Indigenous News

MONTREAL — Organizations representing workers in the Quebec justice system called on the provincial government Thursday to increase security at courthouses. The letter released by 10 groups is in response to a knife attack on Jan.

TORONTO — Canada's largest school board is looking into creating a new policy to restrict the use of cellphones and social media by students in schools.

Dominique Rhymes is returning to where it all began. The veteran receiver agreed to terms on a two-year contract with the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday. It came a day after Rhymes and the B.C. Lions mutually parted ways in a salary-cap move.

HALIFAX — A 22-year-old Nova Scotia man has been charged with lighting a fire last May that grew to become one of the largest wildfires in the province's history. The Barrington Lake fire southwest of Shelburne, N.S.

TORONTO — TD Bank Group says it expects to earn about $141 million in equity net income in its first quarter of 2024 from its holdings in Charles Schwab as U.S. banks report earnings.

TORONTO — As Loblaws moves to reduce its 50 per cent discount on food approaching its best before date to the more modest 30 per cent, experts say those time stamps aren't an accurate measure of whether groceries are safe to eat.

MONTREAL — The governments of Canada and Quebec are committing a combined $6.2 million to renovate Montreal's Centaur Theatre, an English-language community institution in the city's historic district. Officials say the funding package — $2.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — As a child growing up in Canada's northernmost community, P. J. Akeeagok wanted to be a water truck driver.

EDMONTON — Police are investigating a string of "brazen" extortions targeting businesspeople in the Edmonton area's South Asian community, in which properties have been torched and shot at.

Drug manufacturer Teva Canada Ltd. is recalling one lot of a children's pain and fever relief medicine because it contains too much acetaminophen and poses a risk of overdose.