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• Senate seats now filled after prime minister announces five more appointments

  07-03-2025 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — With just days to go until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves federal politics, his office says five new appointments have now filled all the vacancies in the 105-seat Senate.
  The Prime Minister’s Office says in a news release that the Governor General has appointed former Moncton mayor Dawn Arnold for New Brunswick and former MLA Tony Ince for Nova Scotia.
  Non-profit executive Katherine Hay, charity CEO Farah Mohamed and former provincial politician Sandra Pupatello have
  
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• Montreal Canadiens stand pat at NHL trade deadline amid playoff chase

  07-03-2025 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BROSSARD, Que. — Kent Hughes was ready for another yard sale.
  Then the Montreal Canadiens went on a run and changed his mind.
  The Canadiens general manager stood pat at the NHL trade deadline Friday, bucking the trend of selling the last three years as Montreal remains in the hunt for a playoff spot.
  “The plan from the beginning of the season was that what we did at the trade deadline would be dictated by the team,” Hughes told reporters at CN Sports Complex after the 3 p.m. ET
  
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• High market prices leave Vancouver Canucks quiet at NHL trade deadline: GM

  07-03-2025 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A tightly contested playoff picture left the Vancouver Canucks quiet as the NHL’s trade deadline passed on Friday.The cost of bringing in new faces was high, while other teams around the league weren’t willing to meet the Canucks’ ask for players, said general manager Patrik Allvin.
  “Definitely was an interesting market and some of the moves here,” he said. “And the reason, the biggest reason, I felt that we didn’t do any moves here tod
  
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• ‘It’s nice’: Meet the Canadians tasked with changing country’s famous clocks

  07-03-2025 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  For at least a couple of hours on Sunday morning, Halifax residents who get the time from the city’s Old Town Clock may be thrown off.
  Craig Potter, an employee with Parks Canada, will be making the slow climb to change the clock, as he has done twice a year for the past four years.
  “I’m not going to be there (at) two in the morning, let’s say,” Potter said with a laugh. “But I will be there fairly early on Sunday.”
  This weekend marks the beginning of da
  
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• Expert tells judge to dismiss charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams without allowing refiling of them

  07-03-2025 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. solicitor general brought in to help a federal judge decide whether to accept a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams recommended Friday that the charges be dropped but that the government not be allowed to refile them at a later date.
  Judge Dale E. Ho in Manhattan appointed Paul Clement, who was solicitor general under President George W. Bush, two weeks ago to present arguments on the government’s
  
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• Lake Placid awaits word on whether it’ll be picked as the Olympic sliding site for 2026 Games

  07-03-2025 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands of people there to cheer on both moments.
  It could happen.
  The element of incorporating New York into the Olympics is just one of the unique possibilities inside Lake Placid’s plan if the two-time Olympic host gets asked by the International Olympic Committee to be th
  
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• Kimberley Bos the leader entering final run of women’s skeleton world championship at Lake Placid

  07-03-2025 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands has a lead of about a quarter-second going into the final run of the women’s skeleton world championship at Mount Van Hoevenberg.
  Bos won a silver medal at the 2023 world championships and took the bronze at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. She had the lead after Thursday’s first two runs and her track-record time of 54.49 seconds gave her a combined time of 2 minutes, 45.36 seconds.
  Anna Fernstaedt of the Czech Republic is se
  
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• Oilers’ Kane to remain on long-term injured reserve for rest of regular season

  07-03-2025 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers say forward Evander Kane will remain on long-term injured reserve for the remainder of the NHL regular season.
  Friday’s decision means Kane’s US$5.125-million salary will not count against the Oilers’ cap.
  The move was expected after the Oilers acquired defenceman Jake Walman from San Jose on Thursday, one day before the NHL trade deadline.
  Walman is in the second season of a three-year contract with an average annual salary of $3.4 million.
  
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• Mounties issue safety reminder after e-scooter collision in Mission

  07-03-2025 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Scooter season is slowly rolling in– and so are the crashes.At around 5:30 pm on February 26th, Mission RCMP said a car struck an 18-year-old e-scooter rider at the intersection of 11th Avenue and Taulbut Street.The young man– who was not wearing a helmet– reportedly rode into the intersection without stopping, and the passing car couldn’t stop in time either. Although he wasn’t seriously injured, he was transported to hospital due to concussion-like
  
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• CP NewsAlert: BC Conservative leader ejects MLA over residential school comments

