Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

Canada to focus foreign aid on building 'mutual prosperity' with trading partners: MP
OTTAWA - The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians. "The first priority is focusing o...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026

'Corrosive' immigration loopholes need to be shut down, Eby tells Ottawa
Federal lawmakers must close "corrosive" loopholes hampering the crackdown on extortion-related shootings in British Columbia, including one that allows suspects to apply for refugee status, as the "p...
Brenna Owen and Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

Former B.C. lawyer who stabbed client to death is found guilty of first-degree murder
After former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death and then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote, he tried to expla...
Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

Extortion shootings 'slow-motion terrorism' in B.C., Premier David Eby says
Federal lawmakers must close "corrosive" loopholes hampering the crackdown on extortion-related shootings in British Columbia, including one that allows suspects to apply for refugee status, as the "p...
Brenna Owen and Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

Former B.C. lawyer guilty of first-degree murder in killing of client
A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer who stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote has been convicted of first-degree murder. Roge...
Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

Harper calls for national unity, independence at portrait unveiling
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper's official portrait was unveiled in Ottawa Tuesday, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the election of his first Conservative government. Speaking to a crow...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

'Hitting everybody so hard': Alberta town remembers 3 hockey players killed in crash
STAVELY - Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning ...
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

Former prime minister Stephen Harper's official portrait unveiled in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper's official portrait was unveiled Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the election of his first Conservative government. Harper's portrait ...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

B.C. man feared 'hit' because of a feeling, ex-Mountie tells inquest into deaths
BURNABY - A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a "feeling" that someone was trying to kill them, not be...
Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026

MPs must close loopholes that allows extortion suspects to claim refugee status: Eby
British Columbia Premier David Eby says federal lawmakers must close "corrosive" loopholes that allow suspects in extortion-related shootings to apply for refugee status as the "paralyzing" situation ...
Brenna Owen and Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026
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