The man who died in a fire in a North ­Cowichan apartment building on New Year’s Eve has been identified by his daughter as Gerry Dore, a loving grandfather who ­volunteered as an outreach worker for more than a decade and would welcome those in ...

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 Jan. 6 ...What we are watching in Canada ...MONTREAL — Employers and workers in Quebec's const...

OTTAWA — A new research report by the Department of National Defence suggests the longer the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the stronger right-wing extremism and other threats in Canada and around the world are likely to become.The report prepared by the...

WINNIPEG — Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is expected to seek bail today following his arrest in Winnipeg last month over charges he faces in the United States of using his influence to lure women and girls for sex. Nygard, who is 79, was arre...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un admitted that his economic development plans have failed as he opened the nation’s first full ruling party congress in five years, state media reported Wednesday.In an opening speech at ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state-owned electrical power company acknowledged Tuesday it presented a falsified brush fire report to explain a widespread blackout in December.The Federal Electricity Commission has been criticized for being antiquated a...

KENOSHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin prosecutor declined Tuesday to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha, concluding he couldn't disprove the officer's contention that he acted in self-defence because he fe...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021.There are 618,646 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 618,646 confirmed cases (78,849 active, 523,564 resolved, 16,233 deaths).*The total case count ...

ATLANTA — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years lea...

Two Greater Victoria councillors have acknowledged travelling internationally in December despite government directives advising against non-essential travel. Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow has apologized for his trip to East Africa and Metchosin cou...

Vancouver Island recorded its 1,000th confirmed case of COVID-19 on Tuesday as British Columbia again extended its state of emergency in response to the pandemic. The Ministry of Public Safety says in a news release the extension until Jan. 19 wi...

Hong Kong police arrested 53 former lawmakers and democracy proponents Wednesday for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial election primaries for the territory's legislature last year.The mass arrests, inclu...

Nanaimo landscaper Eleanor Hickey had a tough start to the new year, losing her tools in a break-in at her Kennedy Street home. The door to the shed where the single mother keeps the tools she uses as a self-employed landscaper was pried open lat...

Saanich police are investigating a report of a sexual assault in Glanford Park. A 19-year-old woman was accosted by an unknown man as she walking in the park about 8:30 p.m. Dec. 29. The woman was able to fight off the man, who stumbled when he...

Comox Valley RCMP are trying to locate 28-year-old Chelsea Poirier, who was reported missing Sunday.She was last seen Dec. 22 in Courtenay.Poirier is about four-foot-10 and 100 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.She was wearing large, black outdoor...

CLEVELAND — Reeling from coach Kevin Stefanski's positive COVID-19 test, the Browns also placed valuable defensive end Olivier Vernon and rookie guard Nick Harris on injured reserve Tuesday.Stefanski will miss Cleveland's first playoff game since t...

Saanich police are asking for the public’s help in locating 20-year-old Myles Oakes.Oakes was last seen Dec. 23 near the Uptown shopping centre.He is described as white, five-foot-six and 130 pounds with short, curly blond hair and blue eyes.Anyone...

YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories has released its plan for when residents of its 33 communities will receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The N.W.T. received 7,200 doses last week and administered its first shots on Thursday to long-term ca...

NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause again on a death row inmate's scheduled execution because of the COVID-19 pandemic.In an order, the justices wrote that Oscar Smith’s execution, which was slated to happen Feb. 4, will ...

NEW YORK — A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a major municipal water main.The flooding caused s...