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• Surrey RCMP bring down marijuana distribution ring

  26-11-2024 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Surrey RCMP have dismantled a large illegal cannabis distribution operation, seizing drugs, firearms, and cash during a two-month investigation.
  The case began in early September when officers responded to reports of illicit cannabis distribution at a shipping business in the north end of Surrey. Police seized four large boxes of cannabis during their initial visit.
  On September 29, the Surrey RCMP Drug Unit intercepted another shipment at the same location, uncovering 170 pounds
  
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• NHL roundup: Zucker scores the winner as surging Sabres pounce on Panthers 5-3

  03-02-2026 07:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jason Zucker broke a 3-3 tie on a power play at 5:31 of the third period and the Buffalo Sabres beat the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers 5-3 on Monday.
  The Sabres have won six of seven and took over the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference standings. They hold a 10-point lead over the Panthers. Florida, which has lost four straight, trails Boston by nine for the final playoff position with 27 games remaining.
  Peyton Krebs had a goal a
  
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• Nylander nets three points to lead Maple Leafs to 4-2 win over Flames

  03-02-2026 06:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — William Nylander scored his 18th goal of the season and added two assists to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 NHL victory over the Calgary Flames on Monday.
  Matias Maccelli, Troy Stecher, and Bobby McMann, into an empty net, also scored for Toronto (26-21-9), which has won back-to-back games to open a three-game Western Canada road trip.
  The Maple Leafs moved to within seven points of the Boston Bruins, who occupy the second wild-card berth in the Eastern Conference.
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• Iran’s president seeks ‘fair and equitable negotiations’ with the United States

  03-02-2026 06:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president said Tuesday that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to “pursue fair and equitable negotiations” with the United States, the first clear sign from Tehran it wants to try to negotiate as tensions remain high with Washington after the Mideast country's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month.The announcement marked a major turn for reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who broadly had warned Iranians
  
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• Nick Schmaltz nets hat trick as Mammoth overpower Canucks 6-2

  03-02-2026 06:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nick Schmaltz had his second hat trick of the season and added an assist for a four-point night in the Utah Mammoth's 6-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday.
  Schmaltz had his third career NHL hat trick to push his season goals total to 22, one shy of his career high set with Arizona in 2021-22.
  JJ Peterka scored his 20th of the season, John Marino had three assists and Mikhail Sergachev and Lawson Crouse also scored to help Utah end a two-game losing streak.
  
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• Two Kamloops teens among 3 that sadly died in Alberta highway crash

  03-02-2026 06:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team says three players have been killed in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  Two Kamloops teenagers were among three junior hockey teammates killed in a horrific highway crash in Alberta Monday (Feb. 2).
  A photo posted to social media identifies the victims as J.J. Wright and Cameron Casorso, both 18 years old and from Kamloops, and 17-year-old American-born player Caden Fine.
  According to the Mustangs, the players were o
  
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• Harley scores in OT as Stars beat Jets 4-3 for fifth straight win

  03-02-2026 05:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DALLAS (AP) — Thomas Harley scored at 2:05 of overtime, and the Dallas Stars matched their longest winning streak of the season at five games with a 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.
  The goal came moments after Jake Oettinger made a pad save on Mark Schiefele's breakaway in a matchup of the top two goalies for Team USA in the second-to-last game before the break for the Milan Cortina Olympics. Oettinger and expected U.S. starter Connor Hellbuyck each stopped 24 shots.
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• Kaprizov scores OT winner on power play as Wild clip Canadiens 4-3

  03-02-2026 04:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored his second goal of the game on a power play at 3:38 of overtime to give the Minnesota Wild a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.
  Minnesota got the power play when Phillip Danault hooked Kaprizov in front of the goal. Kaprizov took a feed from Quinn Hughes and fired a shot past Jakub Dobes from the high slot for his 32nd goal of the season.
  Joel Eriksson Ek and Brock Faber also scored, and Hughes had three assists to reach 5
  
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• Giroux’s late goal lifts surging Senators past Penguins 3-2

  03-02-2026 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Claude Giroux scored with just over five minutes remaining in the third period and the Ottawa Senators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Monday night.
  Giroux skated in on goal, was tripped by Erik Karlsson and went hard into the post. The net lifted off its moorings, but officials determined the puck crossed the line first at 14:52.
  Giroux, a longtime Philadelphia Flyer, tied Alex Ovechkin for the most points against Pittsburgh by an active player. He has 23 goals and 7
  
