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• Update: Possible drowning victim reported as safe

  19-01-2025 04:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UPDATE 7:15 P.M. SATURDAY: B.C. RCMP spokesperson Corporal Brett Urano says the possible drowning victim has been reported as safe. At approximately 6:30 p.m., the man who called out for help contacted the Chilliwack RCMP and advised that he was safe and was able to get himself off the river. Chilliwack RCMP have expressed thanks to the public and media for their assistance in locating the man.
  Original story below from 4:44 p.m. Saturday:
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP are appealing for inf
  
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• Judge issues temporary order barring removal of boy, 5, and father who were detained in Minnesota

  27-01-2026 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America’s divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.U.S. Judge Fred Biery ruled Monday that any removal or transfer of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while a court case proceeds. The father and son are now at fa
  
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• Judge orders fitness trial for man accused of killing B.C. Mountie in 2022

  27-01-2026 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered a three-day fitness trial for the man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang more than three years ago.
  Jongwon Ham — who appeared virtually at a hearing in Vancouver — is charged with first-degree murder in Yang's October 2022 killing.
  Justice Michael Tammen had ordered a fitness assessment on the day Ham's judge-alone trial was set to begin earlier this month, and the psychiatric report was submitted on Monda
  
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• Surrey, B.C., calls for a national state of emergency regarding extortion

  27-01-2026 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — The council in Surrey, B.C., has passed a motion to urge Ottawa to declare a national state of emergency for extortions, as police say they've arrested two people while patrolling neighbourhoods targeted by extortion violence.
  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says in a statement that making the declaration would give the federal government additional temporary powers to tackle the extortion crisis, given that current efforts have not been enough.
  The city says the motion, which passed un
  
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• Darrell Jones says B.C. at a crossroads as he runs for Conservative leadership

  27-01-2026 22:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY — Former grocery executive Darrell Jones is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C., saying that the province stands at a "crossroads."
  Jones, the former president of the Pattison Food Group who was known for his Darrell's Deals advertisements, says he knows how to deliver results, having gone from the "stock room to the board room."
  His announcement in front of about 100 supporters in Surrey puts him in a race with six other declared candidates, including Conse
  
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• Former CFL player Chambers preparing young athletes for their next steps

  27-01-2026 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Fourteen years after being selected in the first round of the CFL draft, Shamawd Chambers is preparing the next generation of Canadian football players to pursue a variety of high-performance pathways.
  On Friday, the former CFL receiver will host the second annual Canadian High School Football ID Camp in Vaughan, Ont., through Out the Chamber Sports. The event is designed to provide athletes with verified testing, high-level instruction and direct exposure to university recruiters.
  “From t
  
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• US says it’s taking first steps to possibly reopen embassy in Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster

  27-01-2026 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has notified Congress that it is taking the first steps to possibly reopen the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Venezuela as it explores restoring relations with the South American country following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.In a notice to lawmakers dated Monday and obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, the State Department said it was sending in a regular contingent of temporary staffers to conduct &l
  
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• Shooting involving Border Patrol leaves 1 in critical condition near US-Mexico border

  27-01-2026 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  One person was shot and in critical condition Tuesday in a shooting involving the Border Patrol near the U.S.- Mexico border, authorities in Arizona said.The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it was working with the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in response to the shooting in Arivaca, Arizona, a community about 10 miles from the border.The shooting involved a Border Patrol agent and a suspect, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told the Arizona Daily Star.U.S. Cust
  
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• Foreign nationals, ages 21 and 20, arrested over alleged shooting in Surrey: SPS

  27-01-2026 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY – Police in Surrey say a 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, both foreign nationals, have been arrested and charged following an incident of alleged shots fired early Monday morning near 129 Street and 84 Avenue in Surrey.
  According to a statement from Surrey Police Service Staff Sergeant Lindsey Houghton, SPS members assigned to Project Assurance, working in collaboration with SPS’s Major Crime Section, were in the area of 129 Street and 84 Avenue Monday morning, Jan. 26 a
  
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• Labs flooded as pipes burst at Montreal mental health hospital institute

  27-01-2026 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Health officials say four labs have been damaged after burst pipes sent water pouring through a building at a Montreal mental health hospital and research centre.
  The local health authority says Monday's incident was major and damaged the second and ground floors of the Lehmann pavilion of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
  The CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal says cold weather and the age of the facilities were likely factors.
  They sa
  
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• Claims process opens for ‘Indian hospitals’ settlement

