The Vancouver Police Department is defending the actions of an officer who was recorded taking a firefighter’s water hose and spraying two people in the head on Canada Day.
Month: July 2024
Chatham Maroons make moves to strengthen blue-line
The Chatham Maroons have bolstered their blue-line by adding another newcomer and one more may be on the way.
City requesting $6.7M increase to South Winnipeg rec campus budget
The South Winnipeg Recreation Campus’s price tag could be going up – again.
‘We have no answers’: Family of Sask. missing Ashley Morin marks 6th anniversary of her disappearance
Ashley Morin’s family is left with more questions than answers on the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.
Hundreds join chorus for Indigenous boys whose singing was silenced
On Tuesday evening, hundreds of people showed their support for the boys by gathering in the village square, with drums in their hands and songs in their hearts.
Ford calls Ontario Science Centre a ‘decrepit building’, says repairing it is ‘foolish’
Ontario’s premier pushed back against critics of his government’s controversial decision to shut down the Ontario Science Centre, calling the building ‘decrepit’ and saying completely fixing it would cost upwards of half a billion dollars.
Prep work underway for St. Mary Canal Siphon repair
On June 17, the St. Mary Canal Siphon north of Babb, Mont., suffered a catastrophic failure. Prep work is underway to repair the siphon but it won’t be a quick fix.
More than half of commercial vehicles inspected during crackdown needed ‘immediate’ repairs: Delta police
Police in Delta say more than half of the commercial vehicles they inspected during a recent crackdown were unsafe to operate.
Feds invest $15M in health-care AI development through Vancouver tech cluster program
Canada is investing about $15 million toward the development of artificial intelligence in health care that Federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne calls a “game changer” for improving the industry’s ability to serve patients.
B.C. war veteran John Hillman, dead at 105, raised thousands for children’s charity
Second World War veteran John Hillman, who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity in the last years of his life, died Monday at the age of 105.
