4 h. ago Downtown businesses in Vancouver, Victoria decry desperate public safety situation

VANCOUVER — Alan Goodall has owned the Aura nightclub in Vancouver’s entertainment district for 16 years, and says the business’s situation has never been worse. “Just in the last month alone, my ceiling has caved in in three different locations, three times,” Goodall said of club, located on the ground floor of the former Howard […]

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5 h. ago 'Our building is on fire': New Edmonton church forced to pivot after Monday fire

Even a fire won’t stop this group from coming together, though they may have to find another place to preach. RIG Global Edmonton, a new church to the city that has yet to open, won’t be hosting its first services in the Stony Plain Road building like it planned, but Pastor Samuel Kanza said the […]

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8 h. ago Accused in Quebec truck attack threatens prosecutor, tells judge to shut up at trial

Steeve Gagnon, accused in the deadly Amqui truck attack, gave volatile testimony, threatening court officials and asking to be sentenced to life in prison.

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9 h. ago Edmonton man facing multiple charges of arson and uttering death threats: EPS

Police are continuing to investigate, but they believe at this time there is no known connection to Project Gaslight or previous arson investigations

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10 h. ago Edmonton man guilty of torching homes in central Edmonton; court heard fires were set at behest of notorious slain landlord

The man accused of torching nearly a dozen Edmonton homes at the behest of a notorious inner-city landlord has been found guilty of setting a majority of the fires. Court of King’s Bench Justice Nathan Whitling on Thursday gave his decision in the long-running trial of Darcy Willier, finding he had no reasonable doubt about […]

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10 h. ago Edmonton man guilty of torching homes in Alberta Avenue area; court heard fires were set at behest of notorious slain landlord

The man accused of torching nearly a dozen Edmonton homes at the behest of a notorious inner-city landlord has been found guilty of setting a majority of the fires. Court of King’s Bench Justice Nathan Whitling on Thursday gave his decision in the long-running trial of Darcy Willier, finding he had no reasonable doubt about […]

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11 h. ago Oklahoma executes a man who was transferred from federal custody by Trump officials

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m., prison officials said. Hanson was sentenced to die after he was convicted […]

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26 h. ago Former pastor sentenced to 3 1/2 years for arson to Ukrainian priest's Victoria home

Walter (Theo) Machinski of Nanaimo had pleaded guilty to one count of arson with disregard for human life in setting the fire at the Caledonia Avenue home in 2022

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26 h. ago Nanaimo man handed 3.5 years in prison for arson at Ukrainian priest’s Victoria home

Walter 'Theo' Machinski pleaded guilty to one count of arson with disregard for human life for setting the fire at the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church.

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28 h. ago Welcome to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street: Vancouver's newest street name is also its first using alphabet other than English

Vancouver follows the City of Victoria, which in 2022 changed all of its Trutch Street signs to Su’it Street, removing the name of the early colonial politician.

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28 h. ago Almost half of downtown Victoria businesses open to leaving if lease expires: Survey

A new report from a Victoria business group says 48 per cent of downtown businesses would consider moving out of the core if their lease was up this year.

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30 h. ago Cops rush into burning Surrey home to rescue seniors, arson suspected

After evacuating six residents from a basement suite, officers learned there were still two people upstairs and had to break into the home to rescue them.

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31 h. ago B.C. man’s ‘relatively modest’ child porn collection doesn’t merit jail time, judge rules

Mark Keenan pleaded guilty but says six images were part of a solo ‘sting operation’ to catch pedophiles

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32 h. ago Child pornography collection was ‘relatively modest’ so no jail, judge rules

WARNING: Graphic details A British Columbia man scored the break of a lifetime on child pornography charges after a judge deemed his collection of filth “relatively modest.” Mark Keenan, 54, was convicted on child pornography charges but will be allowed to serve his sentence in the community. He pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child […]

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39 h. ago Summer McIntosh just misses breaking oldest women’s record by blink of an eye

VICTORIA — Summer McIntosh came within a blink of an eye of breaking swimming’s oldest women’s world record at the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials on Tuesday night. With a sold-out crowd’s cheers ringing in her ears, the 18-year-old from Toronto swam the 200-metre butterfly in 2:02.26 _ just .45 off the record of 2:01.81 set […]

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40 h. ago Bitget Protection Fund Surges over 140% Since Inception Hits All Time High of $725M

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, has released a May 2025 report for its user security fund called the Protection Fund, which hit a new peak valuation of $725.1 million in May, marking its highest level since inception. The fund, designed to safeguard user assets […]

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45 h. ago Bitget CEO Gracy Chen Featured in Coindesk’s Top 50 Women in Web3 and AI

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company is excited to share that Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, has been featured in CoinDesk’s 2025 list of the Top 50 Women in Web3 and AI, an esteemed recognition that celebrates influential leaders shaping the future of digital finance […]

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50 h. ago Retton pleads no contest to DUI, says she’s committed to making changes

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — American gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton on Tuesday entered a no contest plea to driving under the influence stemming from a May traffic stop in her hometown of Fairmont, W.Va. A Marion County judge fined her $100, consistent with sentencing guidelines for first-time, non-aggravated offences, her attorney Edmund J. Rollo said in […]

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51 h. ago Former British soldier sentenced to four years for ‘vicious, unprovoked’ fatal bar beating

A visiting U.K. soldier who killed a Manitoba businessman in a Toronto bar has been sentenced to 52 months in prison for manslaughter. Less credit for pre-trial custody, Craig Gibson has 49 months left to serve. The Scotland-born Gibson, 30, was convicted by a jury last December of killing Brett Sheffield at the Locals Only […]

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53 h. ago New details revealed in fatal ambush of London woman in her driveway

New details about the fatal shooting of a woman outside her London home in 2021 were revealed at a sentencing hearing for a Toronto man

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