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• Canadian long-track speedskaters win bronze in women’s team pursuit at worlds

  14-03-2025 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMAR — Canada’s Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann earned bronze in the women’s team pursuit race Friday at the ISU world speedskating championship.Their time of three minutes 0.74 seconds was good for a third-place finish behind the Netherlands (2:56.09) and Japan (2:58.55).Blondin and Weidemann, both from Ottawa, and Maltais, from La Baie, Que., have won five world medals since they started racing together in 2020.“Going into next season, we will ha
  
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• Quick quotes: Reaction to Mark Carney being sworn in as prime minister

  14-03-2025 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister, succeeding Justin Trudeau.
  Here’s how some leaders and politicians are reacting to his appointment.
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  “I’d like to begin by … wishing Mr. Trudeau a happy retirement and all the best to his family and congratulating Mr. Trudeau’s economic adviser, Mark Carney, on becoming prime minister only three months after he moved his headquarters out of Canada to New York, moving jobs away
  
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• New sandwich chain opens location in Chilliwack

  14-03-2025 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A sandwich chain with locations in the Fraser Valley, Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island has officially opened in Chilliwack.
  According to an social media post from Denciti Development Corp., Firehouse Subs is now open inside the Fraser Gateway Centre at 43971 Industrial Way near Lickman Road and Highway 1.
  Roughly four months ago, Denciti Development Corp. announced that Firehouse Subs would be coming soon to the Industrial Way location.
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• Sandwich chain opens new location in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  14-03-2025 23:22 via news.google.com
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• New sandwich chain opens in Chilliwack

  14-03-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A sandwich chain with locations in the Fraser Valley, Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island has officially opened in Chilliwack.According to an social media post from Denciti Development Corp., Firehouse Subs is now open inside the Fraser Gateway Centre at 43971 Industrial Way near Lickman Road and Highway 1.Roughly four months ago, Denciti Development Corp. announced that Firehouse Subs would be coming soon to the Industrial Way location.Image: Denciti Development Corp. / The
  
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• B.C. government to cut carbon tax after Liberal government removes consumer federal carbon price

  14-03-2025 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — B.C. Premier David Eby has announced that the Province is following suit on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s move to end consumer carbon pricing.In a statement Friday afternoon (Mar. 14), Eby said this comes as part of a provincial commitment last year to get rid of the carbon tax as soon as the feds remove the national carbon tax requirement.“As the federal government removes the requirement that B.C. have a carbon tax in place, we will act quickly so the people of Brit
  
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• Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government terminates consumer carbon price

  14-03-2025 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government is immediately ending the consumer carbon price and made the change official during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first cabinet meeting this afternoon.
  Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.
  He signed an order-in-council to make the change official while cameras were in the cabinet room.
  Agriculture Minister Kody Blois says he thinks “it’s a really good
  
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• Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes returns from injury hungry for playoff push

  14-03-2025 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Watching games from afar hasn’t been easy for Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes.The 25-year-old star defenceman has remained remarkably healthy for much of his career — until this season.Hughes returned from a lower-body injury Wednesday as the Canucks clinched a critical 4-3 shootout victory over the Calgary Flames.The injury was the latest in a string of ailments that have limited him to 51 games this season.The blue-chip blueliner has made just four appearan
  
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• Canadian tennis up-and-comer Victoria Mboko off to torrid start in 2025

  14-03-2025 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Victoria Mboko is winning so many trophies, she can hardly get them home.
  The up-and-coming Canadian tennis star is off to a stellar start this season with a 27-1 record and five tournament wins in singles on the second-tier ITF Tour.
  With that comes a rise in the rankings, opportunities to play on bigger stages – and some travel headaches.
  The 18-year-old from Toronto said flying home from the Caribbean with her shiny hardware earlier this year didn’t go over well at airport securit
  
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• Bills have 2 free-agent additions facing 6-game NFL suspensions for PEDs, GM Beane reveals

