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• In Quebec’s strawberry fields, a tiny insect may forecast big climate impacts: study

  23-02-2024 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A bug encroaching on Quebec’s strawberry fields could help forecast climate change’s impact on agriculture, a new study suggests, the latest to consider what the authors called the “colossal task” of sustainable farming on a warming planet. 
  Researchers out of Laval University say migratory leafhoppers – small cicada-like insects that benefit from temperature increases – appear to be arriving earlier in the season and dominating fields around Quebec City.
  
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• Traffic pattern changes on Highway 1 in Abbotsford could begin tonight

  10-02-2026 01:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit says overnight traffic pattern changes on Highway 1 at the Highway 11 interchange in Abbotsford will begin as early as tonight.
  In conjunction with ongoing construction activities to widen Highway 1 through Abbotsford, the on-ramp from Highway 11 southbound to Highway 1 westbound will be closed just before midnight until 4:30 a.m., starting Monday, Feb. 9, through to Thursday, Feb 19.
  The ministry says traffic will be diverted so
  
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• Trump threatens to block opening of Windsor-Detroit bridge

  10-02-2026 00:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening not to allow a new bridge linking Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., to open, arguing that the United States should first be compensated.Trump says on social media that the U.S. will "immediately" start negotiations over the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which is set to open early this year after delays.He says the U.S. should own "at least one half of this asset."
  In his post, Trump says Canada has treated the United States "very unf
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada defeats Czechia 5-1, improves to 2-0 in women’s hockey prelims

  09-02-2026 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada's women's hockey team has defeated Czechia 5-1 to improve to 2-0 in preliminary round action at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
  More coming.
  The Canadian Press
  
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• Fact File: U.S. Olympic team did not use Tate McRae song to ‘troll’ Canada

  09-02-2026 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A video that supposedly showed Team USA walking out to a Tate McRae song during the Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony went viral on Instagram over the weekend. The video was generated with the Sora AI platform, as a watermark that briefly appears on the video shows, and it includes inaccurate flags, flag-bearers and clothing. The account that posted the video has a history of generating AI fakes.
  THE CLAIM
  A video posted to Instagram Friday claimed to show Team USA "trolling" Team Canada a
  
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• Montreal Alouettes sign American quarterback Anthony Brown Jr.

  09-02-2026 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes have added to their quarterback corps, signing American Anthony Brown Jr.
  The CFL club announced Monday it has signed the 27-year-old athlete to a two-year contract.
  Brown spent 2025 playing for the Houston Roughnecks of the UFL and made three starts.
  He previously spent time in the NFL with stints in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Buffalo and Arizona.
  The six-foot-one, 217-pound quarterback played three seasons at the University of Oregon and was the Ducks' starte
  
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• Canada’s Poulin leaves after hard hit vs Czechia, does not return for second period

  09-02-2026 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin left the first period of an Olympic women’s hockey game against Czechia with an apparent knee injury and did not return for the second.
  Poulin was checked by Kristyna Kaltounkova midway through the opening period and skated off, favouring her right knee.
  She returned to the ice with Canada’s second power-play unit while Kaltounkova served an illegal hit penalty, but skated out of the offensive zone seconds later in discomfort and hea
  
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• Babies given peanuts, fish, eggs early less likely to become allergic, study affirms

  09-02-2026 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A new Canadian study says giving babies peanuts, eggs, fish and other common food allergens early and consistently decreases the risk they'll be allergic to them.Senior author Dr. Derek Chu says researchers analyzed more than 190 food allergy studies from around the world to identify the strongest risk factors in developing food allergies.Their findings, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that delaying the introduction of peanut-containing foods until babies were over 12
  
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• Canadian captain Poulin shaken up by hard hit, later returns to bench

  09-02-2026 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin left the first period of an Olympic women’s hockey game against Czechia with an apparent knee injury before later returning to the bench.
  Poulin was checked by Kristyna Kaltounkova midway through the opening period and skated off, favouring her right knee.
  She returned to the ice with Canada’s second power-play unit while Kaltounkova served an illegal hit penalty, but skated out of the offensive zone seconds later in discomfort and h
  
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• ‘Strategic choice’: B.C. backs bid to host new defence bank in Vancouver

  09-02-2026 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia'sgovernment is supporting a private bid to host a new international bank to finance military projects by democratic nations, with Premier David Eby calling Vancouver the "strategic choice" to host it.
  The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank is intended to finance military projects for members of NATO and its allies.
  Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto have also been pitched as possible headquarters for the bank, but Eby says that if Canada wins the international host
  
