Canada

Defence's fight for internal police documents continues in 'Freedom Convoy' trial

OTTAWA - The lawyers for two "Freedom Convoy" organizers are expected to continue their legal fight for access to internal Ottawa Police Service documents today. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are on tr...

Sheldon Spackman Oct 27, 2023

B.C.'s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur

VICTORIA - British Columbia has officially designated a large, fierce-looking marine reptile that swam in waters off Vancouver Island 80 million years ago as the province's official fossil emblem. The...

Oct 26, 2023

Liberal bill updating sex-offender registry in response to court decision becomes law

OTTAWA - A Liberal bill that adds victims' input to the process for publication ban decisions and changes how the national sexual offender registry works has received royal assent. The new law require...

Oct 26, 2023

Smith says Alberta's CPP exit campaign to continue despite questions over key number

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta will continue its $7.5-million pension-exit advertising and survey campaign, despite acknowledging the key dollar figure is disputed and likely headed to...

Sheldon Spackman Oct 26, 2023

U.S. man sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex exploitation of 3 B.C. children

SURREY, B.C. - An Oregon man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for sexually exploiting three British Columbia children. RCMP say 37-year-old Kevin McCarty of Happy Valley, Ore., ...

Oct 26, 2023

AFN chief warns lawyers may 'take advantage' of child-welfare settlement recipients

OTTAWA - The interim national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is urging those eligible to receive compensation from a landmark class-action settlement to be careful that lawyers do not try to t...

Oct 26, 2023

Federal justice minister orders review of Quebec man's 2002 sex assault conviction

OTTAWA - The federal justice minister has ordered the Quebec Court of Appeal to review the conviction of a man found guilty of sexual assault more than two decades ago. Justice Minister Arif Virani sa...

Oct 26, 2023

Liberals to pause carbon pricing on heating oil, beef up heat pump incentives

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the government will double the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians beginning next April. Trudeau also says there will be a temporary, thre...

Oct 26, 2023

Erin O'Toole says CSIS told him he would remain target of China 'into the future'

OTTAWA - Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole says Canada's spy agency told him he would be a target of the Chinese government "into the future" for "an undetermined time." O'Toole shared that deta...

Oct 26, 2023

Sikh activists in B.C. emboldened by Trudeau's comments on India ahead of referendum

SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of an upcoming vote on an independent Sikh state say Canada's allegations of India's links to the killing of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar have significantly bolstered vocal ...

Oct 26, 2023