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• Criminal trial of Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King begins today

  13-05-2024 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The criminal trial of Pat King, one of the most prominent figures associated with the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, is expected to begin Monday.
  King was part of the original group of organizers that brought thousands of big-rig trucks and other vehicles to Ottawa in January of that year to protest COVID-19 public health measures.
  They also spoke out against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. 
  For weeks, the smell of diesel fumes suffused the c
  
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• Abbotsford mayor refutes UBC proposal to remove Abbotsford farmland and restore Sumas Lake

  07-06-2024 01:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — After a UBC study was released this week calling for Sumas Prairie farmland to be purchased and to facilitate the restoration of Sumas Lake into its natural state, Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens says the suggested proposal from UBC scientists would eliminate the most productive agriculture land in Canada.According to a statement released Thursday morning (June 6) from the City of Abbotsford, Mayor Siemens says Abbotsford is Canada’s leading agricultural producer on a per-
  
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• Two killed in sports car crash at private B.C. racetrack: RCMP

  07-06-2024 01:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OLIVER, B.C. — Police say two people died when a sports car crashed at a luxury private motorsports club in Oliver, B.C.
  A statement from the RCMP says the driver of a sports car participating in a private event Wednesday at the Area 27 Motorsports Park failed to navigate a turn and hit a cement barrier at high speed.
  Police say both the driver and passenger died from their injuries.
  Cpl. James Grandy says in the statement that criminality is not believed to be a factor in the single-vehic
  
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• Abbotsford first responders utilize multiple resources to locate missing 65-year-old rower, but to no avail just yet

  07-06-2024 01:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Despite exhaustive search measures, a spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department says a 65-year-old man who was last seen paddling in the Sumas River area of Abbotsford earlier this week has not been located.Constable Art Stele, spokesperson for the AbbyPD, advised Fraser Valley Today in an email Thursday afternoon that police in Abbotsfordresponded to a reported missing rower on Wednesday, June 5 at 6:37 p.m. The missing rower was last seen paddling in the Sumas River
  
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• Hadwin hoping to turn corner at Memorial as Scheffler and Schauffele start strong again

  07-06-2024 01:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Adam Hadwin had too many birdies to complain about ending his round at the Memorial on a sour note Thursday. His 6-under 66 was enough to lead Masters champion Scottie Scheffler by one shot and give the Canadian hope he is turning the corner at the right time.
  Hadwin was among the few who conquered a Muirfield Village course that was soft from rain but no less punishing. He birdied four of five holes toward the end of the first round — after four birdies on the fr
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu set to address the US Congress on July 24, AP source says

  07-06-2024 01:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter.Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza. But the date of the speech had been in flux. It has now been set for July 24, according to
  
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• ‘A no from me’: Ali refuses to hear B.C. murder victim’s father ahead of sentencing

  07-06-2024 00:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A man convicted of murdering a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl has repeatedly told a pre-sentencing hearing that he didn’t kill her, after refusing to listen to his interpreter during an impact statement by the girl’s father.
  A portion of the recorded statement was being played to test equipment ahead of Friday’s sentencing hearing for Ibrahim Ali, who faces a life term for the 2017 killing.
  But Ali, who was appearing in B.C. Supreme Court by video link, refus
  
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• Good Earth light bars recalled due to fire, burn hazards

  07-06-2024 00:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Health Canada and Good Earth Lighting are recalling some rechargeable LED motion-activated light bars because they pose a fire and burn hazard.The affected light bars are 12 inches long and were sold between October 2017 and January 2024.The recall notice issued Thursday says the battery can overheat and ignite the plastic around the light.Health Canada says Good Earth Lighting has received seven reports of fires, one report of property damage and one report of death in the United States.It say
  
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• Texas sheriff says 7 suspects arrested, 11 migrants hospitalized after sting near San Antonio

  07-06-2024 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Eleven people were hospitalized and seven smuggling suspects were arrested Thursday after authorities found more than two dozen migrants who had been driven from the border packed in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat.
  Acting on a tip about a smuggling operation, authorities followed the trailer as it was towed to a rural residence outside San Antonio, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said.A total of 26 migrants were found at
  
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• McGill says protesters are occupying administration building, set up barricade

  07-06-2024 00:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — McGill University says protesters are occupying the main administration building on its downtown campus.
  Pro-Palestinian protesters have been encamped on the campus’s lower field since late April, demanding that the university pull its investments tied to Israel’s military and sever relationships with Israeli academic institutions.
  McGill says police and security services are on-site, where protesters have “set up a barricade” outside the building.
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• No more sanctions but a verbal slap on the wrist for Toronto FC, NYCFC from league

  06-06-2024 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Major League Soccer has concluded its investigation into a post-game melee involving Toronto FC and New York City FC with no additional discipline but a verbal slap on the wrist.
  It seems both clubs were essentially sent to the equivalent of the principal’s office for a talking-to.
  Players and staff from both sides got involved in an ugly confrontation after the final whistle of NYCFC’s 3-2 win May 11 at BMO Field. Toronto’s Federico Bernardeschi and New York’s Strahinja
  
