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• Chilliwack Chiefs struggles continue

  21-10-2023 15:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Caden Cranston had two goals and one assist to lead the Surrey Eagles to a 3 – 1 victory in Chilliwack Friday in BCHL action.
  Cranston opened the scoring on a first period powerplay and then added his eighth of the season in the third period as the Eagles continued their perfect season with their eighth win in eight games.
  Hunter McInnes scored the lone Chiefs goal in the third period as Chilliwack fell to 2 – 6 – 1 – 0 on the season.
  The Chiefs, along
  
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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.
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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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• Ex-Olympic snowboarder accused in drug smuggling ring heads to court

  26-01-2026 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned top FBI fugitive is expected to appear in federal court Monday on charges he allegedly ran a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings.
  Ryan Wedding, 44, turned himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City last week and was flown to Southern California after a yearlong effort by authorities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to arrest hi
  
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• Carney stands by Plains of Abraham speech that rankled Quebec’s political class

  26-01-2026 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing by his comments about the Battle of the Plains of Abraham that drew a swift rebuke from Quebec's political class.
  The controversy erupted last week when Carney said the 1759 battle in Quebec City — during which the British defeated the French — symbolized the beginning of a partnership between two peoples.Carney said the battle became a symbol of collaboration rather than domination — comments that Parti Québéc
  
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• Northeast sees more snow from the tail end of a colossal winter storm, at least 25 deaths reported

  26-01-2026 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  More snow piled up across the U.S. Northeast on Monday under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought lingering misery to parts of the South, where freezing rain left hundreds of thousands shivering without electricity. At least 25 deaths were reported amid the severe weather. Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school closures Monday.
  
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• 18-year-old dies after ‘targeted’ assault involving two groups in Kelowna, B.C.: RCMP

  26-01-2026 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KELOWNA — Police in Kelowna, B.C., say an 18-year-old man has died after what is being investigated as a "targeted" assault over the weekend.
  RCMP say the man was discovered suffering from injuries when officers responded to what they describe as an "an assault between two groups" near the intersection of Springfield and Benvoulin roads, adjacent to Mission Creek Regional Park, at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday.
  They say paramedics took him to Kelowna General Hospital, where he later died.
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• CP NewsAlert: ICE wants to buy Pattison building to use for ‘holding and processing’

  26-01-2026 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The United States Department of Homeland Security says it wants 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 has owned the building since 2022.
  
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• Carney defends Canada’s Afghanistan record but does not ask Trump for apology

  26-01-2026 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the Canadian military's contributions to the war in Afghanistan today, but stopped short of asking U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for belittling Canada's role.
  Carney said everyone should recognize the extraordinary contributions made by the Canadian Armed Forces in that conflict and noted 30 Canadian soldiers were awarded the U.S. Bronze Star Medal for valour.
  But the prime minister did not mention Trump when asked by a journalist at
  
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• Ottawa gives conditional approval for Marineland to export remaining belugas to U.S.

  26-01-2026 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says she has provided conditional approval for the export of Marineland's remaining beluga whales to the United States.Thompson says in a statement posted on social media that she met with Marineland today and she will issue final permits once the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park provides further information.The move comes after Marineland presented what it called an "urgent rescue solution" to the federal government last week to keep the 30 belugas aliv
  
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• Kaprizov, Kucherov, Dostal named NHL’s three stars of the week

  26-01-2026 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Minnesota Wild left-wing Kirill Kaprizov, Tampa Bay Lightning right-wing Nikita Kucherov and Anaheim Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Kaprizov recorded multiple points in all four of his contests to top the NHL with nine points (three goals, six assists) and lift the Wild into second place in the Central Division via a 2-1-1 week.
  The 28-year-old ranks sixth in the NHL with 64 (28 goals, 36 assists) through 53 games this seas
  
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• Woman found dead in Montreal-area home without power during extreme cold

  26-01-2026 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec coroner will investigate the death of a woman whose body was found Sunday evening inside a Montreal-area home that had been without power for more than a day.
  It was fire department officials who found the woman's body during a door-to-door wellness check on the on-island town of Montreal West, where temperatures felt as cold as -35 C over the weekend.
  A few thousand customers on the Island of Montreal remain without electricity after equipment at a substation broke o
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek identity of alleged female fraud suspect

  26-01-2026 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Mounties in Chilliwack need help identifying a female fraud suspect in connection with an investigation into identity document theft and fraudulent transactions.
  According to a statement from Corporal Berthier Kyobela, Chilliwack RCMP members responded to a report on January 9, 2026 about stolen identity documents and transactions valued at several thousands of dollars. The investigation has linked a female suspect to similar alleged offences in several other jurisdictions acr
  
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• Snowstorm wreaks havoc on air travel plans, as hundreds more flights cancelled

  26-01-2026 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian airlines continue to cancel flights by the hundreds following a record-breaking snowstorm that blasted southern Ontario and Quebec on Sunday and Monday before whirling farther east.
  After hundreds of cancellations Sunday, aviation analytics firm Cirium says roughly 300 more flights across the country had been called off as of 9 a.m., affecting tens of thousands of travellers.
  Toronto's Pearson airport saw 146 departures cancelled, while the Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax airports had 92 n
  
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