  27-01-2026 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The claims process for a landmark "Indian hospitals" settlement opens today, nearly one year after the federal government reached an agreement with survivors on compensation.
  The federal government ran 33 such hospitals for Indigenous people between 1936 and 1981.
  Former patients, some of whom spent years in the segregated facilities, filed a lawsuit against the government in 2018 alleging the hospitals were rife with abuse and unfair treatment.
  Under the settlement reached last y
  
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• Hearing into Myles Gray’s beating death halted for 4 weeks over obscenity resignation

  27-01-2026 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A long-anticipated hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being adjourned for four weeks, after it was derailed by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation of counsel for the proceeding in Vancouver.
  Counsel for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia, Chris Considine, says lawyers representing police, who include a woman who may have been the target of the vulgarity, are opposing the return of public hearing counsel
  
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• First Nation leader urges B.C. to maintain DRIPA as Eskay Creek mine deal is signed

  27-01-2026 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The president of the Tahltan Central Government says British Columbia shouldn't change its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, just as the First Nation and the provincial government celebrate a landmark agreement based on the legislation.
  Kerry Carlick says it is not a "good idea to take anything away from DRIPA," adding that "if anything, it should be strengthened."
  Carlick was speaking at an event in Vancouver with deputy premier Niki Sharma where they co-sign
  
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• New restaurant opening this week in downtown Chilliwack

  27-01-2026 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – A Chilliwack restaurant offering ramen noodles, chicken karage, Korean fave bibimbap and other soup dishes is set to open this week in downtown Chilliwack.
  Ramen House, located in District 1881 along Yale Road, will open to the public this Thursday, according to a social media post dated Sunday, Jan. 25 from the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association.
  The front of Ramen House in District 1881. (Image Credit: Image: Instagram)
  The restaurant has not yet posted its
  
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• Penguins winger Rust suspended for illegal hit to the head of Canucks’ Boeser

  27-01-2026 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Pittsburgh Penguins winger Bryan Rust has been suspended three games for an illegal check to the head.
  The discipline, announced Tuesday by the NHL's department of player safety, comes after Rust caught Vancouver Canucks winger Brock Boeser in the head with his elbow in the final seconds of Pittsburgh's 3-2 victory on Sunday.Boeser crumpled to the ice after the blow and had to be helped to the locker room by his teammates and trainers.The Canucks placed him on injured reserve Mo
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks release American returner DeVonte Dedmon

  27-01-2026 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks released American returner DeVonte Dedmon on Tuesday.
  Dedmon was scheduled to become a CFL free agent next month.
  Dedmon was the CFL's top special-teams player in 2021. That season he led the league in punt-return yards (737), kickoff-return yards (1,223), punt-return TDs (two) and kickoff return touchdowns (one).“DeVonte is a playmaker who accomplished great things during his time here,” said Shawn Burke, Ottawa's vice-president of football operat
  
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• B.C. attorney general warns against doing deals with ICE, amid pending Pattison sale

  27-01-2026 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  British Columbia's attorney general says business leaders in the province need to consider whether their decisions could contribute to an immigration crackdown in the United States that she and others are watching "in horror."
  Niki Sharma's remarks come after it emerged that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a building owned by the property arm of Vancouver-based conglomerate Jim Pattison Group to use as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement "holding and processing" fa
  
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• New seniors advocate report shows growing gap in B.C. long-term care demand, capacity

  27-01-2026 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia's seniors advocate is sounding the alarm over an acute need for more long-term care beds in the province, as the growth in demand has outpaced the increase in supply since 2019.
  Dan Levitt says in his office's newly released 2025 Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Directory that the province saw a five-per-cent increase in the number of beds since 2019-2020, while the population of seniors over the age of 65 has grown by 19 per cent during that time.
  Levitt says
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Alberta judges urge respect after Smith said she wants to ‘direct’ them

  27-01-2026 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta's judges are calling for respect days after Premier Danielle Smith said she wishes she could direct them.Alberta's three chief justices say in a rare public statement that democracy only functions when all three branches of government operate independently and respect each other's role.
  A Court of Justice spokesperson says the statement is aimed at addressing public misunderstandings but declined to link it specifically to the premier.
  Smith has made a series of statemen
  
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• Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko to have season-ending hip surgery

  27-01-2026 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks star goalie Thatcher Demko is set to undergo season-ending hip surgery next week.
  General manager Patrik Allvin announced the news Tuesday, saying in a statement that the decision was made after consultations with the NHL team's doctors and outside specialists.He says the injury is unrelated to the knee ailment that sidelined the 30-year-old American for much of last season, and is expected to be ready for training camp in September.Demko has been out since Ja
  
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• Driver from Saskatchewan arrested in fatal B.C. multi-vehicle crash

