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Victims of military sexual trauma turned away from peer-support programs: ombudsman
OTTAWA - Canada's veterans ombudsman says a recent investigation by her office has found victims of military sexual misconduct are being referred away from existing peer-support programs for service m...
Jun 2, 2021
Celebrating World Children Day
Since 1950, World Children Day, is celebrated on 1 June. The focal point, along with several other universal dates, was created to recognize the rights of the world's children and foster their needs a...
Jun 2, 2021
Indigenous Services minister wants Pope to apologize for Canada's residential schools
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the Pope needs to issue an apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada's residential school system. A papal apology was one of the ...
Jun 2, 2021
Joyce Echaquan coroner's inquiry comes to an end, community to march in her honour
TROIS-RIVIRES, Que. - The inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan has begun its last day of hearings, with lawyers making their final pleas to coroner Ghane Kamel. Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw m...
Jun 2, 2021
Group says Medicine Hat has ended chronic homelessness, as cities eye same nationwide
OTTAWA - An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide. Medicine Hat fir...
Jun 2, 2021
U.N. seeks full probe into death of Indigenous students at residential schools
The United Nations Human Rights Office is calling on all levels of Canadian governments to investigate the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools and to intensity efforts to find those w...
Jun 2, 2021
2 charged in Miami Beach; no arrests in other shootings
MIAMI (AP) - Police have charged two suspects with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded two people on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, but suspects remained elusive Wednesday in two other attacks th...
Jun 2, 2021
Canada doubles dollars to COVAX, but no sign of donating doses yet
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould says Canada is doubling its dollar commitment to the global vaccine-sharing alliance known as COVAX, but isn't yet committing to a specific don...
Jun 2, 2021
'We weep for our children' : PAGC wants Feds to compensate Timber Bay School survivors
The Grand Chief of the Prince Albert Grand Council says the horrific discovery in B.C. last week, shows there can be no rest until the search for the children who never came home from residential scho...
Jun 2, 2021
Veteran politician Herzog elected president of Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) - Isaac Herzog, a veteran politician and the scion of a prominent Israeli family, has been elected president, a largely ceremonial role. An anonymous vote was held Tuesday among the 120...
Jun 2, 2021
