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Freedom Convoy organizer in court and AFN Assembly: In The News for July 5, 2022

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 ... What we are watchi...

Jul 05, 2022

Assembly of First Nations meets as suspended chief fights for financial audit

VANCOUVER - The annual gathering of the Assembly of First Nations is being held this week in Vancouver under a cloud of criticism from its national chief, who has been suspended and denied entry to th...

Jul 05, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' organizer Tamara Lich expected to have bail hearing today

OTTAWA - Tamara Lich, an organizer of the "Freedom Convoy," is set to appear in an Ottawa court today for a bail hearing after being arrested last week for allegedly breaching one of her bail conditio...

Jul 05, 2022

Canadians donated more than $44M to Liberal, Conservative parties in 2021

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada raised the most money of any federal party in 2021, bringing in $26.4 million in donations during a tumultuous year that ended with an election loss and specu...

Jul 04, 2022

Irving Abella, historian who wrote on Canada's refusal of Jewish refugees, dead at 82

Historian Irving Abella, the co-author of a seminal book on the Canadian government's refusal to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, has died. Abella died on Sunday, the day after his 82nd b...

Jul 04, 2022

Researchers see little evidence that more white sharks prowling North Atlantic

HALIFAX - A new study of the distribution of the endangered great white shark in Canadian waters says an underwater detection network suggests the population remains stable but is not growing. That ru...

Jul 04, 2022

Crown wants jail term for former clerk of the B.C. legislature for breach of trust

VANCOUVER - The Crown is asking for a jail term for the former clerk of British Columbia's legislature who was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust over expenses he claimed. The conduct of Craig ...

Jul 04, 2022

Canada Day protests lacked convoy's 'perfect storm of amplification,' expert says

OTTAWA - The protests staged in Ottawa over the weekend that caused only minimal disruptions were a far cry from the "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations that occupied downtown streets for three weeks earl...

Jul 04, 2022

Canada signs $20B compensation agreement on First Nations child welfare

OTTAWA - The federal government says it has signed a $20-billion final settlement agreement to compensate First Nations children and families harmed by chronic underfunding of child welfare. The Assem...

Jul 04, 2022

Ottawa starting to transfer 'small number' of asylum seekers to Ontario from Quebec

MONTREAL - The federal government is starting to relocate asylum seekers who have crossed irregularly into Quebec from the United States, following a rise in the number of would-be refugees at the bor...

Jul 04, 2022