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• Islanders win NHL draft lottery, Sharks get second pick

  06-05-2025 02:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The New York Islanders won the NHL draft lottery on Monday and vaulted over nine teams, including the last-place San Jose Sharks, in winning the opportunity to have the No. 1 pick.
  The Islanders, who are in the midst of a front-office change, overcame having just a 3.5 per cent chance of winning the lottery. New York has the right to pick first for the fifth time in team history, and first since selecting John Tavares with the No. 1 pick in 2009.
  Utah won the second lottery drawing and made the
  
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• Suzuki scores in OT as Canadiens rally to beat Panthers 3-2

  31-12-2025 08:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki got a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime &mdas
  
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• Thailand releases 18 Cambodian prisoners of war as part of ceasefire agreement

  31-12-2025 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Wednesday released 18 Cambodian prisoners of war held for five months, fulfilling the terms of a ceasefire agreement the two countries signed to end bitter fighting along their border.The release was stipulated in the ceasefire agreement signed Saturday by the defense ministers of the two countries at the same border checkpoint between Thailand’s Chanthaburi province and Cambodia’s Pailin province where the soldiers were released.“The repatriati
  
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• Flyers top Canucks 6-3 in head coach Rick Tocchet’s return to Vancouver

  31-12-2025 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet guided Philadelphia to a 6-3 victory over his former team, the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
  Tocchet, who walked away from the same position with the Canucks in late April, was recognized on the big screen midway through the first period and was met by both boisterous boos and a smattering of cheers.
  Bobby Brick, Noah Cates and Travis Konecny each registered a goal and an assist, while Carl Grundstrom, Owen Tippet and Christian Dvorak also scored
  
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• NHL roundup: Suzuki scores in OT as Canadiens rally to stun Panthers 3-2

  31-12-2025 05:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki got a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.
  Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.
  Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime &md
  
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• Canadiens’ rally spoils Marchand’s night with 3-2 overtime win over Panthers

  31-12-2025 04:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki scored a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.
  Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.
  Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime
  
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• B.C. paramedics union says negotiations broke down, warns of a possible strike

  31-12-2025 04:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The union representing thousands of paramedics, dispatchers, and call takers in British Columbia is warning about potential job action after it says contract negotiations broke down before Christmas.A statement from Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia says that it has been in collective agreement negotiations with the employer, BC Emergency Health Services, since September.
  It says it is now engaging its membership about possible job action, including the possibility of a
  
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• Woll nets shutout as injury-riddled Maple Leafs burn Devils 4-0

  31-12-2025 03:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Joseph Woll made 33 saves for his first shutout of the season, while Bobby McMann, Nicolas Roy, Calle Jarnkrok and Matthew Knies scored as the injury-riddled Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the New Jersey Devils 4-0 on Tuesday.
  Playing their third game in four nights since the Christmas break, the Maple Leafs were without William Nylander (lower-body injury) for a second straight game, Auston Matthews (lower body), Chris Tanev (lower body) and Dakota Joshua, who remained in Detroit a
  
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• Hensley almost unbeatable in net as Frost cruise to 5-1 win over Sceptres

  31-12-2025 03:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Kendall Coyne Schofield scored her league-leading sixth and seventh goals, Nicole Hensley shined with a 31-save outing, and the Minnesota Frost topped the Toronto Sceptres 5-1 on Tuesday night in the Professional Women's Hockey League.
  Katy Knoll, Britta Curl-Salemme and Grace Zumwinkle also scored for Minnesota (4-1-1-2). Taylor Heise had three assists.
  Daryl Watts had the lone goal for Toronto (4-0-2-3). Elaine Chuli made 14 saves, with Raygan Kirk turning away seven shots in r
  
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• Panthers pay tribute to Brad Marchand’s 1,000th point with pregame ceremony

  31-12-2025 03:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand's first NHL point came just 26 seconds into the second period of his first game with the Boston Bruins. It seemed very easy, so easy that he was certain he'd be all over the scoresheets on a regular basis.Oops. Nearly a full year passed before his second NHL point.“After the first, I'm like, ‘Oh, this, it’s not too hard,'” Marchand said. “But I had a pretty rude awakening after that. You just see how hard it is every night to
  
