Indigenous News

SAINT-JÉRÔME, Que. — A judge on Thursday ordered a man to stand trial on charges including first-degree murder in the deaths of two children killed when a city bus rammed into a Montreal-area daycare last year.

FREDERICTON — The longest-serving member of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservatives says he won't be running in the upcoming election.

HALIFAX — More than 30 years after Nova Scotia was stunned by the brutal murders of three McDonald's restaurant workers in Cape Breton, another of the three convicted killers has been granted full parole.

EDMONTON — Ottawa must make changes to a self-government deal it struck with the Métis Nation of Alberta, says a Federal Court ruling.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to do away with paper health cards and switch to more durable plastic and digital ones.

MONTREAL — Two volunteer firefighters who died trying to rescue two people trapped by floodwaters northeast of Quebec City last May lacked proper training and equipment, Quebec's workplace safety board has found.

HALIFAX — The federal government is imposing a 35 per cent cut on international study permits in Nova Scotia, curbing the growth the province's universities and colleges have seen as a result of soaring international enrolment.

TORONTO — The five top paid public employees in Ontario are all at Ontario Power Generation, with the CEO earning $1.9 million last year.

TORONTO — A Toronto woman facing multiple charges in a dog attack that seriously injured a child was previously deemed an “irresponsible” owner of dangerous dogs and subsequently ordered evicted from her apartment, according to court records and her

TORONTO — The Ontario government is spending about $310,000 on a new space for press conferences, which opposition parties say duplicates a room that already exists at the legislature and will mean less access for the media.