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• CFL star returner DeVonte Dedmon returns to Redblacks after NFL stint

  20-08-2022 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — CFL all-star DeVonte Dedmon has returned to the Ottawa Redblacks following his release from the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.
  The 26-year-old from Williamsburg, Va., was named the CFL’s most outstanding special teams player and to the league’s all-star team in 2021 when Dedmon compiled 2,841 return yards and three touchdowns.
  Dedmon rejoins Ottawa (1-8) for the rest of the season.
  “DeVonte has proven himself to be a top player in our league who is always a threat w
  
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• UK leader’s chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties

  08-02-2026 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson, 72, to Britain's most important diplomatic post in 2024.“The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself,&rd
  
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• ‘Get their act together’: Freeland on U.S. relationship with others on world stage

  08-02-2026 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland says when it comes to the U.S. and its relationships with other countries on the world stage, it needs to "get their act together."
  Since his 2025 inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened several countries, including Canada, with annexation and tariffs on goods, creating an ongoing trade war.
  Freeland, fresh off her January resignation as a member of Parliament, appeared Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Freeland resigned after
  
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• Two productions coming to the Chilliwack Cultural Centre

  08-02-2026 15:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Cultural Centre is presenting a pair of upcoming performances for the community. On March 4, the production Josephine takes to the stage. One night later, singer Danielle McTaggart moves into the spotlight.
  Josephine will feature a combination of theatre, dance and cabaret performances by Tymisha Harris to tell the story of Josephine Baker. Baker is considered the first African-American superstar of the twentieth century. The one-woman musical tells the story of
  
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• Cascadia movement has roots in the past, but does B.C. separatism have a future?

  08-02-2026 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — In 2017, Cory Pahl was a candidate for the Cascadia Party of British Columbia, whose official goals included the creation of a provincial assembly that would assert the sovereign rights of "British Columbians, Canadians and Cascadians."Cascadia, the concept of commonality between British Columbia and U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest, has roots dating back to the 19th century and beyond. It has sometimes been expressed as a desire for nationhood — although Pahl said the
  
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• Canada curlers fight to stay alive as Vonn crashes at Milan Cortina Games

  08-02-2026 14:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada’s mixed doubles curling team plays two round-robin games today, needing victories to keep its medal-round hopes alive as the Milan Cortina Olympics continue on Day 2.
  Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman, a husband-and-wife team from Chestermere, Alta., face Sweden and South Korea in Cortina after three straight losses dropped them to 3-3, tied for fifth with only the top four advancing.
  Meanwhile in Milan, Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, and the rest of Canada’s me
  
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• Petition calls for federal party leaders to get top-secret security clearance

  08-02-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An electronic petition on the parliament website calls on the House of Commons to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance.
  It says the reason is to ensure leaders are "fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security" and "act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy."
  The petition notes Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre refuses to seek top-secret security clearance, which it says "exposes Canada to avoi
  
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• Mustangs to hold benefit game for hockey players who died in Alberta highway crash

  08-02-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — A small Alberta town is set to host a benefit game for three junior hockey players who died last week in a highway crash.
  The Southern Alberta Mustangs are expected to play the Stavely Spurs Alumni team tonight at the arena in Stavely, south of Calgary.
  JJ Wright and Cameron Casorso, both 18 from Kamloops, B.C., and 17-year-old Caden Fine from Alabama, died on their way to a Mustangs practice Monday.
  The three players were crossing a highway when their car collided with a semi tr
  
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• Inuit not sure where they fit into Carney’s economic, defence agenda: ITK president

  08-02-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed compares working with Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to being a contestant on the TV show "Dragons' Den."
  Under Justin Trudeau's government, he said, Inuit communities could come to Ottawa with policy proposals and expect engagement and a decision.
  Under Carney, he said, they're expected to do their own analysis in advance and make a pitch for federal investment based on the likelihood of economic benefits.
  "The lens of any of
  
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• As men’s health enters the national conversation, advocates call for co-operation

  08-02-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The upcoming launch of a national strategy on men's and boys' health is a positive sign that men's well-being is becoming part of the mainstream conversation in Canada, advocates say — even as they warn that it should not become partisan political fodder.
  The Movember Institute of Men's Health and researchers from the University of British Columbia called on the government to launch such a strategy in a report released last summer.
  Health Minister Marjorie Michel said she pl
  
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• Canada curlers fight to stay alive as Vonn headlines downhill at Milan Cortina Games

