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The mother was seen pushing the remains on Jan. 10 between Vancouver Island and San Juan Island in Washington state. In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 1. The calf … Read more

Krista Maniezzo, who was the shared-living co-ordinator at Kinsight Community Society, said she didn’t go to see Girard in her room during her last visit to the home Florence Girard, seen in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018.Photo by HO /THE CANADIAN PRESS A … Read more

Extending the $3 billion Broadway subway, now under construction, was a key election promise in the transportation plank of David Eby’s election platform. Premier David Eby tasked Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth with leading efforts to extend TransLink’s Broadway SkyTrain line to the University B.C. in a mandate letter that talked a lot about transit priorities … Read more

Osborne was given the large task of addressing everything from cancer care to implementing mandatory treatment for mental health and addictions. Health Minister Josie Osborne.Photo by ADRIAN LAM /TIMES COLONIST Health Minister Josie Osborne will have her work cut out for her in the coming years as Premier David Eby and the NDP make fixing … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised concerns about the potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.” Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order to withdraw the lethal injection policy comes days before President-elect Donald Trump, who … Read more

Trudeau says he doesn’t ‘blame’ Smith for speaking up for her province’s oil patch in light of the threat of U.S. tariffs, but said every other premier ‘chose to put Canada first’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a plant in Windsor, Ont., on Thursday, January 16, 2025.Photo by Dan Janisse/Postmedia OTTAWA — Prime Minister … Read more

The royal anthem will be included in announcements along with ‘O Canada’ and land acknowledgments at schools in Dauphin and the surrounding area An official portrait of King Charles III released in May 2023.Photo by Hugo Burnand/Buckingham Palace/AFP via Getty Images DAUPHIN, Man. — A school division in western Manitoba has decided to once again … Read more

The funding comes just over two years after the Sunshine Coast Regional District declared a state of local emergency and ordered water-use restrictions in fall 2022. Paddlers and a kayaker are silhouetted on the Sunshine Coast in Halfmoon Bay, B.C., on Dec. 28, 2022.Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS SECHELT — The federal government … Read more

‘The thought of Romi and the hostages — just the thought of them finally coming home — is filling me with this hopeful anticipation. But then, at the same time, I’m filled with fear’ Romi Gonen was kidnapped from Israel’s Supernova music festival on Oct. 7.Photo by Courtesy Gonen family Recommended Videos “They are optimistic … Read more

The defendant “has denied these allegations from the outset,” says defence lawyer, Michael Tomassini St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont.Photo by Algoma University Archives The trial of an Ottawa nun accused of sexual assault against a former student at a northern Ontario residential school in the 1960s and 1970s, will not proceed. Recommended … Read more