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The 12-year-old Indigenous girl who was handcuffed and then detained for 45 minutes by the Vancouver Police Department on a downtown street Dec. 20 after trying to open an account at the Bank of Montreal says she doesn’t even want to think about what happened anymore. “I was scared,” Tori-Anne …

The Liberal cabinet retreat begins its second day in Winnipeg Monday with a meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister to talk about public safety, flood protection and the thorny topic of the federal carbon tax. Pallister has said he’ll push the PM for some flexibility …

Therese Keenatch died at 60, two weeks after her residential school compensation claim was first rejected on grounds she wasn’t technically a student when she was sexually assaulted by a federal employee on the way to a Saskatchewan residential school. Her daughter, June Keenatch, took up the case after her …

More than a year after Meng Wanzhou’s arrest at Vancouver International Airport, the first formal phase of the Huawei executive’s extradition hearing begins Monday in B.C. Supreme Court. American prosecutors want Meng sent to New York to face fraud charges related to allegations she deceived banks about Huawei’s control of …

A snowblower widens a road in St. John’s Sunday. The effort on Monday will focus on snowclearing on narrow streets in downtown neighbourhoods. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press) The state of emergency in St. John’s continued Monday for a fourth day, with overnight blizzard conditions complicating efforts to deal with unprecedented …

President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled today, Jan. 20, to lead the ceremonial distribution of food packs to families affected by the at the PUP Gymnasium in Santo Tomas, Batangas. JAMPACKED. Evacuees huddled inside their cube tents, as the threat of Taal’s eruption remains high, keeping them from their homes for …

House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez on Sunday said Congress would expedite the passage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s priority measures, including bills creating executive departments for Filipino overseas workers, water resources and disaster resilience before the next adjournment in March. House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez …

Tagaytay City―Business in this usually bustling city has yet to return to normal, as business owners have decided to reschedule their openings because of the limited supply of water following the . Coffee and pineapple growers in areas around Taal Volcano, who have to deal with the thick layers of …

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology fears a of seismic activities at Taal Volcano in Batangas. “The volcano is already open,” said Ma. Antonia Bornas, chief of PHIVOLCS’ Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Prediction Division. “It would be easier for the magma to climb up. There would be nothing to …

Acute respiratory infections caused by the ashfall from last week are the top complaint of “between 50 and 60 percent” of evacuees consulting with the Department of Health’s workers at evacuation centers, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Sunday. JAMPACKED. Evacuees from towns affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano …