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  16-12-2022 20:30
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• Naomi Osaka withdraws from Australian Open before third-round match

  24-01-2026 10:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Australian Open before her scheduled third-round match against Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis, ending a campaign noted for fashion and friction.The two-time Australian Open champion announced it on social media without divulging her injury, posting on Instagram that she had to withdraw “to address something my body needs attention for after my last match.”“I was so excited to keep going and this run meant the
  
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• Poilievre pledges co-operation, calls for action from Liberals as Parliament returns

  24-01-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the prime minister to deliver results as Parliament resumes next week.In a letter to Mark Carney, Poilievre says he's offering to help fast-track policies to enact trade deals, make groceries more affordable, fix the bail system and approve major projects.
  The Tory leader is also offering that members of his caucus could travel to the U.S. or other trading partners as part of bipartisan delegations.
  Poilievre's letter opened with
  
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• Hockey fans plead for Halifax to have future Professional Women’s Hockey League team

  24-01-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Thirteen-year-old Addie Keys’ eyes lit up when some of her Professional Women’s Hockey League idols took the ice in a Halifax arena last month, and she’s one of many fans pushing for the city to have its own team.
  The AAA minor hockey player got to see Nova Scotia-born star Blayre Turnbull represent the Toronto Sceptres at a PWHL takeover series in December. It was one of two sold out games in downtown Halifax.“It was a really cool experience … to s
  
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• Scores and schedule for Friday, Jan. 23, 2026

  24-01-2026 07:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Friday's Scoreboard
  (All times Eastern)
  NHL
  Vegas 6 Toronto 3
  Washington 3 Calgary 1
  New Jersey 5 Vancouver 4
  Tampa Bay 2 Chicago 1 (SO)
  Dallas 3 St. Louis 2
  Philadelphia 7 Colorado 3
  Anaheim 4 Seattle 2
  San Jose 4 NY Rangers 1
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  AHL
  Providence 2 Belleville 1 (OT)
  Springfield 4 Toronto 3 (OT)
  Grand Rapids 2 Manitoba 1
  Milwaukee 3 Iowa 2 (OT)
  Hartford 3 Bridgeport 2
  WB/Scranton 4 Hershey 3 (SO)
  Charlotte 8 Lehigh Valley 5
  Rochester 3 Utica 0
  Texas 5 Rockford 0
  Colorado 4 Bakersfield 1
  Ontario 3
  
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• Mamukelashvili’s 22 points lead Raptors past Blazers, snapping Portland’s win streak

  24-01-2026 06:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 22 points and Brandon Ingram added 20 to help the Toronto Raptors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-98 on Friday night.
  The Raptors led by as many as 13 and dominated most of the game despite being outscored from the 3-point line (39-27) and losing the turnover battle (16-13).
  The Blazers were without star forward Deni Avdija, who missed the game with a lower back strain.
  Jrue Holiday and Shaedon Sharpe each scored 21 points in the loss
  
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• Glass scores twice as New Jersey Devils capture 5-4 victory over Vancouver Canucks

  24-01-2026 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The New Jersey Devils extended their Western Canada winning streak to three games with a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday at Rogers Arena.
  Cody Glass scored twice while Lenni Hameenaho, Nico Hischier and Connor Brown had the other goals for the Devils (27-22-2).
  Linus Karlsson, Teddy Blueger, Zeev Buium and Brock Boeser replied for the Canucks (17-29-5).
  Markstrom made 21 saves for New Jersey to improve 14-11-1. Vancouver's Kevin Lankinen stopped 19 shots to fal
  
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• James’ shootout goal lifts Lightning over Blackhawks

  24-01-2026 06:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHICAGO (AP) — Dominic James scored in the fifth round of a shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning made it 15 straight games without a regulation loss, outlasting the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on Friday night.
  Tampa Bay is on a 14-0-1 tear, winning three straight after a shootout loss a week ago in St. Louis. The Lighting are 32-13-4 overall.
  Nikita Kucherov tied it at 1 late in the second period with his 25th goal of the season and also scored in the shootout. Gage Goncalves scored in the four
  
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• Hendrix Lapierre ends 90-game scoring drought in Capitals’ 3-1 win over Flames

  24-01-2026 05:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Hendrix Lapierre ended a run of 90 NHL games without a goal by scoring for the Washington Capitals in a 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Friday.
  Aliaksei Protas also scored and Alex Ovechkin added an empty-net goal for Washington (25-21-6), which snapped a four-game losing streak.
  Capitals goaltender and Calgary native Logan Thompson, who along with teammate Tom Wilson was named to Canada's Olympic team, made 25 saves in the win.
  Morgan Frost scored for Calgary (21-25-5) and De
  
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• Lawes tops Reese-Hansen on opening night at Scotties Tournament of Hearts