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• Liberal MP asks government to reconsider return-to-office policy for public servants

  09-02-2026 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Liberal who unseated Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre from his Ottawa-area riding in the last election is criticizing the government's new return-to-office policy for federal workers.
  Bruce Fanjoy, who represents the Carleton riding in the House of Commons, says there's no evidence it will boost productivity and warns it will increase pollution.
  He also says the new policy makes it harder for the government to reduce its operating costs, improve affordability and protect t
  
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• Alberta’s sport minister says he hasn’t signed petition for separation vote

  09-02-2026 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta's sport minister says he hasn't signed his name to a petition that seeks to force a referendum on the province quitting Canada.
  Andrew Boitchenko says he and Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party government are focused on strengthening Alberta's position within Canada.
  Boitchenko's comment comes after a leader for the group organizing the separatist petition said some unnamed members of Smith's caucus have signed it.
  Smith has said she isn't aware of any cau
  
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• Fire south of U.S.-Canada border claims life of 95-year-old man

  09-02-2026 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUMAS – Emergency responders in Whatcom County say a fire at a residence south of the U.S.-Canada border Sunday morning has tragically claimed the life of a 95-year-old man.According to a joint statement from the Whatcom County Fire Marshals Office and Whatcom County Fire District 14, fire crews responded to the 3300 block of Halverstick Road in Sumas at 8:58 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 8) for a reported residential structure fire.On arrival, fire crews observed smoke and flames emanating from the h
  
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• Canadian Schellenberg ‘definitely’ won’t face death again at China retrial: lawyer

  09-02-2026 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The head of the law firm representing Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg says their client "definitely" won't face the death penalty again after China's top court overturned the sentence and announced his retrial on drug charges.
  Mo Shaoping confirms in an interview that the British Columbia native''s 2019 drug smuggling conviction has been overturned by the Supreme People’s Court, and the case has now been sent back to the Liaoning Higher People's Court for retrial.
  He says the Liaoning c
  
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• Mboko, Gauff suffer marathon doubles loss at Qatar Open tennis tournament

  09-02-2026 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA — Toronto's Victoria Mboko and American partner Coco Gauff lost their opening round doubles match at the Qatar Open on Monday.
  Mboko and Gauff dropped a marathon 4-6, 6-4, 11-9 decision to Spain's Cristina Bucsa and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez, the seventh seeds.Mboko and Gauff won just 42 per cent of their second-serve points, compared to 64 per cent for Bucsa and Melichar-Martinez, though both teams registered four breaks across the match.
  It was a better outcome for Canada's
  
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• Information commissioner expected to renew push for reforms to access law

  09-02-2026 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Members of a House of Commons committee are expected to get an earful from information commissioner Caroline Maynard this afternoon when they launch their latest study of Canada's much-maligned transparency law.
  For a $5 fee, people can use the Access to Information Act to ask for federal documents — anything from internal emails to policy memos — but the law is widely seen as outdated and unevenly administered.
  Federal agencies are supposed to either respond to an acc
  
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• Mounties investigating daytime break and enter at Chilliwack home

  09-02-2026 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Mounties in Chilliwack are investigating a daytime break and enter at a home on Ashwell Road this past week.
  According to a brief statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police were called to a reported break and enter on Wednesday afternoon, February 4. Police determined that two male suspects accessed the home through an unlocked window.
  Cpl. Kiener says the suspects were able to leave with various personal items.
  Second suspect in a break and ent
  
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• BC Greens won’t renew accord with NDP, citing ‘stalled or undelivered’ commitments

  09-02-2026 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.
  The deal known as the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord was intended to stabilize the government with its one-seat majority, while both parties worked on shared goals, but Green leader Emily Lowan says there have been "stalled or undelivered" commitments from the New Democrats.She says that any decision to call an election rests solely with Premier D
  
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• Health advocates say Liberals need to take a stance on Alberta’s health privatization

  09-02-2026 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A group of health care advocates is on Parliament Hill lobbying lawmakers and calling on the federal government to take a stance on Alberta's latest moves to expand private health care.
  Premier Danielle Smith's government has passed legislation that allows doctors to work in both the public and private health systems.
  The health coalition's chair Jason MacLean says that law violates the Canada Health Act and amounts to an attack on Canada's health-care system.
  MacLean says the fed
  
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• CP NewsAlert: BC Greens won’t renew accord with NDP citing stalled, undelivered vows

  09-02-2026 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.
  The deal known as the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord was intended to stabilize the government with its one-seat majority, while both parties worked on shared goals, but Green leader Emily Lowan says there have been "stalled or undelivered" commitments from the New Democrats.She says that any decision to call an election rests solely with Premier D
  
