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  26-11-2025 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
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• Lightning hold off Canadiens 5-4 in shootout, extend win streak to 4 games

  29-12-2025 02:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored twice, Gage Goncalves added two assists and had the deciding goal in the shootout, and the Tampa Bay Lightning held off the Montreal Canadiens 5-4 on Sunday.
  Oliver Bjorkstrand had two assists for Tampa Bay. Nick Paul and Pontus Holmberg also scored for the Lightning, who won their fourth straight game. Jonas Johansson stopped 32 shots and both attempts in the shootout.
  Juraj Slafkovsky scored twice, including the tying goal with 3.8 seconds left,
  
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• Chinese military to stage drills around Taiwan to warn ‘external forces’ after Japan tensions

  29-12-2025 02:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese military said Monday said it was dispatching air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around Taiwan to warn against what it called separatist and “external interference” forces.The drills came after Beijing expressed anger at a statement by Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, that its military could get involved if China were to take action against Taiwan, the self-governing island that the world’s second-biggest
  
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• Scottie Barnes has historic triple-double in Raptors overtime win against Warriors

  29-12-2025 02:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Scottie Barnes is only focused on one stat: the Toronto Raptors' win-loss record.
  But in that single-minded approach to playing, Barnes is still putting together an all-star calibre season highlighted by a historic breakout performance in Toronto's 141-127 overtime victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday. Barnes had his first triple-double of the season with 23 points, a franchise-high 25 rebounds, and 10 assists.
  Barnes's biggest rebound of the game came with 24.8 secon
  
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• Head-on crash north of Kamloops sends three to hospital

  29-12-2025 00:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BLACKPOOL, B.C. — Blackpool Fire Rescue says three people were taken to hospital after a head-on crash on Highway 5 about four kilometres south of Clearwater early Sunday (Dec. 28) morning.
  While details remain limited, they note the crash was reported just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday, and that the temperatures were -18 C at the time.
  Blackpool Fire Rescue says people had to be extricated from both vehicles with the jaws of life, though the extent of the injuries suffered by each of the three
  
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• Scottie Barnes’s triple-double powers Raptors past Warriors 141-127 in OT

  29-12-2025 00:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Scottie Barnes had his first triple-double of the season as the Toronto Raptors rallied to a 141-127 overtime win against the Golden State Warriors in a Sunday matinee.
  Barnes had the triple-double before regulation time expired, finishing with 23 points, a franchise-high 25 rebounds and 10 assists as Toronto (19-14) opened up overtime on a 14-2 run.Immanuel Quickley had 27 points and seven assists while Brandon Ingram added 26 points and six assists.
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• ‘I start laughing’: Sweden’s Ivar Stenberg not focused on going No. 1 at NHL draft

  28-12-2025 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Ivar Stenberg can only crack a smile when the thought crosses his mind.The Swedish winger has forced himself into the conversation as the potential No. 1 pick at the 2026 NHL draft with an impressive showing in the professional ranks back home.That top spot was assumed to belong to Gavin McKenna some 12 months ago. Now there's at least a chance the team stepping to the microphone first in June will call Stenberg's name instead of the Canadian teenager."You want to go as high
  
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• ‘Once in a generation moment:’ Rare taiga flycatcher spotted in Vancouver

  28-12-2025 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Dozens of birders descended to Vancouver’s Sunset Beach Park on Sunday to catch a rare glimpse of a bird that avian enthusiasts say has never been recorded in Canada before.
  Compared to blue jays, which are known for their sharp blue colour, taiga flycatchers are ordinary at first glance.
  But birder Ethan Moon, who was the first to spot it on Christmas Day, says they are a rare sight in Canada as they usually breed in Eastern Russia and Mongolia and are known to migrate t
  
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• Pettersson’s 2-goal third period helps Sweden outlast Switzerland 4-2

  28-12-2025 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Lucas Pettersson netted two third-period goals to lead Sweden over Switzerland 4-2 in preliminary play of the World Junior Championships on Sunday.
  Pettersson snapped the tie at 6:28 of the third period, finishing a setup from Liam Danielsson and Eric Nilson to put Sweden ahead for good. He added an empty-net goal with 47 seconds remaining as Switzerland pressed late with the extra attacker.
  Sweden opened the scoring 53 seconds into the game when Nilson beat his ma
  
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• Brate-hood: Raptors, Warriors coaches commemorate Dejan Milojevic together

  28-12-2025 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — After the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors played each other on Sunday, the teams' coaching staffs raised a glass in honour of their friend and colleague Dejan Milojevic.
  Milojevic was an assistant coach with Golden State when he died in January 2024 at the age of 46 after he had a heart attack during a team dinner in Salt Lake City. He had deep ties to both the Warriors and Raptors coaches as he worked with or mentored several people in both organizations.
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• ‘I gotta shoot more’: Canada’s Michael Misa aiming find his range at world juniors

