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• Downed wires close Abbotsford intersection

  19-03-2023 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford motorists were faced with a detour around the intersection of Marshall Road and Townline Road Saturday (Mar. 18).
  Abbotsford police were called out to assist Abbotsford Fire Rescue Services in dealing with a two-vehicle collision around 8:30 a.m. The collision resulted in damage to a utility pole and left live electrical wires stretched across the road.
  BC Hydro crews were called to the scene to deal with the wires and the utility pole.
  While police did not release
  
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• Nick Taylor ready to defend Sony Open crown at Hawaii’s Waiʻalae Country Club

  14-01-2026 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Waiʻalae Country Club has become a home away from home for Canada's Nick Taylor.
  The golfer from Abbotsford, B.C., won the Sony Open in Hawaii on the course last year and is set to defend his title starting Thursday. He's finished in the top 11 the past four times he's played in the tournament, in part because Waiʻalae has become so familiar to him.
  "I felt like this has been a course that I've really started to enjoy," said Taylor at a news conference on Wednesday. "I see the lines re
  
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• BCCOS investigating after doe mule deer shot and killed in Logan Lake, B.C.

  14-01-2026 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOGAN LAKE — B.C. conservation officers are investigating after a doe mule deer was shot and killed in a residential area of Logan Lake a few days before Christmas.
  Conservation Officer Tyler Kerr told CFJC Today the incident happened on Sunday, Dec. 21 in the vicinity of Amber Drive.
  “We’re reaching out to the public for any information including security camera footage or anything of that nature, any information at all, that might help us in our investigation,” Kerr sai
  
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• 43-year-old woman reported missing: Ridge Meadows RCMP

  14-01-2026 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — Mounties in Maple Ridge are seeking help from the public to help locate a 43-year-old missing woman who was last seen a little over a week ago.
  According to a statement from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, Melissa Olson was last seen on Monday, January 5, 2026 in the 11600 block of Laity Street, Maple Ridge, but resides in Pitt Meadows.Mounties say police and family are concerned for her health and well-being.
  Police provided the following description of Ms. Olson:Caucasia
  
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• Real Madrid ousted from Copa by 2nd-division club Albacete in debut of coach Arbeloa

  14-01-2026 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Arbeloa got off to a dismal start as the new coach of Real Madrid, seeing his team lose to second-division club Albacete 3-2 and drop out of the Copa del Rey in the round of 16 on Wednesday.Jefté Betancor scored the game-winning goal four minutes into stoppage time to send Albacete to the quarterfinals. Gonzalo García had also scored in added time for Madrid to even the match at 2-2.Madrid struggled from the start in the debut of Arbeloa, the club'
  
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• Five topics other than trade that could come up during Carney’s China visit

  14-01-2026 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Beijing this week for meetings with President Xi Jinping and other officials. Upon arriving in China Wednesday, Carney said he was "ready to build a new partnership" with the country.
  While Canadians will be watching for signs that China plans to ease its tariffs on Canadian agriculture products, that's not the only thing on the prime minister's plate.
  Here are four other themes Carney is likely to raise during his visit — and one that might
  
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• Eloy Jimenez one of five Toronto Blue Jays free-agent signings

  14-01-2026 22:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Designated hitter Eloy Jimenez was one of five free agents the Toronto Blue Jays signed to minor-league contracts on Wednesday, giving them invites to the team's major-league spring training camp.
  Infielders Carlos Mendoza and Rafael Lantigua as well as left-handed pitcher Michael Plassmeyer and right-hander Jorge Alcala were also signed.
  The 29-year-old Jimenez split the 2025 season between the Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays organizations, batting .247 over 54 combined minor-leagu
  
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• Researchers concerned after endangered whooping cranes test positive for bird flu

  14-01-2026 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SASKATOON — A wildlife biologist says it's deeply concerning that two dead critically endangered birds have tested positive for the avian flu.
  Mark Bidwell with the Canadian Wildlife Service says the deaths in Saskatchewan mark the first time the highly pathogenic virus has been detected in the wild population of whooping cranes.
  Bidwell says he and his team discovered the first dead whooping crane in a town east of Saskatoon, after noticing the tracker on the two-year-old female hadn't mo
  
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• Business groups urge Alberta to scrap new wine levy

  14-01-2026 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Industry groups are urging the Alberta government to repeal a new tax on wine, saying it squeezes consumers and undermines efforts to support local business and boost trade between provinces.
  The Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission began imposing the charge in April of last year and associations representing wine growers, restaurants, importers and retailers say they were blindsided by the change.The "ad valorem" levies range from five per cent to 15 per cent depending
  
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• B.C. ending its 3-year drug decriminalization pilot project

