French President Emmanuel Macron called Friday for calm as authorities prepared to deploy armored vehicles and thousands of security forces for a possible fifth-straight weekend of violent protests on the streets of Paris. The “yellow vest” movement, which began its demonstrations Nov. 17 initially to protest an increase in fuel taxes, soon morphed into an expression of rage about the […]

Kelowna wasn’t the only Okanagan community where grab-and-dash thefts of electronic devices happened this week. Vernon North Okanagan RCMP announced that London Drugs in Vernon was targeted, by four men, with the crime taking place on Tuesday at approximately 10 p.m. The next day in Kelowna, at around 3:30 p.m., three stores at Orchard Park Mall were systematically looted of […]

A man has pleaded guilty to charges related to an Edmonton house fire that left a five-month-old boy dead. Bronson Woycenko, 20, pleaded guilty Dec. 7 to arson and two counts of mischief to property in the August 2017 fire that killed Hunter Brown. At the time, investigators said outdoor patio furniture was set on fire near the front door […]

Here's what you need to know about the new situation, and how the law still differs from the UK… When was the abortion referendum in Ireland? Previously, thousands of women from Ireland had been forced to seek terminations in Britain because they were prohibited from obtaining them in Ireland unless their lives were in danger. The polls officially opened on May […]

London police confirm they were among several police departments across the country which responded to bomb threats on Thursday, connected to emails that demanded Bitcoin payments. The bomb threats in cities across Canada and the U.S. prompted evacuations at schools, businesses and public areas. Authorities say it appears in all cases that the scare was a crude extortion attempt. In […]

Chris Christie said Friday he was taking himself out of the running to be President Trump’s next chief of staff. “It’s an honor to have the president consider me as he looks to choose a new White House chief of staff,” the former Jersey governor said in a statement. “However, I’ve told the president that now is not the right […]

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said she doesn’t recognize the party under Trump as being the one she believed in. There is some bad news coming out of California for the Republican Party. The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, has left the Republican Party because she doesn’t like the direction in which the party has headed […]

MPs’ hopes of quiet Christmas run-in are dashed as whips put Tories on high alert for Labour to call no confidence vote  Chief whip Julian Smith has ordered Tory MPs to be in Westminster next week  They must be near the Commons until Wednesday night in case Labour attack  Government fears a motion of no confidence could be tabled at […]

A new poll shows that when it comes to his own business interests versus doing what’s good for the American people, most believe that President Donald Trump will usually prioritize growing his own pocketbook. A Fox News poll published on Wednesday asked respondents who Trump thinks of most when it comes to his decision-making in the White House. Specifically, the […]

Paris prepares for a fifth weekend of violent protests, with 8,000 police officers set to patrol the streets as Yellow Vest demonstrations continue Police prepare for fifth wave of Yellow Vest protests, though numbers have fallen Paris police worry about violent infiltrators following Strasbourg attack President Macron has offered concessions to demonstrators France will deploy tens of thousands of police […]