Category Archives: Canada
Eby makes plea to Green voters to support NDP to help keep Conservatives from office
SQUAMISH, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby is asking potential Green voters in British Columbia's Oct. 19 election to support his party instead to help keep John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives out of...
Oct 13, 2024
Liberals appoint Andrew Bevan as campaign head amid talk of MP revolt against Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the Liberal Party's new campaign chair, as some MPs reportedly band together to ask their leader to step down. Trudeau and the party say Andrew Bev...
Oct 13, 2024
Man dead after stabbing on downtown Montreal metro station platform
MONTREAL - Montreal police say a man is dead following a fatal altercation on a downtown metro station platform late Saturday. Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant says a 37-year-old man was stabbed in the uppe...
Oct 13, 2024
Nationwide recall issued for seasoned chicken and mushroom pasta sauce
A nationwide recall has been issued for the Rana brand Tagliatelle Seasoned White Chicken & Mushroom Sauce due to possible listeria contamination. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says consumer...
Oct 13, 2024
Familiar faces and angry voters: Will B.C. elect an Independent MLA?
Vicki Huntington says two things are critical to be elected as an Independent member of the legislature in British Columbia - trusted name recognition and an angry constituency. She would know. In 200...
Oct 13, 2024
A state divided: Wisconsin's political polarization fracturing families, friendships
WEST BEND - Mary Herrick has lived in Washington County, just outside of Milwaukee, for 50 years but during a recent lunch with a close friend there was an uncomfortable moment: Herrick said she was g...
Oct 13, 2024
Bill Vigars, campaign manager for Terry Fox Marathon of Hope, dies at 78
WHITE ROCK, B.C. - Bill Vigars, who led the promotion of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope in 1980, has died at the age of 78. His wife, Sherry MacDonald, confirmed the news in an interview, saying Vigars ...
Oct 12, 2024
Eby says no place for violence in politics as RCMP probe Campbell River bomb threat
LANGLEY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby says violence should have no place in politics after a party campaign office in Campbell River was evacuated following a bomb threat. Eby, who was campaig...
Oct 12, 2024
Bullet fired, window smashed at Jewish school in Toronto's north end: police
TORONTO - Police say they are investigating after a bullet was fired at a Jewish girls' school in Toronto's north end. Toronto Police Service says the shooting targeted Bais Chaya Mushka elementary sc...
Oct 12, 2024
2 men charged with second-degree murder, arson after Old Montreal fire killed 2
MONTREAL - Two men have been charged with second-degree murder and arson after a fire erupted in an Old Montreal building, killing a mother and daughter from France. Justin Fortier-Trahan, 20, and Juv...
Oct 12, 2024