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• Canadian speedskater Dubreuil wins 40th World Cup medal with 500-metre silver

  21-02-2025 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOMASZÓW MAZOWIECKI — Canadian speedskater Laurent Dubreuil earned his 40th career individual distance World Cup medal with a silver medal in a men’s 500-metre race Friday.
  Dubreuil finished with a time of 34.73 seconds.
  Jordan Stolz of the United States earned his seventh 500-metre medal of the season with the win in 34.49 seconds.
  South Korea’s Jun-Ho Kim finished 0.28 seconds behind Stolz to earn bronze.
  Dubreuil moved into second place in the overall 500m standings w
  
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• Arrest warrant issued for junior soccer coach believed to have defrauded team

  21-02-2025 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — An Alberta junior soccer coach believed to have vanished with thousands of dollars raised by his team’s young players has a warrant out for his arrest.
  Edmonton police spokeswoman Carolin Maran says Randy Knodel has been charged with 13 counts of fraud and one count of uttering a forged document.
  She says investigators are continuing their search to find the 46-year-old head coach of the Selects Football Club’s Tier 1 boys team.
  Parents say the team worked to raise m
  
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• Woman accused of drugging and robbing older men in a deadly romance scheme

  21-02-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman lured at least four older men on online dating apps to meet in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las Vegas said Friday. She has been charged in one of their deaths.Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts including wire fraud, identity theft and one count of kidnapping resulting in death, said Sue Fahami, the acting United States attorney for
  
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• Canada scores early and often in 22-0 drubbing of Dominica in CONCACAF U-20 qualifier

  21-02-2025 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORT OF SPAIN — Kaylee Hunter scored five goals and Natelle El Mokbel added four as Canada hammered Dominica 22-0 in CONCACAF U-20 women’s qualifying play Friday.
  Lea Larouche and Kierra Blundell each had hat tricks for Canada, which led 4-0 after 11 minutes at Ato Boldon Stadium. And the goals kept coming.Larouche, a freshman forward at Butler University, completed her hat trick in the 31st minute, giving Canada a 7-0 lead.
  Hunter, a member of the Northern Super League’s AFC T
  
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• Randy Boissonnault’s former company ineligible for government contracts for 5 years

  21-02-2025 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The company that was co-founded by former federal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault is now barred from doing business with the federal government until 2030.
  Global Health Imports was suspended in November and has been deemed ineligible for contracts with the government.
  The company, which Boissonnault started before he was elected in 2021, was at the centre of a series of scandals that eventually forced the Edmonton MP to quit cabinet.
  This fall, the National Post revealed that
  
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• B.C. plans ‘substantive changes’ for interprovincial trade

  21-02-2025 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s economic development minister says the government plans to enter next week’s meeting with other provinces prepared to make “substantive changes” to its interprovincial trade barriers as the threat of hefty U.S. tariff threats loom.
  Diana Gibson says she met virtually today with her provincial counterparts on the Committee on Internal Trade and that there was an “incredible energy and commitment” to reduce trade barriers with
  
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• BC Highway Patrol responds to early morning car crash in Coquihalla River

  21-02-2025 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — BC Highway Patrol has confirmed a single-vehicle collision on the Coquihalla Highway near Deneau Creek Friday morning (Feb. 21).
  Spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin told Fraser Valley Today that a grey pickup truck crashed into the Coquihalla River off Highway 5 at around 8:41 a.m. The truck landed on its wheels in the river, but the 59-year-old Princeton driver and his lone passenger could not get out.
  Hope Search and Rescue later assisted the occupants in leaving the vehicle.
  
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• 5.1 earthquake shakes Vancouver, Victoria and other southwest B.C. cities

  21-02-2025 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 has shaken Vancouver, Victoria and other cites on B.C.’s southwest coast.Natural Resources Canada says the quake was centred 24 kilometres north-northeast of Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast.
  It says the quake occurred at 1:26 p.m. local time and there were no immediate reports of damage.
  British Columbia’s emergency information website says officials are monitoring the situation and the public should stand by for more
  
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• After helping Canada to 4 Nations title, Avs trio will meet team in Nashville to resume playoff push

  21-02-2025 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche trio of Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Devon Toews had an easy excuse for missing Friday’s practice.
  They needed a break after hoisting hockey’s new trophy.MacKinnon, Makar and Toews helped Canada to a thrilling 3-2 overtime win over the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game on Thursday. But there’s not much time for rest as they quickly join the Avalanche in Nashville for a game Saturday.After all, the
  
