Indigenous News

CALGARY — The Canada Energy Regulator has approved preliminary interim tolls for the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline. The approval will enable Trans Mountain Corp.

OTTAWA — The Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is defending a bill that would formalize several Métis self-governance agreements, after more than a month of heated debate between Indigenous leaders at a parliamentary committee.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali fell silent for two full minutes as Crown attorney Daniel Porte neared the end of his closing arguments.

REGINA — Saskatchewan's auditor is to investigate the province's procurement and payment practices when people on social assistance need to stay at hotels.

ORILLIA, Ont. — Police in Ontario say they have "strong reason" to believe a person arrested in Morocco by Belgian police was also behind alleged bomb threats against schools across much of the province.

OTTAWA — The national spy watchdog says Canada's border agency needs to do a better job of documenting how and why it singles out certain air passengers for possible additional scrutiny.

Nearly one in 10 scientists say they have experienced political or workplace pressure to alter their findings, suggests a newly published paper surveying hundreds of researchers in government, academia and the private sector.

The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation that has been thrust into the controversy over Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ancestry says the legendary singer and songwriter should take a DNA test to provide an answer about her heritage.

VANCOUVER — A rookie surveillance officer with Canada's spy agency and another officer decades her senior were tracking a person in British Columbia in the summer of 2019 when they lost sight of their target.

Calgary police have asked the RCMP to conduct an independent investigation into how two teenage brothers were arrested and charged in a shooting that left a man dead and two other people injured.