  27-01-2026 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  FORT ST. JOHN — A Saskatchewan man has been arrested and could face criminal charges after a fatal multi-vehicle crash in northeastern British Columbia.
  The BC Highway Patrol says police were alerted Monday around noon to a head-on crash involving a pickup truck and a minivan on Highway 97 near Wonowon, some 89 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John.
  Police say the force of the crash sent the minivan into the side of a logging truck, and the van's 27-year-old male driver from Grande Prairie
  
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• Polytechnique Montréal removes beef from cafeteria menus to cut emissions

  27-01-2026 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A Montreal engineering school says it has removed beef from its cafeterias to reduce its carbon footprint.
  Polytechnique Montréal started removing beef options in September from its six food stalls that serve about 2,500 meals a day to 10,000 students.
  Patrick Cigana, director of Polytechnique's office of sustainable development, says beef used to account for more than half of the cafeterias' greenhouse gas emissions.
  He cited a University of Oxford research platform sayi
  
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• Bills promote offensive coordinator Joe Brady to take over as head coach

  27-01-2026 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills stayed in-house by promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady as their new head coach on Tuesday, in a move that provides continuity to a Josh Allen-led perennial winner that has accomplished everything short of reaching a Super Bowl.The team announced the five-year deal. The 36-year-old Brady just completed his fourth season in Buffalo and his second full season as coordinator. He previously served as quarterbacks coach before taking over the off
  
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• Air travel recovery ramps up after snow blast, but thousands still face cancellations

  27-01-2026 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Air travel picked back up in earnest today as crews cleared the remnants of a record-breaking snowstorm in Central Canada from the tarmacs.
  Aviation analytics firm Cirium says Toronto's Pearson airport notched 46 flight cancellations, or about 11 per cent, as of 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, compared with 10 times that number on Monday.
  Environment Canada says the airport received an unprecedented 46 centimetres of snow on Sunday, making January Toronto's snowiest month since records began in 1937.
  Que
  
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• Black improves to 4-1 at Scotties Tournament of Hearts with 8-4 win over Scharf

  27-01-2026 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSISSAUGA — Nova Scotia's Christina Black moved to 4-1 with an 8-4 win over Northern Ontario's Krista Scharf in Tuesday's morning session at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  Up 4-3, Black scored two in the seventh end and another two in the eighth to pull away.The teams shook hands before the 10th end after Scharf only mustered one point in the ninth.
  Selena Sturmay and Kayla Skrlik, both skipping Alberta teams, improved to 3-1 with resounding wins.
  Sturmay cruised past Nunavut's Julia
  
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• Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day a time to remember Canadian complicity

  27-01-2026 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day is a moment to remember the consequences of ignorance and hatred.
  Speaking today in front of the National Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa to mark the day, Carney said Canada was complicit in the murder of millions of Jewish people during the Second World War due to its silence, and that history needs to be remembered to ensure it is never repeated.
  Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the United Nations in 2005 to remember
  
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• Maple Ridge Walmart evacuated over the weekend due to police incident: RCMP

  27-01-2026 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE – The Maple Ridge Walmart was evacuated over the weekend after Mounties were alerted about a police incident there.According to a statement from Curtis Harling, media and communications coordinator for the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, police were dispatched to the 11800 block of 224 Street at about 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Responding officers arrived and on scene and learned that an individual had deployed a fire extinguisher inside the Walmart and may have been having a me
  
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• Marineland has solid plan to move whales and dolphins to U.S., minister says

  27-01-2026 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Marineland has a "solid plan" to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Tuesday.
  On Monday, the minister conditionally approved the shuttered Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park's application to export its 30 belugas and four dolphins south of the border.
  "This is a solid plan to allow these animals to live their life in much more healthy conditions," Thompson said.
  The conditions she pla
  
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• More arctic air is expected for Southern states hit by ice and riddled with power outages

  27-01-2026 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  When a massive winter storm descended on the Northeast and parts of the South over the weekend, Lisa Patterson planned to stick it out at her family's home in Nashville. But after she and her husband lost power, trees fell onto their driveway and their wood stove proved no match for the frigid temperatures. Along with their dog, the couple had to be rescued and taken to a warming shelter.“I’ve been snowed in up there for almost three weeks without being able to get up and down my dri
  
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• Bills promote offensive coordinator Joe Brady to take over as head coach, AP sources say

  27-01-2026 18:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills are staying in-house by promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady as their new head coach, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
  The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced Brady's hiring. One of the people said Brady has agreed to a five-year contract to take over a Josh Allen-led perennial winner that’s accomplished everything short of reaching a Super B
  
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