SAANICH, B.C. – British Columbia’s police complaint commissioner says two Vancouver Island officers are alleged to have had inappropriate relationships with sex workers and both left their positions during misconduct investigations. The substantiated allegations are detailed in the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner’s annual report, which says one officer resigned while the other retired. Neither officer is […]

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first state visit to Panama at the start of December, the Panamanian presidency said in a statement on Thursday, deepening ties that have sparked harsh rebukes from the United States. Last year, the two countries established diplomatic relations after Panama broke off ties with […]

A rescue team from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the Vancouver Aquarium were on the water in Cowichan Bay on Thursday, looking for the sea lion seen with a thick plastic band wrapped around its neck. However, they could not locate the animal. The sea lion was first seen about a week […]

Almost a year after he was last heard from by his family, Toronto police are asking for the public’s assistance in finding a missing 24-year-old Kitchener man. Police said in a statement on Thursday that Yoseph Birhanu-Baynesagn left his family’s home on Nov. 23, 2017, and made his way to Toronto. The following day he […]

Hundreds of volunteers and police officers spent the Thanksgiving holiday combing through the wreckage of California’s deadliest wildfire, searching for the remains of victims killed in the blaze as rains looked set to complicate their work. The Camp Fire killed at least 83 people and 563 are still unaccounted for in and around Paradise, a […]

New Brunswick is stepping in after multiple complaints were made by Saint John residents over explosions and excessive noise at the American Iron & Metal Company Inc. (AIM) facility over the past two weeks. The province’s department of environment and local government has issued an order for AIM to shut down all operations “effective immediately.” […]

Spain is threatening to derail the Brexit deal over a tiny peninsula at the centre of its long running row with the UK. Spain is threatening to oppose a deal on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union unless it gets assurances over the disputed peninsula of Gibraltar. Unlike the much-discussed issue of avoiding […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Here are key elements of a 26-page Political Declaration on EU-UK ties after Brexit, due to be approved by leaders on Sunday. The full text is here: here INTRODUCTION ** The EU and UK aim for “ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership across trade and economic cooperation, law enforcement and criminal justice, […]

“Whip out our CF-18’s and show them how big they are,” said Justin Trudeau in 2014, before he became prime minister. According to federal Auditor General Michael Ferguson, Canada will be severely limited as far as any whipping out of our ancient flying platforms is concerned. We’re short of pilots, short of technicians and woefully […]

Toronto police are looking for the driver of a vehicle who fled the scene of a collision in Etobicoke early Thursday morning. The crash happened around midnight near The Westway and Trehorne Drive just west of Royal York Road. Police said the vehicle collided into two hydro poles and ended up flipped over on someone’s […]