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• Poilievre sticks with ‘axe the tax,’ adds policy details to slogans as election nears

  17-02-2025 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives’ favourite slogan — “axe the tax” — has been a rallying cry for the better part of three years as frustrated Canadians looked for relief from the rising cost of living.
  But now, with key Liberal leadership candidates backing away from the federal consumer carbon price, some have been asking whether the Tories need to axe their slogan as well.
  On Saturday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre put the speculation to rest.
  “After
  
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• Driver charged with not stopping in fatal pedestrian crash in Nanaimo, B.C.

  17-02-2025 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — A 26-year-old man from Nanaimo, B.C., has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run crash a year ago.Nanaimo RCMP say they were alerted to the crash on the night of Feb. 24 last year when drivers reported a woman lying on Cedar Road near the Bennie Road crossing.
  Police say bystanders and first responders tried to save the woman but she died at the scene.There were no witnesses to what happened and the driver didn’t remain at the crash site.Police say their investigators, w
  
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• Yukon premier says trip to Washington, D.C., highlighted North amid tariff dispute

  17-02-2025 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says he met with elected representatives from Alaska to discuss the importance of working together and the impact of possible tariffs on both counties.
  A statement from Pillai says he met with Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and House Representative Nick Begich as part of a trip to Washington, D.C., with other Canadian premiers, aimed at challenging the “harmful tariffs” being threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.
  Pillai says he and the
  
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• At least one child, two adults critically injured in plane crash at Pearson airport

  17-02-2025 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A critically injured child is among multiple passengers hurt after a Delta Air Lines plane from Minneapolis crashed and flipped over on the tarmac at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday afternoon.
  Here’s the latest (all times eastern):
  4 p.m.The ambulance service Ornge says it has transported three people with critical injuries to hospital, including a young person.
  In an email, spokesperson Joshua NcNamara says one “pediatric patient” is being sent to SickKids hospital w
  
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• Seven male suspects sought in B.C. theft of more than $2,400 in fragrances

  17-02-2025 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — Police in Richmond, B.C., are searching for seven suspects in an alleged retail theft of fragrances worth more than $2,400.
  RCMP say the theft took place on Nov. 11 of last year, when the seven men reportedly entered a store in the 3800 block of Steveston Highway.
  The person who reported the crime to police told investigators that the suspects entered and left the store within one minute, targeting only fragrances in the makeup department during the theft.
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• Competition Bureau says it’s probing whether landlords are using AI to set rents

  17-02-2025 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Competition Bureau confirms that it is investigating the possible use of AI-driven algorithmic pricing in Canadian real estate rental markets.
  The practice involves real estate companies using programs that track what competitors are charging for rent and leases.
  An American antitrust lawsuit alleges companies are using such software to collude and artificially inflate rents.
  The NDP first called on the Competition Bureau to look into the matter back in September.
  In October 2
  
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• Here’s the latest on the crash of a Delta plane at Toronto’s Pearson airport

  17-02-2025 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A Delta Air Lines plane heading from Minneapolis to Toronto crashed at Pearson airport on Monday afternoon. Images posted on social media show the plane flipped over on the tarmac.
  Here’s the latest (all times eastern):
  4 p.m.The ambulance service Ornge says it has transported three people with critical injuries to hospital, including a young person.
  In an email, spokesperson Joshua NcNamara says one “pediatric patient” is being sent to SickKids hospital with cr
  
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• Panthers running back Hubbard optimistic better times lie ahead for NFL franchise

  17-02-2025 22:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It was a breakout season, but not one Chuba Hubbard is prepared to hang his hat on.
  The six-foot-one, 210-pound Sherwood Park, Alta, native recorded career bests in carries (250), rushing yards (1,195), rushing touchdowns (10) and receptions (43) in 2024 with the Carolina Panthers. And that was despite missing the final two regular-season games with a calf strain.
  But even with the security of a US$33.2-million, four-year contract extension, the 25-year-old says he’s nowhere near being a f
  
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• Canada hangs on for 5-3 win over Finland, advances to 4 Nations Face-Off final

  17-02-2025 22:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — Canada is off to the 4 Nations Face-Off final. An old — and familiar foe — waits on deck.
  Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon scored 46 seconds apart in the first period, and Canada held on late to beat Finland 5-3 on Monday afternoon to set up a mouth-watering title game later this week against the United States.
  Brayden Point also scored in the opening 20 minutes before MacKinnon added another five minutes into the second. Sidney Crosby scored into an empty net after
  
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• Newborn bitten by dog in Alberta home dies in hospital: RCMP

