AGASSIZ - Gena Edwards, president of the BC Native Women's Association, said that when Frederick Charlie was acquitted of second-degree murder last month in the killing of Vanessa Terry, there were gasps. It felt like "a punch to the stomach," she said...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is asking the prime minister to not concede to U.S. President Donald Trump's demands during trade negotiations. Poilievre says in a letter to Mark Carney that Ottawa has given in to several of Trump's deman...

PENTICTON - Dawn Wertz says she was celebrating her niece's 21st birthday at a party in Summerland in the British Columbia Interior when ashes the size of loonies began raining down at her sister's home. She and her relatives are now among thousands o...

Measles data from the World Health Organization show that Canada has half the number of confirmed cases as the United States, despite having a population only about one-tenth the size of its neighbour. WHO says 47,459 measles cases have been confirmed ...

OTTAWA - Canada's prime minister will be working reduced hours for a week starting Monday because he previously committed to plans in Italy. But Mark Carney's office says he will still keep his eyes on several government priorities, including trade neg...

Thousands of residents in the British Columbia communities of Summerland and Peachland have been chased out of their homes by an explosive wildfire that sprang up Friday. Here is the latest on the wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee (all times PT): 4...

VANCOUVER - A ferocious fire has forced thousands of residents out in Summerland and Peachland along British Columbia's Okanagan Lake. It's unclear if homes have been lost in the latest fire to flare up in the province, but it's been an early and destr...

MONTRÉAL - As pride month celebrations take place across Quebec, political candidates from sexual and gender-diverse backgrounds who are running in the fall provincial election are sounding the alarm over a flood of hateful messages targeting them. Qué...

When Tom Davison's son-in-law invested in firefighting equipment for their orchard near Vernon, B.C., after a wildfire swept past in 2021, Davison wasn't sure the hoses would get much use. He figured the blaze, which caused smoke damage to the property...

OTTAWA - The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage. "Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory - a multi-phase, ...

Officials in the Central Okanagan are urging people who have remained in their homes in areas under evacuation order to leave, saying forecasted winds may fan the flames of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire in the coming days. A statement from the region's ...

TORONTO - As the clock ticks down on a temporary program that brought a wave of Turkish and Syrian people to Canada after a deadly earthquake, a mother and her son have embarked on a weeks-long journey to press Ottawa for an extension for those stuck i...

PENTICTON - RCMP in British Columbia say they are investigating a possible death in the explosive wildfire near Summerland in the Okanagan that has triggered a provincial state of emergency and forced thousands of people to evacuate. Firefighting helic...

SUMMERLAND - Evacuations are underway around Summerland, B.C., after a new wildfire west of Okanagan Lake exploded in size. Social media videos appeared to show multiple houses and other structures on fire in Faulder, west of Summerland, where resident...

TORONTO - The federal government has reinstated full coverage for a handful of health-care services for refugees, but doctors say it's not nearly enough. On May 1, Canada's Interim Federal Health Program imposed a 30 per cent co-payment requirement fo...

OTTAWA - Canadian dairy farmers are warning against any concessions involving their sector as trade talks intensify with the United States ahead of President Donald Trump's tariff deadline. A new round of 50 per cent American tariffs on a range of Cana...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the province cannot refuse enhanced income support to unhoused people living in tents. The unanimous ruling by a panel of three judges overturned a Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision last yea...

OTTAWA - The federal government said Friday it is selling 10 of its used CC-130H Hercules aircraft to B.C.-based aerospace company Coulson Aviation, which will convert them into firefighting aircraft. They're part of a fleet of 12 retired by the Royal ...

TORONTO - A pair of 18-year-olds have been charged with first-degree murder in last month's deadly shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival, police said Friday, vowing to heighten security around other major street festivals. Jessiah Massaro-Gill a...

Terry Evans was driving home from picking up groceries with his wife on the north shore of Shuswap Lake on Wednesday when they spotted a fire in a ditch and several residents scrambling to bring water to douse it. Within 30 seconds, the flames had engu...

MONTREAL - Researchers have confirmed that a storm that damaged trees and buildings in a suburb north of Montreal on Sunday was a tornado. The Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University says the tornado touched down in Repentigny, Que. at around ...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to make a gas tax suspension permanent, or at least extend it beyond its looming expiry. Carney announced in April that the government would pause collection of the federal fuel e...

OTTAWA - Voters are headed for an eighth federal byelection between Aug. 31 and mid-April due to the upcoming departure of Ontario Conservative Larry Brock. Brock, who was first elected in 2021 to represent the southwestern Ontario riding now called Br...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.4 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because t...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.4 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9.3 per cent (8.2) _ Prince Edward Island 6.8 per cent (...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's July employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.4 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8) Participation rate: 65.1 per cent (65.0) Number unemployed: 1,454,700 (...

ELIZABETHTOWN - The prosecution wrapped up its case against a man charged with second-degree murder in the death of his daughter with a five-hour video recreating the route he may have taken in the hours before he reported her missing. On Friday, the j...

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