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• Man, 18, wanted in targeted shooting in Burnaby, B.C.

  26-12-2025 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY — An 18-year-old man is wanted on a charge of assault after a shooting last week in Metro Vancouver sent one person to hospital.
  Burnaby RCMP say the man is also facing charges of discharge of a firearm with intent and possession of a prohibited firearm.
  Police say the shooting happened on Dec. 19 near the intersection of Phillips Avenue and Woodbrook Place in North Burnaby.
  A man with gunshot wounds was taken to hospital, and no further details on his condition were provided.
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• Search underway for Burnaby teen accused in shooting

  26-12-2025 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY — A manhunt is underway for a Burnaby teenager who allegedly shot a man in Burnaby in what police are describing as a targeted event.
  The BC Prosecution Service approved charges against 18-year-old Ronin Tajali on Christmas Day. Tajali is facing charges of discharging a firearm with intent, aggravated assault and possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm.
  18-year-old Ronin Tajali, of Burnaby is being sought by RCMP. / RCMP supplied
  Police allege Tajali shot the victim
  
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• Carney, Zelenskyy speak as Ukrainian president prepares for peace talks in Florida

  26-12-2025 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he prepares to head to the United States for a key meeting in the ongoing talks to end the war with Russia.Zelenskyy is set to visit Florida over the weekend for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on a potential agreement the Ukrainian leader said is "about 90 per cent ready."
  A 20-point plan is under discussion as the U.S. tries to broker an end to the war, which began with Russia's ful
  
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• CF Montréal signs forward Prince Owusu to contract extension

  26-12-2025 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — CF Montréal has signed forward Prince Owusu to a five-year contract extension, the team announced Friday.The deal includes the 2026, 2027, 2027-28 seasons with options for the 2028-29 and 2029-30 campaigns, using targeted allocation money.
  Owusu scored 17 goals across all competitions (13 in Major League Soccer, two in the Canadian Championship and two in Leagues Cup) in his first season with the club in 2025.The 28-year-old was awarded CF Montréal’s Giuseppe
  
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• Boxing Day draws shoppers despite poor weather in Toronto, much of Ontario

  26-12-2025 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Shoppers in some Canadian cities braved heavy snow and wintry conditions on Boxing Day, undeterred by the challenging weather in their hunt for a good deal.
  Much of southern Ontario stretching from Belleville in the east to Windsor in the south and Sault Ste. Marie in the west was under weather warnings, for either snow close to 15 centimetres in some places, or up 10 millimetres of freezing rain in others.
  The Toronto Transit Commission issued a statement urging shoppers to leav
  
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• Snow, freezing rain, and extreme cold make for a wintry Boxing Day across the country

  26-12-2025 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Much of the country is under a weather warning Friday, as extreme cold, strong winds, heavy snow, and even fog and freezing rain are predicted from coast to coast.
  Environment Canada has yellow storm warnings up for most areas where messy weather is expected. Yellow warnings mean the weather will most likely be localized and cause minimal damage. In parts of Newfoundland, those warnings have been upgraded to orange, meaning multiple types of severe weather is expected and disrupt
  
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• Maple Leafs hire Steve Sullivan as assistant coach

  26-12-2025 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired Steve Sullivan as an assistant coach, the team announced Friday.
  Sullivan joins the NHL club after being an assistant with the Leafs' American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.The move comes after the Leafs fired assistant Marc Savard on Monday.
  Savard was responsible for co-ordinating the power play, which Toronto has been at the bottom of the league at only 13.0 per cent.
  It's been one of a few issues for Toronto this season, which has led to bein
  
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• More snow and strong winds expected in Newfoundland Friday and overnight

  26-12-2025 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Newfoundlanders shouldn’t put away their shovels just yet, as another heavy snowfall is predicted for Friday evening following a white Christmas in much of the province.Environment Canada has all of Newfoundland and much of Labrador under a winter storm warning, with the most hazardous conditions in the Cartwright and Baie Verte areas.In Baie Verte, the weather service is expecting another heavy snowfall, with up to 60 centimetres falling Friday night and into Saturday.Through much of the
  
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• • Top Stories of 2025 • Ryan Reynolds’ niece wanted by Chilliwack RCMP for criminal harassment, publication of intimate image - Paul J. Henderson

  26-12-2025 19:32 via news.google.com
  • Top Stories of 2025 • Ryan Reynolds’ niece wanted by Chilliwack RCMP for criminal harassment, publication of intimate image  Paul J. Henderson
  
