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• Captain Gabriel Landeskog rejoins the Avalanche after 2-game minor-league rehab assignment

  15-04-2025 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog has rejoined the Colorado Avalanche after taking part in a two game minor-league rehab assignment.
  The team said Tuesday the captain’s conditioning loan to the American Hockey League’s Colorado Eagles was terminated. He played games for the Eagles on Friday and Saturday in the latest step toward a return from a knee injury that has led to two surgeries and caused him to miss the past three regular seasons.
  Last weekend was the first time the 32-y
  
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• Kuwait frees 10 more Americans in the second release in as many months

  30-04-2025 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kuwait has released an additional 10 American detainees, bringing to nearly two dozen the total number freed by the country in the past two months, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
  Taken together, Kuwait’s pardons of 23 Americans since March — done as a goodwill gesture by the U.S. ally — amounted to the largest release of U.S. citizens by a single foreign country in years.
  The prisoners include military contractors and veterans hel
  
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• Pickard’s poised play gives Edmonton Oilers confidence in first-round series

  30-04-2025 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Twelve seasons into his NHL tenure, Calvin Pickard is playing some of the biggest games of his career.The 33-year-old Edmonton Oilers goalie started the playoffs on the bench, backing up starter Stuart Skinner. But when Edmonton stumbled through two losses to open their best-of-seven series against the L.A. Kings, Pickard was elevated to the No. 1 job.He went on to backstop the Oilers to three straight wins, including a 3-1 victory in Game 5 on Tuesday.“It feels good ge
  
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• Veteran forward Karen Paquin returns for Canada’s Pacific Four Series title defence

  30-04-2025 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Veteran forward Karen Paquin makes her first Canadian start since the 2021 Rugby World Cup when Canada opens defence of its Pacific Four Series title on Friday against the U.S. in Kansas City.
  Canada, ranked second in the world, faces the ninth-ranked U.S. at CPKC Stadium before flying to the Southern Hemisphere to play No. 3 New Zealand on May 16 at Apollo Projects Stadium in Christchurch and No. 6 Australia on May 23 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
  Paquin took some time away from the sport but
  
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• Rylan Bissett Commits to Chilliwack

  30-04-2025 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Rylan Bissett Commits to Chilliwack
  The Chilliwack Chiefs are excited to announce the commitment of Rylan Bissett for the 25-26 season. From Prince George, and suiting up for the Cariboo Cougars U18 AAA program, Bissett put up some incredible numbers this past season. In 36 regular-season games, he tallied 35 goals and 60 points, adding another 11 points in 8 playoff games. The 2007-born forward will be counted on offensively for the group this upcoming season. The coaching staff is excited to w
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Trump says he’ll meet with Carney ‘within the next week’

  30-04-2025 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House “within the next week.”
  Trump says he spoke with Carney on the phone Tuesday and he expects to have a “great relationship” with Canada.
  More to come.Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps forward Brian White named MLS player of the month for April

  30-04-2025 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Vancouver Whitecaps forward Brian White has been named Major League Soccer’s player of the month for April.
  White scored five goals over his three MLS appearances in April for league-leading Vancouver.
  His five goals were tied for the league lead with San Jose’s Josef Martínez and Nashville’s Sam Surridge despite playing only 270 minutes.
  The American international scored four times in Vancouver’s 5-1 win over Austin on April 12, becoming the 18th
  
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• Canada’s top court to decide whether to hear a trailblazing youth-led climate case

  30-04-2025 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s highest court is set to decide whether it will hear arguments in a trailblazing climate change lawsuit that could clarify whether governments are constitutionally required to tackle planet-warming emissions.Thursday’s decision could set the stage before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case where seven young people have challenged Ontario’s weakened climate target.
  The group has argued the revised target commits the province to dangerously high greenhou
  
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• Evason named Canada coach, Huska among assistants for world hockey championship

  30-04-2025 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Columbus Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason will lead Canada’s staff at the upcoming world hockey championship.
  Hockey Canada announced Canada’s coaching staff for the tournament on Wednesday. Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska will serve as an assistant, along with Nashville head coach Andrew Brunette and Blue Jackets assistant Steve McCarthy.
  The world championship is set for May 9-25 in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark. Canada opens May 10 against Slovenia
  
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• Carolina Hurricanes reach 3-year, $9.5 million extension with forward Taylor Hall

  30-04-2025 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Carolina Hurricanes have reached a three-year, $9.5 million extension with forward Taylor Hall through the 2027-28 season.
  The team announced the signing Wednesday, a day after the Hurricanes closed out the New Jersey Devils in their first-round playoff series. It marked the seventh straight year that Carolina has won at least one postseason series.
  The 33-year-old Hall, acquired in a blockbuster January deal that included Mikko Rantanen’s arrival, scored the first of Carolina’s
  
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• A legacy of hope and laughter for Gaudreau brothers as family, friends and hockey community grieves

  30-04-2025 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WESTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — The family called him John. It wasn’t until John Gaudreau played for Boston College that he picked up the “Johnny Hockey” nickname that followed him through 11 seasons in the NHL.
  His mother, Jane, gleefully recalled the “Johnny Hockey” T-shirts and sing-song chants BC fans bestowed on their beloved wizard on the ice. At home in New Jersey, older brother Matthew, who also played hockey for Boston College, and sisters Kristen and Katie co
  
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• Mental health trouble leads to public safety issues, Vancouver’s mayor says

  30-04-2025 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says people are “sick and tired” of inquiries and reviews into the recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis that become a public safety crisis.Sim says the man accused of killing 11 people by driving a vehicle through a street lined with festival goers Saturday was under the care of a mental health team and on extended leave.
  He says the information was incredibly difficult to hear and even harder to accept because it points to t
  
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• Peterman, Gallant thump Finland 13-2 at world mixed doubles curling championship

  30-04-2025 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant closed in on a playoff spot at the world mixed doubles curling championship with a 13-2 rout of Finland in Wednesday’s early draw.
  Canada scored a deuce in the first end and then stole two in each of the next three ends.
  After Finland got on the board with a deuce in the fifth end, Canada slammed the door shut with five points in the sixth.
  Peterman and Gallant, from Chestermere, Alta., improved to 6-1, good for second i
  
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• Carrier a game-time decision with Canadiens facing elimination in Game 5

  30-04-2025 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON — Alexandre Carrier will be a game-time decision with the Montreal Canadiens facing elimination in Game 5 against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday.
  Head coach Martin St. Louis said “a couple” players are game-time decisions, but did not want to reveal who else.
  The Canadiens said Tuesday that Carrier was day-to-day after being hit by Capitals forward Tom Wilson in Game 4 on Sunday and exiting the game.
  He joined a growing list of injured Canadiens with goaltender
  
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• Leafs still in Battle of Ontario driver’s seat, but past playoff failures loom large

  30-04-2025 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Auston Matthews stood in a sombre, all-too-familiar-feeling locker room.The Maple Leafs captain said all the right things to a wall of cameras flanked by reporters moments after his team wasted yet another opportunity to end an opponent’s season.Matthews sported a calm, we’ve-got-this demeanour. A tortured fan base, however, has seen similar playoff scripts. The deep scars remain. The painful memories are hard to cast aside.
  Toronto has seen its 3-0 lead over the upst
  
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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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