Category: Canada

Officials said the suspect stole a purse from an 89-year-old individual over the weekend at a local park. He is described as being in his 40s.

Homes were evacuated and hundreds of customers were without gas service Wednesday after a FortisBC line was damaged in North Vancouver.

Hamilton police have released video of a shooting that injured a bystander earlier this week.

Firefighters in the B.C. city that saw the highest death rate during the 2021 heat dome will be able to provide more medical intervention during the next mass casualty or extreme weather event.

York Regional Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who was walking her dog in Markham last week.

A Quebec actor known as Gouchy Boy was charged with assaulting a photographer at a Montreal-area courthouse Wednesday minutes before he was sentenced for sexual assault.

On Wednesday, Labour Minister Jean Boulet announced that he will table a bill to cut red tape, so that family doctors can free up an additional 500,000 medical appointments for patients each year by a plan to put an end to require a medical note in order to be reimbursed by an insurance company.

Intact Financial Corporation (IFC) subsidiary BrokerLink “remains well on track to achieve its ambition of $5 billion in annual premiums by 2025,” IFC CEO Charles Brindamour said during the insurer’s 2024 Q1 earnings calls Wednesday. In 2023, BrokerLink surpassed $3.5…The post How Intact and BrokerLink performed in 2024 Q1 appeared first on Canadian Underwriter.

Navacord has doubled the size of its travel insurance portfolio with the recent acquisition of SécuriGlobe assurance voyage. “This is Navacord’s largest partnership of 2024 and its most substantial travel partnership to date,” the brokerage announced today. Founded in 1999,…The post Navacord expands its travel business appeared first on Canadian Underwriter.

A court date has been set for the third man charged with the murder of British Columbia Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, coinciding with that of the other two suspects.