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Suspect pleads not guilty in triple stabbing at 2023 Vancouver Chinatown festival
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
VANCOUVER — The man accused of stabbing three people at a festival in Vancouver’s Chinatown in September 2023 has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault. Blair Donnelly, who attended court in a navy sweatsuit and took notes with a pen and legal pad, had been on unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver festival attack fund to become endowment for Filipino community
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A fund that raised $2 million for victims and families after the Lapu Lapu Festival attack that killed 11 people in Vancouver will be converted into a long-term endowment for the Filipino community. Advocacy group Filipino BC says the Vancouver Foundation will establish the Kapwa Strong Fund as a long-term endowment to provide ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man arrested for impaired driving of pink Barbie truck in Prince George, B.C.
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
PRINCE GEORGE — A British Columbia man has been arrested for allegedly driving a pink toy Barbie truck down a city street while impaired. RCMP in Prince George, B.C., say officers encountered the man driving the toy truck on Friday at around 9 a.m., during the city’s busy morning commute. An officer at the scene ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Something ain’t right’: Streamer captures WestJet plane hard landing in St. Maarten
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
A St. Maarten-based live streamer and ex-airplane mechanic says he’s never witnessed something as disruptive as the hard landing of a WestJet plane that shut down the runway at the Caribbean island’s iconic airport. Jacco Steffens, co-founder of content and streaming website SHOWME Caribbean, said he was remotely operating a web camera pointed at St. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Almost half of Canadians want the Temporary Foreign Worker program eliminated: poll
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests 44 per cent of Canadians want to see the temporary foreign worker program scrapped as the country grapples with high unemployment, especially among young people. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre recently proposed eliminating the program in response to high youth unemployment. The new Abacus Data poll, which was conducted online ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa man sentenced to 10 years in neo-Nazi terrorist propaganda trial
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the promotion of hate propaganda against Jewish people produced for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Superior Court Justice Robert Smith found Patrick Gordon MacDonald guilty earlier this year on all three charges brought against him: promoting hate speech, participating in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney government noncommittal about Canada meeting 2030 climate goals
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t say whether Canada will meet its climate goals under the Paris agreement by 2030. Speaking in Newfoundland and Labrador today, Carney was asked by reporters how Canada is planning on adjusting its climate change targets, after recent policy announcements dialed back some of the Trudeau government’s climate initiatives. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal government says it has found almost 500 ways to cut red tape
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government says it has found almost 500 ways to streamline regulations and cut costs through a 60-day red tape review exercise. Departments and agencies have published reports identifying measures to make them more efficient and eliminate complicated or redundant regulations or processes. Examples include a Canada Border Services Agency proposal to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prime Minister Mark Carney details tariff relief funding for Atlantic businesses
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Prime Minister Mark Carney says businesses in Atlantic Canada will be able to access $80 million of the tariff relief fund set up by the Liberal government. Ottawa has set aside $1 billion for a regional tariff response initiative to help small and medium-sized businesses diversify their markets and adopt new technologies. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police update expected on double-murder fugitive who escaped B.C. jail
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., are set to announce an update on a fugitive twice convicted of first-degree murder who has been on the lam for more than three years. The RCMP’s Federal Policing Pacific Region and British Columbia’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit have announced a news conference later today on the investigation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s transportation safety board to investigate St. Maarten WestJet hard landing
By Canadian Press on September 8th, 2025
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is sending a team of investigators to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten to investigate the rough landing of a WestJet plane yesterday. The safety board says it will gather information and assess what happened to flight WS2276 from Toronto that experienced a hard landing upon arrival ... Read More »
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