The RCMP is reminding the public of an increased risk of stolen vehicles this summer as Albertans escape their normal routines and spend more time away from their homes or driving to their next destination.
In 2023, there were 8,710 auto thefts in the province and already, there have been 3,932 stolen cars within the first six months of 2024.
McTighe says it's also important to make sure vehicle owners remove anything of an identifying nature – such as insurance papers – from their cars. Hutchison says he locked his vehicle and made sure no valuables were inside but he wished he had placed a tracking device inside. "In Alberta, the list of stolen cars is quite dominated by pickup trucks and that's probably very closely tied to the fact that if you look at the most popular models of vehicle sold in Alberta, it is pickup trucks. So for example, we see the Ford F-150 stolen frequently."
A man convicted in the notorious double murder of two women in Tsawwassen in 1990 when he was a teenager has been granted full parole.A massive amount of debris from a landslide damming the Chilcotin River in British Columbia's central Interior could give way within the next 24 to 48 hours.Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh won her second Olympic gold medal in Paris with a victory in the women's 200-metre butterfly.
The former Royal Alberta Museum building will be torn down and replaced with a green space, the province announced on Thursday.One person was killed and others were hurt when an event tent collapsed on hundreds of people north Edmonton on Wednesday. Saskatoon mayor Charlie Clark says that, right now, he doesn’t think drug decriminalization is the way to tackle the addiction crisis in Saskatchewan.A third person faces a murder charge in the death of Lee Perkins, a 25-year-old Alberta man whose body was found in a home in Saskatoon’s Pacific Heights neighbourhood in February.
The RCMP said it has busted a clandestine lab east of Montreal that was likely producing mass quantities of counterfeit pills believed to contain protonitazepyne, a synthetic opioid that is around 25 times more powerful than fentanyl.Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Norway's Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-7 , 6-3 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of men's tennis singles at the Paris Olympics.
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