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• Chiefs Acquire Arjun Bawa

  15-01-2025 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Chilliwack Chiefs are excited to announce that they have acquired the rights to forward Arjun Bawa from the Cowichan Valley Capitals in exchange for future considerations. From Richmond, BC, Bawa is a veteran of 155 WHL games over the past three seasons and comes to the Chiefs after beginning the season with the WHL’s Seattle Thunderbirds.
   
  “We are really excited to add a player like Arjun.” Said Head Coach and GM Brian Maloney “He has spent a lot of time both i
  
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• NHL roundup: Vasilevskiy makes 28 saves as Lightning blank Mammoth 2-0

  27-01-2026 06:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves for his second shutout of the season and 42nd of his career, Darren Raddysh scored on a power play late in the second period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Utah Mammoth 2-0 on Monday night.
  Brandon Hagel added a power-play goal in the final minute for the Lightning, who have won 15 of 17 and swept the season series against Utah. Tampa Bay moved atop the Eastern Conference standings with 70 points, one ahead of Carolina and Detroit.
  
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• Ekholm scores hat trick, Edmonton Oilers hold off Anaheim Ducks for 7-4 victory

  27-01-2026 05:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Mattias Ekholm scored a hat trick and the Edmonton Oilers rode a dominant second period to a 7-4 victory over the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Monday.
  Zach Hyman and Connor McDavid each added a goal and an assist for the Oilers (27-19-8), Spencer Stastney scored his first in an Edmonton jersey and Darnell Nurse rounded out the scoring.Leon Draisaitl contributed four helpers and Tristan Jarry stopped 36 of the 40 shots he faced.
  Three of Anaheim's four goals came from Mikael Granlun
  
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• At least 6,126 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, activists say

  27-01-2026 04:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis.The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and guided missile destroyers accompanying it provide the U.S. the ability to strike Iran, particularly as Gulf Arab states have signaled they want to st
  
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• B.C. issues environmental assessment certificate for Eskay Creek mine

  27-01-2026 03:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has issued an environmental assessment certificate to Eskay Creek Mining Ltd., to restart gold and silver mining at the site of the former Eskay Creek mine in Tahltan territory.
  The province says in a news release that its Environmental Assessment Office carried out a "collaborative assessment process" with the Tahltan Central Government, in what it says is the first of its kind to be guided by a consent agreement.
  The release says B.C.'s mining a
  
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• City of Chilliwack Notice of Application: Bylaw Meeting - theprogress.com

  27-01-2026 03:25 via news.google.com
  City of Chilliwack Notice of Application: Bylaw Meeting  theprogress.com
  
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• City of Chilliwack: Notice of Assistance - theprogress.com

  27-01-2026 03:00 via news.google.com
  City of Chilliwack: Notice of Assistance  theprogress.com
  
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• Activists say at least 6,126 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests

  27-01-2026 02:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists said Tuesday that at least 6,126 people were killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests and many more are still feared dead.The new figures came from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of unrest in Iran. The group verifies each death with a network of activists on the ground in Iran.The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the death toll given authorities
  
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• No possession arrests without ‘extenuating circumstances’: head of B.C. police chiefs

  27-01-2026 02:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The president of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police says people will not be arrested for possession of small amounts of drugs after the end of decriminalization on Jan. 31, "unless there are extenuating circumstances."
  Andrew Chan, who is also Deputy Chief of the Vancouver Police Department, said that while both municipal police forces and RCMP could potentially arrest people possessing drugs, "that hasn't been the case historically," he said, referring to the period before
  
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• Winger Boeser, defenceman Buium latest Vancouver Canucks added to injured list

  27-01-2026 02:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have added two more names to their extensive list of injured players.The NHL team announced Monday that winger Brock Boeser and defenceman Zeev Buium have been placed on injured reserve after getting hurt in Vancouver's 3-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.Boeser, stationed at the top of the Pittsburgh crease in the final seconds of the game, caught an elbow to the head from Bryan Rust and crumpled to the ice in a heap.NHL Player Safety posted on
  
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• NHL fines Leafs’ Nylander US$5,000 for flipping middle finger at broadcast camera

  27-01-2026 01:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Toronto Maple Leafs veteran forward William Nylander has been fined US$5,000 for making an inappropriate gesture, the NHL announced Monday.
  Nylander flipped his middle finger at a broadcast camera while he was in the press box during the Leafs' 4-1 home loss to Colorado on Sunday.
  The 29-year-old is currently out of the Leafs' lineup with a groin injury.
  The gesture was shown live on-air during the game broadcast, said NHL Senior Vice-President of Player Safety George Parros. &l
  
