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• Brian Harman handles the wind and cold at Texas Open for his first win since British Open

  07-04-2025 01:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Brian Harman handled the wind and the chill Sunday with a pair of key birdies on the back nine Sunday in the Valero Texas Open, closing with a 3-over 75 for a three-shot victory, his first title since the 2023 British Open.
  Harman began the final round with a three-shot lead and it soon became a tight battle with Andrew Novak, who was going for his first PGA Tour victory and a spot in the Masters.
  Harman never lost the lead, though it dropped to one shot with a bogey on
  
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• Hockey players’ sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos

  30-04-2025 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON — The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team watched security footage today from a bar and the hotel where the players were staying the night of the alleged incident.
  Court has also seen cellphone videos taken by one of the accused players and another member of the team over the course of the night.
  Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.
  McLeod has also p
  
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• Quebec Inuit representative wants investigation over voting problems in Nunavik

  30-04-2025 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — An organization representing Quebec Inuit wants Elections Canada to investigate reports that some people in Nunavik were unable to vote in Monday’s federal election.
  Makivvik says polling hours were inconsistent across the northern part of Quebec, and some communities were unable to vote altogether.The organization says some Nunavik Inuit were effectively denied their right to vote, which it says is “unacceptable in 2025.”
  Makivvik wants Elections Canada to ens
  
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• MacKinnon in the mix for second straight Lindsay Award along with Makar, Kucherov

  30-04-2025 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon is in the mix for a second straight Ted Lindsay award.
  The NHL Players’ Association on Wednesday announced the finalists for the award given annually to the “outstanding player in the NHL” as voted by his peers.
  Avalanche defenceman Cale Makar and Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov are the other finalists.
  MacKinnon from Cole Harbour, N.S., had 116 points and shared the league lead in assists with 84. The centr
  
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• Canadian Dante Leon goes after submission grappling world title in Bangkok

  30-04-2025 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Seventeen years after being introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Canadian Dante Leon goes after a world title Friday.
  The 29-year-old from Harrow, Ont., who now calls Toledo, Ohio, home, faces American champion Tye Ruotolo for the One Championship welterweight submission grappling title in the co-main event of One Fight Night 31 at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok.
  “This is the most important match of my career … Achieving that title, achieving that status would definitely be a life-changi
  
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• Event planners across Canada rethinking security practices following Vancouver attack

  30-04-2025 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Event organizers across Canada say they’re combing over their security practices in the wake of Saturday night’s deadly attack on a Vancouver street festival, hoping to fill any gaps to protect attendees.Politicians are also turning their attention to the issue, with British Columbia Premier David Eby saying he would call an independent commission to gather information about how other regions handle festival safety.Eby says he wants to ensure residents of his province
  
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• Adult male pedestrian dies after being struck by vehicle on Highway 1 east of Chilliwack

  30-04-2025 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties say they are investigating a fatal motor vehicle incident that claimed the life of an adult male pedestrian east of Chilliwack Monday night.
  According to a statement from RCMP Sgt. Andy Lot, Agassiz RCMP frontline members were advised on Monday night (Apr. 29) at about 9:53 p.m. that a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle on Highway 1, near Popkum Road, in the westbound lane. The incident resulted in the death of an adult male pedestrian.
  Police say traffic in the
  
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• Morning crash snarls traffic along Highway 10 in Langley

  30-04-2025 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — RCMP in Langley are investigating a multi-vehicle collision that shut down a section of Highway 10 during the Wednesday morning commute.
  Police say they were called to the crash around 7:52 a.m. in the 7200 block of Highway 10. It involved a commercial truck and at least two other vehicles.
  Several road closures have been put in place to limit traffic in the area, including at Glover Road and Highway 10, 232 Street and Highway 10, 224 Street and Highway 10, and Springbrook Road a
  
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• Collective trauma after festival attack could ripple for months, experts say

  30-04-2025 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people last weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columbia warn.“Traumatic events, grief, is not something that is resolved in a week or two weeks, or a couple of months,” said Heather Mohan, a clinical counsellor and executive director of the charity Lumara Grief and Bereavement Care Society.
  Eleven people were killed and dozens more wer
  
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• Teen hurt by falling tree, tens of thousands without power after violent Quebec storm

  30-04-2025 17:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A 15-year-old Montrealer was badly hurt by a falling tree in one of a series of violent storms across the province on Tuesday evening that left more than 144,000 Hydro-Québec clients without power.As of 10 a.m., the utility was still working to restore power to almost 76,000 clients after wind gusts of more than 100 kilometres per hour knocked out trees and equipment.Most power outages were in the Laurentians north of Montreal, and the Montérégie and Outaoua
  
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• Jonathan Pedneault resigns as Green Party co-leader after party took only one seat

