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  05-09-2024 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
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• GST credit top-up coming in spring after bill fast-tracked in Parliament

  13-02-2026 02:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadians who receive the GST benefit will get a one-time top up payment this spring after parliamentarians fast-tracked the legislation to set it motion.
  The Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit received royal assent late today, after passing the final vote in the Senate earlier in the day and the House of Commons last week.
  The finance department says the benefit will provide a one-time top-up payment "as early as possible this spring" worth 50 per cent of the credit.
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• ‘Nomadic lifestyle’ of Tumbler Ridge shooter, who created shopping mall massacre game

  13-02-2026 01:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TUMBLER RIDGE — A picture of the troubled life of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar is emerging, with a court ruling depicting her family's "nomadic lifestyle" and a gaming company removing her account, which was used to create a shopping mall massacre simulation.
  Online platform Roblox said in a statement Thursday that it had removed the account "connected to this horrifying incident as well as any content associated with the suspect."
  Videos of the "gaming experience" tha
  
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• Man charged in semi-trailer theft incidents in Chilliwack, Surrey and other cities, theft estimated at over $1 million

  13-02-2026 00:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK/ABBOTSFORD/SURREY/CALGARY – Police in Surrey say several Criminal Code charges have been sworn against a man for his alleged involved in a multi-city semi-trailer theft ring, including Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and Surrey.
  According to a statement from Surrey Police Service, detectives from the SPS Prolific Offender Unit launched an investigation in December 2024 into the alleged theft of 14 semi-trailers worth over $1,000,000 after SPS received a report that trailers had been sto
  
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• Police in B.C. investigate four pedestrians struck in separate crashes

  13-02-2026 00:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Police in three B.C. communities are investigating four vehicle crashes involving pedestrians in the last week.
  Two women were killed in separate accidents in Surrey, about 13 hours apart.
  An 81-year-old woman died Wednesday night, while a 45-year-old woman was killed in a crash at around 7:30 Thursday morning.Police in Surrey say both drivers remained at the scene, but in North Vancouver Mounties are looking for the driver in a hit and run collision involving a person in wheelchair on Feb. 5
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• Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advances to quarterfinals at the ABN AMRO Open

  12-02-2026 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ROTTERDAM — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals at the ABN AMRO Open men's tennis tournament Thursday.
  The second-seeded Auger-Aliassime registered a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Serbian Hamad Medjedovic, extending his win streak to six matches. The Montreal native registered nine aces, compared to four by Medjedovic.
  Auger-Aliassime will face Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands in a quarterfinal match Friday. The two are tied 1-1 in head-to-head matches but this will ma
  
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• Analilia Mejia, progressive ally of Bernie Sanders, wins special New Jersey House primary

  12-02-2026 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Analilia Mejia, a longtime progressive organizer allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders, has emerged victorious in a crowded Democratic primary in the special election to fill the U.S. House seat formerly held by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill. The Associated Press declared Mejia the winner Thursday, one week after the closely contested race ended on Feb. 5. Mejia, 48, overcame former Rep. Tom Malinowski and about a dozen other candidates in New Jersey's 11th District.Malinow
  
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• Mother of Tumbler Ridge shooter posted photo of several long guns in 2024

  12-02-2026 23:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The mother of the shooter in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., killings once posted a photo on Facebook of several long guns in a cabinet with the caption, "Think it's time to take them out for some target practice."
  It's not known whether any of the half dozen firearms in the photo, posted in August 2024 by Jennifer Strang, were used in the shootings Tuesday that claimed the lives of nine people.
  The RCMP has identified Strang, also known as Jennifer Jacobs, as the mother of Jesse Van Roo
  
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• Tumbler Ridge killings prompts very different start to B.C. legislative session

  12-02-2026 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A new session of the British Columbia legislature opened today with Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia saying in the speech from the throne that the people of Tumble Ridge, B.C., are "suffering unimaginable pain."
  Governments traditionally use the speech of a new legislative session to outline their agendas, but Cocchia's brief speech says the "people of Tumbler Ridge are wrapped in the care and compassion of an entire province and a country that mourns along them."MLAs closed the preceding
  
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• Court ruling describes ‘nomadic lifestyle’ of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter’s family