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• Overnight ER closure at B.C. hospital due to staffing challenges

  26-12-2025 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A hospital in British Columbia's Fraser Valley is shutting its emergency department during overnight hours for more than a week due to staffing challenges.
  Fraser Health says in a release that Mission Memorial Hospital's emergency department will operate from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Dec. 29 to Jan. 6 to reflect what it says are "systemic pressures being experienced across Canada."
  During that time, the hospital will have emergency-trained nurses to assess walk-in patients and provid
  
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• Operating hours at Mission Memorial Emergency Department reduced through the holidays

  26-12-2025 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — Fraser Health is announcing a temporary change to the operating hours of the Emergency Department at Mission Memorial Hospital. Beginning Monday, December 29, the Emergency Department will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  In the news release, the health authority says the temporary change in hours will continue through the holiday season to Tuesday, January 6. It says it expects to return to 24-hour service on Wednesday, January 7 at 8 a.m.
  Staffing issues are behind the adjustments
  
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• Health minister says Canada can’t rely on U.S. health institutions anymore

  26-12-2025 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she can no longer trust American health agencies as reliable partners.Michel says Canada is used to looking to the United States as a source of health and scientific information but that has changed since President Donald Trump took over.An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in July argued the Trump administration is dismantling the country's public health and research infrastructure.The administration slashed the b
  
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• Environment Canada issues snowfall warning for Hwy. 1 in the Fraser Canyon

  26-12-2025 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FRASER CANYON — Environment Canada is advising Fraser Valley motorists traveling between Hope and Lytton or on their way to B.C.’s Interior today to expect snow throughout the day.Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning Friday morning for Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon, saying snowfall amounts of 10-15 cms are expected today until Friday night. The warning covers smaller communities along Highway 1 like Yale, Boston Bar, and Lytton.The national weather agency says a frontal
  
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• Abbotsford police remind Boxing Day shoppers to protect their purchases

  26-12-2025 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Boxing Day is often one of the busiest shopping days of the year at stores and malls across the Fraser Valley. Abbotsford Police are reminding shoppers that thieves recognize the importance of the day too.
  To avoid becoming a victim, police say shoppers should also keep their vehicles locked when in the store shopping. And if you have already purchased some of the Boxing Day deals, keep your bags and any other valuables out of sight or better yet, take them directly home.
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• Swimmer Summer McIntosh again named The Canadian Press female athlete of the year

  26-12-2025 16:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Summer McIntosh continued to blaze a trail in the pool in 2025.
  The 19-year-old swimmer from Toronto was voted The Canadian Press female athlete of the year for a third straight year.
  McIntosh won four gold medals at the world championship in Singapore after setting three world records at national trials.
  She became just the second woman to claim gold in four individual events at a single world championship after American star Katie Ledecky in 2015.
  The Canadian set herself up for a monster meet
  
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• Toronto police investigating after second incident of mezuzahs stolen

  26-12-2025 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating after multiple mezuzahs were stolen outside Jewish homes for the second time this month.
  Officers were called just before 12:30 p.m. on Christmas Day to a condo building in the Finch Avenue East and Bayview Avenue area, where police said mezuzahs had been taken from three units.
  A mezuzah is a parchment inscribed with scripture that many Jewish people affix to the doorpost of their home.
  Const. Cindy Chung said in a statement that the Toronto poli
  
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• Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak sentenced to 15 years and hefty fine in 1MDB corruption trial

  26-12-2025 14:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was sentenced to 15 years and a hefty 13.5 billion ringgit ($2.8 billion) in fines after being convicted Friday in his biggest corruption trial tied to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The nation’s High Court found Najib, 72, guilty on four counts of abuse of power and 21 charges of money laundering related to more than $700 million channeled into his personal bank accou
  
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• Large flag that was draped outside Manitoba’s legislature is back with football club

  26-12-2025 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A large Canadian flag that hung on the front of the Manitoba legislature has been returned to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football team.
  The provincial government borrowed the nine-by-18-metre flag in March and draped it above the legislature's main entrance as a symbol of resistance in the trade war with the United States.
  The flag suffered some tearing by strong winds and had to be taken down and repaired at least twice.
  The Manitoba government planned to keep the flag, use it f
  
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• Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police say

  26-12-2025 13:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man left two people dead in northern Israel on Friday, police said.Police said the attacker first crashed his vehicle into people in the northern city of Beit Shean, killing one man, and then sped onto a highway, where he fatally stabbed a young woman. Police said that the attacker was heading toward the nearby city of Afula when a civilian bystander intervened and the attacker was shot.Both of the victims were pronounced
  