  30-04-2025 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Jonathan Pedneault has announced his resignation as Green Party co-leader, effective immediately.
  The move comes after the party secured only one seat in the recent federal election, when fellow co-leader Elizabeth May won her riding in B.C.
  The party fell to only 1.3 per cent national support and chose not to run candidates in more than 100 ridings in order to prevent Conservative wins.
  The decision to pull back some candidates cost the Greens their spots in the two nationally te
  
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• Vermont judge orders release of a Palestinian man arrested at his US citizenship interview

  30-04-2025 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.
  U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford in Burlington, Vermont, issued his ruling following a hearing on Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident for 10 years, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on April
  
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• Economy shrunk 0.2% in February, StatCan estimates 1.5% annualized growth for Q1

  30-04-2025 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy contracted in February but early signs suggest moderate growth in March.
  The agency says real gross domestic product decreased 0.2 per cent in February.
  That was driven by a 0.6 per cent decline for goods-producing industries, with mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction and construction contributing the most to the decrease.
  Services-producing industries edged 0.1 per cent lower in February as contractions in transportation and wa
  
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• Seattle joins Vancouver into PWHL, second expansion franchise revealed

  30-04-2025 14:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Seattle joins Vancouver as the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s expansion teams next season.
  The PWHL confirmed Wednesday the addition of another West Coast team a week after announcing Vancouver would be the league’s first expansion team in Canada.
  “It certainly wasn’t a package deal,” said PWHL executive vice-president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford.
  “These two markets stood on their own two feet in terms of market size, media r
  
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• Israel says it carried out operation against gunmen attacking Druze fighters in Syria

  30-04-2025 13:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel said Wednesday that it carried out an attack in Syria on a group targeting members of a minority sect as a new round of clashes left at least 11 people dead, most of them members of the country’s security forces.
  The clashes on the edge of the town of Sahnaya, south of the capital Damascus, came a day after a heavy exchange of fire between pro-government gunmen and Druze fighters left 10 people dead in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana.
  A statement release
  
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• ‘I can trust myself’: Olympic fencing medal brings confidence for Canada’s Harvey

  30-04-2025 12:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Eleanor Harvey made history when she stepped onto the podium in Paris.Winning bronze in individual women’s foil — Canada’s first Olympic fencing medal — was only the beginning.Since the 2024 Games, Harvey has medalled in four of the six tournaments she’s competed in, and captured Canada’s first World Cup gold in the process.“I think going into the season after (the Olympics,) it gave me a lot of confidence in my preparation, in the atti
  
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• In the news today: Deadlines near for Hudson’s Bay and its leases

  30-04-2025 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…As deadlines near for Hudson’s Bay and its leases, there are glimmers of hope
  Two deadlines that will determine the fate of Hudson’s Bay are coming this week, but hope may already be on the horizon. Anyone interested in buying Canada’s oldest company or assets like the rights to its iconic Stripes brand has until today at 5 p.m. to submit binding proposals. Hudson’s Bay and those
  
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• ‘Still fresh in minds’: Vietnamese community marks 50 years since fall of Saigon

  30-04-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat.
  Officers in Vietnam remind him of the communist soldiers who once stormed and captured Saigon, the former South Vietnam capital now called Ho Chi Minh City.
  The fall of Saigon 50 years ago — on April 30, 1975 — marked the end of the two-decade-long Vietnam War.
  North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla troops captured the city to unif
  
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• As deadlines near for Hudson’s Bay and its leases, there are glimmers of hope

  30-04-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The clock is ticking down on two deadlines that may determine the fate of Hudson’s Bay.
  Anyone interested in buying Canada’s oldest company or assets like the rights to its iconic Stripes brand has until Wednesday at 5 p.m. to submit binding proposals. Those wanting to take on leases held by the 355-year-old department store chain or its sister Saks businesses must make binding bids by Thursday.
  Both processes began after Hudson’s Bay filed for creditor protecti
  
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• Persistent Oilers push Kings to the brink of elimination with Game 5 win

  30-04-2025 09:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES — Zach Hyman knows people started counting the Oilers out after Edmonton stumbled to start this season’s playoff campaign.
  The team didn’t give up and, on Tuesday, that persistence was rewarded with a 3-1 win over the L.A. Kings in Game 5.Edmonton now holds a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series and can advance Thursday when the first-round matchup shifts back to Alberta for Game 6.“If you just don’t go away, if you keep believing, you give yourself a ch
  
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• Mattias Janmark’s goal sends dominant Oilers past Kings 3-1. They take a 3-2 series lead to Edmonton

  30-04-2025 08:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mattias Janmark scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-1 Tuesday night for their third consecutive victory and a 3-2 lead in their first-round series.
  Evander Kane and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored and Calvin Pickard made 20 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who can advance with a win in Game 6 in Edmonton on Thursday.
  Edmonton was finally rewarded for dominating possession and sho
  
