Farmers hopeful BC Tree Fruits can be saved despite private company setting up at former site
For the first time since the BC Tree Fruits Cooperative went into receivership in late July, apples are once again arriving at one of its sites in Kelowna. But it’s…
Alberta towns, villages, cities oppose provincial government’s ban on vote-counting machines
Alberta municipal leaders are calling for the provincial government to reverse its plan to ban vote counting machines, saying it’s more costly and time consuming to count by hand. However,…
Ontario garbage truck driver dead after major collision
The female driver of a Mississauga, Ont., garbage truck is dead after a serious crash on Thursday afternoon. Police were called to the area of Goreway Drive and Derry Road…
Injured Nylander leaves Maple Leafs game as precaution
William Nylander was knocked out of Thursday’s exhibition game with an apparent upper-body injury. The Maple Leafs, who could ill afford the absence of a 40-goal forward and one of…
‘Verge of collapse’: Abbotsford surgeon says hospital conditions are ‘unsafe’
More front–line physicians are speaking out about what they see as a crisis in some of B.C.’s busiest hospitals. Dr. Greg Lewis, a vascular surgeon at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, described…
Eby stung, but wasp gets worst of ‘fatal’ encounter on B.C. campaign trail
British Columbia NDP leader David Eby was upstaged by a wasp that flew down his shirt and stung him during a news conference. Eby was delivering remarks in Chilliwack on…
Japan court acquits former boxer of murder after decades on death row
Judge acknowledges Iwao Hakamada was wrongfully convicted for murders at miso factory in 1966. Iwao Hakamada, who spent almost half of a century on death row, in Hamamatsu, Japan, following…
Hong Kong jails editors of now closed Stand News for ‘sedition’
Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen sentenced to 21 months in jail under colonial-era law, while his colleague Patrick Lam gets 11 months. Chung Pui-kuen, former chief editor of the Stand News,…
Who’s in the running to be Japan’s next prime minister?
Japan’s governing party is choosing a new leader in a race analysts say is more unpredictable than usual. A record number of candidates are contesting Friday’s election Japan’s governing party…
Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country’s second nitrogen gas execution
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated…