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• Morocco coach Walid Regragui quits just months before World Cup

  05-03-2026 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco coach Walid Regragui has quit the team just months before it competes at the World Cup, he confirmed at a late-night press conference on Thursday.Regragui’s departure — less than 100 days before the United States, Canada and Mexico host the World Cup from June 11 to July 19 — was widely reported before Fouzi Lekjaa, the president of the country’s soccer federation, accompanied Regragui for the press conference that doubled as a tribute
  
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• B.C. Christian charity files court challenge to stave off status revocation by CRA

  05-03-2026 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based Christian charity founded by a wealthy businessman has filed a constitutional challenge in B.C. Supreme Court, claiming the Canada Revenue Agency has no right to revoke its charitable status.The Coram Deo Foundation, founded by private education magnate Peter Chung, filed a court petition this week in Vancouver that alleges the federal government has "usurped the provinces’ exclusive jurisdiction" over Canadian charities.It says the federal government is
  
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• CFL officials say combine results are just a part of their annual draft preparation

  05-03-2026 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It's a most unconventional job interview.
  On Friday, the CFL will hold its invitational combine in Waterloo, Ont., with over 80 players vying for spots at the league's national combine in Edmonton on March 27-29. Representatives from all nine teams will attend both, jotting down results and observations in preparation for the 2026 draft on April 28.
  "We're looking for good football players, obviously," said Dwayne Cameron, the Calgary Stampeders' Canadian scouting director and U.S. scout. "But y
  
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• Dubon, Baldwin lead Braves past Blue Jays 9-5 in Grapefruit League play

  05-03-2026 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NORTH PORT — Mauricio Dubon had a two-run double and Drake Baldwin hit an RBI single in a three-run sixth inning as the Atlanta Braves topped the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 on Thursday in exhibition play.
  Dominic Smith smashed a two-run homer for Atlanta (9-2) in the fourth after Austin Riley's sacrifice fly scored a run.Tristin English's three-run double in the seventh added some insurance for the Braves.
  Addison Barger had a two-run double in the fifth inning to tie the game 3-3 for Toronto (
  
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• Alberta government corks added-value levy on wine, returns to standard flat tax

  05-03-2026 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Those in the wine and hospitality industries are applauding a move from the Alberta government to scrap a wine tax that they say reduced transparency and created business uncertainty.Alberta had introduced an ad valorem markup that taxed wine based on the value of a bottle in its budget last year.
  In its new budget tabled last week, the government walked back on the tax after industry backlash.Starting April 1, the government will instead re-introduce a flat tax and increase the
  
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• UPDATE: Power restored after bird contact with hydro lines cut power to 2,700+ in Chilliwack

  05-03-2026 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  UPDATE, 1:45 P.M. THURSDAY: As of 1:45 p.m., power has now been restored to over 2,700 customers in Chilliwack.
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  CHILLIWACK – Over 2,700 customers in Chilliwack have lost power Thursday afternoon due to bird contact with power lines.
  According to BC Hydro’s online dashboard, exactly 2,7763 customers in Promontory, Ryder Lake, Cultus Lake, the Chilliwack River Valley and the surrounding area lost power at 12:34 p.m.
  Crews are now on site. They had been expected to arriv
  
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• House narrowly rejects Iran war powers resolution in early test of Trump’s strategy

  05-03-2026 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump's attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad. It's the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dolla
  
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• NHL trade deadline: A look at some of the names potentially on the move

  05-03-2026 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NHL general managers have until 3 p.m. ET on Friday to make a splash, tweak the edges of their roster, or secure deals with an eye toward the future.
  The Canadian Press takes a look at some of the players who could be on the move before the bell sounds and GMs put down their pencils:
  NAZEM KADRI
  The hard-nosed Calgary Flames centre would be a welcome addition to any team looking to make a playoff push. A Stanley Cup champion with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022, the 35-year-old Kadri had 12 goals
  
