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• Happy to help Canada, but U.S. wildfire season is rapidly approaching, officials warn

  09-06-2023 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The agency co-ordinating the deployment of U.S. firefighters and equipment to Canada says it is keeping a wary eye on its own looming fire season. 
  The U.S. National Interagency Fire Center says there are currently 345 federal firefighters and support personnel helping out north of the border. 
  A total of 649 U.S. personnel have been cycled through Canada since early May — but that number doesn’t include state-level resources that are also assisting. 
  
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• Canada tops Finland 6-3 to claim bronze at world junior hockey championship

  06-01-2026 01:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT PAUL — Zayne Parekh had a goal and an assist to set a new record for points by a Canadian defenceman at a world junior hockey championship as the country salvaged a bronze medal with a 6-3 victory over Finland on Monday.
  Gavin McKenna scored and added three assists for Canada, which was bounced by Czechia less than 24 hours earlier in the semifinals. Sam O'Reilly, with two, Braeden Cootes and Porter Martone provided the rest of the offence. Carter George made 32 saves.Michael Hage ha
  
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• B.C. approves extending life of Mt. Milligan copper-gold mine to 2035

  06-01-2026 00:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Office says it has approved an extension for the life of the Mount Milligan copper and gold mine near Fort St. James into 2035.The province says an amendment to the mine's environmental assessment certificate was approved after a "comprehensive" review of an application by the operator Thompson Creek Metal Company Ltd., a subsidiary of Toronto-based Centerra Gold.The Environmental Assessment Office says the approval allows the company
  
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• Former Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley introduced as Red Bulls head coach

  06-01-2026 00:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Calling it an "incredible opportunity," former Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley was officially introduced as head coach of the New York Red Bulls on Monday.
  Bradley succeeds Sandro Schwarz, who was dismissed Oct. 27 after two seasons on the job.
  New York missed the playoffs this year, ending a run of 15 straight trips to the post-season after finishing 10th in the Eastern Conference at 12-15-7. The Red Bulls finished seventh in the East in 2024 and made it all the way to the MLS Cup final, whe
  
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• Convicted murderer wants B.C. Supreme Court to throw out case over delays

  05-01-2026 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A man convicted of first-degree murder in a killing police say was linked to organized crime is seeking to have the case thrown out, arguing that delays in the process violated his Charter rights.
  A jury convicted Brandon Teixeira of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm with intent last August, nearly eight years after the October 2017 shooting death of 28-year-old Nicholas Khabra in Surrey, B.C.
  The charges and trial followed a probe by the Integrated Homicide In
  
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• Toronto FC to hold its training camp in Marbella, Spain, for second straight year

  05-01-2026 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Toronto FC will hold the bulk of its training camp in Marbella, Spain, for the second year in a row.
  Players are due to report to camp Saturday in Toronto for medicals. The team will hold two training sessions before leaving Jan. 13 for Spain to begin a three-week camp at the Marbella Football Centre.Pre-season games will be announced at a later date, the club said.
  The team is scheduled to return to Toronto on Feb. 15.
  CF Montreal is also spending part of its training camp at th
  
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• Jets GM Cheveldayoff searches for answers as Winnipeg sinks to NHL basement

  05-01-2026 22:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Reporters asked plenty of questions, but Kevin Cheveldayoff had few solutions for how the Winnipeg Jets can climb out of the NHL basement.
  The team’s general manager held his mid-season meeting with the media on Monday while the club is mired in a nine-game losing streak (0-6-3) and sitting last in the league standings with 34 points (15-21-4) in 40 games.
  It’s an about-face from a year ago, when Winnipeg was second overall in the standings with 56 points (27-12-2) o
  
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• Faulds hired to succeed Marshall as head football coach at Western

  05-01-2026 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Michael Faulds is heading back to the University of Western Ontario.
  Faulds was named Western's head football coach Monday after 13 years heading up Laurier's football program.Faulds played quarterback for the Mustangs from 2005-09, leading the team to two Yates Cup championships.
  Faulds will now replace Greg Marshall as Western's head coach and become just the eighth in school history.Marshall served as coach for 18 years before announcing his retirement in December after leading
  
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• Le Massif ski resort northeast of Quebec City to partially reopen during strike

  05-01-2026 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A major ski resort northeast of Quebec City says it will partially reopen this week while its 300 unionized workers are on unlimited general strike.
  Le Massif de Charlevoix says its doors will open from Wednesday to Saturday between 9:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. in the Camp-Boule sector — but only for season passholders, ski-and-stay package guests, and guests of Club Med Québec-Charlevoix.
  The resort says that in subsequent weeks it will be open between Tuesday and Saturday for the same
  
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• Hockey Hall of Fame player and longtime Blackhawks executive Bob Pulford dies at 89

  05-01-2026 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Bob Pulford, a Hockey Hall of Fame player who went on to a lengthy career in the NHL as a coach and general manager, has died. He was 89.
  A spokesperson for the NHL Alumni Association said Monday the organization learned of Pulford's death from his family. No other details were provided.
  A tough, dependable forward, Pulford helped the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup four times during his 14-year stretch with them from 1956-70. The Newton Robinson, Ontario, native was part of the 1967 tea
  
