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UN high commissioner urges redress as Canada responds to MMIWG inquiry
OTTAWA - Canada's response to the conclusions of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should include some form of redress for the victims and their families, says the Unite...
Jun 19, 2019
Man who stole human skull and kept it as 'curiosity' sentenced to jail
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a "curiosity item" has been sentenced to four months in&...
Jun 19, 2019
Trial hears man shot at least nine times by Manitoba RCMP officer
THOMPSON, Man. - The manslaughter trial of an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba heard a man was shot at least nine times by the constable. Const. Abram Letkeman is on trial for the 2015 death of Steve...
Jun 19, 2019
Saskatchewan adds residents once again
Saskatchewan's population is continuing its upward trend.According to numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, the number of people living in the province increased by 10,295 people in the pas...
Jun 19, 2019 (Submitted photo/CJME News)
B.C. mom tells inquest of son's descent into drugs, finds him 'gone' in bedroom
VICTORIA - Rachel Staples let out the dog, started brewing coffee and then immediately felt panic as she walked up to her son's room on April 20 last year, she told a coroner's inquest Monda...
Jun 19, 2019
Make passports free to ease new no-fly list measures, federal panel suggests
OTTAWA - A federal advisory panel says Ottawa should consider making passports free to everyone for one year to ease the introduction of new no-fly list procedures. The coming changes ...
Jun 19, 2019
Trudeau promises to legislate implementation of UNDRIP if re-elected
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that a re-elected Liberal government will introduce legislation to ensure federal laws are harmonized with the United Nations Declaration on the Rig...
Jun 19, 2019
Stay of proceedings after Jaspal Atwal accused of uttering threats
SURREY, B.C. - The BC Prosecution Service says it won't pursue a charge of uttering threats against the man who sparked a political firestorm when he attended an event during Prime Minister ...
Jun 19, 2019
Budget watchdog says cost to match one of Trump's business tax cuts is $37B
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog is putting new numbers to the cost of matching recent U.S. business-tax changes, pegging the price to the federal treasury at more than double government e...
Jun 19, 2019
Riverbank Indigenous signage project approved
Six interpretive signs on the history of the city's first peoples are coming to the Prince Albert riverbank, likely before winter.The Riverbank History Storyline project concept was approved by city c...
Jun 19, 2019 An example of the sort of interpretive signage that's planned for the Prince Albert riverbank is this picture and info on a stand at the Waskesiu mini golf course. (Submitted/P.A. council agenda)
