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• Jets in must-win mode after dropping 3-1 decision to Stars in Game 4

  14-05-2025 07:02
  
  DALLAS — As the final minutes of regulation time ticked down Tuesday night, Winnipeg Jets executive chairman Mark Chipman paced outside his team’s dressing room.Hands in his pant pockets, head facing down, Chipman occasionally glanced up at the television monitor in the hallway.He watched as his team pressed late but couldn’t cut the deficit, eventually dropping a 3-1 decision to Dallas in a Game 4 loss that left the Jets in must-win mode for this second-round NHL playoff serie
  
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• Desbiens, Poulin lead Victoire to 2-1 shootout win over Sceptres in Halifax

  18-12-2025 04:38
  HALIFAX —
  Ann-Renée Desbiens made 35 saves and Marie-Philip Poulin scored the shootout winner to help the Montreal Victoire beat the Toronto Sceptres in the Professional Women's Hockey League's first-ever game in Halifax on Wednesday.
  Poulin buried the lone goal in a 10-round shootout, and Desbiens stopped all five Sceptres attempts as a sold-out crowd of nearly 10,438 inside Scotiabank Centre cheered equally for Toronto and Montreal.
  Maya Labad scored in regulation for Montreal (2-
  
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• Making lawyers swear Oath of Allegiance to monarch unconstitutional: Alberta court

  18-12-2025 04:33
  EDMONTON — Alberta's top court has ruled that requiring prospective lawyers to swear the Oath of Allegiance to the reigning monarch is unconstitutional and infringes on religious freedom.
  The Court of Appeal of Alberta made the decision Tuesday in Prabjot Wirring's years-long case against the province and Law Society of Alberta.
  The court said the legally-required oath forced Wirring to choose between practising law in Alberta and his faith as an amritdhari Sikh.
  The decision hinged on whe
  
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• Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel

  18-12-2025 04:14
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrats while announcing he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.The remarks came as the nation is preparing to settle down to celebrate the holidays, yet Trump was focused more on divisions within the country than a sense of unity. His speech was a rehash of his recent messa
  
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• US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion

  18-12-2025 04:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China.The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Donald Trump, who made scant mention of foreign policy issues and did not speak about China or Taiwan at all. U.S.-Chinese tensions have ebbed and flowed duri
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died

  18-12-2025 03:02
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had entered hospice on Saturday wh
  
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• Reports: A Chicago-based investment group is nearing a deal to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins

  18-12-2025 02:27
  A family-owned, Chicago-based investment company is closing in on a deal to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group.
  Multiple outlets, including Victory Sports and ESPN, citing anonymous sources, reported Wednesday that the Hoffmann Family of Companies is nearing the final stages of an agreement to purchase one of the league's marquee franchises. Any purchase would need to be approved by the NHL's Board of Governors, though that is often merely a formality.The financial details
  
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• Popkum, Agassiz firefighters called to fully involved structure fire Tuesday night near Popkum

  18-12-2025 02:27
  POPKUM — Popkum and Agassiz firefighters were called to a structure fire that erupted at a residential duplex Tuesday night (Dec. 16) near Popkum.According to a statement from Fraser Valley Regional District spokesperson Samantha Piper, Popkum firefighters were first paged out at approximately 9:45 p.m. to a fully involved structure fire on Alexis Crescent.Agassiz fire crews were called for mutual aid and responded with 11 members.Popkum Fire enlisted the help of 24 of its members to attac
  
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• City of Abbotsford lifts all remaining evacuation orders and existing evacuation alerts

  18-12-2025 02:27
  ABBOTSFORD — In an encouraging sign Wednesday afternoon, the City of Abbotsford says it has downgraded all remaining evacuation orders for 11 properties to evacuation alerts and canceled evacuation alerts for 474 properties in Sumas Prairie.
  According to a statement from the municipality, floodwaters have receded to the point that the BC River Forecast Centre has downgraded the Sumas River from Flood Warning to High Stream Flow Advisory, now that all residents in Sumas Prairie can safely r
  
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• US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington

  18-12-2025 01:30
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army played a role in causing the collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter near the nation's capital, killing 67 people. The official response to the first lawsuit filed by one of the victims’ families said that the government is liable in the crash partly because the air traffic controller violated procedures about when to rely on pilots to maintain
  
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• FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No 2 official

  17-12-2025 23:44
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.The departure, which had been expected, would be among the highest-profile resignations of the Trump adm
  
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• Bird strike cuts power to over 2,700 customers in Chilliwack - Fraser Valley Today

  14-12-2025 21:09
  Bird strike cuts power to over 2,700 customers in Chilliwack  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• 35-year-old woman reported missing: Chilliwack RCMP - Fraser Valley Today

  13-12-2025 22:21
  35-year-old woman reported missing: Chilliwack RCMP  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Chilliwack expects localized floods, increased risk of debris slides ahead of upcoming rainfall - Fraser Valley Today

  13-12-2025 20:06
  Chilliwack expects localized floods, increased risk of debris slides ahead of upcoming rainfall  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Highway 1 remains closed in Abbotsford amid ongoing flooding - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2025 19:56
  Highway 1 remains closed in Abbotsford amid ongoing flooding  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack flood update - Yahoo News Canada

  13-12-2025 18:59
  Chilliwack flood update  Yahoo News Canada
  
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• Chilliwack flood update - Global News

  13-12-2025 18:54
  Chilliwack flood update  Global News
  
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• Floodwaters seep into Chilliwack resident's basement - MSN

  13-12-2025 15:45
  Floodwaters seep into Chilliwack resident's basement  MSN
  
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• Frieda Schramm - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2025 05:57
  Frieda Schramm  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Floodwaters seep into Chilliwack resident's basement - Yahoo News Canada

  13-12-2025 01:40
  Floodwaters seep into Chilliwack resident's basement  Yahoo News Canada
  
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• Chilliwack crews work to restore creek after slide in the eastern hillsides - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2025 01:21
  Chilliwack crews work to restore creek after slide in the eastern hillsides  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Traffic delays stack up as flood keeps Highway 1 closed - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2025 01:11
  Traffic delays stack up as flood keeps Highway 1 closed  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Okanagan basketball teams detoured by highway closures gather for tourney - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 23:50
  Okanagan basketball teams detoured by highway closures gather for tourney  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• What’s happening Chilliwack: List of events from Dec. 12 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 23:29
  What’s happening Chilliwack: List of events from Dec. 12 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. Transit route from Chilliwack to Agassiz suspended - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 20:39
  B.C. Transit route from Chilliwack to Agassiz suspended  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 23 damaged sites discovered on Hwy. 3 between Hope and Princeton - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 19:54
  23 damaged sites discovered on Hwy. 3 between Hope and Princeton  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 2 PJHL hockey festivals to be held in Lower Mainland - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 19:12
  2 PJHL hockey festivals to be held in Lower Mainland  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Heavy traffic in Agassiz following flood-related highway closures - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 18:41
  Heavy traffic in Agassiz following flood-related highway closures  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP ask for public’s help to find missing 24-year-old woman - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 18:21
  Chilliwack RCMP ask for public’s help to find missing 24-year-old woman  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Evacuation alerts from Chilliwack delivered with potential to become evacuation order - Chilliwack Progress

  12-12-2025 18:06
  Evacuation alerts from Chilliwack delivered with potential to become evacuation order  Chilliwack Progress
  
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