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• Former world junior hockey player tears up at ex-teammates’ sexual assault trial

  22-05-2025 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A former member of Canada’s world junior hockey team briefly broke down in tears today at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates as he faced questions over texts he sent a week after the encounter at the heart of the case.
  Brett Howden teared up as he described feeling scared and nervous after learning Hockey Canada had launched an investigation into the June 19, 2018, encounter and realizing he would have to explain the situation to his parents and his girlfriend, now his wi
  
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• Canada’s Luguentz Dort named to NBA’s All-Defensive Team

  22-05-2025 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Cleveland’s Evan Mobley, the defensive player of the year this season, was also the top vote-getter for the NBA’s All-Defensive team that was revealed on Thursday and includes Canadian Luguentz Dort.
  Mobley got 99 first-team votes from a global panel of 100 writers and broadcasters who cover the NBA and cast ballots to determine award winners. He was a second-team pick on the lone other ballot.
  Montreal’s Dort appeared on 99 ballots as he continued his rise from an undrafted pl
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada to examine role of rape shield law in sexual services case

  22-05-2025 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will look at the application of the rape shield law in the case of two individuals accused of acting as pimps for a woman who worked from a house they rented.
  Section 276 of the Criminal Code, known as the rape shield law, limits the use of evidence about a complainant’s sexual history in court proceedings.
  The law is intended to avoid “twin-myth” reasoning — the idea that a complainant’s prior behaviour makes them more lik
  
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• Nearly one in three non-profit workers burnt out and food insecure, survey suggests

  22-05-2025 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A survey of 1,116 employees at non-profit organizations across Canada indicates more than one-third of workers regularly feel burnt out and exhausted.
  The Changemaker Wellbeing Index says 36 per cent of workers said they were struggling with issues such as anxiety, poor job satisfaction and insufficient household incomes.
  The survey was conducted between Feb. 21 and March 14 by Toronto-based Environics Research on behalf of media company Future of Good.
  Thirty-four per cent of respondents at com
  
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• Costs remain unclear for Canada to join Trump’s Golden Dome

  22-05-2025 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An anti-weapons proliferation group says if Prime Minister Mark Carney signs on to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defence shield, Canada could face ballooning financial costs.
  Jessica West, a researcher at Project Ploughshares, warns there are a lot of unanswered questions about the project and cautions it could even trigger an arms race in space.
  Carney said on Wednesday Canada may be interested in making investments in Trump’s new $175-billion init
  
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• B.C. man charged for allegedly stabbing Police Service Dog Rebel during high-risk incident

  22-05-2025 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOWER MAINLAND — Mounties in Richmond say a man who was apprehended during a high-risk police incident and allegedly stabbed a police service dog in early May has been charged.According to a statement from Richmond RCMP, Mounties in Richmond responded to a 9-1-1 call from a man in distress on Wednesday, May 7 at about 2:28 a.m. The man’s address was matched to rural farmland on No. 4 Road and Westminster Highway. Officers attended the location, and with help from the Lower Mainland I
  
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• Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students

  22-05-2025 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
  The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. Withou
  
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• US beats Finland 5-2 to reach semifinals at ice hockey worlds

  22-05-2025 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Conor Garland’s two power-play goals helped the United States beat Finland 5-2 to reach the semifinals of the ice hockey world championship on Thursday.
  Trailing 2-1 in the middle period, the Americans needed 71 seconds to turn things around when defenseman Zeev Buium put home a rebound at 23:53 before Garland’s second goal restored the U.S. lead.
  “I really liked how we stayed with it and built as the game wore on,” U.S. head coach Ryan Warsofsky sa
  
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• Canadian caught sneaking into the U.S. from Fraser Valley – with coke and meth

  22-05-2025 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUMAS, WASHINGTON — A Canadian citizen has been arrested by American border guards from the Blaine Sector division in Sumas after he tried to cross from the Fraser Valley into the U.S. illegally with narcotics on him.
  According to a brief social media post from Rosario Pete Vasquez, chief patrol agent for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol agents from the Port of Sumas apprehended Richard Kari Clayton, a citizen of Canada, after he tried to sneak into the U.S. illegally on a
  
