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• Canada’s Alphonso Davies distraught after injury playing for Bayern in Champions League

  10-03-2026 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Alphonso Davies covered his face with his shirt as he left the field with an injury in Bayern Munich's game against Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday, raising questions about the Canadian star's availability for the World Cup.
  Davies sank into a squatting position on the field after an apparent non-contact injury while playing the ball with Bayern leading 6-0 in the 70th minute. He seemed in distress immediately, covering his face and waving his arms in a gesture of frustration.
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• 2 more members of the Iranian women’s soccer team have been granted asylum in Australia

  10-03-2026 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two more members of the Iranian women’s soccer team were granted asylum in Australia before their teammates departed, the country’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday.The pair has been reunited with five players who were granted humanitarian visas a day earlier, Burke told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday. One of those in the later group was a player and the other a team staffer, Burke said, and both sought asylum before their teamm
  
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• Canada star Alphonso Davies distraught after injury playing for Bayern in Champions League

  10-03-2026 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Alphonso Davies covered his face with his shirt as he left the field with an injury in Bayern Munich's game against Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday, raising questions about the Canadian star's availability for the World Cup.
  Davies sank into a squatting position on the field after an apparent non-contact injury while playing the ball with Bayern leading 6-0 in the 70th minute. He seemed in distress immediately, covering his face and waving his arms in a ge
  
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• Aryna Sabalenka credits her new dog with providing ‘mental health support’ at Indian Wells

  10-03-2026 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka credits her new puppy, Ash, with providing “mental health support” as she continues to rack up victories and maintain her standing as the top-ranked player in women's tennis.
  Sabalenka brought her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel to a post-match interview on the Tennis Channel following her round-of-16 victory over Naomi Osaka on Wednesday at the BNP Paribas Open.
  “I feel like I’m much more settled, calm, more in control,&rdq
  
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• Vancouver moves closer to no-snow winter despite chilly blast

  10-03-2026 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver has moved closer to an official snowless winter after a chilly blast failed to result in the benchmark one centimetre of accumulation at the city's airport.
  As much as four centimetres had been forecast for sea-level regions in Metro Vancouver, but Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang said Vancouver International Airport recorded no snow accumulation on Tuesday morning.
  If Vancouver goes without snow by March 21, the first full day of spring, it will have had i
  
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• Auger-Ailassime upset by Fils in fourth round at Indian Wells

  10-03-2026 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  INDIAN WELLS — Canadian tennis star Félix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from singles play at the Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open after dropping a 6-3, 7-6 (9) decision to France's Arthur Fils in fourth-round action Tuesday.
  The 21-year-old Fils, seeded 30th at the 1000-level event, won 83 per cent of his service points and didn't face a break point in the first set.
  Montreal's Auger-Aliassime, seeded ninth, put more pressure on Fils's serve in the second set but only converted one of
  
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• First Nations leaders unveil more items repatriated from the Vatican

  10-03-2026 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — First Nations leaders on Tuesday unveiled five items repatriated to their communities after being held at the Vatican for more than a century.
  They also unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined.
  The returned items include a birch bark sap collector from Akwesasne, embroidered leather gloves from Athabasca Chipewyan, a wooden bowl and spoon from Manitoulin Island and a model cradle board, or tikinagan, from somewhere in Ontario.
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• Chilliwack non-profit launches twice-monthly social, cooking and learning initiative for 55+ adults

  10-03-2026 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A Chilliwack non-profit whose programs facilitate a variety of services for older adults in Chilliwack is launching a one-year support project for community living seniors centred around learning, cooking and social sharing.
  Chilliwack-based Compassionate Neighbours says it’s excited to launch the Enhanced Social and Nutritional Support project through a generous grant from the Maplewood Care Foundation.
  Compassionate Neighbours board president and acting executive direc
  
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• Pokémon cards are a hot commodity, and B.C. thieves aren’t playing around

