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• Liberal MP proposes changes to Divorce Act

  28-01-2026 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Liberal MP is pushing for changes to the Divorce Act to give children a say in divorce proceedings and limit the effects of coercive control and domestic violence.
  The legislation is up for its first debate today and is expected to face a vote in the House of Commons next week.
  It would require that family violence be taken into account in divorce proceedings and challenges the premise that child custody must be divided equally between divorcing partners.
  Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner
  
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• Iran says it now considers EU militaries to be terrorist groups

  01-02-2026 07:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The speaker of Iran's parliament said Sunday that the Islamic Republic now considers all European Union militaries to be terrorist groups, lashing out after the bloc declared the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a terror group over its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.The announcement by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf will likely be mostly symbolic. Iran has used a 2019 law to reciprocally declare other nations' militaries terror groups followin
  
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• Hughes posts two points, Minnesota Wild trounce Edmonton Oilers 7-3

  01-02-2026 06:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Quinn Hughes scored, contributed an assist and made franchise history Saturday night as his Minnesota Wild thumped the Edmonton Oilers 7-3.
  The star defenceman — acquired from the Vancouver Canucks on Dec. 12 — extended his point streak to eight games (two goals, 11 assists) and now holds the record for the longest points streak by a Wild defenceman.Joel Eriksson Ek, Mats Zuccarello and Brock Faber also had a goal and an assist apiece for Minnesota (32-14-10).Goals f
  
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• NHL roundup: Surging Penguins win sixth straight, edge Rangers 6-5

  01-02-2026 06:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Anthony Mantha and Noel Acciari scored two goals apiece, and the surging Pittsburgh Penguins held off the New York Rangers 6-5 on Saturday for their sixth straight NHL victory.
  Mantha and Acciari beat Jonathan Quick twice in a span of just over three minutes early in the first period to give the Penguins an early cushion. Mantha made it 3-0 with an easy tap-in in the second period. Acciari and Rickard Rakell scored 20 seconds apart early in the third to push Pittsburgh&rs
  
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• Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP

  01-02-2026 06:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. Rehmet, a labor union leader and veteran, defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. With almost all votes counted, Rehmet had a comfortable lead of more than 14 percentage points.His victory added to Democrats’ record of overperf
  
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• One person transported to hospital after car crashes into semi-truck, sending it off Hwy. 1 (VIDEO)

  01-02-2026 05:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – One person has been transported to hospital after a two-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck happened Saturday afternoon in Abbotsford.
  The Abbotsford Police Department says emergency first responders were dispatched to Highway 1 at the Peardonville Road overpass after a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle crashed at 4:17 p.m. Saturday.
  One person was transported to hospital with minor injuries.
  There were no road closures in the aftermath of the crash, as both eastbound lanes
  
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• Democrat Christian Menefee wins election for US House, narrowing GOP’s slim majority

  01-02-2026 05:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a Saturday special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority. Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn&rsq
  
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• One person transported to hospital after crash involving semi-truck, passenger car on Highway 1: AbbyPD

  01-02-2026 05:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – One person has been transported to hospital after a two-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck happened Saturday afternoon in Abbotsford.The Abbotsford Police Department says emergency first responders were dispatched to Highway 1 at the Peardonville Road overpass after a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle crashed.One person was transported to hospital with minor injuries.There were no road closures in the aftermath of the crash, as both eastbound lanes of Highway 1 remained ope
  
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• James MacDonald named Canadian harness racing’s top driver for fifth straight year

  01-02-2026 05:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — James MacDonald was named Canadian harness racing's top driver for a historic fifth straight year Saturday at the O'Brien Awards.
  MacDonald, a resident of Guelph, Ont., posted 369 wins and $9.2 million in purse money in 2025 and also added a second world driving title.
  MacDonald was the regular driver for two O’Brien Award winners, Chantilly and Strobe Lite. His biggest stakes win of the year was the Hambletonian Oaks with Conversano.
  Dr. Ian Moore, of Cambridge, Ont., earne
  
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• Tkachuk, Ullmark lead Senators to 4-1 win over Devils

  01-02-2026 04:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — In his first game in 35 days, Linus Ullmark made 26 saves to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 4-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.
  Ullmark was making his first start since taking personal leave on Dec. 28.
  Brady Tkachuk, Dylan Cozens, Tim Stutzle and Shane Pinto each scored. The Senators (26-21-7) are riding a three-game winning streak with three games remaining before the Olympic break. Tkachuk also had two assists.
  Timo Meier scored the lone goal for the Devils (28
  
