Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou want the judge overseeing the Huawei executive’s extradition proceedings to conclude that a key RCMP witness refused to testify because he would have undermined the Crown’s case.

The federal government is promising a new national justice strategy to counter the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system. British Columbia’s model suggests a place to start.

Alongside COVID-19, another pandemic has wreaked havoc on the security and well-being of anyone it touches: violence against women and girls in this country.

A Canadian nurse living in the U.S. says two months is too long to wait for permission to provide care in a short-staffed B.C. hospital. She has been trying to get her a quarantine exemption to work with older patients as soon as possible but so far it hasn’t come.

Fresh off a personal-best throw, Canadian shot putter Sarah Mitton stayed active when the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago. She worked diligently in the weight room and with a sports psychologist, and is getting the desired results early in an Olympic year.

The federal government is urging the provinces to use its COVID Alert app properly and more widely after a new report said that only five per cent of those who have tested positive for the virus have been given the information required to register their results.

A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou accused Canadian authorities Wednesday of having a “flagrant disregard” for the Constitution, the courts and the truth in their eagerness to assist American law enforcement officers in their attempts to extradite the Huawei executive.

Deliveries of vaccine doses to Canada have been ramping up in size and frequency. But due to the vaccination campaign’s slow start — and the recent emergence of highly contagious virus variants — governments and public health officials are under enormous pressure to deliver first doses as swiftly as possible.

Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease.

B.C. officials are setting more traps along the B.C. – Washington state border and asking citizens to help in the effort to eradicate the the insect also known as the “murder hornet.”