One person is dead following a police shooting northeast of Edmonton. RCMP say a second person was also shot and taken to hospital in critical condition. Mounties say officers from the St. Paul detachment were looking on the Saddle Lake Cree Nation for two suspects in several ongoing investigations. They say there was a confrontation between the suspects and police, and the shooting then happened in the nearby Smoky Lake area. No officers were injured. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, the province's police watchdog agency, is investigating.

Williams Lake RCMP officers are investigating after responding to a fatal incident involving an ATV which claimed the life of a 17-year-old youth. Just after midnight on August 7, 2022, Williams Lake RCMP attended to the gravel area at the end of Gun a Noot trail after being requested to assist with a ATV rollover. Officers attended the scene where paramedics and fire rescue personnel were providing medical assistance.The youth was transported to hospital where she unfortunately succumbed to her injuries.Initial evidence gathered at the scene showed that the youth was not wearing a helmet.Will

A man has been charged criminally following Saturday’s machete attack on four victims inside a Granville Street rooming house.Four people were attacked and stabbed inside the rooming house near Granville and Smithe streets. When VPD officers arrived at the scene, they were confronted by the suspect who was still armed with the weapon. Shots were then fired by police and the suspect was injured.The four victims and suspect were taken to hospital for serious, life-altering injuries.Ibrahim Abdela Bakhit, 48, has been charged with one count each of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and

The deputy mayor of Harbour Breton, Newfoundland, figures the town's three grocery stores will be out of food in the next day or two. The community of about 1,600 remains cut off due to the worst forest fires the province has seen since 1961. The province is getting a ferry to start bringing supplies to stranded communities and to help people leave. It's expected to arrive tomorrow, but will be docking in a town about 50-kilometres away from Harbour Breton that also is running low on supplies. Roy Drake says his community of about 16-hundred remains cut off due to ongoing forest fires. The pr

Abbotsford police say two people are dead following a police chase Sunday afternoon involving an alleged stolen vehicle. Police say the car was first spotted at about 3 p.m. and then again in a different area just after 4 p.m.They say they knew based on recent information that the vehicle had been involved in a recent violent crime in another jurisdiction and authorized a police pursuit.The service says the vehicle being pursued lost control and crashed.Officers say no civilians or civilian cars were involved in the collision.The female passenger of the vehicle died at the scene, while the mal

A minor offshore earthquake has been recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island. Earthquakes Canada said the 4.6 magnitude quake took place Monday just after 12:30 a.m. PDT. It was recorded at a depth of 10 kilometres. There are no reports of the quake being felt on land. Earthquakes Canada said the epicentre was 142 kilometres south southwest of Port Alice, or about 348 kilometres west of Victoria. The agency said there are no reports of damage or injuries, and no expectation of a tsunami.

The Biden administration announced another $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine on Monday, pledging what will be the biggest yet delivery of rockets, ammunition and other arms straight from Department of Defense stocks for Ukrainian forces. The U.S. pledge of a massive new shipment of arms comes as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The aid includes additional rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, as well as thousands of artillery rounds, mortar sy

The first of the ships to leave Ukraine under a deal to unblock grain supplies and stave off a potential global food crisis arrived at its destination in Turkey on Monday. The Turkey-flagged Polarnet docked at Derince port in the Gulf of Izmit after setting off from Chornomorsk on Aug. 5 laden with 12,000 tons of corn. “This sends a message of hope to every family in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia: Ukraine won’t abandon you,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. “If Russia sticks to its obligations, the ‘grain corridor’ will keep maintaining global food security.”

In the representation, the Rajya Sabha MP said that the entire nation was shocked and devastated to hear last week about the unfortunate demise of Mandeep Kaur. "I urge your good offices to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice and her family's demands regarding bringing her body back to India are met immediately," he stated. "I would also urge your good offices to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice in India for the abuse that continued throughout this truly heart-wrenching saga of abuse," he said. The Rajya Sabha MP met the Foriegn Minister at his office in Par