  14-03-2025 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills stand to open the season minus two new free-agent defensive line additions upon learning Larry Ogunjobi and Canadian Michael Hoecht both face six-game suspensions for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drugs policy, general manager Brandon Beane announced on Friday.
  Beane said he’s verified the details of the suspensions and positive tests with the NFL.
  He said the team was aware of Hoecht’s positive test before agreeing
  
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• Disability, gender equality advocates slam Carney’s elimination of cabinet positions

  14-03-2025 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Advocacy groups are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney for eliminating the cabinet positions dedicated to people with disabilities and women and gender equality issues.
  Carney was sworn in as prime minister today, along with a slimmed-down cabinet of 23 ministers, down from 36 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.Former minister for diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities Kamal Khera is now the new minister of health — and her previous position was eliminat
  
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• Five things to know about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet

  14-03-2025 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mark Carney was sworn in Friday as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony in Rideau Hall, alongside his new cabinet.
  Here are five things to know about the new prime minister’s plans and his new cabinet.
  Fewer ministers
  The most noticeable difference between Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and Carney’s is its size. The new cabinet is made of 24 MPs — 13 men, including Carney, and 11 women. Trudeau’s last cabinet had 37 members.
  Carney said his cabi
  
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• Rugby Canada names 28-player roster for U-20 women’s tour of Ireland in May

  14-03-2025 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGFORD, B.C. — Coach Dean Murten has named his 28-player Canadian under-20 women’s rugby squad for a tour of Ireland in May.
  The young Canadians will play their Irish counterparts on May 10 and May 17 at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin.
  The tour roster includes 14 players from the side that went unbeaten at last year’s inaugural Transatlantic Quad Series, beating England, the U.S. and host Wales. The returning players include Kennedi Stevenson, Adelaide Holmes and
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Eby announces ending of provincial carbon tax

  14-03-2025 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia’s Premier David Eby says his government will repeal the province’s carbon tax this legislative session, after new Prime Minister Mark Carney moved to eliminate the federal version of the tax.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador to the US ‘is no longer welcome’ in the country

  14-03-2025 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country.
  Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump and declared him “persona non grata.” He didn’t give further reasoning.The State Department did not have additional details, and it was unclear whether the ambassador was even in
  
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• Bill to avert government shutdown clears key hurdle with help from Democrats

  14-03-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed.
  Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure. The vote was 62-38.
  Democrats were confronted two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast discretion on spending decisions or voting no and letting a
  
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• Azteca Stadium has changed its name ahead of its third men’s World Cup next year

  14-03-2025 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Azteca Stadium has been renamed Banorte Stadium before it hosts its third men’s World Cup next year.
  Latin America’s largest soccer stadium — 87,500 seats — has taken the name of one of Mexico’s leading banks, stadium owner Ollamani said on Friday.
  Naming rights to the stadium were part of Banorte’s deal to loan 2.1 billion pesos ($105 million) to be repaid over 12 years, according to Ollamani’s filing with the Mexican Stock Exch
  
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• Advocates and family of man shot by RCMP launch ‘people’s tribunal’ to probe police

  14-03-2025 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Legal advocates and relatives of an Indigenous man shot dead by RCMP officers in Campbell River, B.C., in 2021 have launched what they call a “people’s tribunal” to investigate crimes committed by police.
  Laura Holland, the mother of Jared Lowndes, says she’s “tired of waiting” for justice for her son, who was shot twice in the back in his car at a Tim Hortons drive-thru.
  The B.C. Prosecution Service last year declined to lay charges against
  
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• Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia grab early lead at Players Championship

  14-03-2025 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia shared the lead at The Players Championship with vastly different finishes Friday morning on a TPC Sawgrass course that didn’t let anyone get too far ahead of the pack.
  Lee hit his stride when he made the turn, with four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the front nine, missing out only on the easier par 5. But he ran into trouble on the par-5 ninth and took bogey for a 6-under 66.
  Bhatia looked to be stymied by a tree on t
  
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• Abbotsford receives $12M in federal funding for building projects

  14-03-2025 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The City of Abbotsford is putting more shovels on the ground this year–
  $12.4 million has been allocated for essential infrastructure projects through renewed investment from the Canada Community-Building Fund.
  “This renewed funding allows us to continue making necessary infrastructure improvements that enhance safety, connectivity and quality of life for Abbotsford residents,” said Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens.
  The seven initiatives approved this year are:R
  
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• Trump pledges to ‘expel rogue actors’ in political speech at Justice Department

  14-03-2025 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prosecutions.
  The speech was meant to rally support for Trump’s tough-on-crime agenda. But it also functioned as victory lap after he emerged legally and politically unscath
  
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• RCMP arrest suspects in shooting in Penticton, B.C.

