CanadaOct 09, 2025
Missing Person for Location – Aaron Bengry
Surrey Police Service (SPS) and the RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit (SPOSU) are requesting the public’s assistance to locate a 35-year-old missing man.
Aaron Bengry was first reported missing to the Surrey RCMP in May 2023. Family members reached out to police after falling out of contact with Aaron over an extended period of time. Police have exhausted all efforts to locate Aaron without success and are hoping members of the community may have information on his whereabouts.
Aaron was last seen in December 2021 in the 9600 block of King George Boulevard. Family or friends ha
CanadaOct 09, 2025
Gaza peace plan agreed to, Canada calls for immediate and unimpeded aid
Prime Minister Mark Carney has responded to news that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan that would pause fighting in Gaza.
On the social media platform X, the prime minister offered his congratulations to U.S. President Donald Trump for orchestrating the deal.
He also thanked Qatar, Egypt and Turkey for "their tireless work to support the negotiations."
The initial phase of the U.S.-backed peace plan calls for Hamas to release all of the 20 living hostages, and for Israel to pull its troops in Gaza back to an agreed-upon line.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand,
CanadaOct 08, 2025
House committee adds language, security checks to 'Lost Canadians' bill
The House of Commons immigration committee is recommending most adults eligible for birthright citizenship under the "Lost Canadians" bill fulfil similar requirements to immigrant applicants, on language, knowledge of Canadian history and security checks.
MPs on the committee adopted amendments on Tuesday to Bill C-3, which will go back to the House of Commons for approval.
The bill responds to a 2023 Ontario court ruling overturning a Stephen Harper-era law which prohibited Canadians born aboard from passing down citizenship if their children were not born in Canada
The bill proposes that in
CanadaOct 08, 2025
Canada Post union set for meeting with Ottawa as strike stretches on
The union representing striking Canada Post employees says it will meet with the federal minister in charge of the Crown corporation after accusing Ottawa of trampling on the collective bargaining process.
Postal workers took to the picket lines nearly two weeks ago after Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound announced sweeping changes to Canada Post's mandate that would allow the struggling postal service to overhaul its operations in the midst of negotiations with the union.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is asking the minister to roll back the changes that include permitting the end o
CanadaOct 08, 2025
Cadaver dogs fail to find remains in search for missing Nova Scotia children
Nova Scotia RCMP say two tracking dogs trained to search for human remains have failed to find any trace of two children reported missing from their rural home more than five months ago.
The Mounties say that in late September, the two cadaver dogs and their handlers covered 40 kilometres around the small community of Lansdowne Station, N.S., where six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack were reported missing May 2.
Investigators say the dogs searched the property in the province's northeast where the children went missing, trails along and near a pipeline, and an area w
CanadaOct 08, 2025
Carney returns to Ottawa without a deal to end the U.S. tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney returns to Ottawa today without any deals to remove U.S. tariffs from Canadian goods, but he is leaving two of his key ministers behind to keep pressing Canada's case.
Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, the second such meeting between the two leaders in less than six months.
Trump told reporters ahead of that meeting that Carney was going to walk away "very happy" but showed no signs of relenting on tariffs and no deal was announced.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters at a press conference follo
CanadaOct 07, 2025
MPs launch probe of trucking sector after Bloc calls out labour standards
A House of Commons committee is set to launch a study of labour standards in the trucking sector today after the Bloc Québécois called on the government to end what it calls exploitative practices.
The transport committee is launching a study of an industry business model which sees transport companies classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has called the model the "largest tax, labour misclassification, safety and human trafficking scheme in Canada," arguing that it manipulates the tax base and jeopardizes the health and safety of C
CanadaOct 07, 2025
Statistics Canada says merchandise trade deficit $6.3 billion in August
Statistics Canada says the country's merchandise trade deficit grew to $6.3 billion in August as exports fell. The agency says the result compared with a deficit of $3.8 billion in July.
Total exports fell 3.0 per cent to $60.6 billion in August as exports of metal and non-metallic mineral products fell 7.6 per cent.
Exports of industrial machinery, equipment and parts also dropped 9.5 per cent in August, the first decline in four months.
Meanwhile, imports rose 0.9 per cent to $66.9 billion in August, boosted by imports of metal and non-metallic mineral products, including large
CanadaOct 06, 2025
Three men arrested, charged in extortion shooting in Surrey, B.C.: police
Three men have been arrested and charged on shooting allegations that police in Surrey, B.C., say are believed to be linked to an extortion investigation.
Police say charges stem from an early-morning shooting on March 27 in a residential area of the city where multiple shots were fired at the home.
The service says in a statement that no one was hurt and that its investigation eventually led police to believe the shooting was "related to an ongoing extortion investigation."
All three accused are in their twenties and police say Mandeep Gidda, Nirmaandeep Cheema and Arundeep Singh are due to a