Chilliwack news

• Asian soccer body scraps 12-year limit for senior officials and lets Sheikh Salman stay beyond 2027

  16-05-2024 10:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Asian soccer leaders can have unlimited years in power after their governing body voted to scrap a key pillar of reforms passed after the corruption crisis that rocked FIFA in 2015.
  Saudi Arabia and Qatar were among four of the 47 Asian Football Confederation members who put the proposal to their annual congress in Bangkok on Thursday. Only Australia and Jordan voted “No.”
  The vote win lets AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa seek re-election in 2027 when he had been d
  
  Read more

• Missing woman was driving on Hicks Lake Road last Friday afternoon, as police seek driver of Mercedes: RCMP

  01-11-2024 01:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON — A Langley RCMP spokesperson says investigators have obtained video surveillance imagery that suggests 82-year-old Jane Whitehouse was driving on Hicks Lake Road northeast of Harrison Hot Springs the day she was reported missing.
  According to a statement from Langley RCMP spokesperson Zynal Sharoom, footage obtained by police indicates Whitehouse was driving her grey Dodge Caravan at approximately 4:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 on Hicks Lake Road. Several seconds later, a white Merced
  
  Read more

• B.C. Lions using adversity as fuel heading into West semifinal

  01-11-2024 01:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — It wasn’t the regular season the B.C. Lions planned for.After starting the campaign 5-1, the Leos faced challenge after challenge — injuries, an extended losing skid, a quarterback controversy — and finished third in the West with a 9-9 record.Now B.C. is looking to use that adversity as fuel as it heads to Regina to meet the Saskatchewan Roughriders (9-8-1) in the West semifinal on Saturday.“It’s great that we’re battle tested,” sai
  
  Read more

• Canada’s Marina Stakusic falls in straight sets in second round of Merida Open

  01-11-2024 01:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MÉRIDA — Canada’s Marina Stakusic dropped her second-round match 6-3, 6-3 to Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic on Thursday at the Merida Open tennis tournament.
  Stakusic of Mississauga, Ont., had just one ace to six double faults in the one-hour 40-minute match.The 19-year-old won 62.5 per cent of her first-serve points but broke on all three of her opportunities.
  Stakusic defeated Australia’s Maya Joint 2-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2) in the opening round on Wednesday.
  Stojanovic ha
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Man who killed eagles on a Native American reservation gets nearly 4 years in prison

  31-10-2024 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man who authorities said killed at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking ring that operated on a Native American reservation in Montana was sentenced Thursday to three years and 10 months in prison and to pay more than $777,000 in restitution.
  The trafficking ring over more than a decade sold eagle feathers and parts on a black market that exploits high demand among tribal members who use them in powwows and other ceremonies. The defen
  
  Read more

• Brazil judge gives 2 former cops long sentences for the 2018 murder of leftist icon Marielle Franco

  31-10-2024 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil’ s political left whose killing sparked outrage.
  Ronnie Lessa was sentenced to 78 years and 9 months, and Élcio de Queiroz 59 years prison for the March 14, 2018 drive-by shooting that killed Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes. Jurors found that Lessa fired the gun and de Queiroz was the
  
  Read more

• Judicial recount dates set for two B.C. ridings to wrap up provincial election

  31-10-2024 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Vote counting in the British Columbia provincial election will finally conclude next week with judicial recounts set for two ridings.
  Elections BC says the province’s Supreme Court has confirmed recounts in Kelowna Centre and Surrey-Guildford will take place on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.
  Both ridings saw the margin of victory within the threshold to trigger judicial recounts after the final tally this week of mail-in and absentee ballots from the Oct. 19 election.The NDP candidate
  
  Read more

• New Elks president, CEO Morris vows to curb turnover of players and staff in Edmonton

  31-10-2024 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Chris Morris played each and every snap of his 14-year CFL career wearing Edmonton’s green and gold. He won three Grey Cups, and described the team as a family.
  As the new president of the Edmonton Elks, Morris pledged that those family values will return to the franchise. As an alumnus and a member of the Ring of Honour, he’s watched the team go through the 2020s and miss the playoffs, season after season.He’s seen players come in, players go out. There have b
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Mounties bust massive B.C. drug ‘superlab’ linked to transnational organized crime

  31-10-2024 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Mounties have dismantled what they say is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug “superlab” in Canada.Police say they believe organized crime ran the operation where there was mass-production and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine across Canada and internationally.
  Officers served search warrants last week on the drug lab in Falkland, B.C., in the southern Interior, and associated locations in Surrey, in Metro Vancouver.Police say they seized 54 kilograms of fentanyl,
  