  24-01-2026 03:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSISSAUGA — Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes spoiled Taylor Reese-Hansen's Scotties Tournament of Hearts debut Friday with a 10-4 victory over the third-ranked side from British Columbia.Lawes, a two-time Olympic champion, was in control after opening with a three-point end on the first night of round-robin play at Paramount Fine Foods Centre.
  A breakout season has seen Reese-Hansen climb up the rankings but she struggled with draw weight at times in her first game at the national women's curlin
  
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• Trump administration’s defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security

  24-01-2026 03:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China.The 34-page document, the first since 2022, was highly political for a military blueprint, criticizing partners from Europe to Asia for relying on previous U.S. administrations to subsidize their
  
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• Man accused of helping with B.C. jailbreak in 2022 extradited back to Canada

  24-01-2026 01:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A man accused of helping with the escape of a gangland killer from a British Columbia correctional facility in 2022 is back in Canada after being arrested in Spain four months ago.A statement from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. says Spanish authorities handed John Potvin over to Canadian investigators on Thursday and he was extradited back to Canada.Potvin, who police have said is from Ottawa, had been subject to an INTERPOL Red Notice and Canada-wide warrant
  
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• Canadian Football League salary cap to grow to over $6.2 million in 2026

  24-01-2026 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Canadian Football League's salary cap will rise to over $6.2 million in 2026.
  The CFL and its players' union made the announcement on Friday.
  Revenue for the league reached $10 million more than the baseline established in 2024 when the CFL's collective bargaining agreement’s revenue growth sharing model was triggered for the first time since its implementation in 2022.As a result, the CFL Players’ Association has allocated the majority of its share towards increa
  
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• Fugitive who allegedly aided gang member’s escape from B.C. prison returned to Canada

  24-01-2026 00:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — A man who was subject to an INTERPOL Red Notice has now been returned to Canadian shores after his alleged role in helping an inmate escape from a Port Coquitlam jail more than three years ago.
  John Potvin allegedly conspired with two other men, including one accomplice from Harrison Hot Springs, to break out gang member Rabih Alkhalil from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in July 2022. 
  Potvin was eventually arrested in Spain in September last year, with Alkhalil being broug
  
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• Military mission complete in Manitoba First Nation dealing with frozen water damage

  24-01-2026 00:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PIMICIKAMAK CREE NATION, MAN. — The federal government says a military mission to help a northern Manitoba First Nation in the aftermath of a water crisis brought on by a power outage is complete.
  A joint statement from the defence minister, the minister of Indigenous Services Canada and the minister of emergency management says all Armed Forces members deployed to Pimicikamak Cree Nation are to leave by the end of Friday.
  More than 1,300 homes in Pimicikamak, about 520 kilometres north of
  
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• Black is Back: Nova Scotia skip Christina Black aims for Scotties success

  24-01-2026 00:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSISSAUGA — A large banner by the Paramount Fine Foods Centre entrance includes action shots of the headliners you'd expect at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  Four-time national women's champion Kerri Einarson is featured prominently. Beside her is two-time Olympic champion Kaitlyn Lawes.
  Joining them is a skip - Christina Black of Halifax - who has emerged as a contender in a wide-open field that doesn't include five-time champion Rachel Homan.
  Riding high after a semifinal appearanc
  
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• B.C. Law Society names OPCC counsel as source of obscenity that derailed hearing

  24-01-2026 00:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Law Society of British Columbia has identified Brad Hickford, counsel for a public hearing into the death of Myles Gray, as the person who uttered an obscenity resulting in the adjournment of the long-awaited proceeding this week.
  The society has opened an investigation into the vulgar remark that was broadcast on Wednesday over the audio stream of the hearing into the 2015 death of Gray after a beating by seven Vancouver police officers.
  Hickford, appointed by the Office o
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. Law Society names counsel whose obscene remark derailed hearing

  23-01-2026 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Law Society of British Columbia has identified Brad Hickford, counsel for a public hearing into the death of Myles Gray, as the person who uttered an obscenity resulting in the adjournment of the long-awaited proceeding this week.
  The society has opened an investigation into the vulgar remark that was broadcast on Wednesday over the audio stream of the hearing into the 2015 death of Gray after a beating by seven Vancouver police officers.
  Hickford, appointed by the Office o
  
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• US carries out first known strike on alleged drug boat since Maduro’s capture

  23-01-2026 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” and that the strike killed two people and left one survivor. It said it notified the Coast Guard to launch
  
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• Ministers defend ‘great sacrifices’ after Trump downplays NATO role in Afghanistan

  23-01-2026 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Liberal cabinet ministers and former Armed Forces members are defending the sacrifices Canadian soldiers made in Afghanistan after U.S. President Donald Trump downplayed NATO troops' contributions in the war.
  Trump renewed long-standing grievances with NATO partners in a media interview on Thursday by disputing sacrifices made by non-U.S. troops.
  "We've never needed them, we have never really asked anything of them," he told Fox News.
  "They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanis
  