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• McLaren’s Lando Norris pegs Ferrari as favourites at Canadian Grand Prix

  06-06-2024 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — McLaren driver Lando Norris says Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix will be anyone’s race, but he gives Ferrari the edge.
  The Formula One title race was ignited when Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won the Monaco Grand Prix last month, helping the Italian outfit move within 24 points of Red Bull in the constructors’ championship.
  Led by three-time defending world champion Max Verstappen, Red Bull won 20 of 21 races to run away with the title.
  This year, Red Bull lead
  
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• Former Stampeder quarterback Mitchell ready for long-awaited return as a Tiger-Cat

  06-06-2024 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Bo Levi Mitchell returns to the football field where he’s won a lot in his career. The quarterback wants to continue that Friday while wearing enemy colours.
  Mitchell and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats visit the Calgary Stampeders in the 2024 season-opener for both clubs.
  It’s been a minute for the former Stampeder quarterback to return to McMahon Stadium after Calgary traded his rights to Hamilton in November 2022.
  “I’d be lying if I didn’t say there was a
  
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• Canada soundly beaten by the Netherlands in Jesse Marsch’s debut as Canadian coach

  06-06-2024 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROTTERDAM — Jeremie Frimpong scored a goal and set up another as the Netherlands showed its class, blanking Canada 4-0 Thursday to spoil Jesse Marsch’s debut as Canadian men’s soccer coach.
  Memphis Depay, Wout Weghorst and Virgil van Dijk also scored for the seventh-ranked Dutch in the high-profile friendly at Stadion Feijenoord.
  The 49th-ranked Canadians started well, pressing the Dutch, and it was even for much of the first half. But the Dutch precision passing began to take
  
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• US to send new $225 million military aid package to Ukraine, officials say.

  06-06-2024 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, in a new package that includes ammunition Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault.
  The officials said the aid includes munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, as well as mortar systems and an array of artillery rounds. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss aid
  
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• Chilliwack River Valley Fire Dept. douses motorhome fire near Post Creek

  06-06-2024 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — At least two engines from the Chilliwack River Valley Fire Department were dispatched Thursday afternoon after a motorhome caught fire near the entrance to Post Creek, a rustic subdivision west of Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park.
  According to scanner traffic, firefighters from the rural CRVFD were dispatched sometime after 1 p.m. for the report of a motorhome on fire.
  Scanner traffic indicated that trees surrounding the motorhome were on fire as well.
  Image: Derrick Kramer / C
  
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• Dairy Queen hires 40+ employees as it opens in Popkum this week

  06-06-2024 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Over 40 people have been hired for the new Dairy Queen in Popkum as the quick serve restaurant prepares for its opening on Friday, June 7 at 52964 Yale Road East.
  According to the DQ franchisee who asked not to be publicly named, partly due to rules around speaking on behalf of corporate restaurants, Dairy Queen has hired exactly 43 people with the help of WorkBC, many of whom are high school students.The restaurant has hired multiple people from the surrounding communities of
  
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• United States shocks heavyweight Pakistan at T20 World Cup after forcing super over

  06-06-2024 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — The United States scored a major upset at the T20 World Cup by beating heavyweights Pakistan in the super over on Thursday.
  It was the co-host’s second straight victory in Group A after it romped to seven-wicket win over Canada.
  Aaron Jones, who smashed a 40-ball unbeaten 94 in the opening game, once again starred for the home team when he helped stretched the game into super over with another vital knock of 36 not out off 26.
  Jones hit a six and then a si
  
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• Canadian stars Fillier and Gosling excited to turn pro ahead of Monday’s PWHL draft

  06-06-2024 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Sarah Fillier grew up a fan of the NHL and watched its draft every year. Now that she’s turning pro herself, she can’t wait for her own draft-day moment.
  Fillier — pronounced FILL’-ee-yay — is widely considered the top prospect ahead of Monday’s Professional Women’s Hockey League draft. The 23-year-old centre from Georgetown, Ont., said it would be an honour to be drafted by one of the league’s six teams in the first round, let alone first overall.
  
