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The following timeline of Tuesday's shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is based on information provided by RCMP, B.C. government officials and BC Emergency Health Services. Times are Mountain Time. Feb...

OTTAWA - NATO launched its promised new initiative in the Arctic on Wednesday, and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada wants the operation made permanent. "We're seeing Operation Arctic S...

VICTORIA - The five members of the tiny RCMP detachment in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., are being credited with saving lives during a shooting attack that left 10 dead, including the suspect. British Columbia...

RCMP say officers had a history of visiting the home of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for Tuesday's mass shooting at a high school and a residence in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. They say t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has cancelled his plans to travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia. Carney was to spend Wednesday afternoon in...

OTTAWA - Mass shootings in Canada - including an April 2020 rampage in Nova Scotia - have helped to spur changes to gun laws in recent decades. Few details were available Wednesday on the type of fire...

MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians is welcoming a provincial bill that would give more powers to professions like nurses and midwives, but says it wants to see more details in the le...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians from all parties came together Wednesday to mark National Kindness Week - but the message is taking on a different meaning after the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Nati...

OTTAWA - Flags on federal buildings will be flown at half-mast for seven days to honour the victims of Tuesday's deadly shooting in B.C., Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday. A visibly emotional...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he has heard from a number of world leaders offering condolences in the wake of Tuesday's deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Police continue...