  14-01-2026 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says the province is not seeking an extension of its agreement with Health Canada that allowed the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs for personal possession.
  Osborne says the goal of the three-year pilot project slated to end Jan. 31 was to make it easier for people to come forward and seek help, but it "hasn't delivered the results" officials hoped for.
  B.C.'s decriminalization project began in January 2023, after Health
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. ending its 3-year drug decriminalization pilot project

  14-01-2026 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says the province is not seeking an extension of its agreement with Health Canada that allowed the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs for personal possession.
  More coming.
  The Canadian Press
  
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• For Chinese media, Carney’s visit appears to be small potatoes compared to Trudeau’s

  14-01-2026 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BEIJING — Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to China appears to have been greeted by Chinese media with less fanfare than Justin Trudeau received in 2016.
  Carney's arrival in Beijing on Wednesday was greeted by a three-paragraph article in state news service Xinhua, which urged the Canadian leader to take the visit as an opportunity to increase dialogue, "advance mutual political trust" and "resolve each other's concerns."
  A day earlier there had been a four-paragraph report outlining pla
  
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• Alberta government to review Calgary water main breaks, demands documents

  14-01-2026 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Alberta government has launched a review of Calgary’s water main ruptures, demanding reams of documents from the city dating back two decades.
  Municipal Affairs Minister Dan Williams, in a letter to the city posted on social media, says it’s about making sure Calgary's 1.6 million residents have a safe and reliable water system.
  He says the city has been working diligently to fix the latest break but the province needs to act, because Calgarians have valid concern
  
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• Canadians Emma Regan, Nichelle Prince join NWSL expansion teams in Denver, Boston

  14-01-2026 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Denver Summit FC, one of two expansion teams kicking off NWSL play this year, has confirmed the signing of Canadian midfielder Emma Regan.
  AFC Toronto announced Tuesday that the 25-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., was leaving the Northern Super League club for the NWSL but did not specify which team.
  Denver said Regan has signed a multi-year contract through the 2028 season with a mutual option for 2029.
  “Emma is a versatile, intelligent midfielder with professional and international experienc
  
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• Vancouver FC removes interim tag, names Martin Nash head coach through 2027

  14-01-2026 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LANGLEY — Martin Nash is officially the head coach of Vancouver FC.
  The Canadian Premier League club announced Nash's promotion from interim head coach on Wednesday.
  He will be at the helm through the 2027 season.
  Martin Nash, the younger brother of Steve Nash, a Basketball Hall of Famer and co-owner of the Vancouver Whitecaps, guided Vancouver FC to a Canadian Championship final appearance against the Major League Soccer side in October.
  That secured the club’s inaugural berth in th
  
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• Trump claims killing of Iran protesters ‘has stopped’ even as Tehran signals executions ahead

  14-01-2026 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.The U.S. president’s claims, which were made with few details, come as he’s told protesting Iranians in recent days that “help is on the way” and that his administration would “act accordingly” to respond
  
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• Indigenous adults overrepresented in prisons by 10 times, Statistics Canada says

  14-01-2026 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A newly released report by Statistics Canada says Indigenous adults were incarcerated at a rate 10 times higher than non-Indigenous adults in six provinces.
  It says its new measure, called the overrepresentation index, was used to make the finding for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in British Columbia, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 2023/2024.
  The report says Indigenous people made up 33.2 per cent of the custodial population in those pr
  
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• B.C. settles prison solitary confinement lawsuit for $60 million

  14-01-2026 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government has settled a class-action lawsuit for up to $60 million over the use of solitary confinement in provincial correctional facilities over a period of 20 years.The B.C. Supreme Court approved the settlement in October, and the claims period for a piece of the settlement began this month, more than seven years after the lawsuit was filed against the provincial government over correctional institutions' use of segregation, which the lawsuit alleged w
  
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• A timeline of Quebec Premier François Legault’s political career as he resigns

  14-01-2026 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — François Legault announced on Wednesday he will step down as Quebec premier when the Coalition Avenir Québec — the party he co-founded in 2011 — chooses his replacement. The departure of Legault, who had also co-founded Air Transat and was its CEO between 1986 and 1997, brings to an end a political career spanning 28 years with two political parties.
  Here's a timeline of key moments:
  Sept. 23, 1998 — Then-premier Lucien Bouchard names Legault mini
  
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• Canada’s Alexis Guimond wins para ski gold at World Cup stop in Austria

  14-01-2026 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAALBACH — Canadian para skier Alexis Guimond won gold in the men's standing downhill race at a World Cup stop Wednesday.
  Guimond, from Gatineau, Que., finished first in a time of 54.91 seconds to narrowly beat France's Arthur Bauchet (54.95).
  Robin Cuche of Switzerland (55.27) was third.
  Guimond, who finished third in a race Tuesday, picked up his first World Cup gold in 18 career downhill races.
  Also Wednesday, Mollie Jepsen of West Vancouver, B.C., finished third in the women's standing
  
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• Quick quotes: Quebec Premier François Legault announces resignation

  14-01-2026 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Tributes to departing Quebec Premier François Legault are coming in from across the country as the co-founder of the Coalition Avenir Québec party says he will leave office when his replacement is chosen. Premier since 2018, Legault told a news conference in Quebec City on Wednesday that he recognized Quebecers want change.Here are some quick quotes from Legault and Canada's other political leaders:
  “I can clearly see that right now, many Quebecers are f
  
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• Highway 1 overpass in Surrey struck Wednesday morning, BC Highway Patrol confirms

  14-01-2026 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A spokesperson for the BC Highway Patrol says motorists can expect delays on Highway 1 eastbound in Surrey at the 192 Street overpass after a commercial truck struck an overpass Wednesday morning.
  According to a statement from BCHP spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin, the 192 Street overpass has been visibly damaged, and police are working with the Ministry of Transportation and Transit to ensure the roadway is safe.
  Corporal McLaughlin says BCHP officers were notified about
  
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• A look at NorthStar, Canada’s entry in the 2026 Rolex SailGP Championship

  14-01-2026 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A look at NorthStar, Canada's entry in the 2026 Rolex SailGP Championship:
  Owner: Greg Bailey. The Toronto native, a former emergency physician, is co-founder of biotech company Juvenescence, a clinical-stage drug development company "dedicated to extending healthy lifespan through innovative medicines." Acquired the team ahead of the 2025 season.
  Chief Executive Officer: Phil Kennard. Took over as CEO and team principal in September 2024. The English native, a former United Kingdom champion in
  
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• Canada’s NorthStar looks to make its mark Down Under as SailGP starts sixth season

  14-01-2026 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The 2026 Rolex SailGP Championship opens this weekend in Australia, kicking off a five-continent, 13-race season that includes a June 20-21 stop in Halifax.
  NorthStar carries Canada colours in the field of 13 F50 catamarans chasing a total purse of US$12.8 million. Each stop features seven races with the top three crews then facing off for podium positions.
  The Canadian entry, which is entering its fourth season on the circuit, had a roller-coaster 2024-25 campaign. NorthStar finished seventh in
  
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• Surrey teachers, support workers rally for more provincial funding

  14-01-2026 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — The Surrey Teachers Association and CUPE 728 protested at a “Red for Ed” rally in front of Surrey-Guildford MLA Gary Begg’s office this past Monday to demand more provincial funding for educational assistants and counsellors.
  Violette Baillargeon, the association’s second vice president, said that more mental health support for students with diverse needs is necessary.
  “We want to bring attention to the fact that this government promised to have one c
  
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• RMSAR, partners rescue 4 hikers who were stranded for 4 days amid avalanche conditions at Golden Ears

  14-01-2026 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GOLDEN EARS, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Search and rescue crews from Maple Ridge and Coquitlam successfully rescued four hikers who were stranded for four days in dangerous avalanche conditions in the alpine of Golden Ears.Ridge Meadows SAR (RMSAR) says it managed to extract the group of hikers Tuesday afternoon (January 13) with help from Coquitlam SAR and Talon Helicopters, following multiple rescue attempts as they waited for weather to improve since Saturday.
  RMSAR says the group of hikers asc
  
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• Chilliwack nature reserve’s interpretive centre closed

  14-01-2026 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Staff at a Chilliwack nature reserve say it could fully reopen amid excessive rains that have flooded parts of its grounds and closed its interpretive centre.The Great Blue Heron Reserve posted to social media Tuesday that it is gearing up to possibly reopen later this week.“I know that everyone is eager for a walk through the heron reserve…we sure are!!” it said. “I think we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with an estimated time
  
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• Venezuela’s acting president vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro

  14-01-2026 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Wednesday vowed to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro during her first press conference since Maduro was ousted by the United States earlier this month.Rodríguez served as Maduro’s vice president since 2018, running Venezuela’s feared intelligence service and managing its crucial oil industry. A 56-year-old lawyer and politician, Rodr&iac
  
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• François Legault’s CAQ ended PQ/Liberal duopoly with back-to-back majorities

  14-01-2026 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — From founding a successful airline to creating a political party that won back-to-back majority mandates, François Legault is stepping down as Quebec premier with a reputation as a builder and as someone who has had a profound influence on Quebec society.
  Legault became a minister before he was even elected. It was Lucien Bouchard, premier between 1996-2001, who recruited the accountant and co-founder of Air Transat and appointed him minister of trade, science and technol
  
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• US to suspend immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance concerns

  14-01-2026 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.The State Department, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, said it had instructed consular officers to halt immigrant visa applications from the countries affected in accordance with a br
  
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