In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 30 ...What we are watching in Canada ...Communities across Canada are marking the country'...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Communities across Canada are set to mark the country's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation today, honouring Indigenous survivors and children who disappeared from the residential school system. Singing and drumming wer...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says a recall has been issued by Covic International Trading Inc. for its Jongilpoom brand enoki mushrooms due to possible Listeria contamination.Listeria is a foodborne bacteria that can make people very sick.The ...

WINNIPEG — It may have been a pre-season tilt against a watered-down opponent, but forward Jansen Harkins made a case for full-time employment with the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night. Harkins, who was in and out of the lineup last season, had tw...

Some sailings on four B.C. Ferries routes were cancelled Wednesday evening after Environment Canada forecasted extreme wind conditions. The 7 p.m. Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen sailing was cancelled, along with the 9 p.m. return sailing from Tsawwasse...

WINNIPEG — Family members of a three-year-old boy who was stabbed while he slept in his bed hugged and cried outside a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday night after his accused killer was found guilty.A jury deliberated for about seven hours before conv...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five-time Olympic swimming medalist Klete Keller pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge for storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and faces 21 to 27 months in prison. Keller acknowledged in court records that he tr...

A guest was transported to hospital and a floor had to be evacuated after a fire at a three-storey Parksville hotel late Tuesday night. The Parksville Fire Department responded to a report of the fire at the Travelodge Parksville hotel at 11:34 p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed 11 officials who were involved in planning rallies in support of former President Donald Trump ahead of the violent attack, including one the day of th...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A battle between gangs in a prison in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil killed at least 100 inmates and injured 52 more in what authorities are calling the worst penitentiary massacre in the country's history. At least five ...

Close to 2,000 cyclists from all over Canada and the U.S. will take to the streets of Greater Victoria Saturday for Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, the region’s largest one-day cycling event. This is the 10th anniversary of the annual even...

OTTAWA — Governor General Mary May Simon had some very personal reflections Wednesday on the eve of Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.As the daughter of a white father and Inuk mother, May Simon said in a statement that she w...

VICTORIA — All sides in the old-growth logging dispute dug in deeper Wednesday after a British Columbia Supreme Court judge refused to extend an injunction against protest blockades on southern Vancouver Island.Forest company Teal Cedar Products Lt...

ANDREW A. DUFFYTimes ColonistThe B.C. First Nations Forestry Council is about to start a two-year study to determine the role of mentorship in the attraction and retention of First Nations workers to the industry.The study, funded by the two senior l...

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says a detailed plan showing how Canada might finally meet a greenhouse gas emissions target will be ready in a few months but not likely in time for this fall's global climate change conference in S...

OTTAWA — A Green activist who came second to Annamie Paul in the last leadership race says he is being urged by many to stand again. Dimitri Lascaris, a Montreal-based lawyer, is "vacillating" about whether to throw his hat into the ring in the rac...

EDMONTON — A woman convicted in the death of a 19-month-old boy found outside a church has been granted day parole for six months.Tasha-Lee Mack and her then-boyfriend Joey Crier were each charged with second-degree murder in the death of Crier's s...

OTTAWA — These days thoughts of Remembrance Day conjure images of chilly, solemn ceremonies, red poppy wreaths and the sound of the Last Post reverberating over silent crowds.But a century ago, many marked Remembrance Day with long-weekend getaways...

OTTAWA — A prominent child-welfare advocate wants Canadians to ask their MPs to urge Ottawa to cease its court battles around services and compensation for First Nations children after the Federal Court upheld two key rulings on Wednesday.The Canad...

Forestry company Teal Jones Group says it plans to appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that put an end to an injunction intended to prevent people from obstructing logging operations in the Fairy Creek area near Port Renfrew.Justice Douglas Thompson...