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China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg: NYT report
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
OTTAWA — China’s highest court has overturned a Canadian man’s death sentence, The New York Times is reporting. The death sentence ordered for British Columbia native Robert Lloyd Schellenberg in 2019 after he was convicted on drug smuggling charges was overturned by the Supreme People’s Court, the newspaper said Friday. The decision comes just weeks ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: China overturns death sentence for Canadian: report
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
OTTAWA — China’s highest court has overturned a Canadian man’s death sentence, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says the death sentence ordered for B.C. native Robert Lloyd Schellenberg after he was convicted on drug smuggling charges in 2019 has been overturned by the Supreme People’s Court. The decision comes just weeks after Prime ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Candidate says he plans to run for Conservatives in Poilievre’s former riding
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
OTTAWA — Blair Turner, a police officer from the Ottawa area, says he plans to run for the Conservative nomination in Pierre Poilievre’s former riding of Carleton. Turner ran for the Tories in Ottawa South in the most recent federal election in April losing to Defence Minister David McGuinty. Poilievre lost the seat he had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pipeline protest created safety risks, but journalists were let in, says RCMP officer
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
VANCOUVER — The senior RCMP officer co-ordinating enforcement at a British Columbia pipeline protest in 2021 says journalists were permitted to go through an “access control point” set up by police, and anyone who claimed to be media was allowed in. Asst. Commissioner John Brewer is testifying in a case brought by news organization The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Union files complaints as feds increase public servants’ in-office time
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
OTTAWA — Canada’s largest federal public sector union has filed several unfair labour practice complaints – and another union is warning of a possible strike – as the government moves to increase public servants’ in-office time. The federal government is ordering public servants to be in the office at least four days a week starting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Tire ordered to pay nearly $1.3 million for false advertising
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
MONTREAL — Canadian Tire has been ordered to pay just under $1.3 million after pleading guilty to 74 counts of violating sections of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act related to false advertising. Crown prosecutor Jérôme Dussault says the Canadian retail giant agreed to the settlement after initially pleading not guilty. At the Montreal courthouse, Quebec court ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Greenland’s foreign minister hails new Canadian consulate as ‘historic’
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
NUUK — The flag was raised and dozens of people joined in a spontaneous version of O Canada as Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand officially opened the new consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Friday. “The significance of raising this flag today and formally opening the consulate is that we will stand together with the people of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fitness trial begins for man accused of killing B.C. Mountie Shaelyn Yang in 2022
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
VANCOUVER — The hearing to determine if a man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang is fit to stand trial has begun in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. Jongwon Ham, who appeared at the hearing Friday wearing a grey suit and white sneakers, is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. needs new mental health hospital, psychiatrist tells inquest into family’s death
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
BURNABY — A psychiatrist with British Columbia’s Northern Health authority called for a new mental health hospital in B.C. in her testimony to an inquest into the deaths of a Prince Rupert family. The coroner’s inquest has heard that Christopher Duong was suspected by police to have killed his wife Janet Nguyen and their two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Gov. Gen. Simon, Anand open new consulate in Greenland
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
NUUK — Canada’s new consulate in Greenland is officially open. The consulate has been operating quietly for several weeks but Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand are in Greenland’s capital Nuuk for the ceremonial opening today. Anand raised a Canadian flag at the consulate and people gathered spontaneously sang O Canada, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Despite job losses, shrinking labour force lowers unemployment rate in January
By Canadian Press on February 6th, 2026
OTTAWA — Fewer people were looking for work in January, driving the unemployment rate lower despite job losses in the month, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said the economy shed 25,000 jobs in January, compared to economists’ expectations for a slight gain. Desjardins economist Kari Norman said the January labour force survey marks a ... Read More »
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