Royal Bank of Canada’s chief executive defended the bank’s funding of the Coastal GasLink pipeline Thursday and called for incentives to help the shift to a net-zero economy, as investors and Indigenous groups denounced its support of fossil fuels.A provincial environment inspector gathers sediment from water downstream from a Coastal GasLink pipeline crossing. (B.C. Environmental…
A sixth family member has died in the wake of a tragic fatal fire in Brampton, Ont. last week.Bonnie O’Dea, seen here with her granddaughter Alia Marilyn Ali-O’Dea, died of her injuries on Wednesday following a fatal house fire in Brampton, Ont. where a family of five died. (Submitted by Randy Narine)A sixth family member has died…
Five communities within the Anishinabek Nation — Moose Deer Point, Wahnapitae, Nipissing, Magnetawan and Zhiibaahaasing First Nations in Ontario — signed a historic self-governance agreement this week with the federal government.Reg Niganobe, Grand Council chief of the Anishinabek Nation, says while five member communities have signed onto the agreement with the federal government that’s a big step toward self-governance, any…
On a day when Heather Stefanson sought to turn the page on the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at a Manitoba personal care home, a new COVID-19 outbreak at a different personal care home forced the premier to scramble.If there’s a COVID-19 outbreak at a personal care home in Manitoba, the province is no longer saying how many people have been infected.…
The defendants in lawsuits filed by families who lost loved ones in a B.C. derailment are denying any wrongdoing in the deaths of three Canadian Pacific Railway employees.A train derailment is shown near Field, B.C., on Feb. 4, 2019, when 99 grain cars and two locomotives plummeted off a bridge. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)Defendants in…
Two Nova Scotia RCMP officers who spotted the gunman responsible for killing 22 people in April 2020 describe how they stumbled upon him at a gas station, quickly identified him, and ended his life.The gunman was shot and killed by police at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., around 11:25 a.m. on April 19, 2020.…
For days, the Katuarpalaaq drum dancing festival brought performers from Alaska, Canada and Greenland together in Nuuk to share their own ways of dancing and singing.Sylvia Cloutier, who now lives in Montreal, takes part in the Katuarpalaaq drum dancing festival in Nuuk, Greenland. “Sometimes we feel like there’s very few of us cultural performers, but when we…
Renowned conductor Boris Brott, the artistic director of the Orchestre classique de Montréal and a motivational speaker, died Tuesday after a hit and run in Hamilton that led to the driver’s arrest a short time later and three officers being injured.Celebrated conductor Boris Brott, artistic director of the Orchestre classique de Montréal, died Tuesday following…
An Ontario mother says she’s getting conflicting answers to questions about the death of a 22-year-old housing activist who had been living in Hamilton, including why Vanessa Amos was reportedly discharged from hospital the same day they died.Vanessa Amos, also known as Ezra, is pictured in late November 2021 during a news conference by the…
Pimicikamak Cree Nation is investigating what was once the main Roman Catholic-run residential school in the area. Chief David Monias says the community has identified 85 children who died there.A group of students and a nun pose in a classroom at a residential school in Pimicikamak, also known as Cross Lake, in February 1940. (Reuters/Library…