  10-03-2026 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Pokémon cards were the focus of a gang who turned up at an Abbotsford, B.C., collectibles store on Friday — but they weren't there to play.In pre-dawn scenes captured on the store's security video, the masked raiders smash a window then loop a chain and a large hook around the security grate, which they wrench out with their car.
  Owner Brandon Chreptyk said the gang then ransacked the store for about two minutes, making off with approximately $30,000 worth of Pokémon cards.
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• Canada’s Dandjinou seeks redemption at short-track world championships

  10-03-2026 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — William Dandjinou won’t dance around it.
  The Canadian short-track speedskating star knows he fell short at last month’s Milan Cortina Olympics, returning home with one medal out of a possible — and coveted — five, but he says his passion for the sport hasn’t wavered.
  "It's obviously a disappointment. I had all the elements I needed to do much better,” he said. “But I still love this sport. I love it a lot.
  “I'm sure I'll always kee
  
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• Winds caused fatal Yukon helicopter crash during landing training: report

  10-03-2026 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — An investigation by federal authorities has found that a helicopter crash that killed one person just outside of Whitehorse was caused by a change in wind conditions during a landing practice.
  The Transportation Safety Board says the crash happened on May 2, 2025, when a Horizon Helicopters aircraft left Whitehorse International Airport with a training pilot and a newly hired candidate on a practice exercise.
  The report says the helicopter conducted its landing and takeoff train
  
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• Toronto starter Dylan Cease in form as Blue Jays roll to 7-0 victory over Braves

  10-03-2026 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUNEDIN — Toronto starter Dylan Cease threw three shutout innings as the Blue Jays rolled to a 7-0 pre-season victory over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday afternoon at TD Ballpark.
  Cease allowed two hits and didn't issue a walk. He had three strikeouts.Brandon Valenzuela hit a three-run homer and Riley Tirotta had a solo shot as the Blue Jays improved their spring record to 7-8.
  Nathan Lukes chipped in with a pair of RBIs. Six Toronto relievers combined with Cease on the six-hit shutout.
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• ‘Despicable, senseless’ B.C. killings due to ‘botched robbery,’ defence lawyer says

  10-03-2026 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — A defence lawyer for one of three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple says the crime was "despicable" and "senseless," but DNA and other circumstantial evidence aren't enough to prove premeditation of the killings.The bodies of Arnold and Joanne De Jong were found in their home in May 2022, both bound with rope and Arnold De Jong died by asphyxiation with duct tape covering his face, while Joanne was bludgeoned and her throat was slashed.Surrey residents Abhij
  
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• Vancouver councillor sues Mayor Ken Sim over drug accusation

  10-03-2026 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver City Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation over comments in which he accused Orr of distributing illegal drugs.
  The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says Sim acted "deliberately, maliciously and in bad faith" when he told Chinese-language reporters on Feb. 6 that Orr had handed out drugs on Christmas Day.
  Orr says outside the court complex in Vancouver that Sim lied about him publicly and has "failed to provide any reasonable explanation."
  He says Si
  
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• Grand Slam of Curling drops U.S stop, will run five Canadian events over two months

  10-03-2026 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Grand Slam of Curling will not return to the United States next season and will instead go back to a five-event Canadian schedule in a compressed 2026-27 campaign.
  The Oct. 13-18 GSOC Invitational will kick off the Grand Slam season in Victoria, The Curling Group announced Tuesday.It'll be followed by the Nov. 3-8 GSOC Masters in Medicine Hat, Alta., the Nov. 12-17 GSOC National in Sydney, N.S., the Dec. 1-6 GSOC Open in Thunder Bay, Ont., and the Dec. 15-20 GSOC Players' Cup
  
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• Significant freezing rain in forecast for southern Quebec, heavy snow further north

  10-03-2026 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Environment Canada is warning about a major ice storm forecast to hit southern Quebec with up to 30 millimetres of freezing rain over 24 hours.
  The storm coming from eastern Ontario could reach Quebec early Wednesday morning, beginning in the Outaouais region and moving through Montreal and up to Quebec City.
  Meteorologist Simon Legault says bouts of mild weather could turn the freezing rain to rain in certain areas by 4 p.m.
  However, below-freezing temperatures in the following
  
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• B.C. Premier David Eby to discuss trade, liquor with top U.S. diplomat in Canada

