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• Missing B.C. woman may have been in Surrey area: RCMP

  28-11-2025 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in Kamloops are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing local who may have been seen in the Surrey area recently.
  On Wednesday, at around 9:30 a.m., 57-year-old Sherri-Lynn Bissonnette was last seen leaving her Kamloops home in a blue 2013 Chevrolet Silverado Pickup with BC plate SJ5370.She has not been heard from since.
  Source: Kamloops RCMP
  Bissonnette is described as 5’5”, 160 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She’s believed to be
  
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• UPDATE: Missing Chilliwack teen’s family reports he is now safe and sound - Chilliwack Progress

  28-11-2025 23:47 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Missing Chilliwack teen’s family reports he is now safe and sound  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: Missing Chilliwack teen’s family reports he is now safe and sound - Abbotsford News

  28-11-2025 23:46 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Missing Chilliwack teen’s family reports he is now safe and sound  Abbotsford News
  
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• Search continues for Chilliwack teen missing since Wednesday - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  28-11-2025 23:45 via news.google.com
  Search continues for Chilliwack teen missing since Wednesday  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Feds set to open new coordination centre for disaster response

  28-11-2025 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada will soon have a new operations centre to help co-ordinate countrywide disaster response.
  Government officials on Friday offered media outlets a tour of the new facility, which is expected to be open next month. For security reasons, journalists were required to sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from revealing the facility's location.
  The heart of the facility is the "operational centre" — a room resembling NASA's mission control, with a pair of massive t
  
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• Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal sidelined for two to three weeks with upper-body injury

  28-11-2025 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal will miss two to three weeks with an upper-body injury, the team said Friday.
  Dostal is 11-5-1 with a 2.81 goals against average and .904 save percentage this season. He has been particularly effective on home ice, having won eight of nine starts to help the Ducks to first place in the Pacific Division as of Friday.
  Dostal, 25, was a third-round draft pick in 2018, and his strong play over the past two seasons allowed the Ducks to mo
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP continue search for missing 15-year-old

  28-11-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Police are continuing the search for a Chilliwack teen who has been missing for nearly 48 hours.On Wednesday (Nov. 26) at around 5:45 p.m., 15-year-old Jack Terwas was last seen at Evergreen Hall, walking east on Spadina Avenue towards the cadet hall.Community members have since tried to locate him, including a local effort by over 170 people who attended last night’s search party across the city.
  “We are following up on every lead and tip that we receive,” s
  
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• Fact File: How Canadian accounts got swept up in X’s location feature accuracy issues

  28-11-2025 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Last week the X platform, formerly Twitter, began its rollout of a new location feature meant to disclose which country account holders post from.It aimed to increase transparency on the platform and help users spot the fake accounts known for spreading disinformation online. However, while its rocky rollout might have exposed the location to some accounts, others claimed their accounts displayed locations they'd never been to.WHAT HAPPENED?
  Since its global rollout this past weekend, clicking o
  
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• Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence

  28-11-2025 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.The president explained his decision on social media by posting that “according to many people that I greatly respect,” Hernandez was “treated very harshly and unfairly.”In March of last year, Hernandez was convicted in U.S.
  
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• Canada’s Fleming uses ‘rewired’ brain to push for Olympic biathlon spot

  28-11-2025 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Biathlete Jasper Fleming sees the world differently.After being diagnosed with severe dyslexia around Grade 3, Fleming worked with a tutor to "rewire" his brain.
  “I essentially learned to use my brain in a way that it just fits for me," he said. "So the way that I learn, the way that I perceive the world, is totally unique to me."
  Now the 20-year-old Canadian is harnessing his unique approach as he competes on the biathlon World Cup tour and pushes for a spot in the 2026 Olympics.Growing u
  
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• Brennsteiner gets first World Cup ski win after Odermatt skis out of giant slalom

  28-11-2025 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — At age 34 and in his 81st World Cup across 14 seasons, Stefan Brennsteiner finally got his first win on Friday.
  Brennsteiner took full advantage of Olympic champion Marco Odermatt skiing out in the first run of a giant slalom to win by a big margin of 0.95 seconds.
  “It means a lot for me,” Austria's Brennsteiner said. “The last years were quite good but I had tough times in my career.”
  Norwegian veteran Henrik Kristoffersen was second d
  
