Category Archives: Canada
Diab says C-12 could ease some refugee claims, critics call it a two-tier system
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Thursday the changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in the government's border and immigration bill are "better for the applicants," even as ...
Feb 12, 2026
Military sexual assault investigation suffered from 'tunnel vision', watchdog says
OTTAWA - After finding that an internal military investigation into an alleged sexual assault by an air force officer who took his own life was plagued with "multiple failures," the federal watchdog f...
Feb 12, 2026
TSB says still 'too early' to determine cause of Pearson plane crash, one year later
TORONTO - It's still "too early" to draw conclusions about the cause of the Delta Air Lines plane crash at Toronto's Pearson Airport, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Thursday in an upda...
Feb 12, 2026
Prime Minister Carney to attend vigil in Tumbler Ridge Friday with other leaders
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's office has confirmed he will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to attend a vigil on Friday, three days after nine people died in a mass shooting there. Carney, who invit...
Feb 12, 2026
What we know about the victims in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting
TUMBLER RIDGE - Details are beginning to emerge about the eight people killed and two seriously injured in the mass shooting at a high school and a home in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Here's what is known so ...
Feb 12, 2026
Advocates, experts warn against vilifying transgender people in wake of Tumbler Ridge shooting
Advocates and experts are warning about the danger of vilifying an entire demographic based on the actions of one transgender person in the wake of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Their com...
Feb 12, 2026
Airlines say federal probe disproves unpaid work claims, but Ottawa wants more data
OTTAWA - Major airlines are claiming the initial findings of a federal probe clear their industry of allegations of unpaid work, but Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says investigators need more data before ...
Feb 12, 2026
In the news: B.C. community still reeling, Stronach trial begins, and the G.G. awards
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Tumbler Ridge 'one big family,' mayor tells vigil A memorial of flowers, lights and stuffed animals grows in ...
Feb 12, 2026
Shy smiles and braces: RCMP release names, photos of 8 Tumbler Ridge shooting victims
TUMBLER RIDGE - The names and photos of eight children and adults shot to death in a small British Columbia town were released by police Thursday in a sombre visual rollcall of chubby cheeks, shy smil...
Feb 12, 2026
History of Tumbler Ridge, a mining boom town with a wounded heart
TUMBLER RIDGE - Tumbler Ridge in the remote Peace region of northeast British Columbia was once best known as a coal mining boom town that was built from scratch in the 1980s, then faced challenges fr...
Feb 12, 2026
