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• Indigenous storytelling comes to life when dancers take Chilliwack stage - Agassiz-Harrison Observer

  30-03-2025 23:34 via news.google.com
  Indigenous storytelling comes to life when dancers take Chilliwack stage  Agassiz-Harrison Observer
  
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• Judge rejects defense that Gaudreau brothers contributed to their deaths by cycling while impaired

  15-04-2025 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SALEM, N.J. (AP) — The family of NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew listened in pain Tuesday as lawyers debated whether the men’s own drinking contributed to their deaths when they were hit by an allegedly drunken and enraged driver as they cycled at night.
  After nearly two hours of argument, a judge agreed the issue was moot under New Jersey criminal law — upholding all of the charges against the driver, including manslaughter and vehicular homicide.
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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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• B.C. accepting only 1,100 new immigrant applications, nominations to focus on health

  15-04-2025 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The British Columbia government says the odds of new applications from immigrants looking to be accepted into its nominee program this year have dropped to near zero for anyone other than health workers or entrepreneurs after the federal government slashed the number of available slots.
  A bulletin from the province says it was only allotted 4,000 nominations this year, about half of what it had last year and substantially less than the 11,000 it wanted.
  It says the program, which help immigrants
  
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• California governor urges Canadians to ignore Trump, come back for sand, sun and wine

  15-04-2025 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  California is calling for Canadians to come back and pay a visit.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken to social media urging the two million Canadians who visited last year to come back and enjoy the Golden State’s wine, sun and sand.
  Newsom, without calling out U.S. President Donald Trump by name, says Canadians should not let a dust-up with Washington stop them from renewing their love affair with his coastal paradise.
  Canadians have sharply curtailed vacation plans south of the border given an
  
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• First Nation launches challenge of B.C.’s approval to raise Mount Polley mine dam

  15-04-2025 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one of the province’s largest environmental disasters.
  The Xatsull First Nation has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court requesting a judicial review of the government decision to approve the raising of the dam by four metres without “meaningful” conversations w
  
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• Four injured in apparent hit-and-run on TMU campus, Toronto police say

  15-04-2025 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Four people were injured after a vehicle crashed into multiple people on a pedestrian walkway on Toronto Metropolitan University’s downtown campus, police said.The vehicle did not remain at the scene of the crash Tuesday afternoon, police said.Paramedics say two people were sent to hospital, one with minor injuries and the other with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
  Police say the crash took place shortly before 2 p.m. on the campus’ Nelson Mandela Walk, a t
  
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• Lack of helmet leads to arrest of 41-year-old Mission man for multiple drugs, loaded handgun

  15-04-2025 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — What began as a basic encounter with police over a minor motor vehicle infraction quickly steamrolled into a full-on police investigation in which a 41-year-old Mission man was found to be armed with a loaded handgun and in possession of meth, coke and other drugs.According to a statement from Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr, a Mission RCMP officer pulled over the operator of an electric moped on Wednesday evening, April 9, along 2nd Avenue near Columbia Street,
  
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• AFC Toronto gets new majority owner just days ahead of debut in Northern Super League

  15-04-2025 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — AFC Toronto has a new majority owner, just days ahead of its debut in the Northern Super League.
  The new owner is Canadian-American entrepreneur Mark Mitchell of Mitchell Family Office (MFO), which has invested in more than 20 companies since its inception in 2015.
  The club said the Mitchell’s investment “lays the foundation for the club’s long-term sustainability and success, while demonstrating the league’s ability to attract international investors.&rdq
  
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• Mounties arrest 36-year-old Langley man for ‘indecent’ act on a trail, seek witnesses

  15-04-2025 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Mounties in Langley say they’ve arrested a 36-year-old Langley man for allegedly committing an indecent act on a trail near 211 Street in Langley earlier this month.
  According to a statement from Langley RCMP Sgt. Zynal Sharoom, Mounties are asking for the public’s help to advance their investigation. On Saturday, April 5, at approximately 4:20 p.m., police responded to a report of an indecent act committed by a man on the trail. Police responded and arrested a 36-yea
  
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• Jets forward Ehlers out week-to-week, will miss start of playoffs

  15-04-2025 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Winnipeg Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers will miss the start of the playoffs with a right foot injury.
  Jets coach Scott Arniel said Tuesday that Ehlers was out week-to-week after re-aggravating an existing injury.
  Ehlers collided with an official in a game against Chicago on Saturday and had to be helped off the ice.
  The 29-year-old has 24 goals and 39 assists in 69 games this season.
  The Jets might be getting some reinforcements soon. Forward Gabe Vilardi skated Tuesday and is cons
  