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• Vancouver police crack down on stolen goods that turn up on downtown sidewalks

  06-06-2024 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver police say a crackdown on the sale of stolen goods that turn up on the sidewalks of the city’s Downtown Eastside has led to five arrests and turned up more than $650,000 in cash, drugs and stolen property.
  Insp. Mario Mastropieri says a shoplifting “epidemic” is fuelling an illicit market in stolen goods run by organized criminals, that’s affecting small businesses, their staff, and customers.
  He says in a statement that much of the stolen prop
  
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• Tory MP says he misspoke after NDP MP accuses him of making anti-Indigenous comment

  06-06-2024 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Conservative MP apologized in the House of Commons today after an Indigenous colleague from across the political aisle called him out for linking an offender’s criminal record to his race.
  Brad Redekopp says he misspoke earlier this week when he criticized parole officers for releasing Myles Sanderson on bail before the James Smith Cree Nation member perpetrated a 2022 stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan.
  The Saskatoon MP incorrectly suggested Tuesday that the parole board pr
  
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• Paolini surprises herself by reaching her first Grand Slam final at the French Open

  06-06-2024 22:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Jasmine Paolini is struggling to believe she’s into her first Grand Slam final.
  Paolini, who had never previously been past the fourth round at a major tournament, continued her run by beating Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 6-1 in Thursday’s semifinal.
  “It’s a great feeling to be in a Grand Slam final,” the 28-year-old Italian said. “I don’t know. It seems something impossible, you know, but it’s true.”
  She faces two-time defending ch
  
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• Guerrero Jr. hits three-run homer to power Blue Jays to 6-5 win over Orioles

  06-06-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer and Yusei Kikuchi threw six strong innings as the Toronto Blue Jays held on for a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday afternoon at Rogers Centre.
  Ernie Clement drove in a pair of runs and Justin Turner had two hits as Toronto salvaged a split of the four-game series. The Blue Jays (30-32) have won seven of their last 10 games.Kikuchi (3-5) allowed one earned run and four hits over his 89-pitch outing. He had six strikeout
  
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• Vancouver mayor grieves stabbing death of 32-year-old chef near Chinatown

  06-06-2024 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has issued a statement saying police are working tirelessly to find the person responsible for a fatal stabbing near the city’s Chinatown early Wednesday.Sim says the city is grieving the loss of 32-year-old Wataru Kakiuchi, a talented chef in a Yaletown Japanese restaurant.Sim says the killing was a senseless act of violence that has left the city in shock and mourning.Vancouver police say Kakiuchi was found injured at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday mo
  
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• Key points from report into RCMP response to Saskatchewan mass killing

  06-06-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — RCMP released a report Thursday into how Mounties responded to a mass stabbing in Saskatchewan. Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon on Sept. 4, 2022.He died of a cocaine overdose three days later, shortly after he was taken into police custody.
  Here are some of key points from the report:
  No fundamental issues
  On a broad level, the report didn’t identify any “common underlying circums
  
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• 182 deaths linked to B.C. unregulated drugs in April, 14,500 deaths in eight years

  06-06-2024 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia Coroners Service says 182 people died in April from drug overdoses.
  A statement from the service says the toll represents a 24 per cent decrease in deaths from April 2023, but “the risk posed by unregulated drug supply remains very high.”
  It says in the eight years since the public-health emergency was declared, 14,582 people in the province have died from toxic drugs, including 763 in the first four months of this year.
  The coroner says fentanyl
  
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• Drones, dogs, helicopters and ground crews search for missing mountaineers in B.C.

  06-06-2024 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — The search and rescue team in Squamish, B.C., says helicopters, groundcrews, drones and avalanche dogs are involved in the search for three mountaineers missing for nearly a week.
  A social media post by the team says the search resumed at 5:30 a.m. Thursday in the area on Mount Garibaldi where the trio was last seen on May 31.
  It says the previous day’s effort involved three helicopters, including one equipped with a rescue-signal detector, but low cloud hampered the
  
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• Disaster survivors bring pleas for climate change action to Parliament Hill

  06-06-2024 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Meghan Fandrich’s voice shakes as she recalls grabbing her five-year-old daughter and fleeing their home as flames descended on the village of Lytton, B.C., in 2021.Darryl Tedjuk is quiet as he relates the reality that his hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk in Nunavut is slowly being washed away by the Beaufort Sea.They are among a growing class of Canadians for whom climate change is not an abstract but a lived reality.The two are in Ottawa today to plead with parliamentarians to take c
  
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• Police in B.C. arrest two for theft of $2.5M worth of stolen vehicles

  06-06-2024 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Two men face more than a dozen charges each after British Columbia’s provincial auto crime team recovered 29 high-end vehicles valued at $2.5 million.RCMP say in a news release that they started their investigation in February when numerous newer-model trucks and SUVs were stolen across the Lower Mainland.They say the vehicles, including Range Rovers and Toyota Tundras, were allegedly taken using sophisticated technology to get past anti-theft mechanisms.The two suspects,
  
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• MPs calling out hate while disparaging Israel criticism ‘duplicitous’: Muslim groups

  06-06-2024 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Muslim groups say all political parties need to work harder to stamp out Islamophobia in Canada, and allow more space for people to criticize Israel without being painted as antisemitic.
  The CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims says he feels MPs have been “duplicitous” in calling out discrimination while vilifying people for attending peaceful pro-Palestinian protests.
  Stephen Brown testified today as part of a parliamentary study into Islamophobia and antis
  
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