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• Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students’ legal status

  22-05-2025 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge in California blocked the Trump administration Thursday from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations is pending.
  The order by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White in Oakland bars the government from arresting or incarcerating the plaintiffs and similarly situated students; from transferring any of them outside the jurisdiction of their residence; from imposing any adverse legal effec
  
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• Vancouver consolidating festival attack memorials, but advocates say it’s too soon

  22-05-2025 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver has started work to consolidate temporary memorials near the site of the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack, but an advocacy group says it’s too soon.
  Workers at one memorial outside John Oliver Secondary School could be seen removing flowers and placing them in green compost bins.
  Filipino BC says people are still navigating immense grief since the April 26 attack that killed 11 people, and an important part of collective healing is ensuring memorials ar
  
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• Vancouver Island land returned to Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes

  22-05-2025 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A stretch of culturally significant land in the Cowichan Valley has been returned to the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes communities.
  The British Columbia government says the return of the Vancouver Island lands historically used by First Nations for gathering and harvesting represents a reconciliation landmark.
  The Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation says in a news release the 312-hectare land parcel is worth about $8.6 million.
  Lyackson Hereditary Chi
  
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• Don’t count AI-generated content as CanCon, CRTC hears

  22-05-2025 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Unions representing actors and writers are urging the CRTC not to classify artificial intelligence-generated material as Canadian content.
  The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists says “under no circumstance” should AI-created material be considered CanCon.
  The union’s national president Eleanor Noble says doing otherwise would be a “betrayal” of Canadian performers.
  The actor’s union is appearing at a two-week hearing held
  
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• Nash: ‘Amazing’ that fellow Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is NBA MVP

  22-05-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Steve Nash’s favourite NBA player just won the league’s most-valuable player award.
  It just so happens that they’re both Canadian.
  Nash spoke with media this afternoon to congratulate Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on his MVP award.
  Nash was the first Canadian to win the trophy, earning it in 2005 and 2006 when he was a point guard for the Phoenix Suns.
  Gilgeous-Alexander is the first player born in Canada to be recognized.
  Nash, who was born in South Afric
  
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• New family doctors to set up clinical practices in Chilliwack

  22-05-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — At a time when thousands of people in the Fraser Valley lack access to a dedicated general practitioner, Chilliwack stands to benefit from the arrival of three new family doctors who plan to establish clinical practices here in the coming weeks.
  According to Chilliwack registered nurse Oluwatosin Dayo-Oyekole, United Kingdom-trained physician Dr. Gabriel Pekun will be working at Wayside Medical Clinic at 46298A Yale Road in downtown Chilliwack, one block east of District 1881.
  
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• B.C. Crown counsel group files workload grievance, says staff shortages slow justice

  22-05-2025 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The BC Crown Counsel Association says it has filed a formal workload grievance against the BC Prosecution Service over what it calls “inadequate staffing” in its Okanagan and Kootenay offices.
  The association representing 550 Crown prosecutors across B.C. says that while staffing and resource shortages impact all of its lawyers, issues in Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Nelson and Cranbrook are “particularly acute.”
  It says the prosecution service has contin
  
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• Former Football Australia CEO James Johnson named head of Canadian Soccer Business

  22-05-2025 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian Soccer Business has named former Football Australia CEO James Johnson to its newly created position of group chief executive officer.
  CSB, whose investor group and board includes the Canadian Premier League owners, looks after marketing and broadcast rights for both Canada Soccer and the CPL, now in its seventh season.
  Johnson, who is set to start later this summer, will help fill the void left by the departure of Mark Noonan, who doubled as CPL commissioner and CEO of C
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Israeli ambassador meets with Canadian officials after summons

  22-05-2025 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Israeli Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed says he met with senior officials from the foreign affairs ministry after Israeli soldiers fired warning shots near a diplomatic tour in the West Bank that included four Canadians.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand issued a formal summons to the ambassador to discuss the incident on Wednesday.
  More coming.David Baxter, The Canadian Press
  