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• Caufield scores twice, leads Canadiens to 4-2 win over Sabres

  01-02-2026 04:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Cole Caufield scored twice to help give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Saturday night.
  Caufield scored his 31st and 32nd goals of the season in the third period to help Montreal overcome a 2-1 deficit for their third straight win.
  Juraj Slafkovsky and Oliver Kapanen also scored for the Canadiens and Jakub Dobes made 36 saves.
  Owen Power and Noah Ostlund scored for the Sabres who had a five-game win streak snapped. Alex Lyo
  
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• Maple Leafs snap six-game skid with 3-2 shootout win over Canucks

  01-02-2026 04:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Auston Matthews and William Nylander, returning from injury, scored in a shootout as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 Saturday in a battle between two struggling Canadian teams.
  Matthews had a chance to win the game in three-on-three overtime when he was awarded a penalty shot after Conor Garland was called for hooking but Vancouver goaltender Nikita Tolopilo made the save.
  Nicolas Roy and Max Domi scored for Toronto (25-21-9), which snapped a six-game
  
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• Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes reaches Scotties Tournament of Hearts final

  01-02-2026 03:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSISSAUGA — Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes has advanced to the final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  She beat Canada's Kerri Einarson 10-2 in eight ends in the 1/2 Page playoff game on Saturday night.
  Einarson will meet Alberta's Selena Sturmay in the national women's curling championship semifinal on Sunday afternoon.
  The winner of that game will take on Lawes in that evening's final.
  Einarson or Rachel Homan have been finalists at the Tournament of Hearts final each of the past nine ye
  
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• Justin Rose delivers a Tiger-like performance at Torrey Pines. He leads by 6 shots

  01-02-2026 02:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Joel Dahmen arrived to the PGA Tour too late to see Tiger Woods in his prime at Torrey Pines. He was witness to what might have been the next best thing Saturday — Justin Rose in control of his game and making the rest of the field feel hopeless in the Farmers Insurance Open.Rose stretched his lead to as many as eight shots in a performance Woods could appreciate. He was slowed by a few mistakes on the back nine and wound up with a 4-under 68 to lead by six, the larg
  
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• Justin Rose delivers Tiger-like performance at Torrey Pines, leads by 6

  01-02-2026 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Justin Rose delivered a performance at Torrey Pines that Tiger Woods could appreciate, stretching his lead to as many as eight shots Saturday until a few late mistakes led to a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke lead in the Farmers Insurance Open.
  Rose, who won at Torrey in 2019, started the third round with a four-shot lead and quickly pulled away with a brilliant stretch of three holes on the front nine of the South course.
  He hit pitching wedge to a back pin on the par-5 fifth
  
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• Farabee scores winner, Flames end five-game skid with win over Sharks

  01-02-2026 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Joel Farabee's short-handed goal at 6:53 of the third period snapped a 2-2 deadlock and lifted the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.
  Morgan Frost and Matvei Gridin, both with their 12 goals of the season, also scored for the Flames (22-26-6), who snapped a five-game losing streak. Calgary trailed 1-0 and 2-1 during the game.
  Will Smith and Adam Gaudette scored for the Sharks (27-22-4), who have lost two in a row and four of their last seven.
  Al
  
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• Scheifele’s late goal lifts Jets to 2-1 win over Panthers, who drop their 3rd in a row

  01-02-2026 01:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Mark Scheifele scored the go-ahead goal with 4:14 remaining, lifting the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 win over the sliding and short-handed Florida Panthers on Saturday.
  Winnipeg was 1-18-2 in games where it trailed entering the third period going into the game, and was down 1-0 with 20 minutes left against the Panthers. But the Jets scored twice in a span of just over seven minutes to take command.
  Cole Perfetti scored with 11:26 left to tie the game, then Scheifele got his
  
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• Tributes to Catherine O’Hara keep coming: “Sad day for everyone who loves to laugh”

  01-02-2026 00:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Tributes continued to pour in for Canadian comedy giant Catherine O'Hara, who died Friday at 71.Eugene Levy, who worked with O'Hara on multiple projects over five decades, said he cherished their friendship.“Words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O'Hara for over fifty years," Levy said in a statement. "From our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the movies we did with Chris Guest, to our six glor
  
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• Korda has 64 to take lead in LPGA opener, Henderson surges into contention

  01-02-2026 00:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Nelly Korda played her best golf in the worst of the conditions Saturday with an 8-under 64 in the frigid, blustery conditions that eventually led to play being suspended for the day in the season-opening Tournament of Champions.
  Korda had the best score of the week at Lake Nona, where the temperatures felt like they were in the 40s with a steady 20 mph wind and gusts nearly twice that strong.
  Going after her first win since November 2024, Korda was at 13-under 203, si
  
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• Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention

  31-01-2026 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized President Donald Trump's administration’s approach to enforcement.Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights on Jan.
  
