TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $70 million jackpot in Tuesday night's Lotto Max draw.However, seven of the 20 Maxmillions prizes of $1 million were won. Four of those winning tickets were sold in the Prairies, with the remaining three...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported.The Fars and Tasnim news agencies said efforts failed to save the ...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — Another nine protesters have been arrested at blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.RCMP began enforcing a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of the barriers in t...

The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Canadians should be prepared for the discovery of more children's remains at other residential school sites across the country.Retired senator Murray Sinclair says the remains of chi...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 307,826 new vaccinations administered for a total of 24,169,193 doses given. Nationwide, 2,161,428 people or 5.7...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democrat Melanie Stansbury won election to Congress for New Mexico on Tuesday with a campaign closely tied to initiatives of the Biden administration.Stanbury prevailed in an open, four-way race to fill a vacant seat previo...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.There are 1,383,214 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,383,214 confirmed cases (31,164 active, 1,326,484 resolved, 25,566 deaths).*The total case ...

Victoria police are looking for witnesses after a man allegedly stole a large stuffed animal from a memorial created to honour the 215 children found last week in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops residential school.Shortly before 7 p.m. Monday,...

OTTAWA — It is Canada's fault that 215 Indigenous children were buried in an unmarked, mass grave at a one-time residential school in Kamloops, B.C., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.Trudeau said Canadians can't close their eyes and prete...

B.C. Ferries says its website is temporarily out of service due to a technical issue. If you want to make a booking, call at 1-888-223-3779, the organization said late Tuesday afternoon. If you want to book a vacation package, call 1-888-223-37...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Tuesday that it will stop testing jobseekers for marijuana.The company, the second-largest private employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, is making the change as states legalize cannabis or introduce laws banning employers...

A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle in the 3400-block of Douglas Street, near Saanich Road, Tuesday afternoon. Police were called to the area about 3:50 p.m. All northbound lanes have been closed and are expected to remain clos...

VICTORIA — British Columbia health officials say about 70 per cent of eligible adults in the province have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.Officials say in a news release that they will be following the National Advisory Committee o...

A police watchdog agency is investigating an incident where a man was bitten by a police dog on Lochside Trail. Officers responded to a call about an altercation on the Lochside Trail involving a man with a weapon about 11 a.m. May 20. They arr...

Saanich police arrested two suspects Tuesday morning after a witness saw two people walk away from a car that hit a concrete pillar at Uptown. The car later turned out to be stolen. The witness saw the car hit the pillar about 8:30 a.m. and drive...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba legislature has started a summer break with some unfinished business put on hold until the fall.The Opposition New Democrats delayed a handful of government bills, including one that would remove almost all of the province's...

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets will be playing in front of live fans this week for the first time in more than a year.The National Hockey League club announced on social media Tuesday that it will host a small number of health-care workers for the fi...

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has released a series of goals, plans and an initial yearlong timeline as it works to "modernize" its regulation of the forest sector.A paper released Tuesday lays out far-ranging "policy intentions," incl...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — News of the remains of 215 children being discovered at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia jolted Clayton Peters, whose seven years of torment there have been mostly encased in silence around fears of soap ...

MONTREAL — The federal statistics agency says the COVID-19 pandemic led to a drop in Canada's life expectancy in 2020.Statistics Canada says it estimates that life expectancy across the country declined by an average of 0.41 years in 2020, adding t...