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• McDavid, Poulin both donate jerseys as part of Great Canadian Jersey campaign

  05-01-2026 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Hockey superstars Connor McDavid and Marie-Philip Poulin are both making sentimental contributions to The Great Canadian Jersey campaign.
  McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers captain, and Poulin, who wears the C for the PWHL's Montreal Victoire, are both donating jerseys from their personal collections.The Great Canadian Jersey is the latest instalment of Rogers This Is Our Game initiative.
  Donated jerseys from Canadians will be used to create patchwork designs. The jerseys will be desig
  
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• Alberta’s Danielle Smith says Maduro capture outlines urgency of West Coast pipeline

  05-01-2026 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the American capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro underlines the urgency of building oil pipelines to export Canadian oil to new markets.
  U.S. President Donald Trump sent political shock waves around the world with the weekend military raid, saying Washington aimed to seize the South American country's oil reserves.
  Smith says the events "emphasize the importance that we expedite the development of pipelines to diversify our o
  
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• ‘We’re hanging in there’: Vancouver Canucks struggling halfway through NHL season

  05-01-2026 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — This is not the season the Vancouver Canucks expected.Heading into the 2025-26 campaign, belief was high that the team could move past last season's injuries and personnel issues to challenge for a playoff spot this spring.Instead, 41 games in, Vancouver (16-20-5) sits second last in the NHL standings heading into Monday's slate of games.“Definitely not where we want to be," said centre Elias Pettersson. "We're better than what the standing shows. But it is what it is. We
  
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• Chilliwack resident wins half-million dollar Lotto Max prize

  05-01-2026 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A Rosedale resident got more than an unexpected surprise in November after winning a half-million dollar prize from a Lotto Max draw.
  The B.C. Lottery Corporation says Michael W. couldn’t help but smile after learning that he won the $500,000 Extra prize from the November 21, 2025 Lotto Max draw.
  “I was on the couch at home,” Michael W. said of the moment he realized he had won. “I was just smiling, thinking about what this means.”
  The Rosedale re
  
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• Police investigating crash that killed pedestrian in Maple Ridge, B.C.

  05-01-2026 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — A female is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Maple Ridge, B.C.Ridge Meadows RCMP say the crash happened at about 5:30 a.m. on Monday at Lougheed Highway and Laity Street.
  Police say the victim was taken to hospital but died of her injuries.
  RCMP say serious crime investigators have taken over the case and are looking into the cause of the crash.The driver is speaking with police, but no other details have been released.
  Police are asking those who have information on t
  
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• Mikael Kingsbury set for World Cup return but with caution after groin injury

  05-01-2026 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian freestyle ski star Mikael Kingsbury returns to action Friday at the World Cup moguls event in Val St-Côme, Que.
  The 33-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que., withdrew from last month's World Cup opener in Ruka, Finland, due to a groin injury.
  Kingsbury, who is in search of his 100th World Cup win, says he will take part in Friday's single moguls and then decide whether to compete in Saturday's dual moguls.
  "For the race here, we're all-in for the singles on Friday," Kingsbury told re
  
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• IIHF president Luc Tardif on Olympic arena delays: ‘We’re going to have a tournament’

  05-01-2026 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT PAUL — International Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif expects a "fantastic tournament" when NHL players return to the Olympics next month — despite some significant construction delays at the main arena.
  Speaking ahead of the gold- and bronze-medal games at the world junior hockey championship Monday, Tardif added that although parts of the rink might not be fully finished in time, the playing surface, practice facilities and dressing rooms will be ready when the puck
  
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• Maduro ouster shows Trump is bent on dominating Western Hemisphere, observers say

  05-01-2026 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump's shocking ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shows his administration is serious about dominating the Western Hemisphere, observers say.
  In its new national security strategy, released last month, Trump's administration laid out a plan for U.S. control of the hemisphere that pays little heed to traditional alliance-building.
  It was put into practice Saturday with the U.S. military action that led to Maduro's middle-of-the-night ar
  
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• B.C. Porsche driver caught for double the speed limit asks for leniency due to her birthday

  05-01-2026 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEA TO SKY HIGHWAY — The driver of a Porsche didn’t exactly persuade police to go easy on her after she was clocked at more than double the speed limit on the Sea to Sky Highway during the holidays.
  According to a statement from BC Highway Patrol spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin, the Porsche, a rented Volkswagen, and a Subaru started 2026 in an impound lot thanks to three excessive speeding stops from a single BC Highway Patrol officer in one day on the Sea to Sky Highway.
  In
  
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• ‘Frostbite capital’: Efforts to reduce frostbite amputations underway in Edmonton