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• Carney to cap Indo-Pacific trip with Tokyo visit focused on trade, security

  05-03-2026 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Japan for a brief visit to one of Canada's closest partner countries as he wraps up a trip across the Indo-Pacific.
  "The trip is long overdue, given how significant Japan is as a partner for us in the region," Asia Pacific Foundation vice-president Vina Nadjibulla said in a recent interview.
  Japan is the last of the G7 countries Carney has visited since he took office almost a year ago.
  Carney is set to arrive Friday in Tokyo, where he will
  
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• Canucks acquire Thompson from Sharks, send Woo to San Jose in swap of defencemen

  05-03-2026 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have acquired Jack Thompson from the San Jose Sharks for fellow defenceman Jett Woo, the NHL club announced Thursday.
  Thompson, 23, had 12 points (three goals, nine assists) and a plus-13 rating in 42 games for the American Hockey League's San Jose Barracuda this season.
  The six-foot-one, 189-pound blueliner from Courtice, Ont., has registered 10 points (four goals, six assists) in 34 career NHL games with the Sharks and Tampa Bay Lightning.Thompson has ad
  
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• Canada’s most-wanted fugitive arrested in Montreal for July 2025 murder in Toronto

  05-03-2026 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The major crimes unit of the Montreal police force has caught Canada's most-wanted fugitive.
  Montreal police say they arrested Bryan Fuentes Gramajo at around 2:40 a.m. in the Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough.
  The 24-year-old Montreal native is wanted by Toronto police on a first-degree murder charge for the killing of Kashif Jamal Bentley-Jean, 28, in the parking lot of a Yorkdale shopping centre last July.Toronto police say in a news release Fuentes Gramajo is scheduled
  
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• Outage leaves over 2,700 customers without power in Chilliwack Thursday afternoon

  05-03-2026 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Over 2,700 customers in Chilliwack have lost power Thursday afternoon.
  According to BC Hydro’s online dashboard, exactly 2,7763 customers in Promontory, Ryder Lake, Cultus Lake, the Chilliwack River Valley and the surrounding area lost power at 12:34 p.m.
  Crews are on their way. They’re expected to arrive in Chilliwack by approximately 1:45 p.m.BC Hydro has not listed a cause yet. Its website was last updated at 12:42 p.m.There’s another outage in Chilliwack
  
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• Privacy Commissioner probe finds Loblaw took too long to delete PC Optimum accounts

  05-03-2026 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GATINEAU — An investigation by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that Loblaw took too long to address requests from customers who wanted to delete their PC Optimum accounts.
  The office on Thursday said Loblaw had the mechanism to respond to requests but took an unreasonable amount of time to address them, and that it also failed to respond to some privacy-related inquiries from customers.
  In 2024, the office opened an investigation into allegations that some Loblaw customers had
  
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• Canadian pairs win gold, silver at world junior figure skating championships

  05-03-2026 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TALLINN — Canadian pair Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov are world junior figure skating champions.
  The Winnipeg duo captured gold Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia, climbing from second to first place with a winning free skate to “Clair De Lune” by Claude Debussy.
  Kemp and Elizarov are Canada's first world junior pairs champions since Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini in 1978.
  Jazmine Desrochers of Mississauga, Ont., and Kieran Thrasher of Oakville, Ont., claimed silver to secure a
  
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• B.C. forestry workers, other sectors hurt by tariffs to get $70M in jobs training

  05-03-2026 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Workers in B.C.'s softwood lumber industry and other sectors who are out of work because of U.S. tariffs will benefit from almost $71 million in funding for retraining.
  Federal Jobs Minister Pat Hajdu and Sheila Malcolmson, the minister of social development and poverty reduction, made the joint funding announcement about the three year agreement on Thursday at the provincial legislature.B.C.'s softwood lumber industry has been shedding hundreds of jobs as U.S. tariffs pile up a
  
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• FVRL announces last-resort lockout averted for libraries in Chilliwack, Abbotsford

