Politics

Leadership applications will be accepted mid-February through to the end of May with voting taking place in September. Furstenau, who has led the party since 2020 and represented Cowichan Valley from 2017 to 2024 in the legislature, made the decision to resign as leader after losing the election in the riding of Victoria-Beacon Hill to … Read more

U.S. President signed an executive order this week calling for deployment of space-based interceptors to destroy missiles from foreign adversaries RTX Chief Executive Officer Chris Calio the company has “strong momentum” heading into this year.Photo by Jason Alden /Bloomberg Aerospace and defence manufacturer RTX Corp. is “fully prepared” to support President Donald Trump’s ambitions to … Read more

April Gougeon, 41, and her son Oliver, 8, passed away in December 2023 after getting sick at Wyndham’s Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham in La Romana The Gougeon family — Oliver, April, Wesley and Stephen — fell ill from food poisoning at a Dominican resort in late 2023. For Oliver and his mother, it would … Read more

Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems poised to translate his patriotic defence of Canada into an easy and opportunistic election victory.Photo by Adam Huras/Brunswick News Recommended Videos Will a trade war over Trump’s tariffs threat help vault Ontario premier Doug Ford and the progressive conservatives to an even larger majority? That’s the question on the minds … Read more

Nygard, 83, is appearing remotely at the preliminary hearing from a federal institution in Ontario where he is serving time on other charges Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard arrives at a courthouse in Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.Photo by Cole Burston /The Canadian Press MONTREAL — A preliminary hearing is being held in Montreal this … Read more

Coban is a Dutch national who was extradited, tried and given a 13-year sentence in B.C., before being sent back to the Netherlands where he was already serving time for separate offences. Aydin Coban is shown in this handout photo from the time of his arrest by Dutch police, entered into an exhibit at his … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING In July 1974, then-President Richard Nixon, weakened by the Watergate scandal and only weeks away from becoming the first president to resign, signed the innocuously titled “Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act.” He didn’t have much of a choice: The bipartisan bill passed the Senate 80 to 0 and 386 to 23 in … Read more

‘If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law,’ said Tom Homan, when asked about his thoughts on people being upset over immigrant arrests U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to restrain a detained person using handcuffs on Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.Photo by Alex Brandon … Read more

The cables are typically the width of a garden hose. But 97% of the world’s communications, including trillions of dollars of financial transactions, pass through them each day Crew members aboard a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane take a break as the aircraft flies back to base in Lorient, France, at the tail end … Read more

Residents could wake up to a winter wonderland on Sunday morning — or just some rain. File photo of snow on the North Shore mountains. Photo: Nick Procaylo/PNG.Photo by Nick Procaylo /PNG The long stretch of sunny weather Metro Vancouver residents have been enjoying will likely turn to rain on Thursday. But with that precipitation … Read more