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• Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate special election

  31-12-2025 03:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.Hardman bested Republican Lucas Loftin to win the seat representing parts of Des Moines’ suburbs. It became vacant after the Oct. 6 death of state Sen. Claire Celsi, a Democrat.Hardman becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.A GOP win would have given the party a super
  
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• Former US Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, of Colorado, dies at 92

  31-12-2025 02:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENVER (AP) — Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former senator and U.S. representative of Colorado known for his passionate advocacy of American Indian issues, died Tuesday. He was 92.Campbell died of natural causes surrounded by his family, his daughter, Shanan Campbell, confirmed to The Associated Press.Campbell, a Democrat who stunned his party by joining the Republican Party, stood out in Congress as much for his unconventional dress — cowboy boots, bolo ties and ponytail — as h
  
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• Panthers pay tribute to Brad Marchand’s 1,000th point with pre-game ceremony

  31-12-2025 01:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand's first NHL point came just 26 seconds into the second period of his first game with the Boston Bruins. It seemed very easy, so easy that he was certain he'd be all over the scoresheets on a regular basis.
  Oops. Nearly a full year passed before his second NHL point.
  “After the first, I'm like, ‘Oh, this, it’s not too hard,'” Marchand said. “But I had a pretty rude awakening after that. You just see how hard it is every night
  
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• Harman Bhangu says he will ‘most likely’ run for leadership of B.C. Conservatives

  31-12-2025 01:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — B.C. Conservative MLA Harman Bhangu says he will "most likely" run for the leadership of the provincial Opposition party, if the yet-to-be-released rules for the race are to his liking.Bhangu, a former trucker who was elected as MLA for Abbotsford-Langley in 2024, says he will make his final decision once the party has released the rules, which he expects in the second or third week of the new year.
  His signal comes after Bhangu's friend Aaron Gunn, who is a federal Conservative
  
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• Junta leader is declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election

  31-12-2025 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election held over the weekend, according to incomplete results released late on Tuesday, the country's first election since a 2021 coup.Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far, according to the General Directorate of Elections. Ahead of the vote on Sunday, analysts had predicted that a weakened opposition would result in Doumbouya's win.The election was widely as a mean
  
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• Chiefs Defenceman Jayden Veney Returns to Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  31-12-2025 01:05 via news.google.com
  Chiefs Defenceman Jayden Veney Returns to Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• A train crash on the line to Peru’s famed Machu Picchu kills 1 person and injures at least 30

  31-12-2025 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two trains taking tourists to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring around 30 passengers.The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told The Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the rail line connecting Machu Picchu with the nearby city of Cuzco after the accident.According to the company
  
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• Trump administration says it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota after series of fraud schemes

  31-12-2025 00:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration announced on Tuesday that it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.Acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jim O’Neill announced on the social platform X that the step is in response to “blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country.”“We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the frau
  
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• Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya is declared winner of Guinea’s election, provisional results show

  31-12-2025 00:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s election held over the weekend, according to provisional results released late on Tuesday.Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far, according to the General Directorate of Elections. The election on Sunday was the country’s first election since a 2021 coup, as analysts said a weakened opposition would result in Doumbouya's win.The vote was the culmination of a transition process
  
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• Police looking to solve mysterious crash near Hope that tragically killed a 21-year-old Vancouver woman

  31-12-2025 00:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE/COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY — The BC Highway Patrol is appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage to solve a mysterious motor vehicle incident northeast of Hope that sadly killed a 21-year-old Vancouver woman.
  According to a statement from BCHP spokesperson Corporal Michael McLaughlin, a white Toyota Yaris in the southbound lane of Highway 5 went down an embankment on Saturday, Dec. 27 between 11:50 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. The Yaris had been traveling southbound between the Sowaqua chain-up area
  
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• Drastic course correction led Canada’s Keaton Verhoeff to world juniors

