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• No treatment spared: Als pull out all the stops to get Alexander ready for Grey Cup

  12-11-2025 23:36
  WINNIPEG — From lasers to stem cell therapy, no treatment is being spared for injured Montreal Alouettes starting quarterback Davis Alexander.
  Alexander was at the controls for Montreal’s first practice on Wednesday in preparation for Sunday’s Grey Cup game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  He was rolling out and jogging, but not sprinting yet because of the left hamstring he tweaked in last Saturday’s CFL East Division final win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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• Eight-year-old girl falls to her death at Vancouver highrise, police say

  12-11-2025 23:13
  VANCOUVER — Police are investigating the death of an eight-year-old girl who fell from a Vancouver highrise.A statement from Vancouver police says the girl fell from a balcony on Tuesday in the city's Yaletown neighbourhood.Officers were called to the residential building around 2:30 p.m. after the child fell from an upper floor.
  They say first responders provided emergency care for the girl, but she died of her injuries at the scene.They say detectives from the major crimes section are in
  
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• Victoire bring size, physicality into third PWHL season: ‘You have to be gritty’

  12-11-2025 23:04
  MONTREAL — Erin Ambrose is back on the ice with a weight lifted from her shoulders.
  The off-season began anxiously after a second straight heartbreaking playoff exit. Unsure she would still be calling Montreal home this fall, Ambrose watched nervously as the Vancouver and Seattle franchises stockpiled much of the Professional Women's Hockey League's top talent in the expansion draft.
  But instead of heading West, the 2024 defender of the year is back where she wants to be, and she's energiz
  
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• Roughriders offensive lineman Hardrick back in all-star form after tough off-season

  12-11-2025 22:56
  WINNIPEG — Saskatchewan Roughriders offensive lineman Jermarcus Hardrick needed help to get out of bed and to go to the washroom last winter.
  But he has bounced back well enough to earn the CFL West pick for this season's most outstanding offensive lineman award.
  “Last year, I got carted off the field,” the six-foot-four, 315 pound all-star said Wednesday. “The off-season was so mental. My wife (Samantha) and kids had to help me on the toilet, help me off the bed. For six
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP looking for missing male - RCMP

  12-11-2025 22:51 via news.google.com
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• Ex-aide to California governor indicted for alleged theft of campaign funds from ex-health secretary

  12-11-2025 22:33
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former top aide to California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been indicted on federal charges alleging her involvement in a scheme to steal campaign money from former federal Health Secretary Xavier Becerra.Dana Williamson was arrested and was scheduled to make her first court appearance Wednesday in Sacramento. It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.The federal indictment lists four other co-conspirators. It alleges that Willia
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP looking for man missing 7 months ago from Langley - Surrey Now-Leader

  12-11-2025 22:33 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP looking for man missing 7 months ago from Langley - Chilliwack Progress

  12-11-2025 22:19 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP looking for man missing 7 months ago from Langley - Langley Advance Times

  12-11-2025 22:18 via news.google.com
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• Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the House’s newest member, paving the way for an Epstein files vote

  12-11-2025 22:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House seat last held by her late father.Grijalva was sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday shortly before the House returned to session to vote on a deal to fund the federal government. The lower chamber had been away since mid-September.Grijalva’s seating brings the partisan margin
  
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• Riders DB Campbell intrigued by prospect of playing flag football at Olympics

  12-11-2025 22:04
  WINNIPEG — The prospect of participating in the 2028 Olympics is intriguing to Tevaughn Campbell.
  Earlier this week, the CFL announced it will allow players to represent their countries in flag football at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, where the sport will make its Olympic debut.
  "I'd absolutely love to be on the Olympic team, to be honest," the Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive back said Wednesday during Grey Cup media day. "I always wanted to be an Olympic (athlete), I think eve
  
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• Chilliwack commercial property on 0.4 acres sells for $1.85M - Western Investor

  12-11-2025 22:02 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP appeal to public for help in locating 37-year-old man - Fraser Valley Today

  12-11-2025 21:58 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP appeal to public for help in locating 37-year-old man

