BC Ferries is buying four massive ferries from a Chinese state-owned shipyard to run routes to and from Vancouver Island, saying that bidder was the clear choice despite China being locked in a trade war with Canada.

The publicly owned ferry operator announced this week that China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards had won the right to build these vessels and that no Canadian companies stepped up, mostly because they are too busy fulfilling federal military contracts.

The daughter of an Israeli-Canadian woman killed alongside her husband during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip says the recovery of their bodies has finally brought certainty to their grieving family.

On Thursday, Iris Weinstein Haggai posted on social media to celebrate the memory of her parents and to thank the Israeli military, the FBI and both the Israeli and United States governments for supporting her and other families trying to recover the hostages held by Hamas after that initial raid.

Two young men living in a Vancouver suburb have been charged in connection with the daytime killing of a trucking insurance broker outside his Mississauga, Ont., office last month.

But his family still wants to see more charges laid in the slaying of a man once targeted in a wave of extortions that has rattled Sikh people across Canada.

Wildfires across Western Canada have forced thousands of people from their homes, as dry, warm and windy temperatures intensified new flares Friday, causing Manitoba to ask for international help.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are under provincewide states of emergency for the next month, while evacuations have also been ordered in large parts of Alberta and British Columbia.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge deciding whether the province’s Mental Health Act violates the Charter rights of people forced into treatment has heard opening arguments in a challenge that started in 2016.

On Thursday, the lead lawyer for the plaintiff laid out the testimony Justice Lauren Blake is set to hear, including from a psychiatric patient who says they were tackled and injected with medication, and another who will tell court they walked into an emergency room, were given drugs and then woke up detained against their will.