VANCOUVER — The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man shot by transit police in Surrey, B.C.
Naverone Woods was originally from Hazelton but was staying in Surrey.
The 23-year-old was shot at a Safeway store just after 8 a.m. Sunday.
He was transported to hospital and pronounced dead soon after arrival.
The Independent Investigations Office and the coroners service are still investigating.
Woods' family has been notified of his death.
CALGARY — If low crude prices are keeping the new boss of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers up at night, he didn't show it when he spoke to a Calgary business audience.
OTTAWA — The Senate has passed an obscure private member's bill from a Conservative senator that has caused a diplomatic spat between Canada and Vietnam.
WASHINGTON — A United States Senate panel has delivered a scathing indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency's counter-terrorism practices during the Bush era.
OTTAWA — The official Opposition pointed to a new U.S. report that discredits torture in renewing a call for the Conservative government to rescind its information-sharing policy.
EDMONTON — Premier Jim Prentice says his government will be dealing with a $6-billion to $7-billion hole in Alberta's $40-billion provincial budget if low oil prices persist.
Companies would be forced to justify why their prices are higher in Canada than in the United States or face naming and shaming under federal legislation introduced Tuesday — a move some critics called misguided.