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• Missing elderly man found deceased

  26-05-2023 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An elderly man from Vancouver Island who went missing last week and was last seen in Hope has been found deceased.In a statement from Agassiz RCMP Sgt. Michael Sargent, media relations spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, the RCMP confirmed Friday morning that Leslie Desfosses, 89, of Saanich has been located deceased.“Our sincere condolences to the family and friends,” Sgt. Sergeant said. “The RCMP would like to thank the media and p
  
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• Montana’s Supreme Court dismisses misconduct case against the state’s attorney general

  01-01-2026 00:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a misconduct case against the state’s attorney general after he defied court orders in a dispute over a law that gave the governor more power over the judiciary.A court-appointed panel last year found that Attorney General Austin Knudsen repeatedly attacked the integrity of the justices in his defense of a 2021 law permitting the state’s Republican governor to directly fill judicial vacancies. The panel
  
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• Chief Justice says Constitution remains ‘firm and unshaken’ with major Supreme Court rulings ahead

  01-01-2026 00:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon.Roberts said the nation’s founding documents remain “firm and unshaken,” a reference to a century-old quote from President Calvin Coolidge. “True then; true now,” Roberts wrote in his annual letter to the j
  
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• Police believe Surrey, B.C., home was targeted after third shooting this month

  31-12-2025 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after one home in the Metro Vancouver city was reportedly shot at in three separate shootings this month, including two in the last week.
  Surrey police say the shootings are believed to be targeting a resident of the home located in the 11000-block of 140A Street in the Guildford neighbourhood.
  However, investigators say they are not likely to be linked to gang activity or recent cases of extortion that has targeted the South Asian communi
  
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• Wrong patient sent to Surrey, B.C., home after hospital discharge

  31-12-2025 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A B.C. man who was shocked when a hospital transfer service delivered a confused stranger to his home, instead of his father, says he doesn't want other seniors to experience the same trauma.Sunny Hundal says his 84-year-old father, who was in Surrey Memorial Hospital after suffering breathing problems, was supposed to be sent back to their home in Surrey on Dec. 22.
  But while he and his father were waiting at the hospital for the transfer, Hundal got a call from his wife saying t
  
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• Kaltounková, Norcross score, Osborne untouchable as Sirens shut out Goldeneyes 2-0

  31-12-2025 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Kristýna Kaltounková scored early, Savannah Norcross added an insurance goal late and goaltender Kayle Osborne finished off a shutout as the New York Sirens beat the Vancouver Goldeneyes 2-0 on Wednesday.
  Kaltounková scored for a third straight match and the fourth time this season when she found the net 1:21 into the first period to give New York (4-0-0-5) the lead. Kaltounková, the top pick in this year's draft out of Colgate University and
  
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• Trump says he’s dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now

  31-12-2025 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” he wrote.Troops had alr
  
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• Young girl identified as victim who died after shootout involving police in Nunavik

  31-12-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Authorities in Quebec's Nunavik region say the person who died 10 days after an exchange of gunfire involving the Nunavik Police Service on Dec. 20 was a young girl.
  Maggie Emudluk, Kativik Regional Government chairperson, says in a statement the girl was an innocent victim of a sad tragedy.
  Quebec's police watchdog confirmed Tuesday that one of two civilians who were seriously injured during the Nunavik Police Service intervention in Inukjuak had died.
  The Bureau des enquê
  
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• Oxfam-Québec surprised to find itself on list of NGOs set to be barred from Gaza

  31-12-2025 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadian non-profit Oxfam-Québec says it was surprised to find itself on a list of 37 organizations set to be barred from Gaza by Israel.
  The country is reportedly moving to suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organizations as of Jan. 1 for failing to comply with new vetting rules for international organizations working in the enclave.
  In a press release, Oxfam-Québec says its registration dates to before 2020 and is no longer active, and Oxfam affiliates are no
  
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• Jordan Binnington’s body of work keeps him in Canada’s Olympic net

  31-12-2025 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Jordan Binnington will be back in Canada’s Olympic goaltending mix despite a difficult NHL season, with two new faces joining him.
  Logan Thompson and Darcy Kuemper were the other two goalies named to Canada's men's hockey roster for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday. That left Adin Hill and Samuel Montembeault — Binnington's crease-mates in the 4 Nations Face-Off — off the roster.
  "When we selected all the players, we look at their recent play, and we look at their resu
  
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• Seven Canadians were injured in Peru train collision: foreign affairs minister

  31-12-2025 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada’s foreign affairs minister says seven Canadians were injured Tuesday in a train crash near the Machu Picchu archaeological site in Peru.
  Anita Anand says on social media that Global Affairs officials are providing consular assistance to those affected and are in close contact with local authorities.
  She says Canada stands by the people of Peru and extends its sympathies to all those affected.
  Two trains taking tourists to Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person
  
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• Connor McDavid says Olympics ‘finally feel real’ after Team Canada roster reveal

  31-12-2025 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Connor McDavid says the Olympic experience finally feels real after the Edmonton Oilers centre was named Wednesday to Canada’s roster for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.“As a player, I’m just excited about the fact it’s becoming more real, coming together, the team’s announced, the Olympics are getting closer, gets more and more real by the day,” said McDavid, who missed out on the 2022 Olympics after the NHL elected not to take part.
  One of six
  
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• Man arrested after alleged attempted home invasion in Fort St. John, B.C.

