Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg: NYT report
OTTAWA - China's highest court has overturned a Canadian man's death sentence, The New York Times is reporting. The death sentence ordered for British Columbia native Robert Lloyd Schellenberg in 2019...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

CP NewsAlert: China overturns death sentence for Canadian: report
OTTAWA - China's highest court has overturned a Canadian man's death sentence, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says the death sentence ordered for B.C. native Robert Lloyd Schellenberg after...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Candidate says he plans to run for Conservatives in Poilievre's former riding
OTTAWA - Blair Turner, a police officer from the Ottawa area, says he plans to run for the Conservative nomination in Pierre Poilievre's former riding of Carleton. Turner ran for the Tories in Ottawa ...
Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Pipeline protest created safety risks, but journalists were let in, says RCMP officer
VANCOUVER - The senior RCMP officer co-ordinating enforcement at a British Columbia pipeline protest in 2021 says journalists were permitted to go through an "access control point" set up by police, a...
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Union files complaints as feds increase public servants' in-office time
OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union has filed several unfair labour practice complaints - and another union is warning of a possible strike - as the government moves to increase publ...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Canadian Tire ordered to pay nearly $1.3 million for false advertising
MONTREAL - Canadian Tire has been ordered to pay just under $1.3 million after pleading guilty to 74 counts of violating sections of Quebec's Consumer Protection Act related to false advertising. Crow...
Pierre Saint-Arnaud, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Greenland's foreign minister hails new Canadian consulate as 'historic'
NUUK - The Canadian flag was raised and dozens of people joined in a spontaneous version of O Canada on Friday as Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand officially opened the new consulate in Nuuk, Gree...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

Fitness trial begins for man accused of killing B.C. Mountie Shaelyn Yang in 2022
VANCOUVER - The hearing to determine if a man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang is fit to stand trial has begun in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. Jongwon Ham, who appeared at the hearing...
Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

B.C. needs new mental health hospital, psychiatrist tells inquest into family's death
BURNABY - A psychiatrist with British Columbia's Northern Health authority has called for a new mental health hospital in B.C. in her testimony to an inquest into the deaths of a Prince Rupert family....
Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026

CP NewsAlert: Gov. Gen. Simon, Anand open new consulate in Greenland
NUUK - Canada's new consulate in Greenland is officially open. The consulate has been operating quietly for several weeks but Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand are in Green...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2026