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• Rachel Homan edges Christina Black 5-4 to start best-of-three curling Trials final

  28-11-2025 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Rachel Homan survived a nervy opening game in the best-of-three women's final at the Montana's Canadian Curling Trials by holding on for a 5-4 victory over Christina Black on Friday afternoon.
  Down two with hammer in the 10th end, Black had a chance for a multi-point end, but settled for a single.
  With five rocks in the four-foot ring, she tried to bump multiple stones but couldn't nudge a Homan rock from the side of the button.
  "We knew it would be a battle and it was," said Hom
  
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• Fraser Health authorities warn against toxic drug supply across region

  28-11-2025 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Health authorities have issued a toxic drug advisory for a veterinary drug being detected in the unregulated opioid supply across Fraser Health communities.
  Fraser Health says medetomidine is a potent non-opioid used to sedate animals in veterinary visits. Its effects are similar to xylazine, or “tranq,” but are roughly 200 times more powerful and are unaffected by naloxone.
  Despite this, officials ask that naloxone still be administered in suspected opioid poisoni
  
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• Canada Goose Unveils a Limited Edition Chilliwack Bomber Capsule - PAUSE Online

  28-11-2025 21:37 via news.google.com
  Canada Goose Unveils a Limited Edition Chilliwack Bomber Capsule  PAUSE Online
  
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• Trans Mountain poised for expansions as pipeline fills up

  28-11-2025 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The chief executive of Crown-owned pipeline operator Trans Mountain Corp. says the Alberta-to-British-Columbia conduit has been running at almost full capacity lately, and expansions it and fellow operator Enbridge Inc. are pursuing should provide relief when it's needed.
  Trans Mountain said in its third-quarter financial report Thursday that the pipeline averaged 87 per cent utilization during the three months ended Sept. 30, with record throughput of 777,000 barrels per day.But
  
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• Woman breaches B.C. hospital neonatal care unit, makes contact with three infants

  28-11-2025 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after an unidentified woman gained access to a neonatal intensive care unit and made "skin-to-skin contact" with three babies before she was removed.
  It happened on the morning of Oct. 28, when police say the woman gained access to the unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital and allegedly removed her shirt.
  Police say she then made "skin-to-skin" contact with three infants in the unit before hospital security was alerted and removed the woman.
  In
  
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• Funding for police to support extortion targets in B.C.

  28-11-2025 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — The federal and provincial governments have announced $1 million in funding for police to support extortion victims in British Columbia.Premier David Eby told a meeting of police and local, provincial and federal politicians in Surrey, B.C., where many cases have been reported, that the funding will allow for police communication with victims and even help those people make a safety plan, if needed.
  There are 90 investigations underway connected to the extortion file, and Eby says
  
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• Annual Toys for Tots in Abbotsford collects nearly 2,000 toys, raises over $52K

  28-11-2025 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Santa’s helpers came in the form of a local nonprofit this month after Archway collected 1,954 toys for its 13th annual Toys for Tots Christmas Brunch.
  Archway Community Services says more than 1,200 guests attended the buffet brunch and raised over $52,000 for its Christmas Bureau toy room.“This event is so special. It’s our community coming together to kick off the holidays in the true spirit of Christmas,” said Rebecca Thuro, manager of food security
  
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• B.C. crime: Alberta man sentenced for 2018 killing of Chilliwack man - Vancouver Sun

  28-11-2025 20:28 via news.google.com
  B.C. crime: Alberta man sentenced for 2018 killing of Chilliwack man  Vancouver Sun
  
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• Most assisted deaths in Canada come after cancer diagnosis, annual report finds

  28-11-2025 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A majority of the people who died with medical assistance in Canada in 2024 had a cancer diagnosis, new data shows.
  Health Canada's annual report on medical assistance in dying shows that more Canadians are choosing assisted dying each year, but the rate of growth has slowed.Overall, about five per cent of the people who died in Canada in 2024 had a medically assisted death.
  The median age of those who chose MAID was 78.Nearly all of the 16,499 people who had an assisted death las
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek missing 85-year-old man

