CanadaMay 01, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend G7 summit in Canada
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the G7 summit in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed. Carney said he spoke with Zelensky on the phone yesterday. The prime minister said Ukraine has shown its commitment to peace and Russia should come to the negotiating table in good faith.
Carney added that he looks forward to welcoming President Zelensky to the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta this June and that this war must end and that Canada will continue its efforts among allies for the freedom, peace and security of Ukraine.
The Canadian Prime Minister's Office said in a
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Whitecaps take on Inter Miami in Champions Cup semifinal
The Vancouver Whitecaps can qualify for their first-ever CONCACAF Champions Cup final tonight. The Whitecaps, who beat Inter Miami 2-0 in the first game of the two-leg, aggregate score series, visit Lionel Messi's Florida side tonight in Fort Lauderdale.
The Caps need a win, a draw or a loss by a single goal to advance to the Cup final.
The Whitecaps reached the tournament semifinals back in 2017.
The CONCACAF Champions Cup features the best teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean to crown a regional champion and to qualify for the next FIFA Club World Cup.
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Drugs, guns seized after search warrant executed at local residence
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Prince George RCMP’s Downtown Safety Unit and Problem Oriented Policing Team executed a search warrant at a residence on the 300-block of Nicholson Street as part of an ongoing investigation at that location.
Once inside the residence, investigators located a firearm as well as other weapons and ammunition, and approximately ten grams of suspected cocaine, 20 grams of suspected Fentanyl, 30 grams of suspected Methamphetamine, and 55 grams of suspected pharmaceuticals. The weapons and suspected illicit drugs/pharmaceuticals were seized as part of the investigatio
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Trump says he'll meet with Carney 'within the next week'
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House ``within the next week.''Carney and Trump spoke on the phone Tuesday and the president described the prime minister as a very nice gentleman.Trumps say he expects to have a ``great relationship'' with Canada.Trump weighed in on the Canadian election, calling it a tight race and saying the outcome makes it ``complicated for the country.''Carney has previously said he was open to meeting with Trump if the president respects Canadian sovereignty and is open to talking about a common approach to trade.
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Mental health trouble leads to public safety issues, Vancouver's mayor says
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says people are "sick and tired" of inquiries and reviews into the recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis that become a public safety crisis.
Sim says the man accused of killing 11 people by driving a vehicle through a street lined with festival goers Saturday was under the care of a mental health team and on extended leave.
He says the information was incredibly difficult to hear and even harder to accept because it points to the deeper failure in the mental health care system in British Columbia.
Premier David Eby has said he will call an inquiry if the
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Economy shrunk 0.2% in February, StatCan estimates 1.5% annualized growth for Q1
Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy contracted in February but early signs suggest moderate growth in March.
The agency says real gross domestic product decreased 0.2 per cent in February.
That was driven by a 0.6 per cent decline for goods-producing industries, with mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction and construction contributing the most to the decrease.
Services-producing industries edged 0.1 per cent lower in February as contractions in transportation and warehousing, along with real estate, rental and leasing, were partially offset by a rise in finance and insurance.
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CanadaApr 30, 2025
Carney's Liberals will form a minority government
In Canada, the Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, is forming a minority government with 169 seats, just three seats short of a majority. The Conservatives, meanwhile, will be the main opposition with 144 seats. The Bloc Québécois has 22 seats this time and the NDP has only 7 seats in the House of Commons, falling short of the minimum 12 seats required for official party status.
Official status gives parties the right to sit on parliamentary committees and ask more questions during question period. One of the New Democrats says his party will bring a motion to Parliament to retain official s
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Hockey players' sexual assault trial shown security, phone videos
The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team watched security footage today from a bar and the hotel where the players were staying the night of the alleged incident.
Court has also seen cellphone videos taken by one of the accused players and another member of the team over the course of the night.
Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.
McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.
The charges stem from an enc
CanadaApr 30, 2025
Green co-leader Pedneault resigns
In Canada, Jonathan Pednault, the co-president of the Green Party at the federal level, has resigned from the party leadership. Pednault had to face a defeat in the Outremont riding of Montreal, finishing fourth, against the Liberal Party's Rachel Bendayan. He said in a statement on social media that I have failed twice to convince the people of my constituency to send me to Ottawa, so I am resigning immediately.
It is worth noting that Bendayan, who won the Outremont riding of Montreal by a large margin, was appointed by Mark Carney as the immigration minister in his cabinet before the elect