  14-03-2025 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PENTICTON, B.C. — Mounties in Penticton, B.C., say they’ve arrested the final two suspects in a shooting in the city earlier this month.No one was hurt in the shooting and police say one suspect was taken into custody immediately after the incident on March 6, but two other people escaped.The Emergency Response Team and officers went to a home with a search warrant on Wednesday and arrested one of the suspects without incident.Police say around the same time, frontline officers went
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet terminates consumer carbon price

  14-03-2025 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal cabinet has agreed to immediately end the consumer carbon price, and made the change official at the first cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Mark Carney this afternoon.
  Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
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• Vegas Golden Knights sign goalie Adin Hill to a 6-year, $37.5 million contract extension

  14-03-2025 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two years since backstopping the Vegas Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup, Adin Hill has become their undisputed No. 1 goaltender.
  Now he has the contract to show for it.
  Hill on Friday signed a six-year extension worth $37.5 million. Rather than testing the market as an unrestricted free agent this summer, he will count $6.25 million against the salary cap from when the deal kicks in next NHL season through 2031.
  “I wanted to stay in Vegas,” Hill said after practice in Buffalo. It&rs
  
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• Toronto FC, Chicago Fire coaches share history as players, mutual respect as coaches

  14-03-2025 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser and Gregg Berhalter, his Chicago Fire counterpart, are no strangers, having played shoulder to shoulder at centre back for the U.S.
  “He was a great player to play with, actually,” said Berhalter. “I have a lot of respect for Robin, and for what he’s done and him as a coach, and how he organizes his team, how he leads his team. … I hear nothing but good things from the players that he’s coached.”
  Fraser, a fo
  
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• Family ‘optimistic’ that B.C. woman detained in U.S. will be back within 24 hours

  14-03-2025 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The family of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States after her visa was denied at a border crossing in California says she may be home “in the next 24 hours.”
  Jasmine Mooney has been in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities since March 3, and Alexis Eagles, Mooney’s mother, says the businesswoman and former actress is scheduled to be transported back to California from an Arizona detention centre on Friday.Eagles says in a written respons
  
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• Helicopter route permanently closed on route near Washington airport where 67 died in midair crash

  14-03-2025 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.’s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.The move comes just days after federal investigators looking into the cause of the crash recommended a ban on some helicopter flights, saying a string of near misses in recent years showed that the current setup “poses an intol
  
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• Former Kent Institution officer sentenced for smuggling contraband, taking bribes - Chilliwack Progress

  14-03-2025 20:37 via news.google.com
  Former Kent Institution officer sentenced for smuggling contraband, taking bribes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Senate gives final approval to a bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers

  14-03-2025 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave final approval Friday to a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers as both Republicans and Democrats seek to show they can act to rein in distribution of the deadly drug.
  The bill passed the Senate on an 84-16 vote, with all the nay votes from Democrats. It had already passed the House with significant Democratic support, showing many in the party are eager to clamp down on fentanyl distribution following an election in whi
  
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• Canada’s Howden wins World Cup ski cross gold, teammate Drury takes bronze

  14-03-2025 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, Ont. — Canada’s Reece Howden won ski cross gold and teammate Kevin Drury earned bronze at a World Cup on Friday at Craigleith Ski Club.
  Howden, from Cultus Lake, B.C., finished ahead of Switzerland’s Alex Fiva in the four-man big final.Drury, from Toronto, reached the podium by holding off Florian Wilmsmann of Germany.
  Switzerland’s Fanny Smith won the women’s race, topping Marielle Berger Sabbatel of France and Italy’s Jole Galli.
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• B.C. overdose deaths in January drop 30 per cent to 152, continuing downward trend

