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• Jerry Solowan - Chilliwack Progress

  09-12-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Two Kamloops teens die in Alberta highway crash

  03-02-2026 02:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team says three players have been killed in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  Two Kamloops teenagers were among three junior hockey teammates killed in a horrific highway crash in Alberta Monday (Feb. 2).
  A photo posted to social media identifies the victims as J.J. Wright and Cameron Casorso, both 18 years old and from Kamloops, and 17-year-old American-born player Caden Fine.
  According to the Mustangs, the players were o
  
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• B.C. minister is ‘cautiously optimistic’ Ottawa will help after Fraser Valley floods

  03-02-2026 02:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's emergencies minister says she's cautiously optimistic about securing federal funding to prevent future flooding in the Abbotsford region, as she prepares to head to Ottawa with the city's mayor.
  Kelly Greene's mission to Ottawa on Tuesday with Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens and Sumas First Nation Chief Dalton Silver comes more than seven weeks after Siemens blasted federal "inaction" on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly inundated his city.
  She says in a
  
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• Alberta junior hockey team says 3 players dead in vehicle crash

  03-02-2026 02:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team says three players have been killed in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  The team says in a Facebook post that the crash happened Monday.
  No other details were provided about the crash.
  The Mustangs are based in Stavely, Alta., about an hour's drive south of Calgary, and play in the U.S. Premier Hockey League.
  RCMP said officers responded Monday morning to a crash on Highway 2.
  The team says it's working closely with autho
  
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• Veteran defensive lineman Dylan Wynn agrees in principle to deal with Redblacks

  03-02-2026 01:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Ottawa Redblacks agreed in principle to a contract with American defensive lineman Dylan Wynn on Monday.
  The move came on the second day of the CFL's negotiation window. After a flurry of deals when the window opened Sunday, the pace slowed noticeably on Monday.
  Wynn, 32, spent the last two seasons with the Montreal Alouettes. He had 20 tackles and a sack in 14 regular-season games in 2025.
  The six-foot-one, 290-pound Wynn enters his ninth CFL season, having also spent time previously with T
  
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• Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians

  03-02-2026 01:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Feb. 3. Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion
  
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• Appeals court overturns former UCLA gynecologist’s sex abuse conviction

  03-02-2026 01:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former campus gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on sex abuse charges. James Heaps was sentenced in 2023 to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients. The ruling ordered the case to be sent back for retrial. A three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Heaps was denied a fair trial because his defense counsel was not made aware of
  
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• She went missing in Canada in 1985. She may have been a Florida serial murder victim

  03-02-2026 01:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It was in January of 1985 when the mixed skeletal remains of two people were discovered in a wooded area of Malabar, Fla., and while one woman was identified through dental records, the identity of the other person remained a mystery for 41 years.Police now say the mystery bones belonged to Jeanette Marcotte, who was last seen in Saskatchewan in the early 1980s. A DNA firm that assists law enforcement with cold cases announced her identification last week.
  The other bones belonged to Kimberly Wa
  
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• Global Affairs confirms a Canadian has died in Japan

  03-02-2026 00:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says the department is aware of the death of a Canadian citizen in Japan.
  Japanese media have identified the victim as 39-year-old Ashley Kay Bernice.
  Reports say she died on Sunday after falling into a waterfall basin while snowboarding off course at a ski resort in Japan.
  John Babcock, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, did not confirm the victim's name.
  Babcock says Canadian officials are providing consular assistance and are reaching out to local a
  
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• Former minister Baird says he wasn’t consulted about Epstein’s invite to 2014 seminar

  03-02-2026 00:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The office of former foreign affairs minister John Baird says neither he nor the Canadian government were consulted on a 2014 seminar invitation list that included convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Baird's name appears in documents related to Epstein recently released by the U.S. Justice Department, including work-related guest lists and a document inviting Epstein to a one-week seminar in Austria that was supported by the foreign ministries of Canada and Norway.
  That documen
  
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• Rizqy says partisan use of legislature funds led to chief of staff firing

  02-02-2026 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Marwah Rizqy is breaking her silence about what prompted her to fire her chief of staff, leading to her expulsion from the Quebec Liberal party caucus last year.
  In a statement of defence in a civil lawsuit brought by Geneviève Hinse, Rizqy claims Hinse tried to circumvent the rules of the national assembly by using parliamentary wing funds for partisan purposes.
  Rizqy claims that despite warnings, Hinse and former Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez wanted to violate nat
  
