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First Nation opens water treatment plant, ending decades-old drinking water advisory
SHOAL LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA - Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is welcoming clean, running water for the first time in nearly 25 years. The First Nation on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary is celebrating today...
Sep 15, 2021

Search for potential unmarked graves at former Nanaimo Indian Hospital site to begin
Editor's Note: The following story contains descriptions of trauma and abuse suffered by Indigenous peoples at residential schools and hospitals. Discretion is advised. The National Indian Residential...
Sep 15, 2021

Courses to prevent office harassment mandatory for new MPs by end of year
OTTAWA - Newly elected MPs will be required to take a training course to prevent sexual harassment in their offices. The awareness course will educate new MPs on what counts as harassment - and how to...
Sep 15, 2021

Colorado AG: Probe finds Aurora Police racially biased
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's attorney general said Wednesday that a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has pattern o...
Sep 15, 2021

Milley defends calls to Chinese as effort to avoid conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were...
Sep 15, 2021

Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region
The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...
Sep 15, 2021

Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region
The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...
Sep 15, 2021

Liberals seeking to hold Fredericton riding after high-profile Green defection
FREDERICTON - Jenica Atwin says she takes a deep breath before knocking on doors in Fredericton. Atwin won the riding for the Greens in 2019, becoming one of three MPs for the party - and the only rep...
Sep 15, 2021

RV fire near propane tanks cause for concern
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George Fire Rescue responded to an RV fire this morning near the corner of Continental Way and Terminal Boulevard.Prince George RCMP say the fire broke out at around 9 this morn...
Sep 15, 2021

One dead after helicopter rolls on landing near Nunavut gold mine
CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut - One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a cont...
Sep 15, 2021