Sixth Marineland beluga dies after relocation, first from San Diego aquarium

An Airdrie woman says a man chased her vehicle with a crowbar after she and her boyfriend caught him removing pro-Alberta independence signs just days before the October 19 referendum. ScreenshotPublished on: 19 Oct 2026, 8:40 pmLoading content, please wait...

Journalist and activist Nick Tsergas says Canadian governments see the building of hyperscale, AI data centres as key to the development of the natural gas industry. “That’s what it means in Alberta where Premier Danielle Smith has said the whole point of the AI data centre build-out is to create demand for fossil fuels,” Tsergas said Saturday, Oct. 17 at a public meeting in Saint John about how to stop the push for data centres across Canada including the 10 now being proposed in New Brunswick.

Sikhs voting in the Sikhs for Justice Khalistan independence referendum outside the Alberta Legislature Building. X: Jagdeep SinghPublished on: 19 Oct 2026, 7:42 pmLoading content, please wait...

Vancouver’s main progressive parties ultimately proved that they could unite just enough to crush Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver. But while the Vancouver Greens’ Pete Fry won the mayoralty, it was the decidedly more radical COPE that flexed its political muscle. The Vancouver Greens, COPE, and, to a lesser extent, OneCity dismantled Ken Sim’s political machine. In 2022, ABC swept 19 of the 27 elected positions: the mayoralty, seven city council seats, six park board seats, and five school board seats. Four years later, despite running a multi-million-dollar election campaign, ABC had been reduced to just a single seat on city council.

Doctors at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital say the province has delayed critical hospital upgrades for 18 years, which is causing patients to unnecessarily suffer and die. Nanaimo Regional General was designated a tertiary care hospital in 2008, which means it should be able to offer just about any care a patient on the central or northern Vancouver Island may need, outside of specialist cardiac, neuro and transplant surgery, which are centralized in Vancouver or Victoria.

OpinionThe federal government is quietly bargaining away provincial resource rights in backroom deals with Brussels. Carney's EU DealImage courtesy of ChatGPTPublished on:19 Oct 2026, 6:30 pmLoading content, please wait...