Wellington County OPP say their investigation into the death of a man who suffered severe injuries while at a Fergus grocery store on Friday has concluded. Emergency crews were called the store on Tower Street South at around 6:45 p.m. for reports of a man who had “sustained serious trauma.” He was later pronounced dead […]

Canada is complicit in a “race-based genocide” against indigenous women, a government report has concluded. The report cited research finding indigenous women were 12 times more likely to be killed or to disappear than other women in Canada. Released Monday, the report was many years in the making. Among more than 200 recommendations is a […]

Operators of a Moncton daycare where four staff members were fired last week are investigating an incident, but say they can’t release the details of what happened. Mary O’Donnell, executive director at Moncton Headstart, issued a letter to parents Monday, providing a timeline and explaining what’s being done. “While we are still not in a […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After he had chopped up the body into 108 pieces and taken a long nap, Zhao Li cooked himself some noodles for breakfast. He never ate them. Instead, Mr. Zhao, a soft-spoken Chinese immigrant, found himself surrounded by a SWAT team that had been surveilling the imposing $8 million hillside mansion […]

RCMP are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing Chilliwack man they believe could be in Salmon Arm. A friend last heard from 55-year-old Kevin Alexander Tripp on May 19, according to police. He’s described as approximately six feet tall with brown hair and brown eyes. He has a prosthetic lower left leg […]

One minute, it was dangling off the back of an icebreaker into the waters of the High Arctic. The next, the crucial piece of gear was gone. “We got pinched,” recalls Mary-Lynn Dickson. “You’re clearing a path, but the ice moves in and we got pinched.” Dickson was the lead scientist on a 2,100-page report […]

A man is in hospital after a three-alarm fire in Montreal’s east end on Monday morning. The fire broke before out in a residential building on Plessis Street between Logan and La Fontaine streets. Firefighters performed CPR on the man after pulling him out of the fire. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. […]

HOUSTON (REUTERS) – Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier fighting a US sales ban, kicks off a trade secrets lawsuit in the United States on Monday (June 3) against a former employee who has sought to turn the case into a referendum on Huawei’s corporate behaviour. The trial, involving salacious allegations of corporate espionage, […]

Survivors and families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are preparing for what’s anticipated to be a highly emotional ceremony in Gatineau, Que., on Monday to mark the release of a report that names the issue as nothing short of a “genocide.” In the final report, chief commissioner Marion Buller says the that […]

“I always say we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo.” In the 1950s and 60s at the height of the US civil rights movement, when activists needed somewhere discreet to discuss strategy, they would go to Dooky Chase in New Orleans – meeting in an upstairs room and make plans over […]