WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Ice continued to build on their dominant start to the Western Hockey League season with a resounding 8-0 victory over the Prince Albert Raiders on Saturday night.Connor McClennon scored a hat trick and goalie Gage Alexander ...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw.However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a lottery player in the Prairies.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Oct. 13 will be an estimate...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's president on Sunday called for the maintenance of the political status quo in a forthright speech which acknowledged rising pressure from ChinaTsai Ing-wen also firmly Chinese military coercion, a stance driven home b...

MICHIGAN REDISTRICTINGMichigan redistricting commission to vote on draft mapsLANSING, Mich. (AP) — After seven weeks of mapping, Michigan’s new redistricting commission is starting to vote on much-anticipated draft congressional and legislative p...

Monday's federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people who...

WINNIPEG — Fire officials in Winnipeg say a blaze at a temporary camp near the city's downtown was large enough to damage nearby power lines and threatened surrounding structures.The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says in a news release the blaze ...

B.C. is one step closer towards vaccinating children ages five to 11 with a COVID-19 vaccine. The province’s Get Vaccinated website is now accepting registration for younger kids, even though Health Canada has not yet approved a COVID-19 vaccin...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Colombian nun who was kidnapped more than four years ago by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Mali has been freed, Mali’s presidency said Saturday. Gloria Narvaez was kidnapped in February 2017 near Mali’s border with Burkina ...

Fairy Creek protesters say they are undeterred by a B.C. Court of Appeal decision to reinstate an injunction against them.Protesters have been trying to block old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek area, near Port Renfrew, since August 2020. Court hea...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials have released a list of dozens of postal zip codes of areas across the state where applicants for 26 new so-called social equity licenses for marijuana shops must have lived in recent years.Along with legaliz...

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada is cautioning people travelling to the province's Interior over Thanksgiving weekend to prepare for winter weather conditions. The agency has issued a special weather report warning the public of about 15 centimetres ...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met a family of newly settled Afghan refugees on Saturday, marking the start of the Thanksgiving weekend with what he said was an important reminder. Trudeau met Obaidullah Rahimi, who began working at the Can...

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors' announcement that he is a target of a corruption investigation.Kurz, 35, said he has prop...

PRAGUE (AP) — Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billionaire's reign in power.The two-day election to fil...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Deputies stumbled into a significant illegal marijuana operation in southern Oregon this week, finding an amount of marijuana with a street value conservatively estimated at more than $100 million, authorities said.A 27,0...

Transport Canada says it has issued 158 warnings and levied five fines totalling just over $24,000 for vessels in violation of distancing rules that protect the endangered southern resident orcas in the Salish Sea. The federal agency was respondi...

The number of COVID-19 cases in schools is “pretty much a clear reflection” of what’s happening in the larger community, says the interim superintendent of the Greater Victoria School District. After the number of cases dropped at the end o...

The latest labour-market snapshot shows Victoria’s unemployment rate remains one of the lowest in Canada and B.C. is leading the pack when it comes to economic recovery, but it also paints a picture of a market that is starving for talent. With...

Ucluelet First Nation has proclaimed a state of emergency, allowing only residents whose travel is essential to enter the community of Hitacu after confirmation of a COVID-19 outbreak. “Non-essential travellers and non-residents will be asked t...

A revised $230-million redevelopment plan for the University Heights shopping centre in Saanich will go to public hearing. The site, bordered by Shelbourne Street, McKenzie Avenue and Cedar Hill Road, is poised to be overhauled by developer Wesbi...