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P.A. city council nixes suggestion to help homeless people return to home communities
A proposed plan by one city councillor to provide homeless people in Prince Albert with transportation back to their home communities has been nixed by council. Councillor Blake Edwards asked council ...
Nov 7, 2023
Judge says man who hit and killed two fellow UBC students should serve 3 years
RICHMOND, B.C. - A British Columbia judge has ruled that a 23-year-old man who hit and killed two University of British Columbia students while he was speeding through the campus in 2021 should serve ...
Nov 7, 2023
Saskatchewan man to pay $2,800 for illegally possessing zebras
It might cost the province $120,000 to provide care for the dazzle of zebras staying at the Forestry Farm Park & Zoo in Saskatoon, but a Saskatchewan man is paying just under $3,000 for holding th...
Nov 7, 2023
Sask. Court of Appeal overturns conviction, grants new trial for man found guilty in Rosthern stabbing
A man previously found guilty of aggravated assault is getting a second chance to clear his name.The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan officially granted a new trial for Keith Michael John who claimed ...
Nov 7, 2023
Sartini apologizes, Whitecaps look to put playoff disappointment behind them
Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Vanni Sartini has apologized for comments he made about refereeing after his team's playoff elimination. Vancouver was swept in its best-of-three playoff series with rei...
Nov 7, 2023
Inmates at Pine Grove refusing food, claim water causing boils
Concerns related to the quality of water at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre (PGCC) is, according to an inmate's advocacy group, among the reasons why a small group of inmates is refusing tray servi...
Nov 7, 2023
Judge tells Ibrahim Ali jury to disregard testimony of Crown witness who died
VANCOUVER - The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali, who is accused of killing a Burnaby, B.C., teenager six years ago, has told the jury to completely disregard the testimony of a w...
Nov 7, 2023
Defence, Crown make final arguments to the jury in Peter Nygard's sex assault trial
TORONTO - The sexual assault case against Peter Nygard is built on a "false narrative" created by women whose testimony was not credible, his lawyer argued on Tuesday while the Crown urged the jury to...
Nov 7, 2023
Electric-vehicle chargers distributed unequally in Canada, environment audit finds
OTTAWA - The national infrastructure program to install electric chargers for passenger vehicles is too concentrated in a small number of provinces and has no data to show where the biggest gaps are, ...
Nov 7, 2023
Father of boy abducted in 2011 not notified of Hopley's escape from halfway house
The father of a boy abducted in 2011 by a man who is now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant says he's incredulous the repeat offender could walk away from a Vancouver halfway house. Paul Hebert says in a...
Nov 7, 2023