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• Water damage, electrical issues force more residents from Manitoba First Nation

  27-01-2026 00:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — More residents are being asked to leave a northern Manitoba First Nation dealing with a water crisis brought on by a power outage, as crews continue to fix damaged houses and buildings.
  Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias says contractors have identified 73 more homes needing extensive repairs and that roughly 200 people are joining about 4,400 who have already been displaced.
  He says the additional homes are uninhabitable due to electrical issues and drywall and insulati
  
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• Former member of Parliament Kirsty Duncan dies at age 59

  27-01-2026 00:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Former cabinet minister, scientist and champion for safe sport Kirsty Duncan has died at the age of 59.
  Duncan had made public her multiple operations, radiation and chemotherapy to treat her cancer since she was diagnosed in 2023.
  Born on Oct. 31, 1966, Duncan was elected five times as the Liberal MP for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North between 2008 and 2025. She opted not to be on the ballot again when the federal election was called last year.
  Tributes to Duncan flowed Mo
  
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• No possession arrests without ‘extenuating circumstances’: head of B.C. police group

  27-01-2026 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The president of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police says people will not be arrested for possession of small amounts of drugs after the end of decriminalization on Jan. 31, "unless there are extenuating circumstances."
  Andrew Chan, who is also Deputy Chief of the Vancouver Police Department, says police are working closely with the provincial government to develop guidelines on how to handle the ending of the three-year pilot program in British Columbia.
  He says people shoul
  
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• Trump softens tone on Minnesota immigration crackdown as some federal agents prepare to leave

  27-01-2026 00:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump softened his tone Monday on the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, touting productive conversations with the governor and Minneapolis mayor as he sent the border czar to take charge of much of the enforcement effort. Some federal agents were expected to leave as soon as Tuesday.Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he spoke by phone with Trump, who praised the discussion that declared that “lots of progress is being made." Frey said he asked Tru
  
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• Ex-Olympic snowboarder pleads not guilty to running a drug smuggling ring

  26-01-2026 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder pleaded not guilty to running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings, as one of the FBI's top fugitives made his first U.S. court appearance Monday since he was arrested in Mexico last week and flown to California.U.S. authorities say Ryan Wedding, who competed in a single event for his home country in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, had been hiding in Mexico for more than a decad
  
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• Mayor says some federal agents will begin leaving Minneapolis

  26-01-2026 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Monday that some federal immigration enforcement officers would soon leave his city following a conversation with President Donald Trump, who praised the discussion that declared that “lots of progress is being made."Frey said he asked Trump in a phone call to end the immigration enforcement surge and that Trump agreed the present situation cannot continue.The mayor said some agents will begin leaving Tuesday. Frey said he would ke
  
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• Feds say more than 22,000 firearms reported in first week of compensation program

  26-01-2026 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Canada says gun owners reported 22,251 firearms to the federal government in the first week of a program to provide compensation for banned guns.
  Owners of outlawed firearms have until the end of March to declare interest in the program that offers them compensation for turning in or permanently deactivating their guns.
  Since May 2020, Ottawa has outlawed about 2,500 types of firearms, including the AR-15, on the basis they belong only on the battlefield.
  Prohibited
  
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• Border Patrol commander Bovino and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis

  26-01-2026 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A senior Border Patrol commander and some agents are expected to leave Minneapolis as early as Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, as President Donald Trump dispatched his border czar to Minnesota to take charge of much the administration's immigration enforcement efforts.The departure of Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who has been at the center of the administration’s aggressive enforcement surge in cities nationwide, marks
  
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• Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59

  26-01-2026 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan has died at the age of 59 following a years-long battle with cancer.
  Born on Oct. 31, 1966, Duncan was elected five times as the Liberal MP for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North between 2008 and 2025.
  She sat in cabinet for the first term under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, as both minister of science and sport, as well as a brief period as minister for persons with disabilities.
  Duncan, a former scientist and athlete, took
  
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• Raptors guard Immanuel Quickley named Eastern Conference player of the week

  26-01-2026 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto Raptors point guard Immanuel Quickley has been named the NBA's Eastern Conference player of the week.
  Quickley helped the Raptors to a 4-0 record last week, averaging a team-high 25.3 points, 6.8 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 2.0 steals.
  Quickley kicked off the week with a career high-tying 40 points and 10 assists last Tuesday at Golden State. He joined Vince Carter as the only players in franchise history to have 40 points and 10 assists in the same game.Quickley also became the third play
  
