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• AP source: Cipollone agrees to testify before Jan. 6 panel

  06-07-2022 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a person briefed on the matter.Cipollone, whose reported resistance to Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought and potentially revelatory witness, was subpoenaed by the select committee last week after weeks of public pressure to provide test
  
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• Deaths in Iran’s crackdown on protests reach at least 7,000, activists say

  12-02-2026 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests last month has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many more still feared dead, activists said Thursday.The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which offered the latest figures, has been accurate in counting deaths during previous rounds of unrest in Iran and relies on a network of activists in Iran to verify deaths. The slow rise in the death toll has come as the agenc
  
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• 3 arrested amid heavy police presence outside Chilliwack apartment complex (VIDEO)

  12-02-2026 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Details are limited at this early stage of the investigation, but an RCMP spokesperson has confirmed the arrest of three people Wednesday morning following a police incident near downtown Chilliwack.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police were called to Fletcher Street, just east of downtown Chilliwack, Wednesday morning for a call involving a weapon.
  “I can confirm that Chilliwack RCMP officers attended a report of a we
  
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• Deaths from Iran’s crackdown on protests has surpassed 7,000, activists say

  12-02-2026 01:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002 people killed with many more still feared dead, activists said Thursday.The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which offered the latest figures, has been accurate in previous rounds of unrest in Iran and relies on a network of activists in Iran to verify deaths.Iran’s government offered its only death toll on Jan. 21, saying 3,117 people were
  
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• Two men charged in cross-border human smuggling case

  12-02-2026 01:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A man from the Dominican Republic and a man from the United States have been charged with conspiring to smuggle foreign nationals into the United States via the Canada-U.S. border.
  The U.S. Department of Justice says in a press release that 27-year-old Francisco Antonio Luna Rosado and 37-year-old Jesus Hernandez Ortiz planned to smuggle people from Mexico and Central and South America into the United States.
  The news release says the pair has been charged with one count of conspi
  
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• U.S. House passes symbolic vote to end Trump’s fentanyl-related tariffs on Canada

  12-02-2026 00:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called Canada "among the worst in the World to deal with" as the U.S. House of Representatives voted against his tariffs on America's northern neighbour — a largely symbolic move that shows some wavering Republican support for the president's massive trade agenda.
  "Canada has taken advantage of the United States on Trade for many years. They are among the worst in the World to deal with, especially as it relates to our Northern Border," Trump poste
  
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• 3 arrested amid heavy police presence outside Chilliwack apartment complex

  12-02-2026 00:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Details are limited at this early stage of the investigation, but an RCMP spokesperson has confirmed the arrest of three people Wednesday morning following a police incident near downtown Chilliwack.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police were called to Fletcher Street, just east of downtown Chilliwack, Wednesday morning for a call involving a weapon.
  “I can confirm that Chilliwack RCMP officers attended a report of a we
  
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• Report into Quebec Liberal scandals finds ex-leader Pablo Rodriguez was unaware

  12-02-2026 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — A retired Superior Court judge who investigated a text message scandal that helped bring down former Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez has reached few firm conclusions.
  Jacques R. Fournier says it's impossible to say whether the messages, purportedly about the 2025 Quebec Liberal leadership race, are real or fabricated.
  The Liberals mandated Fournier to investigate shortly after Le Journal de Montréal published text messages in November suggesting some party memb
  
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• Alberta boy, 13, sentenced to secure custody for trying to kill younger brother

  12-02-2026 00:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LETHBRIDGE — An Alberta judge has sentenced a 13-year-old boy to two years of secure custody for trying to stab his younger brother to death.
  The attacker was 12 when he repeatedly stabbed the seven-year-old in the family's Lethbridge home last August.
  Police have said the older boy claimed an unknown man had entered the house and stabbed his brother before fleeing.
  The boy, who earlier pleaded guilty to attempted murder, cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
  The judge
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Secure custody for Alberta boy who tied to kill brother

  11-02-2026 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LETHBRIDGE — A judge has sentenced a 13-year-old boy to two years of secure custody for trying to stab his younger brother to death.
  The attacker was 12 when he repeatedly stabbed the seven-year-old in the family's Lethbridge home last August.
  The judge also sentenced the boy to one year of conditional supervision.
  More coming.
  Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press
  
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• U.S. House to vote on Trump’s fentanyl-related tariffs on Canada

