Canada

Feds file judicial review of $40B Indigenous child-welfare settlement

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking a judge to review some aspects of the $40-billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, after the Canadian Human Ri...

Nov 23, 2022

Jury finds former PQ legislator Harold LeBel guilty of sexual assault

RIMOUSKI, Que. - Former Parti Qubcois legislator Harold LeBel was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a woman at his residence in 2017. A jury of nine women and three men took two days to...

Nov 23, 2022

B.C. human rights tribunal awards $150,000 in child welfare discrimination case

VANCOUVER - An Afro-Indigenous woman has been awarded $150,000 in compensation by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after her children were wrongfully seized by a child welfare agency. The tr...

Nov 23, 2022

Quebec judicial council rejects complaint over judge's sexual assault ruling

MONTREAL - The Quebec judicial council has rejected complaints about a judge who granted a conditional discharge to a young engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault and voyeurism. Quebec court Ju...

Nov 23, 2022

Rejecting unproven claims the right way for inquiry heads to proceed: Murray Sinclair

OTTAWA - The commissioner presiding over the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is rejecting a request from a lawyer for "Freedom Convoy" organizers to call witnesses over an unsubstan...

Nov 23, 2022

Jury in Nunavut coroner's inquest makes recommendations to government, RCMP

POND INLET, Nunavut - A jury in a coroner's inquest that examined the suicide of a man following a standoff with police in Nunavut has recommended improving cultural and mental health supports and pol...

Nov 23, 2022

Trudeau elaborates on what Chinese 'interference' he discussed with Xi Jinping at G20

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered his most detailed explanation yet about what kind of "interference" he brought up with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this month. ...

Nov 23, 2022

Jewish groups 'horrified' by video showing Montreal driver hitting baby in carriage

MONTREAL - Jewish groups in Quebec say they are deeply disturbed and horrified after a driver was video-recorded hitting a baby in a stroller that was being pushed along a Montreal intersection by an ...

Nov 23, 2022

Canadian-Israeli teen killed in Jerusalem attack while on his way to seminary

JERUSALEM - A rabbi with a seminary in Jerusalem has identified a 16-year-old Canadian-Israeli student as a person killed in one of two blasts that went off near bus stops in the city. Rabbi Refaen Ro...

Nov 23, 2022

More missiles hit as Ukrainians brace for 'worst winter' since Second World War

KYIV, Ukraine - Another barrage of Russian missile strikes hit Ukraine Wednesday, dealing a setback to the country's struggle to restore its power network as winter sets in. "As we speak now, Russia h...

Nov 23, 2022