  05-01-2026 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Trevor Logan winces in pain as a nurse cleans the blistered middle finger on his right hand, swollen to twice its size due to frostbite.Inside a clinic of a downtown Edmonton homeless shelter, Logan says he can't look at his hand while the nurse moves what's left of his index finger to make room for bandaging.The 35-year-old from Calling Lake, Alta., who has been homeless for years, had the finger amputated last year due to frostbite."I try not to comprehend it as much as I can,
  
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• Japanese slugger Kazuma Okamoto adds power — and raises expectations in Toronto

  05-01-2026 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — No stranger to big baseball moments, Kazuma Okamoto seems more than comfortable in the spotlight.The Toronto Blue Jays are hoping his success in Japan will translate to the Major League Baseball game.
  The American League champions agreed to terms with the slugger over the weekend on a four-year, US$60-million contract. The Blue Jays plan to formally introduce Okamoto on Tuesday at a news conference at Rogers Centre.A six-time all-star with the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professiona
  
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• Venezuelan government seeks to show it is operating free from US control

  05-01-2026 20:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government on Monday sought to show its people and the world that the country is being run independently and not controlled by the United States following its stunning weekend arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader who had ruled for almost 13 years.Lawmakers aligned with the ruling party, including Maduro's son, gathered in the capital, Caracas, to follow through with a scheduled swearing-in ceremony of the National Assembly for a
  
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• Experts say Canada should co-ordinate Western Hemisphere response to Maduro’s ouster

  05-01-2026 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign policy experts say Ottawa should reach out to nations threatened by the United States to co-ordinate a response to the Trump administration's actions against Venezuela.
  The U.S. shocked the world this weekend when it captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a military raid that followed months of airstrikes on Venezuelan boats Washington said were trafficking drugs.
  Max Cameron, a professor at the University of British Columbia who studies the politics of Latin Amer
  
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• US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child

  05-01-2026 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child -- leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.Officials said the overhaul to the federal vaccine schedule won’t result in any families losing access or insurance coverage for vaccines, but medical experts slammed the move, saying it could lead to reduced uptake of important vaccinations and increase d
  
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• Female pedestrian deceased after collision on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge: RCMP

  05-01-2026 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — Mounties from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment say a female pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle near Lougheed Highway and Laity Street in Maple Ridge.According to a statement from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, police were called to the intersection of Lougheed/Laity at about 5:30 a.m. Monday morning (Jan. 5) after getting reports that a pedestrian was struck.Mounties say the female pedestrian was subsequently transported to hospital by B.C. Emergency Hea
  
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• Matthews named NHL’s third star of the week after breaking Sundin’s franchise record

  05-01-2026 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews has been named the NHL's third star of the week after breaking Mats Sundin's franchise goals record on Saturday.
  Matthews scored twice in the second period of a 4-3 overtime loss to the New York Islanders, the first tying Sundin's mark at 420, and the second breaking the mark at 421.
  Matthews, a three-time Maurice (Rocket) Richard Trophy winner as the league's leading goal-scorer, also had a hat trick last Thursday in a 6-5 win over Win
  
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• Quebec Liberals name ethics officer for leadership race after vote-buying allegations

  05-01-2026 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec Liberal Party has named an ethics officer to supervise the upcoming leadership race after allegations of wrongdoing sunk the previous leader.
  Among other responsibilities, the ethics officer will be required to ensure candidates respect financing rules under Quebec electoral law.
  The party says the role will be filled by Julien Morissette, a lawyer who has experience with the province's election legislation.
  Pablo Rodriguez spent just over six months as Liberal leader
  
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• As Ontario civil servants return to office full time, union calls order ‘ridiculous’

  05-01-2026 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ontario government employees are expected to return to the office five days per week starting Monday, despite objections from public sector unions.
  In August, Premier Doug Ford announced thousands of Ontario civil servants would return to the office full time by January, ending work-from-home and hybrid models that have persisted more than five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ford said it was time to bring people back to work so they can be mentored and collaborat
  
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• Veteran safety Katsantonis signs three-year extension with Hamilton Tiger-Cats

  05-01-2026 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — Canadian safety Stavros Katsantonis signed a three-year contract extension with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Monday.
  Katsantonis, 29, was slated to become a free agent next month.
  Katsantonis was a CFL all-star last season, registering 69 tackles, three special-teams tackles and six interceptions in 17 regular-season contests.
  The five-foot-nine, 193-pound Katsantonis has appeared in 81 career games with Hamilton, which selected him in the fourth round of the 2020 CFL draft out of
  
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• B.C. govt. awards contract for Hwy. 11 interchange replacement in Abbotsford, work to begin soon

  05-01-2026 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The B.C. government says a design-build contract has been awarded to reconstruct the Highway 11 (Sumas Way) interchange in Abbotsford, with construction set to begin this month.
  According to a statement from the Ministry of Transportation and Transit, the $242 million contract for this specific project has been extended to Metro Vancouver (Infrastructure) Partnership, a joint venture between Hall Constructors, Jacob Bros. and EBC Inc. Work is expected to begin in January 2026.
  
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