Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a highway collision in the southern Interior, part of a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week. RCMP say the crash involving two cars and a tractor trailer near Becks Road in Keremeos shut Highway 3 for eight hours on Wednesday. They say four members of the same extended family, all in the same vehicle, were found dead at the scene of the "terrible tragedy" that took place around 11:30 a.m. It's the latest in a series of at least four crashes in B.C. that have claimed 14 lives in the past week. Four people w

In view of the elections to be held in Canada next year, the political parties are gearing up to woo people. Meanwhile, the parties are also trying to get the support of Indigenous people. After conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made many promises to First Nations chiefs in Montreal today, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took sharp aim at Pierre Poilievre in his address. Jagmeet Singh said at the Assembly of First Nations that Poilievre talks a lot about freedom, but in reality he is only interested in his own freedom. Singh said that Poilievre does not care about anyone, and he is the one who s

A long-running and fractious dispute between the British Columbia government and the City of Surrey over its police department has ended with a cash agreement. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth says the deal sees the RCMP being replaced by the independent Surrey Police Service on Nov. 29 as part of a $250-million, 10-year agreement. Farnworth says the deal ensures safety for the residents of the Metro Vancouver city and comes with a guarantee that the local government will not levy a police tax to cover transition costs over the next decade. It ends a bitter two-year process of name-calling and

The Punjab government has reinstated IG Paramraj Singh Umranangal, who has been suspended for nearly 5 years in the case of Behbal Kalan and Kotakpura firing in Faridkot district of Punjab, with immediate effect. His reinstatement has taken place on the order of the Punjab-Haryana High Court. The High Court had ordered the state government to reinstate them in the Punjab Police within 15 days. However, they have not been posted yet. They will report to the DGP for now. Apart from the Kotakpura and Behbal Kalan shootings, an FIR of drug trafficking was also registered against Umranangal, of

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Waring attacked the Aam Aadmi Party government and said that the AAP government has filed a report in the court through a special investigation team and cleared that the interview of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi took place in Bathinda jail in 2023. where he was confined. Waring said that justice for Sidhu Musewala cannot be expected from such a government, in which the gangsters have more power than the administration. It is to be noted that the special investigation team has submitted the investigation report regarding Lawrence's interview in the

Gurpreet Kaur, the sister of Shubkaran Singh, who was killed during the farmers' agitation on the Khanuri border of Punjab-Haryana, has joined the Punjab Police. She reached the Bathinda police line today with her father. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had given him the appointment letter two days ago. It is to be noted that Shubkaran died on February 21 at Khanuri border, the committee formed on the orders of the High Court has told the High Court that Shubkaran died of a shotgun, which was not fired by the police nor the police. uses Now in this investigation, the screw has been stuck as to

A report has been filed in the Punjab-Haryana High Court regarding the death of farmer Shubhkaran Singh, who was killed on the Khanuri border of Punjab-Haryana. The report states that the bullet that hit the farmer Shubkaran Singh was not fired by the police and security forces. According to the report, Shubkaran Singh's death was caused by a bullet fired from a shotgun and the police do not use shotguns. The High Court said that the bullet may have fired from the side of the farmers and now it should be ascertained who had the shot gun in the crowd. On the other hand, Jagjit Singh Dallewal,

Canadian security officials are warning of a Russian propaganda campaign that is spreading online disinformation on social-media site X. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says individuals affiliated with RT, formerly known as Russia Today, have been using a social-media bot farm at the direction of the Russian government. Officials say fake social-media users create to spread disinformation often posed as Americans and promote messages in support of Russian government objectives. Canada, along with the United States and Netherlands, have been working together to disrupt the disinformation

RCMP say a family of three, including a baby, has been killed in a head-on crash with a tractor trailer in Agassiz, B.C. Police say it happened early Tuesday morning on Lougheed Highway just outside the community. The two adults in the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene, and the infant was airlifted to hospital but died a few hours later. Police say alcohol or drugs are not suspected as a cause and they are working with a collision reconstruction team to determine what led to the crash. The driver in the semi was not injured. RCMP Sgt. Andy Lot, Agassiz's detachment commander, says in a