  12-11-2025 21:58
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack are asking for the public’s help in locating a 37-year-old man who was last seen in April 2025 in Langley.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Alexandra Mulvihill, police say Darren Robert Spear was last seen on April 9, 2025, at the Gateway of Hope in Langley.
  Police say Spear’s current whereabouts are unknown, and both police and family have expressed concern for his well-being.
  While it is common for Spear to go
  
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• Sick of sick notes: B.C. limits when employers can request sick notes

  12-11-2025 21:35
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has brought in new rules that limit when an employer can ask for a sick note, saving doctors the burden of writing them and preventing patients from spreading their illness even further.A government statement says that under new employment standards regulations, an employer can't ask for a note for the first two health-related absences of up to five consecutive days in the same year.
  Health Minister Josie Osborne says the new rules that started We
  
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• Poilievre says he won’t be changing his leadership style after caucus departures

  12-11-2025 21:31
  OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre gave a blunt "no" today when asked if the recent turmoil in his caucus has caused him to reflect on his leadership style.
  The Conservative leader held his first press conference since the Liberal government's budget and the departure of two of his MPs last week.
  Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont joined the minority Liberal government on Tuesday hours after the budget was released, and Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux announced plans to resign on Thursday.D'Entremont said P
  
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• Police in Abbotsford, B.C., urge public to avoid speculation after targeted shootings

  12-11-2025 21:26
  ABBOTSFORD — Three recent shootings in Abbotsford, B.C., including one that killed a local businessman, have prompted police to ask residents to "avoid speculation and assumptions" as they investigate.A video message posted on social media from Abbotsford Police Chief Const. Colin Watson comes amid a surge in extortion threats and violence aimed at South Asian communities across Canada.
  Watson says in the video that police want to be transparent about their investigations into cases, but "
  
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• Quarterback Davis Alexander’s health a key Grey Cup question for Montreal Alouettes

  12-11-2025 21:18
  WINNIPEG — McLeod Bethel-Thompson could become a key player Sunday for the Montreal Alouettes.
  Bethel-Thompson will begin the Grey Cup game versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders as the backup to Montreal quarterback Davis Alexander. But Alexander's health has been a key storyline this week after he tweaked his left hamstring in the Alouettes 19-16 East final win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last weekend.
  Alexander tweaked the injury in the fourth quarter but still managed to finish the game
  
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• Chilliwack Pride Society down to ‘bare bones’ and may dissolve - Abbotsford News

  12-11-2025 21:14 via news.google.com
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• High-flying Anaheim Ducks impressing early with surprise start to NHL season

  12-11-2025 21:02
  TORONTO — Pat Verbeek is in charge of a team ahead of schedule.
  The Anaheim Ducks were supposed to continue a slow and steady rebuild this season toward an eventual playoff return further down the road. The club's general manager has instead watched his young group, led by a veteran bench boss back from the NHL wilderness, get shot out of a cannon."They're working hard, they're competing," Verbeek said this week at the league's annual November meeting of GMs in Toronto. "The goal going int
  
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• B.C. animal sanctuary tells of threats, ‘unjustified hate’ since reporting avian flu

  12-11-2025 20:52
  SUMMERLAND — A British Columbia animal sanctuary whose birds have been sickened by an avian flu outbreak says it has been receiving threats and "unjustified hate" since going public with its situation.
  Critteraid in Summerland, B.C., is pushing back against misinformation after announcing on Friday that it was co-ordinating with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and other authorities about the outbreak.
  The sanctuary says in a social media post on Monday that it euthanized several ducks
  
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• Downed tree leaves hundreds without power in Abbotsford Wednesday morning

  12-11-2025 20:43
  ABBOTSFORD — A downed tree across hydro wires has left a little under 500 customers without power in Abbotsford Wednesday morning.
  BC Hydro’s online outage dashboard indicates 485 customers lost power at 10:27 a.m. due to a downed tree.
  Crews are on their way and expected to arrive by noon.
  The affected area includes Matsqui and Ridgedale.
  There is currently no expected time when power might be restored to these Abbotsford customers.
  There are two much smaller power outages in Chilli
  
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• Top defence official says investor interest in Ottawa’s defence plans is growing

