Politics

Efforts to rehabilitate urban waterways have helped bring spawning salmon back to parts of Metro Vancouver, including unlikely-looking streams surrounded by industrial and residential development. Spawning sockeye salmon are seen making their way up the Adams River in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park near Chase, B.C. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The salmon in Burnaby’s Brunette River … Read more

Western and Ukrainian officials say Russia been stockpiling powerful long-range missiles, possibly in an upcoming effort to crush the Ukrainian power grid as winter settles in The U.S. embassy in Kyiv, was closed Wednesday amid threats of an Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital.Photo by Gleb Garanich /Reuters The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said … Read more

Premier David Eby admitted closing the ministry was due to challenges it faced in delivering infrastructure such as treatment facilities “While it always seems a good idea to create a separate ministry to get a focus on an area, … (they) invariably end up failing to achieve their goal,” Dr. Perry Kendall, a former provincial … Read more

Mark and Shauna Trieb, travel bloggers who live in Texas, sold the property to Wilson Weizin (Weixing) Cui through a contract signed on Sept. 5, 2022 Texas couple didn’t pay federal vacancy tax bill, case filed in B.C. Supreme Court allegesPhoto by Arlen Redekop /PNG An American couple is facing a lawsuit after they sold … Read more

During this week in history, in 1971 a hijacker who came to be known as D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom. In 2016, the FBI closed the books on the unsolved case. AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Handout from FBI Fifty-three years ago, the legend of D.B. Cooper was … Read more

Not only are contraband cigarettes considered to be more profitable than cocaine but those revenues generate profits for organized crime A man lights a cigarette under the rain at the intersection of Murray St and King Edward in Ottawa, August 09, 2024.Photo by Jean Levac /Postmedia OTTAWA — Canadian smokers who are trying to save … Read more

I visited a Catholic-run residential school in Montana as Joe Biden was giving his national apology. ‘Nice school,’ says one student ASHLAND, MONTANA:TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2024—RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL— St. Labre Indian School student Jerome Fox at the Ashland, Montana, school, Tuesday October 22, 2024. [Photo Peter J. Thompson/National Post] National Post Story by Allen Abel for … Read more

A quarter of Canadians feel physically older than their actual age, while 21 per cent feel mentally older, an increase since 2015 A quarter of Canadians say they feel physically older than their chronological age.Photo by Getty Blame the pandemic, cost-of-living woes or just a decade of change, including wars overseas and the first Trump … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward on Tuesday remembered what President-elect Donald Trump once told him in 2016 about his idea of power, and explain what it could mean for Americans during Trump’s second term. “Asked about power, what is power, and he [Trump] said ‘Real power is … I even don’t like to … Read more

‘We’re not going to have men in women’s bathrooms,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson departs a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2024.Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat … Read more