  17-02-2025 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ENTWISTLE, Alta. — RCMP say a two-week-old who was bitten by a dog at a home west of Edmonton has died in hospital.
  The baby was airlifted to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton after the attack Sunday in the hamlet of Entwistle, Alta.
  Police say the infant died despite the best efforts of medical professionals.
  RCMP did not provide details about the type of dog.
  They say the dog has been surrendered and officers continue to investigate.
  Entwistle is roughly 90 kilometres we
  
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• ‘Holy snow, Batman!’: Ontario, Quebec residents dig out after major weekend snowfall

  17-02-2025 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A winter storm that blanketed much of Ontario and Quebec this weekend has tapered off, but the cleanup will take more than one week in Montreal and up to three weeks in Toronto, officials in both cities said Monday.
  Up to 25 centimetres fell on Toronto, on top of a similar-sized dump last week — the city’s hasn’t had to deal with that much accumulated snow since a storm in January 2022. About 40 cm of snow had fallen in Montreal as of 11 a.m. Monday morning, for a total of 74 c
  
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• Hughes, Miller, Jaques named PWHL’s three stars of the week

  17-02-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ottawa Charge forward Gabbie Hughes, Toronto Sceptres forward Hannah Miller and Minnesota Frost defender Sophie Jaques are the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s three stars of the week.
  Hughes had two goals and an assist in Ottawa’s 8-3 triumph over Minnesota on Thursday for her first multi-point game of the season and first three-point game of her PWHL career.The 25-year-old added another goal and an assist — on the game-tying marker — in a 3-2 o
  
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• Multiple injuries, one critical, in plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson airport

  17-02-2025 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Paramedics say one passenger has been critically injured and seven others were also hurt in a plane crash at Toronto Pearson Airport.
  The airport has confirmed the crash involves a Delta Air Lines plane arriving from Minneapolis, and images posted on social media show the plane flipped over on the tarmac.
  A superintendent with the Peel Region paramedic service says all of the other roughly 80 passengers and crew are accounted for and not believed to be injured at this time.
  The Delta Air Lines f
  
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• Rugby Canada calls in 54 players for men’s under-20 training camp in Vancouver

  17-02-2025 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian under-20 men’s rugby coach Christiaan Esterhuizen has named a 54-man roster for a training camp starting later this week ahead of a tour to Fiji later this year.
  The group will assemble in Vancouver on Thursday, and will train at Vancouver’s St. George’s School before wrapping up the camp Sunday with an intrasquad game.
  Rugby Canada said players were identified and selected for the long list via their participation in university and club competition and tournaments lik
  
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• Whitecaps acquire forward Daniel Ríos on loan from LIGA MX’s Chivas de Guadalajara

  17-02-2025 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired forward Daniel Ríos on loan from Mexico’s Liga MX side Chivas de Guadalajara, the team announced Monday.
  The loan runs through 2025 with the option to purchase.
  Ríos will officially join the club’s Major League Soccer roster pending receipt of his international transfer certificate.
  The Mexican forward spent last season on loan with Eastern Conference side Atlanta United FC, where he tallied the second-most goal co
  
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• Blue Jays right-hander Francis looks to build on remarkable second half of ’24 season

  17-02-2025 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN — This time last year, Blue Jays right-hander Bowden Francis had an uncertain role as a potential spot starter and likely long relief option out of the bullpen.He eventually took advantage of his opportunity and is now a strong bet for the No. 5 spot in a veteran-heavy starting rotation.
  “I feel like when I got my chance, I just felt comfortable in that role and I could be myself,” Francis said. “This locker-room just creates a good atmosphere for guys like me or
  
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• Three B.C. RCMP members seek recusal of conduct board over ‘disparaging’ email

  17-02-2025 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — A lawyer for three British Columbia RCMP officers facing dismissal over allegations of taking part in racist group chats says they want a three-member hearing panel removed over the use of a “disparaging” term in an email.An RCMP code of conduct hearing began today to determine whether Coquitlam RCMP constables Ian Solven, Philip Dick, and Mersad Mesbah committed discreditable conduct for comments made in private group chats on their personal cellphones, and on p
  
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• Federal government considers contract retaliation as Trump promises tariffs

  17-02-2025 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is looking closely at the business it does with American companies as it considers ways to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
  In an interview with The Canadian Press, Treasury Board President Ginette Petitpas Taylor, a member of the government’s committee on Canada-U.S. relations, said the government is looking at “where contracts are provided, what contracts are where.”
  “Everything is on the table,&
  
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• Man wanted in Nanaimo, accused of beating a small dog

  17-02-2025 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NANAIMO — Police in Nanaimo are trying to locate and identify a man allegedly seen abusing a small dog.
  Mounties report just before noon on Wednesday (Feb. 12), a witness reported a man beating a small brown dog.
  “The witness saw him pick up the dog and toss it “like a football” across the road, put it into a black shopping bag, and then punch it several times,” police said in a statement.
  After the witness confronted the man about what she’d seen, he allegedl
  
