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• Time running out to file claim in Loblaw/Weston packaged bread class action settlement

  26-11-2025 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — There are just over two weeks left until the deadline approaches in a nationwide class action lawsuit alleging industry-wide price fixing of packaged bread sold at Loblaw-related companies in Canada.
  The claims process remains open until Dec. 12 for eligible Canadian residents who purchased packaged bread for their personal use between 2001 and 2021 to claim compensation from the national settlement reached with Loblaw Companies Ltd., and George Weston, to settle their involve
  
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• Raddysh hits 100 career points as Lightning beat Blues 4-1

  23-12-2025 07:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Darren Raddysh had a goal and two assists to reach 100 career points, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Monday night.Oliver Bjorkstrand had a power-play goal for his 400th point, and Pontus Holmberg and Anthony Cirelli also scored for Tampa Bay. Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel each had two assists, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 23 saves as the Lightning have won back-to-back games for the second time since the start of December.Justin Faulk scor
  
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• Pulled ’60 Minutes’ segment surfaces on web with Canadian broadcaster’s branding

  23-12-2025 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A segment of the American news program "60 Minutes," pulled by CBS News prior to its U.S. airing, began circulating online Monday with the branding of Canadian broadcaster Global TV.
  Multiple media reports say the program was uploaded to StackTV, Global's streaming platform, though it was not available to watch as of late Monday.
  Global TV and its parent company, Corus Entertainment, did not immediately respond to calls and emails requesting comment.
  CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has said
  
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• NHL roundup: Raddysh hits 100 career points as Lightning beat the Blues 4-1

  23-12-2025 06:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Darren Raddysh had a goal and two assists to reach 100 career points, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Monday night.
  Oliver Bjorkstrand had a power-play goal for his 400th point, and Pontus Holmberg and Anthony Cirelli also scored for Tampa Bay. Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel each had two assists, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 23 saves as the Lightning have won back-to-back games for the second time since the start of December.
  Justin Faulk sc
  
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• Grebenkin, Grundstrom lead Flyers to 5-2 win over Canucks

  23-12-2025 04:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nikita Grebenkin had a goal and an assist, Carl Grundstrom also scored, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 on Monday night.
  Grebenkin and Grundstrom were part of a new-look fourth line for Philadelphia, which has struggled to get much production from the unit for most of the season. Rodrigo Abols had two assists, giving the line five points.
  Christian Dvorak, Owen Tippett and Matvei Michkov all scored in the third period to help the Flyers snap a
  
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• At least 5 killed after Mexican Navy plane on medical mission crashes in Texas

  23-12-2025 02:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, including a child, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear which of them were killed in the crash.Two of the people aboard were members from the Michou and Mau
  
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• Judge accepts plea deals from Colorado funeral home owners who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses

  23-12-2025 02:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENVER (AP) — A state judge on Monday accepted plea agreements for the owners of a Colorado funeral home for the abuse of 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building for years, over the objections of relatives of the victims.Authorities say Carie and Jon Hallford, who owned and operated Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, maintained a lavish lifestyle and gave fake ashes to some families of the dead over four years. The latest plea agreements would h
  
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• At least 2 people killed in Mexican Navy plane crash near Galveston, Texas

  23-12-2025 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a 1-year-old medical patient along with seven others, crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least two people, officials said.Emergency officials rescued four people and were searching for two that were inside the aircraft, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement to The Associated Press. Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, according to the Navy. It was not immediately clear which ones were
  
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• Chiefs Sign Defenceman Nicklas Numminen

  23-12-2025 01:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Chilliwack, B.C. – The Chilliwack Chiefs are pleased to announce the signing of defenceman Nicklas Numminen for the 2025/26 season.
  With two defencemen departing over the past month and another currently sidelined due to injury, the Chiefs’ coaching staff moved quickly to bolster the blue line. Numminen, born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Tampere, Finland, will join the Chiefs at the start of the new year and is expected to make his debut on January 3, 2026.
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• Mets jettison Jeff McNeil in trade to A’s following departures of Alonso, Nimmo and Díaz

  23-12-2025 00:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The retooling Mets jettisoned another core player Monday, trading second baseman Jeff McNeil to the Athletics for minor league right-hander Yordan Rodriguez in a deal that left pitcher David Peterson as New York's longest-tenured player.New York will send up to $7.75 million to the A's to offset some of the $17.75 million remaining on McNeil's $50 million, four-year contract. McNeil follows Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Edwin Díaz in leaving the underperforming Mets, who failed to reach
  
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• Judge accepts guilty pleas from Colorado funeral home owners who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses

  23-12-2025 00:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENVER (AP) — A judge has accepted guilty pleas for the owners of a Colorado funeral home for the abuse of 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building for years.Authorities say Carie and Jon Hallford, who operated a Colorado Springs funeral home, maintained a lavish lifestyle and gave fake ashes to some families of the dead.The husband and wife owned and operated Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier st
  
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• Emergency officials respond to a small plane crash near Galveston, Texas

  23-12-2025 00:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Emergency crews in Texas are responding to a small plane crash near Galveston, officials said.The crash took place Monday near the base of a causeway near Galveston, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) southeast of Houston.Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were expected to arrive at the scene of the crash, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a post on the social platform X.It was not immediately clear ho
  
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• About 70 trees deliberately cut around their bases, left to die in Powell River, B.C.