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• 5.1-magnitude earthquake shakes south coast of B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2025 22:39
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• Homan, Einarson gain shorter road to Scotties Tournament of Hearts final

  21-02-2025 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Defending champion Rachel Homan and Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson will clash in the Page playoff between the top two seeds at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts after winning their first playoff games.
  Homan was a 10-5 winner of Nova Scotia’s Christina Black and Einarson downed Alberta’s Kayla Skrlik 7-4.
  The winner of the Page playoff between Homan and Einarson earns an express ticket to Sunday’s final, while the loser drops to the semifinal.
  Black m
  
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• Top immigration enforcement official reassigned amid frustrations over mass deportation effort

  21-02-2025 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda has been reassigned amid concerns that the deportation effort isn’t moving fast enough.
  Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday that Caleb Vitello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was “no longer in an administrative role, but is instead overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresti
  
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• Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job

  21-02-2025 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job.
  U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols removed his temporary block on the effort to remove all but a small fraction of USAID staffers from their posts and give those abroad a 30-day deadline to move back to the U.S. at government expense.His ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by unions on behalf of workers. They say the rush to
  
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• CF Montreal ‘not afraid of anyone’ as Major League Soccer season kicks off

  21-02-2025 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal ended the 2024 Major League Soccer season as one of the league’s most in-form clubs.
  Montreal posted a record of 4-2-1 in its last seven games in a late push for the MLS Cup playoffs.While Montreal was eliminated in a play-in loss to Atlanta United on penalty kicks, there was a sense of end-of-season optimism within the club that had not been felt in some time.
  Now, after 123 days of off-season work, Montreal is putting the finishing touches on preparation for
  
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• Canada coach Casey Stoney plans roster changes for Pinatar Cup game against Mexico

  21-02-2025 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada coach Casey Stoney will have more resources at her disposal Saturday when Canada takes on Mexico at the Pinatar Cup in Spain.
  The sixth-ranked Canadian women were down bodies for Wednesday’s 1-1 draw with No. 17 China on Wednesday, in Stoney’s debut at Canada’s helm, given seven players only arrived from North America the previous day.“Pretty much full availability,” Stoney said Friday.The exception is 21-year-old Manchester United midfielder Simi Awujo, who
  
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• After three years of full-scale war, Ukrainians call on Canada to help them carry on

  21-02-2025 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As Ukraine marks three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Monday, people on the ground are calling on Canadians not to give up on their fight for freedom.
  Here are three perspectives, from different parts of Ukraine.
  Andrew Marych, Lviv
  Andrew Marych said living in Ukraine means constant uncertainty about the future — but he has no desire to abandon his home.
  “It’s really like a nightmare, because already three years have passed and nothing has cha
  
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• B.C. RCMP investigates swastika graffiti on tribal building as hate crime

  21-02-2025 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Mounties in Fort St. John, B.C., say they’re investigating graffiti including swastikas spray painted on the Treaty 8 Tribal Association building as a hate crime.
  Staff Sgt. Scott Watson says in a statement that police are in the process of obtaining video surveillance from surrounding businesses to assist with timelines and trying to identify suspects.
  Videos from local media show swastikas and profanities spray painted on the walls of the First Nation building
  
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• LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

  21-02-2025 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.
  Bass said in a statement she is removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately.
  “Bringing new leadership to the Fire Department is what our city needs,” Bass said in a statement.&ldq
  
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• Young Surrey man convicted of manslaughter in fatal 2022 stabbing

  21-02-2025 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) says a young man has now been convicted of manslaughter nearly three years after the death of 44-year-old Leroy Billy in Surrey.On August 18, 2022, Surrey RCMP responded to an assault in progress and found Billy suffering from stab wounds at the intersection of 184 Street and Fraser Highway. He later died in hospital from his injuries.A manslaughter charge was laid against a 17-year-old Surrey youth one year later, though his name
  
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• Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign veteran Canadian defensive back Enock Makonzo

  21-02-2025 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed veteran Canadian defensive back Enock Makonzo on Friday.
  The five-foot-11, 195-pound Makonzo was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2024 but suffered a season-ending Achilles injury before training camp.
  Edmonton selected Makonzo in the first round, fourth overall, out of Coastal Carolina in the 2022 CFL draft.
  The native of Lachine, Que., appeared in 16 regular-season games, including 10 starts, with the Elks, registering 56 tackles (five for loss)
  