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• Janmark’s goal lifts surging Oilers over Kings 3-1, visitors grab 3-2 series lead

  30-04-2025 07:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mattias Janmark scored the tiebreaking goal at 7:12 of the third period, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-1 Tuesday night for their third consecutive victory and a 3-2 lead in their first-round series.
  Evander Kane and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored and Calvin Pickard made 20 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who can advance with a win in Game 6 in Edmonton on Thursday.
  Edmonton was finally rewarded for dominating possession
  
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• Aho scores in double OT as Hurricanes eliminate Devils from playoffs in five games

  30-04-2025 06:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sebastian Aho hammered a one-timer past Jacob Markstrom at 4:17 of the second overtime period to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 5-4 on Tuesday night to clinch their first-round NHL playoff series in five games.
  Aho’s goal off a feed from Shayne Gostisbehere came with the Hurricanes on a four-minute power play on a double-minor high-sticking penalty by Dawson Mercer that sent Jesperi Kotkaniemi skating off to the tunnel with a towel to his
  
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• ‘So much fun’: Sceptres’ Jackson takes advantage of first PWHL start in 2-1 SO win

  30-04-2025 05:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — It was a fun night for Carly Jackson.
  The 27-year-old third-string goaltender from Amherst, N.S., made 25 saves in her first-ever start — and first time entering a PWHL game — in the Toronto Sceptres’ 2-1 shootout victory on Tuesday night over the New York Sirens.
  Jackson stopped all four shots in the shootout with Natalie Spooner scoring the winner.
  “I had so much fun,” Jackson said. “I know I’m going to sleep really good tonight. But ev
  
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• Steady Senators shut out Maple Leafs 4-0 to force sixth game in playoff series

  30-04-2025 05:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — For a team in true must-win mode, the Ottawa Senators showed no signs of desperation on Tuesday night.They didn’t need to. A structured game, quality goaltending and timely offence helped the Senators to a 4-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 to send the first-round series back to the nation’s capital.“We just played a really good road game tonight, top to bottom,” said Ottawa head coach Travis Green.
  Thomas Chabot scored in the second period and
  
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• Spooner’s shootout winner lifts Sceptres to 2-1 victory over Sirens

  30-04-2025 03:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Natalie Spooner scored the shootout winner to help the Toronto Sceptres snap a two-game skid with a 2-1 victory over the New York Sirens on Tuesday in the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
  Daryl Watts scored in regulation for Toronto (12-3-5-9), which now sits three points ahead of the Boston Fleet for second place in the PWHL with one regular-season game remaining.
  Carly Jackson made 25 saves in her first-ever start in the PWHL in two seasons as the Sceptres’ backu
  
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• Sens blank Leafs to again stave off elimination, cut Battle of Ontario deficit to 3-2

  30-04-2025 03:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Senators won’t go away in the Battle of Ontario.
  Linus Ullmark made 27 saves for the first playoff shutout of his career as Ottawa edged the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 on Tuesday to cut the deficit in the teams’ first-round matchup to 3-2.
  Thomas Chabot and Dylan Cozens gave the Senators a 2-0 lead before Tim Stutzle and Brady Tkachuk added empty-net goals for Ottawa, which once again staved off elimination after picking up a 4-3 overtime victory in Game 4 at home Sa
  
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• The US government has a new policy for terminating international students’ legal status

  30-04-2025 03:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has begun shedding new light on a crackdown on international students, spelling out how it targeted thousands of people and laying out the grounds for terminating their legal status.The new details emerged in lawsuits filed by some of the students who suddenly had their status canceled in recent weeks with little explanation.In the past month, foreign students around the U.S. have been rattled to learn their records had been removed from a student data
  
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• Abreu’s three-run blast helps Red Sox rout Blue Jays 10-2 and spoil Varsho’s return

  30-04-2025 03:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Wilyer Abreu’s three-run blast capped a four-run inning as Boston’s big bats carried the Red Sox to a 10-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday.
  Rafael Devers crushed a 422-foot home run to the second deck in right field to lead off the third inning for Boston (17-14) before Abreu’s home run scored Alex Bregman and Trevor Story.
  Jarren Duran, Bregman and Kristian Campbell each had a solo shot as the Red Sox built an early seven-run lead to back Garrett Croc
  
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• Oversized big rig load knocks out numerous communications lines in Abbotsford

  30-04-2025 03:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford say Clearbrook Road is currently closed between two primary streets after an oversized big rig took out numerous communications lines sometime Tuesday afternoon (Apr. 29).
  According to a statement from police, police say Clearbrook Road remains closed between South Fraser Way and Hillcrest Avenue after an oversized commercial vehicle load took out several utility lines.
  Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement personnel are attending to assist AbbyPD patr
  
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