  23-12-2025 00:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  POWELL RIVER — Police on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast are investigating the vandalism of about 70 trees that where deliberately cut, leaving them to die over the next year.RCMP say the City of Powell River was notified of the damage to the fir trees located in the community's old golf course lands on Nov. 26.
  Police say municipal staff inspected the site found the trees were left standing but had been cut around their bases, likely with a chainsaw.
  Police described the damage as "mult
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs fire assistant coach Marc Savard

  23-12-2025 00:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired assistant coach Marc Savard.The team announced the move in a brief post on social media Monday, less than 24 hours after the Leafs fell 5-1 to the Dallas Stars.The loss extended Toronto's losing skid to three games, and the team fell to second-last place in the Eastern Conference with a 15-15-5 record.
  Savard, 48, was hired by the Leafs in June 2024 when Craig Berube was brought in as head coach.A former NHL forward, Savard was tasked with co-or
  
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• ECHL players are on the verge of a strike as CBA talks reach an impasse

  23-12-2025 00:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Members of the Professional Hockey Players’ Association have voted to authorize its bargaining committee to call for a strike if an agreement cannot be reached on a new collective bargaining agreement with the ECHL, union executive director Brian Ramsay said Monday.
  The ECHL in an update posted to its website said the union had informed players the move could happen as soon as Thursday after the holiday break. Ramsay said a timeline would be communicated to members later in the day.“
  
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• ‘Independent state?’ Proposed referendum question approved on Alberta separation

  23-12-2025 00:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta's election agency announced Monday it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada.
  The question seeks a yes or no answer to: "Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?"
  Elections Alberta said the proponents — the Alberta Prosperity Project and its chief executive officer, Mitch Sylvestre — have until early January to appoint a financial officer for its p
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Proposed referendum question approved on Alberta separation

  22-12-2025 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta's election agency says it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada.
  The question: Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?
  Elections Alberta says the proponent — the Alberta Prosperity Project — has until early January to appoint a financial officer for the petition, after which signature collection can begin.
  If the group collects just under 178,000
  
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• Four people hospitalized related to Pizza Pop recall, CFIA says

  22-12-2025 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says 20 people have been made sick and four hospitalized after an outbreak of E. coliinfections linked to Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops.
  The agency says those who became ill range in age from 1 to 87 and live in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick.
  A national recall announced Sunday covers Pizza Pops pepperoni and bacon pizza snacks sold in 760-gram and 2.85-kilogram packages, with best-before dates of June 9 and 10, 2026, are affected.
  It incl
  
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• Mets jettison Jeff McNeil in trade to A’s, follows departures of Alonso, Nimmo and Díaz

  22-12-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Mets jettisoned another core player as part of their retooling, trading second baseman Jeff McNeil to the Athletics on Monday for minor league right-hander Yordan Rodriguez.New York will send up to $7.75 million to the A's to offset some of the $17.75 million remaining in McNeil's $50 million, four-year contract. McNeil follows Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Edwin Díaz in departing the underperforming Mets, who failed to reach the playoffs this year despite the second-highest payroll
  
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• Chilliwack Mounties looking to ID person of interest linked to indecent act investigation

  22-12-2025 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack are appealing to the public for help in identifying a person as part of an investigation into an indecent act on Vedder Road.
  According to a statement from S/Sgt. Darryl Peppler, detachment commander for the Agassiz RCMP, Chilliwack RCMP received a report on October 30, 2025, about an indecent act committed in the parking lot in the 6600 block of Vedder Road, in the BMO/Tim Hortons/Shoppers shopping centre.
  S/Sgt. Peppler says a man was allegedly engagin
  
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• Charges laid nearly six years after a B.C. man was found dead in Maple Ridge

  22-12-2025 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE — A change of second-degree murder has been laid nearly six years after a body was found in Maple Ridge, B.C.
  A statement from the province's homicide investigation team says the body of 24-year-old Edi Bogere was found in a vacant forested property on Jan. 11, 2020, and his death was ruled suspicious.
  Police say Bogere was last seen leaving his Coquitlam home on the evening of Dec. 27, 2019.
  Thirty-one-year-old Alan Mohammed Taheri of Port Coquitlam was arrested Friday.The sta
  
