TAHSIS, B.C. — The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a necropsy performed on a killer whale found floating in a Vancouver Island inlet suggests no clear cause of death.
NANAIMO, B.C. — An RCMP officer on Vancouver Island has been acquitted of aggravated assault at his second trial.
OTTAWA — Canada's privacy commissioner has launched an investigation over concerns the RCMP might be using a controversial mass-surveillance device to spy on Canadians.
The agency says the zoo's owner, Michael Hackenberger, is charged with four counts of causing an animal distress and one of failing to comply with the prescribed standards of care for an animal.
Firing the top officer who gave sweeping and illegal arrest orders at the G20 summit six years ago would be absurd under the circumstances, his lawyer said Thursday.
The case involves Canadian citizens who were denied ballots in the 2011 federal election on the grounds of their foreign residence.