  Read more

• B.C.’s Golden Ears park closed due to damage from atmospheric river

  31-10-2024 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A popular park in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland remains closed due to damage from an atmospheric river weather system that drenched the province’s south coast, triggering a mudslide and local flooding that killed three people.
  The Environment Ministry says the storm that rolled over the region for three days starting on Oct. 18 left a trail of damage at Golden Ears Provincial Park, north of Maple Ridge.
  A statement from the ministry says the province hopes to be able to reopen a
  
  Read more

• Alberta introduces bills affecting transgender people, pronouns at school

  31-10-2024 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta has introduced a trio of bills focusing on transgender people and students using preferred pronouns.
  Premier Danielle Smith’s government proposed Thursday one bill that would require children under 16 to have parental consent if they want to change their names or pronouns at school.
  A similar law is on the books in Saskatchewan, where the government invoked the notwithstanding clause, a measure that allows governments to override certain Charter rights for up to fi
  
  Read more

• Brazil judge gives 2 former cops long sentence for the 2018 killing of leftist icon Marielle Franco

  31-10-2024 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil’ s political left whose killing sparked outrage.
  Ronnie Lessa was sentenced to 78 years and 9 months, and Élcio de Queiroz 59 years prison for the March 14, 2018 drive-by shooting that killed Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes. Jurors found that Lessa fired the gun and de Queiroz was th
  
  Read more

• Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt could get snow accumulations Friday

  31-10-2024 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY — There have been flirtatious tastes of winter conditions at the peaks of highway passes this fall, but the first notable snowfall of the season for the southern Interior could be around the corner.
  Environment Canada notes snowfall is expected for highway passes around Kamloops from 5:00 a.m. Friday (Nov. 1) to 5:00 p.m. Saturday.
  Speaking to CFJC Today, Environment Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan says the Pennask Summit on the Okanagan Connector and the Coquihalla
  
  Read more

• Mission RCMP appeal for help in locating 65-year-old man last seen over a week ago

  31-10-2024 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are asking for the public’s help in locating a man who was last seen over a week ago.
  According to a statement from police, 65-year-old Kenneth Sookocheff went missing on Sunday, October 20.Police provided the following description of Sookocheff:Caucasian male
  5 ft. 8 in. (173 cm)
  Grey hair
  Blue eyesThe picture supplied by police shows Sookocheff with glasses.Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Kenneth Sookocheff is urged to contact Mission RCM
  
  Read more

• Assassins of B.C. man acquitted of Air India bombing ‘hired and paid’: court document

  31-10-2024 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Court documents in the case of two men who murdered British Columbia businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022 say they were “hired and paid” to kill him.
  However, the agreed statement of facts does not say who hired them to kill Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 in a B.C. court of the Air India bombings that killed 331 people in 1985.The statement provided by the BC Prosecution Service says Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez acted together to kill Malik, using a stolen car they set on fire af
  
  Read more

• Major League Rugby champion New England Free Jacks add to Canadian content

  31-10-2024 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUINCY — The MLR champion New England Free Jacks have added to their Canadian content, signing Brock Webster and Josiah Morra for the 2025 season.
  The two join a New England roster already featuring Canadians Cole Keith, Foster DeWitt, Andrew Quattrin, Josh Larsen, Conor Keys, Kyle Baillie, Gabe Casey, Ben LeSage and Isaac Olson. Fellow Free Jacks Cam Nordli-Kelemeti (Fiji/Canada) and Ethan Fryer (U.S/Canada) hold dual citizenship.
  Webster, ​from Uxbridge, Ont., can play both wing an
  
  Read more

• Chilliwack Basketball Association welcomes Hall of Fame coach to its ranks

  31-10-2024 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Basketball Association says it is excited to welcome longtime university basketball coach and Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Coach Pam Danis to Chilliwack.In a social media statement, Chilliwack Basketball Association says Coach Danis recently moved to Chilliwack and is excited to work with Chilliwack players to help grow the culture of girls basketball in the community.“Coach Danis will be a guest coach coming up for Skills Sessions, Camps and a me
  
  Read more

• Union talks underway between foremen, employers to avoid latest B.C. port strike

  31-10-2024 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Negotiations between British Columbia’s port employers and the union representing foremen are entering a final scheduled day in a bid to avoid a labour disruption.
  Both the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 confirm talks are ongoing with the help of federal mediation services.
  The current negotiation session began on Oct. 29 and was said to be extendable by two days, if necessary.
  The union, which represents ab
  
  Read more

• After series of scandals, Quebec’s new youth protection boss promising transparency

  31-10-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — The new director of Quebec’s youth protection system is promising more transparency and a full accounting of the troubled network.
  Lesley Hill, who worked in various roles in the health system for decades, came out of retirement to take the position after a series of scandals cost the previous director her job earlier this week.
  She promises to serve as a watchdog for youth in the system and says she has nothing to lose by being outspoken.
  Hill says she’ll also
  
