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A pair of cyber tips has led to the arrest of an Arkansas pastor and foster parent who is facing 100 counts of crimes related to child pornography.

43-year-old James Vincent Henry came up on the radar of the Internet Crimes Against Child Task Force after they were alerted last month by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Rural First Student buses are cancelled for the day, including bus 501, 502, 504, 505.

As well all Peace Wapiti school buses are also canceled today due to road conditions.  

Dawson Creek School Buses are also cancelled for today.  Chetwynd buses are running on schedule at this time.

The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers in the high-wage stream as a way to encourage employers to hire more Canadian staff.

British Columbia's redrawn political landscape won't be settled for about a week, with manual recounts triggered in two key ridings after a nail-biting provincial election that has yet to produce a clear winner.

Elections BC said Sunday the recounts will take place from Oct. 26 to 28 in Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre, where NDP candidates lead B.C. Conservatives by fewer than 100 votes.

Phil Wickham stepped out of his comfort zone over the weekend as he wrapped up his last tour date in Canada. 

For the first time, Wickham performed a song in French in front of a sold-out concert in Montreal, Quebec Saturday evening.

"A first for me! I sang a song in French at our show in Montreal," said Phil in a post on Instagram. "It was such a beautiful moment to see the Church alive in Canada." 

Alberta MP and Conservative Agriculture Critic John Barlow has been receiving a number of emails from Canadians who are concerned about Private Members' Bill C-293, which now sits before the Senate.

He says while the primary objective of the bill is pandemic prevention and preparedness, it contains content and language that will adversely affect Canadian farmers and ranchers.

Psalm 40:8

I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.

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Isaiah 54:4-5

Those servants who refuse to get bogged down in and anchored to the past are those who pursue the objectives of the future. People who do this are seldom petty. They are too involved in getting a job done to be occupied with yesterday's hurts and concerns. Very near the end of his full and productive life, Paul wrote: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). What a grand epitaph! He seized every day by the throat. He relentlessly pursued life.

Alleged members of an Indian gang and its leader have been sending shivers down the spines of members of the South Asian diaspora in Canada for years, says a city councillor in Richmond, B.C.

Kash Heed said the Bishnoi gang, led by Lawrence Bishnoi, gained notoriety and instilled fear among Indian Canadians well before the RCMP accused the syndicate this week of orchestrating violent crimes on Canadian soil.

There was no clear winner in Saturday's British Columbia election, but the leader of the B.C. Conservatives says the province's political landscape has "changed forever," after his party pushed the incumbent New Democrats to the brink.

Neither party won enough seats to claim a majority, and vote counting was set to continue Sunday, with Premier David Eby's NDP in striking range of a minority government if he gets the co-operation of the Greens, who won two seats.

Potential recounts mean it could be next week before the winner is decided.