Unpublished Newswire
Peruvian rescue teams have recovered the bodies of a Canadian woman, Sandra Covone, and Daniel Navarro, her Mexican husband, after they were engulfed in an avalanche on the summit of a 6,000-metre mountain in the Andes. “The bodies of Canadian Sandra Covone and Mexican Daniel Navarro, who were found in the area of the landslide, have been recovered and taken to the city of Huaraz,” Peruvian police said in a statement to Univision , an American Spanish-language news site. The mountaineering couple were killed by the avalanche at dawn on Wednesday, June 17, according to Spanish...
June 20, 2026 - 12:33 | National Post Staff | National Post
A judge has cited a B.C. man’s Indigenous heritage when sentencing him for the violent murders of his wife and teenage son. Orlan Marcel Dennis has been sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 10 years, according to a recent decision from the B.C. Supreme Court. The Dennis home was the scene of multiple murders in early April 2024. After accusing his wife Darlene of cheating on him, Dennis shot her in the face. Then, when his 18-year-old son, Dorian, responded after hearing the gunshot, Dennis shot him too. Police found the bodies, while an RCMP negotiator tried...
June 17, 2026 - 16:34 | National Post Staff | National Post
A Tunisian national living in Quebec has received a conditional discharge and three years’ probation for a violent domestic assault and subsequent harassment, in a sentence the judge admitted was “lenient” and unlikely to satisfy the victim. Mohamed Aziz Ben Ishak, who had arrived in Canada a year earlier as a temporary resident, attacked Fatma Abada because she had lit a cigarette before nightfall during Ramadan on April 30, 2021. He kicked her in the ribs. She contacted a friend by phone, but he took it, pushed her to the ground and punched her repeatedly in the head. He grabbed the...
May 30, 2026 - 09:12 | National Post Staff | National Post
Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent on the construction of the new White House ballroom, according to President Donald Trump. To date, it has mostly occurred below ground level. During a press conference at the site on Tuesday, Trump explained that the new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom will have a massive military complex under it. It will include a military hospital, research facilities and various meeting rooms in the floors below the ballroom, Trump said. The construction goes down “six stories deep,” he said, describing the building as “well-knit” in...
May 20, 2026 - 23:05 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
May 19, 2026 - 09:30 | | CBC News - Canada
The B.C. Provincial Health Office is reporting that one of four high-risk individuals who was on the cruise ship M.V. Hondius and self-isolating on Vancouver Island has tested presumptive positive for the Andes hantavirus. The person was transported to hospital for assessment and care on May 14, according to a statement released by the Public Health Agency of Canada released on Saturday. The person’s spouse also has mild symptoms and was taken to hospital. “Both will remain in isolation in hospital,” says the statement. Meanwhile, a third person who was isolating has been transferred...
May 16, 2026 - 17:55 | National Post Staff | National Post