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• Canadians Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov lost their matches at BMW Open event

  15-04-2025 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MUNICH — Canadians Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov both dropped their first-round matches Tuesday at the BMW men’s tennis tournament.
  German teenager Diego Dedura-Palomero advanced to the second round when Shapovalov retired from the match due to injury. Auger-Aliassime, the third seed from Montreal, dropped a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) decision to Argentina’s Mariano Navone.
  Dedura-Palomero was leading 7-6 (2) 3-0 when the eight-seeded Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont
  
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• Fraser Valley man, Rajinder Singh Chahal, accused of 3 sexual assaults on transit faces charges

  15-04-2025 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER — The British Columbia Prosecution Service has approved charges relating to three alleged sexual assaults on Metro Vancouver’s transit system against a 55-year-old Fraser Valley man.
  A statement from the region’s Transit Police says the first complaint was made in January last year, when a woman on a crowded Canada Line train called police to say that a man had made inappropriate physical contact with her.
  Then, in April last year, a man was seen standing suspic
  
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• Man accused of three sexual assaults on transit faces charges: police

  15-04-2025 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER — The British Columbia Prosecution Service has approved charges relating to three alleged sexual assaults on Metro Vancouver’s transit system.A statement from the region’s Transit Police says the first complaint was made in January last year, when a woman on a crowded Canada Line train called police to say that a man had made inappropriate physical contact with her.Then, in April last year, a man was seen standing suspiciously close to a teenage passenger on the
  
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• Peruvian court sentences former President Humala and wife to 15 years for money laundering

  15-04-2025 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering funds received from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 campaigns.
  The judges of the National Superior Court found that Humala and Heredia received several million dollars in illegal contributions for these campaigns from Odebrecth and the government of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (1999-20
  
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• Chilliwack firefighters extinguish hedge fire at strata complex overnight, with smoke visible from afar

  15-04-2025 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack firefighters were dispatched early Tuesday morning (Apr. 15) for a hedge fire at a strata complex on Chilliwack Central Road near Valley Toyota.According to Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, who monitors emergency dispatch during her graveyard work shift, firefighters were paged at 1:54 a.m. overnight for a hedge fire in the 46000 block of Chilliwack Central Road.Around the time that they were attending the hedge fire, Chilliwack Fire’s duty chief, Engines 1-
  
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• Erie Otters defenceman Schaefer top-ranked North American skater for NHL draft.

  15-04-2025 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Matthew Schaefer is the top-ranked North American skater heading into the 2025 NHL draft.Schaefer, of Hamilton, was ranked first overall by NHL Central Scouting on its final NHL draft rankings.He had seven goals and 15 assists in 17 games with Erie this season and added a goal and an assist in two games for Canada at the ’25 world junior hockey tournament before suffering an injury that kept him out for the remainder of the regular season.
  The NHL draft is slated for June 2
  
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• Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States

  15-04-2025 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities is warning its members against non-essential travel to the United States.
  The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it released updated travel advice today due to the “political landscape” created by the Trump administration and reports of some Canadians encountering difficulties while crossing the border.
  The association says academics who are from countries that have tense diplomatic
  
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• Chilliwack gas prices stubbornly high compared to Hope

  15-04-2025 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Gas prices remain stubbornly high in Chilliwack compared to one municipality east of the city.According to Gas Buddy, unleaded gasoline is currently priced in Hope at $1.409/litre at Chevron, Flying J, Centex and Shell stations.Closer to home in Chilliwack, however, gas prices are nearly 10 cents a litre higher. Fraser Valley Today’s gas price tracker shows the cheapest gas in Chilliwack is $1.499/l at the Husky station, located at 6050 Chilliwack River Road just off Pro
  
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• Four journalists accused of working for Kremlin foe Navalny convicted of extremism

  15-04-2025 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court convicted four journalists of extremism Tuesday for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5 1/2 years in prison each.
  Antonina Favorskaya, Kostantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger were found guilty of involvement with a group that had been labeled as extremist. All four maintained their innocence, arguing they were being prosecuted for doing their job as journalists.
  The closed-
  
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• Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel making most of second chance in NHL spotlight

  15-04-2025 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Scott Arniel was head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets just over 19 months.
  It didn’t go well.
  A winning percentage of .439 across those 123 games, including a disastrous 11-25-5 start to the 2011-12 season before getting fired, left him bitterly disappointed — both at the opportunity lost and how he had gone about his business.
  “I certainly wasn’t happy with the job I attempted to do,” Arniel said. “If I was ever going to get a second chance, I wanted to ma
  