  28-11-2025 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack police are asking for public assistance in finding a local senior who was reported missing today, November 28.
  RCMP say 85-year-old Walter Schmur was last seen around his home near Peach Road, wearing red pajama pants, a grey shirt, vest and long housecoat, black slippers, and a red and white toque.
  He’s described as a Caucasian man, standing at 5’7” and 125 pounds with grey hair.
  Police and family are concerned for his well-being.
  Anyone with info
  
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• Calgary Flames announce two-year extension for general manager Craig Conroy

  28-11-2025 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames announced two-year contract extensions for general manager Craig Conroy and other senior management Friday, even though the team said the extensions were signed before this season began.
  Conroy, 54, was promoted from assistant general manager to GM in 2023 when Brad Treliving left for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  “I am grateful for the opportunity to continue leading this hockey club,” Conroy said Friday in a statement.“We have made important stri
  
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• Expansion FC Supra du Quebec adds to its roster with top two picks in U Sports draft

  28-11-2025 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Expansion FC Supra du Quebec took University of Montreal midfielder Calin Calaidjoglu with the first overall pick in Friday's Canadian Premier League-U Sports draft.
  Calaidjoglu, 24, scored six goals and added three assists in U Sports play this season. Named a second-team all-Canadian, he scored in a 2-0 win over Laval in the RSEQ final.
  Born in Moldova, he grew up in LaSalle, Que., playing for the CF Montreal youth team with a loan stint in Italy with Bologna. He has also played for FC Laval i
  
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• Suspect sought in unprovoked assault in Maple Ridge taxi

  28-11-2025 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the alleged suspect of an unprovoked cab assault over two months ago.
  On September 17, at around 2:45 p.m., Ridge Meadows RCMP responded to reports of a taxi driver being assaulted near the intersection of Sheldrake Court and Fern Crescent in Maple Ridge.
  The driver had picked up the suspect at an establishment in the 12900 block of 232nd Street. The individual then told the driver to head to the above location befo
  
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• Pair of Chilliwack athletes sign with UFV Cascades - Chilliwack Progress

  28-11-2025 19:20 via news.google.com
  Pair of Chilliwack athletes sign with UFV Cascades  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Transit workers in Montreal announce overtime strike through holiday season

  28-11-2025 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Montreal transit workers are set to go on strike again next month amid a prolonged labour dispute.
  The transit agency’s 2,400 maintenance workers say they will refuse overtime hours between Dec. 9 and Jan. 11.The agency says buses and metros will operate during the strike, but there could be an impact on services given how long it's scheduled to last.
  The union says the agency relies heavily on overtime, and it wants to put pressure on the employer to reach a collective ag
  
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• What’s happening Chilliwack: List of events from Nov. 28 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  28-11-2025 18:52 via news.google.com
  What’s happening Chilliwack: List of events from Nov. 28 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Jury selection planned for Chilliwack man who shot at police during 10-hour standoff before his house was burned to ground - Paul J. Henderson

  28-11-2025 18:43 via news.google.com
  Jury selection planned for Chilliwack man who shot at police during 10-hour standoff before his house was burned to ground  Paul J. Henderson
  
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• CPAC says it’s at ‘breaking point’ after CRTC postpones wholesale rate decision

  28-11-2025 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The long-standing video service providing Canadians with direct coverage of political events says a recent CRTC decision puts its operation at risk.
  CPAC says the move by the broadcast regulator to postpone a decision on increasing its wholesale rate threatens its ability to deliver programming.
  The current rate of $0.13 per subscriber, paid by cable and satellite providers, has remained the same since 2018 — and those cable and satellite providers have been losing subscribe
  
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• Zelenskyy’s chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home

  28-11-2025 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in talks with the U.S, after Yermak's residence was searched by anti-corruption investigators.The unprecedented search at the heart of Ukraine’s government was a blow for the Ukrainian leader that risked disrupting his negotiating strategy at a time when Kyiv is under intense U.S. pressure to sign a pea
  