  05-03-2026 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD/CHILLIWACK – The Fraser Valley Regional Library announced Thursday morning (Mar. 5) that a lockout has been averted after reaching a tentative agreement with the union representing over 300 library workers at over 20 FVRL branches.
  According to a statement from the library system, CUPE 1698 members have tentatively accepted the terms of a new labour deal that features a 13 per cent wage increase over four years.
  The tentative deal, while still subject to a vote from unionized me
  
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• New coalition targets $100M for Canadian carbon removal projects by 2030

  05-03-2026 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  An emerging industry to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere got a boost today with the launch of a Canadian initiative to raise another $100 million for those projects.The federal government, RBC, BMO and Shopify are among the founding members of what's being billed as the Advance Carbon Removal Coalition.
  The coalition says its members aim to mobilize $100 million in new support for Canadian carbon removal projects by 2030, on top of the $75 million they've contributed to date.
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• Ottawa accused of preferential treatment with coming rail subsidies for steel, lumber

  05-03-2026 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is being accused of creating an uneven playing field in Canada's shipping industry.
  Later this spring, Ottawa is expected to launch a program to subsidize interprovincial rail shipments of steel and lumber by up to 50 per cent.
  The move was announced in November by Prime Minister Mark Carney as a way to foster domestic supply chains to mitigate the impact of U.S. tariffs on those sectors.
  But some of Canada's maritime shipping companies are criticizing the m
  
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• Fact File: What the Musqueam agreements mean for private property owners in B.C.

  05-03-2026 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Ottawa this week published details of an agreement recognizing the Musqueam First Nation's Aboriginal title within much of Vancouver. The news prompted claims on social media that Canada had ceded Vancouver properties to the Musqueam, but experts in Indigenous rights law, as well as the federal minister responsible and the First Nation, say the agreement does not transfer private property.
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  This week, the federal government released details of an agreement with the Mus
  
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• Wilkie among headliners looking to lead Canada through successful Paralympic Games

  05-03-2026 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  To Natalie Wilkie, the constant chase in the life of an athlete is but an illusion.
  The para nordic skier from Salmon Arm, B.C., is among the headliners of Canada's 50-athlete team for the Milan Cortina Paralympics that open Friday. Wilkie, one of Canada's flag-bearers for the opening ceremonies, has seven medals in just two Paralympic appearances coming into Italy.
  But the goal for more, for better, doesn't stop there.
  "I feel like there's always this need for continuous improvement. We're all
  
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• Alberta’s premier consulting on scrapping clock changes, prefers more light at night

  05-03-2026 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes.
  And she says if a switch is made, she would prefer going to permanent daylight time.
  Smith says she believes if you asked people if they want to stop changing their clocks, the question would likely get overwhelming support.
  Her comments come as British Columbians prepare to spring their timepieces forward this Sunday for one final time as that province adopts year-round daylight time.
  
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• Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership

  05-03-2026 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response.Trump, who said he would nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, made the announcement on social media two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders seek someone who is energetic, keen to dress like rodent

  05-03-2026 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  If you are young, energetic and willing to dress like a football-obsessed rodent, there may be a job for you with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  The defending CFL champions are hosting auditions for the next person to embody their beloved, furry mascot Gainer the Gopher.
  The team's online job posting says they're looking for someone who can dance, hug, give high fives, and also improvise — all while staying in character.
  Applicants submitting video auditions must be at least 18 years-old an
  
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• Surrey officer cleared in shooting death of machete-wielding man

  05-03-2026 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — British Columbia's police watchdog agency has cleared a Surrey RCMP officer in the shooting death of a man who threw a machete at police after killing his spouse.
  The Independent Investigations Office says the shooting happened on July 7 last year, when a team of officers were called to investigate a possible domestic assault at the home.
  Officers arriving at the back door were met by the man covered in blood and holding a machete, who then threw the weapon in the direction of pol
  
