Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Gull-Masty signals go-slow approach to changing First Nations status eligibility
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says the Assembly of First Nations sent a strong signal to her government to end the second-generation cutoff in the Indian Act, but her governme...
Dec 08, 2025
Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the po...
Dec 08, 2025
Eby rejects a recall of the legislature, will amend, not repeal UN Indigenous Act
VICTORIA - Opposition politicians and a business group are urging the British Columbia government to recall the legislature in order to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples A...
Dec 08, 2025
Eby rejects a recall of the legislature, will amend, not repeal UN Indigenous Act
VICTORIA - Opposition politicians and a business group are urging the British Columbia government to recall the legislature in order to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples A...
Dec 08, 2025
Warnings about strong winds, rain or snow as system slides over B.C.
VANCOUVER - A strong Pacific frontal system is moving in over parts of British Columbia, bringing rain or snow, strong winds and poor driving conditions through to Tuesday. Environment Canada has issu...
Dec 08, 2025
Settlement approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge that follows years of ...
Dec 08, 2025
The salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios is still ongoing. What you need to know
As holiday baking season begins, federal health agencies are warning Canadians that an investigation into salmonella-contaminated pistachios is still ongoing. Since March, 155 people have been reporte...
Dec 08, 2025
Plan in works to save some jobs slated to be cut at Algoma Steel: union
SAULT STE. MARIE - Plans are in the works to save hundreds of the roughly 1,000 jobs slated to be lost at Algoma Steel Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Bill Slater, president of United Steelworkers loca...
Dec 08, 2025
B.C. First Nation meets with Alberta minister to oppose changing tanker ban
Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker r...
Dec 08, 2025
B.C. First Nation meets with Alberta minister to oppose changing tanker ban
Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker r...
Dec 08, 2025