A day after Romana Didulo, the self-styled Queen of Canada, and 15 of her supporters were arrested in a tiny Saskatchewan town, she and the owner of her group’s compound were both charged.
The RCMP had announced earlier on Thursday that they had to release the group because no charges had been secured in the investigation, but they noted an unidentified man and woman had been taken back into custody.
Ryan Reynolds says Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd were not easy to track down for his documentary about the late Canadian comic John Candy. The “Deadpool” star says it took some perseverance to secure them for the celeb stacked tribute John Candy: I Like Me.
The case of a domestic violence survivorfrom Colombia who was denied entry to Canada and now fears deportation from the United States underscores the need for Ottawa to withdraw from a bilateral treaty limiting asylum claims at the border, critics say.
The Safe Third Country Agreement prohibits most asylum seekers who pass through the U.S. from claiming asylum in Canada, and vice versa. It is premised on both countries offering robust refugee protections.
Mayor Ken Sim has released Vancouver’s final report on outdoor-event safety after this spring’s deadly SUV attack at a Filipino block party, pledging to act quickly on its recommendations while conceding that the most needed fix – better mental-health services – is beyond the city’s control.
Among its eight recommendations, the joint review by city staff and the Vancouver Police Department, released Thursday, urges the city to develop formal plans for both permanent and event-specific measures to mitigate vehicle attacks.
About 84 properties along the Coquihalla Highway in the British Columbia Interior are on alert and one other has been ordered to evacuate due to an intense wildfire that saw drivers go through showers of embers before the highway was shut down.
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District says the evacuation order and alerts are due to the Mine Creek fire, which has reached 1,900 hectares in size and is burning near the highway between Hope and Merritt.
British Columbia’s premier says his government will be fighting a lawsuit by an Aboriginal group based in the United States, saying B.C.’s obligations are to Indigenous people in Canada.
David Eby was responding to litigation brought by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state, which says it is being unfairly excluded from B.C.’s consultation with First Nations.
Ontario Provincial Police say human remains discovered in the province’s Algonquin Park in 1980 have been identified as belonging to a man from Ohio, thanks to investigative genetic genealogy.
Police say investigators located human remains, a boot, wallet, clothing and camping gear after a hiker found remains near the Hardwood Lookout Trail on April 19, 1980.
After more than four decades, human remains found in Ontario's Algonquin Park have been identified as Eric (Ricky) Singer of Cleveland, Ohio, seen in this undated handout image. Ricky was last seen at his parents' residence in Berea, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 4, 1973. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - OPP (Mandatory Credit)
Ontario’s top doctor is calling for a national immunization schedule and registry to address gaps exposed by the resurgence of measles in Canada – but first, he says his own province needs a centralized digital vaccine system.
Dr. Kieran Moore’s annual report, recently tabled with the provincial legislature, says a co-ordinated approach from all levels of government and the health-care system is needed to keep vaccine-preventable diseases at bay amid a rise in vaccine hesitancy.
The looming closure of an Ontario plant that bottles Crown Royal sparked political blowback this week, but a supply chain expert says the company behind the move faced pressing decisions on how to cut costs amid ongoing financial challenges.
Spirits maker Diageo DEO-N found itself in Doug Ford’s crosshairs on Tuesday when the Ontario Premier capped an unrelated press conference by producing a Crown Royal bottle and proceeding to slowly dump it out on the ground.
A woman has been killed and the suspect, her brother, is dead after multiple stabbings in Hollow Water First Nation, a small Manitoba community on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
At least seven people remain in hospital with serious injuries, Manitoba RCMP said late Thursday afternoon. The suspect, Tyrone Simard, 26, knew all of the victims. He was killed after allegedly fleeing from the area in a stolen vehicle, succumbing to his injuries from a collision with a police cruiser.
Strike action by public service workers from the BC General Employees’ Union entered its third day with pickets in front of a Vancouver building that houses a Ministry of Finance office, and the union president says more strike action will come.
Paul Finch joined striking workers who wore placards and shouted slogans, one with the help of a megaphone, on Thursday.
Michael Sabia, Canada’s top bureaucrat, met with senior American officials this week to try to find common ground with the Trump administration for potential deals on sectors hardest hit by U.S. tariffs, says the federal minister in charge of Canada-U.S. trade.
Dominic LeBlanc told reporters outside of a cabinet meeting Thursday that Canada is pursuing “technical discussions” with the Americans to try to strike deals that would be beneficial to both countries.
A new report says Vancouver and Toronto topped the unaffordability list for renters in Canada last year.
The report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the cities topped the list based on the rental wage, the hourly wage needed to afford rent while working a 40-hour week and spending 30 per cent of income on housing.
An Alberta government order banning some books from school libraries doesn’t appear to be deterring people from reading them, say managers at several bookstores.
Kelly Dyer with Audreys Books in Edmonton said the store has noticed a jump in sales since July, when the province announced the ban on books with explicit sexual content.
NDP MP Jenny Kwan will be asking Parliament to close a loophole that could allow the U.S. to purchase Canadian weapons for Israel, despite a ban on arms exports to that country.
Kwan will be speaking this morning on Parliament Hill about a private members’ bill she plans to table later this month “to ensure Canadian weapons and military components are not used to fuel human rights abuses abroad,” according to a statement from her office.
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