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• Skijoring: a sport you’ve likely never heard of pushed a resort town to its limit

  24-01-2026 14:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BANFF — Cole Carey learned quickly to keep his mouth shut when skiing in the snowy wake of a galloping horse: there’s the danger of snow, ice and the occasional flavour of animal droppings dusted into the air.
  Carey is what's called a slider in skijoring, a winter sport that could be the seasonal alternative to water-skiing — substituting water for snow, a wetsuit for a snowsuit and a boat for a one-horsepower steed.
  The 21-year-old from Panorama, B.C., stuck to it despite the
  
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• You’re at risk of frostbite in this bitterly cold weather. Here’s what to know

  24-01-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — As bitterly cold temperatures plunge much of the country into a deep freeze, emergency doctors and public health experts are warning people to protect themselves from frostbite.In some parts of Canada where winters aren't always this frigid, people may not realize that frostbite is "a real risk that can happen to anybody" when the temperature drops, said Dr. Sahil Gupta, an emergency physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto."I trained in Edmonton. We saw frostbite a lot mor
  
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• New Jersey Devils capture 5-4 road victory over the Vancouver Canucks

  24-01-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks are finally getting healthier but that still wasn't enough for them to win consecutive games for the first time in more than a month.
  Two nights after snapping their 11-game winless streak on home ice against the Washington Capitals, the Canucks pushed hard after spotting the New Jersey Devils a 3-0 lead at Rogers Arena before suffering a 5-4 loss.
  “It felt like a pretty even game,” said Teddy Blueger, who scored his second goal of the year wit
  
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• China’s envoy says Beijing, Ottawa ‘eye to eye’ on supporting Greenland

  24-01-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — China's envoy to Canada says the two countries "see eye to eye" on the need to support Greenland's territorial integrity and Beijing wants to play a productive role in the North — even as analysts warn Moscow and Beijing are working together in the region.
  "China's consistent policy is to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. That goes to Greenland, that goes to Canada, and that goes through all the other countries," Chinese Ambassador Wang Di s
  
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• Capitals’ Lapierre ends drought; Wilson, Thompson in form ahead of Olympic Games

  24-01-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Hendrix Lapierre was mobbed by his linemates on the ice and even those in the press box were roaring.
  The 23-year-old from Gatineau, Que., ended a 90-game drought without a goal by scoring Washington's first in the Capitals' 3-1 win over the host Calgary Flames on Friday.
  Lapierre scored his previous goal March 18, 2024, in Calgary.
  "It's been a while since I've scored, but I think overall the win feels a lot better," Hendrix said. "It's a good test of patience. Faith in myself n
  
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• Canadian phenom Victoria Mboko set to duel No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka at Australian Open

  24-01-2026 12:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MELBOURNE — Victoria Mboko will test herself against the world’s best.
  The 19-year-old Canadian phenom faces world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian Open fourth round Saturday in Canada, Sunday in Australia, at Melbourne Park.
  Sabalenka is a two-time winner at the Grand Slam tennis tournament, while Mboko, one of the sport’s rising teenage stars, is making her Aussie Open debut.
  Mboko advanced to the round of 16 with a 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-3 victory over 14th-seeded Clara Taus
  
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• Intense cold forces flight delays, cancellations at Canadian airports

  24-01-2026 11:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Intense cold weather sweeping the country has led to flight delays or cancellations at most of Canada's major airports.
  Air Canada says in a notice on its website that extreme cold at Toronto and Montreal airports is causing delays, and that customers can rebook at no cost.
  WestJet has similar advisories that include airports in Halifax, Moncton and Quebec City, as well as south of the border in Atlanta, Houston and New York City.
  From New Brunswick through to Alberta, residents have been hunker
  
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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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