Category Archives: Canada
Parents of B.C.'s Piper James grieve on Australian beach where she died
BRISBANE - The parents of Canadian teenager Piper James have walked in the surf and taken part in a traditional Aboriginal ceremony on an Australian beach where their daughter was found dead last mont...
Feb 04, 2026
In the news: Anand in Washington, foreign aid shifting, Chinese EVs okay with public
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Anand to attend rare earth talks in Washington Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will meet with her intern...
Feb 04, 2026
Alberta hockey team to play benefit game after 3 members die in crash
STAVELY - An Alberta junior hockey team is set to take the ice this weekend for a memorial game honouring three of its players who died in a highway crash. The Southern Alberta Mustangs are set to tak...
Feb 04, 2026
Anand visits D.C. as Trump administration makes case for critical minerals trade zone
WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration made a case for international partners to join a preferential trade zone for critical miner...
Feb 04, 2026
What's a 'thumper'? B.C. RCMP describe devices in an unneighbourly noise dispute
When two RCMP officers responded to a call about screams coming from a Burnaby, B.C., condo in late October last year, they forcibly entered the unit believing someone might be in trouble. Instead, th...
Feb 04, 2026
Canadians support arrival of more Chinese electric vehicles, poll suggests
OTTAWA - Most Canadians support allowing more Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in Canada despite some nagging concerns, a new poll suggests. Canada recently pledged to reduce its 100 per cent tari...
Feb 04, 2026
Canada to focus foreign aid on building 'mutual prosperity' with trading partners: MP
OTTAWA - The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians. "The first priority is focusing o...
Feb 04, 2026
Former B.C. lawyer who stabbed client to death is found guilty of first-degree murder
After former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death and then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote, he tried to expla...
Feb 03, 2026
'Hitting everybody so hard': Alberta town remembers 3 hockey players killed in crash
STAVELY - Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning ...
Feb 03, 2026
B.C. man feared 'hit' because of a feeling, ex-Mountie tells inquest into deaths
BURNABY - A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a "feeling" that someone was trying to kill them, not be...
Feb 03, 2026