  10-03-2026 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — American duties on Canadian softwood lumber and the ban of American alcohol by B.C. will be on the table when Premier David Eby meets the U.S. ambassador to Canada in Victoria today.Ambassador Pete Hoesktra is the same representative who said last year that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks Canada is "mean and nasty" for avoiding American travel and banning its alcoholEby says he plans to bring up the softwood lumber dispute as the forest companies faces tariffs and duties of a
  
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• Woman who accused Quebec cardinal of misconduct did not defame the cleric: lawyer

  10-03-2026 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A lawyer for the woman who has accused Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet of sexual misconduct has told a Montreal courtroom that she did not defame the high-ranking cleric.
  In his closing statements today, Justin Wee said his client Paméla Groleau first reported her allegations anonymously in 2008 to a church advisory committee.
  Ouellet filed a $100,000 defamation lawsuit against Groleau after she named him in a 2022 class-action lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct by members o
  
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• Seattle Sounders sign young forward Osaze De Rosario to new long-term deal

  10-03-2026 19:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEATTLE — Osaze De Rosario, son of Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Dwayne De Rosario, has signed a new contract with the Seattle Sounders through the 2028-29 season with club options for 2029-30.
  The 24-year-old forward originally signed with the MLS team in May 2025, moving up from Seattle's reserve Tacoma Defiance side. At the time, De Rosario was leading the MLS Next Pro league with eight goals through five matches.
  He was named the first-ever winner of the Sounders' Pathway Player of the Y
  
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• First Nations leaders unveil items repatriated from the Vatican at History Museum

  10-03-2026 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — First Nations leaders unveiled today five items repatriated to their communities after being at the Vatican for more than a century, and unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined.
  Among the items include a birch bark sap collector from Akwesasne, leather embroidered gloves from Athabasca Chipewyan, a wooden bowl and spoon from Manitoulin Island and a model cradle board from somewhere in Ontario.
  Other items, unboxed in a private ceremony, incl
  
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• Woman robbed of her handbag after meeting online buyer from Facebook Marketplace: RCMP

  10-03-2026 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LANGLEY — Mounties in Langley are investigating an incident in which a woman was robbed while meeting a buyer for a handbag listed on Facebook Marketplace.According to a statement from police, the incident happened Monday evening, March 9 at about 6:28 p.m. Police say a woman was robbed while meeting a buyer for a designer handbag listed on Marketplace. The incident happened in the 20000 block of 85 Avenue in Langley.
  Police say the male suspect grabbed the bag, pushed the victim to the gr
  
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• Police in Abbotsford, B.C., searching for suspects in sex assault

  10-03-2026 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating after a woman reported being driven to a rural area against her will and sexually assaulted by four men.
  Abbotsford police say the woman reported the attack on Feb. 27, saying that she was picked up by four men in the area of Cannon and Bevan avenues in the city on Feb. 10.
  The woman says she was then driven to the Sumas Mountain area against her will, and the suspects refused to let her out of the vehicle.
  Police say the woman was
  
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• Carney to attend question period Tuesday after absence called out by other parties

  10-03-2026 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend question period in Parliament today after all.
  While Carney's official itinerary, published Monday, had him skipping the proceedings in the House of Commons today, his office has sent out a new schedule adding an appearance at question period.
  The move comes after several opposition MPs called out the prime minister for failing to appear for a debate on the Iran war in the House of Commons Monday night.
  While MPs are not allowed to publicly t
  
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• Information commissioner ‘disappointed’ by lack of federal ambition on access reform

  10-03-2026 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal information watchdog says she's surprised that government proposals for updating the Access to Information Act avoid "the most pressing issue" dogging the system — unacceptable delays in answering requests.
  Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says most of the complaints her office receives relate to the failure of federal departments and agencies to respond to applications for documents within legislated timelines.
  The access law allows people to request fi
  
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• Citizen-led recall bid against Alberta premier fails to get required signatures