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• Alexandre Da Rocha, Canada’s newly appointed women’s futsal coach, looking for talent

  17-02-2025 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alexandre Da Rocha has a busy schedule ahead.As the newly named, first-ever Canadian women’s futsal coach, Da Rocha has to hold ID camps and choose a roster ahead of the inaugural CONCACAF Women’s Futsal Championship in late April in Guatemala.The veteran coach is in the process of finalizing camps in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec after talking to provincial associations about possible staff and players. That process will lead to a final selection camp, a four-day affair starting
  
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• Montreal police investigating after antisemitic symbol spray-painted on synagogue

  17-02-2025 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Montreal police have opened an investigation after an antisemitic symbol was spray-painted on a synagogue over the weekend.Rabbi Lisa Grushcow said in a video published to Facebook that a swastika was found on the side of Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom on Saturday.Police spokesperson Florence Stafford says police have not made arrests but are looking for witnesses and security camera footage to help identify a suspect.
  On the X platform, Mayor Valérie Plante called the vanda
  
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• Skrlik bests Sturmay 6-5 in battle of Alberta teams at Scotties Tournament of Hearts

  17-02-2025 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Kayla Skrlik defeated Selena Sturmay 6-5 in a key matchup of Alberta-based rinks on Monday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  Down 4-3 entering the ninth end, Skrlik (3-1) scored three points to take the largest lead of what was a tightly contested matchup. Sturmay only mustered up one point in the 10th and final end to fall to 2-2 in round-robin action.
  Skrlik’s victory helped clear a bit of the logjam for second place, with three teams now tied at 3-1 in Pool
  
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• Vladdy Watch: Blue Jays slugger Guerrero Jr.’s deadline for extension approaching

  17-02-2025 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN — Bo Bichette and George Springer sat in a corner of the Blue Jays’ locker room on Monday, catching up on things as they prepared for morning workouts at the team’s player development complex.The stall between them, normally occupied by teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr., remained vacant, save for a few uniforms, hoodies, warm-up pants and three plastic-wrapped baseball gloves.
  Normally a presence in the clubhouse well before reporting day for position players, Guerrero is
  
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• AFC Toronto signs Canadian forward Mya Jones on loan from NWSL’s San Diego Wave

  17-02-2025 16:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — AFC Toronto has added former Canadian youth international forward Mya Jones on a season-long loan from the NWSL’s San Diego Wave.
  The 23-year-old from Calgary scored two goals for San Diego in 19 appearances, including 12 starts, last season after being drafted in the third round (42nd overall) of the 2024 NWSL draft.
  “Mya is another quality addition to our group and we are thrilled to be welcoming another Canadian talent back home,” Toronto sporting director Bi
  
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• Israeli official says forces will remain in 5 locations in Lebanon after Tuesday’s pullout deadline

  17-02-2025 14:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli official says forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon near the border after Tuesday’s deadline for their full withdrawal.The official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.Lebanon’s government has opposed any further delay in the Israeli pullout under the ceasefire agreement that ended fighting with the Hezbollah militant group.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below
  
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• Fraser Valley celebrates Family Day with events in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission - Fraser Valley Today

  17-02-2025 14:33
  Fraser Valley celebrates Family Day with events in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Fraser Valley celebrates Family Day with events in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission

  17-02-2025 14:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — B.C. Family Day activities continue Monday across the Fraser Valley, providing families with a chance to gather and celebrate together.
  In Chilliwack, the city has announced free public skating at the Sardis Sports Centre on Monday. Skating with the Chilliwack Jets hockey club will take place from 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Additional free public skating will be available from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Rink 1 and Rink 2.
  Public swimming facilities in Chilliwack are also offer
  
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• Chilliwack school board to give 1st reading to $248M budget - Chilliwack Progress

  17-02-2025 14:30
  Chilliwack school board to give 1st reading to $248M budget  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Pope to remain hospitalized as doctors treat a complex respiratory tract infection

  17-02-2025 13:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization.
  Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the results of tests conducted in recent days indicate the 88-year-old pope is suffering from a “polymicrobial respiratory tract infection” that has necessitated a further change in his drug therapy.
  There was no timeframe given for his hospitalization, but B
  
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• Freeland’s housing plan ties immigration to supply, cuts development charges

  17-02-2025 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland’s plan to fix the housing shortage would tie the number of new immigrants to housing availability.
  The former finance minister makes the promise in a 10-point policy document her campaign sent out this morning, saying the move would slow down population growth until the housing affordability crisis stabilizes.
  In the same vein, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been promising for some time now to tie immigration numbers to
  
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• Top Russian officials will hold talks with US in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday

