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• Dr. Larry Balisky - Chilliwack Progress

  03-01-2026 07:05
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• Watchdog rebukes Quebec auto insurance board after $500M online platform scandal

  13-01-2026 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Quebec's scandal-plagued auto insurance board has been hit with another blow, this time from an independent government agency that oversees the province's public procurement markets.
  The Autorité des marchés publics says the auto board — Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec — failed to manage public funds responsibly in its development of the online platform known as SAAQclic.
  The board was the subject of a public inquir
  
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• B.C. Ombudsperson flags hour-long waits for income, disability calls to be answered

  13-01-2026 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  British Columbia's ombudsperson says people calling the government with questions about income and disability assistance are facing long waits, sometimes of more than an hour, creating barriers to accessing essential services.
  The most recent ministry data, released by Jay Chalke's office, shows that between 2022 and 2024, only about 13 per cent of calls were answered within 10 minutes on average, despite the government having set a service standard requiring 80 per cent of calls to be answered
  
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• Major thoroughfare in Hope closed due to incident in the Fraser Canyon

  13-01-2026 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE — The District of Hope says it has implemented an emergency road closure in the town due to an incident north of Hope.In a statement, the district says 6th Avenue at the CN Rail crossing was closed Tuesday morning due to a rail line washout in the Fraser Canyon.The closure is expected to remain in place for approximately 24 hours. If that holds true, the road could reopen by Wednesday morning.Drivers are asked to use alternate routes and avoid the area.The district said the 6th Avenue
  
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• Cyclist dead in probable hit-and-run in Richmond, B.C., police say

  13-01-2026 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RICHMOND — Police are investigating the death of a cyclist whose body was found along a major route in Richmond, B.C., saying the 34-year-old man may have been struck by a vehicle that did not remain at the scene.
  RCMP say they received a report on Monday from one of the man's co-workers expressing concern that he had not shown up for work.
  The Mounties say the colleague told police the man's absence was out of the ordinary, and he would usually ride his bike to work.
  They say officers wor
  
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• Construction on Toronto-Quebec City leg of high-speed rail line slated for 2032: CEO

  13-01-2026 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The CEO of a planned high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City says construction on that leg of the line is expected to begin by 2032.
  Following a speech in Montreal on Tuesday, Martin Imbleau told reporters the line connecting the two provincial capitals will "probably" start to be built two years after shovels hit the ground on an earlier segment.
  Construction of that first phase, set to kick off in 2029 or 2030, would connect Montreal and Ottawa and act as a tes
  
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• Fact File: Canadian store’s security photo manipulated to show mountain lion break-in

  13-01-2026 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Social media posts this month claimed a mountain lion played with toys and got high on catnip after breaking into a Colorado pet store. In fact, the shop pictured in the post appears to be an Edmonton convenience store, which has never reported a mountain lion encounter but was the scene of a notoriously unsuccessful attempt to evade police in 2018.
  THE CLAIM
  "A mountain lion raids a Colorado pet store, gets high on catnip, and naps in the toy aisle," reads the caption on a photo posted Jan. 3 t
  
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• Fraser Health announces another lengthy maternity diversion

  13-01-2026 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — Expecting moms in Maple Ridge and the surrounding community who had planned to give birth at their local hospital will have to head elsewhere later this week.Fraser Health confirmed earlier today that there will be a four-day diversion at Ridge Meadows Hospital starting this Thursday, January 15 as maternity services struggle with a doctor shortage.“Due to a temporary gap in obstetrician-gynecologist coverage at Ridge Meadows Hospital, a maternity diversion will be in p
  
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• Trump says Americans ‘don’t need’ Canadian products, calls CUSMA ‘irrelevant’

  13-01-2026 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement on trade is "irrelevant" to him and Americans don't need Canadian products.
  While touring a Ford plant in Michigan, Trump said he wants to see more cars built in the United States and the U.S. doesn't need vehicles made in Canada or Mexico.
  Asked if he will renegotiate CUSMA, which is up for review this year, Trump said "we can have it or not."
  Trump said he doesn’t care about the trade deal but "
  
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• Chloe Kim says she’s ‘good to go’ for Olympics despite labrum tear in shoulder

  13-01-2026 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Snowboarder Chloe Kim says she's “good to go” for the Milan Cortina Olympics despite tearing the labrum in her shoulder during a training run last week in Switzerland.
  The two-time gold medalist in the halfpipe posted an update to Instagram on Tuesday, saying she wasn't surprised to learn she had torn her labrum — the lining of the socket that holds the shoulder together. She did not say which shoulder she injured when she fell while getting ready for this weekend's Laax Open.
  
