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CP NewsAlert: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat after changing ridings

CP NewsAlert: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat after changing ridings

VICTORIA — Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill. Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government.
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CP NewsAlert: B.C. NDP Leader David Eby wins his riding of Vancouver Point-Grey

CP NewsAlert: B.C. NDP Leader David Eby wins his riding of Vancouver Point-Grey

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier and NDP Leader David Eby has won re-election in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby was first elected to the riding in 2013, when he defeated then-premier and former B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark.
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CP NewsAlert: B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad elected in his riding

CP NewsAlert: B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad elected in his riding

VANDERHOOF, B.C. — British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad has been re-elected in his riding of Nechako Lakes.
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Fearing demolition, Montreal skateboarders rally to protect DIY skatepark from city

Fearing demolition, Montreal skateboarders rally to protect DIY skatepark from city

MONTREAL — Frédérique Luyet hops on her skateboard, rides the half pipe and pulls off a trick. But the spot where she honed her skills and practises to this day is not your ordinary skatepark.
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'Hateful and mean': LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party's proposed change room policy

'Hateful and mean': LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party's proposed change room policy

Blake Tait says he’s still healing from being outed by his school’s guidance counsellor when he was 14. Feeling safe at his school in Saskatoon, he started telling people he was transgender.
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'Sleeping with an elephant:' What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?

'Sleeping with an elephant:' What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?

WASHINGTON — Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as "sleeping with an elephant," a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year’s tumultuous and polarized American election.
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Where will B.C.'s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch

Where will B.C.'s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch

British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of whether the NDP or the B.C.
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Groundwater at Eagle Gold mine in Yukon shows high cyanide levels

Groundwater at Eagle Gold mine in Yukon shows high cyanide levels

The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed in June "continue to reveal high levels of cyanide.
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Lawyer for family members of Pickton's victims wants copy of killer's 'tell all book'

Lawyer for family members of Pickton's victims wants copy of killer's 'tell all book'

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he and his clients want to read a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison.
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NDP says Sask. Party's Moe needs to answer for campaign comment on children

NDP says Sask. Party's Moe needs to answer for campaign comment on children

REGINA — The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party's Scott Moe needs to provide answers after a candidate's two children and their use of a school change room were brought up in the election campaign.
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