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• Poulin, Fast, Knight named finalist for PWHL’s Billie Jean King MVP award

  22-05-2025 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Montreal Victoire captain Marie-Philip Poulin, Toronto Sceptres defender Renata Fast and Boston Fleet forward Hilary Knight have been named finalists for the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s Billie Jean King MVP award.
  Poulin, also a finalist in the PWHL’s inaugural 2024 season, led the league with 19 goals and added seven assists as the Victoire finished the regular season with the league’s best record.
  The 34-year-old from Beauceville, Que., who is a
  
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• Chicago Blackhawks hire Jeff Blashill as head coach, hoping for a turnaround

  22-05-2025 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks hired Jeff Blashill on Thursday, giving him a second chance to prove himself as a head coach in the NHL.
  Blashill, a 51-year-old Michigan native, coached the Detroit Red Wings for seven seasons. He was let go after the team went 32-40-10 during the 2021-22 season.
  While Blashill had an underwhelming stay with Detroit, finishing with a 204-261-72 record, he has a player development background that likely was appealing for the rebuilding Blackhawks. He h
  
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• Tennessee man is executed for killing his wife and her 2 sons, 3 years after last-minute reprieve

  22-05-2025 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.
  Smith, 75, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 10:10 a.m. The 75-year-old had maintained his innocence, and in an interview with The Associated Press recently, he primarily wanted to discuss the ways he felt the court system had failed him.He
  
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• Ticats set to face archrival Argos in first exhibition game for both teams

  22-05-2025 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — After nearly two weeks of beating upon one another, Kiondre Smith and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats can look forward to hitting players in different coloured jerseys.
  The Ticata will host the archrival Toronto Argonauts at Hamilton Stadium on Saturday in the first CFL exhibition game for both teams. Since the start of camp May 11, Smith and the Ticats have had to make do with competing against one another.
  “I always want to hit a different coloured jersey to be honest with you,&
  
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• Prosecutor says Michigan police officer who killed Black motorist won’t face a second trial

  22-05-2025 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan police officer who fatally shot a Black man in the back of the head after a tumultuous traffic stop will not face a second trial, a prosecutor said Thursday, two weeks after a trial ended without a unanimous verdict.
  The decision by prosecutor Chris Becker is certain to anger civil rights activists and the family of Patrick Lyoya, the 26-year-old Congolese immigrant whose death in the front yard of a Grand Rapids home was recorded on video and played repeatedly at
  
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• From CFL sidelines to Huskers spring camp, Chilliwack’s Piché brings pro-level insight

  22-05-2025 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — It was a full-circle moment for Valley Huskers special teams coordinator and running backs coach Ryk Piché, catching up with a former high school player of his who now leads one of the CFL’s storied franchises.
  Piché recently traveled to Saskatoon to attend the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ main training camp and got the chance of a lifetime to work alongside retired CFL All-Star Andrew Harris and reconnect with his former high school player—now Rou
  
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• Carney ‘devastated and appalled’ by killing of 2 Israeli embassy staff in Washington

  22-05-2025 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is “devastated and appalled” by the killing of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington yesterday.
  The two staff members were leaving an event at a Jewish museum when they were shot and killed.
  Police said the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after his arrest.
  In a post on social media, Carney says this was a targeted attack against the Jewish community and he condemns it “in the strongest terms.”
  Foreign
  
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• Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department

  22-05-2025 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
  U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican pre
  
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• Pattison Food Group stores in Chilliwack, Fraser Valley to support local food banks this week

  22-05-2025 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Western Canadians can do their part to help local food banks, the backbone of many communities these days, this week by purchasing Western Family products at Pattison Food Group supermarkets in Chilliwack, Hope, the Fraser Valley and the rest of the Lower Mainland.
  All Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low Foods, Nesters Markets and PriceSmart Foods stores will participate by donating 50 per cent of net proceeds from every Western Family product sold online or in-store from May 22-28 to the
  
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• Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