  31-12-2025 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FORT ST. JOHN — Police say a man is likely facing charges in relation to an alleged attempted home invasion in northeastern British Columbia.
  RCMP say they were called to the scene at a home near the intersection of Peace River Road and 111th Avenue in Fort St. John on Dec. 20 at around 6 p.m.
  Police say the call was from someone reporting a man allegedly trying to get into the home, and officers immediately set up a "containment," which led to the suspect surrendering.They say one victim
  
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• Order of Canada appointees include notable B.C. educators

  31-12-2025 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Governor General Mary Simon has appointed several notable British Columbia educators to the Order of Canada.They include a number of University of British Columbia academics, including neuroscientist Adele Diamond, neurologist Janice Eng and animal welfare researcher Marina von Keyserlingk, while neurologist Judy Illes was promoted within the order.
  Forensic nursing pioneer Sheila Dawn Early is also among the appointees, hailed for her work developing B.C.'s first forensic nurs
  
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• Over 120 personnel join search for missing man in remote Mission backcountry, but no outcome yet

  31-12-2025 20:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — Over 120 trained personnel from across the Fraser Valley and B.C.’s Lower Mainland have joined forces to search for a missing 62-year-old whose vehicle was located on a logging road north of Mission.The Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, which serves Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Katzie First Nation, reported last week that they were appealing to the public for help in locating Timothy Eyolfson, a 62-year-old man whose vehicle was found near Florence and Sayers Lake in Mission.
  
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• Fact File: Claim Rogers collects biometric data from store cameras unfounded

  31-12-2025 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The claim Rogers retail stores used facial recognition on customers through its surveillance cameras appeared on social media in December. Rogers says it does not use the technology at its storefronts and its door screening policy at some locations is meant to ensure staff and customer safety. Stores must follow privacy laws that dictate the responsible collection, storage and use of personal information, including video recordings.
  THE CLAIM
  "I went to ROGERS in Nepean Ontario. The door was loc
  
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• Alberta, Quebec referendums likely would fail due to Canadians’ anxiety: pollster

  31-12-2025 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A pollster says separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec are unlikely to succeed as long as Canadians feel a persistent sense of insecurity and anxiety about the future.
  David Coletto, whose polling firm Abacus Data has been studying what it calls the "precarity mindset" in Canada for the last year, says that uncertainty would need to ease in order for a "yes" vote to succeed in either province.
  Alberta’s election agency recently announced it has approved a proposed refere
  
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• Chilliwack man arrested after police use spike belt to stop vehicle; handguns, drugs and cash found inside

  31-12-2025 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Two men have been arrested, including a 27-year-old from Chilliwack, after police used a spike belt to stop a vehicle in Chilliwack whose driver refused to stop for several driving violations last week.
  According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Alexandra Greenley, a member of the Hope RCMP detachment attempted to stop a vehicle on Tuesday evening, Dec. 23 in relation to several driving violations. Police say the vehicle did not stop, and no pursuit was in
  
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• Canadian men’s and women’s soccer teams in different states of mind going into 2026

  31-12-2025 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Canadian men's and women's soccer teams enter 2026 in vastly different moods.
  While the Canadian men eagerly look for their first-ever win at the FIFA World Cup, the Canadian women will be happy with any victory.
  The 10th-ranked women end the year on a five-game losing streak, mired in a 454-minute goal drought.
  "The women are in a transition moment, for sure, in the sense of the player pool and some other changes that have occurred over the last little while," said Canada Soccer CEO Kevin B
  
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• Canada’s dream of hosting a men’s World Cup dates back to 1976 Montreal Olympics

  31-12-2025 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The quest for Canada to host a men's FIFA World Cup dates back some 50 years for Walter Sieber.
  Sieber, then director general of sports for the Montreal Olympics, was sitting next to then-FIFA president João Havelange at the men's football final at Olympic Stadium on July 31, 1976. Despite the rain, an enthusiastic crowd of 71,617 took in East Germany's 3-1 win over Poland.
  "At a certain time, (Havelange) turned to me and said, 'Hey, by the way, you have done such a famous organization, o
  
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• Bedard, Scheifele, 4 Nations winners left off Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey roster

  31-12-2025 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Chicago Blackhawks star Connor Bedard, Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Scheifele and several players who helped Canada win the 4 Nations Face-Off were left off the country's team for February’s Milan Cortina Olympics.
  Hockey Canada unveiled its 25-player men's hockey roster Wednesday in Minneapolis — one of the host cities for the world junior hockey championship — ahead of the Winter Games in Italy.
  Bedard, the 20-year-old No. 1 overall draft pick in 2023, shot o
  
