President-elect Donald Trump says Justin Trudeau resigned because he knows the U.S. will not put up with trade deficits with Canada and says many Canadians would love being the 51st state.
Trump reiterated his rhetoric about Canada joining the United States in a post on Truth Social after Trudeau’s announcement that he will resign as Liberal leader and prime minister as soon as a new leader is chosen.
More to come.
The B-C Supreme Court says WestJet must turn over harassment complaint files spanning years covered by a long-running class-action lawsuit launched by flight attendants over alleged sexual harassment by company pilots. The court ruling says WestJet has been slow to hand over documents in the case, which was filed in 2016 by lead plaintiff Mandalena Lewis.
The two men found guilty of human smuggling in the case of a family from India who froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba in 2022 are seeking acquittal, or new trials. The two men, Steve Shand of Florida and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national arrested in Chicago, were convicted by a Minnesota jury in November on all four counts each were facing.
Edmonton Police have laid charges after a woman was found dead on a bank of the North Saskatchewan River last week. In a news release, police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder.
Government data shows the number of Albertans receiving provincial income support has reached a five-year high. As of October, almost 57,500 residents were getting income support.
Vancouver Police say they arrested an armed man in Kitsilano who tried to hide from officers in a dumpster. The Vancouver Police Department says officers used a police dog and a beanbag shotgun in the arrest of the man who had reportedly been in people's backyards in the area of the Arbutus greenway.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says more cases of Avian flu have been detected in B-C. The agency says the virus was detected over the weekend at a commercial poultry property in Abbotsford.