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• CHATTER BOX- EPISODE 2

  08-10-2024 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
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  This week on the Chatter Box…Our boy Jed sat down with veteran defender, Hunter McInnesPretty sure Jed is the King of the side eye
  How many times does he throw one at McInnes?CLICK THEBELOW TO WATCH EPISODE 2
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• Canadian Willson reflects upon the highs, lows that come for players in Super Bowl

  04-02-2026 13:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Seattle Seahawks can help ease Luke Willson's pain.
  Seattle faces New England in the Super Bowl on Sunday. It's the first championship meeting between the two teams since the Patriots' epic 28-24 championship victory 11 years ago.
  Malcolm Butler's stunning goal-line interception with 20 seconds remaining cemented that win. It was a controversial ending as Seattle was third-and-goal from New England's one-yard line yet didn't call upon star running back Marshawn Lynch, who'd rushed for 102 ya
  
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• ‘We were really starting to click there’: Leafs enter Olympic break on win streak

  04-02-2026 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Matthew Knies is of two minds when it comes to the NHL's upcoming Olympic break.While the Toronto Maple Leafs winger and teammates could used some time off, the pause in play comes at an inopportune time."It kind of sucks that there’s a stop to (the season) now because I thought we were really starting to click there," he said after Toronto's 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.
  "But it’s good because I think a lot of us need a refresher just to heal up and g
  
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• Curling championship creates community for visually impaired athletes

  04-02-2026 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The crash of rocks and the scratch of brooms has long been part of Natalie Morin's life.She first stepped onto the pebbled ice of a curling rink as a kid more than 45 years ago, but the sport she loves has always had a twist.Morin is visually impaired, as are the people she plays with and against.
  “Everyone from totally blind to someone like myself that’s very lucky to have good mobility vision. And everything in-between," said Morin, president of the Edmonton Blind
  
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• Israeli fire in Gaza kills 17, after militant gunfire wounds Israeli soldier

  04-02-2026 10:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fire in Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians, most of them women and children, hospital officials said Wednesday. Israel said its strikes came after militants fired on its soldiers, seriously wounding one.Seven women and five children were killed, hospital officials said, including a 5-month-old and a baby just 10 days old. They are the latest Palestinians in Gaza to die since a ceasefire deal, which has been punctuated by deadly Israeli strikes, ca
  
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• In the news: Anand in Washington, foreign aid shifting, Chinese EVs okay with public

  04-02-2026 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed …
  Anand to attend rare earth talks in Washington
  Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will meet with her international counterparts in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration makes a case for collaboration to push back on China's dominance over critical minerals.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting representatives from European, African and Asian nations looking for commitments to
  
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• Israeli fire in Gaza kills 17, while militant gunfire wounds Israeli soldier

  04-02-2026 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fire in Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians, most of them women and children, hospital officials said Wednesday, while Israel said militant gunfire had injured an Israeli soldier.They were the latest Palestinian deaths since a ceasefire, which has been punctuated by deadly Israeli strikes, came into effect on Oct. 10, 2025.More than 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the deal took effect, according to Gaza’s health minist
  
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• What’s a ‘thumper’? B.C. RCMP describe devices in an unneighbourly noise case

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  When two RCMP officers responded to a call about screams coming from a Burnaby, B.C., condo in late October last year, they forcibly entered the unit believing someone might be in trouble.Instead, they discovered "unusual" devices set up in three different rooms.Each consisted of metal poles extended from the floor to the ceiling, topped with an "electronic apparatus similar to a speaker," intended for what police believed was the "sole purpose" of transmitting noise into the unit above.
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• Competition opens at Milan Cortina Olympics with mixed doubles curling

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CORTINA D'AMPEZZO — Competition begins today at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, two days before the opening ceremony.
  Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman, a husband-and-wife team from Chestermere, Alta., open the mixed doubles curling tournament against Czechia in Cortina.
  Canada is aiming to return to the podium in mixed doubles after missing out on a medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.
  Men’s alpine skiing also gets underway today, with downhill training scheduled in B
  
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• Canadians support arrival of more Chinese electric vehicles, poll suggests

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Most Canadians support allowing more Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in Canada despite some nagging concerns, a new poll suggests.
  Canada recently pledged to reduce its 100 per cent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles to 6.1 per cent, with an annual cap of 49,000 vehicles. In turn, China is expected to lower retaliatory tariffs on Canadian agricultural products.
  The Leger poll indicates seven in 10 people surveyed were aware of the agreement between Ottawa and Beijing, w
  
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• Canada to focus foreign aid on building ‘mutual prosperity’ with trading partners: MP