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• Under new coach, Vancouver Whitecaps prepare for winding MLS season

  21-02-2025 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The last two months have been a whirlwind of airports and soccer pitches for Jesper Sorensen.Hired as the new head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps in mid-January, he’s spent the last five and a half weeks preparing his team for the Major League Soccer season while simultaneously criss-crossing the globe for training camps in Vancouver and Spain, and a CONCACAF Champions Cup game in Costa Rica.Now the MLS campaign is set to begin Sunday when the ‘Caps visit their re
  
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• Japan’s Horishima edges Canada’s Kingsbury for gold at World Cup moguls stop in China

  21-02-2025 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIDAHU SHEQU — Japan’s Ikuma Horishima overcame a wobbly start to edge Canadian star Mikael Kingsbury for gold at a moguls World Cup stop Friday.
  Horishima, the 2024 Crystal Globe winner, almost didn’t advance out of the qualifying run. He took the 16th and final spot by .04 points ahead of Canada’s Joey Dubuc.
  When it counted, he came through with a double full and 1,440 combination on his final run to score 86.57 points.
  Mikael Kingsbury of Deux Montagnes, Que., the cu
  
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• Man is seriously injured in attack at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, police say

  21-02-2025 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — An assailant seriously injured a man in an attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial on Friday evening, police said. German media reported that the man was stabbed.
  Police said they were investigating the attack at the memorial, a field of 2,700 gray concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin. It is also located near the U.S. Embassy.
  There was no indication yet of motive for the attack.
  Berlin police said the victim was seriously injured around 6 p.m.
  
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• Chilliwack School District hosts kindergarten open house events - Fraser Valley Today

  21-02-2025 20:33
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• English O Canada lyrics have never been static, musicologist says

  21-02-2025 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Changing the lyrics of a national anthem is often considered taboo, but Chantal Kreviazuk’s tweak to the words of O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off Final in Boston on Thursday night may have struck a different chord, says a musicologist.
  When the Winnipeg-born singer took the mic ahead of the game, she changed the line “True patriot love in all of us command” to “True patriot love that only us command” to push back against U.S. President Donald Trum
  
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• Chilliwack School District hosts kindergarten open house events

  21-02-2025 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Early learning schools across SD33 are opening their doors to kids ready to take their first steps into the classroom next school year.Registration is open for Ready, Set, Explore– a series of open houses at elementary schools throughout the Chilliwack School District. The event helps children and their families meet staff, take a tour and participate in early learning activities at their future school.This year’s theme? Dinosaurs.“These events support the tr
  
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• Advocates urge Canada to suspend refugee pact with U.S. over fears of persecution

  21-02-2025 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Several civil society groups are calling on Ottawa to suspend a refugee pact with the United States over concerns for the safety of transgender and gender-diverse people.
  The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and Rainbow Railroad are urging the federal government to immediately pause the Safe Third Country Agreement.
  The agreement, reached in 2004, requires refugees to seek protection in the first country they enter — either Ca
  
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• Once again, Toronto FC enters MLS season with more questions than answers

  21-02-2025 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC has a new coach in Robin Fraser and a new mantra — “Hunt for Glory.” But like recent years, the 2025 season opens with more questions than answers.
  TFC kicks off its MLS season Saturday at D.C. United, boasting few reinforcements and with the club actively looking to shed high-priced Italian star Lorenzo Insigne.
  D.C. United (10-14-10) finished 10th in the Eastern Conference last season, tied with Atlanta on points but missing out on the final playoff spot through go
  
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• Midfielder Markus Cimermancic signs homegrown player contract with Toronto FC

  21-02-2025 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC has signed midfielder Markus Cimermancic to a homegrown player contract through 2026 with club options for 2027 and 2028.The 20-year-old from Kitchener, Ont., becomes the 36th player in franchise history to sign for the first team from the Toronto FC Academy.
  Cimermancic turned heads in pre-season as one of three Toronto FC II players invited to camp under new coach Robin Fraser.
  “We are thrilled to announce the signing of Markus to a first-team contract as a hom
  
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• Players, coaches reflect on 4 Nations with NHL set for Olympic return in 2026

