Category Archives: Canada

The mayor of Nanaimo, B.C., says a deferred motion for the city to ask the local health authority to close an overdose prevention site near city hall will likely be settled in the fall. Leonard Krog s...

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief electoral officer is rebuffing calls from Premier Danielle Smith and her justice minister to reverse course and sign off on a proposed referendum question on separation. On ...

WEST KELOWNA - A British Columbia city says it has "increased concerns" about public safety over an upcoming concert by an American Christian musician who's outspoken in the Make America Great Again m...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada has announced it will end many term and casual employment contracts by October as it faces budget cuts. A note sent to employees Monday by Chief Statistician Andr Loranger c...

OTTAWA - More than 200 candidates are running in the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection, though only a handful have the support of official parties. Most of the rest are linked to a protest movement tha...

NANAIMO - A British Columbia judge has sentenced a man with the longest record of Fisheries Act violations in Canadian history to six years in prison for "ravaging the ocean and flouting the law." Sco...

OTTAWA - Israeli customs data suggests lethal Canadian arms are still being exported regularly to that country, despite Ottawa's claim that it has halted such shipments. A coalition of Canadian advoca...

RICHMOND - The man accused of allegedly hijacking a plane that triggered a security incident at Vancouver International Airport appeared briefly in a provincial court in Richmond, B.C., where his lawy...

QUBEC - The office of Quebec's auditor general says it is investigating the millions of dollars in subsidies given by the province to the electric battery industry. Major players in the sector have co...

British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly attack on a couple in the province's Interior over the weekend was likely "defensive in nature," and it's unlikely the bears were stalkin...