Specially trained RCMP officers have converged at a lake in Nanaimo to search for evidence in a suspicious missing-persons case. About 30 officers — members of tactical and forensic identification teams — are searching for a person they belie...

FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. — A village in the Northwest Territories is looking to rebuild what has been lost after the worst flooding in more than 50 years destroyed homes and businesses.Fort Simpson's 1,200 people were forced from their homes earlier th...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to more jail time Friday over his role in an anti-government protest in 2019, as authorities crack down on dissent in the city.Lai and nine others ...

OTTAWA — Liberal MP William Amos has once again been caught unawares on webcam."Last night, while attending House of Commons proceedings virtually, in a non-public setting, I urinated without realizing I was on camera," the Quebec MP wrote in a sta...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 27, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 408,034 new vaccinations administered for a total of 22,346,755 doses given. Nationwide, 1,806,609 people or 4....

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The remains of 215 children have been found buried on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a news release Thursday that the remains we...

Tensions remained high at the Fairy Creek watershed logging blockades on Thursday as the RCMP made more arrests and a coalition of news organizations planned legal action against what they say is “limited access” to report on police actions.The c...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, May 28, 2021.There are 1,371,073 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,371,073 confirmed cases (42,104 active, 1,303,558 resolved, 25,411 deaths).*The total case c...

Faith leaders, celebrities and lawmakers across the political spectrum joined Thursday to condemn a rise in antisemitic incidents around the world triggered by the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Organized by leadin...

EDMONTON — The Calgary Stampede, increasingly touted by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney as the brass ring for defeating COVID-19, won’t look like the whoop-up of years past if it goes ahead, says the city’s mayor.Naheed Nenshi says there would sti...

The interval for second doses of COVID vaccine will change to eight weeks from 16 to ensure everyone can have a booster shot by the end of summer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, said Thursday.Invitations for booster shots are g...

BURNABY, B.C. — Construction has begun on the 2.6-kilometre tunnel in Burnaby, B.C., for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The company says in a news release the work on the tunnel connecting the Westridge Marine and Burnaby terminals ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A gunman who killed nine people at a California rail yard where he worked appeared to target some of the victims, a sheriff told The Associated Press on Thursday, while a Biden administration official said the shooter spoke ...

OTTAWA — Canada's requirement for air travellers to quarantine for up to three days at a hotel is an expensive, inconsistent policy that contains loopholes and should be ditched, says a new report from a government advisory panel. The experts, main...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation to close a gap in Michigan marijuana law that has allowed some untested products similar to marijuana to be sold passed Thursday in the state House.The legislation would include all THC products in the legal defini...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's top doctor says she's set an end-of-summer target for everyone in the province to receive their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.Dr. Bonnie Henry also announced Thursday a decrease in the time between the first and se...

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says a major Montreal bridge closed last week for safety reasons will be gradually reopened to traffic starting Friday.The Île-aux-Tourtes bridge, one of the main bridges motorists use to travel from Montreal to On...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is giving away the country’s largest pot of vaccine prize money, $116.5 million, in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous U.S. state fully reopens next month. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursd...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country following an election described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his...

OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says thousands of self-employed workers who received emergency benefits last year won't have to repay any of it, as long as they meet certain conditions.For anyone whose net self-employment income was under $5,000...