  Read more

• Judge grants bail to Quebec woman accused of scalding child with boiling water

  31-10-2024 19:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONGUEUIL, Que. — A judge has granted bail to a Quebec woman charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly scalded a 10-year-old Black boy with hot water earlier this month.
  Stéphanie Borel, 46, was released under a number of conditions that include living with her son, and staying away from the home and school of the young victim and from a witness, whose identities are protected by a publication ban.
  On Oct. 2, police on Montreal’s South Shore arrested Borel but releas
  
  Read more

• Canada’s Gushue tops China’s Xu 7-4 at Pan Continental curling championship

  31-10-2024 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LACOMBE, Alta. — Canada’s Brad Gushue tuned up for the playoffs Thursday by posting a 7-4 victory over China’s Xiaoming Xu at the Pan Continental curling championship.
  Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., closed out the win by making a double-takeout for a single in the 10th end.
  His team of vice Mark Nichols, second Brendan Bottcher and lead Geoff Walker were unbeaten in round-robin play at 7-0. Canada will play Japan’s Shinya Abe in the semifinals on Thursday evening.Ja
  
  Read more

• About 8,000 North Korean troops are near the Ukrainian border, US diplomat says at UN

  31-10-2024 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday it has information that some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia’s Kursk region near Ukraine’s border and preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops.
  In a dramatic moment during a U.N. Security Council meeting, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Wood, asked for more time to add to earlier comments condemning the increasing military cooperation between Russia and North Kore
  
  Read more

• Prime Minister Trudeau calls for return of Ukrainian children deported to Russia

  31-10-2024 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on countries around the world to do everything possible to repatriate Ukrainian children taken by Russia.Trudeau addressed delegations from more than 70 countries at a conference in Montreal this morning, as they prepare a joint declaration for the return of Ukrainian children, civilians and prisoners of war.He said Ukrainians are looking to the international community to do everything it can to protect their country’s people and it
  
  Read more

• Quebec freezes two major immigration streams, citing pressure on services

  31-10-2024 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government has suspended applications for permanent residency from two immigration streams because it says it can no longer accommodate the rising number of newcomers.
  Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said today the government has frozen the Quebec Experience Program, a path for permanent residency for foreign students who have graduated in the province.
  Roberge says the government is also suspending applications from the Regular Skilled Worker Progra
  
  Read more

• Musse, Bekker repeat as finalists for CPL Players’ Player of the Year Award

  31-10-2024 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Cavalry FC’s Ali Musse, last year’s winner, and Forge FC captain Kyle Bekker, runner-up in 2023, are among the 10 finalists for the Canadian Premier League’s Players’ Player of the Year award, the lone CPL award decided by the players.
  The other contenders are Forge’s Beni Badibanga, Tristan Borges and Alessandro Hojabrpour, Cavalry’s Daan Klomp and Tobias Warschewski, Halifax’s Lorenzo Callegari, Atletico Ottawa’s Ruben del Campo and York United&r
  
  Read more

• Canadian goalkeeper Rylee Foster back in top-flight football after near-death crash

  31-10-2024 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Players who have worn the colours of both Liverpool and Everton form a select club. But Canadian Rylee Foster’s journey from one Merseyside rival to the other is painfully unique.
  The 26-year-old goalkeeper from Cambridge, Ont., is lucky to be alive, let alone playing professional soccer.
  “For me every day is a blessing now. Every day is an opportunity,” Foster said in an interview.Foster, then with Liverpool, was still basking in her role in a penalty shootout win over Aston V
  
  Read more

• Abbotsford teacher loses certificate due to sexual assault, assault

  31-10-2024 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation says an Abbotsford middle school teacher has lost his teaching certificate due to a sexual assault conviction and a related conviction on assault charges.
  According to a consent resolution agreement published on the BCCTR website, SD34 employee Khaled Hanafi Dardir was charged on July 26, 2021, with three charges under the Criminal Code of Canada, including one count of sexual assault and two counts of assault. In August 2021, Abbot
  
  Read more

• Einarson adapts to constant lineup shuffling on her curling team

  31-10-2024 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Kerri Einarson has come to terms with flux in her curling team’s lineup.
  The four-time Canadian champion recruited Joanne Courtney out of the broadcast booth to play second in both the Saville Grand Prix in Edmonton from Friday to Sunday and also the season’s second Grand Slam, the Canadian Open, in Nisku, Alta., next week.
  Courtney will be the third woman to sub in at second for Einarson this season after a knee injury sidelined Shannon Birchard in September.
  Courtney won a women&rs
  
  Read more

• Kamala Harris says Trump’s comments on women ‘are offensive to everybody’

  31-10-2024 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not” showed that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s “agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”
  “I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before she set out to spend the day
  
  Read more

• Survivors call on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism

  31-10-2024 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, days after the release of a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.
  Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, says Canadians need to acknowledge the schools’ place in history and to ensure the children who died are not silenced.
  More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed i
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsChilliwack on Twitter!