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Woman shot dead in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside identified: Police

Police say they've identified the woman shot inside a social housing building on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside early Wednesday morning. They say 24 year old Shania Paulson died after being shot inside the Arco Hotel, a single room occupancy building. No arrests have been made and police say the investigation is ongoing. Police believe her attacker fled and they're asking anyone with information to contact homicide detectives or Crime Stoppers. Vancouver Police on Twitter: #VPDNews: Vancouver Police have identified the victim in the city’s third homicide of 2021. http://ow.ly/BpBM50E2MiZ ...

Trial of Michael Spavor in China ends without verdict

A Chinese court says it will pronounce its sentence on detained Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor at a later date.Spavor's trial on charges of spying and illegally sending state secrets abroad lasted just two hours today and wa...

Couple ties knot at farmers' protest site in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh

In an unusual way to extending support to farmers' protest against the Centre's farm laws, a couple tied the knot on Thursday at an agitation site in Rewa. Speaking to reporters after marriage, the groom, Sachin Singh said: "The f...

Punjab CM urges Centre to scrap farm laws, bring in new ones after fresh talks with farmers

Highlighting that his government was totally opposed to the Centre's farm laws, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged the Government of India not to stand on ego and prestige but to immediately scrap thes...

Rakesh Tikait demands vaccination of protesting farmers, jail inmates

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait demanded COVID-19 vaccine jab for protesting farmers and jail inmates. "I will also take the vaccine shot, where are these people who inoculate, we are looking for them, call them h...

B.C. reports 622 new COVID-19 cases with 136 cases of variants

BC is reporting 622 new cases of COVID-19, pushing the total over 90-thousand since the pandemic began, and eight more people have died. A joint statement from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian...

President Biden and V.P. Harris plan to meet Asian American community leaders in Georgia after shooting at three massage parlours

The White House says President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris plan to meet with Asian American community leaders in Georgia in the wake of this week's deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlours. Atlanta police say "nothing is off the table" in their investigation into the recent massage parlour slayings, including whether the killings were a hate crime. Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said during a news conference Thursday that investigators believe 21 year old Robert Aaron Long had visited the two Atlanta massage parlours where four women of Asian des...

Homicide team seeks witnesses after burned human remains found in Burnaby, B.C.

Homicide investigators have been called to a park in Burnaby, B.C., after the remains of a burned body were found on Thursday. Det. Lara Jansen of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the investigation is in its very e...

Enough doses of COVID-19 should arrive in the country so that every adult could get a first shot before Canada Day: Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin

Barring any issues, Major-General Dany Fortin says enough doses of COVID-19 should arrive in the country so that every adult could get a first shot before Canada Day. But due to the threat of vaccine production issues, the govern...