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• B.C.’s home flipping tax will come into effect in January

  27-12-2024 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Penalties for flipping homes in British Columbia will come into effect in the new year.
  Starting January 1, 2025, the B.C. home-flipping tax will be in place to discourage investors from buying homes in order to take advantage of the housing market and turn a quick profit.
  People who buy their homes and sell them within the following two years will be subject to the tax, which will be based on the sellers tax income minus the primary residence deduction.
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• Uninspired Canada upset by Latvia in a shootout at world juniors

  28-12-2024 05:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Eriks Mateiko scored the only goal of the shootout as Latvia stunned an alarmingly uninspired Canada 3-2 at the world junior hockey championship Friday.
  The forward moved in on his country’s eighth effort before firing home a goal to register one of the biggest upsets in tournament history.
  Mateiko and Peteris Bulans scored in regulation for the hard-working Europeans in their first game of the 10-team showcase in the nation’s capital. Linards Feldbergs stopped 54 shot
  
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• Kondas makes a difference in debut with Sceptres

  28-12-2024 05:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Jess Kondas was home for the holidays in Calgary when the phone rang with the best early Christmas present she could have imagined.
  After an entire calendar year on the Toronto Sceptres three-player reserve list, there finally was a spot on the roster for the 24-year-old defender to make her Professional Women’s Hockey League debut.
  She didn’t waste time making an impact as she scored Toronto’s second goal in a 4-2 win against the visiting Boston Fleet on Friday
  
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• Marner nets hat trick as Leafs beat Red Wings 5-2

  28-12-2024 04:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Mitch Marner’s third career hat trick spoiled Todd McClellan’s Detroit coaching debut as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the struggling Red Wings 5-2 on Friday night.
  David Kampf scored his first goal of the season in his 500th career game and Nicolas Robertson also scored for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares had two assists and Joseph Woll made 23 saves.
  Derek Lalonde was fired by Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on Thursday and replaced by McClellan, who previously coached
  
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• Kirk backstops Sceptres to 4-2 win over Fleet

  28-12-2024 03:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Blayre Turnbull and Jess Kondas scored their first goals of the season to lift the Toronto Sceptres to a 4-2 win against the Boston Fleet on Friday.
  Rookie goalie Raygan Kirk stopped 26 shots to pluck her first Professional Women’s Hockey League victory as the Sceptres snapped a four-game losing streak before 8,264 at Coca-Cola Coliseum.
  Emma Woods restored Toronto’s two-goal cushion off the rush with 5:40 remaining, and Kali Flanagan scored an empty-netter.
  Loren Gab
  
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• World junior roundup: Finland bounces back with 3-1 win over Germany

  28-12-2024 00:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — After being blanked 4-0 by host Canada the night before, Finland bounced back with a gritty 3-1 win over Germany during Friday’s second day of competition at the World Junior Hockey Championship in Ottawa.
  Emil Pieniniemi, Arttu Alasiurua and Jesse Kiiskinen scored for Finland, which outshot the winless German crew 43-32.
  Clemens Sager scored for Germany, which lost 10-4 to the defending champion United States on Boxing Day.
  Finland led 1-0 after the first period and 2-1 hea
  
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• Man charged after Calgary Boxing Day robbery, car crash that killed 9-year-old girl

  28-12-2024 00:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Calgary police have laid charges and are checking for drug impairment in a horrific high-speed multi-vehicle crash that killed one girl and left another child in critical condition on Boxing Day.
  “We share the deep sadness felt by the family and loved ones who have had their lives forever changed by someone’s disregard for public safety,” Calgary police Acting Insp. Andy Woodward said in a news release Friday.
  The statement said speed and impairment by drugs are
  
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• Sportscaster Greg Gumbel dies from cancer at age 78

  28-12-2024 00:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Greg Gumbel, a longtime CBS sportscaster, has died from cancer, according to a statement from family released by CBS on Friday. He was 78.
  “He leaves behind a legacy of love, inspiration and dedication to over 50 extraordinary years in the sports broadcast industry; and his iconic voice will never be forgotten,” his wife Marcy Gumbel and daughter Michelle Gumbel said in a statement.
  In March, Gumbel missed his first NCAA Tournament since 1997 due to what he said
  
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• Vancouver’s Bench Accounting abruptly shuts down, with 600 potential jobs lost

  27-12-2024 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver-based bookkeeping service Bench Accounting has announced its sudden closure, potentially putting hundreds of staff out of work.
  The company that has described itself as North America’s largest bookkeeping service for small businesses says on its website in a “notice of closure” dated Friday that the platform is “no longer accessible.”
  The statement acknowledges that the closure is “abrupt and may cause disruption,” and says th
  