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• CRA says it’s owed more than $10 billion in COVID-19 benefit payments

  31-12-2025 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says it's owed $10.35 billion in COVID-19 benefits.
  Nina Ioussoupova, a spokesperson for the agency, says that as of Nov. 30, it had disbursed $83.5 billion in COVID benefits to Canadians, including $45.3 billion for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, the financial support program known as CERB.
  Ioussoupova says the CRA began sending recovery letters to individuals with debts related to COVID-19 benefits in 2023.
  Those debts, she says, arose from over
  
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• Hockey Canada announces 25-player Olympic men’s hockey roster

  31-12-2025 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Hockey Canada unveiled its 25-player Olympic men’s hockey roster for February’s Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday.
  Forwards: Macklin Celebrini (San Jose Sharks); Anthony Cirelli (Tampa Bay Lightning); Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins); Brandon Hagel (Tampa Bay); Bo Horvat (New York Islanders); Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche); Brad Marchand (Florida Panthers); Mitch Marner (Vegas Golden Knights); Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers); Brayden Point (Tampa Bay); S
  
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• Montreal polar plunge fans want access to beach along St. Lawrence River

  31-12-2025 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTRÉAL — Montrealers who brave frigid temperatures for weekly polar plunges in the St. Lawrence River are worried that they're being barred winter access to a popular beach.
  The temperature hovered around -13 C with a strong wind chill this morning as Mark Nikiforov and about a dozen others lowered themselves into a hole they had sawed in the ice for a New Year's Eve plunge.
  Nikiforov says members of Montreal's Polar Bear Club have been doing their winter plunges for years at Verd
  
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• Chiefs Trade Ryan Small to Alberni Valley

  31-12-2025 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Chilliwack, B.C. – The Chilliwack Chiefs have traded forward Ryan Small to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs for future considerations.
  Small was a model teammate during his time in Chilliwack, earning respect throughout the organization for his work ethic, commitment, and team-first attitude.
  “Ryan was a player who was one hundred per cent committed, both on and off the ice,” said Chiefs Head Coach and General Manager Brian Maloney. “He never complained about his role. He came
  
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• List of Order of Canada appointees announced New Year’s Eve

  31-12-2025 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Governor General made 80 appointments to the Order of Canada, including six promotions within in the Order and one honorary appointment.
  Companions
  Rosalie Abella, Toronto
  Simon Brault, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Que. (promotion within the Order)
  Raffi Cavoukian, Salt Spring Island, B.C. (promotion within the Order)
  Shaf Keshavjee, Toronto, (promotion within the Order)Michael James Moldaver, Ottawa
  Lorne Tyrrell, Edmonton (promotion within the Order)Officers
  John Cameron Bell, Ottawa
  Janice Charet
  
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• AbbyPD says extra officers will be on patrol tonight on New Year’s Eve

  31-12-2025 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — As Fraser Valley residents prepare to usher in the new year tonight, the Abbotsford Police Department says it will step up with a more visible presence to ensure a safe and enjoyable celebration for everyone in the community.The Abbotsford PD says additional officers will be on duty across the city tonight with an emphasis on high-traffic areas, community events, and impaired driving enforcement.“Our priority is your safety—whether you’re celebrating at home,
  
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• Nardwuar becomes first ‘human serviette’ appointed to Order of Canada

  31-12-2025 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — When Nardwuar rhymes off a list of fellow members of the Order of Canada, he includes baseball player Fergie Jenkins, filmmaker Guy Maddin and singer Avril Lavigne – twice.
  It’s not surprising that the Tartan-clad celebrity interviewer seems to hold the Canadian pop princess in particular esteem, since he's yet to interrogate her in one of his colourful and unpredictable viral video chats.
  "I am now beside those people, I cannot believe it," he exclaimed during a rece
  
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• Jobs, economy top voters’ priorities at the end of a turbulent 2025: Nanos poll

  31-12-2025 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A year-end poll from Nanos suggests jobs and the economy are the top issues on voters' minds heading into 2026.
  Just over one in five respondents to the poll published this week said those economic concerns were the most important national issues — more than double the 10 per cent who listed relations with the United States and President Donald Trump as their top priority.
  Inflation, health care and immigration rounded out the top five concerns for Canadians.
  A separate Nano
  
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• Chilliwack cat still looking for a new home after approximately 1,300 days at local animal care centre

  31-12-2025 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — She’s easy on the eyes and is just looking for a new home after being taken care of at the Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven for the past 1,300 days.
  Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven, located at 49843 Chilliwack Central Road, posted on social media Tuesday evening that Lizzy the cat is one of their longest residents there, having been there for about 1,300 days, or a little over 3.5 years.“Let’s get this beautiful girl adopted! These soulful eyes show a sweet, playful
  
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