  10-03-2026 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A petition looking to oust Alberta Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed.
  Smith is the second premier in Alberta's history to face a recall petition, with the other happening nearly 90 years ago.
  Heather VanSnick says her campaign against Smith gathered 2,300 of the roughly 12,000 signatures it needed to move the process forward.
  VanSnick says she still thinks the petition was useful and that 2,300 people calling for better representation in Smith's
  
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• Baltimore police say an officer and suspect have been shot in an ‘active shooter incident’

  10-03-2026 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Baltimore say an officer and a suspect have been shot in an “active shooter incident.”The officer was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma unit, police said. Further details were not immediately available.The public was told Tuesday to avoid the area. An email left with the Baltimore police department seeking more information wasn’t immediately returned. A telephone call to the department went unanswered.A telephone message to Baltim
  
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• Abbotsford PD appeal to public for info on reported sexual assault involving 4 men, 1 female victim

  10-03-2026 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say they are investigating a disturbing incident in which a woman alleges she was picked up and driven to the Sumas Mountain area of Abbotsford against her will and sexually assaulted last month.
  According to a statement from AbbyPD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker, AbbyPD patrol officers received a report on Friday, February 27, 2026, about a sexual assault that happened on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.Sgt. Walker says information received from the victim indi
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Citizen-led recall bid against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fails

  10-03-2026 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A petition looking to oust Alberta Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed.
  Smith is the second premier in Alberta's history to face a recall petition, with the other happening nearly 90 years ago.
  Heather VanSnick says her campaign against Smith gathered almost 2,300 of the roughly 12,000 signatures it needed to move the process forward.
  VanSnick says she still thinks the petition was useful and that 2,300 people calling for better representation in S
  
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• District of Hope to remove several trees from local campground

  10-03-2026 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE — The District of Hope says it will be removing several Douglas fir trees at a local campground due to safety hazards and declining tree health.
  In a statement, the district says the removal of several Douglas fir trees at the Coquihalla Campground will occur under the direction of a certified arborist.
  The campground is located at 800 Kawkawa Lake Road in Hope.
  It says the trees have been identified as declining in health and constitute an increased risk of failure.
  Where possible, t
  
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• Former CBC anchor says the broadcaster ‘silenced and intimidated’ him

  10-03-2026 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former CBC television reporter and anchor Travis Dhanraj told a House of Commons committee today that the public broadcaster "silenced and intimidated" him.
  When Dhanraj, who hosted "Canada Tonight," announced his departure in an email to CBC staff in 2025 he called out what he claimed was a culture of "retaliation, exclusion and psychological harm."
  Appearing today before the House of Commons heritage committee studying the state of the journalism and media sectors in Canada, Dha
  
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• Mets option prized Canadian pitching prospect Jonah Tong to minor leagues

  10-03-2026 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — The New York Mets optioned Canadian pitching prospect Jonah Tong on Tuesday to Triple-A Syracuse.
  The 22-year-old right-hander was 2-3 with a 7.71 ERA last season with the Mets.
  Tong, a native of Markham, Ont., made a rapid and extraordinary rise last season from seventh-round pick in the amateur draft to among the best pitching prospects.
  Tong traveled all the way to Georgia Premier Academy and the MLB Draft League to showcase his talents as a teenager. He was
  
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• Smartmatic says Trump’s ‘campaign of retribution’ is driving criminal prosecution

  10-03-2026 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MIAMI (AP) — Voting technology firm Smartmatic is seeking to dismiss a criminal indictment for money laundering, blaming President Donald Trump and his allies for seeking its prosecution as part of a “campaign of retribution” against those they blame for his 2020 election loss.Smartmatic's parent company, UK-based SGO Corporation, was added to a criminal indictment last Fall previously charging several executives with paying $1 million in bribes to election officials in the Phi
  
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• Ottawa spending $229M to help tariff-hit Ontario workers obtain new skills

  10-03-2026 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government will spend $228.8 million over the next three years to help Ontario workers in industries hit hard by U.S. tariffs acquire new skills and adapt to the trade war disruption.
  The new Canada-Ontario Workforce Tariff Response will support workers and job seekers in the province's softwood lumber, steel and automotive industries — areas still facing steep sectoral tariffs from the United States.
  The federal government says in a news release that workers in
  