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• B.C. man who flipped 14 homes in four years is fined $2M for tax evasion

  27-12-2024 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — A serial property flipper in British Columbia has been convicted of tax evasion and fined more than $2 million for failing to report nearly $7.5 million in earnings.
  The Canada Revenue Agency says in a statement that Balkar Bhullar of Richmond, B.C., was given a conditional sentence of two years less a day on Dec. 19 and fined about $2.15 million, matching the amount of unpaid federal income tax.
  The agency says Bhullar pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 last year to one count of ta
  
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• Criminologist says Canada should better track foreign student departures

  27-12-2024 22:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Canadian criminologist who once worked on inland immigration enforcement for the Canada Border Services Agency says Canada needs to better track foreign nationals who arrive in the country on student visas.
  Kelly Sundberg, a professor at Mount Royal University, says it does not surprise him at all that Indian law enforcement agencies are investigating links between Canadian colleges and a scheme to ferry international students across the Canada-U. S. border.
  India’s Enforc
  
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• Tigers sign former Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres to a $15 million, 1-year deal

  27-12-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers signed former New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres to a $15 million, one-year contract on Friday.
  The two-time All-Star gets a slight raise from his $14.2 million salary with the Yankees. His agreement includes a one-time assignment bonus of $500,000.
  Torres hit .265 with 138 home runs and 441 RBIs in seven seasons with the Yankees, who acquired him from the Cubs in the July 2016 trade that sent closer Aroldis Chapman to Chicago.
  The 28-year-old
  
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• Senators to embark on road trip without Ullmark or Forsberg healthy

  27-12-2024 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators’s playoff push will face a critical test as they head out on a five-game road trip without their top two goaltenders.Head coach Travis Green said on Friday that Linus Ullmark would not travel with the Senators to Winnipeg but Anton Forsberg, who also remains sidelined, will join the team on the road.
  Ullmark, who left the 3-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 22 after the first period due to back tightness, continues to deal with the same issue.“N
  
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• B.C. court orders fraudster who owes $36.7M to pay from retirement funds

  27-12-2024 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Securities Commission says a man behind one of the province’s largest investment frauds has been ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court to use two retirement accounts to pay off a multimillion-dollar fine.
  It says in a news release that Earle Douglas Pasquill owes the commission $36.7 million, and he was ordered by the court on Dec. 20 to forfeit any payments from two life income fund accounts.
  Life income funds are a type of tax-deferred registered accoun
  
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• More snow expected for highways connecting the Fraser Valley to the B.C. Interior

  27-12-2024 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — It appears another weather system from the Pacific Ocean could impact holiday travel plans this weekend.
  Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement warning motorists of up to 15 centimetres of snow falling on well-travelled highways connecting the Fraser Valley to the B.C. Interior.
  The statement was issued late Friday (Dec. 27) morning. It suggests up to 15 centimetres of snow could accumulate along the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt and Highway 3
  
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• Chilliwack residents asked to recycle smart this holiday season

  27-12-2024 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack is reminding residents to recycle paper gift wrap, gift bags, cards, and cardboard at the curb as part of the city’s curbside collection program. With the holiday season leading to a surge in waste, the city is encouraging households to adopt eco-friendly practices.
  Paper gift wrap, gift bags, cards, and cardboard are recyclable at the curb if you are on our curbside collection program. For more sorting tips, download the curbside collection app or
  
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• B.C. man faces nine firearms and drug trafficking charges: CBSA

  27-12-2024 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Canada Border Services Agency says a man from Sicamous, B.C., is facing firearms and drug trafficking charges after officers intercepted a package addressed to him earlier this year.
  They say in a news release that, on April 26, border officers at Vancouver International Airport seized three prohibited devices in a package.The agency says the addressee had a lifetime firearms prohibition.
  It says border officers and the RCMP executed search warrants on the man’s vehic
  
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• After cold, snowy Christmas, temperatures to rise across southern Quebec for new year

  27-12-2024 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — After a cold, snowy Christmas, temperatures are set to rise across southern Quebec to bring in the new year.
  Environment Canada says a major weather system from the southern United States will bring a period of freezing rain or drizzle starting Saturday evening in the St. Lawrence Valley.
  But as temperatures rise, the Montreal area is forecast to receive rain and snowmelt on Sunday through Monday.
  The weather agency says drivers should be careful about icy and slippery highways,
  
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• B.C. man faces six impaired driving charges over crash that killed Good Samaritan, 80

  27-12-2024 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia have approved six impaired driving charges against a 29-year-old man over a crash that killed an elderly Good Samaritan near Qualicum Beach earlier this year.
  The 80-year-old man from Red Deer, Alta., had stopped to help a woman whose minivan hit a power pole on Highway 19A around 2:30 a.m. on March 2.
  The 36-year-old woman driver was seriously injured and the passerby killed when a third vehicle, driven by a man from Coombs, B.C., crashed into t
  
