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[published_date] Residents of the Northern Village of Denare Beach, Sask., and Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP say the provincial government failed the village as a wildfire approached nearly a month ago. Denare Beach is located close to the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border and has approximately 700 year-round residents. More than 200 homes were destroyed by the Wolf fire. People from the village say it…

[published_date] The last time Allen Kudlak saw his father Jacob was in August 1965. The pair hugged each other goodbye, then Allen boarded a float plane that brought him to residential school.  After 60 years, he's finally had the chance to reunite with his father, who's buried near the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton.  Kudlak is part of…

[published_date] The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is demanding answers after the sudden removal of Rhonda Blackmore as commanding officer of Saskatchewan's RCMP F Division. Blackmore, a 30-year RCMP veteran who took the assistant commissioner job in April 2021, was relieved of her duties on June 3. In an emailed statement that day, Blackmore…

[published_date] WARNING: This article references sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. The lawyer for Jeffery Turnbull, a Hamilton police constable accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in 2022, portrayed the woman as an unreliable witness whose testimony misaligns with the known facts as his trial continued…

[published_date] A Canadian citizen died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week, the agency says. Johnny Noviello, 49, died in a detention centre in Florida on Monday, an ICE news release says. The cause of death is unknown and is under investigation, according to the release. Despite having Canadian citizenship,…

[published_date] In 2008, Canadian researchers led by McGill PhD student Jonathan O'Neil said they'd found the world's oldest rocks, formed 4.3 billion years ago in what is now northwestern Quebec. Such rocks would give scientists an unprecedented glimpse into Earth's early history during its very first eon, the Hadean, just a few hundred million years…

[published_date] Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is now set to stand trial in his Toronto sexual assault case early next year before a judge alone. Stronach's defence lawyer says he switched from a jury trial to one with a judge alone with the Crown's consent in a hearing this morning, with the trial scheduled to begin…

[published_date] French sporting goods retailer Decathlon says it is closing its five Greater Toronto Area stores this summer. The locations slated for shutdown are in Brampton, Burlington, Markham, Scarborough and Vaughan. The retailer did not offer a reason for the move or say how many staff will lose their jobs, when the stores close on…

[published_date] The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5 per cent annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump's trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected deterioration of earlier estimates. First-quarter growth was weighed down by a surge of imports as U.S. companies, and households, rushed to buy foreign…

[published_date] Alan Auld of Shuniah, Ont., said he stepped out to look at Lake Superior on Saturday and was among people who saw the waters receding — something he compared to the draining of a bathtub.  "At first we joked to everyone saying, 'Who pulled the plug?'" said Auld.  "To see Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world,…

[published_date] Ford Motor Company is calling the majority of its salaried workforce back to the office four days a week, the automaker's latest effort to boost employee and company performance. "Many of our employees have been in the office three or more days per week for some time now," a Ford spokesperson said in a statement…

[published_date] The wife of a lung transplant recipient who died in May says her family's attempt to save her husband's life has cost her their family home in Springhill, N.S. Donald Goguen, a Canadian navy veteran, died in May of complications from two lung transplants last year. Not only is Verbena Brenton-Goguen grieving her husband, but she's grappling…