BCMay 30, 2025
Boy, 14, charged with murder in attack on senior in Pickering, Ont., police say
Durham Regional Police say a 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after an elderly woman was fatally stabbed outside her home in Pickering, Ont., yesterday afternoon.
Police say it happened just after 3 p.m. on Lynn Heights Drive, where the suspect allegedly stabbed the woman in what they call a ``sadistic and cowardly unprovoked attack.''
Police initially said the suspect was 13 when they announced his arrest.They have not released the name of the victim, but organizers of a vigil set to take place in the neighbourhood tonight have named her as Elenor in soc
CanadaMay 30, 2025
Sikh groups say Ottawa should not invite India's Modi to G7 summit
Sikh organizations are calling on Ottawa to break with a five-year tradition by not inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit.
Canada is hosting the G7 leaders' summit next month in Kananaskis, Alta. with the leaders from those nations expected to attend — France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, along with the president of the European Commission.
But Ottawa has been tight-lipped on which leaders it has invited outside that core group of like-minded liberal democracies.
The South African high commission told The Canadian Press Canada invited Pres
AlbertaMay 30, 2025
Alberta woman allegedly released from jail with fake documents arrested in B.C.
An Alberta woman who Crown prosecutors say was wrongfully released from an Edmonton area jail with allegedly fake release papers has been arrested in B.C.
RCMP say Mackenzie Dawn Hardy was taken into custody this week by officers in Revelstoke, along with a 27-year-old man accused of being an accomplice in her release. David Joseph Wood has been charged with assisting in the escape of a prisoner, identity fraud and uttering a forged document.
Both Hardy and Wood will be brought back to Alberta, where they are to appear in court at later dates. Crown prosecutors have said Hardy wa
BCMay 29, 2025
B.C. NDP ex-minister urges Eby to walk back 'astounding and disheartening' Bill 15
Former British Columbia minister Melanie Mark is accusing Premier David Eby and his cabinet of "turning their backs" on First Nations, local governments and environmentalists by passing controversial bills to fast-track infrastructure projects.
Mark, the first First Nations woman elected to B.C.'s legislature and a former cabinet colleague of Eby, says it's "astounding and disheartening" behaviour by the government.
Both bills passed in the legislature Wednesday night, with Bill 15 that fast-tracks public and private infrastructure projects getting through thanks to a rare tiebreaking vote by
BCMay 29, 2025
Police plead for information in 2019 homicide of Richmond, B.C., notary Stephen Chong
Police are issuing a plea for information nearly six years after a British Columbia notary public was found dead in his office in what investigators say was a targeted homicide.
The Society of Notaries Public of B.C. is also offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and charging of those responsible for the killing of Stephen Chong in Richmond, B.C., on Oct. 18, 2019.
Sgt. Freda Fong with the province's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Chong had no criminal record and investigators believe his death was an isolated incident.
Fong says investigators are still