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OTTAWA - The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats"...
Mar 07, 2025
For at least a couple of hours on Sunday morning, Halifax residents who get the time from the city's Old Town Clock may be thrown off. Craig Potter, an employee with Parks Canada, will be making the s...
Mar 07, 2025
VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservatives Leader John Rustad has ejected his attorney general critic, Dallas Brodie, from the Opposition caucus, citing comments he says "mock and belittle" residential...
Mar 07, 2025
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The eldest daughter-in-law of Ripudaman Singh Malik has addressed in court one of the two hit men who shot Malik to death in Surrey, B.C., in 2022. Sundeep Kaur Dhaliwal turned...
Mar 07, 2025
VANCOUVER - New data from the BC Coroners Service says at least 458 people experiencing homelessness in the province died in 2023, with the toll almost tripling in just three years. The service says i...
Mar 07, 2025
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for west Vancouver Island as an atmospheric river approaches. It says the weather system will bring up to 120 millimetres of rain that is e...
Mar 07, 2025
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say they acted on a 911 call about a student armed with a knife at a local high school on Thursday. They say the caller told them the female st...
Mar 06, 2025
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia health officials say another travel-related measles infection has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland, in a resident who visited Southeast Asia. Fraser Health says in ...
Mar 06, 2025
VICTORIA - British Columbia Attorney General Niki Sharma says B.C.'s share of a landmark settlement for health damages from the big tobacco firms will be about $3.5 billion. It's part of a $32.5-billi...
Mar 06, 2025
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Opposition attorney general critic has railed against members of her own party in a row over residential schools, including a "super angry" Indigenous colleague she says ...
Mar 06, 2025