  22-05-2025 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4.
  The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. But it leaves the issue unresolved nationally.
  The one-sentence notice from the court provides an unsatisfying en
  
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• Supreme Court won’t review decision to send seized material to U.S. authorities

  22-05-2025 16:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a decision to send information to U.S. authorities investigating commercial espionage allegations.
  The United States asked for Canada’s assistance in 2017 to obtain and execute a search warrant at JYS Technologies’ office in Brossard, Que.
  The federal justice minister at the time approved the request and Canadian police executed the search warrant in January 2018, seizing such items as computers, phones, memory keys and integ
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: British Columbia, It’s time for us to step up

  22-05-2025 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  From day one as B.C.’s Minister of Forests, I have been blown away by the work of the BC Wildfire Service. I have never met a more dedicated, hard-working group of people, and I am grateful everyday that we have such a world-class wildfire service protecting this province. I got my first briefing shortly after becoming Minister of Forests, but it wasn’t until a call came in from California, requesting our help, that I truly grasped the strength and scale of this organization.Wildland
  
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• More pain at the pump for Chilliwack motorists as gas prices spike once again

  22-05-2025 15:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Just when you thought Chilliwack gas prices were dropping a few cents here and there to around $1.559 per litre this week, motorists around Chilliwack saw an unexpected double-digit increase Wednesday.Gas prices rose Wednesday nearly 20 cents at some Chilliwack gas stations, increasing from about $1.569/litre to a whopping $1.769 per litre.And it wasn’t at just one or two gas stations in Sardis or assorted stations.According to pictures posted on X/Twitter by Mark Smith,
  
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• Small plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood, setting home and vehicles on fire

  22-05-2025 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood during foggy weather early Thursday, setting about 15 homes on fire as well as vehicles, and forcing evacuations along several blocks, authorities said.
  “We have jet fuel all over the place,” Assistant Fire Department Chief Dan Eddy said during a news conference. “Our main goal is to search all these homes and get everybody out right now.”He said “there is a direct hit to multiple homes&rdquo
  
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• City of Toronto still sorting out World Cup funding with 13 months to go

  22-05-2025 15:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Thirteen months before the FIFA World Cup kicks off, the City of Toronto is still wondering how to pay for it.
  The cost of hosting six games in Toronto has been pegged at $380 million, with the federal government contributing $104 million and Ontario, including services, $97 million. Toronto’s tab is $178.7 million (47 percent of the total cost).
  But a city staff report says the cost of providing services related to public transport, policing and hospitals, among others, ha
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney sworn in as MP for Ottawa riding of Nepean

  22-05-2025 15:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has been officially sworn in as MP for the Ottawa riding of Nepean.
  The ceremony took place on Parliament Hill this morning.
  More coming.David Baxter, The Canadian Press
  
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• Canadian teen Mboko reaches final round of French Open qualifying

  22-05-2025 14:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Victoria Mboko advanced to the third round of French Open qualifying with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Kathinka von Deichmann on Thursday.
  The 18-year-old Canadian won 82 per cent of her first serves and converted six of seven break-point chances.
  Mboko overcame six double faults and fired the match’s only ace. Von Deichmann committed nine double faults.
  Mboko improved her season record to 39-5, with most of her wins coming on the lower-tier ITF World Tennis Tour circuit.
  The Toronto
  
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• Iran’s top diplomat says ‘special measures’ may be taken to defend nuclear sites from Israel

  22-05-2025 13:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take “special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities” if Israel continues to threaten Tehran’s atomic sites, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.
  The comments by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered no specifics on what Tehran would do, but already, international inspectors have seen their access limited to Iran’s
  
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• New family doctors to set up clinical practices in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  22-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  New family doctors to set up clinical practices in Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Musical theatre returns to Chilliwack high school with 'Shrek' production - The Chilliwack Progress

  22-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Musical theatre returns to Chilliwack high school with 'Shrek' production  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack Community Services raises over $82,000 with Kentucky Derby-themed event - The Chilliwack Progress

  22-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Community Services raises over $82,000 with Kentucky Derby-themed event  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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