  11-02-2026 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in Washington pushed back against Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada during a debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday — the latest test of Republican commitment to the president's massive trade agenda.
  Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks, who introduced a bill to end the so-called fentanyl emergency at the northern border, said Canada isn't a threat.
  "Canada is our friend. Canada is our ally," Meeks said. "Canadians have fought alongside Americans."
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada’s Gilles, Poirier place third, win bronze in ice dance

  11-02-2026 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canadian figure skaters Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have finished third in ice dancing at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
  More to come.
  The Canadian Press
  
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• Passenger ferry capsizes on the Nile River in Sudan, leaving at least 15 people dead

  11-02-2026 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CAIRO (AP) — A passenger ferry capsized on the Nile River in Sudan on Wednesday, leaving at least 15 people dead, a medical group said.The ferry, with at least 27 people on board, including women and children, sank in the Shendi district in northern Nile River province, said the Sudan Doctors Network, a medial group that tracks the country’s ongoing war.The group said at least 15 bodies have been recovered, while residents and rescue teams were still searching for at least six other
  
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• Blue Jays pitcher Shane Bieber trying to stay patient as his season is delayed

  11-02-2026 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUNEDIN — Shane Bieber is trying to remind himself that he's had a longer wait to start a Major League Baseball season before.
  Bieber spoke to the media on Wednesday, a day after the Toronto Blue Jays announced that he would not be ready to start the season as he struggles with forearm fatigue. The star pitcher — possibly the ace of Toronto's starting rotation — missed most of last year as he recovered from Tommy John surgery.
  "You want to know, and you want to have a date in m
  
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• B.C. throne speech cancelled because of Tumbler Ridge shooting

  11-02-2026 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's provincial legislature has cancelled Thursday's throne speech because of the mass shooting that claimed nine lives in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
  A joint statement from the three party house leaders in the provincial legislature says the speech is being cancelled in recognition of the "horrific shooting and tragic loss of life" in the community in northeastern British Columbia.
  Government house leader Mike Farnworth, the opposition's A'aliya Warbus and Rob Botterell o
  
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• Two arrested after alleged robbery, assault in Hope: RCMP

  11-02-2026 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE – Mounties in Hope say two people have been arrested following reports of a robbery and an assault earlier this week.
  According to a statement from Upper Fraser Valley RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, RCMP members responded Monday evening, Feb. 9, at 10:02 p.m., to an alleged robbery at a hotel in Hope. Witnesses told police that two men allegedly entered the premises, assaulted an employee, and fled the scene with items from the hotel.
  The following day on Tuesday morning, F
  
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• U.S. House debating Trump’s fentanyl-related tariffs on Canada

  11-02-2026 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in Washington are pushing against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada during a debate in the House today.
  Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks, who introduced a bill to end the so-called fentanyl emergency at the northern border, says Canada isn't a threat — it is a friend and ally.
  Trump declared the emergency last year to hit Canada with 35 per cent tariffs, despite U.S. government data showing a minuscule amount of fentanyl is seized at the northern borde
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. throne speech cancelled because of Tumbler Ridge shooting

  11-02-2026 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's provincial legislature has cancelled Thursday's throne speech because of the mass shooting that claimed nine lives in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
  More coming.
  Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press
  
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• Tumbler Ridge needs mental health help beyond immediate shooting aftermath: psychologist

  11-02-2026 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — As the federal and provincial governments pledge support for the people of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., a psychologist specializing in trauma says mental health services will be needed beyond the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's mass shooting.McMaster University psychologist Dr. Margaret McKinnon says mental health supporters are often brought into communities after tragedies but then leave, leading to a sense of abandonment on top of trauma.McKinnon says students at the local school tar
  
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• Arviat, Nunavut chosen as main campus location for Inuit Nunangat University

  11-02-2026 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Arviat, Nunavut has been chosen as the main campus location for the planned Inuit Nunangat University.
  The school moved a step closer to being built today with the announcement of a $50 million investment from Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., and another $85 million in contributions through the Nunavut Agreement Implementation Contract.
  The university, expected to open in 20230, will be the first based in the North and the first in Canada operated by and for Inuit.
  It will be tasked with p
  
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• Canadians returning from Cuba amid energy crisis due to U.S. oil blockade

  11-02-2026 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Travellers are returning to Atlantic Canada from Cuba amid an oil crisis on the Caribbean island.
  A WestJet flight from Cayo Coco landed at Halifax's Stanfield International Airport this afternoon.WestJet and other major Canadian airlines are returning travellers to Canada but have suspended commercial flights to the country because of aviation fuel shortages at airports on the island.
  The Trump administration is cutting Cuba off from using traditional fuel sources in an effort to put pressure o
  