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• Union warns of public safety risks as Transport Canada cuts jobs

  09-02-2026 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A federal union is warning of threats to public safety as employees at Transport Canada face job cuts.
  The Union of Canadian Transportation Employees says the cuts are being implemented in a way that "places Canadians at increased risk" and it's particularly concerned about staffing reductions in inspection services and the transportation of dangerous goods.
  A government website providing data on workforce reductions says the government is currently targeting a reduction of 439 em
  
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• Shots fired, vehicles on fire in Maple Ridge: RCMP

  09-02-2026 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE – Mounties in Maple Ridge are investigating an incident of shots fired and two torched vehicles at a Maple Ridge home over the weekend.
  According to a statement from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, police were called to the 12700 block of 227B Street in Maple Ridge on Saturday morning, Feb. 7 at approximately 4:45 a.m.
  Responding RCMP members observed two vehicles on fire in the driveway of a residence in the area, along with evidence of shots being fired at the residence.
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• Grey Cup finalists Mace, Maas named as finalists for CFL’s coach of the year hour

  09-02-2026 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Corey Mace of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes are again the finalists for the CFL's coach of the year award.
  The CFL made the announcement Monday. Voting for the honour was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada.
  The award will be presented March 25 in Edmonton ahead of the league's annual national combine.Saskatchewan defeated Montreal 25-17 in the Grey Cup in November.
  Mace led Saskatchewan to a CFL-best 12-6 regular-season record in
  
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• Inquiry report on scandal at Quebec auto insurance board to be released Feb. 16

  09-02-2026 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — The commissioner who oversaw the public inquiry into the $500-million cost-overrun scandal at Quebec's auto insurance board is scheduled to release his report publicly on Feb. 16.
  Judge Denis Gallant presided over 75 days of hearings in 2025 into how costs soared when the auto board was launching a new a digital platform.
  More than 130 witnesses testified including Premier François Legault, who said he had been kept in the dark about the cost overruns and laid most o
  
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• Canada joins peers in condemning China’s conviction of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai

  09-02-2026 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is calling on China to release Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai after he was sentenced to 20 years in jail today under a sweeping national security law.
  Canada joins numerous peers, including the United States and the European Union, in condemning Beijing for the sentence imposed under a law used to crack down on Hong Kong's leading democracy activists.
  Lai is a British and Chinese citizen who founded a newspaper critical of the Hong Kong and Chin
  
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• Chilliwack small business to hold hiring fair this week

  09-02-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – A Chilliwack small business will hold a hiring fair as it prepares for the busy summer season.Kent’s Ice Cream Co., located in the Little Mountain area of Chilliwack, says it will hold a hiring fair this Saturday, February 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 47582 Yale Road.“We’re getting ready for our upcoming season & are looking for some individuals to join our scooping team!” the company said.The company says prospective applicants can apply to work at
  
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• Chilliwack energy analyst says it’s time for BC to unplug its rigid EV mandate

  09-02-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Former Chilliwack MLA turned energy analyst Barry Penner is applauding the federal government’s decision to swap what he calls a rigid electric-vehicle sales mandate with a more practical approach that better reflects economic and consumer realities.Rather than imposing rigid sales quotas, Penner says the feds are pivoting toward fleet-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions, with longer-term electric-vehicle adoption targets and greater flexibility for automakers &mdas
  
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• B.C. firm says some workers found dead after abduction from Mexico mine

  09-02-2026 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based firm that operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted last month says it has been told by a number of families that their relatives have been found dead.
  The statement posted on the website of Vizsla Silver Corp. says the firm was waiting for confirmation from Mexican authorities and would provide further updates as appropriate.
  The company does not say how many of its abducted employees have been found dead after they were taken from the sit
  
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• Ottawa commits $6M to fund cross-Canada research aimed at driving productivity

  09-02-2026 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The federal government has announced a $6 million grant aimed at improving Canada's economic productivity through a cross-country research partnership.The funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to be spread out over 15 years.The partnership includes 30 researchers from six federal bodies, six universities and three non-governmental organizations.It is being directed by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.The researchers are to colla
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. firm says some workers found dead after abduction from Mexico mine

  09-02-2026 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based firm which operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted last month says it has been told by a number of families that their relatives have been found dead.
  The statement posted on the website of Vizsla Silver Corp. says it is waiting for confirmation from Mexican authorities and will provide further updates as appropriate.
  The company does not say how many of its abducted employees have been found dead after they were taken from the site in Co
  
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