  08-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada’s mixed doubles curling team plays two round-robin games today, needing victories to keep its medal-round hopes alive as the Milan Cortina Olympics continue on Day 2.
  Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman, a husband-and-wife team from Chestermere, Alta., face Sweden and South Korea after three straight losses dropped them to 3-3, tied for fifth with only the top four advancing.
  Meanwhile in Milan, Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, and the rest of Canada’s men’s h
  
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• Chiefs Celebrate Community Heroes with 7-3 Victory

  08-02-2026 07:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  By Shaelee Dombrowski
   
  Saturday night saw the Chilliwack Chiefs take on the Coquitlam Express for the sixth time this season. In all five previous games, the home team came out victorious. Chilliwack looked to keep that trend going to complete one half of the necessary game outcomes on the night to clinch a playoff berth. It was a special night at the Coliseum as the Chiefs hosted their annual First Responders Night, honouring seven community heroes who have demonstrated excellence in thei
  
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• Draxl lifts Canada past Brazil in deciding match of Davis Cup qualifier

  08-02-2026 05:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Playing on a bad ankle didn’t stop Liam Draxl from winning the deciding singles match in straight sets to give Canada a 3-2 victory over Brazil in a first-round, best-of-five Davis Cup qualifier on Saturday.
  Draxl, of Newmarket., Ont., moved Canada into the second round of qualifiers by defeating Gustavo Heide 6-3, 6-4 in one hour, 29 minutes.
  Gabriel Diallo of Montreal forced the winner-take-all final with a nail-biting 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) win over Mattheus Pucinelli de Al
  
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• Male hospitalized after stabbing in Abbotsford Saturday night: AbbyPD Sgt. Walker

  08-02-2026 05:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – Details are limited at this point, but an AbbyPD spokesperson has confirmed one person has been hospitalized after a reported stabbing Saturday evening in Abbotsford.
  According to a brief statement from AbbyPD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker, police were called to Mill Lake Park near the Bevan Road and Primrose intersection for a stabbing.
  The call came in at 6:25 p.m., Sgt. Walker said.
  One person has been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  “The investi
  
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• Hiker likely saved paraglider’s life after crash on Vancouver Island: rescue team

  08-02-2026 01:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  North Shore Rescue says a passing hiker likely saved the life of a paraglider who crashed into a cliff on Vancouver Island on Friday.
  The search and rescue team based in North Vancouver, B.C., says it was called by its counterpart in the Cowichan area to help extract the paraglider, who was hanging unconscious in his harness after the crash.
  The team says in a social media post that the hiker climbed up to the paraglider, cut and removed the man's harness and administered first aid, "likely savi
  
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• Canadian women top Switzerland 4-0 to open Olympic title defence

  08-02-2026 00:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada opened its Olympic women’s hockey title defence with a 4-0 win over Switzerland.
  Sarah Fillier, Natalie Spooner and Julia Gosling scored power-play goals and Daryl Watts struck even strength for Canada.
  Switzerland was scheduled to be Canada’s second opponent of the Milan Cortina Games. However, Canada’s original opener — on Thursday against Finland — was rescheduled to Feb. 12 because of multiple cases of the norovirus among the Finns.
  A Swiss
  
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• Awards recognize efforts of University of the Fraser Valley staff to make education more affordable for students

  07-02-2026 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — A pair of University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) educators are being recognized for their work to advance open education and reduce textbook costs for students. Claire Hay, a teaching and learning specialist, and Martin Warkentin, UFV’s collections librarian, have been recognized with the BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education.
  The award comes following the pair’s work to support open educational resources and the UFV zero textbook cost initiative.
  Hay and
  
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• Balmy in B.C. and Alberta as jet stream’s dip south brings deep freeze to Ontario

  07-02-2026 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Meteorologists say the position of the jet stream is to blame for bone-chilling cold in southern Ontario, while daily high temperature records fall in Western Canada.
  Environment Canada figures show a ridge of high pressure sent 11 daily records tumbling in Alberta on Friday, with the Lethbridge area hitting a balmy 19.5 C, breaking the previous record of 17.2 C set in 1987.
  That contrasts sharply with conditions in southern Ontario, where the weather office has issued a cold warning with wind c
  
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• Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes for big win as polls open in national elections

  07-02-2026 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TOKYO (AP) — Polls opened Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a big enough win to push through an ambitious conservative political agenda.Takaichi is hugely popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for most of the last seven decades, is not. She called Sunday’s snap elections hoping to turn that around. She wants to make progress on a right-wing agenda that aims to boost J
  
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• Canada bolsters Arctic security and Inuit ties with new Nuuk consulate: Anand