  17-02-2025 11:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Top Russian officials will hold talks with U.S. counterparts on restoring ties, Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, the Kremlin said Monday.
  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi capital later in the day to take part in the talks set for Tuesday.He said the talks will be primarily focused
  
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• Trump in the drivers’ seat as B.C. buckles up for new legislative session

  17-02-2025 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — When British Columbia’s Legislature opens for the first time in nine months tomorrow, the driving force behind the province’s politics and the government’s upended agenda will be thousands of kilometres away.
  New Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia will deliver a throne speech outlining the NDP government’s goals, opening the legislative session against the backdrop of economic uncertainty and the looming threat of whopping tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.
  Al
  
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• Canada recognizes Aboriginal title over Haida Gwaii off B.C. in historic agreement

  17-02-2025 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal government will recognize Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off British Columbia’s northern coast in a historic agreement with the Haida First Nation.
  Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says this is the first time the federal government has recognized Aboriginal title through negotiations.
  He says in an interview that it’s a “hugely significant” achievement that will reset the relationship in a “very meaningful way
  
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• In it to win it: 5 candidates set to clear final hurdle to run for Liberal leadership

  17-02-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — It’s deadline day for candidates to pay up so they can stay in the running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader — and the field appears to be set.
  The final $125,000 instalment of a total $350,000 entrance fee is due by the end of the day — a high bar of entry for such a short race.
  The campaigns for Chrystia Freeland, Frank Baylis and Karina Gould all confirm they have already made their final payment.
  Ruby Dhalla tweeted Sunday evening that she has deliv
  
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• Ontario election: Party leaders to face off live in televised debate in Toronto

  17-02-2025 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The leaders of Ontario’s main political parties will reconvene this evening for a live studio debate ahead of the last 10 days of the election campaign.
  Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner will be in Toronto for the debate hosted by CBC in partnership with several of the province’s broadcasters.
  The event is set to begin at 6:30 p.m.
  The televised event follows Friday’s northern
  
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• Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy travels to United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for war peace talks

  17-02-2025 03:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country.
  U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. The UAE, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, long has been floated as a possible site for peace talks as well given the large population of Russian and Ukrainian expatriates
  
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• Canadian men qualify for FIFA U-17 World Cup after topping CONCACAF qualifying group

  17-02-2025 03:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Aidan Evans scored four goals to send Canada to the FIFA U-17 Men’s World Cup with a 7-1 win over host Bermuda in CONCACAF qualifying Sunday.
  Evans, who plays club football in England for Fulham’s under-18 team, scored one goal in the first half and added three more during an eight-minute span in the second half.
  The young Canadians topped the five-team qualifying group with a perfect 4-0-0 record while outscoring their opposition 28-2. Down 1-0 Sunday, they scored s
  
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• Watts, Kirk help Sceptres scrape out 3-2 OT win over Charge in Edmonton

  17-02-2025 02:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Sunday marked the third time the Toronto Sceptres have played in an NHL-sized arena this season.
  The team talked very little about what it would be like to play in front of a sold-out Rogers Place, because they’d already played in the big arenas the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks call home.
  But the Sceptres, despite being on a three-game win streak, came out flat, gave up a goal to Ottawa’s Gabbie Hughes on the first shot of the game, and were outshot 17-2
  
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• Suspect arrested after unprovoked stranger attacks in Surrey

  17-02-2025 02:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Police in Surrey say they have arrested a suspect believed to be involved in two unprovoked stranger assaults last week.
  Shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 9, Surrey police officers were called to a report of an assault at a business in the 6400 block of 120 Street.
  Officers say they found that two men had been assaulted — one had been assaulted with a weapon — and the suspect had left the scene.
  Police say detectives located the suspect and arrested him in Delta, with
  
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• Watts nets OT winner as surging Sceptres edge Charge 3-2 in Edmonton

  17-02-2025 01:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Daryl Watts scored 51 seconds into overtime, propelling the Toronto Sceptres to a 3-2 Professional Women’s Hockey League victory over the Ottawa Charge Sunday at Rogers Place.
  It was Watts’ second goal of the game — part of the PWHL’s Takeover Tour — following a second-period power-play marker. Julia Gosling also scored for Toronto (6-2-4-6) with the man advantage.
  Gosling’s marker found its way through the pads of Charge goalie Emerance Masch
  
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• Ludvig Aberg rallies down the stretch at Torrey Pines to win the Genesis Invitational

  17-02-2025 00:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ludvig Aberg returned to Torrey Pines in far better health and showed it Sunday when he birdied four of the last six holes, including a 7-foot birdie on the 18th, for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot victory over Maverick McNealy in the Genesis Invitational.
  Aberg shared the 36-hole lead at Torrey Pines in the Farmers Insurance Open three weeks ago until getting so sick he barely made it through the tournament and had to withdraw the following week, a nasty illness that caused
  
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