  07-03-2025 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Conservatives Leader John Rustad has ejected his attorney general critic, Dallas Brodie, from the Opposition caucus, citing comments he says “mock and belittle” residential school survivors.
  More coming.Marcy Nicholson, The Canadian Press
  
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• Canadian, U.S. mayors from Great Lakes area call for trade stability

  07-03-2025 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Canadian and United States mayors from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence regions are calling for economic stability and an end to the threat of across-the-board tariffs, saying that millions of livelihoods are at stake on both sides of the border.
  Hamilton, Ont., Mayor Andrea Horwath told reporters in Washington, D.C., today that the regions form a single economy that is so integrated the products they produce can’t be described as purely Canadian or American.
  She says ma
  
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• Rugby Canada launches ‘Mission: Win Rugby World Cup 2025’ for second-ranked women

  07-03-2025 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Rugby Canada is looking for a helping hand for the women’s rugby team en route to this summer’s Rugby World Cup.
  The governing body has launched “Mission: Win Rugby World Cup 2025,” bidding to raise $1 million to provide the women with extra resources — to finance more training time together — ahead of the 16-team tournament that runs Aug. 22 to Sept. 27 in England.
  Thirty per cent of the goal has already been reached via private donors. And during March, all
  
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• Alberta government commits millions for event space near Edmonton Oilers arena

  07-03-2025 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Edmonton is getting an influx of public dollars to expand its entertainment district, two years after the province committed hundreds of millions for a new arena in Calgary,
  The Alberta government is working with the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Oilers owners to build a $408-million event park next to Rogers Place, which opened in 2016.
  The government is to contribute about $183 million to build the park and to demolish Northlands Coliseum, the former home of the Oilers where they hoisted their
  
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• Service Canada says you’ll soon get your passport processed in 30 days, or it’s free

  07-03-2025 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it’s going to implement a new 30-business-day guarantee for passports.
  That means Ottawa promises to either process a passport application within 30 business days or refund the fee.
  Citizens’ Services Minister Terry Beech says that change is coming this year, along with an online renewal option that will launch in the summer.
  Service Canada launched a pilot project for online passport renewals in December.
  The Liberal government first promis
  
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• Queer Momentum uses drag to call on Canadians to vote against discrimination

  07-03-2025 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Queer Momentum executive director Fae Johnstone says she wants Canadians to help safeguard LGBTQ rights in the upcoming federal election — and she’s using drag to reach them.
  Johnstone says the expected spring election offers a moment for Canadian voters to ensure this country doesn’t “fall victim to the kind of ideology and hate that has gripped our friends south of the border.”
  More than 100 drag artists from across the country are launching Drag th
  
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• Canada Revenue Agency not renewing contracts of 450 term employees during tax season

  07-03-2025 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — With tax filing season well underway, the Canada Revenue Agency has told 450 of its term employees across the country that their contracts won’t be renewed at the end of the month.
  Etienne Biram, a spokesperson for the agency, says the CRA regularly reviews its financial resources to “ensure sustainable operations and alignment with government priorities.”
  Biram said employee unions have been informed of the cuts and the agency aims to limit the “impact on
  
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• AHL suspends Syracuse’s Maxim Groshev for 10 games for using racial language at an opponent

  07-03-2025 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Syracuse Crunch forward Maxim Groshev was suspended 10 games Friday by the American Hockey League for using what the AHL termed “racially insensitive language” toward an opponent.
  The game in question occurred Saturday against Rochester.
  Because Groshev already sat out one game, he will be eligible to return to play March 30. He also can appeal the remainder of his suspension after eight games if he takes part in the NHL’s Player Inclusion Coalition and makes what is deemed by
  
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• Mexican cartel leader’s son is sentenced to life in prison for role in major drug trafficking plot

  07-03-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss has been sentenced to life in prison for his own leadership role in one of the country’s largest and most violent narcotics trafficking organizations.
  Rubén Oseguera, known as El Menchito, is the son of fugitive Jalisco New Generation cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera. The son served as the CJNG cartel’s second-in-command before his extradition to the U.S. in February 2020.
  The younger Oseguera faced a maximum sentence o
  
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• University lecturer argues Scotland should get its due in the creation of basketball

  07-03-2025 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  At a time when Canadians are looking over their shoulder thanks to some bluster south of the border, Scotland’s University of Stirling seems to be piling on with a news release titled “Research Reveals Basketball Creator was Scottish, not Canadian.”
  But Ross Walker, whose paper titled “James Naismith: The Creation of Basketball and the Scottish Connection” was published in the journal Sport in History, is quick to note that he is not trying to rewrite history.
  Inste
  
