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The Alley Arts Festival known as FAR, returns this week for its eight edition. The event brings together more than 300 multidisciplinary artists who make the city’s alleyways come alive over a two-week period. But the festival is at risk of disappearing due to a cut in funding. FAR Alley Arts Festival general manager Léa...

The second edition of a Vancouver street art event has had to resort to crowdfunding, after a funding shortfall from the City of Vancouver. Kristen Robinson reports.

The Vancouver Art Gallery says the cost of the new facility at West Georgia and Cambie Streets has climbed from $400 million to an estimated $600 million. The increase is blamed on the same factors bedevilling other large-scale projects — increased costs for material and labour.

After doctors spotlight a crisis at Surrey Memorial ER, how the province is responding. Getting weapons off the streets. B.C.’s call to restrict machetes after shocking acts of random violence. And what social media giant Meta is doing to make online time safer for kids.

A Quebec Indigenous community is taking a stand against illegal dumping. A group of Oka residents say they’re prepared to take matters into their own hands if authorities refuse to act to stop the illegal dumping of potentially contaminated soil in and around the First Nations community of Kanesatake. Plus, Quebec police crackdown on dangerous...

Torontonians passing through Front Street Thursday are being treated to an evening of live music, dance performances and interactive art by Black artists. In honour of Emancipation Day, the event encourages participants to celebrate the abolition of slavery and reflect on Black history and culture. Noor Ra’fat has the details.

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital following a collision in downtown Peterborough on Sunday evening. Just after 7 p.m., emergency crews responded to a multi-vehicle collision at Queen and Hunter streets. Paramedics treated the 52-year-old motorcyclist at the scene before transporting the rider to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The occupants in the other vehicles...

Surveillance video provided by the Edmonton Police Service of two suspects, armed with bear spray and a sawed-off shotgun, robbing a restaurant near 130 Avenue and 82 Street on June 5, 2024.

Global’s Safeeya Pirani learns about Ourofest, a four-day Vancouver street dance festival featuring a variety of artists.

Peterborough police say a novice driver faces impaired driving and other charges following a two-vehicle collision on Tuesday night. The collision occurred on Monaghan Road at Bolivar Street. Police say along with impaired driving charges, the woman faces two charges under the Highway Traffic Act. She and a passenger were taken to hospital. Three others...

Victoria police are turning to the public to help identify a suspect in an alleged act of voyeurism in the city’s downtown. Police were called to a store on Douglas Street on Wednesday afternoon for reports of a man taking photos or filming a woman who was using a changeroom.

A one of a kind art exhibition has opened in Vancouver. It’s the culmination of a course on the impact of graffiti culture, launched by a university professor. As Kristen Robinson reports, one of the guest lecturers, is a well known street artist, who honed his skills on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Winnipeg motorcyclists are hoping the city can expedite their street cleaning process as they say the current state of the roads act as safety hazards.

Arts and culture magazine Time Out has ranked the 30 Coolest Streets in the World, and one Vancouver neighbourhood made the list.

Illusive and world-renowned street artist Banksy has returned with a mural that features a life-size depiction of a woman holding a pressure washer, having apparently sprayed green paint up the side of the apartment building in London’s Finsbury Park. Viewed from afar, the piece acts as foliage for a barren tree. ‘The Banksy Story’ podcaster...

Police say a fire at a vape shop in Peterborough, Ont., early Saturday is an act of arson. Officers around 5 a.m. found a door smashed and a fire set inside the My Vapour Guy store at the Brealey Plaze on Lansdowne Street West. No injuries were reported but a suspect was seen leaving the...

The federal government is rejecting a proposal from the Alberta government to consider adding a “unique chemical identifier” to pharmaceuticals being offered to users as an alternative to street drugs. Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks says there are practical concerns with the proposal. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters...

Gerald Rainville is a Bonsai legend, the first Westerner to train with a master in Japan, now continuing his devotion to the art decades later. Here’s Jay Durant with This is BC. The Canadian Society for Asian Arts is sponsoring Bonsai: The Art and Magic of Small Trees, displayed in downtown Vancouver at the MNP...

Vancouver has unveiled honorary street signage for Komagata Maru Place in the city’s downtown. At a news conference on Friday, artist Jag Nagra described her inspiration for the designs and her hopes that the signs act as a reminder for everyone to avoid repeating tragedies of the past.

Canada’s federal court has ruled that the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to shut down protests in 2022 was “unreasonable” and unjustified — contradicting a previous public inquiry. The federal government invoked the emergency measures to clear Ottawa’s streets after the capital was occupied for nearly a month and blockades were set...