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• Alabama governor commutes death sentence of inmate whose accomplice fired fatal shot

  10-03-2026 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week, even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed.Ivey reduced Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole, marking just the second time the Republican governor has granted clemency of a death row inmate since taking office in 2017.Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991
  
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• Hamilton’s Alena Sharp headlines 2026 inductee class for Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

  10-03-2026 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hamilton's Alena Sharp headlines this year's class of inductees to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
  She was joined by longtime global industry executive Peter Broome of Montreal.
  Former professional golfers Pat Bradley and Lee Trevino were also selected.
  All four inductees received unanimous support from the Hall's selection committee.
  They will be enshrined at an induction ceremony later this spring.
  Bradley and Trevino are the first-ever nominees to the new international category of the Hall, w
  
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• More than 5,000 Canadians have fled Middle East, Anand says demand for help dropping

  10-03-2026 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says it has helped more than 5,000 Canadians leave the Middle East since the latest conflict began, and demand for evacuation support is now falling off.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is urging Canadians thinking of leaving the Middle East to do so and says the number of daily calls for help is now half what it was last week.
  Her department says more than 4,300 Canadians, permanent residents and their relatives fleeing the region arrived in Canada betw
  
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• Lane-splitting motorcycle rider caught with no insurance or driver’s license: Abbotsford PD

  10-03-2026 16:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say a lane-splitting motorcycle rider has been caught after he was clocked at nearly double the speed limit and found to have no insurance or driver’s license.
  This past Sunday afternoon (March 8), at just after 12:30 p.m., an Abbotsford PD Traffic Enforcement Unit officer observed a motorcycle travelling at excessive speeds of 95 km/h in a posted 50 zone, in addition to lane splitting along McCallum Road after he exited Highway 1.
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• Conservatives seek to remove barriers to shipping alcohol across provincial borders

  10-03-2026 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Conservative member of Parliament has introduced a private member's bill to enable shipments of Canadian alcohol across the country.
  Dan Albas's bill seeks to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act to remove restrictions on direct interprovincial shipments of alcohol to consumers.At a press conference Tuesday morning, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said there are more barriers to trade between provinces than there are with many countries, and it's against the law for Canada
  
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• Snow expected across southwestern B.C. from Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island

  10-03-2026 16:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has expanded a special weather statement for low-elevation snowfall from Metro Vancouver into other parts of southwestern British Columbia, including Vancouver Island.
  The weather office says up to four centimetres is possible for areas near sea level for the warning area covering the Sunshine Coast, Howe Sound and the Fraser Valley, as well as Greater Vancouver.
  It says inland areas of North Vancouver Island could also expect upwards of 10 centimetres.
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• Fire forces evacuation of seniors home in Mission, B.C.

  10-03-2026 16:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — A retirement home in B.C.'s Fraser Valley has been evacuated after a large fire engulfed the facility.
  RCMP reported the blaze at Chartwell Carrington House in Mission on Monday night, saying staff and emergency responders worked to make sure everyone was safely out.
  Residents were taken to the nearby Mission Leisure Centre.
  Police say Fraser Health and BC Emergency Health Services are at the centre assessing affected residents for medical needs.
  No details of the fire, includ
  
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• Man who shot at car didn’t mean to kill Montreal teenager, his lawyer tells court

  10-03-2026 16:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The lawyer for one of the men charged in the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old girl in Montreal has told a jury his client should be found guilty of manslaughter, not murder.
  Marc Labelle said in his closing arguments today at the Montreal courthouse that his client Salim Touaibi admits to firing the shot that killed Meriem Boundaoui and therefore cannot be acquitted.
  But Labelle says the evidence suggests Touaibi didn’t mean to kill anyone when he shot at the Volkswagen
  
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• U.S. museum returns remains of 12 Canadian soldiers

  10-03-2026 16:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War.
  The Department of National Defence says the remains were collected originally for medical study after the war but ended up on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia after being sent there in 1919.
  The department says the Canadian Armed Forces has been taking part in an international effort led by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to reclaim soldiers' remai
  
