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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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• Carney reflects on 2025’s ‘challenges’ in New Year’s Eve message

  31-12-2025 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says in his New Year's Eve message that Canada faced "challenges" in 2025 but the country is strongest when it's united.
  As Canadians prepare to ring in the new year, Carney says it's a time to reflect on the moments that brought us joy in 2025 and the people who made our lives special.
  But he also acknowledges the past year brought "more than its share of challenges" for Canada.
  Carney says that despite the year's trials, 2025 reminded Canadians that "w
  
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• Abbotsford-Langley MLA could run to be the next leader of the B.C. Conservatives

  31-12-2025 15:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD-LANGLEY – B.C. Conservative MLA Harman Bhangu says he will “most likely” run for the leadership of the provincial Opposition party, if the yet-to-be-released rules for the race are to his liking.
  Bhangu, a former trucker who was elected as MLA for Abbotsford-Langley in 2024, says he will make his final decision once the party has released the rules, which he expects in the second or third week of the new year.
  “If I like the way it is, transparent, then I feel
  
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• B.C. paramedics could go on strike amid push for better mental health supports for frontline workers

  31-12-2025 15:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The union representing thousands of paramedics, dispatchers, and call takers in British Columbia is warning about potential job action after it says contract negotiations broke down before Christmas.
  A statement from Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia says that it has been in collective agreement negotiations with the employer, BC Emergency Health Services, since September.
  It says it is now engaging its membership about possible job action, including the possibility of a
  
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• Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s new year’s message to Canadians

  31-12-2025 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she witnessed extraordinary solidarity across the country in the last year in response to wildfires, economic challenges and in advancing Indigenous reconciliation.In a recorded message to Canadians, released by Rideau Hall, Simon says the nation is courageous, inclusive and committed to building peace.
  She also thanked Canadians for their support when she was hospitalized with a respiratory illness in the fall.Simon was unable to take part in national Re
  
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• Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse honoured with Order of Canada

  31-12-2025 14:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It was surprising for Andre De Grasse at first.
  The seven-time Olympic medallist from Markham, Ont., got a call in late October from the Governor General’s office informing him he would receive the Order of Canada on Wednesday.
  De Grasse, who turned 31 on Nov. 10, didn’t expect to be recognized while still active in his track career.
  "Usually you don't receive this award until you're older — you're in the second phase of your life or third phase of your life, I would say like 5
  
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• In The Rings: Change coming to curling scene with lineup moves and Rock League

  31-12-2025 13:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Montana's Canadian Curling Trials did more than just determine this country's representatives for the Winter Olympics.It also served as a valuable opportunity for up-and-coming players to get a taste of what it's like to compete at curling's biggest domestic competition of the quadrennial.Rachel Homan and Brad Jacobs skipped their teams to victory last November in Halifax and will wear the Maple Leaf at the upcoming Milan Cortina Games. For younger skips like Jordon McDonald, Kayla Skrlik, R
  
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• New Zealand’s Auckland kicks off 2026 celebrations with fireworks

  31-12-2025 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Auckland rang in 2026 with a downtown fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, making it the first major city to greet the new year at a celebration dampened by rain.South Pacific countries are the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks strike midnight in Auckland, a population of 1.7 million, 18 hours before the famous ball drops in New York’s Times Square.The five-minute display involved 3,500 fireworks launched
  
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• Woll stands tall as short-handed Maple Leafs dump Devils 4-0

  31-12-2025 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The odds were stacked against the Toronto Maple Leafs, who on Tuesday were playing their third game in four nights since the Christmas break and were without key injured players Auston Matthews, William Nylander and Chris Tanev.
  But the Maple Leafs hunkered down and benefited from a superb performance from netminder Joseph Woll in the 4-0 victory against the New Jersey Devils before 18,923 at Scotiabank Arena.
  Woll made 33 saves to earn his first shutout of the season and first r
  
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• Sceptres left looking for adjustments after being unable to solve Nicole Hensley

  31-12-2025 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Sceptres tilted the ice for much of the final two periods, but just could not figure out Nicole Hensley.
  The Minnesota Frost goaltender put on a clinic in her 31-save outing to lead her Professional Women's Hockey League team to a 5-1 victory over Toronto on Tuesday. On the other hand, Sceptres starter Elaine Chuli, who suffered her first loss of the season, was chased after giving up four goals on 18 shots in two periods.
  "Never an easy decision to make," Toronto hea
  
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• ‘I wish I had an answer’: Home ice woes haunt struggling Vancouver Canucks

  31-12-2025 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Most NHL teams would be excited for an upcoming homestand.That may not be the case for the Vancouver Canucks.The team has struggled mightily at Rogers Arena this season, falling to 4-12-1 at home with an ugly 6-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. They've now lost four straight games in their own building.With 10 home matchups in January, the Canucks (16-20-3) are searching for solutions.
  “I don't know. I wish I had an answer," winger Drew O'Connor said after Tue
  
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• In the news: Sask. shooting suspects still at large, major watermain break in Calgary

  31-12-2025 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed …
  RCMP still looking for suspects in Sask. shooting
  The search continues this morning for a pair of suspects wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on a Saskatchewan First Nation.
  The RCMP says the shooting happened early Tuesday morning in Big Island Lake Cree Nation, about 400 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, which left one person dead and three others injured.
  No arrests have been made.
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• Northern lights inspire recovery in Telegraph Cove, B.C., year after devastating fire

  31-12-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Mary Borrowman says she'll never forget the moment she and her husband, Jim, watched the northern lights shimmer across the sky on the morning of Jan. 1, 2025, from their home in Telegraph Cove, B.C.
  "When we looked out our window, and we looked over the water, everywhere you could see in the sky were the most beautiful dancing red and green, and purple northern lights that we have ever seen," said Borrowman.A day earlier, a massive New Year's Eve fire in the quaint tourist resort on northeaster
  
