VPD investigates fatal collision

The NDP national council is scheduled to meet tonight to pick an interim leader. Jagmeet Singh announced on election night that he would step down as soon as an interim leader was chosen. The NDP was reduced to just seven seats in the election on April 28 and no longer holds official party status. Two party officials say the NDP caucus met twice last week to discuss who will lead the party until a leadership race can be completed. Singh is among more than a dozen NDP MPs who were defeated in one of the worst election showings the party has had. Former MP Charlie Angus says the party lost touch

Alberta is reporting 17 new cases of measles, bringing the province's total to 210 since the beginning of March. The government says half the total cases have been recorded in the province's south zone, including 13 of the new cases. It says 26 of the total cases are considered active and could be transmitted to others. As of last week, 11 Albertans have been hospitalized with the highly contagious disease. More than 170 of the cases have been in children, with almost 60 seen in those under five. Measles symptoms include fever, coughing, a runny nose, red eyes and a blotchy,

U.S. President Donald Trump says it is "highly unlikely" the United States would ever use military force to annex Canada. In a wide-ranging interview on NBC's "Meet The Press" which aired Sunday, Trump says he wouldn't rule it out against Greenland, but says he doesn't see it happening with Canada. The remarks come as Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to have his first face-to-face meeting with Trump this week in Washington. Trump also downplayed the United States' reliance on Canadian imports, telling NBC his country doesn't need anything of Canada's. The U.S. imported $412.7 billion of Canad

A jury has found a Calgary man guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a woman on a downtown street three years ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Adenyi is charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 death of fitness instructor Vanessa Ladouceur on a downtown street. Adenyi has said he was hallucinating and believed he was attacking a creature when he attacked the woman and his lawyers say he is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. He followed Ladouceur for nearly two blocks before body checking her into an alcove and stabbing her several times, in

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is hearing today from other players who were on the 2018 team. Taylor Raddysh, who now plays in the NHL for the Washington Capitals, was asked what he remembers about several days in June 2018 when many of the team's members were in London, Ont., for a handful of events marking their victory in that year's championship. Court heard part of a transcript of a statement Raddysh gave in July 2018, in which he recalled seeing a woman in bed under the covers in the room of his then-teammate Michael McLeod in the ear