Toronto, June 8 A driver plowed a pickup truck into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other in a deliberate attack that targeted the victims because they were Muslims, Canadian police said Monday. Authorities said a young man was arrested in the parking lotRead More

Ottawa, June 8 Calls to cancel the 2021 Canada Day holiday is gaining momentum after the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children at the site of a former residential school in British Colombia province. The hashtag #CancelCanadaDay is also gaining increased support on social media platforms, reports XinhuaRead More

Ontario long-term care homes continue to break the law without facing serious penalties, with egregious consequences for seniors in the province. “We need to really overhaul the inspection regime and make sure that we are properly holding to account, frankly, the slew of bad actors that exist in this sector,”Read More

After lagging behind other countries in the early months of vaccination, Canada is now among the leaders when it comes to the percentage of the population vaccinated against COVID-19 with at least one dose. So far, Canada has vaccinated 58 per cent of the total population with at least oneRead More

Toronto, June 2 The discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Canada has reopened wounds for survivors of the system, they said, as the government pledged to spend previously promised money to search for more unmarked graves. The Tk’emlúps te Secwe´pemc indigenous nation inRead More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce are likely to make an announcement about whether schools will be reopening to in-person learning for the remainder of the academic year on Wednesday afternoon. On Monday, Ford said his government was reviewing responses to a letter sent last Thursday thatRead More

Taking in the sight of hundreds of shoes on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the magnitude of what was found buried beneath the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds isn’t lost on Carmen Lansdowne. She’s a member of B.C.’s Heiltsuk First Nation, and her grandparents were among thoseRead More

About 80 P.E.I Mi’kmaq and other Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters gathered in downtown Charlottetown Monday morning at a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald for a vigil following the discovery of a mass grave outside at residential school in British Columbia. The grave, outside a former residential school in Kamloops,Read More

Flags at all federal buildings in Canada, including the Peace Tower, will be flown at half-mast, following the discovery of the bodies of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. A statement released Sunday by the Department of Canadian Heritage said the action wasRead More

Top officials in Nova Scotia are set to unveil the province’s reopening plan later Friday, a day after Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick presented multi-step plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions. Nova Scotia reported 33 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, continuing a downward trend in single-day cases. The province,Read More