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• ‘Grieving together’: 3 players on Alberta junior hockey team dead in vehicle crash

  03-02-2026 03:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — Three players on an Alberta junior hockey team were killed Monday in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  The Southern Alberta Mustangs in the small town of Stavely said in a Facebook post that they're working closely with authorities and offering support to other players, staff and families.
  "There are no words that can adequately express the depth of our grief," the team said.
  "These young men were more than hockey players — they were teammates, sons, brothers, frie
  
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• Three players on Alberta junior hockey team dead in vehicle crash

  03-02-2026 03:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — Three players on an Alberta junior hockey team were killed Monday in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  The Southern Alberta Mustangs in the small town of Stavely said in a Facebook post that they're working closely with authorities and offering support to other players, staff and families.
  "There are no words that can adequately express the depth of our grief," the team said.
  "These young men were more than hockey players — they were teammates, sons, brothers, frie
  
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• Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein investigation before contempt of Congress vote

  03-02-2026 02:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed late Monday to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican leading the probe said an agreement had not yet been finalized.Rep. James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, was advancing criminal contempt of Congress charges against both Clintons Monday evening for defying a congressional subpoena when attorneys for the Clinton
  
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• Two Kamloops teens die in Alberta highway crash

  03-02-2026 02:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team says three players have been killed in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  Two Kamloops teenagers were among three junior hockey teammates killed in a horrific highway crash in Alberta Monday (Feb. 2).
  A photo posted to social media identifies the victims as J.J. Wright and Cameron Casorso, both 18 years old and from Kamloops, and 17-year-old American-born player Caden Fine.
  According to the Mustangs, the players were o
  
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• B.C. minister is ‘cautiously optimistic’ Ottawa will help after Fraser Valley floods

  03-02-2026 02:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's emergencies minister says she's cautiously optimistic about securing federal funding to prevent future flooding in the Abbotsford region, as she prepares to head to Ottawa with the city's mayor.
  Kelly Greene's mission to Ottawa on Tuesday with Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens and Sumas First Nation Chief Dalton Silver comes more than seven weeks after Siemens blasted federal "inaction" on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly inundated his city.
  She says in a
  
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• Alberta junior hockey team says 3 players dead in vehicle crash

  03-02-2026 02:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STAVELY — The Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team says three players have been killed in a vehicle crash while heading to practice.
  The team says in a Facebook post that the crash happened Monday.
  No other details were provided about the crash.
  The Mustangs are based in Stavely, Alta., about an hour's drive south of Calgary, and play in the U.S. Premier Hockey League.
  RCMP said officers responded Monday morning to a crash on Highway 2.
  The team says it's working closely with autho
  
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• Veteran defensive lineman Dylan Wynn agrees in principle to deal with Redblacks

  03-02-2026 01:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Ottawa Redblacks agreed in principle to a contract with American defensive lineman Dylan Wynn on Monday.
  The move came on the second day of the CFL's negotiation window. After a flurry of deals when the window opened Sunday, the pace slowed noticeably on Monday.
  Wynn, 32, spent the last two seasons with the Montreal Alouettes. He had 20 tackles and a sack in 14 regular-season games in 2025.
  The six-foot-one, 290-pound Wynn enters his ninth CFL season, having also spent time previously with T
  
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• Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians

  03-02-2026 01:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Feb. 3. Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion
  
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• Appeals court overturns former UCLA gynecologist’s sex abuse conviction

  03-02-2026 01:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former campus gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on sex abuse charges. James Heaps was sentenced in 2023 to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients. The ruling ordered the case to be sent back for retrial. A three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Heaps was denied a fair trial because his defense counsel was not made aware of
  
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• She went missing in Canada in 1985. She may have been a Florida serial murder victim

  03-02-2026 01:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It was in January of 1985 when the mixed skeletal remains of two people were discovered in a wooded area of Malabar, Fla., and while one woman was identified through dental records, the identity of the other person remained a mystery for 41 years.Police now say the mystery bones belonged to Jeanette Marcotte, who was last seen in Saskatchewan in the early 1980s. A DNA firm that assists law enforcement with cold cases announced her identification last week.
  The other bones belonged to Kimberly Wa
  
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• Global Affairs confirms a Canadian has died in Japan

