Category Archives: Canada
Quick facts about Kirsten Hillman, Canada's outgoing ambassador in Washington
WASHINGTON - Canada's Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman is ending her term in February. Here are some quick facts about the top diplomat in Washington who has stickhandled the Canada-U.S...
Feb 07, 2026
B.C.'s Warm weather forces those in ice-fishing derby into boats
Krista Clark is an avid ice fisher, but it was a late start to the season in British Columbia's East Kootenay region where she's lived for 47 years. "This year, it's been just waiting and waiting for ...
Feb 06, 2026
China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg: NYT report
OTTAWA - China's highest court has overturned a Canadian man's death sentence, The New York Times is reporting. The death sentence ordered for British Columbia native Robert Lloyd Schellenberg in 2019...
Feb 06, 2026
Candidate says he plans to run for Conservatives in Poilievre's former riding
OTTAWA - Blair Turner, a police officer from the Ottawa area, says he plans to run for the Conservative nomination in Pierre Poilievre's former riding of Carleton. Turner ran for the Tories in Ottawa ...
Feb 06, 2026
Pipeline protest created safety risks, but journalists were let in, says RCMP officer
VANCOUVER - The senior RCMP officer co-ordinating enforcement at a British Columbia pipeline protest in 2021 says journalists were permitted to go through an "access control point" set up by police, a...
Feb 06, 2026
Canadian Tire ordered to pay nearly $1.3 million for false advertising
MONTREAL - Canadian Tire has been ordered to pay just under $1.3 million after pleading guilty to 74 counts of violating sections of Quebec's Consumer Protection Act related to false advertising. Crow...
Feb 06, 2026
Fitness trial begins for man accused of killing B.C. Mountie Shaelyn Yang in 2022
VANCOUVER - The hearing to determine if a man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang is fit to stand trial has begun in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. Jongwon Ham, who appeared at the hearing...
Feb 06, 2026
B.C. needs new mental health hospital, psychiatrist tells inquest into family's death
BURNABY - A psychiatrist with British Columbia's Northern Health authority has called for a new mental health hospital in B.C. in her testimony to an inquest into the deaths of a Prince Rupert family....
Feb 06, 2026
Union files complaints as feds increase public servants' in-office time
OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union has filed several unfair labour practice complaints - and another union is warning of a possible strike - as the government moves to increase publ...
Feb 06, 2026
Supreme Court ruling sets out exception to confidentiality between lawyer and client
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says there can be an exception to a lawyer's duty to keep conversations with a client confidential when the lawyer needs the information to defend themselves again...
Feb 06, 2026