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• Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts

  22-01-2023 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too late for astronauts to take advantage of the site for training.
  But now, as Artemis astronauts prepare for the next moon mission, one Canadian expert says the remote crater could provide vital insight into what awaits them.
  Gordon Osinski, a professor in the department of Earth sciences at Western University in London, Ont., said Mistastin
  
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• Traffic control company faces over $22,000 fine for allegedly unsafe practices at Abbotsford work site

  19-01-2026 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — A Lower Mainland traffic control company is facing a potential fine of over $22,000 for unsafe practices at an Abbotsford work site.
  According to its website, WorkSafeBC says MP Traffic Ltd. was providing traffic control services for roadwork activities at an intersection. WorkSafeBC says it inspected the worksite and witnessed two traffic control persons positioned within active lanes close to moving vehicular traffic.WorkSafeBC says the firm failed to ensure that traffic con
  
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• Fog shrouding Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island could last into Tuesday

  19-01-2026 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Environment Canada is warning of near-zero visibility for parts of Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island as thick fog envelopes the region.
  The weather agency says the fog is caused by a ridge of high pressure, trapping moisture near the surface of the affected areas.
  The conditions that also affected parts of the Lower Mainland over the weekend are expected to last into Tuesday afternoon.
  The fog warning covers most of Metro Vancouver including Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Sur
  
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• Bombers sign veteran kicker Sergio Castillo to two-year contract extension

  19-01-2026 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have re-signed American kicker Sergio Castillo and Australian punter Jamieson Sheahan, the CFL club announced Monday.
  Castillo's extension is for two years, while Sheahan re-signed for one year. Both players were scheduled to become a free agents in February.
  The 35-year-old Castillo has been the Blue Bombers kicker for the past three seasons in his third stint with the club.
  He made 48 field goals last season, including a CFL record-tying 63-yard kick
  
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• Bulgaria’s left-leaning president Rumen Radev says he is stepping down

  19-01-2026 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s left-leaning president Rumen Radev announced on Monday that he is stepping down.In a televised address, Radev said that he will formally submit his resignation to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. Under the constitution, the current vice president, Iliana Yotova, must be sworn in by parliament to take the post until the end of the government's mandate.Radev’s decision comes amid public expectation that he will form a new political party.
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• City of Chilliwack looks to improve rural intersection through proposed widening

  19-01-2026 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack is welcoming bids for a proposed invitation to tender to widen and improve an intersection in Greendale.
  According to the city’s website, qualified, eligible contractors with experience in public works projects are invited to complete submissions for the Chadsey Road-Keith Wilson rural intersection widening project.The city says the project includes the extension of an existing concrete box culvert crossing Lewis Slough and associated watercourse r
  
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• Canadian found dead on Australian island, surrounded by dingo pack: Australian media

  19-01-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BRISBANE — Australian media are reporting that a young Canadian woman has been found dead, her body surrounded by a pack of dingoes, on an island popular with backpackers and other tourists and off the country's east coast.
  Police in the Australian state of Queensland say they were told about the body of the 19-year-old victim around 6:35 a.m. local time on Monday, when officers were called to a beach on K'gari, also known as Fraser Island.
  Police Inspector Paul Algie told reporters the bo
  
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• Ottawa Charge, Vancouver Goldeneyes make six-player PWHL swap

  19-01-2026 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Charge and Vancouver Goldeneyes have executed a six-player trade in the Professional Women's Hockey League.
  The Charge acquired Canadian centre Michela Cava, forward Brooke McQuigge and veteran defender Emma Greco from the expansion Goldeneyes and sent Russian winger Anna Shokhina, Austrian forward Anna Meixner and American forward Mannon McMahon to Vancouver.
  Ottawa (3-4-0-6) ranks sixth in the eight team league and Vancouver (3-1-2-7) last.
  Cava of Thunder Bay, Ont.,
  
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• 40-year-old woman dies east of Montreal following argument with man inside home

  19-01-2026 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ROUGEMONT — Quebec provincial police say a 40-year-old woman died on Sunday east of Montreal following an argument with a man that had escalated.
  Police spokesperson Béatrice Dorsainville says officers were called to a home on Petite-Caroline Street around 1:45 p.m. in Rougemont, Que.
  Dorsainville says police found the woman seriously injured inside the residence.
  She was taken to hospital where her death was confirmed that evening.
  Dorsainville says police found a man inside the ho
  
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• Price of coffee spikes over 30%, restaurant meals up 8.5%: Statistics Canada

  19-01-2026 17:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the end of the federal government’s tax holiday a year earlier pushed the annual pace of inflation up two ticks to 2.4 per cent in December.
  A poll of economists heading into Monday’s data release had expected the annual inflation rate would hold steady at 2.2 per cent.
  StatCan said Ottawa’s move to take GST off some items for two months starting mid-December in 2024 dropped prices for dining out, alcohol, children’s toys and more a y
  
