‘End this ongoing genocide:’ Indigenous advocates call for change after women killed
WINNIPEG – The arrest of a man accused of killing four women, all believed to be Indigenous, shows vulnerable women and girls are subject to dangerous...
B.C.’s COVID response praised for ‘nimbleness,’ calls to bolster public trust
VICTORIA – A review of British Columbia’s COVID-19 response says despite being unprepared for the pandemic, the province showed “resilience, balance and nimbleness” during the emergency....
‘Eliminate the fraudsters’: Report delves into Indigenous identity at universities
SASKATOON – A report commissioned after controversy circled a health professor’s claims of being Métis says the University of Saskatchewan was unprepared for Indigenous identity fraud...
‘Race discrimination’: Indigenous Quebec man who lived on reserve denied insurance
MONTREAL – Quebec’s human rights commission has ruled that an Indigenous Quebec man who was denied car insurance because he lived on a reserve was the...
Fiscal update, trucker testimony at Emergencies Act inquiry : In The News for Nov. 3
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...
Fall mini-budget aims to help Canada compete with U.S. clean energy investments
OTTAWA – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is to table her mid-year budget update in the House of Commons today focused heavily on driving investment to Canada’s...
Convoy leaders, Tamara Lich, set to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA – Three organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa are to appear today at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the...
Fertilizer greenhouse gas cuts may take longer than Ottawa wants, farm groups say
The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent kicked up more dust than a tractor on a grid road when...
Legislation to temporarily boost GST rebate expected to pass this week
OTTAWA – Legislation to temporarily double GST rebates to help low- and modest-income Canadians cope with high inflation is expected to pass the House of Commons...
Changing census question raises concerns about language data: expert
OTTAWA – A Canadian polling expert is raising concerns about the results of the Statistics Canada language census after the order of two questions were swapped...