  21-02-2025 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON — Jon Cooper was in celebration mode.Canada had just won a dramatic 3-2 victory against the United States to capture the 4 Nations Face-Off.As champagne bottles popped and beer cans cracked after Connor McDavid’s overtime winner late Thursday night, the country’s head coach was already starting to think about the NHL’s return to the Olympics.
  “It’s immeasurable what’s gone on here,” Cooper, a cup of something stronger than coffee at his side
  
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• Canadian pairs take silver and bronze medals at Four Continents figure skating event

  21-02-2025 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Reigning world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished second and fellow Canadians Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud were third in pairs competition Friday at the Four Continents figure skating championship.
  Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps were fourth after Thursday’s short program but surged into second place with a season-best 141.26 points for a total of 210.92.
  Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan, the 2023 world champions, led after the short program and then produce
  
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• A look at the future of best-on-best men’s hockey after 4 Nations

  21-02-2025 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The NHL went to five straight Olympics between 1998 and 2014 before passing on the 2018 Games for financial reasons. The aim was to return four years later, but concerns surrounding COVID-19 scuttled plans.
  The league also held World Cups in 1996, 2004 and 2016.
  The just-completed 4 Nations Face-Off, which saw Canada down the United States 3-2 in overtime on Thursday, represented a return of NHL players to high-level international competition.
  Russia was banned because of its war in Ukraine and
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Crown says accused in Quebec daycare deaths not criminally responsible

  21-02-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAVAL, Que. — The Quebec Crown says its expert has concluded that the man accused of killing two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into a daycare should be found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
  Prosecutor Karine Dalphond told a judge today that the Crown and defence will now present the facts of the case jointly when Pierre Ny St-Amand’s murder trial proceeds.
  The development means that instead of the jury trial scheduled to start in April
  
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• Auger-Aliassime loses third-set tiebreaker to Rublev in Qatar semifinals

  21-02-2025 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DOHA — Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime had his comeback attempt fall just short in a 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5) loss to Andrey Rublev on Friday in the semifinals of the Qatar Open.
  Down 6-3 in the third-set tiebreaker, Auger-Aliassime scored the next two points on serve. But when the serve rotated to Rublev, the fifth-seeded Russian converted on his third match point.
  Auger-Aliassime lost despite firing 21 aces in the match. The world No. 23 failed to convert what turned out to be a crucial
  
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• 4 Nations Face-Off final between US and Canada drew record betting action

  21-02-2025 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Canada’s 3-2 overtime victory over the United States in the championship game of the 4 Nations Face-Off on Thursday night set single-game hockey betting records.
  BetMGM Sportsbook said it was the most bet-on hockey game in its history, and it was 2 1/2 times greater than any NHL game this season.
  Betting also was strong throughout the tournament. Five of the games at BetMGM were among the seven most wagered-on hockey games this season.
  “The 4 Nations tournament
  
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• Golden goals: Canadian hockey players have a history of coming through in the clutch

  21-02-2025 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Connor McDavid continued Canada’s tradition of scoring clutch goals in best-on-best senior tournaments with his overtime winner in a 3-2 win over the United States in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off.
  Here is a look at some of the golden goals from Canada’s men’s and women’s hockey stars in big international tournaments:
  Paul Henderson — 1972 Summit Series
  Henderson’s late third-period goal on Vladislav Tretiak in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series in Moscow
  
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• Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad

  21-02-2025 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years.
  Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7. On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state’s new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair.
  Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah, with the last one taking pla
  
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• Indigenous kids in care more likely to experience poor health later in life: report

  21-02-2025 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Indigenous people who were in government care as children experience poorer health and socioeconomic outcomes later in life than those who were never in care, a new Statistics Canada report says.
  They suffer higher rates of disability, lower self-rated health levels and more homelessness, and are more likely to struggle to meet basic household needs, the report says.
  Statistics Canada says that despite the closure of residential schools and the end of the Sixties Scoop — the
  
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• Jurors begin deliberating in the trial of a man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie

  21-02-2025 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with stabbing and trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage.
  The jury got the case after lawyers delivered closing arguments to wrap up seven days of testimony in Chautauqua County Court.Hadi Matar, 27, faces up to 25 years in prison if he’s found guilty on charges of attempted murder and assault.
  District Attorney Jason Schmidt played a slow-motion video of the attack for
  
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• Heiltsuk Nation written constitution passes with 67 per cent of votes

  21-02-2025 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Heiltsuk Nation has approved the adoption of a written constitution for the First Nation on British Columbia’s central coast.
  The nation says 67 per cent of the 725 people who voted on the referendum were in favour of the constitution.
  It says voting this month came after about two decades of development and consultation.
  That included six months of engagement with more than 2,000 Heiltsuk members in Bella Bella, Nanaimo and Vancouver.
  Elected Chief Marilyn Slett says
  
