Category Archives: Canada
CP NewsAlert: Cost to host 2026 FIFA World Cup in Vancouver doubles, may hit $581M
VANCOUVER - Organizers of the seven FIFA World Cup soccer matches coming to Vancouver in 2026 say the estimated cost of hosting the event has more than doubled in the last two years. The latest estima...
Apr 30, 2024
Man charged with aggravated assault in one of two White Rock, B.C., stabbings: RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia homicide investigators say a man from Surrey has been charged with aggravated assault in relation to one of two stabbings in White Rock, B.C. A statement from the Integ...
Apr 30, 2024
B.C. judge refuses to seal documents alleging RCMP bullying against Surrey police
VANCOUVER - B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kevin Loo says court documents detailing alleged bullying and harassment of Surrey Police Service members by the RCMP shouldn't be kept from the public. Loo refu...
Apr 30, 2024
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion gets green light to open for May 1
CALGARY - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is complete and the Canada Energy Regulator has given the go-ahead for the project to open. The regulator says it has approved the last remaining "leave...
Apr 30, 2024
'Biological sex' sports bill is quickly quashed in B.C. legislature
VICTORIA - A B.C. Conservative private member's bill to classify publicly funded sports teams and events according to the "biological sex" of participants, banning transgender athletes, didn't make it...
Apr 30, 2024
With portable toilets and barricades, Gaza protest camp at UBC digs in for long haul
VANCOUVER - Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver have brought in food, water and other supplies to prepare for what may become ...
Apr 30, 2024
CP NewsAlert: Speaker kicks Poilievre out of Commons over unparliamentary comments
OTTAWA - Speaker Greg Fergus kicked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of the House of Commons during question period today. All Conservative MPs have left the chamber in protest after Fergus ga...
Apr 30, 2024
Justice minister says recent protest over Israel-Hamas war at his home crossed a line
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Arif Virani says protesters who took their cause to his home over the weekend crossed a line. A few dozen pro-Palestinian protesters showed up at Virani's Toronto-area home o...
Apr 30, 2024
Grandparents, grandchild among 4 dead in wrong-way 401 pursuit crash
Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a busy stretch of Highway 401 on Monday night after a van being chased by police east of Toronto crashed while going the wrong way, causing ...
Apr 30, 2024
Virani says Poilievre's willingness to use notwithstanding clause threatens rights
OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister says the notwithstanding clause should only be used as a measure of last resort after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested he wouldn't hesitate to wield it...
Apr 30, 2024