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Feds commit $305M in additional funds for Indigenous communities during COVID-19

The federal government has announced an additional $305 million to help Indigenous Peoples combat COVID-19.Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the money is meant to help Indigenous communities prepare for emergencies an...

BC Coroners Service new appeal to crack 22-year-old cold case

The B-C Coroners Service and Vancouver police hope a new appeal will crack a 22-year-old cold case involving the death of a woman at the Broadway SkyTrain station. The woman has remained unidentified since her death in April 1998 and investigators hope someone will recognize her description. They say she was white, aged between 30 and 40, stood between 5-foot-6 and five-foot-seven, with brown hair, blue eyes and unpierced ears.The coroners service website carries an artist's facial reconstruction image of the woman and investigators hope this request for information will lead to details that ...

Trudeau, Morneau, Telford must resign, or trigger an election: Blanchet

The leader of the Bloc Quebecois is demanding the resignations of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford. Yves-Francois Blanchet says he will try to trigger an ele...

Orientation week ensures a safe, ready and welcome return to school: Rob Fleming

To ensure schools are ready to welcome students into classrooms for the week of Sept. 8-11, 2020, there will be a gradual restart to allow extra time to orient students and staff on the new health and safety measures in place."Sch...

Two dead, one survivor after B.C. fish boat sinks off Vancouver Island

The British Columbia Coroners Service says two people have died after a Canadian fishing boat sank in waters west of Vancouver Island.The United States Coast Guard says it received a distress call early Tuesday advising&nbsp;the Arctic Fox II&nbsp;was in trouble more than 100 kilometres off the northwestern tip of Washington State.The 20-metre boat was gone by the time a helicopter reached the scene, but the coast guard says a single crew member was rescued from a lifeboat. The bodies of the other two crew members, who were both Canadian,&nbsp;have been recovered and the coroners s...

Andrew Scheer likely marking last day in House of Commons as Opposition leader

Today's sitting of Parliament is expected to be the last one that will see Andrew Scheer in the role of Conservative leader.In addition to being an MP from Regina since 2004, he also served as the Speaker of the House of Commons ...

Lowest number of COVID-19 cases in Ontario in over 4months, the latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

There are 120,421 confirmed cases in Canada. Quebec: 60,718 confirmed (including 5,697 deaths, 53,135 resolved) Ontario: 40,194 confirmed (including 2,786 deaths, 36,456 resolved) Alberta: 11,772 confirmed (including 216 deaths, ...

46 new COVID-19 cases reported in B.C.

Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, have issued a joint statement regarding updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) response in British Columbia. "Today, we are announcing 46...

Trump 'surprised' Biden picked Harris for VP

President Donald Trump says he's ``a little surprised'' that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. Trump told reporters at a White House briefing that Harris ``was very disrespectful to ...