Canada

Many questions after recent police encounters with Indigenous community

The death of Rodney Levi of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation in an RCMP shooting Friday night in New Brunswick continues to put the focus on police relations with Indigenous communities in Ca...

Jun 13, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 10:47 a.m. on June 13, 2020: There are 98,209 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 53,666 confirmed (incl...

Jun 13, 2020

New Brunswick Indigenous man is victim of RCMP-involved fatal shooting: Chief

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - The regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations for New Brunswick has confirmed that the man who died in an RCMP shooting Friday night was Rodney Levi of the ...

Jun 13, 2020

COVID pandemic prompts initiative to offer free legal aid to anyone in Canada

TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a group of young lawyers to launch a project to offer free legal advice remotely to anyone in the country. Dubbed the National Canadian Lawyers Initia...

Jun 13, 2020

Calls grow for Trudeau to end MSM blood donation ban

OTTAWA - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make people sick across Canada, health authorities are imploring Canadians to donate blood - all Canadians except men who have had recent sex with other ...

Jun 13, 2020

As companies reopen, 'main street' stores in urban cores need help, Joly says

OTTAWA - The federal minister in charge of regional economic development says more needs to be done to help companies in the centre of Canada's biggest cities so they can stay open through and be...

Jun 13, 2020

'Born leader:' Contradiction is Alberta Chief Allan Adam's strength

EDMONTON - It was supposed to be a triumph. South African anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu was joining the chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in his struggle against environmenta...

Jun 12, 2020

Winnipeg police defend kicking suspect during arrest, release video

Winnipeg police are defending their actions and reaching out to Indigenous leaders after a video surfaced showing officers kneeing and kicking a man during an arrest. A blurry, 74-second video po...

Jun 12, 2020

A list of police encounters being questioned and investigated in Canada

The death last month of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who was killed when an officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, has sparked demonstrations against police brutality and rac...

Jun 12, 2020

Witness said killer in N.S. mass shooting 'recently' acquired gun from estate

HALIFAX - A portion of a witness statement released Friday says the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia had "recently" acquired one of his firearms in Canada from the estate of a...

Jun 12, 2020