Two men charged in the killing of former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a British Columbia court. The courthouse in New Westminster, B.C., confirmed the pleas from Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez in the 2022 shooting of Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 over the 1985 bombings that killed 331 people. Fox and Lopez, who were originally charged with first-degree murder, will next appear in court on Oct. 31.

A man has been arrested after a stabbing at a Calgary light-rail station that police say injured a transit peace officer. The Calgary Police Service says it's believed two peace officers approached an unknown man who was seen drinking alcohol in a bus shelter near the Chinook CTrain Station on Friday night. Police allege the man became combative and produced a knife, and after a brief struggle, one of the peace officers was stabbed in the arm. The suspect fled, police say, but was taken into custody by the peace officers a short distance away. The 42-year-old from Calgary has be

The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers in the high-wage stream as a way to encourage employers to hire more Canadian staff. Under the current program’s high-wage labour market impact assessment (LMIA) stream, an employer must pay at least the median income in their province to qualify for a permit. A government official, who The Canadian Press is not naming because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the change, said Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault will announce Tuesday that the threshold will incr

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "absolutely confident" the majority of Liberal MPs still support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader. Her comments come ahead of what promises to be a tense meeting of the Liberal caucus in Ottawa next week as a growing number of MPs try to convince Justin Trudeau to step down. Several media reports have uncovered efforts by some Liberal MPs to confront the prime minister at the next caucus meeting. There is no mechanism for caucus to force the prime minister to step down as leader, and he has so far not wavered in his plans to stay on. F

National Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada is sending $64.8 million in military aid to Ukraine. Blair made the announcement at a NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels where Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia was a key topic. More than $50 million will go towards arms, ammunition and military drones as well as uniforms and personal protective equipment for Ukrainian soldiers. The remaining funding is to support military training for those soldiers and to strengthen Ukrainian cyber forces. The funds come from $500 million promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the NATO summit in

The federal and Manitoba governments have signed a deal to expand food programs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government set aside $1 billion over five years in the last budget to expand access to such programs across the country after pressure from federal New Democrats. Manitoba is to receive about $17.2 million over the next three years under the deal. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the agreement builds on the province's nutrition program that was expanded last month. Manitoba's NDP government earmarked $30 million in this year's budget to provide public schools acr

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Israel's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip "ends a reign of terror." The Israeli military declared today that it had killed Sinwar during a Wednesday battle and confirmed his death with a DNA test. Sinwar was one of the chief architects of the attack on Israel last October that prompted an Israeli ground invasion, and a conflict that has drawn in countries across the Middle East. Trudeau called Sinwar a "brutal leader" of a group Canada deems a terrorist organization who "sought to destroy Israel and launched senseless, devastating terror

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to shuffle his cabinet yet again after four more cabinet ministers informed the Prime Minister's Office they won't run in the next election. Filomena Tassi has announced she won't be running for personal reasons, and a senior government source says Marie-Claude Bibeau, Carla Qualtrough and Dan Vandal also won't be on the ballot.

The Alberta government says long-term care and supportive living programs will no longer be under the purview of the provincial Health Ministry. Instead, Seniors and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon will be responsible for continuing care programs across Alberta. The change comes as part of the provincial government's health-care system overhaul that is seeing Alberta Health Services broken up into four new agencies, including one responsible for continuing care. Nixon says details about the new agency, such as what it will be called and when it will be operational, are still being final