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• Canada’s top mixed doubles curling teams gear up for Olympic Games bid

  27-12-2024 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIVERPOOL, N.S. — The winner of the Canadian mixed doubles curling trials that start Monday will take on double duty.
  That duo not only earns the right to represent Canada in the 2026 Olympic Games, but in order to do that, must first qualify their country for the Winter Games at the 2025 world championship in order to get to Milan-Cortina, Italy.
  The 16-team trials field divided into two pools starts play Monday at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, N.S.
  The top three teams from each
  
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• US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

  27-12-2024 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.
  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people
  
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• American defensive back Tyrique McGhee signs with Saskatchewan Roughriders

  27-12-2024 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — American defensive back Tyrique McGhee has signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  McGhee signed with the Los Angeles Chargers as an undrafted free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft, spending the season on the practice roster.He joined the Winnipeg Blue Bombers practice roster in 2023 and suited up for three games over the last two seasons.The five-foot-nine, 185-pound McGhee played four seasons of U.S. collegiate football (2016-19) at Georgia, appearing in 49 games as a Bulldo
  
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• Tugboats, crews try to refloat ship stuck in St. Lawrence River near Montreal

  27-12-2024 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A team of tugboats is being deployed to refloat a ship that has been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve.
  The Canadian Coast Guard says the attempt to free the MV Maccoa was scheduled to begin around 11 a.m.
  The Cyprus-flagged 185-metre bulk carrier ran aground near Verchères, Que., in the early hours of Dec. 24 following a power failure.
  The coast guard says there were no injuries, no damage to the ship’s hull, no pollution spo
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Olympic hammer throw champion Katzberg is CP male athlete of the year

  27-12-2024 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ethan Katzberg, who won Canada’s first-ever gold medal in men’s hammer throw at the Paris Olympics, has been voted The Canadian Press male athlete of the year.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Conservatives call for no-confidence vote by late January

  27-12-2024 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative MP Jonathan Williamson says he’ll get the ball rolling early in the New Year on no-confidence vote that could bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in a little more than a month.
  Williamson says in a social media post he will put forward his non-confidence motion at a public accounts committee meeting on Jan. 7.
  He says the committee can debate it and then kick the motion over to the House of Commons to deal with when it returns on Jan. 27.
  
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• Sarrazin among 2 skiers injured in downhill training in Italy on the slope for 2026 Olympics

  27-12-2024 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BORMIO, Italy (AP) — French standout Cyprien Sarrazin was one of two skiers airlifted to a hospital on Friday after crashing during training for a World Cup downhill race in Bormio.
  Pietro Zazzi of Italy was also taken to a hospital by helicopter. Both were conscious and set to undergo tests to determine the extent of their injuries, but the incidents called into question the safety of the fearsome Stelvio slope — the course for next winter’s Milan-Cortina Olympics.
  “My o
  
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• Mavs star Luka Doncic will be out about a month before check on calf injury, AP source says

  27-12-2024 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will be out about a month before being re-evaluated for a calf injury sustained in a Christmas Day loss to Minnesota, a person with knowledge of the injury said Friday.
  Doncic underwent an MRI on his strained left calf, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of the injury haven’t been released.
  The absence is almost certain to be long enough to disqualify the five-time All-NBA player from con
  
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• Man indicted in burning death of woman inside a New York City subway train, prosecutors say

  27-12-2024 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges, a prosecutor said on Friday.
  The development comes days after Sebastian Zapeta’s arrest and subsequent police questioning, in which authorities say he claimed not to know what had happened although he identified himself in photos and surveillance video showing the fire being lit.
  Zapeta’s indictment will be unsealed on Jan. 7, according to prosecut
  
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• LeBlanc, Joly to meet with incoming Trump administration officials in Florida

  27-12-2024 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly are in Florida to meet with officials from president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
  A statement from LeBlanc’s office says the duo travelled to Palm Beach, where they planned to use those talks to underscore “Canada’s efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration and the measures outlined in Canada’s Border Plan.”
  Spokesman Jean-Sébastien Come
  
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• B.C. team building 100 beaver ‘starter homes’ in the name of wetland preservation

  27-12-2024 15:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In British Columbia’s real estate market, many people dream of a turnkey starter home in a prime location.
  Environmental researchers are hoping the same real estate principles will encourage beavers to move into prebuilt homes in some areas of the province and help improve wetlands.
  More than 70 manmade beaver dams have been installed in Interior waterways since the B.C. Wildlife Federation project launched last year with the goal of building 100 dams by the end of 2025.
  Researchers want t
  
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