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• Chilliwack pet food society steps up for appreciative local senior who needed a little help

  05-03-2026 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Moments like these remind Zoey’s Pawsome Pet Society executive director Jackie Smith exactly why they exist and the people they serve who could use a little help.
  The Chilliwack pet food society is being lauded by Colleen Frank, a local senior, after volunteers unexpectedly dropped off a generous helping of pet food, kitty litter, cat toys and other goodies at her home last weekend, doing what they can to assist pensioners and others in need.
  “To Zoey, Julie and ev
  
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• Canada’s Mackie races to gold, McKeever takes bronze at U23 cross-country worlds

  05-03-2026 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LILLEHAMMER — Alison Mackie won gold in the women’s 20‑kilometre mass start and fellow Canadian Xavier McKeever took bronze in the men's event Thursday at the 2026 under-23 cross-country skiing championships.
  Mackie, from Edmonton, finished her race in 49 minutes 41 seconds, with Norway’s Eva Ingebrigtsen finishing second and France’s Léonie Perry third.The 20-year-old was coming off an impressive Olympic debut at last month's Milan Cortina Games, where she f
  
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• What those different versions of the Iranian flag appearing at protests mean

  05-03-2026 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — As protests ramp up around the world in response to the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, different versions of the country's flag are appearing on the streets.
  Both Iran's official state flag and the historic "Lion and Sun" flag have become common sights at rallies.
  The official flag, which represents the current regime, features a red emblem meaning "Allah" in the centre. It was adopted in 1980, the year after the Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini toppled the monarch
  
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• More than 20 states sue over Trump’s worldwide tariffs

  05-03-2026 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — More than 20 states have filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's latest worldwide tariffs.
  Trump implemented the 10 per cent global duty last week after the United States Supreme Court struck down his previous tariff tool.
  The president has threatened to increase those tariffs to 15 per cent but he has not yet signed an executive order putting that change in place.
  These latest duties do not apply to goods compliant under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on t
  
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• Trump says he’s replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin

  05-03-2026 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.Trump says he’ll make Noem a "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Weste
  
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• B.C. teachers ratify new four-year agreement for 3% annual wage boost

  05-03-2026 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia's teachers' union says its members have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, covering 52,000 educators in the province.The B.C. Teachers' Federation says in a statement released Thursday that its members voted 91 per cent in favour of the agreement that gives them a three per cent wage increase in each of the four years.The union said the contract follows a year of negotiations where it raised priorities such as improved classroom conditions, stronger
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: The B.C. Strategic Investment Fund

  05-03-2026 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  We’re creating a path for a prosperous future for British Columbians with a plan to secure $200 billion in new private sector investments in B.C.
  To support that plan, our government has announced a $400 million Strategic Investment Fund to ensure that if B.C.’s support is needed for the success of a project, people in our province will see a greater financial benefit. 
  Currently, when we co-invest in major private sector projects, it happens through grants, and that means there
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. teachers ratify new four-year agreement for 12% wage boost

  05-03-2026 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia's teachers' union says its members have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, covering 52,000 educators in the province.The B.C. Teachers' Federation says its members voted 91 per cent in favour of the agreement that gives them a three per cent wage increase per year for four years.More coming.
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• House Republican leaders urge Gonzales to end reelection bid after he admitted to affair with aide

  05-03-2026 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP leadership are calling for Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas to withdraw from his reelection race after he admitted having an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide.The Republican leadership announced its decision Thursday, a day after Gonzales acknowledged a relationship that has upturned the political world in his home state and in Washington, and after the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs trade centre Nicolas Roy to Colorado Avalanche for picks

  05-03-2026 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Maple Leafs have made a move ahead of the NHL trade deadline.
  Toronto dealt centre Nicolas Roy to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday for a conditional first-round pick at the 2027 draft along with a fifth-rounder in June.
  In the event the first-round selection falls inside the top-10, the Avalanche would instead send the Maple Leafs their unprotected first-rounder in 2028. Toronto also gets the lowest of Colorado's three picks in the fifth round of the 2026 draft as part of t
  
