People who work with vulnerable populations in Happy Valley-Goose Bay have noticed a disturbing trend.Labrador Inn manager Bill Dormody holds up a bottle of hand sanitizer mixed with pop, as he displays other bottles of sanitizer he has found either mixed with water or sugary drinks. (CBC)The manager of a hotel in Happy Valley-Goose Bay…
Jonathan Laferriere’s legal ordeal began when he sold a condo in 2018. He was sued for $4,000 without ever having been informed about the legal action against him. The decision has been overturned, but he’s still being asked to pay interest and legal fees.Jonathan Laferriere says his ‘Kafkaesque’ experience with Quebec’s small claims court has…
More than 200 boxes of records are currently under separate court and internal federal reviews to determine their connection to residential schools after they were found in storage facilities within the last year, CBC News has learned.Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said his department continues to search for documents related to residential schools in Canada.…
Quebec Premier François Legault has confirmed a national funeral will be held for Guy Lafleur, the Montreal Canadiens superstar and hockey Hall of Famer who died at the age of 70 Friday.Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur died at 70 Friday. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)Quebec Premier François Legault has confirmed a national funeral will be held for Guy…
Manitoba has issued a flood warning for the province’s Red River Valley, from the southern community of Emerson near the United States border up to the Red River Floodway inlet just south of Winnipeg.Water pools on the roadways in East St. Paul northeast of Winnipeg on Sunday. (Radjaa Abdelsadok/SRC)Manitoba has issued a flood warning for…
Bill Murtagh, a space weather forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S., says more displays of the aurora borealis will be visible in B.C. before the solar maximum in 2025.The aurora borealis over Pressy Lake in 100 Mile House, B.C. Bill Murtagh of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. says the…
“Because we see … our neighbours being able to achieve that, we have the sense that also Inuit in Nunavut should and could be able to achieve that,” said Aluki Kotierk, the president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.Peter Olsen, Greenland’s minister of education, culture, sports and church, says local languages are strongly present in primary schools.…
Mohamedou Ould Slahi is suing the federal government for its alleged role in his 14-year detention in Guantanamo Bay.Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who wrote a best-selling book about his experiences in the U.S. military prison, is shown in October 2016, after he was reunited with his family in his native Mauritania.…
Some advocates are concerned that an upcoming review of federal spending could have an impact on social spending that helps women and marginalized people.Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, who is also deputy prime minister, speaks at a news conference ahead of the tabling of the federal budget, in Ottawa on April 7. (Justin Tang/The Canadian…
The 23-year-old Torontonian — or is that Haligonian? — tutor earned the eighth-longest streak in the TV game show’s regular-season history Friday with 14 consecutive wins, and her fellow Canadians are taking note.Canadian Mattea Roach appears in an episode of Jeopardy! in a handout photo. Roach has cracked the Top 10 list for most consecutive…
