VANCOUVER—A Canadian man who spent eight months in Syrian prisons said he wept three times on his flight back because he was so excited to finally be coming home.
Kristian Baxter of Nanaimo, B.C., returned to Vancouver on Saturday, just days after he was released from Syrian custody thanks in part to Lebanese mediation.
Michelle Gray says she's afraid to get behind the wheel again after having her licence suspended for failing a cannabis saliva test in Nova Scotia, even though she passed a police administered sobriety test the same night.
VANCOUVER—Notorious serial killer and pig farmer Robert Pickton has been transferred to a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the family of the one of his victims said yesterday.
CENTRAL SAANICH, B.C.—When Tsawout First Nation Chief Harvey Underwood looks up at the stars, he knows his community has a place among them.
That's because floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is a newly-discovered minor planet that bears his community's name.
VANCOUVER—A witness to the double-shooting in Vancouver that caused one woman to lose her unborn child says she's relieved police have made an arrest in the case.
Dollie Middleton said she punched the man she alleges shot a pregnant woman and her friend as he fled the scene of the shooting Friday morning.
A U.K. man who lost three toes to frostbite in a Yukon race says he can't think of a better place for the digits to go than into people's drinks.
Nick Griffiths plans to donate his amputated appendages to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon—home of the famed Sourtoe Cocktail.
Mike MacDonald, a pioneer of the Canadian standup comedy scene, has died.
The longtime comedian died Saturday afternoon from heart complications at the Ottawa Heart Institute, his brother, J.P. MacDonald, said yesterday.
He was 62.