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• Hope retreat centre trying to figure who dropped off a mysterious trailer on its property

  05-03-2026 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE – A retreat centre west of Hope is trying to figure out who had a trailer towed onto its property on New Year’s Eve and has yet to take ownership of it more than two months later.
  Camp Hope, located just off Lougheed Highway west of Hope, is appealing to the public for help in identifying the owner of the trailer.The retreat centre says the trailer was towed into the camp and parked in the camp’s storage area. A couple who resides on the property from the Lytton fire witne
  
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• Teens charged in Vancouver school stabbing after basketball game

  05-03-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say two teens have been charged for a stabbing last month after a basketball game at a local secondary school.
  They say the accused are a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old, who have not been otherwise identified.
  The 16-year-old faces charges of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, while the 15-year-old was charged with assault with a weapon.
  Both have been released on conditions.
  The attack happened on Feb. 2, when police say a
  
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• Vancouver artist one of three creative minds behind official FIFA World Cup poster

  05-03-2026 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  This summer's FIFA World Cup is already a hit with Vancouver's Carson Ting.Ting is one of three artists behind the official World Cup poster, unveiled this week to mark 100 days to go before the June 11 kickoff of the 48-team tournament in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
  Ting, 50, collaborated with Mexico's Minerva GM and American Hank Willis Thomas on the poster, the final piece of World Cup art. Organizers released 16 official host city posters last year, including ones for Vancouver and Tor
  
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• Woman who accused Quebec cardinal of sexual misconduct testifies at defamation trial

  05-03-2026 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The woman being sued for defamation by Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has taken the stand at the Montreal courthouse to repeat her misconduct allegations against him.
  Paméla Groleau testified in Superior Court today that she felt like she was under a spotlight that drew Ouellet to her every time they attended an event together.
  She accused Ouellet of several touching incidents between 2008 and 2010, including one where he allegedly slid his hand down her back to the top of
  
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• Koe wins group, Dunstone into playoffs at Canadian men’s curling championship

  05-03-2026 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN'S — Alberta's Kevin Koe wrapped up top spot in Pool B in Thursday's early draw at the Montana's Brier, while Manitoba's Matt Dunstone clinched a playoff spot.
  Koe, a four-time Canadian men's curling champion, improved to 7-0 with an 11-4 win over B.C.'s Cody Tanaka in the morning.
  Dunstone assured himself a playoff spot with a 9-3 win over Northern Ontario's Sandy MacEwan. He improved to 6-1, but can't catch Koe after losing to the Alberta skip earlier in the tournament.It sets up
  
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• LeBlanc heading to Washington after Carney says CUSMA ‘broken’ by U.S. tariffs

  05-03-2026 18:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will head to Washington, D.C., for meetings tomorrow, his office confirms.
  LeBlanc's visit lands with the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade in full swing.
  Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a media availability in Australia yesterday that Canada's free trade pact with the United States "effectively has been broken in the short-term by U.S. actions."
  He said certain protocols under CUSMA weren't followed when the Unit
  
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• Suspect in custody in Colorado in the case of 3 women found dead in Utah

  05-03-2026 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORREY, Utah (AP) — A man sought in the deaths of three women in Utah has been taken into custody in Colorado, officials announced Thursday.There is no indication that the suspect had any connection to the victims, said Lt. Cameron Roden, a spokesman for the Utah Highway Patrol.Investigators tracked the suspect in one of the victims’ vehicles into northern Arizona and Colorado, where it was found abandoned in Pagosa Springs, the Utah Department of Public Safety said in a statement on
  
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• Conservatives accuse PM Carney of flip-flopping on Iran military campaign