  31-12-2025 00:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Braeden Cootes remembers a very different Keaton Verhoeff.
  The pair from just outside Edmonton crossed paths at rinks growing up. Cootes was a forward. Verhoeff suited up as a goaltender.
  Their careers would take off and both are now living a dream playing for Canada at the world junior hockey championship. Cootes remains a forward. Verhoeff, however, drastically changed course.
  The Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., product hung up his pads, blocker and glove at age 12, shifting from
  
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• Teen reported missing in North Vancouver found dead in Vancouver home

  30-12-2025 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Major crime investigators are looking into the death of a 16-year-old girl found dead in a Vancouver home after first being reported missing in North Vancouver.
  Police say they were called to the home in the area of East Pender and Renfrew streets at about 9 a.m. and discovered the dead teen there.
  They say the victim had been reported missing one day earlier and was the subject of an investigation by North Vancouver RCMP before her body was discovered.
  Police say a cause of de
  
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• Margaret Dueck - Chilliwack Progress

  30-12-2025 23:49 via news.google.com
  Margaret Dueck  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Man arrested in Vancouver after spray painter threatens pedestrian with knife

  30-12-2025 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A 50-year-old man has been arrested in Vancouver for allegedly trying to spray a stranger with paint and threatening him with a knife after being confronted.
  Vancouver police say the incident happened on Saturday around 9:48 a.m. near the intersection of West Hastings and Hamilton streets.
  They say a person walking to work called police, reporting he confronted the suspect who was allegedly spray-painting in the area.
  The accused then allegedly sprayed toward the pedestrian and
  
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• ‘Mysterious’ crash kills Vancouver driver on Coquihalla Highway

  30-12-2025 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Police in British Columbia are seeking public help in their investigation into what they call a "mysterious" fatal crash on the Coquihalla Highway on the weekend.
  The BC Highway Patrol says the crash happened on Saturday between 11:50 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. near Hope, between Othello Road and the Sowaqua chain-up area.
  Police say a white Toyota Yaris hatchback left the highway and crashed down an embankment, and the 21-year-old woman driver from Vancouver died
  
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• Martone setting the tone for Canada ahead of NYE clash win Finland at world juniors

  30-12-2025 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Porter Martone stood up and faced the music.
  The Canadian captain at the world junior hockey championship was issued a warning by a disciplinary committee for crossing the red line in warm-ups ahead of a feisty opening-night rematch against Czechia — the team that eliminated his country at the quarterfinal stage of the last two tournaments.
  Martone then took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after sealing a 7-5 victory with an empty-net goal. Hockey Canada was also sub
  
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• Vancouver woman dead after ‘mysterious’ Coquihalla Hwy. collision near Hope - Chilliwack Progress

  30-12-2025 23:07 via news.google.com
  Vancouver woman dead after ‘mysterious’ Coquihalla Hwy. collision near Hope  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Part of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal skateway set to open on Dec. 31

  30-12-2025 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A section of Ottawa's historic Rideau Canal skateway is set to open the morning of Dec. 31.
  Beginning at 8 a.m., skaters will be able to make their way down a 3.4-kilometre section from the Somerset West access point to the Bank Street Bridge.
  At 7.8 kilometres long, the Rideau Canal skateway is known as the world’s largest skating rink — though conditions haven't always been favourable for skating in recent years.
  The skateway — a UNESCO World Heritage Site &mda
  
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• ECHL players ratify new labor deal, ending strike that had postponed games

  30-12-2025 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Professional Hockey Players’ Association announced Tuesday that its membership had ratified a new, five-year collective bargaining agreement with the ECHL following a strike that forced the postponement of 41 games since last week.
  The new agreement will run through the 2029-30 season for the North American minor league two tiers below the NHL. Games resume Tuesday night. after the postponements began Friday.
  “This agreement reflects the unity, resolve, professionalism and discip
  
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• Person found injured after shootout involving police in Quebec Far North has died

  30-12-2025 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog says one of two people who were found injured after an exchange of gunfire involving the Nunavik Police Service on Dec. 20 has died.
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes says the person who died had been found inside the residence following the shooting.
  Inukjuak Mayor Bobby Epoo had previously said the people who were hurt were a man in his 30s and a six-year-old girl.
  A news release from the Kativik Regional Government published Dec. 23 s
  
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