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• Increasing AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers

  31-12-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — In the past, if a client who usually preferred to communicate via short emails suddenly sent a lengthy message akin to a legal memo, Ron Shulman would suspect they’d received help from a family member or partner.
  Now, the Toronto family lawyer asks clients if they’ve used artificial intelligence. And most of the time, he says, the answer is yes.
  Almost every week, his firm receives messages written or driven by AI, a shift Shulman says he noticed in the last several m
  
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• Canada set to announce men’s Olympic hockey roster ahead of NHL’s return to the Games

  31-12-2025 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MINNEAPOLIS — Canadian hockey fans will learn the full list of NHL players set to compete for men's gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics later today.
  Hockey Canada is holding a press conference at 12 p.m. ET in Minneapolis — one of the world junior hockey championship host cities — to unveil its roster for February's Milan Cortina Games in Italy.
  Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Brayden Point and Sam Reinhart were already named to the squad back in June.
  
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• RCMP still looking for two suspects in Saskatchewan First Nation shooting

  31-12-2025 09:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The search continues this morning for a pair of suspects wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on a Saskatchewan First Nation.
  The RCMP says the shooting happened early Tuesday morning in Big Island Lake Cree Nation, about 400 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, which left one person dead and three others injured.
  No arrests have been made.
  Tuesday night, Mounties issued a statement advising the public they were lifting a dangerous-person alert for two suspects, as they believed there was n
  
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• Suzuki scores in OT as Canadiens rally to beat Panthers 3-2

  31-12-2025 08:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki got a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime &mdas
  
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• Thailand releases 18 Cambodian prisoners of war as part of ceasefire agreement

  31-12-2025 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Wednesday released 18 Cambodian prisoners of war held for five months, fulfilling the terms of a ceasefire agreement the two countries signed to end bitter fighting along their border.The release was stipulated in the ceasefire agreement signed Saturday by the defense ministers of the two countries at the same border checkpoint between Thailand’s Chanthaburi province and Cambodia’s Pailin province where the soldiers were released.“The repatriati
  
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• Flyers top Canucks 6-3 in head coach Rick Tocchet’s return to Vancouver

  31-12-2025 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet guided Philadelphia to a 6-3 victory over his former team, the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
  Tocchet, who walked away from the same position with the Canucks in late April, was recognized on the big screen midway through the first period and was met by both boisterous boos and a smattering of cheers.
  Bobby Brick, Noah Cates and Travis Konecny each registered a goal and an assist, while Carl Grundstrom, Owen Tippet and Christian Dvorak also scored
  
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• NHL roundup: Suzuki scores in OT as Canadiens rally to stun Panthers 3-2

  31-12-2025 05:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki got a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.
  Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.
  Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime &md
  
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• Canadiens’ rally spoils Marchand’s night with 3-2 overtime win over Panthers

  31-12-2025 04:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Nick Suzuki scored a power-play goal 3:24 into overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to stun the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.
  Suzuki also scored late in regulation to tie the game for the Canadiens, who improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal.
  Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, but Marchand was called for roughing 1:27 into overtime
  
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• B.C. paramedics union says negotiations broke down, warns of a possible strike

  31-12-2025 04:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The union representing thousands of paramedics, dispatchers, and call takers in British Columbia is warning about potential job action after it says contract negotiations broke down before Christmas.A statement from Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia says that it has been in collective agreement negotiations with the employer, BC Emergency Health Services, since September.
  It says it is now engaging its membership about possible job action, including the possibility of a
  
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• Woll nets shutout as injury-riddled Maple Leafs burn Devils 4-0

  31-12-2025 03:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Joseph Woll made 33 saves for his first shutout of the season, while Bobby McMann, Nicolas Roy, Calle Jarnkrok and Matthew Knies scored as the injury-riddled Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the New Jersey Devils 4-0 on Tuesday.
  Playing their third game in four nights since the Christmas break, the Maple Leafs were without William Nylander (lower-body injury) for a second straight game, Auston Matthews (lower body), Chris Tanev (lower body) and Dakota Joshua, who remained in Detroit a
  
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• Hensley almost unbeatable in net as Frost cruise to 5-1 win over Sceptres

  31-12-2025 03:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Kendall Coyne Schofield scored her league-leading sixth and seventh goals, Nicole Hensley shined with a 31-save outing, and the Minnesota Frost topped the Toronto Sceptres 5-1 on Tuesday night in the Professional Women's Hockey League.
  Katy Knoll, Britta Curl-Salemme and Grace Zumwinkle also scored for Minnesota (4-1-1-2). Taylor Heise had three assists.
  Daryl Watts had the lone goal for Toronto (4-0-2-3). Elaine Chuli made 14 saves, with Raygan Kirk turning away seven shots in r
  
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• Panthers pay tribute to Brad Marchand’s 1,000th point with pregame ceremony

  31-12-2025 03:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand's first NHL point came just 26 seconds into the second period of his first game with the Boston Bruins. It seemed very easy, so easy that he was certain he'd be all over the scoresheets on a regular basis.Oops. Nearly a full year passed before his second NHL point.“After the first, I'm like, ‘Oh, this, it’s not too hard,'” Marchand said. “But I had a pretty rude awakening after that. You just see how hard it is every night to
  
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• Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate special election

  31-12-2025 03:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.Hardman bested Republican Lucas Loftin to win the seat representing parts of Des Moines’ suburbs. It became vacant after the Oct. 6 death of state Sen. Claire Celsi, a Democrat.Hardman becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.A GOP win would have given the party a super
  
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