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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 »
Be the first to comment!‘We are fighting to win’ in Terrebonne, Liberals say as government eyes majority
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — Thousands of Liberals will be in Montreal this weekend for the party’s annual convention just as voters in the suburban riding of Terrebonne, about 40 km north, get ready to cast ballots in a key byelection on Monday. The nearby location is coincidental, said Marjorie Michel, the minister of health and a longtime ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous women’s groups call for funding to limit risks to safety, prosperity
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
OTTAWA — Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard Indigenous women and girls and warning the federal government’s major projects push could place them at higher risk. Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, president of the National Family and Survivors Circle, said groups like hers still don’t know if they’ll receive continued funding from Ottawa. She ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. woman detained by ICE for three weeks in Texas calls experience ‘traumatizing’
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES — The Canadian woman who spent three weeks detained by immigration officers in the United States along with her seven-year-old daughter says it was “the most stressful, traumatizing ordeal” she has ever been through. Tania Warner won’t elaborate on the details of her detainment starting March 14, but describes the treatment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photo Gallery: The Artemis II lunar flyby
By Canadian Press on April 8th, 2026
On Monday, Artemis II astronauts Canadian Jeremy Hansen and his three American crewmates — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch — looped the moon in a six-hour lunar flyby, going farther into space than any humans before, breaking a distance record set by Apollo 13. The four-person crew were tasked with capturing images and ... Read More »
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