Canada

Unmarked graves finding triggered Canada's year of reckoning over residential schools

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Percy Casper, 73, spent 10 years as a child at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. He has spent the past year grieving. A member of the Bonaparte Indian...

May 18, 2022

Livestreamed mass shooting shows more internet regulations needed: experts

WINNIPEG - David Shanks felt a familiar sense of distress as he learned a video was quickly spreading online depicting a mass shooting in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket. Only three years ago, Shanks was...

May 18, 2022

Prince Charles, Camilla to visit Ottawa Ukrainian church on second day of royal tour

OTTAWA - Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will attend a service at Ottawa's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral today as they visit the national capital. After the prayer service, the roy...

May 18, 2022

Alberta's Kenney to learn fate as party announces results of leadership review vote

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is to learn today if he still has enough support from his party to stay on as leader. The United Conservative Party plans to release the results of the mail-in balloting o...

May 18, 2022

A timeline of events since the finding of unmarked graves in Kamloops last May

VANCOUVER - The Tk'emlups te Secwepemc announced in May last year that the remains of as many as 215 children were found using ground-penetrating radar around the former Kamloops Indian Residential Sc...

May 18, 2022

Federal corrections must improve workplace for parole officers' mental health: Report

OTTAWA - A new report calls on federal corrections to ease caseloads, improve workplace policies and give added resources to parole officers in order to mitigate current strains on their mental health...

May 18, 2022

'It's the only option': Some Finnish people in Canada in favour of NATO bid

Some Finnish people living in Canada say they support Finland's recent historic decision to seek NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Finnish parliament resoundingly rubber-stamped ...

May 18, 2022

Former RCMP officer testifies that warning tweet in N.S. mass shooting took too long

HALIFAX - A former RCMP officer told a Nova Scotia public inquiry on Tuesday that a tweet warning the public about the mass shooter driving a replica police vehicle should have been sent immediately a...

May 17, 2022

Alberta premier to learn fate Wednesday in party review of his job performance

EDMONTON - Albertans are to learn Wednesday whether Premier Jason Kenney has enough support from his party to keep his job - but political observers say whatever the outcome, it won't end the rancorou...

May 17, 2022

Ottawa interim police chief Steve Bell didn't ask feds to invoke Emergencies Act

Ottawa's interim police chief says he did not ask the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act during the "Freedom Convoy" in February. The Liberals have said law enforcement asked for additio...

May 17, 2022