Canada

B.C. money laundering public inquiry report, recommendations to be released

VANCOUVER - A report being released today is expected to explain how billions of dollars in suspected illegal cash was funnelled into British Columbia's real estate sector, casinos and luxury car mark...

Jun 15, 2022

New poll suggests Liberal, NDP voters prefer Charest and Brown over Poilievre

OTTAWA - New polling suggests Liberal and New Democrat voters think Jean Charest or Patrick Brown would make the best leader of the federal Conservative party. The data released by the research firm L...

Jun 15, 2022

177 Ukrainian refugees land in Newfoundland on second provincially-chartered flight

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - As a plane carrying 177 Ukrainian refugees touched down in St. John's, N.L., Tuesday night, Pamela Ryder Lahey was at the front of the crowd inside the airport waiting for five youn...

Jun 14, 2022

Tories want Marco Mendicino to resign over Emergencies Act remarks

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say the public safety minister has lost credibility over his comments about the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, and they're calling for him to resign. Marco ...

Jun 14, 2022

Montreal public health expands monkeypox vaccination to all men who have sex with men

MONTREAL - Public health officials in Montreal are offering monkeypox vaccination to all men who have sex with men. Officials told reporters today the city is the epicentre of the monkeypox outbreak i...

Jun 14, 2022

Cash, hard drive, passport hidden in home of Amanda Todd extortion suspect: officer

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A Dutch police officer has described finding cash, a passport and a hard drive hidden inside a stereo in the home of the man accused of extorting British Columbia teenager Aman...

Jun 14, 2022

Trudeau says Canadian attendance at Russian embassy event 'absolutely unacceptable'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was "absolutely unacceptable" that any Canadian representative attended a Russia Day party at the Russian embassy in Ottawa, adding that it never should ...

Jun 14, 2022

Federal government gives $77 million for new fire-resistant buildings in Lytton, B.C.

LYTTON, B.C. - The fire-ravaged community of Lytton, B.C., will get $77 million from the federal government to help it rebuild a fire-resistant and energy-efficient community. Harjit Sajjan, the minis...

Jun 14, 2022

Sergeant says slain Quebec teenager holding air pistol was perceived as threat

SHERBROOKE, Que. - A Quebec provincial police sergeant told a coroner's inquest today that he became uncomfortable as an armed 17-year-old advanced toward officers in the early morning of July 25, 201...

Jun 14, 2022

Rain continues to fill run-off swollen southeast B.C. rivers, raise flooding concerns

VANCOUVER - A small community in the southeast corner of British Columbia is the latest to declare a local state of emergency as heavy rain and a late spring thaw combine to swell rivers across many p...

Jun 14, 2022