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The death last month of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who was killed when an officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, has sparked demonstrations against police brutality and rac...
Jun 12, 2020
HALIFAX - A portion of a witness statement released Friday says the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia had "recently" acquired one of his firearms in Canada from the estate of a...
Jun 12, 2020
OTTAWA - One of Canada's preeminent infectious disease experts says he is confident a vaccine for COVID-19 will be ready in months, not years. Dr. Gary Kobinger, director of the Research Cen...
Jun 12, 2020
Liverpool's Liam Millar edged Sam Adekugbe of Norway's Valerenga Fotball 1-0 Friday to win the Canadian men's national team FIFA 20 tournament. Millar, playing with Paris Saint-Germain, went...
Jun 12, 2020
Major League Baseball has offered players 80% of their prorated salaries and a 72-game regular season in an effort to start the pandemic-delayed season, according to details of the proposal obtained F...
Jun 12, 2020
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are alleging that Canada's national spy agency was in on a plan for border officers to detain the Huawei executive for hours before her arrest at Vancouver's airport...
Jun 12, 2020
SOOKE, B.C. - British Columbia's premier says calls for defunding police are a simplistic approach to a complex problem. John Horgan says police are increasingly burdened with a range of challeng...
Jun 12, 2020
NANAIMO - The Hells Angels have won a lengthy criminal case and will have several clubhouses, including one in Nanaimo, returned to them. The Nanaimo clubhouse on Victoria Rd. was seized back in 2007 ...
Jun 12, 2020
Canadian international Alphonso Davies has won the Bundesliga Rookie Award for May. The 19-year-old Bayern Munich fullback beat out Borussia Moenchengladbach forward Marcus Thuram and RB Leipzig midfi...
Jun 12, 2020
Emerging evidence of violent police encounters shows some police tactics are "so egregious" that they're doing more harm than any possible good, says a Canadian activist. Sandy Hudson, a founder ...
Jun 12, 2020