7+ hour, 54+ min ago   (192+ words) ABBOTSFORD — A September 26 byelection has been called for the seat vacated by BC Conservative Party MLA Reann Gasper with her August 22 resignation. It’s widely expected that Gasper stepped down to clear the way for Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay to earn…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (480+ words) B.C. Premier David Eby has called a byelection for next month in the riding of Abbotsford-Mission, where embattled Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay is set to run. Eby’s New Democrats said Saturday that former agriculture minister Pam Alexis, who lost the seat…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (816+ words) The Friday night attack on the warehouse in Myla, a village in the Bucha district, was the war’s deadliest attack this year and came on the second of three days of nearly round-the-clock Russian strikes that have severely disrupted life…...

6+ hour, 9+ min ago   (588+ words) MONTREAL — Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s plan to more than halve temporary immigration in Quebec drew criticism from his rivals Saturday, who accused him of making immigrants bear the blame for problems in public schools and of risking worsening…...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (625+ words) OTTAWA — Indigenous leaders and advocates are outraged after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on Thursday. The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari:io, which…...

19+ hour, 8+ min ago   (727+ words) Rescue workers and military personnel have been working around the clock since Wednesday’s disaster, which killed more than 600 people and left about 3,000 missing. Some survivors have been pulled from the mud, while crews continue searching several locations for those still…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (389+ words) B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says suggestions that a recording shows she illegally offered jobs to legislators, in exchange for resigning so she could stand in a byelection, are “preposterous.” Police said they were aware of the purported recording of Findlay…...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (920+ words) OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada is changing its language policy to state that direct attribution will no longer be required when describing 9/11 as an act of “terrorism.” The decision comes after CBC came under fire over its long-standing policy of not labelling…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (219+ words) CHILLIWACK – A commercial litigator and partner at a B.C. law firm who resides in Yarrow will run for a seat on the Chilliwack Board of Education in the fall election. Michael Carter, a partner at White Rock-based Cleveland Doan LLP where…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (110+ words) Teresa Wat has quit the B.C. Conservatives and will sit as an Independent, saying she can no longer serve under leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Wat says Findlay failed to apologize over “serious and unfounded accusations” Findlay reportedly made about her that questioned…...