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• Playing in CFL gives Covington deeper appreciation of father’s achievements

  15-04-2025 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Christian Covington has always been aware of his Hall of Fame father’s many football achievements, but he now has a deeper appreciation of them.
  Covington is heading into his second season with the B.C. Lions, signing with the hometown team last year following a nine-year stint in the NFL.Having one CFL campaign under his belt has given the 31-year-old from Vancouver a more intimate understanding of the illustrious career his father, Grover, put together to earn a spot in the Canadian Foot
  
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• Canada Soccer names roster for inaugural CONCACAF W Futsal Championship

  15-04-2025 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada Soccer has announced its roster for the inaugural CONCACAF W Futsal Championship, scheduled for April 28 to May 4 in Guatemala.
  Jadyn Steinhauer, Jade Houmphanh and Erika Hindmarsh are drawn from the recently crowned Canadian champion SK Impact FC from Saskatoon. Shayla He joins from the Canadian runner-up FC Underdogs of Montreal.
  There are also four players from Quebec’s Xtreme FCL.
  The nine-team tournament at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City will determine the region&rsqu
  
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• Hedqvist scores a hat trick for Sweden in 8-0 rout of Norway at women’s hockey worlds

  15-04-2025 16:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Ebba Hedqvist scored a hat trick for Sweden in an 8-0 rout of newly promoted Norway at the women’s ice hockey world championship on Tuesday.
  Sweden won Group B with four wins in four games and will face Finland, the third team in Group A, in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
  Norway, which was promoted to the top division after a 27-year absence, was fourth in Group B after winning one game and will be relegated together with another newcomer, Hung
  
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• Ottawa announces help for businesses hurt by U.S. tariffs

  15-04-2025 16:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has announced help for Canadian businesses affected by the trade dispute with the U.S., giving them time to adjust their supply chains.
  The minister says the government intends to provide temporary six-month tariff relief for goods imported from the U.S. that are used in Canadian manufacturing, processing and food and beverage packaging.The temporary exemption will also apply on goods used to support public health, health
  
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• The PWHL effect: Players expand their individual arsenals for the international stage

  15-04-2025 16:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE — The Professional Women’s Hockey League not only altered the makeup of rosters at the women’s world hockey championship, but allowed even experienced players to expand their tool kit for the world stage.
  A player who might not get a sniff of power-play time with her national team might get those minutes with her PWHL club, which is a chance to prove she can handle that responsibility.
  That poses interesting decisions for Canada’s head co
  
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• CIBC becomes latest founding partner of WNBA expansion side Toronto Tempo

  15-04-2025 16:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — CIBC has become a founding partner of the WNBA-expansion Toronto Tempo.
  CIBC will become the basketball team’s official bank and appear on team jerseys when the Tempo begin play in 2026. The bank joins Sephora Canada, the franchise’s “official beauty partner,” as a founding partner.
  CIBC is also introducing “Champions of Ambition,” a new community program designed to “celebrate and elevate Canadians who have been changing the tempo in wom
  
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• Construction activities underway on new Chilliwack elementary school

  15-04-2025 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Construction activities are well underway on McGrath Road in Rosedale for a new 500-seat elementary school in eastern Chilliwack.
  In September 2023, the B.C. government announced it would build a new elementary school in Chilliwack, one of the fastest-growing communities in B.C.
  A picture sent to Fraser Valley Today this past week shows heavy equipment on site and related construction activities underway.
  To support anticipated growth in Chilliwack, the provincial government p
  
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• Cricket facility coming to Chilliwack park

  15-04-2025 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As Chilliwack grows to well over 100,000 people and becomes more diverse, the City of Chilliwack plans to accommodate growing demand for multi-use parks that meet the needs of various sporting enthusiasts.To that end, the City of Chilliwack is currently incorporating an artificial turf cricket pitch area into Rosedale Park, 51535 Yale Road, and ball netting along part of the park’s north edge.A city spokesperson told Fraser Valley Today in an email that cricket has becom
  
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• Tariff uncertainty foils ‘slam dunk rebound year’ for national home sales: CREA

  15-04-2025 15:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales activity in 2025, while the number of homes that changed hands across the country in March was down 9.3 per cent compared with a year ago.
  The association says Canadian home sales in March also fell 4.8 per cent on a seasonally adjusted month-over-month basis from February, as potential buyers stayed on the sidelines amid concerns over tariffs and economic uncertainty.
  CREA is now expecting a total of 482,673 residen
  
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