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• Canada’s Wilkie wins third medal at Paralympics with cross-country sprint bronze

  10-03-2026 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada's Natalie Wilkie now has a medal of every colour at the Milan Cortina Paralympics after claiming bronze in Tuesday's women's sprint classic standing cross-country skiing race.
  Wilkie from Salmon Arm, B.C., finished third in three minutes 40.2 seconds, behind Norway's Vilde Nilsen (3:31.3) and American Sydney Peterson (3:35.5).
  Wilkie won two Para biathlon medals earlier in the Games, with gold in the women's individual standing and silver in the women's sprint.
  Canada has wo
  
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• Canada names 21-player roster for final CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Qualifiers

  10-03-2026 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Melyna Alexis, Gabriela Istocki, Lacey Kindel and Reed Tingley, who represented Canada at the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, have been named to the Canadian 21-player roster for the final round of 2026 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers.The 12-team tournament, which represents the second round of qualifying in the region, runs March 17 to 22 at the Costa Rican Football Federation headquarters in San Rafael, Alajuela.
  Canada will play out of Group A, facing Nicaragua on March 17, the D
  
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• Man known to police enters Chilliwack home with replica gun, gets restrained and later arrested

  10-03-2026 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A man has been arrested and remains in custody after he entered a Chilliwack Lake Road home this past week with a replica handgun in his possession, only to be restrained until police arrived to arrest him.
  According to a recap of the Chilliwack RCMP’s activities for the week of Monday, March 2 through Sunday, March 8, police were called to a home on Chilliwack Lake Road this past week after the homeowner reported an intruder inside their home. The man was being restrain
  
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• Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston reverses some budget cuts amid public backlash

  10-03-2026 15:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston apologized Tuesday as he reversed a portion of $130-million in cuts to government grants amid a public outcry over his latest budget.
  The premier announced Tuesday that he would reinstate $53.6 million in cuts to grants and programs for people with disabilities and seniors, as well as African Nova Scotian and Indigenous students.
  "On some of the (budget) decisions, I got it wrong, and I'm sorry," Houston told a news conference.
  After Houston's Prog
  
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• Toronto police investigating after U.S. consulate hit by gunfire

  10-03-2026 15:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Shots fired at the United States consulate in Toronto were denounced as an unacceptable act of intimidation by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday as police searched for suspects.No injuries have been reported after police say gunfire hit the consulate in Toronto's downtown core early Tuesday morning.Ford's statement said he expected police to bring "every resource to bear" on the search for those responsible for the "violence and intimidation aimed at our American friends and n
  
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• Chilliwack nurse agrees to 5-day suspension for violating nursing standards

  10-03-2026 15:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The B.C. College of Nurses & Midwives says a Chilliwack nurse has agreed to a five-day suspension involving a breach of professional nursing standards.
  According to its website, a panel of the Inquiry Committee approved a consent agreement on February 18, 2026, between the BCCNM and Veronica Longe (née Osamoh) of Chilliwack to address what it calls “practice issues related to patient care, documentation, and delegation of duties to an appropriate healthcare pr
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston reverses some budget cuts amid backlash

  10-03-2026 15:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is reversing a portion of $130-million in cuts to government grants amid a public outcry over his government’s latest budget.
  The premier says he’s reinstating $53.6 million in cuts to grants and programs for people with disabilities and seniors,as well as African Nova Scotians and Indigenous students.
  Houston says he got some of his budget decisions wrong, and that he's sorry.
  After Houston's Progressive Conservative government tabled
  
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• Convicted killer Allan Legere, New Brunswick’s ‘Monster of the Miramichi,’ dead at 78

  10-03-2026 15:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Notorious serial killer Allan Legere has died in prison.
  The 78-year-old convicted murderer and rapist, known as the "Monster of the Miramichi," killed five people in New Brunswick in the late 1980s.
  The Correctional Service of Canada has confirmed Legere died while serving time in the Edmonton Institution.
  In January 1987, Legere was sentenced to life in prison for killing a New Brunswick shopkeeper and sexually assaulting the man’s wife.
  After he escaped from custody on M
  
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