  14-03-2025 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia coroner says 152 people died of toxic drug overdoses in January, marking four consecutive months that the toll was under 160.January’s figure was down more than 30 per cent from the same time last year when there were 219 deaths.The coroner’s service says half of those who died in January were between the ages of 40 and 59, while three were children or youth under the age of 18.
  The powerful opioid fentanyl and its analogues were found in 77 per
  
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• Prohibited driver hits spike belt, keeps going, later arrested in Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  14-03-2025 19:41 via news.google.com
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• Prohibited driver hits spike belt, keeps going, later arrested in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  14-03-2025 19:40 via news.google.com
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• Mounties urge road users to stay safe ahead of spring break

  14-03-2025 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — RCMP in the Upper Fraser Regional Detachment is issuing a safety reminder to all road users– drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists– as spring break rolls in with warmer weather.
  Mounties say recent pedestrian deaths have highlighted the importance of caution on local roads.
  “These recent incidents serve as a tragic reminder of how quickly lives can change,” said Inspector Jeff Bowerman, Interim Officer in Charge. “With increased travel
  
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• CF Montreal looks to end season-opening skid against D.C. United

  14-03-2025 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CF Montreal goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois insists his team still has belief despite stumbling to start the Major League Soccer season.
  Montreal (0-3-0) sits at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings with three straight losses to open the campaign ahead of Saturday’s match at D.C. United.
  Sirois said he’s blocking out the negative noise on social media, but wanted to assure fans that Montreal is working tirelessly to get on track.
  “We’ve stepped things up in training,
  
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• Calgary Flames say captain Mikael Backlund out week to week with upper-body injury

  14-03-2025 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary Flames captain Mikael Backlund will be out on a week-to-week basis with an upper-body injury, the NHL team said Friday.Backlund was hurt in the first period of a 4-3 shootout loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.
  The 35-year-old Swede has 24 points (11 goals, 13 assists) in 64 games this season.The Flames recalled forward Dryden Hunt from the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers before the Flames’ home game against the Colorado Avalanche on F
  
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• Dozens of tickets issued in Fraser Valley after February BC Highway Patrol campaign

  14-03-2025 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FRASER VALLEY — BC Highway Patrol has issued 50 tickets to Fraser Valley drivers who failed to “Slow Down and Move Over,” a month-long campaign urging motorists to do so when they see emergency, road maintenance, or any official vehicles with flashing lights stopped at the side of a BC Highway.“BC Highway Patrol conducted multiple targeted operations throughout the province in February to make highways more secure for emergency responders and maintenance workers – e
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps loan goalkeeper Max Anchor to CPL’s Pacific FC

  14-03-2025 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have loaned up-and-coming goalkeeper Max Anchor to Canadian Premier League side Pacific FC through the 2025 season.
  The ‘Caps announced the move Friday with sporting director Axel Schuster saying in a release that it’s “an excellent opportunity” for Anchor to “push himself in a new environment as he progresses to the next steps in his career.”The 20-year-old netminder from Burnaby, B.C., came up through the Whitecaps a
  
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• Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia

  14-03-2025 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student, they announced Friday.
  Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by immigration officers for overstaying her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security said. Kordia’s visa was terminated in January 2022 for “lack of attendance,” the department said. Kordia was previo
  
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• Germany foreign minister voices strong support for Canada’s territorial sovereignty

  14-03-2025 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LA MALBAIE, Que. — Germany’s foreign minister is sending a strong message of support to Canadians in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic threats and talk of making Canada an American state.
  Annalena Baerbock says Germany believes sovereign borders must not be breached — and this applies to Ukraine and Greenland as much as it does to Canada.
  She says that Germany and Canada are close friends and will always have each other’s backs.
  Baerbock’s com
  
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• Bid to launch women’s DI hockey at Michigan moving forward, regent Denise Ilitch tells the AP