  07-02-2026 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NUUK — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand wrapped up her trip to Greenland and Denmark today, vowing to continue a focus on economic ties, shared heritage, Arctic security and defence.
  Anand said Canada will choose collaboration and co-operation in pursuing those goals as she stood alongside Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen for a joint news conference.
  It took place at the Port of Nuuk with an anchored Canadian Coast Guard icebr
  
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• Rob Lantz wins leadership race, will be next P.E.I. premier

  07-02-2026 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTETOWN — Rob Lantz will become the next premier of Prince Edward Island after winning the Conservative party leadership at its convention Saturday.
  Lantz ran against Mark Ledwell for the top role and won by over 300 votes, eking out 53 per cent with 2,895 votes. Ledwell, considered an underdog for much of the campaign, managed 2,542 votes, or 46 per cent.There were 5,437 votes cast out of 6,132 eligible voters, or 87 per cent, a record high number for the party.Lantz had been named
  
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• Ontario Liberals announce date to select new leader, kicking off race

  07-02-2026 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Ontario Liberal Party says it will select a new leader on Nov. 21, an announcement that kicks off its third leadership race since 2020.
  Several politicians, both provincially and federally, have been weighing bids and assembling teams in the background but have been waiting for the date and rules of the upcoming leadership race before making any official announcements.
  Party president Kathryn McGarry said in a statement that the race is an opportunity for the party to build m
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime advances to Open Occitanie final

  07-02-2026 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTPELLIER — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the Open Occitanie men's tennis final.
  The Montreal native defeated France's Titouan Droguet 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in the semifinals on Saturday.
  Auger-Aliassime, the tournament's top seed, went a second straight match without a double fault, firing 20 aces past his opponent.He also converted three of his 10 break-point chances and had 47 winners to Droguet's 30.
  Droguet had 14 aces to three double faults but failed to break on any of this
  
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• Two arrested in Abbotsford as police seize drugs, cash and vehicle

  07-02-2026 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say two people were arrested following a theft investigation that led to the seizure of drugs, cash and a vehicle.
  In a social media post, AbbyPD says officers were called to a theft in progress at about 6:20 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 5) at a business in the 1300 block of Sumas Way.Cash, drugs and cell phones were seized by Abbotsford police investigators. (Image Credit: Supplied by AbbyPD)
  Plainclothes officers who attended spotted a woman who they suspected wa
  
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• Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles

  07-02-2026 19:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GATINEAU — The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services running.
  The $1.01 billion would be provided as needed and is described as a short-term financial bridge.
  The new sum is in addition to $1.03 billion from Ottawa announced in January 2025.
  Last November, the Crown corporation said it would need another bailout in short order as the Ja
  
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• Chilliwack public works project to be substantially completed by next month - Fraser Valley Today

  07-02-2026 18:29 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack public works project to be substantially completed by next month  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack public works project to be substantially completed by next month

  07-02-2026 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – The City of Chilliwack says a public works project in Sardis that began last fall could be substantially completed by next month.The city wrote on its website that the Knight Road multi-use pathway project was tendered under the 2025 Active Transportation Upgrades.While the city says the Knight Road project is scheduled to be completed in March 2026, there’s still line painting and pathway paving to complete down the road.The project consists of the following public work
  
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• Canadian speedskater Maltais wins bronze in the women’s 3,000

  07-02-2026 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Speedskater Valérie Maltais is the first Canadian to reach the podium at the Milan Cortina Games, winning a bronze medal in the women’s 3,000 metres.
  Maltais, of La Baie, Que., had a time of three minutes 56.93 seconds Saturday, while Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida took the gold on home soil with an Olympic record time of 3:54.28. Ragne Wiklund of Norway was second in 3:56.54.
  Ottawa’s Isabelle Weidemann finished fifth with a time of 3:59.24. Laura Hal
  
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• Maltais reaches podium; Canada’s women’s hockey team set to open Olympic defence

  07-02-2026 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Speedskater Valérie Maltais is the first Canadian to reach the podium at the Milan Cortina Games, winning a bronze medal in the women's 3,000 metres.
  Maltais, of La Baie, Que., had a time of three minutes 56.93 seconds Saturday, while Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida took the gold on home soil with an Olympic record time of 3:54.28. Ragne Wiklund of Norway was second in 3:56.54.Ottawa's Isabelle Weidemann finished fifth with a time of 3:59.24. Laura Hall of Salmon Arm, B.C., f
  
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• Pakistan arrests 4 suspects in mosque bombing that killed 31 in the capital

  07-02-2026 16:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital that killed 31 people, the interior minister said Saturday.The announcement by Mohsin Naqvi came a day after a regional affiliate of the Islamic State group, identifying itself as Islamic State in Pakistan, claimed responsibility in a statement carried by its Amaq News Agency. The state
  
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