Indigenous News

MELFORT, Sask. — Family members hugged and wept at a coroner's inquest after learning how a man went from home to home, kicking in doors and stabbing people on a Saskatchewan First Nation.

MONTE LAKE, B.C. — Police say four people are dead and one person is in hospital after a head-on crash on Highway 97 southeast of Kamloops, B.C., on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Loblaw's decision to reduce steep discounts on soon-to-expire food is a move to match its competitors as the demand for marked down groceries rises, experts say. Until recently, Loblaw Cos. Ltd.

OTTAWA — Longtime Liberal member of Parliament and former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett is set to become the next ambassador to Denmark.

OTTAWA — The current federal Liberal government tried to distance itself Tuesday from the Jean Chrétien-led one that reportedly conspired with Australia to weaken United Nations language on Indigenous Peoples in the early 2000s.

CALGARY — Police say they are investigating after a woman was found dead in front of a Calgary elementary school this morning. Officers were called to the school in the southwestern community of Strathcona around 7:40 a.m.

MONTREAL — Dominika Laskova remembers waiting for a pass that never landed on her stick. Laskova was 12 years old taking the ice for Czechia’s under-15 national camp. Her teammate, Tereza Vanisova, was hogging the puck.

WINNIPEG — The daughter of a slain First Nations woman has filed a human rights complaint against Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives for an ad campaign about its decision not to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for her mother's remains.

VANCOUVER — An arctic stranglehold on much of Western Canada is loosening on all but northern Alberta, while a Pacific low-pressure system brings snow to much of British Columbia.

OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland has been calling around to United States officials to let them know that the Canadian government will be guarding its medical drug supply after the U.S. moved to allow states to mass import medicine from Canada.