Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Three out of the 14 candidates considered last fall to fill a vacant Supreme Court of Canada seat were Indigenous, according to a recently released report by the independent advisory commit...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A jury is considering whether Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley is guilty in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old resident of the Red Pheasant First Nation. Here is...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has announced $20 million in funding over three years for Indigenous communities struggling with an overdose death rate that’s three times higher than the general po...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - While a jury inside a Saskatchewan courtroom heard conflicting accounts of how an Indigenous man was shot and killed by a white farmer, racial tension simmered outside on the court...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Feb. 8 --- MCARTHUR EXPECTED TO FACE MORE CHARGES: Toronto police say an alleged serial killer already accused of murdering five men is likely to face more ...

OTTAWA - Canadian conservatives began their annual gathering Thursday in Ottawa, still smarting from the one-two punch of misconduct and mismanagement allegations echoing through the halls of power in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Salesforce will invest $2.5 billion in its Canadian business over the next five years, the enterprise software company announced Thursday, the same day Justin Trudeau visited its Silic...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick authorities are committing to reviews of a severe neglect case that saw five children with little food, and living in a home smeared with feces. The children lived in filth...

WASHINGTON - Mexico’s chief NAFTA negotiator is brushing off the idea of breaking the three-country agreement into separate one-on-one deals. Kenneth Smith Ramos is using Twitter to argue for th...

WINNIPEG - About two weeks before a 15-year-old Indigenous girl’s body was found in the Red River, her accused killer argued loudly with her and mentioned something about a river, a Winnipeg cou...