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BC United was secretly behind website calling for Rustad to be fired: Elections BC
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
Elections BC says a website set up in 2024 to demand the firing of then B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad wasn’t the work of disgruntled members, as it claimed, but was instead created on the orders of the rival BC United Party. The election body says it has penalized BC United $4,500 for false advertising ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney praises Hansen, calls hearing French from space a point of pride
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney praised astronaut Jeremy Hansen during a call with the Artemis II crew, saying he was proud to see a Canadian in space and to hear French spoken. The call marked the third and final space-to-Earth connection organized by the Canadian Space Agency, livestreamed from the John H. Chapman Space ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Official says construction of light-rail station to Montreal airport is on track
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
MONTREAL — Officials at Montreal-Trudeau International airport say a new $600-million light-rail station is still on track to be delivered next year. Project director Steeve Bouffard says the REM station is about 80 per cent complete and remains on budget and on schedule despite challenges remaining to complete it. Workers are concentrating on the walls ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A timeline of floor crossings from the opposition benches to Mark Carney’s Liberals
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — Marilyn Gladu became the fifth opposition member of Parliament to cross the floor to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals on Wednesday, a day before the Liberal party convention in Montreal. The MP from Sarnia, Ont. is also the fourth to quit the Conservative caucus for the Liberals in recent months. Floor-crossing MPs have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!David Eby confident Indigenous MLAs will vote to pause B.C’s DRIPA legislation
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says he’s sure his government will retain the legislature’s confidence and pass his plan to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act that he says pose a legal peril. The B.C. NDP holds a single-seat majority in the legislature, but Eby has told ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec immigration minister under investigation for alleged ethics breach
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
QUÉBEC — Quebec’s immigration minister says he will fully collaborate with an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner into whether he violated conflict of interest rules. Jean-François Roberge is being investigated for allegedly sharing data produced by his department with the two Coalition Avenir Québec leadership candidates — Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette. Drainville had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim admits guilt in B.C. plane hijacking
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
RICHMOND — Federal prosecutors say a British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to two terrorism offences after he stole a small plane on Vancouver Island last July, triggering a security incident at Vancouver airport that spurred Norad to scramble fighter jets. The Public Prosecution Services of Canada says Shaheer Cassim pleaded guilty in a Richmond, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Almost 4,000 federal public servants apply for early retirement program
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — Thousands of federal public servants have applied for early retirement since the program was launched late last month. Mohammad Kamal, spokesperson for the Office of the President of the Treasury Board, says 3,700 federal workers have applied for the program. The program, which was announced in the fall, is part of the government’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec legislature prorogued as CAQ set to name new leader who will become premier
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
QUÉBEC — The Quebec government has prorogued the legislature as the Coalition Avenir Québec gets ready to choose a new leader this weekend. The cabinet of outgoing Premier Francois Legault says the national assembly will return with a new session — and new premier — on May 5. Christine Fréchette, a former economy minister, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tax cuts not the only way to help Canadians as gas prices rise: economists
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are calling on Ottawa to return some of the revenue from higher gasolines prices to give Canadians a break at the pumps but some economists say cutting gas taxes isn’t the only way to deliver relief. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photo gallery: A decade of death — B.C. counts drug emergency’s cost
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the declaration of a public health emergency in response to British Columbia’s drug overdose crisis, which has since claimed more than 18,000 lives. Grieving friends and families, former policy makers, medical workers and those who use drugs are reflecting on the disastrous decade and what could have been ... Read More »
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