Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
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A robotic dog made in China gets an Indian university kicked out of an AI summit
NEW DELHI (AP) - A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog mad...
Feb 18, 2026 People visit Galgotias University stall at AI summit ahead of an eviction order issued by Indian authorities, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)
Prime Minister Carney returning to B.C. one week after mass shooting
Prime Minister Mark Carney is returning to B.C. today less than a week after he attended a vigil honouring the victims of a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. While in B.C., the prime minister will ...
Feb 18, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks while attending a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Carney rolls out plans to build up domestic defence sector, add 125,000 jobs
Canada has failed both to adequately fund its military and to build up the domestic defence industry, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday as he rolled out an ambitious new plan to grow the defence...
Feb 17, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney stands with Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan (centre left) and Minister of National Defence David McGuinty at Fort York Armoury in Toronto on Monday, June 9, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
As portables arrive in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., expert says feeling safe a priority
The co-founder of a group that supports victims and their families after mass shootings says a top priority when bringing students back to school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is to make them feel safe agai...
Feb 17, 2026 The memorial for the victims killed in a mass shooting, is seen in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Mass killer was 'hunting' in Tumbler Ridge school, RCMP says
Officers from the five-person RCMP detachment in Tumbler Ridge arrived at the community's secondary school on Tuesday to sounds of fire alarms and a voice yelling from a window that the shooter was up...
Feb 13, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney place flowers at a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Feb. 13, 2026. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
Complainant cross-examination set to continue in Frank Stronach's sex assault trial
The sexual assault trial of businessman Frank Stronach is expected to continue in Toronto today with the cross-examination of the first complainant testifying in the case. The complainant told the cou...
Feb 13, 2026 Frank Stronach arrives at a Toronto Court on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Military sexual assault investigation was rushed, biased, watchdog commission says
The Military Police Complaints Commission has found that an internal investigation into an alleged sexual assault by an air force officer who later took his own life was conducted in a rushed, superfi...
Feb 12, 2026
Canadian hockey fans taking in Olympic double bill as women rally, men debut
Fans across Canada were being treated to a double bill of Olympic hockey action Thursday morning as the women bounced back from a tough loss and the men opened their tournament. Hockey faithful were a...
Feb 12, 2026 Fans dance to music during first period Olympic hockey action at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Winter Olympics recap: Brignone completes dramatic comeback and Ukrainian athlete excluded
MILAN (AP) - An all-time great comeback and a controversial exclusion are dominating the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6. Later Thursday, Chloe Kim of the United States seeks to become the first snowb...
Feb 12, 2026 Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych left, holds his crash helmet at the mixed zone of the sliding center at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
History of Tumbler Ridge, a mining boom town with a wounded heart
Tumbler Ridge in the remote Peace region of northeast British Columbia was once best known as a coal mining boom town that was built from scratch in the 1980s, then faced challenges from shifts in its...
Feb 12, 2026 Tumbler Ridge Secondary School is shown in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jesse Boily
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