Eight people say they were sexually assaulted and beaten by a couple who ran the home in the ‘70s, ‘80s On a dusty plot of land in the western Arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, sits a slightly out-of-place modern looking building full of government offices. Though Paul has lived his entire 50 or so years in the remote community of 1,500, he’s never been inside. “It’s the only building I haven’t stepped foot in,” he told CBC News. “I won’t.” Decades ago, long before the shiny new government building,Read more

Trudeau has refused to say whether Canada was invited to join AUKUS Experts are warning that, as the U.S., Britain and Australia move ahead on an expanded military pact, Canada’s omission from that group suggests a larger problem with how this country is perceived by its friends. U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian leader Anthony Albanese were at a naval base in San Diego on Monday to confirm the next steps of the trilateral agreement, known as “AUKUS” after the three countries involved. Those next steps include formalizingRead more

Provincial police say 38-year-old driver was arrested for leaving scene Two people are dead and nine others are injured after a pickup truck hit pedestrians in Amqui, Que., about 640 kilometres northeast of Montreal, Quebec provincial police say. The driver, a 38-year-old man, allegedly fled the scene after the collision but later turned himself in and was arrested at the Amqui police station, according to a spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec (SQ). The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday in front of the Captive microbrewery on Saint-Benoît Boulevard. “The driverRead more

6 constables may also have neglected duty by failing to take notes in 2015 encounter, investigation finds Seven Vancouver police officers may have abused their authority by using unnecessary force on Myles Gray during the encounter that ended his life, and they could face discipline as severe as losing their jobs if those allegations are proven, the police chief in charge of an investigation into their conduct has found. Metro Vancouver Transit Police Chief David Jones also determined that six of those officers may have neglected their duty by failingRead more

‘It’s the worst workforce crisis child care has ever faced,’ says an advocate Agencies that run daycares say they’re so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10-a-day child care can be delivered to all the kids who will need a spot. Stories abound of daycare centres running at half capacity, asking parents to take their kids out of care for a day or two a week, or even shutting down operations entirely, all for lack of staff. The Trudeau government is promising to giveRead more