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• Agassiz-area authorities warn public against toxic drug supply

  21-02-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — Sq’éwqel, or Sea Island Band, has released an urgent warning about the community’s drug supply Thursday afternoon (Feb. 20).Officials say the local supply is poisonous, and special attention should be given to purple pills that are currently being sold as ecstasy.Anyone who needs to test themselves or the people around them is urged to visit their local drug test centres:
  Agassiz Public Health Unit(604) 793-7160
  Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Sq’
  
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• Pope Francis’ doctor says pontiff isn’t out of danger but that his condition isn’t life-threatening

  21-02-2025 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ condition isn’t life-threatening, but he’s not out of danger, his medical team said Friday as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia on top of chronic bronchitis.
  Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope’s condition, saying that he will remain hospitalized at least all of next week.
  Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemellli hospital on Feb. 14 after his bronchitis wors
  
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• Vancouver Canucks sign goaltender Lankinen to five-year extension

  21-02-2025 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Kevin Lankinen to a five-year contract extension with an average annual value of US$4.5 million, the club announced Friday.The 29-year-old Finn has set career highs with 19 wins and four shutouts this season. He has posted a 19-8-7 record, a 2.53 goals-against average, and a .905 save percentage in 34 games.
  He became the first goalie in NHL history to start a season 10-0-0 on the road.Lankinen, who suited up for Finland at the 4 Nat
  
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• Quebec girl, 13, dies after she was found buried in snow in Montreal suburb

  21-02-2025 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHÂTEAUGUAY, Que. — Police say a 13-year-old girl who was found buried in snow in a Montreal suburb on Tuesday has died.
  Const. Erika Grondin with the police in Châteauguay, Que., confirmed the girl’s death and said police would assist the coroner’s office in an investigation.
  Police said emergency services were dispatched around 4 p.m. Tuesday after the girl was found unresponsive under a collapsed snowbank in front of a residence on Montreal’s South Shore.
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• Premiers Ford and Houston appeal to governors in latest push to stop Trump’s tariffs

  21-02-2025 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston are reaching out to state governors in Washington, D.C. as the deadline to avert U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs inches closer.
  The premiers are to attend the National Governors Association winter meeting today, where Trump and key members of his team are set to give speeches.
  Trump’s executive order to implement devastating duties on all Canadian imports to the United States was paused until March
  
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• IIO to investigate Abbotsford police-involved crash that may be linked to impaired driving

  21-02-2025 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A police-involved collision in Abbotsford has left one person with serious injuries and prompted an investigation by B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office.
  Investigators are considering impairment as a possible factor in the crash.
  The Abbotsford Police Department says the crash happened around 4:05 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 20) at King Road and Gladwin Road.Police say an Abbotsford Police vehicle, occupied by two officers, was travelling along King Road when it collided wi
  
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• Abbotsford double homicide victims identified - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2025 16:23
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• Italian skier Brignone wins, Shiffrin takes ‘big step’ as 25th in her first GS race after injury

  21-02-2025 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — Federica Brignone overcame a recent illness to win the first World Cup giant slalom after taking gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday, while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 25th in the American’s first race in the discipline in nearly 12 weeks.
  Brignone beat runner-up Alice Robinson of New Zealand by 0.40 seconds, eight days after they also finished 1-2 in the GS at the worlds. Robinson remained in the lead of the discipline standings.
  “I am
  
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• New York Yankees drop ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner

  21-02-2025 15:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPA. Fla. (AP) — The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner.
  Current owner Hal Steinbrenner, son of The Boss, announced the change Friday before the team’s spring training opener.
  “In recent weeks I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees — spanning several eras — to elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy,” Hal Steinbrenner said
  
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• AFC Toronto’s Leah Pais stoked to start her Northern Super League career at BMO Field

  21-02-2025 15:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Leah Pais is stoked about kicking off her Northern Super League career with AFC Toronto at BMO Field.
  “I have only ever watched teams play there. I’ve never had the privilege of playing there,” said the 23-year-old midfielder/forward from nearby Mississauga. “And to be able to step on the field for the first time, wearing the AFC jersey at BMO Field, is honestly surreal. It’s a dream come true.
  “I know it’s maybe something small for other
  
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