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• Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed former Olympian skater Alexandra Paul

  11-02-2026 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORANGEVILLE — A truck driver has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving charges in a crash that killed a former Canadian Olympic figure skater in Melancthon Township, north of Shelburne, Ont. nearly three years ago.
  Court staff in Orangeville, Ont., confirm Sukhwinder Sidhu pleaded guilty Tuesday to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm in the incident that killed Alexandra Paul and injured her baby boy.
  The crash took place in August 2023, when police say
  
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• Montreal shooting survivor shares how she regained sense of safety

  11-02-2026 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — École Polytechnique shooting survivor Nathalie Provost says it took her several weeks to return to the site of the Montreal massacre, but doing so allowed her to reclaim her life and create a sense of safety again.She was shot in the leg, foot and forehead by a gunman who killed 14 women and injured more than a dozen people in 1989.
  Her reflections on healing come in response to one of the worst school shootings in the country's history on Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, a small
  
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• Trump says he ‘insisted’ to Netanyahu that US talks with Iran continue as Israel wants them expanded

  11-02-2026 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met for more than two hours behind closed doors with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and said he'd insisted that negotiations with Iran continue as the U.S. pushes for a nuclear deal with TehranNetanyahu entered the White House out of the view of reporters and left without issuing a statement on what was said. But Trump, in a subsequent post on his social media site, called it “a very good meeting” but said “
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks sign Canadian linebacker A.J. Allen, American quarterback Jake Maier

  11-02-2026 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks signed Canadian linebacker A.J. Allen and American quarterback Jake Maier on Tuesday.
  Allen's deal covers two years, while Maier signed a one-year contract. Both players became free agents Monday.
  Allen, a Guelph, Ont., native, set career highs last season with Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan in total tackles (91), defensive tackles (87), sacks (four) and forced fumbles (three). He was named the Roughriders nominee for the CFL's top Canadian award.
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• Transit Police investigating sexual assault in parking lot, as victim fought off her attacker

  11-02-2026 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY – Metro Vancouver Transit Police say they are investigating a report of a sexual assault that occurred at the Scott Road Park and Ride Lot A, adjacent to Scott Road SkyTrain Station in North Surrey, last month.According to a statement, Transit Police say they’ve exhausted all investigative avenues and are asking witnesses, or anyone with dash-cam video, to contact police.
  On January 21, 2026, just after 4 p.m., a woman was walking from SkyTrain to her car, parked in the far co
  
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• A timeline of how the Tumbler Ridge shootings unfolded

  11-02-2026 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The following timeline of Tuesday's shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is based on information provided by RCMP, B.C. government officials and BC Emergency Health Services. Times are Mountain Time.
  Feb. 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.: Tumbler Ridge RCMP receive a report of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
  1:22 p.m.: Police arrive at the scene. They enter the building and find seven people dead, including the suspect. At the same time, BC Emergency Health Services say they receive their f
  
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• Anand wants NATO’s new Arctic Sentry initiative to become permanent

  11-02-2026 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she wants to see the new NATO initiative in the Arctic, which launched on Wednesday, made permanent.
  Arctic Sentry, NATO's newest military effort, is aimed at shoring up security in the region and comes a month after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his threats to annex Greenland.
  At the outset, Arctic Sentry will encompass various military exercises already being fielded by NATO nations, such as Denmark’s Arctic Endurance and N
  
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• B.C. Premier, minister credit tiny RCMP detachment for saving lives in Tumbler Ridge

  11-02-2026 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The five members of the tiny RCMP detachment in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., are being credited with saving lives during a shooting attack that left 10 dead, including the suspect.British Columbia Premier David Eby says RCMP Supt. Ken Floyd told him that officers from the detachment responded to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School within two minutes.
  The premier, who was speaking at a news conference in Vancouver Tuesday evening, says that the quick arrival of officers at the school prevente
  
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• ‘A nation mourns with you’: Reaction to the mass shooting in B.C.

  11-02-2026 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Condolences for those killed in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., are streaming in from across Canada and around the world. Ten people are dead, including the shooter, while dozens more were injured at the community's high school.Here is some of the reaction:"The trauma and impact of this loss are immeasurable. There is no timeline for how each of us will process this grief and immense loss, both individually and as a community." — Tumbler Ridge Secondary School“In such a close
  
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