New office space in Langford and Esquimalt combined with a busy leasing month in August held Victoria’s office vacancy rate at 7.3 per cent in the third quarter of the year according to Colliers Victoria’s latest office market report. Collier...

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole will face his caucus today for the first time since his party's disappointing election defeat two weeks ago. The 119 Conservative MPs are set to gather in person in Ottawa where, among other things, they'll...

QUEBEC — A fringe Quebec City municipal party's platform describes Islam as a "cancer," and the province's elections commission says it doesn't have the power to do anything about it.Quebec will hold provincewide municipal elections on Nov. 7, and ...

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. — A coroner who issued a report last week into the death of Joyce Echaquan that urged Quebec to recognize systemic racism and root it out of institutions will address her findings today.Géhane Kamel oversaw the inquiry into t...

PARIS (AP) — A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon.The p...

WINNIPEG — Wide receiver Kenny Lawler has been suspended by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after he told the team he had been arrested for drunk driving.Lawler will miss Friday's game when the Edmonton Elks visit Winnipeg.The Blue Bombers said in a stat...

Seven more COVID patients are en route to hospitals on the Island and Lower Mainland from the northern health region, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Monday, as the province reported almost 2,000 new COVID cases over the weekend.Last week, the minist...

The province will invest $21.5 million for new campsites and upgrades to trails and facilities after a record number of users over the past year. The Environment Ministry said more than 3.1 million campers stayed in provincial parks during the 20...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Rudy Giuliani associate facing trial next week in New York City for allegedly making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians is too poor to pay for his own lodging and transportation, a judge ruled Monday.Judge J. Paul ...

OTTAWA — A former diplomat and cabinet minister is denouncing the anti-Asian racism directed at a Canadian senator he's called a mouthpiece for China, while still condemning his views.Chris Alexander told The Canadian Press he has serious concerns ...

WINNIPEG — Former Manitoba premier Brian Pallister has resigned from his legislature seat, putting a formal end to his political career.The move comes almost five weeks after Pallister stepped down as premier and means a byelection will be held in ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson, despite requests for mercy from the pope, two federal lawmakers and thousands of petition signers.Johnson, 61, was convicted of killing three convenien...

Mechanical problems with the Spirit of Vancouver Island ferry have led to the cancellation of a pilot program for night sailings on the Duke Point-Tsawwassen route. The Spirit of Vancouver Island, which normally sails between Swartz Bay and Tsaww...

OTTAWA — Canada is formally invoking a 1977 pipeline treaty with the United States in a bid to prevent Michigan from turning off the taps to Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline.Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement Monday that the transi...

B.C. will introduce bubble-zone legislation during the fall legislature session to protect hospitals and schools from aggressive protesters who oppose vaccine cards and mandates.B.C. Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, who ha...

From the rock on the East Coast to the rock on the West Coast, it was all islanders all the time in the 2021 Reliance Properties DC Bank Victoria Open, presented by the Times Colonist. Blair Bursey from Gander, N.L., won with a four-round total o...

MONTREAL — It's too soon to say what caused a plane pulling a marriage proposal banner to crash near Old Montreal over the weekend, but there are "certain dangers" that come with towing banners by air, an ex-pilot said Monday.Julien Plaça, who sti...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren agreed to resign shortly before her term ends as part of a deal to settle charges she violated campaign finance rules during her 2017 reelection campaign.Warren was scheduled to go on trial Monday on ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s center-left forces, spearheaded by the Democrats, were sweeping to victory Monday in Milan and other big city mayoral races while clinching a runoff berth in Rome, where the populist 5-Star Movement's incumbent Mayor Virginia ...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's chief public health officer asked people Monday to follow public health orders as he warned that hospitals could soon be under more pressure from COVID-19."We are in a trajectory right now that could take us to a place where w...