Category Archives: Canada
Joyce Echaquan's community fights for change to health system three years after death
MONTREAL - It has been three years since Joyce Echaquan died in hospital after filming staff insulting her, but for her family and her First Nation, the fight continues to ensure a legacy of better tr...
Sep 28, 2023
Cyberattacks hit military, Parliament websites as India hacker group targets Canada
OTTAWA - The federal government is coping with apparent cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa. The Canadian Armed Forces says that its website became u...
Sep 28, 2023
Quebec police watchdog investigating shooting of Legault, Trudeau threat suspect
SCOTSTOWN, Que. - Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after a member of a provincial police tactical team shot a man suspected of making threats toward Premier Franois Legault and Prime Minster ...
Sep 28, 2023
Poll suggests two-thirds of Albertans oppose pause on renewable energy approvals
EDMONTON - A poll released Thursday suggests nearly two-thirds of Albertans oppose the provincial government's moratorium on approvals for new renewable energy projects. "This poll clearly demonstrate...
Sep 28, 2023
Indigenous groups stand firm with child welfare law before Supreme Court
EDMONTON - Some Indigenous nations say they are prepared to continue enforcing their jurisdiction over child welfare if Canada's top court sides with Quebec in a landmark constitutional case. Bill C-9...
Sep 28, 2023
Reconciliation and reckoning as Nisga'a totem pole returns from Scotland museum
VICTORIA - A homecoming celebration for a memorial totem pole after an absence of almost 100 years will resonate far beyond the tiny Indigenous village in northwest British Columbia where it is being ...
Sep 28, 2023
Hurricane Juan: the most powerful and deadly storm to hit Atlantic Canada in 50 years
HALIFAX - Chris Fogarty remembers the moment 20 years ago when he transmitted a weather bulletin warning that hurricane Juan would make landfall near Halifax, churning out gusts at 140 kilometres per ...
Sep 28, 2023
Bank records show accused killer was in the same city on day a B.C. girl was killed
VANCOUVER - A senior investigator at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union saysa bank account registered toIbrahim Ali shows transactions in Burnaby, B.C., on July 18, 2017, the same day a 13-year-old w...
Sep 27, 2023
Winnipeg man pleads guilty to manslaughter over death of Saskatchewan RCMP officer
REGINA - A Winnipeg man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a Saskatchewan RCMP officer. Alphonse Stanley Traverse pleaded guilty to the charge in Regina Court of King's Bench for his r...
Sep 27, 2023
Witness of B.C. Sikh leader's shooting says the gunshots sounded like fireworks
VANCOUVER - The B.C. gurdwara where a Sikh separatist leader was gunned down has launched an investigation into how an American newspaper was able to view security camera footage of the June killing. ...
Sep 27, 2023