  12-11-2025 20:24
  OTTAWA — A senior government official says the market is picking up on signals Ottawa is sending about rebuilding the military.
  Stefanie Beck, deputy minister of National Defence, says she's "never had so many banks" and pension plans come to see her.
  Beck made the comments to an industry crowd gathered in Ottawa today for a Canadian Global Affairs Institute procurement conference.
  The federal government is moving to boost defence spending to levels not seen since the Cold War.
  The fall bu
  
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• Corrective to Nov. 11 story on federal health transfers

  12-11-2025 20:05
  OTTAWA — In a Nov. 11 story about federal health funding in the budget, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that the $2.5-billion in annual funding for bilateral health agreements with the provinces and territories is set to expire in 2027. In fact, the agreements are set to run until 2033.The Canadian Press
  
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• Fact File: ‘Spam’ videos use actors to spread false Canadian political news

  12-11-2025 20:03
  The prospect of an Alberta sovereignty referendum triggered a wave of clickbait stories on video-sharing sites earlier this year. But in a development that one expert calls "troubling," content farms that typically use AI to narrate videos have come up with a way around crackdowns on such content – using real people.
  With the proliferation of readily available artificial intelligence tools, social media users are likely to come across "AI slop" — low-quality, mass-produced and mislea
  
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• Chilliwack Pride Society down to ‘bare bones’ and may dissolve - Chilliwack Progress

  12-11-2025 20:01 via news.google.com
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• Cleveland Guardians’ pitcher Luis Ortiz pleads not guilty to taking bribes to aid gamblers

  12-11-2025 19:57
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he and teammate Emmanuel Clase took bribes to help gamblers win bets placed on pitches they threw.
  The 26-year-old starting pitcher appeared in Brooklyn federal court after his initial arrest Sunday at Boston's Logan International Airport.He was released on a $500,000 bond until his next court date Nov. 19, and issued GPS monitoring. Ortiz, who has already surrendered his passport to authori
  
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• US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled

  12-11-2025 19:51
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and in recognition of the growing irrelevance of the 1-cent coin.The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country’s smallest denomination coins have been produced since 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act.President Donald Trump ordered the penny's demise as costs climbed to nearly 4 cents per penny and the 1-cent valuation became somewhat
  
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• Carney government reduces savings targets for some departments, agencies

  12-11-2025 19:50
  OTTAWA — Eight fewer departments and agencies are being asked to slash their budgets at least 15 per cent over the next three years, a move one economist says shows Ottawa's cost cutting exercise was not "thought through."
  Earlier this year, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne directed most ministers to find ways to cut their departments' program spending by 15 per cent over the next three years.At the time, the government said National Defence, the RCMP and the Canada Bord
  
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• AbbyPD chief constable urges community to avoid speculation after recent homicide, shootings

  12-11-2025 19:49
  ABBOTSFORD — The chief constable of the Abbotsford Police Department is urging the community to avoid speculation and assumptions in the aftermath of a string of recent shootings, including a homicide.
  According to a social media update posted on its Facebook page, Abbotsford Police Department Chief Constable Colin Watson acknowledged community unrest behind a recent homicide.
  IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Freda Fong said a 68-year-old man, Darshan Sahsi of Abbotsford, was shot and killed Monday
  
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• Bank of Canada mulled later timing for October rate cut, deliberations show

  12-11-2025 19:36
  OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada's governing council was on the same page about the need to lower its benchmark interest last month — but the exact timing of the cut was up for debate.
  The central bank on Wednesday released the summary of deliberations from its decision two weeks ago to lower the policy rate by a quarter point to 2.25 per cent in its second consecutive cut.
  Those documents show council members felt the cut was warranted as a weak economy hampered by U.S. tariffs was expec
  
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• Heavy rain coming for parts of B.C.’s south coast: Environment Canada

  12-11-2025 18:47
  VANCOUVER — Pouring rain is on the way again for parts of British Columbia's southern coast.Environment Canada issued rainfall warnings for Howe Sound and Metro Vancouver's North Shore and northeast, including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge.It says 40 to 60 millimetres of rainfall can be expected to fall between Wednesday and Thursday night.The forecaster says the rain is the result of a slow moving frontal system descending across the south coast.It says landslides could occur in vulnerable ar
  
