VANCOUVER — A trial is set to start today for two people accused of plotting to use pressure-cooker bombs to attack the British Columbia legislature on Canada Day.
One person has been killed in a head-on crash on Highway 1 near Salmon Arm, B.C. RCMP say a car and a commercial vehicle were travelling in opposite directions, and they collided on a curved stretch of the highway Sunday morning.
VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Minister of Transportation has confirmed that a proposed Metro Vancouver transit tax would simply be added to the provincial sales tax on receipts.
TORONTO — There is one winning ticket for Saturday night's $10 million Lotto 649 jackpot — and it was purchased somewhere in Ontario.
OTTAWA — Canada's middle class is the darling of doting politicians everywhere — the focus of a growing list of election promises, the subject of endless speeches, the precious vote-rich prize whose support can make or break a political party in this year's federal election.
OTTAWA — The head of a new international commission wants Canada's tough-talking foreign affairs minister to help him reform the United Nations World Health Organization because it responded too slowly to the Ebola crisis.