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An RCMP epaulette is seen in Edmonton, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

10 dead, including female suspect, in ‘devastating’ shootings at B.C. school and home

The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:40 PM CST

TUMBLER RIDGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - RCMP say eight people, including the female suspect, are dead after a shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., while two more bodies were found at a home believed to be connected to the incident.

RCMP North District Commander Supt. Ken Floyd said police were "not in a place" to understand why the shootings took place on Tuesday afternoon at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and a residence in the community in B.C.'s Peace region, and he did not give the ages of the victims.

Floyd said more than 25 people were hurt at the school, including two with life-threatening injuries, while an alert for residents to shelter in place was lifted after police determined there were no other suspects.

He said he could not provide details about the shooter, who was found dead at the school with what were believed to be self-inflicted injuries, but confirmed they were the same person described in the alert as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

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Carney says he spoke to Trump after president threatened to block Gordie Howe bridge

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Carney says he spoke to Trump after president threatened to block Gordie Howe bridge

Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:51 PM CST

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Donald Trump's threat to stall the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge will be resolved following a call with the U.S. president Tuesday.

"I explained that Canada paid for the construction of the bridge — $4 billion — that the ownership is shared between the state of Michigan and the Government of Canada," Carney told reporters in Ottawa before the weekly cabinet meeting.

The prime minister said he also told Trump that Canadian and American steel and workers were involved in the bridge's construction.

In a social media post late Monday, Trump insisted the U.S. must be compensated before he'll allow the bridge to open. He claimed the bridge was built with virtually no U.S. content.

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Updated: Yesterday at 2:51 PM CST

Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an announcement while visiting an auto parts plant in Woodbridge, Ont., on Feb. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima

Homicide-suicide ruling in 2023 deaths of family in Prince Rupert, B.C.

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Homicide-suicide ruling in 2023 deaths of family in Prince Rupert, B.C.

Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:19 PM CST

BURNABY - The jury in a British Columbia coroner's inquest into the deaths of a family of four in Prince Rupert in 2023 has found that they died of homicide and suicide, and recommended that police be informed when someone they have brought to hospital under the Mental Health Act is released.

The jury found on Tuesday that 38-year-old Christopher Duong died of self-inflicted wounds to the neck, while Janet Nguyen, 35, and the couple's sons aged two and four, were all found to have died by homicide on June 13, 2023. Nguyen was found to have died of ligature strangulation, while the boys were asphyxiated.

They were found dead in bed together, three days after Duong was detained by police under the Mental Health Act but then released a few hours later.

The jury issued nine recommendations, including suggesting to the Ministry of Health that hospital admission forms be changed to allow an apprehending police officer to be contacted when a person is released from involuntary admission.

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Updated: Yesterday at 8:19 PM CST

A snowy mountain top is seen in Prince Rupert, B.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

A list of some school shootings that have happened in Canada

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A list of some school shootings that have happened in Canada

Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:10 PM CST

Eight people, including a suspect, are dead after a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in B.C.'s Peace region on Tuesday afternoon. Police say two other people were found dead at a home in the community, while about two dozen were hurt at the school.

Here is a look at some other school shootings in Canada:

La Loche high school, Sask: On Jan. 22, 2016, Randan Dakota Fontaine shot two of his cousins dead, then killed a teacher and a teacher's aide at the La Loche high school.

Les Racines de vie Montessori, Gatineau, Que.: On April 5, 2013, two men were killed during a shooting at the school's daycare. The shooter was identified as Robert Charron. Thirty-eight-year-old Neil Galliou was killed before Charron took his own life. Charron told staff to take the 53 children to safety before he opened fire.

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Students wear pink in honour of Anastasia De Sousa before they re-enter Dawson College in Montreal Monday, Sept. 18, 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Montreal man arrested over alleged link to Ryan Wedding: FBI

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Montreal man arrested over alleged link to Ryan Wedding: FBI

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 7:55 PM CST

A Montreal man wanted in connection with a criminal organization allegedly run by former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding has been arrested in the United States.

The FBI says 35-year-old Tommy Demorizi was arrested on Tuesday at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.

It says he was wanted for multiple offences, including allegedly helping locate a witness who was later killed.

Demorizi faces charges including conspiracy to distribute and export cocaine, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to tamper with a witness.