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• At least 15 injured in a knife and chemical attack at a factory in Japan

  26-12-2025 11:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TOKYO (AP) — A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a rubber factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. Eight people were taken to hospitals after being stabbed by the man with a knife at the Yokohama Rubber Company in the city of Mishima, in the Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo, according to the Fujisan Nanto Fire Department. The department told The Associated Press that five of the people who were stabbed
  
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• Freezing rain, snow expected in parts of Ontario as Newfoundland braces for blizzards

  26-12-2025 11:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Parts of southern Ontario are under weather warnings today, with freezing rain expected in the Windsor region and parts of the Greater Toronto Area into the evening.
  Environment Canada says some areas north of Toronto could see a mix of ice pellets and snowfall amounts of between five and 12 centimetres.
  Further north, areas from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay to Dryden could experience freezing rain and snow amounting to 20 centimetres.
  Heading out west, Environment Canada is warning of extrem
  
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• Japanese media say several people were injured after being stabbed a factory in central Japan

  26-12-2025 10:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TOKYO (AP) — Several people were hospitalized after being stabbed at a factory in central Japan on Friday, media reports said.Kyodo News agency and other media said several people were stabbed by a man with a knife at a rubber factory in the city of Mishima, in the Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo.Eight people have been hospitalized, Kyodo reported, quoting local fire department officials. Kyodo said the attacker was detained at the factory. No other details, including the conditions of
  
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• ‘The year that the shoe dropped’: How the Canada-U.S. relationship changed in 2025

  26-12-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The people anxiously sipping hot chocolate in the Canadian Embassy in Washington on a cold night in January almost a year ago couldn't have predicted the roller-coaster of trade provocations and bilateral blow-ups the next 12 months would bring.
  In hindsight, that unusually chilly Washington evening foreshadowed how the Canada-U.S. relationship would soon freeze over.
  Trump's tariff threats and his talk of annexing Canada had already rattled Canadian politics over the precedin
  
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• Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak convicted in trial over 1MDB corruption scandal

  26-12-2025 09:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted Friday following a corruption trial tied to multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The nation’s High Court found Najib, 72, guilty on four counts of abuse of power. Rulings on additional charges of money laundering were still being delivered Friday afternoon.Authorities said he siphoned more than $700 million into his personal bank accounts from the 1MDB fund. Najib
  
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• Yemen separatists accuse Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes against their forces

  26-12-2025 09:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Separatists in southern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Friday of targeting their forces with airstrikes, something not immediately acknowledged by the kingdom after it warned the force to withdraw from governorates it recently took over.The Southern Transitional Council said the strikes happened in Yemen’s Hadramout governorate. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were any injuries from the strikes.The Council’s satellite channel AIC air
  
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• Jokic’s 56-point triple-double powers Nuggets past Timberwolves in OT

  26-12-2025 08:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic recorded a 56-point triple-double and set an NBA record with 18 points in overtime, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 142-138 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night.Jokic broke Stephen Curry’s record of 17 overtime points from 2016, making it the highest by any player in regular season or NBA playoffs.Jokic added 16 rebounds and 15 assists and Jamal Murray scored 35 points as the Nuggets improved to 3-0 this season against the Wolves, who got 4
  
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• IIO investigating Christmas Day fatality in Surrey

  26-12-2025 01:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office (IIO) is investigating a fatal motor vehicle incident involving Surrey police.
  In a news release, the IIO states the Surrey Police Service informed their investigators that the collision occurred around 6 a.m. on Christmas Day. Officers were leaving a gas station in the 10800 block of 132 Street. According to Surrey Police, a woman was struck during the incident.
  Emergency Health Services attended and transported the woman to the hosp
  
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• Female pedestrian killed in crash with Surrey police vehicle leaving gas station

  26-12-2025 01:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SOUTH SURREY — A pedestrian has been killed in a Christmas morning crash involving a police vehicle in Surrey, B.C.
  Police say in a statement that the collision happened at about 6 a.m. in the 10800 block of 132 Street, adding that a Surrey police vehicle struck the female pedestrian who was then taken to hospital.
  The victim later died at hospital, and Surrey police have not released any further details due to B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office taking over the case.
  The police watch
  
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• Trump says US struck Islamic State targets in Nigeria after group targeted Christians

  26-12-2025 00:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he’d launched a “powerful and deadly strike” against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after he spent weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.The president’s post did not include information about how the strike was carried out and what effects it had and the White House did not immediately provide further details.“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United St
  
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