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• Involuntary care safeguards often missing, B.C. Ombudsperson says

  26-01-2026 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A report by British Columbia's Ombudsperson warns that legal safeguards designed to protect patients receiving involuntary mental health care aren't being applied consistently across the province, with some heath authorities failing to provide the required documents for more than half of their patient files.
  The report says an audit of Health Ministry and health authority files from 2024 found a "significant" number of missing documents, sometimes including the reasons for a pat
  
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• Carney skips question period on Parliament’s first day back, meets with Premier Ford

  26-01-2026 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — After a globe-hopping mission to secure new trade deals and foreign investment, Prime Minister Mark Carney was back in Ottawa Monday as Parliament resumed — but not for very long.
  Carney visited an Ottawa grocery store Monday morning where he announced a 25 per cent hike to the GST credit to help lower-income consumers deal with the high cost of groceries, before leaving town to meet with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Toronto.
  Their meeting followed Carney’s trip to Chi
  
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• Hundreds line up in Calgary to sign petition to urge vote on Alberta quitting Canada

  26-01-2026 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Hundreds of people lined up today at Calgary's Stampede grounds to sign their names to call for a vote on quitting Canada.
  The city is the most recent stop for a group called Stay Free Alberta that has been given the OK by Elections Alberta to gather names.
  They need almost 178,000 signatures by May, and similar long lines have been seen in recent weeks in other locations.
  The move comes amid ongoing suggestions from the U.S. government that perhaps Alberta would like to join its
  
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• Creditors accept ex-Montreal mayor Denis Coderre’s debt-repayment plan

  26-01-2026 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Creditors of former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre have unanimously accepted a proposal for him to pay back less than a quarter of his roughly $1.1-million debt.
  During a virtual meeting today, creditors greenlighted a plan that will see the ex-mayor and former federal Liberal cabinet minister pay back $240,000 over five years through monthly payments totalling $4,000.
  Documents from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy show that Coderre, Montreal mayor between 2013-17,
  
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• ‘Crazy night’: Sittler’s 10-point game still stands as NHL record 50 years later

  26-01-2026 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Darryl Sittler remembers the usual noise in the newspapers.
  Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard — mercurial, headline-seeking, controversial — had sounded off to the press about his team's lack of a centre to play between Lanny McDonald and Errol Thompson.
  "But that was totally Ballard," Sittler, a centre, recalled. "How he was."
  Despite the usual bluster coming from Maple Leaf Gardens' corner suite, head coach Red Kelly kept Sittler with McDonald and Thompson wh
  
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• Union says research set back decades due to job cuts at federal agriculture centres

  26-01-2026 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The union representing workers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is firing back at Ottawa over abrupt job cuts.
  The Agriculture Union says the decision will set back by decades research on agriculture and food products.
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has announced it is closing seven of its research operations to reduce the size of the public service.The union says this round of cuts affect roughly 500 members and says the cuts come despite years of reduced staffing.
  The depar
  
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• ICE wants to buy Pattison building in Virginia to use for ‘holding and processing’

  26-01-2026 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The United States Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a building owned by the property arm of Vancouver-based conglomerate Jim Pattison Group to use as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement "processing facility."
  The department sent a letter to the Hanover County planning department in Hanover, Va., last Wednesday, sharing its intent to "purchase, occupy and rehabilitate" the warehouse property.
  Property records show Jim Pattison Developments bought the building
  
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• South Korean sub maker Hanwha signs agreement with Algoma Steel

  26-01-2026 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — South Korean submarine maker Hanwha Oceans says it has signed a series of partnership agreements with Canadian companies, including Sault Ste. Marie's tariff-battered Algoma Steel.
  Hanwha says it signed a memorandum of understanding with Algoma that pledges $275 million in financial support to stand up a new structural steel beam mill in Canada.
  The pact also declares Hanwha's intention to purchase steel products for both the construction of Canada's new submarine fleet and the ma
  
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• Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland for opening of new consulate: Anand

  26-01-2026 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a Royal Canadian Navy patrol vessel will be on the scene when the federal government opens a new consulate in Greenland next week.
  Anand spoke with The Canadian Press today in advance of her trip to Greenland's capital Nuuk, where she will officially open the new consulate.
  She said she will be joined there by an Arctic patrol vessel as a symbol of Canada's growing collaboration with other Arctic countries.
  Anand said Canadians and their a
  
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