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• Healthy and rested Rick Bowness ready for next challenge as Blue Jackets head coach

  13-01-2026 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Rick Bowness was enjoying time on his boat in Florida when he received a call from Don Waddell on Monday afternoon.
  Bowness thought the call from the Columbus Blue Jackets president of hockey operations and general manager was about a player Bowness once coached.
  It turned out to be something else — a head coaching offer.
  Bowness was on the ice at Nationwide Arena on Tuesday morning, conducting practice after accepting Waddell’s offer to take over as head
  
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• The Steelers are in NFL purgatory. They’ll have to find a way out without Mike Tomlin

  13-01-2026 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin, as always, got right to the point.
  “When you don’t get it done, words are cheap,” a subdued Tomlin said Monday night after the Pittsburgh Steelers were quickly ushered out of the playoffs again, this time in a 30-6 loss to Houston. “It’s about what you do or you don’t do.”
  And now it's someone else's turn to try to do it in Pittsburgh.
  The NFL's longest-tenured head coach stepped down on Tuesday, when one of the leagu
  
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• Montréal Victoire’s Roque suspended one game by PWHL for illegal check to the head

  13-01-2026 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Professional Women’s Hockey League has suspended Montréal Victoire forward Abby Roque one game for an illegal check to the head.
  Roque was assessed a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for her hit on Vancouver forward Abby Boreen in the third period of Montreal's 1-0 win over the Goldeneyes on Sunday in Quebec City.
  The PWHL said in a release that its Player Safety Committee found Roque took a poor angle of approach to deliver a hit on an unsuspectin
  
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• B.C. RCMP Const. Mersad Mesbah fired with immediate effect over vulgar group chats

  13-01-2026 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A British Columbia RCMP officer has been fired with immediate effect over vulgar and sexist comments made in police group chats and over police mobile computer terminals.RCMP conduct adjudicator Louise Morel says Coquitlam Const. Mersad Mesbah's conduct amounted to discreditable conduct, and he “put aside” his oath as a police officer.
  Mesbah is one of three officers from the detachment who faced code of conduct proceedings over the comments.The comments came to light after a colleag
  
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• Former Sail Canada high-performance director suspended for four months

  13-01-2026 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KINGSTON — Former Sail Canada high-performance director Mike Milner has been suspended for four months under the national Abuse-Free Sport Program.
  Sailing Canada says Milner left the organization in September 2024.
  Milner's sanction was posted last week on a public registry established by the Office of the Sports Integrity Commissioner.
  The registry stated Milner was sanctioned for aiding and abetting, neglect and psychological maltreatment under the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent a
  
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• River Forecast Centre downgrades high streamflow advisory for Fraser Valley, but flows remain high locally

  13-01-2026 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — B.C.’s River Forecast Centre has downgraded a high streamflow advisory for the Fraser Valley, including the Chilliwack River east through Hope.
  In a Tuesday morning update, the forecast centre says substantial rainfall and snowmelt over the past three days have produced high flows across the region. It says rainfall rates have eased as light rain is expected to taper off by Tuesday afternoon. Warmer and drier weather is expected through the rest of the week.The River For
  
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• Manchester United hires former player Michael Carrick as interim coach until end of the season

  13-01-2026 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United has again turned to former player Michael Carrick to salvage its imploding season.
  Carrick was hired Tuesday as United’s interim coach until the end of the season, more than a week after the departure of Ruben Amorim.
  The ex-England midfielder, who won five Premier League titles and the Champions League during a trophy-laden playing career at Old Trafford, was also an assistant coach at United and had an unbeaten three-game spell as interi
  
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• Mike Tomlin steps down after 19 seasons as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers

  13-01-2026 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Mike Tomlin era in Pittsburgh is over.
  The longest-tenured head coach in major American professional sports stepped down from his job leading the Steelers on Tuesday after yet another quick playoff exit.
  The announcement came a day after the end of his 19th season in Pittsburgh, where he was a relative unknown when he was hired to replace Bill Cowher in early 2007.
  “Obviously, I am extremely grateful to Mike for all the hard work, dedication and success we have
  
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• Carney off to China, Qatar and Davos to court investment, mend fences with Beijing

  13-01-2026 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney leaves Tuesday for a nine-day trip that will see him circle the globe to drum up investment and trade in three places that have attracted the scrutiny of voters.
  His visit to Beijing — the first trip to China by a sitting prime minister in more than eight years — will be followed by a stop in Qatar and a visit to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
  University of British Columbia political scientist Stewart Prest said by visiting these de
  
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• Alouettes GM Maciocia, Bombers head coach O’Shea taking open mind into CFL meeting

  13-01-2026 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Danny Maciocia and Mike O'Shea are both taking an open mind into the CFL winter meetings.
  Maciocia, the Montreal Alouettes general manager, and O'Shea, the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, are among the CFL officials attending the meetings in Calgary. Among the agenda items up for discussion are rules applications and potential changes.
  CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston unveiled significant rules changes last September with the aim of modernizing the game over the next two seasons. This
  
