Indigenous News

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition is launching its own survey on whether the province should leave the Canada Pension Plan, saying the government questionnaire is a “sham” and a “unicorn.

CALGARY — The Canada Energy Regulator has approved Trans Mountain Corp.'s application to modify the pipeline's route, a decision that could spare the government-owned pipeline project from an additional nine-month delay.

EDMONTON — Defensive back Dwayne Thompson II has been released by the Edmonton Elks. The American started in eight games for Edmonton this year. Thompson had 27 defensive tackles on the season after signing with the Elks on April 23.

OTTAWA — Canada's government has announced the ambassador who is to helm a new embassy in Armenia at a time of escalating military conflict in neighbouring Azerbaijan.

MONTREAL — Three people are dead after a fishing boat sank off Quebec's Lower North Shore early Monday morning, provincial police say. The Canadian Coast Guard said six people were aboard the Silver Condor, out of Blanc Sablon, Que.

OTTAWA — Some opposition leaders are calling on House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to step down after he invited a man who fought for the Nazis to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president, a move Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "deeply emba

OTTAWA — Dozens of civil society organizations, experts and academics are calling on the Liberal government to remove proposed measures on artificial intelligence from a federal privacy bill, saying they must be considered separately.

MONTREAL — A coroner's inquest heard Monday that a man killed two people at random in Montreal in August 2022, then travelled to Ontario to visit the Toronto Zoo and Canada's Wonderland before returning to Quebec to murder again.

VICTORIA — A brisk wind helped mark a flag-raising ceremony Monday at the British Columbia legislature honouring residential school survivors and remembering children who never came home.

EDMONTON — Alberta is adding an extra $12.4 million this year to create more apprenticeship seats to meet surging demand. Advanced Education Minister Rajan Sawhney says the money will create almost 2,000 new apprenticeship positions.