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FILE - An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is displayed on a video monitor along with bricks of cocaine, foreground, during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Carney suspends trip to Europe following B.C. school shooting

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Carney suspends trip to Europe following B.C. school shooting

The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 11:05 PM CST

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended his plans to travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia.

Carney said in a statement he is devastated by the horrific shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and that he joins Canadians in "grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today."

RCMP say eight people, including the female suspect, are dead after a shooting at a school in the northeastern B.C. town.

Two more bodies were found at a home that is a location believed to be connected to the incident.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an announcement while visiting an auto-parts plant in Woodbridge, Ont., Feb. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima

Ukrainians push for permanent residency in Canada as war with Russia grinds on

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Ukrainians push for permanent residency in Canada as war with Russia grinds on

David Baxter, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:24 AM CST

OTTAWA - Roksolana Kryshtanovych never planned on moving to Canada before Russia's war, but the invasion made it impossible for her to go home to Ukraine.

In the years since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, she said, Canada has become her new home. But without a path to permanent residency, she and thousands of other Ukrainians here face an uncertain future as the war drags on.

Immigration Minister Lena Diab has acknowledged many of these visa holders are no longer here temporarily — but the government has no concrete solution yet to their plight.

Now, her government is under new pressure to open a permanent residency pathway for the nearly 300,000 Ukrainians like Kryshtanovych who came to Canada through the emergency visa program.

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Updated: Yesterday at 6:24 AM CST

Roksolana Kryshtanovych is pictured in Toronto on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Proctor

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Canadian ICC judge says Trump’s sanctions won’t stop her from doing her job

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Canadian ICC judge says Trump’s sanctions won’t stop her from doing her job

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:40 PM CST

OTTAWA - When International Criminal Court judge Kimberly Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain that she can't pay for a room with a credit card — because she's been sanctioned by the Trump administration.

Ebooks suddenly vanish from the Winnipeg-born jurist's devices and she tries to dissuade well-meaning friends from running afoul of U.S. sanction laws by buying things on her behalf. She said it's all part of an absurd campaign of daily annoyances imposed by Washington since she was sanctioned last August.

But Prost told The Canadian Press she is determined not to stop fighting for international law and the support she hears from individual Canadians has helped her to carry on.

"It just starts to permeate your life, and every day there's something," she said. "You're anxious a lot about what's going to happen next."

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Updated: Yesterday at 4:40 PM CST

This composite image shows Kimberly Prost, left, a judge on the International Criminal Court, in an undated handout photo, and a view of the International Criminal Court, right, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - International Criminal Court (left), AP-Omar Havana (right)

Ottawa ‘probably’ will announce winner of submarine contract this year: MP

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Ottawa ‘probably’ will announce winner of submarine contract this year: MP

Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press 1 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:42 PM CST

OTTAWA - The federal government may name the winner of the heated competition to supply the navy with a fleet of new submarines as soon as this year.

Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procurement, says Ottawa will "probably" announce a winner this year — and declared the vessels will be in the water by 2032.

He made the comments today before a House of Commons committee meeting, adding the government needs to quickly start building new infrastructure so it is ready for the new boats when they arrive.

Canada is in the market for a new fleet of up to 12 new submarines — a massive, multi-billion-dollar contract.

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Updated: Yesterday at 9:42 PM CST

Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state (Defence Procurement), leaves following a press conference regarding the Defence Investment Agency in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

CAQ leadership candidate Fréchette promises to revive fast-track immigration program

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CAQ leadership candidate Fréchette promises to revive fast-track immigration program

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QUÉBEC - Christine Fréchette, leadership candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, is promising to revive a popular fast-track immigration program that her government had recently ended.

She says if she's elected to replace Premier François Legault, she would reopen the Programme de l'expérience québécoise — known as the PEQ — for two years.

The decision by the Legault government to end the PEQ in November sparked street protests and strong criticism from municipal politicians and business leaders who feared that qualified workers would be forced the leave the province.

Fréchette's rival in the leadership race, Bernard Drainville, has said he would offer a "grandfather clause" for the PEQ, allowing people in priority sectors, like education or health care, to remain in the province.

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Christine Fréchette speaks to the media during the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) caucus meeting in Trois-Rivières, Que., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Procurement minister says loans to Canada Post aren’t a ‘long-term solution’

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Procurement minister says loans to Canada Post aren’t a ‘long-term solution’

Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:43 PM CST

OTTAWA - Federal Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound is defending the government's latest $1 billion loan to Canada Post but says federal support can't be a "long-term solution" for the Crown corporation.

