Jennifer Stahn

OTTAWA – The federal government will need more time to deal with the Supreme Court's decision on doctor-assisted death, and asking for an extension would be a perfectly reasonable request, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Tuesday.

WHISTLER – Whistler Blackcomb is planning to test snowmaking on the Horstman Glacier in an effort to battle the effects of climate change.

VANCOUVER – The lawyer for an ex-Mountie who lied at a public inquiry into Robert Dziekanski's death is recommending house arrest and community service for his client, calling him a "poster child for failure."

TORONTO – It started with the loss of a phone and ended with the loss of a life.

LANGFORD, B.C. – Police say a homeless man has turned in more than $2,000 that he found on a street on southern Vancouver Island.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia is unprepared for a major land-based, hazardous-material spill because current rules and regulations are outdated — and that needs to change, says the province's environment minister.

VANCOUVER – The Crown will not appeal a decision granting escorted community outings to a mentally ill British Columbia man who murdered his three children.

VICTORIA – A University of Victoria doctoral student is investigating how Twitter and Instagram are changing how much teenagers care.

LONDON – Christopher Lee, an actor who brought dramatic gravitas and aristocratic bearing to screen villains from Dracula to James Bond enemy Scaramanga, has died at age 93.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. – A Vermont man has escaped jury duty — by getting dismissed for wearing a prisoner costume.

A program that taught college women ways to prevent sexual assault cut in half the chances they would be raped over the next year, a Canadian study found. It was the first large, scientific test of resistance training, and the strong results should spur more universities to offer it, experts say.