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First Nation opens water treatment plant, ending decades-old drinking water advisory
SHOAL LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA - Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is welcoming clean, running water for the first time in nearly 25 years. The First Nation on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary is celebrating today...
Sep 15, 2021
Search for potential unmarked graves at former Nanaimo Indian Hospital site to begin
Editor's Note: The following story contains descriptions of trauma and abuse suffered by Indigenous peoples at residential schools and hospitals. Discretion is advised. The National Indian Residential...
Sep 15, 2021
Courses to prevent office harassment mandatory for new MPs by end of year
OTTAWA - Newly elected MPs will be required to take a training course to prevent sexual harassment in their offices. The awareness course will educate new MPs on what counts as harassment - and how to...
Sep 15, 2021
Colorado AG: Probe finds Aurora Police racially biased
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's attorney general said Wednesday that a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has pattern o...
Sep 15, 2021
BC liquor, cannabis customers donate more than $1 million for wildfire relief; Kamloops cannabis store tops all
KAMLOOPS - Customers visiting BC Liquor Stores (BCLS) and BC Cannabis Stores (BCCS) donated more than $1.45 million to the Canadian Red Cross to assist B.C. residents affected by this year's wildfires...
Sep 15, 2021
Milley defends calls to Chinese as effort to avoid conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were...
Sep 15, 2021
Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region
The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...
Sep 15, 2021
Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region
The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...
Sep 15, 2021
Liberals seeking to hold Fredericton riding after high-profile Green defection
FREDERICTON - Jenica Atwin says she takes a deep breath before knocking on doors in Fredericton. Atwin won the riding for the Greens in 2019, becoming one of three MPs for the party - and the only rep...
Sep 15, 2021
One dead after helicopter rolls on landing near Nunavut gold mine
CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut - One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a cont...
Sep 15, 2021
