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Floating furniture and local state of emergency as rain pounds B.C.’s coast
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend’s home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province’s central coast. The community is among the wettest in Canada with an average of 4,390 millimetres of rain per year, but Martson said Wednesday that the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Community under state of emergency as rain pounds B.C.’s coast
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend’s home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province’s central coast. Martson said Wednesday that the pounding B.C.’s Central Coast has taken from a series of atmospheric rivers is the worst he can remember. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jennifer Pan pleads guilty to manslaughter in mother’s death after new trial ordered
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
Jennifer Pan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 death of her mother, nearly a year after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new first-degree murder trial for the Markham, Ont., woman in a case that drew international attention and spawned a Netflix documentary. One of Pan’s lawyers, Breana Vandebeek, confirmed the plea ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s population has dropped for the first time since Confederation: StatCan
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada’s latest estimates suggest Canada’s population declined last year for the first time since Confederation, due primarily to a drop in the number of non-permanent immigrants. The estimates suggest Canada’s population lost about 102,000 people in 2025. That loss came after the non-permanent resident population fell by more than 171,000 individuals between ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec projects $8.6B deficit in budget that focuses on funding core services
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
QUÉBEC — Quebec’s new budget has few flashy, big-ticket items for voters ahead of the fall election, reflecting a sober reality of sluggish GDP growth and persistent economic uncertainty, primarily from south of the border. Finance Minister Eric Girard had warned Quebecers not to expect major new spending for the 2026-27 fiscal year, and on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta government moves to drastically reduce access to medically assisted dying
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government is taking steps to sharply restrict who’s eligible for medical assistance in dying. Smith’s United Conservative Party government introduced a bill Wednesday stipulating that only those likely to die of natural causes within a year would be eligible for medical assistance in dying. Medical assistance in dying — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Charges stayed against ‘Queen of Canada’ cult leader Romana Didulo in Saskatchewan
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
SWIFT CURRENT — The leader of a cult that bedevilled residents of a Saskatchewan village for two years is no longer facing charges, disappointing and angering the mayor. Romana Didulo, head of the so-called Kingdom of Canada, had been charged with two offences but a court official in Regina said they were stayed Tuesday by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jury finds Quebec man charged with killing his children guilty on all charges
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
LAVAL — A jury has found a man who drowned his two children in their Laval, Que., family home in October 2022 guilty on all charges. Kamaljit Arora, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of his 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, whose names are covered by a publication ban. The jury ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatchewan introduces budget with spending hikes but also $819-million deficit
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
REGINA — Saskatchewan has introduced a new budget that avoids tax hikes and program cuts but carries with it a big deficit. Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government spending plan for 2026-27 projects the bottom line will be $819 million in the red. The government also predicts more deficits in the years to follow. Finance ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CBSA opens 372 immigration investigations to ‘disrupt extortion networks’ in Canada
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
OTTAWA — Canada Border Services Agency says it has opened 372 immigration investigations in an effort to “disrupt extortion networks” across the country. It says the CBSA began formally monitoring immigration enforcement cases potentially linked to extortion in the Pacific and Prairie regions last August before expanding the work to the Greater Toronto Area in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Quebec budget projects $8.6B deficit, focuses on core services
By Canadian Press on March 18th, 2026
QUÉBEC — Quebec’s new budget focuses on maintaining core services like health and education, with no flashy big-ticket spending ahead of a fall general election. Gone are the recent years of tax cuts and government cheques of hundreds of dollars to Quebec households. Instead, Finance Minister Eric Girard says his budget for the 2026-27 fiscal ... Read More »
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