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians.
  "The first priority is focusing our development dollars in a trade and development nexus," Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, told The Canadian Press.
  "Due to the new trade realities that the world is facing — and specifically Canada — I think we need to use development as a positive
  
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• Anand to attend U.S. meeting on international collaboration on critical minerals

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will meet with her international counterparts in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration makes a case for collaboration to push back on China's dominance over critical minerals.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting representatives from European, African and Asian nations looking for commitments to incentivize investment in critical mineral supply chains.
  The State Department said in a statement announcing the meeting th
  
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• Alberta government to review intersection where 3 junior hockey players died in crash

  04-02-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Alberta government says it will review an intersection where three junior hockey players died in a car crash while heading to practice.
  The crash happened Monday at a highway entrance to Stavely, just over an hour's drive south of Calgary.
  Three members of the town's Southern Alberta Mustangs hockey team were in a car travelling east across the highway when it collided with a northbound semi truck hauling two trailers of gravel.
  The provincial transportation ministry says it
  
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• NHL roundup: Olivier’s two goals and Merzlikins’ shutout power Blue Jackets to sixth straight win

  04-02-2026 06:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mathieu Olivier scored twice in the third period, and Elvis Merzlikins made 23 saves for his first shutout of the season as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New Jersey Devils 3-0 on Tuesday night for their sixth straight win.
  Dante Fabbro also scored for Columbus after missing the last six games with a lower-body injury.
  Olivier’s first goal was a highlight-reel breakaway. Cole Sillinger sprung him behind the Devils’ defencemen, and he deked one way and we
  
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• Maccelli scores two, Toronto Maple Leafs dump Edmonton Oilers 5-2

  04-02-2026 05:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Matias Maccelli scored twice and the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Tuesday.
  Matthew Knies contributed a goal and an assist for Toronto (27-21-9), while John Tavares recorded his 20th of the season and Bobby McMann added an empty-net strike.
  Anthony Stolarz stopped 34 of the 36 shots he faced in the Leafs’ net, including a diving stop on Leon Draisaitl that prevent the home side from getting back into the game in the final minutes of the third period
  
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• Jordan Staal’s late goal lifts Hurricanes past Senators 4-3

  04-02-2026 03:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Staal scored the go-ahead goal with roughly five minutes left to help the Carolina Hurricanes edge the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Tuesday night.
  The captain scored his 14th of the season after a neutral-zone turnover by the Senators, with Nikolaj Ehlers coming up with the puck and sending it ahead to Staal at the blue line. Staal skated in and fired from the left circle, banging the puck into the upper right corner of the goal at 14:53 of the third period.
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• Forge FC, Los Tigres play to scoreless draw in CONCACAF Champions Cup opener

  04-02-2026 03:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — Despite being outshot 20-9 and having only 32 per cent possession, the Hamilton-based Forge FC of the Canadian Premier League opened the first round of the CONCACAF Champions Cup on Tuesday with a scoreless draw against the visiting Los Tigres UANL of Monterrey, Mexico.
  The Tigres, who compete in the Mexican opt division Liga M-X, had eight shots on target and eight corners but could not beat Forge 'keeper Dimitry Bertaud.
  Los Tigres outshot Forge 10-2 in the first half and had
  
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• Former B.C. lawyer who stabbed client to death is found guilty of first-degree murder

  04-02-2026 03:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  After former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death and then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote, he tried to explain the killing as unplanned.
  But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker said in a ruling handed down Tuesday in Kamloops that she had no doubt the killing on March 11, 2022, was planned and deliberate, as she convicted Bagabuyo of first-degree murder.
  She said “it defies logic, common sense a
  
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• Federal regulator backs project that would bring construction jobs to the Fraser Valley, meet energy demand

  04-02-2026 01:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FRASER VALLEY – Canada’s federal energy regulator has expressed support for the proposed expansion of the Westcoast pipeline system, a project that if approved would bring nearly a thousand construction-related jobs to the Fraser Valley.According to a statement from Enbridge, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) has issued a report recommending approval of the Sunrise Expansion Program, the proposed expansion of the Westcoast pipeline system. The Canada Energy Regulator’s mission
  
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• Former B.C. lawyer guilty of first-degree murder in killing of client

  04-02-2026 00:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KAMLOOPS — A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer who stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote has been convicted of first-degree murder.
  Rogelio "Butch" Bagabuyo was accused of killing of Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University, on March 11, 2022.
  B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker says in a ruling handed down in Kamloops that she has no doubt the murder was planned and deliberate, and "it defies log
  
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• ‘Hitting everybody so hard’: Alberta town remembers 3 hockey players killed in crash