  12-02-2026 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TUMBLER RIDGE — The family of Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar led a "nomadic lifestyle" marked by multiple moves between at least three provinces, a British Columbia court ruling says.
  The 2015 B.C. Supreme Court decision in a dispute between her parents describes her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, moving with her children between Newfoundland and Labrador, Grand Cache in Alberta and Powell River, B.C., in the previous five years.
  Jacobs, also known as Jennifer Strang, was found to ha
  
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• Shapovalov fires 22 aces to down American Aleksandar Kovacevic at Dallas Open

  12-02-2026 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FRISCO — Canada's Denis Shapovalov fired 22 aces en route to downing American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday at the Dallas Open tennis tournament.
  Shapovalov, the seventh seed from Richmond Hill, Ont., was dominant on his serve with only one double fault in the match. Kovacevic had just four aces to go with a pair of double faults.
  Shapovalov also had the lone break of the contest.
  Shapovalov takes on third-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in a quarterfinal match Frid
  
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• FVRD alleges bylaw contraventions at Mission property, as unpaid fines exceed $53,000

  12-02-2026 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION – Fraser Valley Regional District staff say a property owner has racked up over $53,000 in fines for allegedly violating building bylaws through unauthorized construction activities at a rural property north of Mission.
  According to an FVRD staff report dated February 12, 2026 from Sam Sidal, bylaw compliance and enforcement officer, the property at 12975 Degraff Road in Electoral Area F in Mission has been flagged for repeated violations of the FVRD Building Bylaw No. 1188, 2013 a
  
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• Judge orders jailed Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to house arrest

  12-02-2026 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A judge ordered Thursday that Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora be returned to house arrest again while awaiting trial after spending nearly a year in jail in his latest stint of incarceration.Zamora, the 69-year-old founder of El Periodico newspaper, had spent more than two years behind bars awaiting trial before a judge granted him house arrest in October 2024. Prosecutors immediately appealed and won rulings that sent him back to jail in March 2
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada’s Courtney Sarault earns bronze in 500m short-track speedskating

  12-02-2026 21:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canada's Courtney Sarault has earned Olympic bronze in the women's 500-metre event in short-track speedskating.More coming.
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• Fact File: No evidence of trans shooter ‘epidemic’ in Canada, U.S.

  12-02-2026 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Social media posts claiming a "pattern" or "epidemic" of transgender mass shooters spread online after a fatal shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., this week. Transgender people do not disproportionately commit mass shootings, and in fact represent one per cent or less of all shootings, according to two U.S. databases. Statistics Canada does not track the gender identity of people accused or charged in gun-related crime, but there is no indication any of Canada's previous mass shooters identified as
  
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• Prime Minister Carney to attend vigil in Tumbler Ridge Friday with other leaders

  12-02-2026 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's office has confirmed he will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to attend a vigil on Friday, three days after nine people died in a mass shooting there.
  Carney, who invited other federal party leaders to join him at the vigil, was to have been in Germany for the Munich Security Conference this week but cancelled that trip after the tragedy in the northeastern B.C. town on Tuesday. He is attending the vigil at the invitation of the town's mayor.
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• Some MPs concerned as feds plan to allow cabinet to exempt entities from certain laws

  12-02-2026 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Some members of Parliament are slamming the Liberal government's plan to give new powers to cabinet to exempt individuals or corporations from some federal laws.
  The exemptions are being referred to as "regulatory sandboxes" and are contained in a clause in the government's omnibus budget implementation bill, currently being debated at a House of Commons committee.
  The clause would allow federal ministers to exempt individuals or corporations from non-criminal federal laws within
  
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• Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand

  12-02-2026 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle over the girl's fate. In 2020, a judge in Fluvanna County, Virginia, granted Joshua and Stephanie Mast an adoption of the child, who was then 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan living with a family the Afghan government decided were her relative
  
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• Canada’s Victoria Mboko upsets Elena Rybakina to reach Qatar Open semifinals

  12-02-2026 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA — It's off to the semifinals at the Qatar Open tennis tournament for Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko following yet another upset victory.
  The 19-year-old from Toronto earned a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 quarterfinal win Thursday over second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, the 2026 Australian Open champion. The 10th-seeded Mboko had reached the quarterfinals by upsetting fifth seed Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday.
  The Canadian won Thursday in dramatic fashion, sealing the mat
  
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• Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran receivers Kurleigh Gittens Jr. and Shemar Bridges

