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B.C. marks sixth consecutive day with no new COVID-19 deaths

British Columbia is marking the sixth day in a row with no additional deaths due to COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the death toll is still 167 and there have been no new community or health-care outbr...

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Family and friends say goodbye to Regis Korchinski-Paquet at her funeral

Family and friends said goodbye to Regis Korchinski-Paquet at her funeral today. Her family says the 29 year old Toronto woman was an avid gymnast as a child and loved dancing, music and singing. She fell to her death from a balcony on May 27th while police were in her home. Her family has questioned the role of officers in her death. ...

RCMP investigating deaths of two children and mother in Saskatchewan as a murder-suicide

RCMP are investigating the deaths of two children and their mother in west-central Saskatchewan as a murder-suicide. Police say Mounties responded to a house fire call on June 4 in a residential neighbourhood in North Battleford. First responders found the body of Tammy Fiddler, who was 39, outside the home. Witnesses say she had been removed from the home by her common-law partner just before police arrived. Firefighters found the bodies of 7 year old Tessa and 11 year old Wesley Bryant inside. RCMP say experts have examined the fire, forensic autopsies are complete and Mounties have c...

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Two teens dead, one missing after drowning in southern Alberta river: RCMP

RCMP in southern Alberta say two teenage girls have died and one is missing after they went swimming and canoeing with seven other people in a river. Cpl. Tammy Keibel, a spokeswoman with the Alberta RCMP, says the two victims are 16 and 17 years old. She could not give the exact age of the missing girl, but says she is about the same age as the other two. Police say officers responded to a call of a drowning on Wednesday night on the St. Mary River in the area of Spring Coulee, about halfway between Lethbridge, Alta., and the United States border. They say the three girls had trouble tr...

B.C. records highest number of overdose deaths in May

British Columbia has recorded the highest number of illicit drug overdose deaths in a single month. The coroner's service says 170 people died in May, as concentrations of the deadly opioid fentanyl have increased. It says the number of deaths last month were 93 per cent higher than a year earlier. Nearly 45-hundred people have fatally overdosed on fentanyl in B.C. since 2016, when the province declared a public heath emergency. ...

Vancouver mayor wants B.C. premier to review policing across province

Vancouver's mayor wants the B.C. government to conduct a review of policing across the province.Kennedy Stewart says city council can do little to change policing in Vancouver and the provincial government could override any poten...

Immigration application system set for massive revamp in wake of COVID-19

A complete overhaul of how Canada processes immigration applications is in the works as the federal government braces for a post-COVID-19 surge in demand for migration to Canada. The federal Immigration Department says the "new n...

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Ottawa commits $133M in further aid for Indigenous businesses

Ottawa will spend a further $133 million on helping Indigenous businesses suffering the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has heard from First Nations, Inuit and M...

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Doug Ford tests negative for COVID-19; Ontario reports 203 new cases, 12 deaths

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has tested negative for COVID-19. His office said Wednesday he would get tested after learning that Education Minister Stephen Lecce had come into contact with someone who was infected. Ford and Health Mi...