  03-02-2026 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning practice.
  Although most of the Southern Alberta Mustangs are not from Stavely, they fit right in, said resident Dale Ohler.
  He and others would watch out their front windows as players go by on their routine runs, a coach's young daughter sometimes trailing behind them on her bicycle.
  Players
  
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• Canada’s Fernandez loses to Kessler in second round of Abu Dhabi Open

  03-02-2026 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABU DHABI — Canada's Leylah Fernandez was eliminated in the second round of the Abu Dhabi Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to McCartney Kessler on Tuesday.
  Fernandez, who was seeded sixth at the WTA 500 hard court tournament, was broken five times on 10 chances while only converting one of her six break points.
  The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., struggled on serve and hit into eight double-faults.
  Fernandez picked up her only win of the season so far when she defeated Chloé
  
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• Diallo, Draxl lead young Canada team against Brazil in Davis Cup tie

  03-02-2026 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Captain Frank Dancevic says there’s plenty of unknowns as ninth-ranked Canada prepares to host No. 18 Brazil in this weekend’s Davis Cup Qualifiers first round.
  Canada will be led by 24-year-old Gabriel Diallo of Montreal, who is ranked 39th in the world, and Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., who is 146th.
  Brazil does not have a have a top-200 singles player in its lineup.
  "It’s a challenge because you’re playing an opponent that you don’t the know th
  
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• B.C. man feared ‘hit’ because of a feeling, ex-Mountie tells inquest into deaths

  03-02-2026 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY — A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a "feeling" that someone was trying to kill them, not because anyone had actually threatened them.
  Former corporal Matthew Jones, now a constable with the CN Police Service, told a B.C. coroners inquest into the deaths that he pulled over Christopher Duong and his wife, Janet Nguyen, as they were driving around Prince Rupert at about 2 a.m. in June
  
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• NBA names Raptors’ Darko Rajaković as coach for World team at All-Star Game

  03-02-2026 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Darko Rajaković always feels like he's representing Serbia. At the All-Star Game, he'll be representing the world.
  Rajaković, the Toronto Raptors' head coach, will be the coach for the international team at the All-Star Game in Inglewood, California, on Feb. 15, the NBA announced Tuesday. It's a move that will give the new U.S. vs. The World format even more of a global feel.
  Rajaković, who is Serbian and coaches the only NBA team that plays its home games outside of the U.S., wil
  
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• MPs must close loopholes that allows extortion suspects to claim refugee status: Eby

  03-02-2026 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  British Columbia Premier David Eby says federal lawmakers must close "corrosive" loopholes that allow suspects in extortion-related shootings to apply for refugee status as the "paralyzing" situation undermines public confidence and commerce.
  There have been dozens of shootings aimed at business members of the South Asian community since the new year in Surrey, B.C., and Eby says the loopholes need to be quickly shut to help police in their investigations.The premier met with South Asian busines
  
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• Argos release veteran linebacker Wynton McManis ahead of free agency

  03-02-2026 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Wynton McManis is on the open market.
  The Toronto Argonauts released the veteran middle linebacker Tuesday, a week ahead of the start of CFL free agency. McManis, 31, was set to become a free agent next week.
  "The harsh reality of professional football is that our sport is marked by constant change," Toronto general manager Mike Clemmons said in a statement. "I do my best to appreciate each and every player that walks through the door, but some players are just different."They le
  
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• Collision between migrant speedboat, Greek coast guard vessel leaves at least 14 dead

  03-02-2026 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A collision between a speedboat carrying migrants and a Greek coast guard patrol vessel off the eastern Aegean island of Chios late Tuesday has killed at last 14 people, the coast guard said. A search and rescue operation involving patrol boats, a helicopter and divers was underway in the area.The coast guard said another 24 migrants were rescued and transported to a hospital on Chios, as were two coast guard officers who were injured in the incident. It was unclear h
  
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• House passes bill to end the partial government shutdown, sending it to Trump

  03-02-2026 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump while setting the stage for an intense debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding.The vote was 217-214, and wrapped up congressional work on 11 annual appropriations bills that fund government agencies and programs through Sept. 30. Trump has said he will sign the bill when it reaches his desk, ending the partial
  
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• Friends fighting to bring home B.C. man after 40-metre fall from ice wall in Colorado

  03-02-2026 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Friends of an avid adventure seeker critically injured after a 40-metre fall from a Colorado ice wall are fighting to bring him back to Canada to continue his long recovery.
  Vratislav (Vrato) Durech and his wife, who live in Squamish, B.C., were ice climbing in Colorado on Jan. 24 when he fell.
  Ever since, Durech has been in intensive care in a hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., 395 kilometres west of Denver, said friend Pierre Carret.
  "When I received that first call, I didn't have much hope,"
  
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