  28-12-2025 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Michael Misa is used to filling the net.
  The skilful centre finished last season with 134 points across 65 games in the Ontario Hockey League before the San Jose Sharks made him the No. 2 overall pick at June's NHL draft.
  Misa earned a roster spot out of training camp and then bagged his first professional goal, but suffered an ankle injury in early November that kept him out of action a month.Now looking to help Canada capture gold at the world junior hockey championship, he
  
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• Canadian curler E.J. Harnden to retire from competition at end of season

  28-12-2025 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian curler and Olympic champion E.J. Harnden is calling it a career.
  Harnden announced Sunday in an Instagram post that he is playing his final full season of competitive curling.
  The 42-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., currently plays second on Matt Dunstone’s Winnipeg-based team alongside his brother and lead Ryan Harnden.
  The Harnden brothers won Olympic gold at the 2014 Sochi Games on a team skipped by their cousin Brad Jacobs.
  E.J. Harnden has also captured four silver medal
  
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• Senators goalie Linus Ullmark takes personal leave of absence

  28-12-2025 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Ottawa Senators goalie Linus Ullmark is taking a leave of absence for personal reasons.
  Senators general manager Steve Staios announced Ullmark's leave in a statement Sunday, saying he has the organization's full support.
  Staios said the team would provide no further comments at this time.
  Ullmark, Ottawa's No. 1 netminder, has a 14-8-5 record this season with a disappointing .881 save percentage and 2.95 goals-against average. He was pulled in the second period of the Senators' 7
  
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• Canadian RJ Barrett returns to Raptors lineup vs. Warriors after missing five weeks

  28-12-2025 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian swingman RJ Barrett is finally back in the Toronto Raptors lineup.
  Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., will play against the Golden State Warriors this afternoon.
  He has missed five weeks of Toronto’s season with a sprained right knee.
  Barrett was averaging 19.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists when he landed awkwardly from a dunk on Nov. 23.
  Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic says Barrett will be on a minutes restriction against the Warriors.
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• Mikaela Shiffrin keeps World Cup slalom streak going but slams course conditions in night race

  28-12-2025 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — After dominating the first four World Cup slaloms this season, Mikaela Shiffrin has only just managed to keep her winning streak intact ahead of the 2026 Olympics.
  Not that Sunday's night slalom in Austria, the final event of the calendar year, could make the American ski star particularly happy.
  Shiffrin came from half a second behind in the first run to edge out world champion Camille Rast of Switzerland, but then slammed race conditions on the Panorama course.
  
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• Oilers place forward David Tomasek on waivers for contract termination

  28-12-2025 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers placed forward David Tomasek on waivers to terminate his contract on Sunday following the NHL's holiday roster freeze.
  Tomasek had three goals and two assists in 22 games with the Oilers this season after signing a one-year, US$1.2-million deal last April.
  The 29-year-old from Czechia had played his entire professional career in Europe — with stops in Czechia, Finland, Russia and Sweden — before joining the NHL club this season.
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• Castle Fun Park and Abbotsford Canucks invite community to New Year’s Eve party

  28-12-2025 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Following December’s major flooding through Sumas Prairie, a pair of community-based organizations are working together to ring in the New Year. Castle Fun Park and the Abbotsford Canucks are leading a community celebration and food drive. The New Year’s Eve party and food drive will support Archway Community Services.
  The party will run from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at the Castle Fun Park along Highway 1. The event promises a combination of entertainment and
  
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• Trump welcomes Zelenskyy for talks, asserts Russia and Ukraine both want peace, however elusive

  28-12-2025 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin truly want peace, as he welcomed the “brave” Ukrainian leader for talks at his Florida resort.“The two leaders want it to end,” Trump said at the outset of the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. Before Zelenskyy arrived, Trump spoke with Putin by phone for more than an hour, and planned to speak with him again soon after.G
  
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• One person is dead and another is injured in midair helicopter crash in New Jersey, officials say

  28-12-2025 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMMONTON, N.J. (AP) — One person was killed and another was left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in southern New Jersey on Sunday, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision.Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. on Sunday, and police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.One person was killed and anothe
  
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• US ski star Shiffrin keeps streak going with come-from-behind win in World Cup night slalom

  28-12-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin came from behind to win a World Cup night slalom in tough conditions Sunday and extend her winning streak in the discipline to six races.
  The American was fourth, more than half a second off the pace, in the opening session on a rapidly deteriorating course, but posted the fastest time in the evening to beat first-run leader Camille Rast.
  The world champion from Switzerland finished 0.09 seconds behind. Italian-born prodigy Lara Colturi, 19, who c
  