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• If Lake Placid becomes the Olympic sliding site, New York’s Rockefeller Center will be a big part

  07-03-2025 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands of people there to cheer on both moments.
  It could happen.
  The element of incorporating New York into the Olympics is just one of the unique details inside Lake Placid’s plan if the two-time Olympic host gets asked to be the site of the sliding events for next winter&
  
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• Sentencing hearing underway for second hit man in Ripudaman Singh Malik murder

  07-03-2025 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The eldest daughter-in-law of Ripudaman Singh Malik has addressed in court one of the two hit men who shot Malik to death in Surrey, B.C., in 2022.
  Sundeep Kaur Dhaliwal turned to Jose Lopez while giving her victim impact statement in British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster, telling him “you allowed someone to hire you to take away my children’s grandfather.”
  Crown lawyer Matthew Stacey told the hearing that Malik, a former suspect in the
  
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• B.C. hunters face dozens of charges for multiple poaching-related incidents

  07-03-2025 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SHERIDAN LAKE — Four people face a combined 43 charges in connection with unlawfully hunting and killing wildlife throughout BC.In a social media post this morning (Mar. 7), the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said the investigation began in the fall of 2023 when officers responded to a report of shots fired near a Sheridan Lake cabin near 100 Mile House.An execution of two search warrants found that two of the accused worked as social media influencers who ran a backcountry hunting site
  
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• Surging Whitecaps, struggling CF Montreal set for all-Canadian clash

  07-03-2025 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Three seasons into his Major League Soccer career, the allure of facing another Canadian club hasn’t faded for Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Ali Ahmed.He’s set to experience the excitement again Saturday when CF Montreal (0-2-0) visits the ‘Caps (2-0-0) at B.C. Place.
  “It’s extra special when you’re playing another Canadian MLS club. I can’t even lie — for sure, you just want to show and prove you’re the best Canadian MLS c
  
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• Ottawa Police working on dedicated unit for Parliament Hill area

  07-03-2025 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Police Service is establishing a dedicated policing presence around Parliament Hill.
  The federal government is making $50 million available over five years for the Parliament district policing program.
  The money, which was earmarked in the 2024 federal budget, will fund 49 employees.
  Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says the program is a response to a growing number of protests in the downtown area in recent years — including the 2022 convoy protest that occu
  
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• More than 450 unhoused people died in B.C. in 2023, almost tripling 2020 toll

  07-03-2025 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — New data from the BC Coroners Service says at least 458 people experiencing homelessness in the province died in 2023, with the toll almost tripling in just three years.
  The service says in a news release there’s been a 23 per cent increase from the 373 recorded deaths of unhoused people the year before.It says 91 per cent of the 2023 deaths were classified as accidental, including 86 per cent due to drug toxicity.
  The data show 79 per cent of those who died were male, wh
  
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• Homeless deaths on the rise in Fraser Valley - Chilliwack Progress

  07-03-2025 19:35 via news.google.com
  Homeless deaths on the rise in Fraser Valley  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Jets acquire defenceman Luke Schenn, reportedly add forward Brandon Tanev at deadline

  07-03-2025 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have acquired veteran defenceman Luke Schenn from the Pittsburgh Penguins for two draft picks ahead of Friday’s NHL trade deadline.
  Winnipeg is sending a second-round pick in 2026 and a fourth-round choice in 2027 to Pittsburgh.
  The Jets have also landed forward Brandon Tanev from the Seattle Kraken for a second-rounder, according to multiple reports.
  The Penguins flipped Schenn after acquiring him and forward Tommy Novak from the Nashville Predators for
  
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• Community invited to candlelight vigil following 3-year-old's death in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  07-03-2025 19:09 via news.google.com
  Community invited to candlelight vigil following 3-year-old's death in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Community invited to candlelight vigil following 3-year-old's death in Chilliwack - Abbotsford News

  07-03-2025 19:09 via news.google.com
  Community invited to candlelight vigil following 3-year-old's death in Chilliwack  Abbotsford News
  
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• Unemployment up in Chilliwack, Abbotsford as national average holds steady at 6.6%: StatCan

  07-03-2025 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Statistics Canada’s latest jobs report shows unchanged unemployment rates in B.C. and the national average, but the needle is ticking up in a couple of Fraser Valley regions.Chilliwack added 1,900 jobs in February, though it still couldn’t stave off a rising unemployment rate from 6.8 to 7 per cent last month– a 1.6 per cent jump from February 2024.Across the Valley, Abbotsford-Mission lost 1,100 jobs, while unemployment rose by 0.3 points to 5.5 per cent.The
  
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• Unity Christian one win away from provincial championship

  07-03-2025 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Unity Christian basketball team is just one win away from a spot in the B.C. School Sports Boys Basketball Provincial Championships.
  Unity Christian defeated Kelowna’s Immaculata Regional High School 99-40 on Thursday. The Flames held a six-point lead after one quarter but turned it up a notch by extending the lead to 28 at the half.Unity Christian, the defending 1A champions, had five players in double figures headlined by Caleb Friesen’s 24 points, while team
  
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• Terry Wilson, who helped Stampeders win 1971 Grey Cup, dead at 83

  07-03-2025 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Terry Wilson, who played nine seasons in the CFL and helped the Calgary Stampeders win the 1971 Grey Cup, has died.
  The Stampeders said in a release that Wilson died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 83.
  Wilson joined the Stampeders in 1968 after four years with Edmonton and played 76 regular-season contests for Calgary.He had 16 interceptions as a member of the Stampeders including a team-leading seven picks in 1970.
  He was a key contributor to the Stampeders’ 1971 ch
  
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• Impaired drivers, even mid-mornings, can’t elude Abbotsford PD’s watchful eye

  07-03-2025 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — You wouldn’t think people would be getting behind the wheel while they were impaired mid-morning on a weekend.But the possibilities are endless in Abbotsford where the AbbyPD continues to enforce impaired driving with robust results.The department says its patrol shift 4 team initiated “Project Talon” which involves proactive policing aimed at detecting and removing impaired drivers from Abbotsford roads. Abbotsford PD says it successfully removed seven impai
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Senators trade Norris, Bernard-Docker to Sabres for Cozens, Gilbert

  07-03-2025 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have acquired centre Dylan Cozens, defenceman Dennis Gilbert and a second-round draft pick from the Buffalo Sabres for centre Josh Norris and defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker ahead of the NHL trade deadline.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Anxiety about Trump tariffs runs deep in Quebec industrial cities

  07-03-2025 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. — Quebec cities that depend on U.S. exports are struggling to navigate the twists and turns of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
  In Trois-Rivières, Que., managers and union representatives are hearing a lot of concern from employees about the trade war with the United States.
  The city sits along the St. Lawrence River about 130 kilometres northeast of Montreal, and it produces and processes aluminum, forestry and agri-food products, man
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Vancouver Island as atmospheric river approaches

  07-03-2025 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for west Vancouver Island as an atmospheric river approaches.
  It says the weather system will bring up to 120 millimetres of rain that is expected to begin Friday evening and last until Saturday night.
  The agency says the atmospheric river will also bring about 80 millimetres to the east side of Vancouver Island in Qualicum Beach, Bowser and Fanny Bay, but it will taper off Sunday afternoon as the system pushes southeast and weak
  
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• Ottawa pledges $675M for Gavi vaccine alliance, targets malaria, HPV doses

  07-03-2025 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is pledging $675 million for vaccination programs aimed at children in developing countries.
  The funding for Gavi, also known as the Vaccine Alliance, would be allocated from 2026 to 2030.
  A news release says the spending would help provide new malaria vaccines to 50 million children and human papillomavirus protection to 120 million girls.
  The funding would improve storage of children’s vaccine doses in remote areas and provide an unspecified number o
  
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• Canada rugby sevens men down Tonga, Uganda to advance to Challenger Series semifinals

  07-03-2025 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE TOWN — Kal Sager ran in two of Canada’s six tries in a dominant 38-7 win over Uganda on Friday in the second round of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger Series.
  The Canadian men, who opened the day by edging Tonga 26-24, finished atop Pool B and will play Pool C winner Germany in the Cup semifinal Saturday.
  Ethan Hager, Jamie Armstrong, Kyle Tremblay and Ethan Turner also scored tries for Canada with Thomas Isherwood, Brenden Black, Armstrong and Turner adding conversions.
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• Ottawa outlaws another 179 types of firearms, announces classification review

  07-03-2025 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government has outlawed another 179 firearm varieties, adding to the list of prohibited guns it considers too dangerous for use by hunters or sport shooters.
  The government says all current and future variants of the newly listed firearms are prohibited, whether or not they are named in regulations.
  Since May 2020, the federal government has outlawed approximately 2,500 types of guns it calls assault-style firearms.
  It says a federal buyback program will provide curren
  
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• Canadian men to play two friendlies in Montreal ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup

