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BC Transit is apologizing to a Victoria teenager with Type 1 diabetes after one of its bus drivers prevented her from eating a snack on board when her blood sugar dropped.Visit CTV Vancouver Island for more details on this story Source

The federal government is expected to unveil this morning some major structural changes to the RCMP and how it handles harassment— changes that have been years in the making. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale will make the announcement with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki starting at 10 a.m. Source

LONDON -- Britain's Parliament has delivered a crushing verdict on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal, rejecting it by 432 votes to 202 -- the biggest defeat suffered by a government in modern British political history. Source

The U.S. economy is taking a larger-than-expected hit from the partial government shutdown, White House estimates show, as contractors and even the Coast Guard go without pay, and talks to end the impasse seemed stalled. The longest such shutdown in U.S. Source

A blast struck near U.S.-led coalition forces on Wednesday in Syria's northern city of Manbij, and a war monitor said 16 people had been killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and a militia source said two Americans were among the dead, but Reuters was unable to independently confirm the death toll. Source

ISLAMABAD -- Aasia Bibi still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after the Pakistani Christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy and released from death row. She spends her days in seclusion for fear of being targeted by angry mobs clamouring for her death. Source

An apparent case of road rage in downtown Toronto was caught on camera. Video of the Tuesday night incident shows a man running from a parked car into a crosswalk, toward a white car stopped at a stop sign. Source

Calgary Sun columnist Rick Bell is a frequent critic of city hall and knows his articles are widely read within the halls of municipal power. What he didn't know, until just recently, is that top city officials had access to his work even before it was published. Source

China said on Wednesday it's "not worried in the slightest" by mounting international concern over the death sentence handed to a Canadian for drug smuggling. Monday's sentence for Robert Schellenberg for smuggling 222 kilograms of methamphetamines into China prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse China of "arbitrarily" applying the death penalty. Source

WASHINGTON -- Staring down the next deadline to pay federal workers, the White House shifted tactics, trying to bypass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate with rank-and-file lawmakers even as President Donald Trump dug in for a prolonged shutdown. Source