October 2025

Twenty-three acts of bravery and lifesaving in B.C. were honoured at Surrey Police headquarters on Friday afternoon, Oct. 24. Stories involving fiery highway crashes, beach rescues, house fires and medical emergencies were among those told during an annual ceremony hosted by the B.C. chapter of Royal Canadian Humane Association (RCHA), a group that honours ordinary […]

The suspect arrested after the stabbing death of a man from Nanaimo in Calgary two years ago will spend life behind bars. Edward Brett Davidson, 39, was killed in an unprovoked assault at his Calgary condominium complex in August 2022, Calgary Police Service said in a press release at the time. Cory Carl Miklic, 44,

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his province’s advertising campaign will continue through the weekend – during the first two games of the World Series – but will be paused, effective Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account Thursday (Oct. 23) to blast the ad campaign, saying Canada “fraudulently used an advertisement

New energy legislation is making critics uneasy as the B.C. government again moves to consolidate its authority to expedite major projects — or to hold them back. Warning of the “insatiable demand for power” from artificial intelligence (AI), data centres and cryptocurrency mining, Energy and Climate Solutions Minister Adrian Dix is justifying the moves by

UPDATE: 6:30 p.m. Fire crews appear to have got the blaze on Knox Mountain under control, with some help from Mother Nature. Despite strong wind gusts earlier in the day, rain started to fall in Kelowna just before 5 p.m., helping to douse the flames that were reportedly intentionally set by an individual on Friday.