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• Trial begins in 2021 drive-by shooting that killed Montreal teen Meriem Boundaoui

  13-01-2026 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A jury trial has opened for two men charged in the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old girl who prosecutors say was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was killed.
  The Crown outlined its case this morning against the two men charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Meriem Boundaoui and the attempted murder of several other people on Feb. 7, 2021.
  Boundaoui was in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was struck by bullets in Montreal's St-Léonard borough
  
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• China urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing

  13-01-2026 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BEIJING (AP) — As Canadian leader Mark Carney arrives in China on Wednesday, his hosts see an opportunity to peel the longtime U.S. ally away from their rival, at least a bit.
  China's state media is calling on the Canadian government to set a foreign policy path independent of the United States — what it calls “strategic autonomy.”
  Canada has long been one of America’s closest allies, geographically and otherwise. But Beijing is hoping that President Donald Trump&rs
  
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• B.C. home sales and prices both down about 6% last month, amid Lower Mainland slump

  13-01-2026 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia home sales fell by almost 6 per cent last month on a year-over-year basis, with realtors noting market weakness "concentrated" in the Lower Mainland.
  The B.C. Real Estate Association says a total of 4,271 residential units were sold in December, which is about 18.5 per cent lower than the province's 10-year average for the month, while average prices also fell 5.6 per cent to about $952,000 from just over $1 million in the same month in 2024.
  The value of overa
  
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• Feds to contribute money to the fight against extortion in southern Ontario

  13-01-2026 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it will give Peel Regional Police up to $1 million to support the force's efforts to fight extortion, provide services to victims and build on the work of a task force.
  The police service, which serves the Ontario cities of Brampton and Mississauga, created the Extortion Investigative Task Force in 2023 in response to threats against members of the South Asian business community.
  Ottawa says criminal networks use intimidation tactics and threats to fund
  
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• Mboko battles into Adelaide quarterfinals with marathon win over Kalinskaya

  13-01-2026 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ADELAIDE — Canada's Victoria Mboko advanced to the quarterfinals of the Adelaide International tennis tournament with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (6) victory over Russia's Anna Kalinskaya on Tuesday.
  The 19-year-old from Toronto, seeded eighth at the WTA 500 event, overcame two match points before taking the third-set tiebreaker in a match that lasted two hours 22 minutes.
  Mboko meet the winner of Wednesday’s match between No. 2 seed and reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys and qualifi
  
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• RCMP forensics to further investigation after Chilliwack business suffers break and enter, damage at its store

  13-01-2026 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  UPDATE, 9:40 A.M. TUESDAY: SinAmen Bun Co. updated the community Tuesday morning at 9:25 a.m. that it is back to regular hours of operation and is quickly back on track to get its store repaired.
  “While we’re slowly getting things fixed, our premises are secured, our team feels safe and supported, and we’re ready to serve the community right away,” SinAmen Bun Co. wrote online. “Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the unbelievable support, kind messages, and
  
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• Iran’s embassy in Ottawa, closed since 2012, defaced by anti-regime protesters

  13-01-2026 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Iran's embassy in Ottawa has been defaced, and a video posted to social media shows a protester behind a security fence removing Iran's national emblem from the building and prodding around a gated window.
  The Canadian Press has not verified the video, reportedly recorded early Monday morning, though the national emblem had been removed from the embassy building as of Monday afternoon and footsteps in the snow were visible behind the embassy's gate.
  While Canada cut diplomatic tie
  
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• Federal bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes wouldn’t cover X images: expert

  13-01-2026 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A law professor is warning that the Liberal government’s legislation to criminalize sexual deepfakes would not cover most of the images that have proliferated on X in recent weeks.
  Suzie Dunn, an assistant professor of law at Dalhousie University, says the bill wouldn’t necessarily apply to the wave of images created by Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and shared on X.
  Bill C-16 would criminalize the non-consensual sharing of images which show the subject nude, exposing
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin to retire May 30

  13-01-2026 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Justice Sheilah Martin says she will retire from the Supreme Court of Canada effective May 30.
  Martin says in a statement today she is deeply grateful for the opportunity to have served Canadians on the high court, calling it an honour and a highlight of her professional life.
  Chief Justice Richard Wagner praised Martin as widely respected for the depth of her legal scholarship, commitment to fairness and principled approach to justice.
  Martin, 69, was born and raised in Montreal
  
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• Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs, 12 per cent of executive team

  13-01-2026 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says it will be cutting around 850 of its staff along with 12 per cent of its executive team.
  Carter Mann, spokesperson for the national statistical agency, says Statistics Canada will inform affected employees within the next two weeks.
  He says Statistics Canada remains focused on serving Canadians and adapting as it adjusts to the changes.
  Data from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat shows 7,274 people worked at Statistics Canada as of March 31, 2025.It s
  
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