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• No injuries reported after early morning shooting in Surrey

  28-11-2025 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police are investigating after shots have been fired at a Surrey home early Thursday morning (Nov. 27).
  At around 3:05 a.m., RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit (SPOSU) responded to calls of a possible shooting in the 11200 block of 153A Street and found a home damaged by gunshots.
  No one was hurt as a result of the incident.
  RCMP-SPOSU’s General Investigation Unit has since taken charge of the investigation.“The investigation is in its early stages and inve
  
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• CIBC analysts cast doubt on private sector taking on new B.C. pipeline any time soon

  28-11-2025 17:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed.They write in a report that companies would have to rely on meeting the ill-defined constitutional duty to consult with Indigenous groups and untested new federal legislation aimed at speeding along infrastructure projects deemed in the national interest.
  The Alberta government is
  
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• Anand says Global Affairs cuts won’t harm consular access

  28-11-2025 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says budget cuts at Global Affairs Canada won't affect the ability of Canadians in trouble abroad to get help from embassies.
  Department officials say the cuts will involve moving some consular services to an online portal.
  The recent federal budget includes a $561 million cut to the department's budget next year, which increases to a $1.1 billion cut two years later.
  The cut comes months after bureaucrats, citing costly evacuations from the Mi
  
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• Shop Local: Create a Christmas steeped in Chilliwack traditions - Chilliwack Progress

  28-11-2025 17:42 via news.google.com
  Shop Local: Create a Christmas steeped in Chilliwack traditions  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Supreme Court says investor’s action against mining company can proceed

  28-11-2025 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an investor's legal action against a mining company over its decision not to immediately publicize information about a production setback can proceed.
  Just days after Canadian firm Lundin Mining Corp. detected wall instability at its open-pit mine in Chile in October 2017, a rock slide prompted the company to shut down part of the mine.
  Lundin did not publicly disclose the events at the time but advised investors in a scheduled update about a month
  
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• Montreal Canadiens sign defenceman Mike Matheson to five-year extension

  28-11-2025 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAS VEGAS — The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenceman Mike Matheson to a five-year, US$30-million contract extension.
  The Canadiens made the announcement in Las Vegas before a game against the Golden Knights.
  Matheson's extension starts next season and runs through to 2030-31.The 31-year-old from Pointe-Claire, Que., has four goals and 10 assists in 22 games this season with a plus-13 differential.
  Matheson leads the Canadiens in average ice time at almost 25 minutes per game in his fo
  
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• Police remove 8 impaired drivers from Abbotsford roads Thursday night

  28-11-2025 17:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department has issued a safety reminder after removing more than a handful of impaired drivers from local roads overnight.
  Frontline officers removed eight impaired drivers Thursday night, November 27, bringing the total amount to 1,125 drivers taken off the streets so far this year.
  “Our message is clear: impaired driving will not be tolerated in Abbotsford,” said AbbyPD in a social media post. “Let’s work together to ensure every
  
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• Suspect in shooting of National Guard members now facing a first-degree murder charge

  28-11-2025 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The charges against the man who authorities say shot two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday.Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, were hospitalized in critical condition after Wednesday afternoon’s shooting in the nation's capital. President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that Beckstrom had died.U.S. Attorn
  
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• Zelenskyy’s chief of staff resigns as Ukraine corruption investigations widen

  28-11-2025 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators.Yermak has been Ukraine’s lead negotiator in peace talks with Russia and the United States. He has also been a trusted confidante of Zelenskyy's for years.The unprecedented searches at the heart of Ukraine’s government come at a time when Kyiv is under intense
  
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• Ottawa launches public registry listing more than 400 federal AI projects

  28-11-2025 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government has launched a public registry to keep Canadians in the loop on its growing use of artificial intelligence.
  The registry lists more than 400 areas where AI is currently being explored, developed, implemented or deployed within the government, including early research projects and tools for operations and service delivery.
  A Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat news release says that by giving organizations a clearer view of AI activity across government, the
  