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• Maschmeyer, Vancouver Goldeneyes eager for PWHL Takeover Tour’s Edmonton stop

  22-12-2025 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Growing up in rural Alberta, Emerance Maschmeyer didn't have a lot of examples of women's hockey players to emulate.Now the Vancouver Goldeneyes goalie is an idol for a new generation.
  “As a young girl, I really didn't know what was out there. And I think at the time, too, women's hockey, there wasn't a lot to aspire to. It was really to play for Team Canada. I always dreamed of playing in the NHL, like most other women my age that are still playing," she said."But there's a league now, an
  
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• Red Sox acquire All-Star first baseman Willson Contreras from Cardinals for three young righties

  22-12-2025 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox acquired three-time All-Star Willson Contreras from the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday in a trade for right-hander Hunter Dobbins and two pitching prospects.
  The 33-year-old Contreras is a .258 hitter with 172 homers and 548 RBIs in 10 seasons with the Cubs and Cardinals. He spent most of his career as a catcher before moving to first base last year, when he batted .257 with 20 homers and 80 RBIs.
  Dobbins, 26, went 4-1 with a 4.13 ERA as a rookie in Boston l
  
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• Young child hurt after gunfire exchange involving police in northern Quebec: mayor

  22-12-2025 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The mayor of a village in Quebec's Far North says a six-year-old girl was one of two people injured after an exchange of gunfire involving the Nunavik Police Service.
  Inukjuak Mayor Bobby Epoo says the girl was flown to a hospital in Montreal where she is receiving care, but did not provide an update on her condition.
  Quebec's police watchdog says Nunavik officers exchanged gunshots with an individual outside a home in the community just after 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 20, after they we
  
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• Five things to know about Quebec Premier François Legault’s tough year in 2025

  22-12-2025 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — Quebec Premier François Legault is finishing 2025 with his party running in third place in the polls, behind the Parti Québécois and the Liberals. The polling caps off a difficult year that saw his party lose six legislature members, including five who are now sitting as Independents.With just nine months until the next provincial election, here are five things to know about the premier's tough year.
  The deficit "Super King"
  Legault was given that unfla
  
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• B.C. health authority wins in court against husband’s ‘death plan’ for sick wife

  22-12-2025 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NANAIMO — The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered the husband of a woman with Alzheimer's disease removed as her representative over a "death plan" he decided to carry out if his wife became ineligible for medical assistance in dying.The ruling says the Vancouver Island Health Authority took the man — who isn't identified by name — to court to protect his vulnerable wife "against the likelihood of death at the hands of her husband."The ruling handed down last week says the man is a
  
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• Police suspect foul play in woman’s death in Merritt, B.C.

  22-12-2025 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Police in British Columbia are investigating after a woman died under what investigators are calling "suspicious" circumstances.
  RCMP say in a release that police were called Saturday to assist paramedics responding to a woman in medical distress in Merritt, B.C., located about 270 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
  Police say the victim in her 20s died at the scene despite emergency responders' efforts.
  No details of her injuries or the circumstances were released, but RCMP say f
  
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• B.C. First Nations cautions premier against changing UN law for Indigenous rights

  22-12-2025 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — First Nations leaders in British Columbia have issued a joint statement criticizing calls to amend the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in response to a recent court ruling.The statement is endorsed by about 30 First Nations in B.C. and says recent talks of changing legislation are a "fear-based response" from opponents of the ruling "that reaffirm the crucial need to consult and negotiate" with Indigenous communities on mining rights.
  It calls for
  
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• Canada coach Jesse Marsch to hold January camp for North American-based players

  22-12-2025 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada coach Jesse Marsch will hold a 10-day January camp in California for North American-based players, ahead of a friendly against Guatemala.
  The camp will run Jan. 8-18 in Irvine, Calif., with the game against No. 94 Guatemala on Jan. 17 at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
  With European-based players tied up with domestic club competition, the camp is for out-of-season North American players.The Guatemala game will be classified as a Tier 1 international fixture and count toward FIFA men’s
  
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• B.C. construction firm owner fined in ‘landmark case’ for safety violations

  22-12-2025 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, B.C. — WorkSafeBC says the owner of a homebuilding company has been fined more than $80,000 for workplace safety violations in a "landmark case."
  The worker safety agency says the fine stems from an investigation for violations of workplace safety laws involving Phoenix Homes Ltd. and its owner Nirmal Singh Takhar.It says an investigation in 2023 found Takhar had directed workers to pour concrete at a site in Abbotsford without an engineer's approval, and later disregarded a stop
  
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