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• Gunmen abduct over 150 worshippers from 3 churches in Nigeria

  19-01-2026 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted more than 150 worshippers in simultaneous attacks on three separate churches in northwest Nigeria, a state lawmaker told The Associated Press on Monday.The attack occurred on Sunday in Kurmin Wali, a community in the Kajuru area of Kaduna state, while services and a Mass were underway at the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), a church belonging to the denomination Cherubim and Seraphim, and a Catholic church, according to Usman Danlami Stingo, a la
  
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• Bills fire coach Sean McDermott after 9 seasons of falling short of reaching the Super Bowl

  19-01-2026 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills fired coach Sean McDermott on Monday after the team again failed to reach the Super Bowl in his nine seasons.The move came two days after the Bills were eliminated in a heart-wrenching 33-30 overtime loss at Denver in the divisional round of the playoffs.“Sean helped change the mindset of this organization and was instrumental in the Bills becoming a perennial playoff team,” owner Terry Pegula said. ”But I feel we are in need of
  
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• Bills fire Sean McDermott after 9 seasons of falling short of reaching Super Bowl, AP sources say

  19-01-2026 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills fired Sean McDermott on Monday, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.The move came two days after the Bills were eliminated in a heart-wrenching 33-30 overtime loss at Denver in the divisional round of the playoffs. The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the moved.McDermott’s tenure ends after nine seasons in which he transformed the franchise into a pere
  
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• Canada’s Shapovalov advances to Australian Open second round with straight-sets win

  19-01-2026 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MELBOURNE — Denis Shapovalov is moving on to the Australian Open second round after beating wild card Bu Yunchaokete of China 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in his opening match at the grand slam tennis tournament Monday.
  Shapovalov, the 21st seed, hit 19 aces and converted 3-of-8 break point chances without being broken to win the match in two hours 15 minutes.
  The 26-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., also struck 47 winners to just 11 for Bu. He’ll play Croatia’s Marin Cilic in the next r
  
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• Explosion in downtown Kabul kills at least 7, injures many others, officials say

  19-01-2026 15:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion in downtown Kabul on Monday killed at least seven people and wounded about a dozen more, according to an Italian medical charity running a surgical care facility in the city. The reasons for the blast were not immediately clear.The explosion appeared to have hit a restaurant in the Shahr-e-Naw district of the Afghan capital. In the first few minutes after the blast, a police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, had identified the facility affected as a hotel. Th
  
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• Cultus Lake Park Village redevelopment moves forward as regional builder has been identified

  19-01-2026 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CULTUS LAKE — Following years of planning and discussion, Cultus Lake Park Board commissioners are set to announce at this week’s meeting the preferred proponent for the proposed Village Center redevelopment project.According to the text of item 13a. on this Wednesday’s agenda, commissioners and park board staff will officially recognize Abbotsford-based Diverse Properties as the preferred proponent for the redevelopment plan and initiate the start of exclusive negotiations.At
  
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• Canada to face Kazakhstan in Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers in mid-April

  19-01-2026 15:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Fourth-ranked Canada has been drawn to play No. 9 Kazakhstan in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers this April, Tennis Canada said Monday.The winning team will advance to the eight-team finals in Shenzhen, China, in September.Host Kazakhstan will choose the playing surface and venue for the best-of-five April 10-11 tie at a later date.Two singles matches will be played on the first day. Doubles will kick off play on the second day, followed by two singles matches.
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• Here’s a list of December inflation rates for selected Canadian cities

  19-01-2026 14:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.4 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
  — St. John's, N.L.: 3.1 per cent (2.1)
  — Charlottetown-Summerside: 2.9 per cent (1.6)
  — Halifax: 3.1 per cent (2.2)
  — Saint John, N.B.: 3.1 per cent (2.8)
  — Quebec City: 3.2 per cent (3
  
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• Here’s a list of December inflation rates for Canadian provinces

  19-01-2026 14:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.4 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):
  — Newfoundland and Labrador: 3.0 per cent (2.2)
  — Prince Edward Island: 2.8 per cent (1.4)
  — Nova Scotia: 3.1 per cent (2.4)
  — New Brunswick: 3.1 per cent (2.7)
  — Quebec: 3.2 per cent (3.0)
  — Ontario: 2.1 per cent (1.9)
  — Manitoba: 3.7 per cent (3.3)
  — Saskatchewan: 2.2 per cent (2.1
  
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• Inflation rises to 2.4% in December in ‘tax holiday’ rebound: StatCan

