WINNIPEG — Kenny Lawler may have caught two touchdown passes, but running back Brady Oliveira felt he really scored big after the Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 19-6 Thursday in the 2021 CFL season-opener.Filling in for fellow Winnip...

Victoria councillors have approved a proposal to rehabilitate the long-vacant Northern Junk warehouses, near the Johnson Street Bridge, and build additional storeys above them. On Thursday night, Victoria councillors voted 5-4 to approve the proj...

The province is launching two new online surveys to hear ideas from British Columbians on how best to structure its planned permanent paid sick-leave program.After the public-engagement process is completed, the ­government expects paid sick leave w...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of a former Dallas police officer who was sentenced to prison for fatally shooting her neighbor in his home.A panel of three state judges ruled that a Dallas County jury h...

A man who got his Mount Douglas Secondary School classmates to kill his mother and grandmother in order to get a $4-million inheritance has been granted unescorted stays at a halfway house, after a similar request was rejected last fall. Darren H...

B.C. Ferries is on the hunt for more than 100 new employees amid a global shortage of qualified mariners, says the organization’s president and chief executive.The corporation had to cancel two sailings of the Queen of New Westminster on Wednesday...

The B.C. SPCA is warning about an outbreak of an unusual strain of kennel cough among dogs in the province. So far, the agency has seen 24 cases of the illness that specialists believe could be caused by a virus that isn’t detected by commercia...

Nanaimo’s former chief administrative officer has filed a wrongful dismissal suit against the city. In a notice of claim that also names former mayor Bill McKay and Coun. Sheryl Armstrong, filed May 31 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Tracy ...

WHITEHORSE — The results of the Yukon election stand after a former cabinet minister who lost her seat in a tie vote also lost her bid to overturn the election result in court. Liberal Pauline Frost challenged the tie of 78 votes each in the riding...

More than 1,350 households on Denman and Hornby Island should begin to see improvements in their internet speeds as high-speed internet services become available on the islands. Construction of the fibre-optic network will begin this summer, with...

Plans for three new cycling routes in James Bay are moving ahead after Victoria councillors approved designs for Government, Montreal and Superior streets. Staff recommended a mix of protected bike lanes, painted lanes, advisory bike lanes and a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a man of first-degree premeditated murder for fatally shooting a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy in 2018 before setting fire to his patrol car with his body inside.Jurors found Steven Wiggins guilty...

BOSTON (AP) — Two professional dancers have filed a lawsuit alleging that the husband of a former principal dancer with the Boston Ballet sexually assaulted young dancers he was instructing, and that his wife aided in the abuse.Boston Ballet’s Sa...

VANCOUVER — A surge in COVID-19 cases in British Columbia is fuelled by those between the ages of 20 and 40 who are unvaccinated or have only had one dose, says provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. The latest case count reached 402 on Thursd...

OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer is confident people will be able to cast ballots safely in an expected federal election, despite a fourth wave of COVID-19 fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant.Dr. Theresa Tam says safety prot...

WEYMOUTH NORTH, N.S. — A First Nation in Nova Scotia says nine of its lobster fishing boats were purposely cut loose from a wharf on Thursday.The chief of the Sipekne'katik First Nation, Mike Sack, issued a statement saying the boats were cast adri...

Victoria police and community members joined together early Thursday to save the live of a man having an opioid overdose. Officers were flagged down about 3 a.m. in the 900-block of Pandora Avenue to tend to a man in distress, who was found lying...

Victoria police are looking for witnesses after a stabbing early Thursday on Johnson Street, near Blanshard Street. Officer were called to a supportive-housing facility about 2 a.m. and found the victim at the building’s front entrance. He ha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is launching a widespread probe into the police force in Phoenix to examine whether officers have been using excessive force and abusing people experiencing homelessness.Attorney General Merrick Garland anno...

MONTREAL — Anne-Marie Binette bought a $62 family pack of tickets last month for a robot dinosaur exhibition that was advertised for Montreal's south shore this fall.Jurassic Fest Montreal was sold by its promoter as an outdoor, weeklong "mesmerizi...