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• Five things we learned in David Johnston’s first report on foreign interference

  23-05-2023 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Special rapporteur David Johnston released his first report on foreign interference on Tuesday, which involved analyzing recent media reports on allegations by unnamed national security sources that China meddled in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
  The former governor general tapped by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to investigate the issue said he dug into the validity of that reporting and assessed whether the Liberal government ignored threats or advice from national-securit
  
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• Brady Tkachuk scores his 200th goal as the Senators beat the Rangers 8-4

  15-01-2026 04:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored his 200th regular-season NHL goal and had three assists, and the Ottawa Senators handed the New York Rangers a fifth consecutive loss, beating them 8-4 on Wednesday night.
  Tkachuk, a St. Louis native who is set to play for the U.S. at the Milan Cortina Olympics, helped set up Drake Batherson's goal on the power play 2:18 in and Dylan Cozens' with 5.7 seconds left in the first period. Adding goals from Nick Jensen and Tkachuk in between, the Senators sco
  
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• Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, officials say

  15-01-2026 04:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, federal officials said.The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7.The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on the social media platform X that federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U
  
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• Mission firefighters locate fire in elementary school bathroom, resulting in its closure on Thursday

  15-01-2026 04:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — Firefighters in Mission were called to an elementary school in Mission Wednesday after getting reports of smoke in a hallway.
  According to a statement from Mission Fire Rescue Service, fire crews located a fire in a bathroom at ES Richards Elementary Elementary. The fire was quickly extinguished.
  MFRS says one adult suffered minor smoke inhalation.
  Fire investigators were deployed to investigate and possibly determine a cause.
  It is likely that the school will be closed tomorrow
  
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• Ingram, Barnes spark fast start in Raptors’ 115-101 win over Pacers

  15-01-2026 03:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Brandon Ingram scored 30 points, including two key 3-pointers late, Scottie Barnes had 26 points and 13 assists, and the Toronto Raptors used a fast start to defeat the Indiana Pacers 115-101 on Wednesday night.
  Gradey Dick had 21 points and 11 rebounds off the bench for the Raptors, who have won all three meeting with the Pacers.
  When Indiana surged late to close the gap to 103-99 with 4:17 remaining, Ingram responded with 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions.
  The Ra
  
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• Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, AP source says

  15-01-2026 03:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person cautioned the information was still preliminary, and the investigation was in its early stages. The person could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where an im
  
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• Scott Robertson is fired as All Blacks coach, 2 years into his 4-year term

  15-01-2026 02:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — All Blacks head coach Scott Robertson has been removed two years into a four-year contract, after a damning internal report into the New Zealand team's 2025 season and reported threats from senior players to quit if he was not removed.Robertson's tenure as head coach was controversial even before it properly began and he presided over the team's worst results in the professional era, including a loss to South Africa last year which was the heaviest in the All
  
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• Police watchdog probes fatal shooting of woman in Burnaby, B.C.

  15-01-2026 02:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — British Columbia's police watchdog says it is investigating the fatal shooting of a woman who was reportedly in possession of weapons.
  It happened Tuesday evening in Burnaby, where RCMP say they responded to a call about a person in distress at a home near the intersection of Carleton Avenue and Oxford Street.
  RCMP say officers arrived and spoke to the caller, who had left the home for their own safety.
  Police say the officers encountered the woman at the residence, and an interac
  
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• FIFA says it has received more than 500 million ticket requests for 2026 World Cup

  15-01-2026 01:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — FIFA said Wednesday it has received more than 500 million ticket requests for this year's World Cup.
  Soccer's organizing body said outside the host United States, Mexico and Canada, the most requests were made by fans residing in Germany, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia.
  FIFA is asking for up to $8,680 per ticket. After criticism, FIFA said last month it will offer $60 tickets for every game to the 48 national federations in the tournament
  
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• Campbell-era minister Iain Black joining B.C. Conservative leadership race

  15-01-2026 01:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Iain Black, a former minister in the British Columbia government of Gordon Campbell, is joining the race to lead the provincial Conservatives.
  A campaign website says he will launch his bid with an event in Coquitlam on Thursday, with Black saying on social media that he will be making an "exciting announcement."
  The website, which Black shares in his post, carries the slogan "get B.C. back on track."
  Black was involved in the tech industry before becoming a provincial legislato
  
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• Senate Republicans defeat Venezuela war powers resolution as Trump pressures 2 GOP senators to flip

  15-01-2026 00:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation.Trump put intense pressure on five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week and ultimately prevailed in heading off passage of the legislation. Two of the Republicans — Sens. Josh Hawley
  
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• Vancouver Goldeneyes forward Sarah Nurse eager to defend Olympic gold with Canada

  15-01-2026 00:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Sarah Nurse realized early in the Professional Women's Hockey League season that she wouldn't be able to show on the ice why she deserves to be part of Canada's Olympic team.The Goldeneyes' star forward suffered an arm injury in Vancouver's first-ever game back in November and hasn't played since.“I just had to turn my focus and be confident in what I have brought in the past few years, and know what I bring to that lineup and trust in that," she said Wednesday. "Because
  
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• Timeline of B.C.’s three-year drug decriminalization pilot project

  15-01-2026 00:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  British Columbia's three-year pilot project that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use is set to end on Jan. 31.Health Minister Josie Osbourne has announced B.C. will not be extending the program. Here are some of the key moments in its history.
  May 31, 2022
  Health Canada grants the B.C. government's request for an exemption from s. 56 of the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
  Jan. 31, 2023
  The three-year exemption is implemented in B.C. The c
  
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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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