‘System problem’ exists at the CBSA with how strip searches are conducted, judge finds Canada Border Services Agency officers say they found more than 120 bricks of cocaine in a transport truck travelling into Canada using the Ambassador Bridge on Oct. 29, 2023. (CBC News) Drug smuggling charges carrying a possible …
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2 dead, 1 in hospital after helicopter crash near north Vancouver Island
Transportation Safety Board says investigators are being deployed to the site Stock photo of a helicopter. (Helen Pike/CBC) A helicopter company says two people are dead and another is injured after a helicopter crash near north Vancouver Island Tuesday morning. Sean Smyth, general manager of West Coast Helicopters, said the helicopter …
Read More »Former Manitoba MP Inky Mark charged with firearms trafficking after hundreds of weapons seized
Antique cannon, $300K in cash also found at former member of Parliament’s home, police say Former member of Parliament Inky Mark is shown in a 2002 file photo. He has been charged with a dozen weapons-related offences, including firearms trafficking and three counts of unsafe firearms storage, after a search …
Read More »It’s extremely rare, but Carney isn’t the first to shuffle an opposition MP to the Senate
Over 300 Canadians have served in both chambers, only a handful were appointed by a PM from a different party Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at the Senate Chamber ahead of the opening of Parliament in Ottawa on May 27, 2025. Carney appointed his first slate of senators last week. (Victoria …
Read More »Police identify 2 men killed in targeted shooting at Toronto street festival
Shaquan Quashie, 25, and Cesar Vernaza, 20, died after gunfire erupted at Salsa on St. Clair Toronto police identify 2 victims of the deadly Salsa on St. Clair shooting Toronto police have identified the two people killed in Saturday’s shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival. CBC’s Greg Ross …
Read More »Agreement reached on multibillion-dollar Pathways carbon capture and storage project
Alberta, federal government, five oilsands companies entered deal on July 2 A photo from 2014 shows the Syncrude oilsands extraction facility near Fort McMurray, Alta. The Pathways project is a condition for a new West Coast oilsands pipeline, and would serve to offset some of the carbon emissions that the …
Read More »Private clinic Grifols green-lit plasma donors with disease risk, Health Canada finds
Grifols repeatedly cleared ineligible donors at risk for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Health Canada report says The Grifols plasma donation centre on Taylor Avenue in Winnipeg. A Health Canada report says the for-profit company repeatedly cleared ineligible donors at risk for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and operated dangerously over capacity at one of its …
Read More »Company that employed worker killed in trench collapse pleads guilty to OHS charge, fined $330K
Liam Johnston, 27, died in June 2023 Liam Johnston was 27 years old when he died at work after a trench collapsed on him in Calgary in June 2023. The company that employed him pleaded guilty to a charge under Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act. (Submitted by Emily Gofton) Three …
Read More »Carney talks about Canada’s ‘energy sovereignty.’ But what does that really mean?
Exporting oil, importing EVs among recent energy-related announcements On July 2, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans regarding Alberta’s proposed West Coast oil pipeline. (Ahmed Zakot/Reuters) Soon after Donald Trump took office for a second time, with punishing tariffs and menacing talk of Canada as “the …
Read More »Torontonians describe chaos after fatal shooting at St. Clair festival
No threat to community after shooting claims two lives, four others injured with gunshot wounds: police What we know after fatal shooting at Salsa on St. Clair festival Two people were killed and multiple injured after a shooting at Toronto’s Salsa on St. Clair festival Saturday evening. CBC’s Greg Ross …
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