  05-03-2026 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives are accusing Mark Carney of flip-flopping on Iran after the prime minister said he would be leaving the door open to a Canadian military deployment.
  Carney originally expressed unequivocal support for the U.S. commencing strikes on Iran last weekend — then said later he did so with regret because the bombing campaign seems inconsistent with international law.
  While the prime minister has said Ottawa has no plans to join the military campaign, he added Wedne
  
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• 18-wheeler crashes on Highway 1 in Chilliwack, knocks out light standard

  05-03-2026 16:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Chilliwack first responders were called to Highway 1 in Chilliwack Thursday morning after an 18-wheeler wound up in the ditch near the westbound Annis Road off-ramp (exit 129) and struck a light standard.
  According to the Pulse Point emergency app, B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics were notified about a motor vehicle incident near the Annis Road off-ramp at 7:17 a.m.
  At least three Chilliwack Fire engines were paged per scanner traffic.
  Firefighters radioed dispatch to say the
  
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• Toronto FC bolsters defence by signing Chilean international Benjamin Kuscevic

  05-03-2026 16:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — One day after introducing star striker Josh Sargent, Toronto FC looked to its defence Thursday by signing Chilean international Benjamin Kuscevic.
  The 29-year-old centre back from Santiago arrives on loan from Brazil's Fortaleza for the 2026 MLS season, with an option to purchase.
  "Benjamín has established himself as a strong defender and steady presence in prominent leagues in South America and in international competition," Toronto general manager Jason Hernandez said in
  
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• Secretary of state says Canada not looking to split submarine contract

  05-03-2026 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's secretary of state for defence procurement says the government is planning to choose just one company to build the country's next fleet of submarines.
  Stephen Fuhr says the Canadian position has not changed, despite media reports this week suggesting the government might split the contract.
  Two companies are in the final stages of a heated competition for a multi-billion dollar deal to build up to 12 submarines.
  Germany's TKMS and South Korea's Hanwha Oceans submitted fin
  
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• AbbyPD hails conviction of 29-year-old man who rammed 2 police vehicles, found with loaded handgun

  05-03-2026 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – The Abbotsford Police Department is hailing the recent conviction of a dangerous 29-year-old man who previously rammed two police vehicles during a high-risk traffic stop and was later found to be have a loaded handgun in his possession.In a statement, AbbyPD says holding people involved in criminal activity accountable often requires extensive behind the scenes work that most people never get to see. As an example, the Abbotsford PD’s Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) is one o
  
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• PWHL’s Ottawa Charge set out on crucial road trip after win over Seattle Torrent

  05-03-2026 12:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Charge find themselves in a playoff spot with less than half the season to go in the Professional Women's Hockey League.
  Whether they'll still be there with their next six games away from home is the question.
  Ottawa (5-5-1-7) has yet to win a game in regulation on the road this season. Players say they need to simplify their game.
  “I really think it’s important that we sort of buy in as a team to take it in increments,” said forward Alexa Vasko. &ldqu
  
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• E.J. Harnden soaks in last Brier hurrah with brother Ryan

  05-03-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN'S — The Harnden brothers expect there will be tears, whenever it ends.
  E.J. Harnden's impending retirement makes the 2026 Montana's Brier the last of 14 he's played with younger brother Ryan.
  "I'm trying really hard to just stay in the moment for myself, but there'll be a lot of tears when it all ends at the end of this ride," said E.J.
  E.J. and Ryan Harnden from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., won a Brier in 2013 and an Olympic gold medal in 2014 playing second and lead respectively for
  
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• Canadian remake of ’80s classic ‘Youngblood’ aims to rewrite hockey’s dated playbook

  05-03-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — During the 2020 world junior hockey championship, as teen phenoms tore up the ice, Ashton James was on his couch feeling exposed.
  He had just begun training to star in a Black-led Canadian remake of the 1986 cult hockey drama “Youngblood,” and every highlight reel only magnified how far he still had to go.
  “All I felt was dread over how bad I was,” James says. “I was like, 'I can’t engage with this until I get better because every time I watch
  
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