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HALIFAX - A senior RCMP officer in Nova Scotia who obtained search warrants for the investigation into the mass shooting in April was grilled in court today about why most of those documents rema...
Aug 12, 2020
OTTAWA - The federal government is turning to the private sector to design and run a massive buyback of newly prohibited firearms. Public Safety Canada has invited 15 consulting firms to come up with ...
Aug 12, 2020
VICTORIA - Children in British Columbia will be returning to classrooms two days later than originally planned as part of a gradual restart to schooling, the education minister says. Rob Fleming ...
Aug 12, 2020
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says a Liberal promise to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is still a top priority. But he could not ...
Aug 12, 2020
MONTREAL - The vast majority of non-Indigenous Quebecers recognize that First Nations members in the province are subject to racism or discrimination, a new survey suggests. The survey conducted by po...
Aug 12, 2020
OTTAWA - The federal government has announced an additional $305 million to help Indigenous Peoples combat COVID-19. Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the money is meant to help Indigenous...
Aug 12, 2020
HALIFAX - The mother of a man who died in a Halifax police jail cell in June 2016 has asked a judge to impose the "strictest penalty possible" on two special police constables found guilty of cri...
Aug 12, 2020
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Innu Nation has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging the federal government spends more money removing children from their homes as opposed ...
Aug 12, 2020
OTTAWA - Carleton University's criminology school says it will no longer place students to work with police forces and prisons as a show of solidarity with the movement to address ...
Aug 12, 2020
OTTAWA - The federal government is rolling out $18 million in support for projects they say will help strengthen Canada's food supply chain. The funds are going everywhere from an Alberta company...
Aug 12, 2020