Iran's judiciary has announced it has arrested "some individuals" in connection with the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner that claimed the lives of all 176 people aboard. Without providing additional details, Judiciary spokesperson Gholamhossein Esmaili said that "extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested", Al Jazeera reported. After the initial denial, Iran on Saturday admitted that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had shot down the plane in a "disastrous mistake." Iran's delayed acknowledgement on the same had triggered protests in Teh

Premier John Horgan says a natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia will be built despite on going protests and an eviction notice from some hereditary Indigenous leaders. The premier says the courts have ruled in favour of the project and the rule of law will apply to ensure work continues on the Coastal GasLink pipeline across northern B.C. to a coastal an export terminal. The 670-kilometre pipeline is part of a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project. Horgan says the project has received approval from 20 Indigenous nations along the pipeline route and its completion is of vi

The Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia is investigating the fatal shooting of a man following an hours-long standoff with police in the southern Interior of the province. Lytton RCMP say they got a call about a man in distress at about 8 a.m. on Monday. They say the man had firearms and there was a report of gunfire from the residence soon after police arrived. Police say there were two other people who were safely evacuated from the house while the man remained inside and negotiations continued. They say at about 2 p.m., an interaction between the man and the officers resu

A senior judge with the British Columbia Supreme Court has denied a media request to broadcast the extradition hearing of a Huawei executive wanted in the United States on fraud charges. A consortium of 13 Canadian and international media outlets, including The Canadian Press, applied to use two discrete cameras to record portions of Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing next week. The media's lawyer Daniel Coles argued that there is significant public interest in the case and that broadcasting proceedings would engage with the very meaning of open and accessible justice in the modern era. The c

Avalanche Canada says a skier who was caught in a snowslide on Friday in Banff National Park has died from her injuries. STARS Air Ambulance had said the 32-year old woman was flown to a Calgary hospital in life-threatening condition. She has been identified by her partner, Adam Campbell, as Canmore doctor Laura Kosakoski. In an online report, Avalanche Canada said three skiers were on a south-facing slope of Mount Hector, north of Lake Louise, when the slide occurred. They said a slab avalanche was triggered and ran for about 550 metres. Campbell said Kosakoski was buried by the debris befor

The provincial government is more than doubling the number of specialty nurse training opportunities in the province by funding 1,000 seats each year at the British Columbia School of Technology (BCIT). This increase will help meet growing demand for care throughout British Columbia. Specialty nurses work in high-skill areas ranging from emergency settings to intensive care units for high-risk cardiac care patients, to delivering babies and providing newborn care, to working with complex patients with multiple health challenges. "Specialty nurses help us when we need emergency care; they help

Frigid temperatures have prompted Environment Canada to issue weather warnings for many parts of British Columbia and Alberta, while snow snarled the morning commute in Metro Vancouver. The foul weather even pinned down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who intended to travel from Vancouver to Victoria for a meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan but the premier's office says the two leaders will speak by video conference, instead. Sunday's snow across the inner south coast caused dozens of crashes, delays or closures on several highways and bridges, while as much as 25 centimetres of snow forc

Police are investigating what they describe as a suspicious death in Maple Ridge, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a body was found in a rural area of the city on Saturday. A statement from the team says it was called when suspicions were raised about the circumstances surrounding the body and the area it was found. Detective Lara Jansen says the victim remains unidentified. She says the homicide team is working with Maple Ridge RCMP, forensic experts and the BC Coroners Service to gather more details. Officers want to speak to anyone who hiked though the area just east of

Ontario's solicitor general says she wants the investigation into a mistaken alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station to be completed fairly quickly.Sylvia Jones says it's very important that the people of Ontario know exactly what happened, and she doesn't expect there to be a long, drawn-out investigation.The province announced the investigation on Sunday, hours after an alert was pushed to cellphones, radios and TVs across the province at about 7:30 a.m.Jones says initial observations suggest it was human error during a routine test of the emergency alert system t