack River Valley, cutting telecom services to Post Creek residents  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• RCMP identify two men, two women shot and killed in home on Saskatchewan First Nation

  11-02-2025 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — RCMP have released the names of two men and two women killed last week on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan.
  Tracey Hotomani, 34, and Terry Jack, 51, both of Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation, Sheldon Quewezance, 44, of Zagime Anishinabek, and Shauna Fay, 47, of Indian Head were shot.
  RCMP say their identities are being released to help further the investigation.
  The four were found dead in a home on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation, east of Regina, on Feb. 4.
  Shortly after the b
  
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• Abandoned fifth wheel torched in the Chilliwack River Valley, cutting telecom services to Post Creek residents

  11-02-2025 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack cleanup volunteer says an abandoned fifth wheel in the Chilliwack River Valley was intentionally burned Sunday, leaving residents and businesses east of Slesse Creek without internet and phone for roughly 24 hours.In an email to the B.C. government and Chilliwack RCMP Monday night (Feb. 10), Chilliwack resident Ross Aikenhead says an abandoned fifth wheel just west of Slesse Creek was set on fire. Its GPS coordinates are 49.07680, -121.71330.Image: Google Maps / T
  
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• Chilliwack Ski Resort public comment process an environmental snow job - Wilderness Committee

  11-02-2025 17:57 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Ski Resort public comment process an environmental snow job  Wilderness Committee
  
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• QMJHL to award Sidney Crosby Trophy to top rookie starting this season

  11-02-2025 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOUCHERVILLE, Que. — The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League is naming its rookie of the year award after one of its most famous graduates.
  The league announced Tuesday that its top rookie will be awarded the Sidney Crosby Trophy, starting this season.
  Crosby, from Cole Harbour, N.S., had a dominant major junior career with the QMJHL’s Rimouski Océanic. He had 135 points in 59 games in his first season and was named the league’s rookie of the year in 2003-04.
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• Israel orders beefed up troops around Gaza as ceasefire shows signs of faltering

  11-02-2025 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to beef up troops in and around the Gaza Strip after Hamas threatened to call off a scheduled hostage release on Saturday.
  The official said Netanyahu also ordered officials “to prepare for every scenario if Hamas doesn’t release our hostages this Saturday.”
  The preparation plans come after Netanyahu met with his Security Cabinet for four hours on Tuesday to discuss Hamas&rsqu
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps add American forward Emmanuel Sabbi

  11-02-2025 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have added forward Emmanuel Sabbi to their roster ahead of the Major League Soccer season.
  The ‘Caps acquired the 27-year-old American from French club Le Havre via transfer, and have signed him to a contract through 2027 with a team option for 2028.
  Sabbi started in 25 of his 49 appearances for Le Havre, scoring five goals and contributing an assist.
  The five-foot-10, 160-pound athlete has represented the United States at the senior, U-23, U-20, a
  
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• Quebec government calls byelection in former Parti Québécois stronghold of Terrebonne

  11-02-2025 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government has called a byelection in a riding northeast of Montreal to replace former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon.The Terrebonne riding had been held by Fitzgibbon since the Coalition Avenir Québec formed government in 2018, but it had previously been a stronghold of the sovereigntist Parti Québécois going back to 1976.For more than one year the PQ has been atop the polls, and leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is hoping his candidate, party
  
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• Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

  11-02-2025 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the U.S. southern border — a case the conservative strategist has decried as a “political persecution.”
  Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, reached a plea agreement that spares him from jail time in the “We Build the Wall” scheme as long as he stays out of trouble.
  Asked how he was feeling as
  
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• Northern Exposure: After one-year absence, Nunavut returns to Tournament of Hearts

  11-02-2025 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When Colin Hodgson attended his first meeting with members of the Nunavut curling team that will play at the Canadian women’s championship, he asked everyone why they wanted to be involved.“The answers I got back were to continue to promote curling in the north and to continue to foster the game,” Hodgson said. “That was something that for me, was exactly what I wanted to hear.”
  Hodgson will coach the Nunavut entry skipped by import Julia Weagle that’s making
  
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• Man suspected of 3rd DUI in nearly 3 years caught after trying to flee from police: Abbotsford PD

  11-02-2025 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say a 52-year-old man has been arrested for impaired driving, his third offence in as many years, during an incident Monday morning in which he tried to escape from police.
  According to a statement from police, Abbotsford Police Department traffic officers arrested a 52-year-old Abbotsford resident for impaired driving after he tried to flee from police, his third impaired driving in just under three years.
  Police say the man’s class 1 driver’s
  
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• Salman Rushdie testifies against the man charged with stabbing him on stage in 2022

  11-02-2025 15:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Author Salman Rushdie took the stand in a New York courtroom Tuesday to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.Hadi Matar, 27, is charged with attempted murder and assault for attacking Rushdie as he was preparing to give a speech in August 2022, stabbing him more than a dozen times. Matar has pleaded not guilty.The 77-year-old author was blinded in one eye in the attack and spent months recovering, a process he detailed in a memoir released last year. A spe
  
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• Australia soccer star Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment

  11-02-2025 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Sam Kerr, one of the world’s top female soccer players, was found not guilty of the racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, Britain’s Press Association reported Tuesday.
  Kerr, a striker for Australia and for English club Chelsea, accepted she called Police Constable Stephen Lovell “stupid and white” during a heated exchange at a police station after a night out, but had denied that it amounted to the charge.
  The verdict came on the seventh
  
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• 27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests

  11-02-2025 15:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship.
  The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, contends that the new policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attend
  
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• Saint John, Calgary are the cities that would be hit hardest by U.S. tariffs: report

  11-02-2025 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Calgary, Saint John, N.B. and Windsor, Ont. are the Canadian cities that would be hit the hardest by U.S. tariffs, says new research by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
  Using Statistics Canada trade data, the organization came up with a “U.S. Tariff Exposure Index” to look at the potential impact of threatened American tariffs on 41 Canadian cities.
  The research looked at Statistics Canada export data in light of U.S. President Donald Trump’s initial threat to i
  
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• Gatland out as Wales rugby coach midway through the Six Nations with team on record losing run

  11-02-2025 14:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Warren Gatland has left his role as Wales rugby coach midway through the Six Nations, with his team on a national-record losing streak of 14 matches.
  The decision was announced by the Welsh Rugby Union on Tuesday, three days after a 22-15 loss to Italy that appears to have sealed the New Zealander’s fate.Matt Sherratt, the head coach of Cardiff Blues, will take over for the remainder of the Six Nations. The WRU said Gatland’s departure was by mutual consent.
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