VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between protesters and Indian consular officials. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, says in court docu...

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, bled to death in the tub in 2011. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty in 20...

MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits collectifs Québec says it filed an application today in Federal Court after failing to get the office of the regis...

MONTREAL - A museum dedicated to revered Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve is racing to find its stolen bronze statue of the Quebec speedster before it gets melted down for cash. Alain Bellehumeur, general manager of the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, says the 5 foot 3 inches tall statue was apparently sawed off at the a...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a change to the law that limited the right of an accused person to a preliminary inquiry does not apply to some ongoing cases. The top court's ruling today helps clarify who is eligible for a preliminary inquiry - a judicial hearing to see if there is enough evidence for a tria...

VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice. The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a for...

Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war. Growing up, Ron Anderson was more serious, "a little fighter," his mother recalls. His younger brother Ryan was quieter,...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Alberta premier braces for crucial party vote Thousands of members of Alberta's governing United Conservative Party gather Friday in Red Deer ahead of a crucial weekend vote on the job performance of their leader, Premier Danielle...

TORONTO - Canadians engrossed in the drama of the U.S. presidential election expect to gather in bars and living rooms to watch the votes roll in Tuesday, but many say the usual fanfare of watch parties will be muted by anxiety over the especially combative race. Dustin Herberman of Vaughan, Ont., says he'll follow the...

A convict who became Canada 's youngest designated dangerous offender after sexually assaulting a three-month-old baby is seeking escorted leave from prison to attend Indigenous cultural ceremonies in Vancouver. Tara Desousa, now 43, has applied to Federal Court to overturn a decision by B.C.'s Fraser Valley Institutio...

Police on Vancouver Island say they've arrested a man after a home in Colwood that property records show is owned by Indo-Canadian pop star AP Dhillon was shot at back in September, and another suspect is believed to have fled to India. West Shore RCMP say 25-year-old Abjeet Kingra of Winnipeg was arrested on Wednesday...

VICTORIA - Vote counting in the British Columbia provincial election will finally conclude next week with judicial recounts set for two ridings. Elections BC says the province's Supreme Court has confirmed recounts in Kelowna Centre and Surrey-Guildford will take place on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8. Both ridings saw the margin ...

Mounties have dismantled what they say is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug "superlab" in Canada. Police say they believe organized crime ran the operation where there was mass-production and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine across Canada and internationally. Officers served search warr...

EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a trio of bills focusing on transgender people and students using preferred pronouns. Premier Danielle Smith's government proposed Thursday one bill that would require children under 16 to have parental consent if they want to change their names or pronouns at school. A similar law is ...

Court documents in the case of two men who murdered British Columbia businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022 say they were "hired and paid" to kill him. However, the agreed statement of facts does not say who hired them to kill Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 in a B.C. court of the Air India bombings that ...

VANCOUVER - Negotiations between British Columbia's port employers and the union representing foremen are entering a final scheduled day in a bid to avoid a labour disruption. Both the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 confirm talks are ongoing with the help...

QUÉBEC - The new director of Quebec's youth protection system is promising more transparency and a full accounting of the troubled network. Lesley Hill, who worked in various roles in the health system for decades, came out of retirement to take the position after a series of scandals cost the previous director ...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A judge has granted bail to a Quebec woman charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly scalded a 10-year-old Black boy with hot water earlier this month. Stéphanie Borel, 46, was released under a number of conditions that include living with her son, and staying away from the home and s...

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on countries around the world to do everything possible to repatriate Ukrainian children taken by Russia. Trudeau addressed delegations from more than 70 countries at a conference in Montreal this morning, as they prepare a joint declaration for the return of Ukrainia...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has suspended applications for permanent residency from two immigration streams because it says it can no longer accommodate the rising number of newcomers. Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said today the government has frozen the Quebec Experience Program, a path for p...

OTTAWA - Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, days after the release of a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions. Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, says Canadians need to acknowledge the schools' place in h...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says a million Canadians have received care under the federal dental-care plan six months after the program began. Starting Friday, the program will also cover more complex procedures. That means people who have coverage under the federal program can request pre-authorization for t...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... StatCan to release August GDP report, estimate for third quarter economic growth Statistics Canada is set to publish its August gross domestic product report, which will include an early estimate for economic growth in the third q...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to publish its August gross domestic product report, which will include an early estimate for economic growth in the third quarter. The agency's preliminary estimate for August suggested the economy did not grow that month. RBC says it expects the economy remained weak in September as ...

OTTAWA - Israel's ambassador to Canada says the war that started a year ago has profoundly changed Israelis' views on peace in the Middle East - and strained his country's long-standing strong relationship with Canada. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press a year after the Hamas attack on Israel, Iddo Moed said...

TORONTO - One of three major tobacco companies involved in years of negotiations with creditors says it opposes the proposed multi-billion-dollar settlement announced in the case earlier this month. JTI-Macdonald Corp. has filed a document with an Ontario court indicating it does not support the proposal due to "c...

MONTREAL - Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she hopes countries from around the world will support a plan to bring back Ukrainian children who have been deported to Russia since the war in Ukraine began nearly three years ago. Joly urged more than 60 delegations attending a ministerial conference in Mo...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge has granted an injunction stopping a woman's medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver. The injunction granted on Saturday to the woman's common-law partner prevents Dr. Ellen Wiebe or any other medical professional from helping end the lif...