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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 …

With the announcement on Saturday that Prince Harry and Meghan will no longer be working members of the Royal Family — and therefore no longer receiving money from the public purse — the couple may be looking for work when they eventually arrive in Canada. While Meghan Markle could go …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gordon Smith, a Canadian painter known for his large-scale abstract work and influence on other artists, died on Saturday, Jan 18, 2020. He was 100. Smith was born in East Brighton, England in 1919 and came to Winnipeg in 1933 where he enrolled at the Winnipeg School of Art. His …