Politics

‘Israel is doing what every sovereign state would do if they had a terror organization that seeks their destruction on their border,’ said IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari Rescuers stand on the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 27.AFP via Getty … Read more

The officer was responding to an incident when he collided with a pedestrian on Commercial Drive, near East 1st Avenue, on Sept. 29, 2023 The Independent Investigations Office said a Vancouver police officer has been charged with a motor vehicle offence in relation to a collision in East Vancouver last September.Photo by Independent Investigations Offic … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of saying “nasty” things about him and criticized him for not reaching a deal with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Zelenskyy’s country. But Friday, both men were, if not all smiles, at least only somewhat visibly awkward as … Read more

Robert Harris Lamb, 34, saw his release temporarily revoked over cocaine use just four months before he allegedly tried to shoot a man dead Sheriffs escort Robert Harris Lamb into Halifax provincial court this month for arraignment on 12 charges, including attempted murder, from a Sept. 5 shooting at a house on Rosemeade Avenue in … Read more

‘Significant number of flights’ between United Arab Emirates and Canada took place between October 2022 and January 2023 An Air Canada aircraft arrives at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal on Sept. 10, 2024.Photo by Graham Hughes /Bloomberg The U.S. Department of Transportation slapped Air Canada with a US$250,000 fine for operating flights in … Read more

Global Affairs Canada is pre-booking seats to help Canadians, who would be responsible for finding their own way to Canada Passengers whose flights were cancelled wait at the departure terminal of Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 5, 2024.Photo by Hussein Malla /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada began booking … Read more

Mohammadian fled the Iranian Revolution for Canada, but set up a bit of Iran in his tiny space where you could smoke hookah pipes on Davie Street Abdolhamid Mohammadian (right) in 2011, when he and fellow hookah shop owner Abbas Abdiannia were fighting no-smoking bylaws in Vancouver.Photo by GLENN BAGLO /PROVINCE Abdolhamid Mohammadian fled his … Read more

The Goosmus wildfire that spread north from Washington state this week is no longer projected to spread beyond its current perimeter. A wildfire, designated V12286 by the B.C. Wildfire Service, is seen burning near Mt. Widdess, B.C., in an Aug. 19, 2024, handout photo.Photo by HO /THE CANADIAN PRESS GRAND FORKS — A wildfire that … Read more

Phoebe Plummer, 23, received a two-year sentence while Anna Holland, 22, was sent to prison for 20 months Members of the public queue to enter the Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers exhibition at the National Gallery in Central London on Sept. 27, 2024.Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS /Getty Images LONDON — Two British climate activists were … Read more

CSIS also cited indications that a foreign government meddled to reduce the likelihood of a specific Liberal candidate of being elected federally Interim director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Vanessa Lloyd waits to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Aug. 28, … Read more