  03-02-2026 00:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says the department is aware of the death of a Canadian citizen in Japan.
  Japanese media have identified the victim as 39-year-old Ashley Kay Bernice.
  Reports say she died on Sunday after falling into a waterfall basin while snowboarding off course at a ski resort in Japan.
  John Babcock, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, did not confirm the victim's name.
  Babcock says Canadian officials are providing consular assistance and are reaching out to local a
  
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• Former minister Baird says he wasn’t consulted about Epstein’s invite to 2014 seminar

  03-02-2026 00:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The office of former foreign affairs minister John Baird says neither he nor the Canadian government were consulted on a 2014 seminar invitation list that included convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Baird's name appears in documents related to Epstein recently released by the U.S. Justice Department, including work-related guest lists and a document inviting Epstein to a one-week seminar in Austria that was supported by the foreign ministries of Canada and Norway.
  That documen
  
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• Rizqy says partisan use of legislature funds led to chief of staff firing

  02-02-2026 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Marwah Rizqy is breaking her silence about what prompted her to fire her chief of staff, leading to her expulsion from the Quebec Liberal party caucus last year.
  In a statement of defence in a civil lawsuit brought by Geneviève Hinse, Rizqy claims Hinse tried to circumvent the rules of the national assembly by using parliamentary wing funds for partisan purposes.
  Rizqy claims that despite warnings, Hinse and former Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez wanted to violate nat
  
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• Three foreign nationals arrested by extortion patrol are charged in B.C. shooting

  02-02-2026 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., say three men arrested on Sunday by officers on an anti-extortion patrol are all foreign nationals and have been charged over gunfire at a home.
  Harjot Singh, Taranveer Singh and Dayajeet Singh Billing have been charged with one count each of discharging a firearm, and all have been remanded in custody until Thursday.
  The suspects aged 19 to 21 were arrested by patrol officers after an early morning report of shots fired and a small fire outside a home in S
  
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• Former PM Harper says he did not sign Alberta separation petition

  02-02-2026 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he did not sign a petition seeking to force a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada.
  Speaking at an event today in Ottawa, Harper said that in this moment of revived nationalism around the world, there is no reason why Canadians should not feel deep pride in their country.
  Harper was speaking alongside former prime minister Jean Chrétien at a panel event on Arctic sovereignty at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa.
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• VIDEO: Early spring projected from B.C.’s Okanagan Okie - Chilliwack Progress

  02-02-2026 23:24 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Early spring projected from B.C.’s Okanagan Okie  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Virginia man in ‘au pair affair’ case convicted of murdering wife and another man in elaborate ruse

  02-02-2026 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhães, the au pair, shot him, too. But officials argued in court that the story was
  
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• Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says

  02-02-2026 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday.Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She said the body-worn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available.“We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” Noem said in the social media pos
  
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• Canadian woman’s remains found in 1985 linked to suspected serial killer in Florida

  02-02-2026 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TITUSVILLE — A sheriff's office in Florida says the remains of a woman identified by DNA as a Canadian who went missing in the 1980s were found with those of a second woman, who was thought to have fallen victim to a serial killer.
  DNA firm Othram, which worked with Florida law enforcement, says it has identified the remains of Jeanette Marcotte, who was last seen in Saskatchewan and was thought to be heading to Vancouver when she went missing.Tod Goodyear, public information officer with
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canadian woman’s remains linked to suspected serial killer in Florida

  02-02-2026 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TITUSVILLE — A sheriff's office in Florida says the remains of a woman identified by DNA as a Canadian who went missing in the 1980s were found mixed with those of a second woman, who was thought to have fallen victim to a serial killer.
  DNA firm Othram, which works with Florida law enforcement, says it has identified the remains of Jeanette Marcotte, last seen in Saskatchewan and was thought to be heading to Vancouver when she went missing in the early 1980s.
  Tod Goodyear, public informat
  
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• Fire chief says cause of fire that sank three yachts will likely never be found

  02-02-2026 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A marina fire in Sidney, B.C. has sunk three yachts worth millions, and the community's fire chief says investigators may never find the cause.Brett Mikkelsen says there is no evidence that the fire is suspicious, but the damage to the vessels, which now sit under about seven metres of water, make it unlikely that a cause will be found.
  Mikkelsen says he expects that fire and insurance investigators will "piece" their way through what remains of the vessels, once they have been
  
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