  19-01-2026 14:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the end of the federal government’s “tax holiday” a year earlier pushed the annual pace of inflation up two ticks to 2.4 per cent in December.
  The agency says Ottawa’s move to take GST off some items for two months starting mid-December in 2024 dropped prices for dining out, alcohol, children’s toys and more a year earlier, but those discounts fell out of the annual comparison and pushed the consumer price index higher to end th
  
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• Blast at a hotel in downtown Kabul leaves multiple casualties, officials say

  19-01-2026 13:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion at a hotel in downtown Kabul on Monday left a number of people killed and injured, officials said.The cause of the blast was unclear.Spokesman Khalid Zadran said the explosion struck at a hotel in the Shahr-e-Naw district, causing a number of casualties. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said the blast had caused both deaths and injuries, and that the cause was being investigated. Neither had details on the number of casualties.Footage air
  
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• Karachi mall fire death toll rises to 23 as rescuers search for dozens missing

  19-01-2026 13:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a massive fire at a shopping plaza in Karachi rose to 23 on Monday as rescuers recovered more bodies from the badly damaged building, police said. Dozens remain missing.Firefighters extinguished the blaze at the multistory plaza late Sunday, nearly 24 hours after it erupted, allowing rescue teams to enter the building. Authorities fear the death toll will rise as they look for 46 more people, according to city police chief Asad Raza.Raza told Th
  
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• School bus crash in South Africa kills at least 13 children, police say

  19-01-2026 12:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A truck collided with a school minibus in South Africa's Gauteng province, killing at least 13 children, authorities said Monday.Preliminary reports indicated at least 11 schoolchildren died at the scene, with two others succumbing to their injuries in the hospital.The private vehicle was transporting students to various primary schools and high schools in the southwest of Johannesburg on Monday when the incident occurred around 7 a.m., according to authoritiesWitnesses
  
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• School bus crash in South Africa kills at least 12 children, police say

  19-01-2026 12:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A truck collided with a school minibus in South Africa's Gauteng province, killing at least 12 children, authorities said Monday.Preliminary reports indicated 11 schoolchildren died at the scene, with one additional child succumbing to their injuries in the hospital.The private vehicle was transporting students to various primary schools and high schools in the southwest of Johannesburg on Monday when the incident occurred around 7 a.m., according to authorities
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• Rescuers recover more bodies from Karachi shopping plaza fire as death toll rises to 15

  19-01-2026 12:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers recovered more bodies from a massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, pushing the death toll to at least 15 with about 65 reported missing, Firefighters extinguished the blaze at the multistory Gul Plaza late Sunday nearly 24 hours after it erupted, allowing rescue teams to enter the building. Authorities feared that the death toll could further rise.Sindh provincial Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah told a news conference in
  
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• Nugent-Hopkins scores winning goal for Oilers in his 1,000th NHL game

  19-01-2026 11:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins made a memorable night even more remarkable.
  Playing in his 1,000th NHL game on Sunday, Nugent-Hopkins celebrated the milestone by scoring the game winner as his Edmonton Oilers blanked the St. Louis Blues 5-0, earning a shutout victory on consecutive nights after defeating the Canucks 6-0 on Saturday in Vancouver.
  “I haven’t scored in a couple of weeks too, it was obviously fun to do that on a night like tonight,” Nugent-Hopkins said. &ldqu
  
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• Starmer says Trump’s Greenland tariff threat ‘completely wrong’ and a trade war in no one’s interest

  19-01-2026 10:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest.Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations, including the U.K., because of their opposition to American control of Greenland, setting up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in
  
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• In the news today: Carney goes to Davos, gun compensation, Chinese EV deal

  19-01-2026 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
  Carney heading to Switzerland to take part in World Economic Forum
  Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Switzerland today for a meeting of the World Economic Forum in the ski resort town of Davos.
  Carney is set to give speeches aimed at drumming up investments in Canada while meeting with leaders of countries, institutions and corporations.
  U.S. President Donald Trump is also expected to speak at Davos, and
  
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• Timeline of police-involved beating death of Myles Gray in B.C.

  19-01-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia begins a public hearing on Monday into the police-involved death of 33-year-old Myles Gray more than 10 years ago.
  Commissioner Prabhu Rajan called the hearing after a police discipline authority dismissed misconduct allegations against seven Vancouver police officers involved in the fatal confrontation. Here are some of the key dates in the case.August 13, 2015
  Police are called about a man acting erratically not far from the b
  
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• Public hearing into 2015 Vancouver police beating death of Myles Gray to begin

  19-01-2026 10:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray gets underway today in Vancouver.
  The hearing by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner into the circumstances of Gray's death after a violent altercation with a group of Vancouver police officers in Burnaby, B.C., is scheduled to last 10 weeks.
  His family sought the hearing after a discipline authority cleared the seven officers of misconduct in 2024, and Margaret Gray, his mother, is listed as the firs
  
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