HALIFAX - Two Royal Canadian Navy coastal defence vessels left Halifax today to take part in a four-month NATO deployment in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic. HMCS Kingston and HMCS Summerside are to ...

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VICTORIA - The BC Prosecution Service has approved two charges against an Abbotsford police officer in connection with an arrest he made more than two years ago. The service says in a news release tha ...

CALGARY - The lawyer for the former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash hopes he will get a chance to argue against his client’s possible deportation before the Federal Court ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has released its new strategy to get the province ready to fight extreme weather that sets off heat, wildfires and flooding. Environment Minister George Hey ...

One summer we flew deep into northern British Columbia, to a lake surrounded by such vast wilderness that for an hour we looked down from our floatplane and didn’t see any sign of human activity: no r ...

CALGARY - The City of Calgary has lifted its state of local emergency. The measure was put in place Monday to allow the city to deal with potential flooding related to heavy rainfall in Alberta. It wa ...

HALIFAX - The union representing Nova Scotia teachers is considering options to restore the losses its members incurred because of an unconstitutional law that imposed a labour contract on them in 201 ...

EDMONTON - The United Conservative Party on Tuesday announced rules for a leadership contest to be held on Oct. 6 to choose a new leader and the province’s next premier. The race became necessary when ...

OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services says it is struggling to replenish a critically low national supply caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization says the virus that has persisted since March 202 ...