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B.C. smashes advance voting record as forecast calls for election-day drenching

B.C. smashes advance voting record as forecast calls for election-day drenching

VANCOUVER — More than a million British Columbians have already cast their provincial election ballots, smashing the advance voting record ahead of what weather forecasters say will be a rain-drenched election day in much of B.C.
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Trudeau to shuffle cabinet as four ministers say they won't seek re-election

Trudeau to shuffle cabinet as four ministers say they won't seek re-election

OTTAWA — With a simmering mutiny plot in the backbenches and four more cabinet ministers deciding not to seek re-election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's attempt to right the Liberal ship and stay on as captain is becoming more challenging.
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Former Canadian Olympic athlete wanted in U.S. for murder, drug charges

Former Canadian Olympic athlete wanted in U.S. for murder, drug charges

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder is wanted in the U.S.
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Saskatchewan Party's Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate

Saskatchewan Party's Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate

REGINA — Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning "biological boys" from using school changing rooms with "biological girls" if re-elected, a move the NDP's Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids.
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Supreme Court won't hear spy service analyst's appeal over discrimination case

Supreme Court won't hear spy service analyst's appeal over discrimination case

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency.
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Ontario's top court orders new hearing for youth-led climate case

Ontario's top court orders new hearing for youth-led climate case

TORONTO — Ontario's top court breathed new life into a Charter challenge of the provincial government's emissions target on Thursday, a decision heralded as a major victory for the group of young people who brought the case and others looking to hold
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Promise tracker: What the Saskatchewan Party and NDP pledge to do if they win Oct. 28

Promise tracker: What the Saskatchewan Party and NDP pledge to do if they win Oct. 28

REGINA — Saskatchewan's provincial election is on Oct. 28.
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Car set on fire at home of owner of Old Montreal buildings hit by fatal arsons

Car set on fire at home of owner of Old Montreal buildings hit by fatal arsons

MONTREAL — An SUV was torched Thursday in the suburban driveway of a lawyer who owns two Old Montreal buildings that have burned down in the past two years and left nine people dead.
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Trudeau says death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar 'ends a reign of terror'

Trudeau says death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar 'ends a reign of terror'

OTTAWA — The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip "ends a reign of terror," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, as some world leaders suggested his death may bring about a better chance of ending the current conflict and brin
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Montrealer ordered to pay $35,000 fine for not declaring luxury watch at border

Montrealer ordered to pay $35,000 fine for not declaring luxury watch at border

MONTREAL — In a Federal Court ruling that opens with the judge musing that "time is money," a Montreal business owner has been ordered to pay a hefty fine after he imported a luxury watch without declaring it to customs.
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