Two people have been arrested in Quesnel after a home invasion early Sunday morning.
Police say two suspects broke into a home shortly after 2 a.m., sprayed a person inside with bear spray and damaged several items inside.
The suspects and the victim were known to each other, and police later went to a home with a search warrant where they arrested a 22-year-old woman.
A 26-year-old man, who was reported to have a handgun during the robbery, hasn’t been found yet.
Education support workers began gathering under pitch-black pre-dawn skies in Edmonton and some nearby communities as a strike got underway. The workers, bundled in coats and scarves and gripping signs, are calling for what they term fair wages from the Edmonton Public School Board and Sturgeon Public School Division.
A search and rescue team on Vancouver Island says it rescued a man who suffered a "serious fall" while skiing at Mt. Cain this weekend. Comox Valley Search & Rescue says in a post to social media that members responded to rescue the unconscious 35-year-old from the mountain's west bowl on Saturday.
Canada is joining its closest allies in denouncing Venezuela's crackdown on democracy — the first G7 foreign policy statement since Canada began chairing the group this year. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was inaugurated Friday for a third six-year term, after a July election widely seen as illegitimate.
Federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines will stop this year and the provinces and territories will be responsible for buying them, as well as determining the timing of the vaccinations, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. The agency published the information online on Friday, along with the National Advisory Committee on Immunization's COVID-19 vaccine guidance for 2025 through to the summer of 2026.
The Saskatchewan and federal governments have announced an agreement for coverage of select new drugs for rare diseases. Ottawa says the plan is to invest more than $40 million to cover three drugs that treat certain cancers and a urinary issue.
The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade and their shortest in the party's modern history to replace Justin Trudeau. He announced Jan. 6 that he will step down as soon as a national vote is completed to elect his successor.