  14-03-2025 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  University of Michigan regent Denise Ilitch told The Associated Press she believes there’s enough support for the Big Ten school to launch a Division I women’s hockey program that it’s only a matter of when, not if, it will happen.
  “I think that the decision to have a DI team is positive, so that would be a yes,” Ilitch said by phone on Thursday. “I think now, it’s a matter of how do we get there.”
  Several issues still need to be resolved, headed b
  
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• Mission inmate taken to hospital after assault in medium-security prison

  14-03-2025 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — One inmate had been assaulted at Mission Institutionlast week, on March 8th.
  Correctional Service Canada (CSC) said Thursday (Mar. 13) that an inmate was injured following an assault at the medium-security prison. The victim was then taken to an outside hospital for treatment.“The assailant has been identified and the appropriate actions have been taken,” said the CSC in a release Thursday (Mar. 13).No staff members or other inmates were injured during this incident.M
  
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• Quebec aluminum towns aren’t feeling the sting of 25 per cent U.S. tariffs

  14-03-2025 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Mayors of Quebec aluminum towns are confident their regions can withstand the 25 per cent tariffs imposed on the metal by U.S. President Donald Trump.
  Denis Miousse, mayor of Sept-Îles in the Côte-Nord region, says he isn’t expecting job losses because Aluminerie Alouette, a major aluminum producer based in the town, can easily pivot its exports to Asia from the U.S.
  About 170 kilometres southwest in Baie-Comeau, Que., Mayor Michel Desbiens says his town isn&rs
  
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• Censorship and secrecy: Chilliwack school board in court for censoring public comments and muting meeting recordings - Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

  14-03-2025 17:12 via news.google.com
  Censorship and secrecy: Chilliwack school board in court for censoring public comments and muting meeting recordings  Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
  
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• Teen dies after car crashes into tree in Vancouver’s Stanley Park

  14-03-2025 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say an 18-year-old man has died in an early morning car crash in Stanley Park.
  They say in a news release that the driver of a white BMW was travelling between Second and Third Beach in the park when he lost control and hit a tree just after 3 a.m.
  Police say the passenger in the vehicle died at the scene.They say the driver was taken to hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
  The department says investigators don’t believe alcohol or dru
  
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• Court approves sales of two plants owned by company linked to listeria outbreak

  14-03-2025 16:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A court has approved the sale of two facilities owned by the Canadian company that processed plant-based milk linked to a deadly listeria outbreak.
  Court documents show Joriki is selling its Delta, B.C., plant to Happy Planet Foods and its Toronto, Ont., plant to Top Shelf Food and Beverage Corp.Joriki is also in the process of liquidating the Pickering, Ont., plant where the outbreak occurred.The company was granted court protection from its creditors after financial challenges
  
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• Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister

  14-03-2025 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mark Carney has been officially sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall.
  Carney took the oath of office shortly after 8 a.m. pacific time, about an hour after Justin Trudeau formally resigned.
  His cabinet is smaller than Trudeau’s 37-member team and almost certainly will be in place when a general election is launched.
  Liberal MPs began arriving at Rideau Hall shortly after 7 a.m., including Ontario MP Arielle Kayabaga and Nova Scotia MP K
  
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• Here are the people making up Mark Carney’s new Liberal cabinet

  14-03-2025 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has named a 24-member cabinet, a team of ministers who will lead during the coming federal election campaign.
  Here’s a list of ministers and their portfolios:
  •Dominic LeBlanc, minister of international trade and intergovernmental affairs and president of the King’s Privy Council for Canada • Mélanie Joly, minister of foreign affairs and international development • François-Philippe Champagne, minister of finance
  
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• Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says

  14-03-2025 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday.
  “The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
  Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu
  
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• Cricket Canada consults experts after CEO charged with theft and fraud

  14-03-2025 16:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Cricket Canada says it is “consulting with legal and governance experts to determine the appropriate course of action” in the wake of CEO Salman Khan being charged with theft and fraud.
  Khan and another man, Syed Wajahat Ali, each face a count of theft over $5,000 and fraud over $5,000 arising from their time in charge of the Calgary and District Cricket League.
  Khan is the former president of the Calgary league while Ali is the former treasurer.
  Calgary Police Service said in a rele
  
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