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'You didn't get the best of me': Residential school survivor gets honorary doctorate
CALGARY - Clarence Wolfleg remembers the day his mother took him to school. It was 1956 and for the next 5 1/2 years he attended the Old Sun Residential School outside Gleichen in southern Alberta. "M...
Jun 08, 2021
Health Canada regulates UV, ozone devices it says could pose risk to people
OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu is regulating UV-emitting and ozone-producing cleaning devices she says pose a significant risk to Canadians and don't live up to their claims that they can help k...
Jun 08, 2021
Nunavut passes bill to create civilian oversight of police in territory
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Members of Nunavut's legislative assembly voted to pass a bill Monday night that will change the way police oversight works in the territory. The bill amends the Royal Canadian Moun...
Jun 08, 2021
Man charged with murder of boy in road-rage shooting
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California man has been charged with murder and shooting at an occupied vehicle in a road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy last month on a freeway. Orange...
Jun 08, 2021
Minto Cup, Canada's junior A lacrosse championship, cancelled for 2021 season
OTTAWA - The Minto Cup, Canada's junior A lacrosse championship, has been cancelled for 2021. Lacrosse Canada announced the cancellation on Tuesday, a month after the national body shelved 10 other ch...
Jun 08, 2021
Busy May sees City of Kamloops issue $17.1 million in building permits
KAMLOOPS - The latest totals from the City of Kamloops Building Inspection Division show plenty of construction activity in the city - just not at the same record-setting level of a year ago.Totals fo...
Jun 08, 2021
New Democrat MP tables private bill, wants federal assessment of coal projects
OTTAWA - Alberta's lone New Democrat member of Parliament is asking Ottawa to require that all coal-mining proposals go through a full federal environmental assessment. Heather McPherson says her priv...
Jun 08, 2021
Despite economic reopening, students still worry about lack of summer work
OTTAWA - Students say the summer jobs market remains tight despite plans to reopen economic activity, raising concerns about the ability to earn enough to help cover tuition in the fall. Marley Gillie...
Jun 08, 2021
Ottawa should create anti-Islamophobia strategy: Green Leader Annamie Paul
OTTAWA - Green party Leader Annamie Paul is calling on the Liberal government to create a national anti-Islamophobia strategy in the wake of an attack in London, Ont., that left four members of a Musl...
Jun 08, 2021
Trudeau mum on calls to abandon appeals of compensation for First Nations kids
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sidestepping questions about whether he will adhere to a unanimous motion passed in the House of Commons Monday calling on the federal government to drop its ...
Jun 08, 2021
