Port Hardy and Alert Bay councils have bowed out of Canada Day celebrations this year following the discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops residential school. Victoria and Penticton have also decide...

A new report grades Canadian governments in how they responded to the country's international promise to conserve at least 17 per cent of its land mass and 10 per cent of its oceans by 2020. The report, released today by the Canadian Parks and Wilder...

As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.Most of the plans are based on each jurisdictio...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 11:00 p.m. ET on Monday June 21, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 394,799 new vaccinations administered for a total of 32,566,031 doses given. Nationwide, 7,404,496 people or 20 p...

B.C.’s provincial health officer reported 229 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, including five in Island Health, while encouraging youth 12 and older to get their first vaccine dose before the summer holidays begin. Dr. Bonnie Henry repor...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday June 21, 2021. Some provinces and territories do not report daily case numbers.There are 1,409,607 confirmed cases in Canada.Canada: 1,409,607 confirmed cases (11,0...

VICTORIA — British Columbia is reporting a one-day total of COVID-19 cases not seen since last August, but health officials are encouraging more people to get vaccinated as the virus continues to circulate in the province and neighbouring jurisdict...

Seventeen vehicles were ­spray-painted with blue/grey paint in Campbell River overnight Saturday.Campbell River RCMP said the first report of a damaged vehicle came in about 8 a.m. Sunday.Officers subsequently found the paint on a string of vehicles...

MONTREAL — One person was killed after a tornado struck Mascouche, Que., a suburb north of Montreal, late Monday afternoon.Marisa Curcio, a spokeswoman for the municipality, said the tornado touched down just before 4 p.m. in a neighbourhood in the...

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.Nassib announced the news on Instagram, saying he wasn't doing it for the attention but because "I just think that representation and visibil...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The 77-year-old driver who accidentally slammed his truck into fellow members of a gay chorus group, killing one and injuring two others at a Pride parade, said Monday he would hold the deceased "in my heart forever."Fr...

COPENHAGEN — After scoring a goal to help Denmark advance at the European Championship, Joakim Maehle walked straight to a TV camera and formed a "10" with his fingers.That was for Christian Eriksen.Maehle's 82nd-minute goal put some extra gloss on...

OLIVER, B.C. — A First Nations chief in southern British Columbia says there are mixed feelings in his community after a Catholic church burned to the ground in an overnight fire, one of two Catholic churches in the area that were destroyed in blaz...

MONTREAL — Quebec isn't interested in adding a statutory holiday in the province to recognize Indigenous Peoples.Premier François Legault told reporters today the province has enough statutory holidays and the government isn't interested in adding...

ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman is believed to have shot and killed an officer and another person in a shopping district in a Denver suburb Monday before being fatally shot by police, authorities said. An officer responded to a call at 1:15 p.m. abou...

OTTAWA — The House of Commons defence committee on Monday ended months of hearings on the Liberal government’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations involving senior military commanders without producing a report.The committee had been invest...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's largest health care providers proposed Monday that lawmakers drop part of the requirement for people seeking medical marijuana identification cards to obtain a physician's recommendation to use the drug.Under...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives are asking that the Public Health Agency of Canada's offices be searched after a public shaming of the agency's president failed to persuade him to turn over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists at...

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — An inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Monday from a close relative who said Lionel Desmond's mental health appeared stable after he served in Afghanistan in 2007.B...

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Police Review Board has ruled that an officer acted stubbornly and unnecessarily but was likely not motivated by race when he arrested a Black man and his wife who were in a park after hours in 2018.Adam LeRue and Kerry Mo...