Canadian leader Justin Trudeau has contacted New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to try to shore up support in applying pressure on China in an escalating diplomatic feud between the two nations. The pair discussed the detention and legal treatment of Canadian citizens in China, as part of what appears...
A man has been arrested and charged after police found stolen luxury goods — such as Jimmy Choo shoes and high-end purses — in four storage lockers and a home. On Dec. 5, Richmond RCMP spotted and arrested a suspect in a burglary of a home on Cornwall Drive. Following...
The Saudi teen whose pleas for asylum went viral after she fled from her family and escaped to Thailand earlier this week has been granted asylum in Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed Friday that the country had accepted the United Nations request to give asylum to 18-year-old Rahaf...
Winnipeg Police Service Drug Enforcement and Street Crimes Units have been targeting mid-level drug dealers in an effort to disrupt the illegal trafficking of Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Heroin. Since mid-November officers have recovered 10.14 kilograms of meth with an estimated street value of more than $1 million. They have also...
Accused identified as Kirk Keeping, 35, from St. Jacques. Kirk Keeping, 35, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Chantel John of Conne River. the Royal Canadian Mounted Police say they arrested Keeping, who hails from nearby St. Jacques, late Thursday. The accused appeared before a provincial court...
As the trial for notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán continues in a New York courtroom, a former undercover agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claims the Sinaloa cartel targeted Canada because of its weak national policing and was making almost $3 million a day...
Premier Scott Moe is set to make a historic apology on Monday morning for Saskatchewan’s role in the Sixties Scoop. The Sixties Scoop refers to a period of Canadian history between the 1950s and 1980s when an estimated 20,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in non-Indigenous...
A Quebec woman who was travelling in Burkina Faso with a friend hasn't been heard from in three weeks and is feared missing, her family said Saturday. Sherbrooke native Edith Blais and her Italian friend Luca Tacchetto were travelling in the West African nation when all communication with their families...
A B.C. man who went to Syria seeking adventure has been detained in the war-ravaged country, and Canada’s foreign ministry says there is little it can do to help him. The mother of the man from Nanaimo, said he has not been in touch for more than a month and...
Karen McPherson, the representative for Calgary-MacKay-Nose Hill, says the provincial government needs to improve how it investigates complaints against MLAs. In November, McPherson expressed her concerns in a letter to Robert Wanner, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, regarding what she believed to be a lack of transparency in the...