Category Archives: Canada

'We were right there': Guardians in Fort Good Hope step in when no one else can
Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi was the first person to get a call when a family of six disappeared on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories while travelling by boat to a funeral last summer. Edgi-Masu...
Feb 13, 2022

Police in Windsor, Ont. step up effort to end protest at Canada-U.S. border crossing
Police in Windsor, Ont., are resuming efforts to clear the Ambassador Bridge, a key border crossing between Canada and the U.S. where protesters opposed to COVID-19 public health restrictions have bro...
Feb 13, 2022

Protesters broke through RCMP barricades, causing highway closure near Pacific Border
SURREY, B.C. - The main route to the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey was closed Saturday afternoon after protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 measures broke through RCMP...
Feb 13, 2022

Black women's disproportionate role in Quebec health care source of community pride
MONTREAL - When 26-year-old nurse Stephanie Bumba looks at herself in the mirror wearing her uniform, she feels pride and sees a past she wants to honour. Bumba, who is of Congolese descent, is among ...
Feb 13, 2022

Canada shutters embassy in Ukraine, relocates diplomatic staff amid fears of war
OTTAWA - Canada has shuttered its embassy in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and relocated its diplomatic staff to a temporary office in the western part of the country amid fears that an invasion by Ru...
Feb 12, 2022

'Should be an alarm bell': Calls for action after fatal fires on First Nations
Monias Fiddler says time is moving slowly for the Sandy Lake First Nation as the community feels the immense weight from the loss of three children in a house fire last month. Grant Meekis, 9; Remi Me...
Feb 12, 2022

Flower supply chain issues prompt some B.C. buyers to look local
VANCOUVER - It was stubbornness that led a family farm on Vancouver Island to keep growing roses when competitors left the industry or shifted production to marijuana years ago. Now, Kristen Bulk says...
Feb 12, 2022

Protesters stand their ground despite prospect of harsh penalties
OTTAWA - New warnings to stand down or face the imminent possibility of harsh consequences have been issued but protesters plugging roads around Parliament Hill as well as Canada's busiest border cros...
Feb 12, 2022

Lost in the B.C. woods for 74 days, Bear Henry thankful to forestry workers rescue
VICTORIA - Bear Henry says they survived more than 70 days lost in a remote Vancouver Island forest on a few days worth of beans, rice, some cat food and melted snow. Henry is about 30 kilograms light...
Feb 11, 2022

Quebec Court of Appeal upholds majority of federal Indigenous child welfare law
MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld the majority of a federal law that gives Indigenous governments more control over child welfare. In a 219-page unanimous decision rendered Thursday, th...
Feb 11, 2022