Politics

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

LOADINGERROR LOADING Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the massive Department of the Interior, invoked President Theodore Roosevelt in pitching himself for the job of managing hundreds of millions of acres of federal lands and waters. “In our time, President Trump’s energy dominance can be America’s big stick … Read more

The former Dunsmuir Hotel has been vacant since 2013. Built in 1907, the Dunsmuir Hotel was initially a large tourist hotel and in recent decades has been an SRO. Vacant since 2013, the City of Vancouver has ordered it torn down because it’s in bad shape. The demolition of the red-brick heritage building at 500 … Read more

Here’s a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025 Charges have been laid in a crash 15 months ago in Delta that left a passenger quadriplegic and another with serious vertebral and pelvic fractures. Charges have been laid in a devastating impaired driving crash in Delta on … Read more

‘We see this wall of flame just burning. I’d never seen anything like it,’ Romeo Petit, 52, said of the Eaton fire’s fury Rome Petit has been with the Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic service for 22 years.Photo by Romeo Petit A week after vacationing Canadian firefighter Romeo Petit helped save several homes in a small … Read more

Carney has already garnered the support of at least 30 MPs in the Liberal caucus Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney leaves after speaking to reporters at the Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.Photo by Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Mark Carney has now officially launched his bid to … Read more