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COVID, commerce, climate, conflict: PM Trudeau enters G7 summit like no other
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will on Friday begin to meet with counterparts from the world's most powerful democracies at the G7 Leaders' Summit to discuss overcoming COVID-19 and its econom...
Jun 09, 2021
Dr. Albert de Villiers, face of Interior Health pandemic response, arrested for sex crimes
KELOWNA - The chief medical health officer for Interior Health in B.C. has been arrested.Alberta RCMP said Dr. Albert de Villiers was arrested in Kelowna Tuesday (June 8) on one count of sexual assaul...
Jun 09, 2021
NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide
OTTAWA - New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide. In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow, NDP MP Leah Gazan...
Jun 09, 2021
Virtual parade plan announced, marshal named for scaled-down Calgary Stampede
CALGARY - There will be a parade to launch the upcoming Calgary Stampede, but it won't include hundreds of thousands of fans lining the city's downtown streets. Stampede officials announced Wednesday ...
Jun 09, 2021
Virtual parade plan announced, marshal named for scaled-down Calgary Stampede
CALGARY - There will be a parade to launch the upcoming Calgary Stampede, but it won't include hundreds of thousands of fans lining the city's downtown streets. Stampede officials announced Wednesday ...
Jun 09, 2021
Olympic champ Drouin gunning for Tokyo berth after several injury-plagued years
Derek Drouin had conflicting thoughts when he boarded a flight to Europe for his first major international meet in years. "I was obviously quite nervous," Drouin said. "I didn't want to go there and e...
Jun 09, 2021
Iran candidate says he’s willing to potentially meet Biden
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian presidential candidate said Wednesday he'd be willing to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden if he wins his country's election next week, though "America needs to send be...
Jun 09, 2021
New complaint-driven responsible animal bylaw receives slight provincial tweaks
NANAIMO - A much-discussed animal bylaw was given third reading for the second time after the province required amendments. The bylaw is designed to reduce calls to the Nanaimo SPCA by firming up rule...
Jun 09, 2021
Mourning London attack victims, "Canada's Got Talent" returns: In The News for June 9
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Jun 09, 2021
Federal targeting of Muslim charities amounts to prejudice: civil liberties coalition
OTTAWA - A national civil liberties coalition says a secretive division of the Canada Revenue Agency is unfairly targeting Muslim charities for audits based on flimsy reasoning, amounting to discrimin...
Jun 09, 2021