The federal government is making $1.01 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services running.

The new sum is in addition to a $1.03 billion loan Ottawa announced in January 2025.

"It's no secret that Canada Post has major financial problems and is going through an essential transformation time," the minister said in French at a House of Commons committee hearing Tuesday.

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Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Joel Lightbound rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Suspect pleads not guilty to murder in Vancouver Starbucks stabbing trial

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Suspect pleads not guilty to murder in Vancouver Starbucks stabbing trial

Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:00 PM CST

VANCOUVER - A 25-second confrontation on the patio of a Vancouver café left a man pushing a stroller lying in a pool of blood after he was stabbed six times in the chest, a British Columbia court has heard.

The bloody video of the fatal stabbing on March 26, 2023, was played in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday on the first day of Inderdeep Singh Gosal's murder trial.

Crown prosecutor Karin Blok said the "primary issue" for the court to consider was intent and whether it could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Gosal intended to cause Paul Schmidt bodily harm that he knew was likely to cause death.

Gosal pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Schmidt before Blok showed videos of Gosal's movements on the day of the confrontation.

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Updated: Yesterday at 6:00 PM CST

The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Conservative MP requests to skip scheduled pay raise

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Conservative MP requests to skip scheduled pay raise

Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 1:58 PM CST

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mike Dawson says he can't "in good conscience" accept the pay raise members of Parliament are supposed to get in April because it's unfair when Canadians are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living.

MPs are set to receive a 4.2 per cent raise on April which the New Brunswick MP says is "frankly distasteful."

Dawson says he didn't get into politics for the money.

He says he has already met with officials from the House of Commons to refuse the scheduled pay increase.

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Chairs and desks sit empty in the Chamber of the House of Commons, in Ottawa, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Montreal police chief says officers’ arrests in Toronto a ‘sad moment’ for policing

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Montreal police chief says officers’ arrests in Toronto a ‘sad moment’ for policing

Pierre Saint-Arnaud, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 3:19 PM CST

MONTREAL - The recent arrests of several Toronto officers in an organized crime investigation is a dark spot for law enforcement in Canada, but police services across the country do their best to guard against corruption, Montreal's police chief said Tuesday.

"Trust me, we're doing the best we can to avoid that kind of event," Fady Dagher told reporters.

"It's a very sad moment for the police in Canada, what happened in Toronto."

Seven current Toronto officers and one retired officer were among 27 suspects charged in an investigation led by York Regional Police, which uncovered alleged bribery, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking. Three Peel Regional Police officers have also been suspended but not charged in connection with the same probe.

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Montreal police chief Fady Dagher speaks in Montreal on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

First Nation in N.S. says it’s declaring a state of emergency due to illicit drugs

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First Nation in N.S. says it’s declaring a state of emergency due to illicit drugs

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:02 PM CST

SIPEKNE’KATIK FIRST NATION - A First Nation in Nova Scotia says it is declaring a state of emergency over what its chief and council are calling an escalating crisis of addiction and illicit drugs in the community.

Sipekne’katik First Nation, located about 60 kilometres north of Halifax, says its council moved to begin the process of declaring a state of emergency during a meeting Sunday.

"We are facing too many emergencies, overdoses and tragedies. The loss, fear and trauma experienced by our families, elders, youth and front-line workers cannot be ignored," reads a statement released Tuesday.

Sipekne’katik did not immediately provide details of how a state of emergency declaration would be applied.

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Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Ottawa plans to add 8,000 new electric vehicle charging ports in Canada

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Ottawa plans to add 8,000 new electric vehicle charging ports in Canada

Nick Murray, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:57 PM CST

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking to increase the number of electric vehicle chargers across the country through its new automotive strategy — but is still well short of the number it was told it needs to support the transition to battery-powered cars.

Energy Minister Tim Hodson said Tuesday the government is planning to spend more than $84.4 million to add 8,000 electric vehicle charging ports to Canada's existing stock of more than 30,000.

The announcement did not cite a timeline for getting the charging ports in place. It's also not clear whether Ottawa will be footing the entire cost of the 122 projects to build more chargers, or just a portion of it.

Hodgson held a news conference on Parliament Hill alongside Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin and Transport Minister Steve MacKinnon, but the ministers took only a few questions from reporters.

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Updated: Yesterday at 5:57 PM CST

February 11, 2026

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