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• Ottawa is seeking a permanent parliamentary budget officer with ‘tact and discretion’

  12-11-2025 18:35
  OTTAWA — Ottawa says it's looking to hire a permanent parliamentary budget officer — someone with "tact and discretion" — just a few months after appointing a highly critical fiscal watchdog on an interim basis.
  The federal government's list of governor-in-council appointments includes a posting for a new budget officer — an independent agent of Parliament who offers analysis of budgets, campaign promises and other spending plans.
  The Liberals appointed Jason Jacques, a v
  
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• Poll shows CFL losing fans as diehards reject rule changes ahead of Grey Cup

  12-11-2025 18:30
  As the CFL prepares to introduce a series of rule and field changes, a new poll suggests overall attention to the league continues to decline.
  The Angus Reid Institute says the percentage of Canadians who closely or very closely follow the CFL has dropped from 21 per cent in 2014 and 2018 to 16 per cent in 2025.
  The online survey was conducted Oct. 7-11, and released this week as the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes get set to clash in Sunday’s Grey Cup in Winnipeg.
  Those wh
  
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• French Immersion could be shifted away from Chilliwack Middle School

  12-11-2025 18:15
  CHILLIWACK — Due to a significant increase in enrolment over the past five years, SD33 is considering changes to schools and programs throughout the district, one of which could see the French Immersion program shifted away from Chilliwack Middle School.According to the text of a letter sent to Chilliwack Middle School parents, and provided to Fraser Valley Today by SD33, the Chilliwack School District has grown from 13,344 students in 2020 to 15,198 students this year. District officials
  
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• Resilient Auger-Aliassime comes back from the brink in ATP Finals win over Shelton

  12-11-2025 18:09
  TURIN — Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime picked up a crucial win at the ATP Finals with a comeback 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 victory over Ben Shelton of the United States on Wednesday.
  The victory evened Auger-Aliassime's record at 1-1 at the elite year-end men's tennis tournament.
  The 25-year-old Canadian came into the match following a 7-5, 6-1 loss to Italy's Jannik Sinner. Auger-Aliassime was playing a competitive match against the defending champion before being slowed by an apparent l
  
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• French Immersion could be shifted away from Chilliwack Middle School - Fraser Valley Today

  12-11-2025 18:08 via news.google.com
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• Premiers lay out priorities for meeting with Carney next week

  12-11-2025 17:56
  OTTAWA — Canada's premiers say infrastructure investments and the state of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations are high on their agenda for an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
  Carney will host a virtual meeting with the nation's provincial and territorial leaders on Monday and the premiers laid out their priorities in a letter to the prime minister this morning.
  They are also looking to talk about trade relations with China and India.
  The virtual meeting scheduled for next week
  
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• Montreal transit maintenance union suspends strike as new labour bill tabled

  12-11-2025 17:50
  MONTREAL — Montreal's public transit network is gradually returning to normal after the union representing maintenance workers decided late Tuesday to suspend their strike.
  The change comes as Labour Minister Jean Boulet tables legislation that would grant the provincial government greater power to intervene and end strikes.
  Union president Bruno Jeannotte says the workers have lost an important lever with the tabling of the bill, but he says they aren't giving up.The strike by the 2,400 m
  
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• Watchdog wanted: Ottawa is hiring a permanent parliamentary budget officer

  12-11-2025 17:38
  OTTAWA — Ottawa is looking to hire a permanent fiscal watchdog a few months after appointing an interim parliamentary budget officer.
  The federal government's new list of governor-in-council appointments includes a posting for a new budget officer -- an independent agent of Parliament who offers analysis of budgets, campaign promises and other spending plans.
  The Liberals appointed Jason Jacques, a veteran of the office, as interim PBO for six months back in early September before the Hous
  
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• What Americans think about Trump’s management of the government, according to a new AP-NORC poll

  12-11-2025 17:24
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with much of the rising discontent coming from fellow Republicans.The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was conducted after Democrats' recent victories in off-year elections but before Congress took major steps to try to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. It shows that only
  
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• Indian government calls deadly car blast a terror attack by ‘anti-national forces’

  12-11-2025 17:14
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s Cabinet on Wednesday called this week’s deadly car explosion in the capital a terror attack carried out by “anti-national forces,” though it did not release any new evidence linked to the blast.Earlier Wednesday, authorities said several suspects had been arrested in the disputed Kashmir region as part of the investigation into the blast Monday near the historic Red Fort monument that killed eight people and injured several others. Aut
  
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• Epstein emails released by Democrats say Trump ‘knew about the girls’ and spent time with a victim

  12-11-2025 17:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein's house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to communications released Wednesday.The emails made public by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee add to the questions about Trump's friendship with Epstein and about any knowledge he may have had in what prose
  
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• Saint John, N.B., to host world men’s curling championship in 2027

  12-11-2025 16:59
  PERTH — The 2027 BKT World Men's Curling Championship will be held in Saint John, N.B.
  World Curling and Curling Canada say the nine-day event will be held at TD Station.
  Saint John previously hosted the world women's playdowns in 2014.
  The city also served as host in 1999 when the men's and women's championships were a combined event.The 2026 world men's championship will be held in Ogden City, Utah starting March 27. Moose Jaw, Sask., served as host last season.
  The winner of the Montana
  
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• Elements Casino in Chilliwack purchased by tribal consortium - Fraser Valley Today

  12-11-2025 16:58 via news.google.com
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• Elements Casino in Chilliwack purchased by tribal consortium

  12-11-2025 16:56
  CHILLIWACK — After operating it for over a decade, Great Canadian Entertainment has agreed to sell Elements Casino in Chilliwack, considered one of the premier gaming and entertainment destinations in the Fraser Valley, to a consortium group of communities from the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe.
  According to a news release dated Monday, Nov. 10 on its website, Great Canadian Entertainment said the transaction occurred on Friday, Nov. 7.“This purchase marks an exciting milestone for
  
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• Matheson looking forward to Northern Super League championship game

  12-11-2025 16:39
  TORONTO — Some seven months after its opening kickoff, the inaugural Northern Super League season wraps up Saturday with the championship game at Toronto's BMO Field.
  "It's flown by. I can't believe we're almost at the end here," league co-founder Diana Matheson said.
  "We're all pretty excited for Saturday," she added. "So much work went into this first season — on the field, off the field, from the supporters — and we really want Saturday to be a celebration of women's pro spo
  
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• Sidney Crosby among those signing on to support Canadian men ahead of 2026 World Cup

  12-11-2025 16:20
  TORONTO — Sidney Crosby, who knows more than a little about winning a major tournament on home soil, has signed on to help bang the drum for Canada in its 2026 World Cup campaign.
  Crosby, actor Simu Liu and singer Shawn Mendes are the first celebrities named to the "Iconic XI Ambassador" program.They will use their voice and platform to help raise the profile of the co-host Canadian men in the lead-up to the June kickoff of the 48-team, 104-game soccer showcase.
  The "Iconic XI" will draw o
  
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• Abandoned homeless camp removed from Jones Lake as volunteers remove trailers full of trash

  12-11-2025 15:57
  JONES LAKE — Volunteers from the Hope Community Cleanup Society tag teamed with the BC 4×4 Women Association to remove a multitude of trash and other rubbish from Jones Lake last weekend, including the remnants of an abandoned homeless camp.
  Ryan Smith from the cleanup society told Fraser Valley Today that over 20 volunteers teamed up to clean up Jones Lake, located east of Chilliwack, resulting in two trailer loads and three pickup loads of garbage being removed.“What a great
  
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• Anand announces new sanctions targeting Russian drones as G7 diplomats meet

  12-11-2025 15:44
  NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is announcing more sanctions on Russia today as she hosts top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries in the Niagara region.
  The sanctions will target those behind Russia's drone and cyber attacks on Ukraine, as well as vessels in Russia's sanctions-evading shadow fleet.
  G7 foreign ministers are to hear this morning from Ukraine's foreign minister as Russia again targets Ukraine's power grid.
  The Russian attacks have brought ro
  
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