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• Paris prosecutor says arrested man is thought to be 4th member of Louvre heist gang

  28-11-2025 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Friday that a man arrested earlier this week is thought to be fourth member of the team that stole France’s crown jewels from the Louvre Museum.Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is heading the investigation, said the 39-year-old man has a criminal record, with six previous convictions.Her statement didn’t say what role, exactly, he is thought to have played in the daylight heist, believed to have been the work of a four-person team.Th
  
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• Death toll from floods in Thailand reaches 145 as receding water reveals widespread damage

  28-11-2025 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from flooding in southern Thailand has reached at least 145, officials said Friday, as receding waters started to reveal devastating damage across the region.More than 1.2 million households and 3.6 million people have been affected by floods triggered by heavy rains in 12 southern provinces, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said Friday.Government spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat said in a news conference in Bangkok that flooding has ki
  
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• Canada exits FIFA Futsal Women’s World Cup on back of 7-0 loss to Spain

  28-11-2025 15:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MANILA — Canada exited the inaugural FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup on a losing note Friday, outclassed in a 7-0 defeat by European champion Spain.
  Antia Perez, Dany Domingos, Laura Cordoba, Ale de Paz, Cecilia Zarzuela, Marta Lopez-Pardo and Noelia Montoro scored for unbeaten Spain, which boasts one of the top futsal leagues in the world. The Canadians, meanwhile, were restricted to short camps in August and October advance of the tournament.
  Spain dominated play, outshooting Canada 55-14
  
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• Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rises to 164

  28-11-2025 15:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 164 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said, as rescue workers found their efforts hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment.Monsoon rains caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province Tuesday. The deluge tore through mountainside villages, swept away people and submerged more than 3,200 houses and buildings, the National D
  
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• Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra rises to 164

  28-11-2025 14:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island Friday rose to 164 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said.Rescuers were hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment.The death toll in North Sumatra province rose to 116, while 25 people died in Aceh. Rescuers also retrieved 23 bodies in West Sumatra, National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s Chief Suharyanto said.A tropical cyclone is expected t
  
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• In the news: Liberal MPs say party is united after Guilbeault resigns from cabinet

  28-11-2025 14:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed …
  Liberal MPs say party remains united after Guilbeault resigns from cabinet
  Several Liberal MPs say the party remains united after Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault resigned from cabinet in response to the federal government's new pact with Alberta on a proposed pipeline.
  In a social media post Thursday, Guilbeault said he submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Mark Carney that afternoon —
  
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• Canadian forward David Ajagbe looks to take Portland to NCAA soccer promised land

  28-11-2025 13:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian forward David Ajagbe's spot kick sent the University of Portland into the Sweet Sixteen at the NCAA men's soccer tournament, dispatching the University of Denver in a penalty shootout.
  On Saturday, the 20-year-old sophomore from Surrey, B.C., looks to play another starring role as the eighth-seeded Pilots host Arizona's Grand Canyon University.
  Ajagbe believes Portland can go a lot farther.
  "I believe we can win (the tournament)," he said.
  He also hopes that post-season success will lea
  
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• Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra rises to 174

  28-11-2025 12:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island Friday rose to 174 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said.Rescuers were hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment.The death toll in North Sumatra province rose to 116, while 35 people died in Aceh. Rescuers also retrieved 23 bodies in West Sumatra, National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s Chief Suharyanto said.A tropical cyclone is expected t
  
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• ICC judges reject request to release Duterte from custody

  28-11-2025 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will remain in detention at the International Criminal Court after appeals judges on Friday rejected a request to release him on health grounds. The octogenarian is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office, first as the mayor of a southern city and later as president.Duterte's lawyers failed to show that an October
  
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• Hungary’s Viktor Orbán meets Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow for energy talks

  28-11-2025 11:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks at the Kremlin on Friday, a rare step from a European leader as R ussia’s almost four-year war rages in Ukraine.The trip to Moscow is the second since last year for Orbán, who is widely considered Putin’s closest partner among all European Union leaders. In comments to state media before departing for Moscow early Friday, Orbán said the focus of his talks with Putin would be Hung
  
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