In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 1 ...What we are watching in Canada ...As Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination numbers rise and h...

As COVID-19 vaccine supplies ramp up across the country, most provinces and territories have begun planning to give second doses in the coming weeks.More than 23 million people across Canada have now had at least one dose of a vaccine.Prime Minister ...

EDMONTON — Searching for unmarked burial sites is a painstaking process that not all Indigenous communities could be immediately ready for after the remains of more than 200 children were found at a former residential school in British Columbia, sa...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday June 1, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 389,921 new vaccinations administered for a total of 23,861,367 doses given. Nationwide, 2,076,739 people or 5.5 p...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday June 1, 2021.There are 1,381,582 confirmed cases in Canada.Canada: 1,381,582 confirmed cases (33,753 active, 1,322,282 resolved, 25,547 deaths).*The total case cou...

VANCOUVER — Lawmakers in Alaska and Washington state are renewing calls for British Columbia to strengthen its mining regulations to protect shared waterways.A group of 25members of the Washington state legislature sent a letter to Premier John Hor...

OTTAWA — In the absence of a plan from Ottawa, the Native Women's Association of Canada is releasing today its own action plan for implementing recommendations from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.The organ...

EDMONTON — A lawyer says the sentencing of an Ontario trucker found guilty of killing a woman in his Edmonton hotel room is likely to be postponed.Bradley Barton is scheduled to appear in court this morning for the sentencing hearing.His defence la...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — RCMP say six people were arrested Monday as officers continue to enforce a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.Five people...

Eight-year-old Charlotte­ Hopkins knelt before a growing pile of plush toys and rows of tiny pink, purple and blue shoes. She bowed her head and placed her own teddy bear there. With her little brother, Ely, and mother Kailey craddling both in a...

Nanaimo RCMP are looking for 27-year-old Amy Watts, who has not had any contact with her family since February.She was reported missing May 27 by her mother, who lives in Prince Edward Island.It is unlike Watts to be out of contact for so long and fa...

Nanaimo RCMP are trying to locate 39-year-old Jordan Dyer.He has not had contact with his family, who lives outside the province, since February.The family contacted police on May 27 and told them that Dyer has a transient lifestyle and could be invo...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday May 31, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 389,921 new vaccinations administered for a total of 23,861,367 doses given. Nationwide, 2,076,739 people or 5.5 p...

When Mounties moved in Monday to begin clearing a logging road blocked by old-growth activists near Port Renfrew, they drove at a crawl while Davis Briskoe and his nine-year-old son, Kiran, walked in front. It was one small obstacle of many police ...

Island education leaders are expressing shock and sorrow at the discovery of the of remains of 215 Indigenous children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Greater Victoria School District superintendent Shelley Green said the “inc...

A moment of silence was observed in B.C.’s legislature on Monday in honour of the 215 children discovered buried on the grounds of a Kamloops residential school. B.C. Premier John Horgan rose with “heavy, heavy heart” to speak to the discov...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday May 31, 2021.There are 1,381,582 confirmed cases in Canada.Canada: 1,381,582 confirmed cases (33,753 active, 1,322,282 resolved, 25,547 deaths).*The total case coun...

RCMP have released a picture of a man found dead after a Dec. 25 fire at North Cowichan home. The body of Frederick Allen Jones, 79, was found inside the Grieve Road dwelling. Police are asking the public for help in their investigation. “Som...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's provincial health officer began her update on COVID-19 by paying tribute to the 215 children whose remains were discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops.Dr. Bonnie Henry says there are no words...

A case of a rare blood clot linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine — the province’s third — has been reported in Island Health. The man, who in his 30s, is receiving treatment and recovering in hospital, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry ...