TORONTO — A survey from the Angus Reid Institute suggests that the pandemic has changed the way most Canadians think about their future with long-term care.The survey finds that just 18 per cent of respondents say their views haven't changed since ...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — The Mounties in British Columbia say protesters breaching an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island cut 18 trees.In a news release late Saturday, police say RCMP Chief Su...

Union Bay firefighters responded to a crash involving a motorcycle on the South Island Highway near Buckley Bay on Sunday morning. The motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital in serious condition.

The RCMP is accusing Fairy Creek anti-logging protesters of cutting down 18 healthy trees and placing them across the road to block access for forestry company Teal-Jones. In a media release, RCMP Chief Superintendent John Brewer said he visited ...

A pod of killer whales in Fulford Harbour Saturday afternoon disrupted ferry service between Victoria and Salt Spring Island.B.C. Ferries said on Twitter that it had missed one round trip to safely accommodate the orcas. The Skeena Queen was back on ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86. Moses worked to ...

OTTAWA — When Mary Simon walks into the Senate on Monday to be installed as the country's next governor general, she will find the upper chamber sparsely populated.The installation ceremonies for Simon's predecessors have attracted hundreds of peop...

MONTREAL — Quebecers might need to be patient as they try to register in Loto-Québec draws intended for those who have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Quebec government has said the lottery is an attempt to get 75 per cent ...

CALGARY — Not that long ago, Rod Lanier could count on an annual spring visit from the police. The southern Alberta farmer has been growing hemp for 12 years, and in the early days, the distinctive odour that wafts from his fields when the crop is ...

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:CannTrust court appearances:Former CannTrust leaders are scheduled to make their first court appearance in Toronto on Monday, roughly three years after the cannabi...

VANCOUVER — A combination of drought, heat and drier fuels is causing larger areas to burn in British Columbia, says an expert. Kira Hoffman, a post-doctoral researcher with University of British Columbia's faculty of forestry, said climate cha...

Before the pandemic hit, 89-year-old Linda Leong’s days were filled with social interaction in her own language and cultural activities at a day program for seniors in Chinatown. When pandemic restrictions forced the closure of the day program ...

Stef Lowey and Chris Hall will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne on Aug. 2 — at exactly 12:01 a.m. “It’s been sitting on our counter top all year staring at us,” Hall says with a laugh. It will be a reward for a memorable 365 days f...

Victoria lawyer Peter Darren Hart has been disbarred for professional misconduct. A hearing panel of the Law Society of B.C. found that Hart committed professional misconduct by misappropriating $4,000 in trust funds that he used to pay into a le...

It’s 3 a.m. and some lunatic is banging on the wall. I can just about make out her angry, muffled voice, which seems to be yelling something like “Turn off the TV, I can’t sleep.” “I can’t sleep, either,” I call back. “Bulgaria st...

Seashore animals in the intertidal zone on Vancouver Island’s west coast appear to have fared better during last month’s record-breaking heat wave than mussels and barnacles on the Island’s east coast and in Vancouver. Despite that, Chris H...

Advisory: This story has graphic details about an alleged sexual assault. A B.C. Supreme Court judge must decide if a young woman gave her consent to be bound with zip ties and blindfolded during sex or whether she endured a planned, savage, prol...

OTTAWA — Canada's spy service closely monitored the burgeoning nationalist movement in the 1960s and '70s, poring over pamphlets, collecting reports from confidential sources and warily watching for signs of Communist infiltration, once-secret reco...

MONTREAL — This year, Dany Baillargeon is committing what he describes as "horticultural disobedience" by letting his front yard grow naturally — despite the risk of running afoul of local bylaws. The Sherbrooke, Que., resident desc...

TORONTO — The $6 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw was won by a ticket holder in Ontario.And the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Quebec.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on July 28 will be an estimate...