RCMP say two men from Burnaby are among 22 people arrested in an investigation into a Canada-wide operation involving the trafficking of illegal drugs and firearms. Manitoba RCMP say Project Divergent started in 2018 after their criminal analyst noticed some trends regarding the international smuggling of drugs into Canada. They say the investigation reached as far as Columbia, the U-S and Greece and discovered a connection with the Hells Angels. Police say they are still search for two suspects including a 24 year old man from the Lower Mainland who is still believed to be in the area. Click

The first sensor in Canada's new earthquake warning system has been installed in Vancouver's Horseshoe Bay. About 400 of the censors will be installed mainly in BC along the coast in the system expected to be operational by 2024. Natural Resources Canada says the sensors will detect the initial jolt of an earthquake, alerting people before slower and often more damaging waves come seconds later. An outreach officer with the program says that few seconds can give people time to cover and protect themselves from falling debris.

Calgary police are asking anyone with information about an incident where a vehicle drove into a driveway and pinned a pedestrian to contact them. Police say the 28 year old victim remains in serious but stable condition in hospital after being pinned between the vehicle and a building wall just after 2 am on Saturday. They say the driver of the green, 1996, four-door Honda fled the scene but the vehicle was found later found abandoned. Police say the two men and one woman who were believed to be in the vehicle remain unaccounted for.

The Alberta government has announced a plan to match up to 350,000 dollars in donations made to eligible provincial sport, physical activity and recreation programs. The province says the plan will begin on April 1st to help such programs recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual donations of up to one-thousand dollars will be accepted for matching until August 30th or until the 350,000 limit is reached. Eligible recipients of donations may receive up to 10,000 dollars in matching funds.

Ambitious and achievable is how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is describing his government's new climate plan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government's new climate action plan is its boldest and most specific step yet. Trudeau says it is ambitious because it will get the country to 40 per cent lower emissions by 2030 compared with 2005 and keep Canada on track to net zero by 2050.It projects the oil and gas industry will need to cut emissions by 42 per cent by 2030 if the country is to meet its targets. Oil and gas accounts for more than one-quarter of Canada's total greenhouse gas

British Columbia's representative for children and youth says the system of funding child welfare services for Indigenous kids is ``deeply flawed'' and there's an urgent need to overhaul practices to make data accessible and transparent. Jennifer Charlesworth says in a report released today that data from the Children's Ministry makes it impossible to compare allocation of funds for First Nations, Metis, Inuit and urban Indigenous youth with non-Indigenous service providers. Charlesworth says there's no way to know how much money is being spent on child welfare for Indigenous children in orde

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the discovery of unmarked graves at residential school sites has highlighted for all Canadians the horrors of our past for which we all bear some responsibility. Trudeau will visit the Williams Lake First Nation Wednesday, just two months after the band announced it had found 93 "reflections," indicating unmarked graves of children around the former St. Joseph's Mission residential school.The prime minister was in Vancouver on Tuesday to speak to a climate change conference shortly after his government released its new emissions-reduction plan.Trudeau says he

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will deliver this year's budget next week. Freeland tells the House of Commons she will unveil the government's spending plans on April 7 in a document that has been expected to focus on measures to spur economic growth. The budget is also expected to have new social programs promised as part of an agreement to earn the backing of the New Democrats in key parliamentary votes. That includes the first steps on national pharmacare and dental care. The budget is also expected to have billions of dollars in housing-related measures that the Liberals and

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia says it has suspended a doctor from practising while it completes an investigation into allegations that he circumvented COVID-19 public health orders.The interim suspension order, effective March 24 but posted on the college's website on Monday, affects Dr. Stephen Malthouse, a family practitioner on Denman Island.The order says an inquiry panel hasn't decided on the merits of the allegations, but it has determined there would be "a real risk of harm to the public" if Malthouse continued to practise without restriction.It says Malthou