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• Police in Quesnel, B.C., investigating death of man as apparent homicide

  23-01-2026 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUESNEL — One man is dead and another has been arrested and released in British Columbia's central Interior in what police are describing as an isolated case of homicide.
  RCMP say officers responded Thursday around midnight to a weapons call on Brinkert Road in Quesnel, where the 49-year-old victim was found unconscious with serious injuries.
  Police say the man died at the scene despite emergency responders' efforts, and a 61-year-old man was arrested at the same location.
  The man has sinc
  
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• ‘Tragic accident’ kills worker at central B.C. gold mine

  23-01-2026 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUESNEL — Activity at a gold mine site in central British Columbia has been temporarily suspended after a worker died.
  Osisko Development Corp. says the contractor working on the surface at the Cariboo Gold project "suffered a fatal injury following an isolated incident" on Thursday.The company says authorities were notified and an investigation is underway into what is the third B.C. mine death in the last two months.
  The Cariboo Gold project, about 75 kilometres from Quesnel, is still in
  
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• Agassiz artist showcases motherhood and mythology at Chilliwack Cultural Centre

  23-01-2026 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A local artist is shining a light on the realities of womanhood through surreal, mythic visuals at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre.
  Agassiz-based Kayla Gowans’ “Dancing Through Mythology” is on display alongside the fate, life and legacy-themed performances set to headline the Centre’s stage.
  “Using vivid colours, symbolic imagery, and large-scale narrative painting, Kayla Gowans draws parallels between the everyday challenges of contemporary life
  
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• Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing

  23-01-2026 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada is following through on a campaign promise to rewrite her predecessor's signature bylaw on affordable and social housing.
  Former mayor Valerie Plante's bylaw required new housing builds to include fixed percentages of social, affordable and family-sized units.
  Developers were forced to set aside 20 per cent of their units for social housing, 20 per cent with at least three bedrooms and, in some cases, 20 per cent for affordable housing &mda
  
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• Trump’s comments ‘false,’ Canadians made ‘great sacrifices’ in Afghanistan: Miller

  23-01-2026 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Liberal cabinet minister and former member of the armed forces is dismissing U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about NATO allies staying off the front lines in Afghanistan.
  Trump downplayed the contributions of the United States' NATO partners in a media interview Thursday when he claimed that troops from allied nations "stayed a little back" from the front lines in Afghanistan.
  Culture Minister Marc Miller, who served as a reservist, told reporters Friday that Canadians ma
  
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• B.C. police investigating after Molotov cocktail tossed through home’s window

  23-01-2026 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CASTLEGAR — Police in Castlegar, B.C., are investigating after an unknown man allegedly set fire to a red fuel can on the porch of a home on Thursday and threw a Molotov cocktail through the front window.A statement from the RCMP says the homeowner attempted to extinguish the flames, while another resident called 911.
  Police say the local fire department was able to put out the flames and contain the fire inside the home to one room.
  Investigators are asking residents in the 1200-block of
  
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• A timeline of key events leading up to the arrest of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding

  23-01-2026 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  U.S. authorities have announced the arrest of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who is accused of running an international drug ring and ordering the murders of several people.The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the 44-year-old Wedding, originally from Thunder Bay, Ont., was arrested in Mexico after a yearslong manhunt and he will be tried on numerous charges in a U.S. federal court.Here's a timeline of some of the key events in the Wedding saga.February 2002
  Wedding compete
  
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• B.C. Law Society investigates obscene remark that has delayed Myles Gray hearing

  23-01-2026 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Law Society of British Columbia has opened an investigation after a lawyer made an obscene comment that was broadcast over the audio stream of a public hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray.
  The legal regulator says it is looking into "concerns" about the matter, which forced the adjournment of the long-awaited hearing midway through the third day of testimony on Wednesday in Vancouver.
  The society referred to its code of professional conduct for lawyers
  
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• Simon Jolin-Barrette bows out of CAQ leadership race; Christine Fréchette to run

  23-01-2026 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says he won't seek the Coalition Avenir Québec leadership to replace François Legault.Jolin-Barrette says he decided not to enter the race for family and professional reasons.Jolin-Barrette, first elected in 2014, had received the support of several CAQ caucus members since Legault's announcement.
  Facing dismal polling, Legault said last week he would step down as party leader and premier after a successor is named at a le
  
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• 5 things to know about Canada being disinvited from Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

  23-01-2026 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Senior federal government officials told reporters travelling to China with Prime Minister Mark Carney last week that he was accepting an invitation to join U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace."
  Less than a week later, Trump said Carney's invitation had been rescinded — and the board appears to be morphing into something more ambitious than a panel focused solely on the future of Gaza.
  While it's not clear exactly why Trump pulled Carney's invitation, he and other
  
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