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• Three foreign nationals arrested by extortion patrol are charged in B.C. shooting

  02-02-2026 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., say three men arrested on Sunday by officers on an anti-extortion patrol are all foreign nationals and have been charged over gunfire at a home.
  Harjot Singh, Taranveer Singh and Dayajeet Singh Billing have been charged with one count each of discharging a firearm, and all have been remanded in custody until Thursday.
  The suspects aged 19 to 21 were arrested by patrol officers after an early morning report of shots fired and a small fire outside a home in S
  
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• Former PM Harper says he did not sign Alberta separation petition

  02-02-2026 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he did not sign a petition seeking to force a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada.
  Speaking at an event today in Ottawa, Harper said that in this moment of revived nationalism around the world, there is no reason why Canadians should not feel deep pride in their country.
  Harper was speaking alongside former prime minister Jean Chrétien at a panel event on Arctic sovereignty at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa.
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• Virginia man in ‘au pair affair’ case convicted of murdering wife and another man in elaborate ruse

  02-02-2026 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhães, the au pair, shot him, too. But officials argued in court that the story was
  
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• Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says

  02-02-2026 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday.Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She said the body-worn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available.“We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” Noem said in the social media pos
  
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• Canadian woman’s remains found in 1985 linked to suspected serial killer in Florida

  02-02-2026 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TITUSVILLE — A sheriff's office in Florida says the remains of a woman identified by DNA as a Canadian who went missing in the 1980s were found with those of a second woman, who was thought to have fallen victim to a serial killer.
  DNA firm Othram, which worked with Florida law enforcement, says it has identified the remains of Jeanette Marcotte, who was last seen in Saskatchewan and was thought to be heading to Vancouver when she went missing.Tod Goodyear, public information officer with
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canadian woman’s remains linked to suspected serial killer in Florida

  02-02-2026 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TITUSVILLE — A sheriff's office in Florida says the remains of a woman identified by DNA as a Canadian who went missing in the 1980s were found mixed with those of a second woman, who was thought to have fallen victim to a serial killer.
  DNA firm Othram, which works with Florida law enforcement, says it has identified the remains of Jeanette Marcotte, last seen in Saskatchewan and was thought to be heading to Vancouver when she went missing in the early 1980s.
  Tod Goodyear, public informat
  
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• Fire chief says cause of fire that sank three yachts will likely never be found

  02-02-2026 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A marina fire in Sidney, B.C. has sunk three yachts worth millions, and the community's fire chief says investigators may never find the cause.Brett Mikkelsen says there is no evidence that the fire is suspicious, but the damage to the vessels, which now sit under about seven metres of water, make it unlikely that a cause will be found.
  Mikkelsen says he expects that fire and insurance investigators will "piece" their way through what remains of the vessels, once they have been
  
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• Fact File: Photos of Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry on Grammys red carpet are fake

  02-02-2026 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  On Sunday, photos appeared online that seemed to show former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his partner Katy Perry on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The photos are fake. The Getty Images watermark on the photos does not match the real logo of the photo supplier, and the credited photographer does not seem to exist. Photo archives, media reports and the social media accounts of Trudeau and Perry show no evidence that either of them attended the ceremony.
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• B.C. man feared a ‘hit’ on him before he and family found dead, inquest hears

  02-02-2026 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A police officer testifying at an inquest into the death of a couple and their two children in Prince Rupert, B.C., in 2023 says the father believed he was the target of a "hit."
  RCMP Const. Jason Kettle is testifying at the inquest into the deaths of Christopher Duong, Janet Nguyen and their sons, aged two and four.
  A notice of civil claim filed by B.C.'s director of civil forfeiture in 2015 describes Duong as a "violent gang member and drug trafficker" who was well known to police, with a hist
  
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• Veteran Canadian safety Marc-Antoine Dequoy announces his CFL retirement

  02-02-2026 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Marc-Antoine Dequoy is calling it a career.
  The 31-year-old Canadian safety announced his CFL retirement Monday, after five seasons with the Montreal Alouettes. Dequoy, of l’Île-Bizard, Que., is scheduled to meet with reporters Tuesday in Montreal.
  Slated to become a free agent Feb. 10, Dequoy said he had a deal with Montreal on the table but ultimately decided to walk away from the game.
  Montreal took the six-foot-three, 198-pound Dequoy in the second round, No 14 o
  
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• UPDATE: Highway 1 in Abbotsford reopens after police incident involving man with weapon

