A number of people have been arrested following a skirmish with police in the Downtown Eastside as city staff began the process of removing tents and other structures along a busy street in the neighbourhood, forcing dozens of people living in the area to move.
Freedom Convoy organizers discussed playing ‘race card’ with Metis heritage
Organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” discussed using their ties to Métis identity to play the “race card” as part of an overall strategy to control their public image and garner sympathy for their cause, text messages suggest.
Retired priest charged with assault in Manitoba residential school case
Manitoba RCMP say a 92-year-old retired priest has been charged after a decade-long investigation into the Fort Alexander Residential School northeast of Winnipeg.
Two Manitoba First Nations search former residential school sites, find anomalies
Sagkeeng First Nation found 190 anomalies in the soil and Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation located six.
Saskatchewan professor resigns after Indigenous identity questioned
A health professor at the University of Saskatchewan has resigned after questions arose about her Indigenous identity.
‘Always hope’: Remains of Cree woman sent home to Alberta decades after disappearance
Violet Soosay’s search for her missing aunt began four decades ago. The pursuit took her to parts of Alberta and B.C. and down paths of uncertainty as weeks, months and years passed without word of Shirley Ann Soosay.
First Nations leaders call on Pope Francis to visit residential schools
Vatican officials visited three locations in Canada this month as part of planning for Pope Francis’s expected trip this year, with some surprised that the former Kamloops, B.C., residential-school site that sparked a national reckoning last year was not part of the initial scout.
Indigenous, racialized and LGBTQ groups fear online hate bill may curtail rights
OTTAWA - Members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous people and racialized groups fear a proposed law tackling online harm could disproportionately curtail their online freedoms and even make them police targets, responses to a government consultation have warned.
Indigenous parents struggle to register traditional names for babies
There are calls for provinces to allow special characters in naming rules so Indigenous parents can register traditional names for their babies.
Search underway for missing five-year-old boy in Red Earth Cree Nation
A large-scale search continues for five-year-old Frank Young in the Red Earth Cree Nation area