  07-03-2025 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada Soccer says the Canadian men’s team will play at least two friendlies in Montreal in the lead-up to the 2026 World Cup.
  There is no word on opposition yet for the games, the first of which is scheduled for Oct. 10 at Stade Saputo. Canada Soccer says the opponent will be confirmed following “out-of-region” World Cup qualifying matches.
  Montreal will also serve as the host city for the Canadian men’s final preparations for the 2026 World Cup with a final send-off mat
  
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• Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA staffers, an attack on worker rights

  07-03-2025 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security says it’s ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration who are responsible for keeping weapons off airplanes and protecting air travel.
  The department made the announcement Friday, criticizing the union and saying poor performers were being allowed to stay on the job.
  The department says the agreement was hindering the ability of the orga
  
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• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says his request to Blue Jays was for less than $600 million

  07-03-2025 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says his proposal for a long-term contract with the Toronto Blue Jays was for less than $600 million.
  In an interview to ESPN, the four-time All-Star disputed speculation he sought a deal similar to the $765 million, 15-year contract that Juan Soto agreed to with the New York Mets. Guerrero, who turns 26 on March 16, agreed in January to a $28.5 million, one-year contract and can become a free agent after the World Series. He cut off talks on a lo
  
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• Panama to allow 112 migrants deported from the US to move about freely in the country

  07-03-2025 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s Security Minister Frank Ábrego said on Friday that Panama will begin the process of issuing humanitarian passes to 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month.
  The passes would allow the migrants from a number of mostly Asian nations to move freely about Panama while they determine their next moves, Ábrego said. They would find their own places to stay while they decid
  
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• After conceding six goals in two games, Toronto FC looks to tighten up on defence

  07-03-2025 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Having conceded six goals in its first two games this season, Toronto FC looks to tighten up its defence Saturday when it visits FC Cincinnati.
  It could be a tall order against a Cincinnati side bristling with offensive weapons.
  “You look at the players they have. I have no idea how much money they’ve spent over the last couple of years,” mused Toronto coach Robin Fraser.
  That could be construed as rich coming from a team that is currently sitting out Italian star Lorenzo Insig
  
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• Top court finds Ontario spending limits on third-party election ads unconstitutional

  07-03-2025 15:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote.
  The country’s highest court dismissed the Ontario government’s appeal with a split 5-4 decision and struck down that part of the law.
  Before 2021, third parties in Ontario could spend up to $600,000 on advertising in the six months before a provincial election call.
  That year, Premier Doug Ford’s government stretched the restri
  
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• Trump says he’s sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader over its advancing nuclear program

  07-03-2025 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, something not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader.Trump made the comments in an interview aired on Friday by Fox Business News.
  The White House confirmed Trump’s comments, saying that he sent a letter to Iran’s leaders seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal. Trump made the comments in an interview that will air fully on Sunday.
  Iran’s state-run
  
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• Poilievre wants changes to Conflict of Interest Act, prime ministers to sell assets

  07-03-2025 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would amend the Conflict of Interest Act if elected prime minister, saying it would close the “Carney Loophole.”
  The change would ensure all party leadership candidates have to disclose financial holdings to the ethics commissioner within 30 days of becoming an official candidate, and make them available to Canadians within 60.
  It would also require all future prime ministers and their cabinet to “sell assets that crea
  
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• Italy’s Paris wins World Cup downhill to prevent Swiss sweep, Odermatt closes in on overall title

  07-03-2025 14:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Dominik Paris prevented a Swiss sweep of the podium by winning a men’s World Cup downhill race on Friday, but the Italian veteran couldn’t stop Marco Odermatt from closing in on another overall title.
  Paris claimed his record-extending fourth World Cup win in Kvitfjell after speeding down the 1994 Olympics slope in 1 minute, 44.67 seconds, beating Odermatt by 0.32 seconds and Stefan Rogentin by 0.63.
  Odermatt’s second-place finish all but seals an
  
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• Hataoka and Porter atop the leaderboard after second round of LPGA in China

  07-03-2025 14:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANYA, China (AP) — Nasa Hataoka and Cassie Porter were atop the leaderboard with a one-shot lead Friday after the second round of the LPGA’s Blue Bay tournament on China’s southern island of Hainan.
  Hataoka shot a 6-under 66 and Porter was in with a 68, both 7-under 137 after two rounds.
  Rio Takeda was a shot behind after a 69, and Gabbie Lopez (70) and Auston Kim (71) were two back.
  Jeeno Thitikul, the LPGA’s No. 2 ranked player, shot a 73 and was five shots off the lea
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from March 7 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  07-03-2025 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from March 7 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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