Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Alberta teachers, government resume talks as provincewide strike hits second week
EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers and the provincial government's bargaining committee met Tuesday for the first time since a provincewide strike began a week ago. As of Tuesday after...
Oct 14, 2025
Chilliwack, B.C., Mounties cleared after woman seriously injured in 2024 arrest
SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., of wrongdoing after a woman was seriously injured while being arrested last fall. The Independent Investigations O...
Oct 14, 2025
B.C. Premier Eby says lifting the tanker ban would sink billions in 'real' projects
SURREY - Lifting the oil tanker ban off British Columbia's North Coast for a nonexistent pipeline from Alberta would endanger billions in other real investments that Premier David Eby says will need t...
Oct 14, 2025
B.C. Premier Eby says lifting the tanker ban would sink billions in 'real' projects
SURREY - Lifting the oil tanker ban off British Columbia's North Coast for a nonexistent pipeline from Alberta would endanger billions in other real investments that Premier David Eby says will need t...
Oct 14, 2025
Dallin H. Oaks, former Utah Supreme Court justice, is selected to lead Mormon church
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Dallin H. Oaks, a former Utah Supreme Court justice, was named Tuesday to lead The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its more than 17 million members worldwide. Oak...
Oct 14, 2025
Canadian flotilla activists released from Israeli detention share their experiences
TORONTO - Two Canadians who were on board a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces say their experience in detention was "horrific" and they are relieved to finally be home. Ontari...
Oct 14, 2025
Driver following too close behind van charged in Georgia crash that killed 3 adults, 5 children
ATLANTA (AP) - The driver of a semitrailer following too close behind a van has been arrested on homicide charges in a fiery crash that killed three adults and five children on a Georgia highway, law ...
Oct 14, 2025
'Razor’s edge of survival': Eby calls for attention on softwood amid tariff hike
British Columbia's softwood industry is facing an "existential threat" from increasing U.S. tariffs that needs to be treated with the same urgency by the federal government as threats to Canadian stee...
Oct 14, 2025
A passenger bus in northern India catches fire and burns at least 20 people to death
NEW DELHI (AP) - A suspected short circuit sparked a fire on a passenger bus in northern India on Tuesday, rapidly engulfing the vehicle in flames and burning at least 20 people to death, authorities ...
Oct 14, 2025
B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades
SURREY - Applications are being accepted for those wanting to become doctors through Simon Fraser University, in what the British Columbia government says is the first new medical school in Western Ca...
Oct 14, 2025