  12-02-2026 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed veteran receivers Kurleigh Gittens Jr. and Shemar Bridges on Thursday.
  Both players became CFL free agents Tuesday. Gittens Jr. spent the last two seasons with the Edmonton Elks while Bridges returns for a third season in Hamilton.
  Gittens Jr., had 62 catches for 777 yards and four TDs last season, The Ottawa native enters his seventh CFL season, having started his career with the Toronto Argonauts (2019, 2021-23).
  Gittens Jr. has appeared in 88 ca
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney to attend vigil in Tumbler Ridge on Friday

  12-02-2026 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to attend a vigil on Friday.
  The Prime Minister's Office says Carney was invited by the town's mayor and that he has invited all other federal party leaders to join him.
  Nine people, mostly children, were killed in the mass shooting Tuesday, including Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old shooter who police say took her own life.
  Among the dead are five students and a teacher at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and the shoo
  
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• Judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders

  12-02-2026 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that Pentagon officials violated Kelly's First Amendment free speech rights and “threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.”“To say the least, our retired veterans deserve more respect from the
  
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• Berrios apologies to teammates, fans for absence during Blue Jays’ post-season run

  12-02-2026 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUNEDIN — Jose Berrios has apologized to his Toronto Blue Jays teammates and the fans for his absence during last year's run to the World Series.
  Berrios spoke to media at the second day of the Blue Jays spring training camp.
  He was put on Toronto's injured list for the first time in his career last September with tendon inflammation in his right elbow and bicep.
  Berrios says since he couldn't pitch, he decided to go home to his family in Puerto Rico, a decision he adds was a mistake.
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• Feds say $20M loss at emergency stockpile was caused by open freezer door

  12-02-2026 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Federal public health officials say a freezer door was left open at the national emergency stockpile in December 2024, causing the loss of $20 million worth of medication.
  Officials from the Public Health Agency of Canada were called before the House of Commons health committee this week to answer questions about what happened.
  Part of the briefing was held behind closed doors because of national security concerns linked to the stockpile, which is maintained to prepare for disease
  
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• Rezoning application could change look and feel of 6 downtown Chilliwack properties

  12-02-2026 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – A rezoning application could change the look and feel of six properties in downtown Chilliwack, on which several retail stores currently sit.
  According to the text of a city planning sign, the City of Chilliwack has received a rezoning application for properties at 46245, 46257, 46263, and 46267 Yale Road, and at 46118 and 46126 Victoria Avenue.The rezoning application seeks to amend the text of the C9 (Mid Rise Apartment Commercial) zone to permit residential units on the sam
  
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• ‘You’re making this up,’ Miller tells Tory MP over media producers group comments

  12-02-2026 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Culture Minister Marc Miller has accused a Conservative MP of misleading a Parliamentary committee over a comment made by the head of an independent producers’ group.
  During a Heritage committee hearing today, MP Rachael Thomas mentioned the head of the Canadian Media Producers Association stating at a recent conference that the industry and the prime minister have each other’s backs.
  The organization represents independent TV and film producers, and the key issue at t
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada opens Olympic men’s hockey tourney with 5-0 win over Czechia

  12-02-2026 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — The Canadian men's hockey team have opened the Milan Cortina Olympics with a 5-0 win over Czechia.Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring, Connor McDavid had three assists, and goaltender Jordan Binnington made 26 saves for the shutout.
  More coming.
  The Canadian Press
  
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• Diab says C-12 could ease some refugee claims, critics call it a two-tier system

  12-02-2026 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in Bill C-12 are "better for the applicants" even as multiple organizations are heavily critical of the plan.
  The government's broad border and immigration bill proposes barring people who first came to Canada more than a year ago from filing refugee claims with the Immigrant and Refugee Board, Canada's main asylum review body.
  The legislation would require anyone in that category to apply for
  
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• Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders

  12-02-2026 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to temporarily block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that Pentagon officials violated Kelly's First Amendment free speech rights and “threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.”Kelly, who represents Arizona, sued in federal court to block h
  
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• Military sexual assault investigation was rushed, biased, watchdog commission says

  12-02-2026 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Military Police Complaints Commission has found that an internal investigation into an alleged sexual assault by an air force officer who later took his own life was conducted in a rushed, superficial and biased manner.
  Its conclusion comes after a Canadian Forces Provost Marshal’s office investigation cleared military police of wrongdoing in the case and found the allegations against them to be unsubstantiated.
  But in two reports issued today, MPCC chairperson Tammy Tre
  
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