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Public discourse on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased in recent weeks following the fatal shootings of two citizens in Minnesota during an immigration crackdown pushed by the Trump administration. Canadians have stood beside their American counterparts in calling for justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the overall...
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TORONTO — An update is expected today in the case of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach, whose sexual assault trial in Toronto is facing some delays. The trial was scheduled to begin earlier this week but Stronach’s legal team asked for more time to prepare after receiving what it described as a large volume of new […]
ReadCBC - British Columbia (14 hours ago)
Vancouver councillors voted to approve allocating up to $2 million in city funds to host a one-day free fireworks festival this August — months after the longstanding Celebration of Light event was cancelled due to a lack of senior government funding.
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RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Brewer said he's "never questioned someone's media credentials," but it has become more difficult to identify media covering police operations, as he testified in a press freedom trial filed by photojournalist Amber Bracken.
ReadThe Province - Local (18 hours ago)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Darnold’s NFL career had hit rock bottom when he arrived in San Francisco in 2023 after failing at two spots to live up to his high draft billing. Less than three years later, he’s ready to step on football’s biggest stage as the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks in […]
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is pushing to give the city a night of fireworks this summer after the iconic Celebration of Light Festival was cancelled indefinitely last year. The Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society announced in November that it would be suspending the festival indefinitely as funding dried up. The Society said it lost nearly $450,000...
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Three teens were arrested Sunday evening after a loaded handgun was found in the vehicle they were travelling in. Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Alison Laurin said in a post on X that officers were patrolling near Gastown when they stopped a 17-year-old driver with two teenage passengers in the vehicle. During a search of the […]
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Pedestrian access to the Westham Island Bridge will be suspended beginning Wednesday morning until further notice to expedite repairs to the link between the Delta island and the mainland, TransLink says. TransLink says ‘significant’ repairs are needed after a barge struck the 116-year-old bridge on Jan. 20. Vehicle traffic was suspended...
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KAMLOOPS — A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer who stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote has been convicted of first-degree murder. Rogelio “Butch” Bagabuyo was accused of killing of Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University, on March 11, […]
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BURNABY — A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a “feeling” that someone was trying to kill them, not because anyone had actually threatened them. Former corporal Matthew Jones, now a constable with the CN […]
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A woman has been sentenced to two years in prison, less a day, for a rollover crash near Invermere, B.C., in July 2024 that killed three men. The B.C. Supreme Court found that Haley Watson had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.
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Canadian business tycoon Frank Stronach is set to face the first of two sexual assault trials on Tuesday. The founder of the auto parts giant Magna, now in his 90s, will stand trial in Toronto before a judge alone. A separate trial is expected to take place later this year in Newmarket, Ont. Stronach has […]
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TORONTO — The Toronto sexual assault trial of Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is set to begin today before a judge alone. Stronach faces 12 charges involving seven complainants for alleged incidents dating back as far as the 1970s. The 93-year-old billionaire, who has denied all allegations against him, initially chose to be tried...
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A small group of protesters called for more public safety action amid a wave of extortion-related violence in Surrey, B.C., on Monday. It was the same day police announced three foreign nationals were charged after an extortion-related shooting the previous day.
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Surrey Schools says it is working to return students to classrooms as soon as possible following a fire at Woodland Park Elementary, but that the school will certainly be closed Tuesday. Fire services responded to the school around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 30 to find a fire that stated in a storage room. Sixteen firefighters were […]
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Nanaimo RCMP say one man has been arrested following a series of incidents that ended with him barricading himself on a privately-owned tugboat Sunday. Around 2:45 p.m., Mounties were alerted to an alleged theft at Thrifty Foods located in the Port Place Mall. Staff said a man had attempted to leave the store with unpaid […]
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