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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and market jitters : In The News for Oct. 1

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 for the morning of Oct. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Oct 01, 2021

Former fashion leader Peter Nygard's extradition hearing on U.S. sex charges to begin

WINNIPEG - An extradition hearing for a former Canadian fashion mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States is to begin today. Peter Nygard, who is 80, was arrested in W...

Oct 01, 2021

B.C. subsidizes energy drilling on caribou habitat it promised to protect, study says

British Columbia is subsidizing oil and gas well drilling on the same land it has promised to protect for caribou, new research has found. "The B.C. government has made a lot of commitments to caribou...

Sep 30, 2021

Two arrested as academics share concerns over Indigenous artifacts at B.C. site

RCMP say they are negotiating with demonstrators who have taken control of a Coastal GasLink construction site in northern B.C. as tensions surrounding the natural gas project rise again. Protests las...

Sep 30, 2021

Trudeau flies to B.C. to be with family on first Truth and Reconciliation Day

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent part of Canada's first national day for Truth and Reconciliation flying to Tofino, B.C., where he joined his family. His office says Trudeau also spent hou...

Sep 30, 2021

Residential school survivor proposes Indigenous museum as part of reconciliation

OTTAWA - Residential school survivor Doug George-Kanentiio appealed to the federal government Thursday to help create a permanent museum in Canada to preserve the collective memories of Indigenous Peo...

Sep 30, 2021

Kenney to speak as COVID-19 caseloads continue to overwhelm Alberta's hospital system

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is to speak later today on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that continues to overwhelm the provincial health system. Kenney is to meet with reporters alongside Tim ...

Sep 30, 2021

Reconciliation Day not holiday because Quebec needs more productivity: Legault

Quebec Premier Franois Legault says the province cannot afford to make the national day honouring victims and survivors of residential schools a statutory holiday. Legault told reporters today the pro...

Sep 30, 2021

Planned recruiting ads aimed at women as military struggles with sexual misconduct

OTTAWA - An expert on sexual misconduct says it would be dishonest for the Department of National Defence to promote the military as a positive place for women to work in a coming campaign after wides...

Sep 30, 2021

'Reconciliation demands honesty and transparency,' says chief of B.C. First Nation

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The chief of British Columbia's Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation says Indigenous people have had enough apologies and now want action from the Catholic Church and federal governmen...

Sep 30, 2021