Much of the taxpayer money that has funded oil well cleanup in Alberta may have simply replaced money that energy companies would have spent anyway, according to a new analysis.That means the public is likely paying for private companies' pollution, ...

As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.Most of the plans are based on each jurisdicti...

TORONTO — A lucky ticket holder in Ontario is $65 million richer, with one winning ticket sold in Tuesday's Lotto Max jackpot.Five of the 14 available Maxmillion prizes of $1 million were also claimed by three tickets sold in British Columbia, one ...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. — RCMP in British Columbia have arrested another nine people for breaching an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.The Mounties say several people were found Tuesday locke...

PUNNICHY, Sask. — One man is dead following an altercation between a suspect and RCMP officers at Gordon First Nation, near the village of Punnichy, Sask.Officers were called to the First Nation about 113 kilometres north of Regina at approximately...

Victoria police are investigating a stabbing Tuesday afternoon in the courtyard of a community shelter in the 900-block of Pandora Avenue.Police were called about 1 p.m. and found a man with potentially life-threatening injuries. B.C. Ambulance param...

West Shore RCMP officers conducting search-and-rescue training in Gowlland Todd Provincial Park were in the right place to help a family that encountered a bear. The mother, father and two young children were distraught after seeing the bear Satu...

Victoria police are looking for witnesses after someone attempted to dig up and remove a statue of St. Francis in an Anglican church on Esquimalt Road on Saturday afternoon. Police were called to the church in the 1300-block of Esquimalt Road at ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A storm that has lashed the Caribbean and the Florida Keys with pounding rain and gusty winds and complicated the search for survivors in a deadly condominium collapse has strengthened into a hurricane.The National Weath...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in ...

Calgary Stampede organizers say proof of vaccination will be required to get into one popular live-music venue when the 10-day cowboy festival starts Friday."We will require guests to show proof of vaccination or take a free rapid (COVID-19) test to ...

LYTTON, B.C. — One of two rail companies with routes through Lytton, B.C., says it has resumed service after a wildfire devastated the village last week, a move one First Nations leader says he's willing to do "what's necessary" to stop.Chief Matt ...

Banned sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson was not on the Olympic roster released Tuesday by USA Track and Field, a decision that means the American champion's positive test for marijuana will cost her a chance at running on the relay team in Tokyo, in add...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Contestants from 14 of Mexico’s 32 states at a Miss Mexico contest tested positive for the coronavirus, a health official in the northern Mexico border state of Chihuahua said Tuesday. State Health Secretary Eduardo Fernández ...

MONTREAL — American receiver Quan Bray was among seven players suspended Tuesday by the Montreal Alouettes.Bray was arrested in February 2020 in Texas while travelling in an SUV that contained over 70 kilograms of cannabis. Alouettes GM Danny Macio...

OTTAWA — When Mary Simon uttered her first words as Canada's next governor general in her native language of Inuktitut, a collective thrill was felt among many Inuit and other Indigenous people across Canada, recognizing it as a moment to be long r...

VANCOUVER — British Columbia is Canada's first province to introduce a business and environmental strategy on how renewable and low-carbon hydrogen can reduce emissions and create jobs in the clean technology sector. Bruce Ralston, minister of ener...

Growing up in northern Quebec, Mary Simon was taught by her grandmother to respect elders and to always be kind. Raised in a family of eight children — four brothers and four sisters — Simon experienced harsh living conditions, her brother, Johnn...

The Maritime Museum of B.C. is moving to a temporary location in downtown Victoria while it continues to look for a permanent home. The museum was planning to establish a new location in Langford, but pulled out of those plans in March, citing an...

OTTAWA — Federal politicians, Indigenous groups and others were quick to weigh in following Mary Simon's appointment as Canada's next governor general on Tuesday.Here is some of what they said:"This is an important day for both our country as a who...