TORONTO — A Shawn Mendes marketing campaign encouraging young fans to buy every single copy of the teen-pop heart-throb's new album from local stores is eliciting outrage from child advocacy groups.
OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs has been on a hiring spree this week, but the minister in charge says it's not a signal that the Conservative government believes cuts to the bureaucracy went too far.
The names released by police are Adam Lakatos, Derrick Bequette, Chadanjot Gill, Shakiel Basra, Sukhpreet Pansal, Sukhraj Chahal, Tirath Taggar and Charandeep Tiwana, all from Surrey or Delta. Mounties have determined 11 of 19 shootings are related to groups of South Asia and Somalian descent
TORONTO — An Afghan immigrant found guilty of second-degree murder after nearly decapitating his wife is appealing his conviction, arguing the judge who presided over his trial made several errors.
The BC Coroners Service says Taylor Archer of New Westminster, B.C., was climbing near the King Edward access logging area with some friends.
VANCOUVER — Search and rescue crews have found the bodies of two pilots in and around the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed in heavily treed mountains north of Vancouver.