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 June 4.What we are watching in Canada ...Stephanie Scott shed tears with her daughter and five-y...

OTTAWA — The Liberal Party of Canada has adopted a new digital tool to more directly reach supporters and potential voters — the same one increasingly used by celebrities to interact more intimately with their fans through text messages.The party...

OTTAWA — Federal officials were asking themselves how many pipelines does Canada really need in the days after U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled Keystone XL.The query was posed in a briefing note from Natural Resources Canada and released to The C...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An update is expected from the chief of the Tk'emlups te Sewepemc First Nation, a week after the band announced the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children at the former residential school in Kamloops, B.C....

OTTAWA — Canada's chief justice says judges must be alert to the history and experience of Indigenous peoples, and should make the same commitment to those of other cultures and communities. In a recent speech to Ontario judges, Richard Wagner said...

OTTAWA — Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada is trying to negotiate a deal to start getting doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine from the United States instead of Europe.All 5.7 million doses delivered to Canada from Moderna so far have com...

Stephanie Scott shed tears with her daughter and five-year-old grandchild when remains of what are believed to be more than 200 children were found on the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia."It really hurt us," ...

FREDERICTON — A year after Chantel Moore was fatally shot by a police officer in Edmundston, N.B., her mother's suffering remains, as do many unanswered questions."The pain still hurts as much as it did the first day that I received the news that s...

TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan's best-known Olympians and an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee says Tokyo has been "cornered" into holding the games during the COVID-19 pandemic.In an outspoken editorial published Friday, Kaori Yamaguch...

Victoria police continue to search for high-risk 32-year-old man Tyler Desorcy, who was last seen Dec. 30, 2020, and was the subject of several missing-person alerts in January. Desorcy is described as Indigenous and five-foot-nine with a heavy b...

A drug-trafficking investigation by Victoria police led to the arrest of two men and the seizure of about one kilogram of drugs including fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.Police said the investigation was looking at local drug traffickers with t...

Langford has added three car-share vehicles to the community in a partnership with car co-op Modo. Two electric vehicles and one hybrid will now be available for use by the public in Langford during the day, with plans for the city to use them in...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, June 4, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 410,178 new vaccinations administered for a total of 24,924,312 doses given. Nationwide, 2,402,628 people or 6.3 p...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, June 4, 2021.There are 1,387,445 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,387,445 confirmed cases (27,790 active, 1,334,011 resolved, 25,644 deaths).*The total case c...

Every summer, Thetis Lake attracts daredevils who dive or jump off the cliffs, and sometimes injuries come in rapid succession. In the summer of 2017, four serious incidents happened within a week. In one of the cases, a 26-year-old woman attempt...

The mayors of Vancouver and Victoria will present motions to their councils next week asking to rename Trutch Street in their cities. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he will present a motion at the June 8 council meeting asking that Trutch S...

Victoria councillors voted Thursday to ban sheltering in Beacon Hill Park for at least two years to allow the area to be restored after people were allowed to set up tents during the pandemic. The proposal arose from a report by Mayor Lisa Helps,...

Nanaimo-area residents are being reminded to deter hungry bears by putting their garbage bins out only on collection day — not the night before. Leave the bin out all night and a bear could get into your waste, which not only creates a threat t...

HONG KONG (AP) — A member of the committee that organizes Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown was arrested early Friday on the 32nd anniversary.The arrest and a ban on the vigil for a second year c...

A 16-year-old male has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 34-year-old man who was hit by a truck at Douglas Street and Saanich Road on Tuesday. Saanich police said a physical altercation between the two led to the death. The accus...