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• Change in government won’t stop separatist movement, says leader

  31-01-2026 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A leader in the Alberta separatist movement says a Conservative government would not stop their drive to secede from Canada.
  Jeffrey Rath is the general counsel for the separatist promoter group Stay Free Alberta.
  He says while a Conservative government is a better fit for Alberta, federalism is not the fix.
  Rath was at the Conservative Convention in Calgary this weekend when Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre spoke Friday.
  Poilievre's speech blamed Liberals for past and presen
  
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• Alberta’s Selena Sturmay on to Scotties Tournament of Hearts semifinal

  31-01-2026 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSISSAUGA — Alberta's Selena Sturmay is on to the semifinal of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  She beat Nova Scotia's Christina Black 8-4 in the Page 3/4 playoff this afternoon.
  Canada's Kerri Einarson and Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes will play each other in the Page 1/2 playoff later Saturday.
  The winner of the Einarson-Lawes game will advance directly to the tournament's final.
  The loser of the 1/2 Page playoff will face Sturmay in Sunday afternoon's semifinal.
  Black has had one of the
  
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• Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention

  31-01-2026 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. government to release by Tuesday a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained by immigration officers in a Minneapolis suburb last month.Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers, sparked even more outcry about President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration crac
  
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• Surrey hospital welcomes new robotic surgical system, 2nd in Fraser Health region

  31-01-2026 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Patients in the Fraser Health region may have more access to better surgical care with the arrival of a new robotic aide at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
  The facility welcomed the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgery system on January 6, enabling surgeons to use remote-controlled robotic arms to perform keyhole surgeries with greater precision.
  “Patients may experience quicker recovery times, and we can carry out more complex procedures right here in Surrey, using minimally invasive tech
  
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• Judge orders US to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota crackdown

  31-01-2026 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. to release a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained in a Minneapolis suburb last month.Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers, sparked even more outcry about President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It also led to a protest a
  
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• Hosting major sporting events ‘worthwhile’ for Canada: van Koeverden

  31-01-2026 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Adam van Koeverden knows just how big 2026 is for sport across Canada.
  While Toronto and Vancouver are readying to host some of the biggest soccer stars in the world as part of this summer's FIFA World Cup, Canadian athletes are preparing for an array of massive events, said the country's secretary of state for sport.Hockey players, snowboarders and skiers are already in Italy for the Milan Cortina Olympics. Other competitors are back home training for the Paralympics and Arctic Games.“The
  
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• Chuck Lefley, who won two Stanley Cups with Montreal in the ’70s, dead at 76

  31-01-2026 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Chuck Lefley, who won two Stanley Cup titles as a centre with the Montreal Canadiens in the early 1970s, has died at 76.
  The Canadiens said in a release Saturday that Lefley died Monday in Grosse Isle, Man. A cause of death was not provided.
  Lefley, who was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Grosse Isle, was selected by Montreal sixth overall at the 1970 NHL draft.
  He helped the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup in 1971 and 1973.
  Lefley had 45 goals and 60 assists in 174 games with the
  
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• 1 in hospital after rollover in Sardis Saturday morning

  31-01-2026 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Sirens rang to the scene of a rollover at an intersection in Sardis this morning (Jan. 31).
  Scanner traffic reported the incident on Maitland Avenue and Wells Road at 9:31 a.m.
  BCEHS told Fraser Valley Today that one ambulance responded to the motor vehicle incident. The Chilliwack Fire Department also responded to the scene.Images showed what appeared to be a Chevrolet Impala flipped over into a large tree on the side of the road. First responders paged out to the scene of a
  
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• With Poilievre’s leadership confirmed, Conservatives debate policy at convention

  31-01-2026 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Delegates at the federal Conservative party convention in Calgary are set to hear from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith today.
  The final day of the convention will also feature votes on changes to the party constitution and policies.On Friday evening, the party cemented its leadership, giving Pierre Poilievre a strong mandate after more than 87 per cent of delegates voted to keep him at the helm.That vote result came late in the evening after Poilievre spoke to delegates for about
  
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• Lunar New Year festivities gallop into Chilliwack Cultural Centre this February - Fraser Valley Today

  31-01-2026 18:54 via news.google.com
  Lunar New Year festivities gallop into Chilliwack Cultural Centre this February  Fraser Valley Today
  
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