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• Kyrgios beats Sabalenka in latest ‘Battle of the Sexes’ in tennis

  28-12-2025 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nick Kyrgios won the latest version of the “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis, beating top-ranked women’s player Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-3 in an exhibition match that represented light entertainment rather than another landmark moment for gender equality.There was laughing and joking between the players, some under-arm serves, over-the-top grunting on shots, and even some dancing from Sabalenka during a timeout to entertain the crowd at the
  
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• Knife attack near Suriname’s capital Paramaribo kills at least 9 people, including kids, police say

  28-12-2025 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A knife attack outside Suriname ’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday.Officials said the victims included the attacker's children and neighbors who came to their aid. Local media reported the victims were located at multiple homes.The attack took place in Richelieu in the Commewijne district about 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Paramaribo. Neighbors said the attack began after the suspect, a 43-
  
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• Matthew Tkachuk practises with Panthers for first time this season

  28-12-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk is back on the ice with the Florida Panthers, appearing at practice on Sunday for the first time this season and more than four months after he had surgery to repair a sports hernia and torn adductor muscle.
  Tkachuk has not played since Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final, when the Panthers clinched their second consecutive title by again topping the Edmonton Oilers. He went through the summer trying to rehab — but eventually decided that he n
  
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• French actor Brigitte Bardot remembered in Canada for fighting seal hunt

  28-12-2025 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  French actor Brigitte Bardot who died Sunday at the age of 91, was also an animal rights activist and a vocal opponent of Canada's seal hunt.
  Bardot, who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century, is known to be the first high-profile celebrity to speak out against Canada's seal hunt in 1976.
  The following year, she travelled to Newfoundland to witness it herself. Asked by reporters what her plans were for the trip, Bardot replied "to save baby seals, that's all."
  During that
  
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• A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital Paramaribo kills at least 9 people, police say

  28-12-2025 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including children, police said Sunday.Officials said the victims, which included five minors, were the children and neighbors of the attacker.In a statement issued Sunday, Suriname’s Police Corps said the suspect, a male, attempted to attack police officers who arrived on the scene and was injured during his arrest. He is now recovering in a hospital.
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• Blue Jackets’ All-Star defenseman Zach Werenski placed on injured reserve

  28-12-2025 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Blue Jackets placed All-Star defenseman Zach Werenski on injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 20 on Sunday.
  Werenski, second in the league among defensemen in goals (14) and points (40), is considered day-to-day by Columbus after suffering a lower body injury late during the Dec. 20 game at the Anaheim Ducks. He is also second among all players in ice time, averaging 26:48 per game.
  Forward Mathieu Olivier was activated off injured reserve after missing 13 games wi
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of December 28, 2025

  28-12-2025 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Twyla AhpayAge: 24
  Height: 5’4” ft Weight: 185lbs
  Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Assault, Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: September 9, 2025
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver with Canada Wide Warrants
  Name: Meagan HicksAge: 45
  Height: 5’7” ft Weight: 150lbs
  Hair: Blonde Eyes: Green
  Wanted: Assault with a Weapon, Mischief $5000 or Under, and
  
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• Blue Jays named The Canadian Press team of the year after deep playoff run

  28-12-2025 16:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A feeling of uncertainty hung in the air at training camp last February when the Toronto Blue Jays began preparations for the 2025 campaign.The team was coming off a last-place finish, its homegrown face of the franchise remained unsigned beyond the season and the possibility of playoff contention seemed iffy at best.
  What a difference a year makes.
  The Blue Jays completed a worst-to-first turnaround and rode the momentum into a memorable post-season that saw them go all the way
  
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• Highways are relatively quiet as the first week of the holiday season concludes

  28-12-2025 15:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HOPE — Following a series of closures and partial closures over the holidays, it could be somewhat clear sailing for motorists travelling between the Fraser Valley and the B.C. Interior Sunday. But drivers should expect traffic to be heavy in sections as peoplereturn home from the first week of holiday celebrations.
  Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon and the Coquihalla Highway are both open and without any major delays. Highway 3, linking Hope to Princeton, is open but motorists will be s
  
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• Advocates push for advance MAID requests two years after Parliament recommendation

  28-12-2025 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Sandra Demontigny knew something wasn't right when she couldn't remember buying herself a new pair of boots. They were a splurge — a little out of character for the mother of three — and she had been excited about bringing them home.
  "I saw them near the door and I asked my kids, 'Who bought these boots? I've never seen them,'" she said."The kids were saying, 'No, (they're) yours. You bought them and you really like them."Sliding her feet inside, she realized she could
  
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