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Little change to Vancouver downtown street encampment as residents wonder where to go

Little change to Vancouver downtown street encampment as residents wonder where to go

VANCOUVER — It was difficult to see any difference had been made to the tent encampment in Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside on Wednesday, a day after city staff began what's expected to be a weeks-long process to remove the structures.
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Commercial fishers and wild salmon advocates cheer large returns to B.C. waters

Commercial fishers and wild salmon advocates cheer large returns to B.C. waters

VICTORIA — The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of sockeye in decades.
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Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines

Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines

WINNIPEG — Manitoba became the first province Wednesday to sign on to a new federal funding plan for crisis hotlines that help victims of gender-based violence.
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Aid shipment to Afghanistan cancelled due to anti-terrorist law

Aid shipment to Afghanistan cancelled due to anti-terrorist law

OTTAWA — Two containers of food bound for Afghanistan have been cancelled by a Canada-based aid agency because of a law banning any dealings with the Taliban.
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Investigator says missing Ottawa-area woman found in Ohio after 42 years

Investigator says missing Ottawa-area woman found in Ohio after 42 years

OTTAWA — On July 16, 1980, Dale Nancy Wyman left her Ottawa-area home with a suitcase full of her belongings, took a taxi to a Greyhound bus station and vanished. She didn't say where she was going and her family had no idea where to look.
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Children at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert found safe

Children at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert found safe

REGINA — Two children at the centre of a Saskatchewan Amber Alert were found at a campground in the United States along with their mother and a man wanted by police, Mounties said Wednesday. Benjamin Martin Moore, 50, was apprehended near Sturgis, S.
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Plastics producers ask court to quash planned federal ban on single-use straws, cups

Plastics producers ask court to quash planned federal ban on single-use straws, cups

OTTAWA — More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa's plan to ban several single-use plastic items but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he’s confident the attempt will fail.
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Drones tackle Okanagan blaze as cool weather helps bring B.C. wildfires under control

Drones tackle Okanagan blaze as cool weather helps bring B.C. wildfires under control

PENTICTON — Drones are helping map hot spots in a wildfire burning in British Columbia's Okanagan region as cooler conditions helped firefighters elsewhere in the province bring blazes under control.
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Quebec public health wants smelter's arsenic emissions cut to 5 times provincial norm

Quebec public health wants smelter's arsenic emissions cut to 5 times provincial norm

MONTREAL — Quebec’s public health director is recommending that arsenic levels in the air of a western Quebec city be reduced significantly, but even then they would remain five times higher than the provincial standard. Dr.
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World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies

World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies

OTTAWA — The world food crisis, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is leading to a rise in underage girls being forced into marriage, Canadian aid agencies warn.
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