Author: The Canadian Post
Brandon Teixeira, convicted last August of first-degree murder in the 2017 Surrey killing of Nicholas Khabra, asked B.C. Supreme Court on Jan. 5, 2026, to stay the case, arguing nearly eight years of delay violated his Charter right to a timely trial. The Crown blamed his flight to California. A conviction eight years in the making Teixeira was convicted by a jury last Aug. 25 of first-degree murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm with intent to endanger life. The conviction came nearly eight years after the October 2017 shooting death of 28-year-old Nicholas Khabra in Surrey, B.C., a killing…
Boil-water advisories affecting about 3,000 residents of Parkdale, Montgomery, Point McKay and West Hillhurst were lifted on Jan. 4, 2026, after testing confirmed the water was safe. The advisories followed the Dec. 30 rupture of Calgary’s Bearspaw South Feeder Main, though citywide conservation remained in force. Safe to drink again in four neighbourhoods The advisories had been in place since Dec. 30, when the Bearspaw South Feeder Main ruptured near the 16 Avenue N.W. and Sarcee Trail interchange, flooding the roadway so badly that firefighters had to rescue 13 people from vehicles caught in the rushing water. Testing done in…
Court filings made public Jan. 5, 2026, in former chief marketing officer Neelam Sandhu’s lawsuit allege at least three women were fired after reporting a ‘toxic,’ ‘boys’ club’ culture at BlackBerry Ltd. BlackBerry denies the claims, calling them meritless, and says Sandhu lost her job in a restructuring. Filings describe a pattern, lawyers argue The documents were filed by Sandhu’s lawyers to support her lawsuit against the Waterloo, Ont.-based cybersecurity firm and its chief executive, John Giamatteo, and to fight BlackBerry’s request for a summary judgment — a ruling in its favour without a full trial. Sandhu, who launched the…
Environment Canada put British Columbia’s south coast under a coastal flooding statement for the Jan. 3–4 weekend, warning that perihelion king tides combined with a low-pressure system would push water levels in Vancouver to their highest in four years, with peak risk on Sunday morning, Jan. 4, 2026. The highest water since 2022 Environment Canada issued the coastal flooding statement on Thursday, Jan. 2, covering Metro Vancouver and parts of southern Vancouver Island. The agency said the south coast was “entering a period of high astronomical tides” as Earth reached perihelion — its closest point to the sun — at…
Hinton, Alta., is marking 40 years since Feb. 8, 1986, when a CN freight train and Via Rail’s Super Continental collided head-on east of town, killing 23 people. First responders, families and rail-safety experts say the disaster reshaped Canadian railway safety — and remains vivid in the community. “It was just a big, tangled mess” Colin Hanington was 22 years old and a volunteer firefighter when the call came in on Feb. 8, 1986. Initial details about the scope and location of the crash were, he said, “sketchy.” Crews followed a plume of billowing smoke to the site east of…
Canada’s oil industry should not panic over the U.S. capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, Macdonald-Laurier Institute analyst Heather Exner-Pirot said Jan. 4. She called Washington’s bid to reshape Venezuela’s oil sector a medium-term risk, and said Canada’s answer is to stay competitive and keep opening new markets. A familiar competitor, not a new one Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, said Canada’s oil and gas industry has always competed with other oil-rich countries, and Venezuela is no exception. The South American country holds the world’s largest proven crude reserves, but years of…
Canada called on all parties to respect international law after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 3, 2026. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Prime Minister Mark Carney backed a peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre congratulated Donald Trump on the arrest. A predawn raid, and a fast-moving day Explosions were heard over the Venezuelan capital around 2 a.m. on Saturday, as U.S. forces struck Caracas and seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Shortly after 4:30 a.m. ET, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the United States had carried out a “large-scale strike”…
Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government’s three fall crime bills — tougher bail, longer and consecutive sentences, and new hate-crime and coercive-control offences — are a direct response to public concern about safety, rejecting claims the package is about political positioning against the Conservatives. ‘People have been loud and clear’ Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government put a heavy emphasis on stricter crime policy in the fall sitting, tabling three justice bills packed with Criminal Code amendments — a sharp swing from the Trudeau era, even if Fraser avoids the “tough on crime” label. “I’ll leave it to others…
Calgary officials pleaded with residents on Jan. 3 to cut shower times and flush less after daily water use rose to 493 million litres — above the 485-million-litre limit needed while the ruptured Bearspaw South Feeder Main is repaired — with the return to work and school looming. ‘We are trending towards the red’ Sue Henry, chief of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency, said the goal remains keeping daily use below 485 million litres until the feeder main, which broke on Dec. 30, is fixed. Instead, Calgarians used 493 million litres on Friday. “We are trending towards the red,” she…
Ontario’s more than 60,000 public servants will return to the office full time on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, under a mandate announced by Premier Doug Ford’s government last August. The five-day, in-office standard replaces the hybrid rules in place since April 2022 and also covers provincial agencies, boards and commissions. Five days a week, starting Monday The order completes a phased return the province set out on Aug. 14, 2025, when Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney confirmed that Ontario Public Service employees would move to a five-days-a-week, in-office standard effective Jan. 5, 2026. Employees who had been attending the workplace…
