Canada

When Omar Sabry first came to Canada, he had nothing but two suitcases and a laptop.

He fled his home country of Egypt during the political unrest of the Arab Spring in 2013. He made his way to Vancouver on the advice of a friend.

Sabry said it was a desperate time, but things started looking up when he signed up for a coding class at the University of British Columbia.

Police say a 19-year-old male suspect is in custody, public not at risk

Powell River RCMP say they have arrested a 19-year-old man after two people were killed and another man was injured in an apparent shooting in Lund B.C.

Lund is about a 30-minute drive north of Powell River on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.

The search for a small aircraft that's been missing for nearly two weeks in the B.C. Interior has been called off.

On Monday, a statement said the "full-scale" search for the plane, which had been carrying two people when it disappeared on June 8, has been "reduced."

The Piper Warrior was on its way to Kamloops, B.C. from Lethbridge, Alta. when it was reported missing. 

Vancouver Police are cautioning the public after a series of debit card thefts and frauds targeting intoxicated people at night in the Granville Entertainment District.

So far nine incidents have been reported, involving thousands of dollars, yet investigators believe more have occurred. 

More than a decade after First Nations along northern B.C.'s so-called Highway of Tears began pleading for reliable public transportation, two new bus routes have started regular service along Highway 16.

The first of the new B.C. Transit buses set off from Burns Lake early Monday morning, bound for Smithers along a stretch of road notorious for the high numbers of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in recent decades.

Emergency crews on the North Shore rescued a man from the Capilano River Thursday evening.

District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver fire crews pulled the man out of the river using ropes and swift water techniques near the Highway 1 overpass.