Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is weighing whether to ask the Vatican to repeal the Papal Bulls of Discovery that granted 15th-century explorers the right to conquer the New World and the "heathen" aboriginals that called it home.
VANCOUVER — The Canadian Coast Guard says two occupants have been rescued from a float plane that crashed between two of B.C.'s Gulf Islands.
VANCOUVER — A man panhandling outside a downtown Vancouver Tim Hortons says the restaurant's owner could have taken better measures than tossing water to remove a homeless man snoozing outside the store.
Officers say 55-year-old Rayna Johnson was involved in a fight at a modular home park that involved several people and died at the scene.
A Japanese tourist visiting Rajasthan and a teenaged schoolgirl in West Bengal said they were raped, while eight men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the gang rape and brutal murder of a mentally challenged Nepali woman in Haryana, police in the three states said Monday.
GOLDEN, B.C. — One skier is in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after an avalanche in southeast British Columbia.