  02-02-2026 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  UPDATE 12:15 P.M. MONDAY: The AbbyPD now reports that Highway 1 eastbound at Mt. Lehman Road has reopened to all traffic. All off-ramps and on-ramps have also reopened to the public.
  Heavy congestion remains in the area. AbbyPD wishes to thank the public for their patience as we resolved this incident.
  Original story from 12 p.m. Monday:
  ABBOTSFORD – The Abbotsford Police Department says Highway 1 eastbound is closed at Mt. Lehman Road for an ongoing police incident related to a mental hea
  
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• WNBA and players’ union meet for 3 hours to try to push forward stalled CBA negotiations

  02-02-2026 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the players’ union met for a few hours Monday for the first time in several weeks to try to move the stalled collective bargaining negotiations forward.
  Union president Nneka Ogwumike walked out of the NBA offices around 1:30 p.m. — three hours after she got there — and said “no we can't (talk)” when asked for comment. She was joined by executive committee members Brianna Turner and Alysha Clark. Kelsey Plum and Napheesa Collier pl
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Bill Blair resigning seat, will become next high commissioner to U.K.

  02-02-2026 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former cabinet minister Bill Blair will resign his Toronto seat in the House of Commons, to take on a new role as Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
  “Mr. Blair brings four decades of experience serving Canadians and protecting their security,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday. “During his time as the Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest, he has served in Canada’s Cabinet as Minister of National Defence, Minister of Publi
  
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• ‘We’re not defined by our past’: Expectations high as Vancouver FC kicks off season

  02-02-2026 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Vancouver FC are beginning their 2026 campaign with a monumental task — slaying a giant.After finishing last season at the bottom of the Canadian Premier League standings, VFC will start this year against Liga MX heavyweights Cruz Azul in CONCACAF Champions Cup action.The two-legged series kicks off in Langely, B.C., on Wednesday before shifting to Puebla City, Mexico, on Feb. 12."It’s going to be a big challenge. But it’s good that we get to play them at home first," said Vanc
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. man feared a ‘hit’ on him before he and family died, inquest hears

  02-02-2026 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A police officer testifying at an inquest into the death of a couple and their two children in Prince Rupert, B.C., in 2023 says the father believed he would be the target of a "hit."
  RCMP Const. Jason Kettle is testifying at the inquest into the deaths of Christopher Duong, Janet Nguyen and their sons, aged two and four.
  A notice of civil claim filed by B.C.'s director of civil forfeiture in 2015 describes Duong as a "violent gang member and drug trafficker" who was well known to police, with a
  
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• Police incident in Abbotsford closes Highway 1 eastbound at Mt. Lehman Road Monday

  02-02-2026 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – The Abbotsford Police Department says Highway 1 eastbound is closed at Mt. Lehman Road for an ongoing police incident related to a mental health call in the area.
  According to a brief statement from the AbbyPD, there is no public safety risk in the immediate area.A heavy emergency response is noted in the area.Sgt. Paul Walker told Fraser Valley Today that the mental health call involved a man with a weapon.“We have the call contained,” Sgt. Walker said in a text m
  
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• Police say non-compliant dune buggy belongs in video game, not area roads: Chilliwack RCMP

  02-02-2026 20:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Mounties in Chilliwack say a multitude of violation tickets were recently issued to the operator of a non-compliant dune buggy after it was deemed non-compliant with the Motor Vehicle Act.According to a social media post from the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, police say they removed a dune buggy from the roadway and issued nine violation tickets to a motorist who decided to take it through downtown Chilliwack.Police provided a picture of the dune buggy parked in the Coast Salish
  
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• B.C. forestry review seeks overhaul, moving focus off harvest volumes

  02-02-2026 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A government-commissioned review of forestry in British Columbia is calling for the system to be razed and rebuilt with a focus on trust and transparency about the state of the province's forests, shifting away "from managing harvest volumes to managing lands."
  The final report from the Provincial Forestry Advisory Council says trust has been eroded by inconsistent forest data controlled largely by industry and government, and calls for the creation of a transparent forest inve
  
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• Sardis Falcons send two more standouts to U Sports

  02-02-2026 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – The Sardis Falcons football program says it is proud to announce that two of its standouts this past season will advance to the next level this fall to play U Sports football.In a statement, Sardis Falcons football coach Sukh Parmar says senior receiver Alex Cayer and defensive tackle Mostafa Mohajermoghaddam have committed to Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where they will continue both their academic and football careers.
  Both athletes were key contribu
  
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