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Group discusses need for urban Indigenous self-government
The Coalition of Aboriginal Peoples of Saskatchewan (CAPS) hopes to give a voice to Indigenous peoples living off-reserve so their needs can be better met.A small gathering came together for a present...
Feb 17, 2020 John Hanikenne, president of the Coalition of Aboriginal Peoples of Saskatchewan (CAPS), shown at the Friendship Centre in North Battleford at Saturday's conference. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Wet'suwet'en and B.C. government have been talking Aboriginal title for a year
VANCOUVER - As cabinet ministers broker urgent meetings over rail blockades in support of hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia, a series of negotiations over the Wet'suwet'en Nation's l...
Feb 17, 2020
Home-school official tells trial Jewish education rigorous but only for boys
MONTREAL - The head of a Jewish home-schooling association is telling a Montreal courtroom that the rigorous Talmudic education offered by the Hasidic community prepares a child for any possible caree...
Feb 17, 2020
New Brunswick premier admits 'gaps' in scrapped plan for overnight ER closures
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says criticism of his government's decision to close emergency rooms overnight in six community hospitals exposed serious gaps in the plan an...
Feb 17, 2020
Ex-Michigan State hoops star Appling facing heroin charges
WARREN, Mich. - Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling was charged with drug crimes after authorities say they found heroin in his vehicle that he planned to sell. Appling, 28, was arra...
Feb 17, 2020
Portugal leaders rally around racially abused soccer player
LISBON, Portugal - The president and the prime minister of Portugal added their voices to a national outcry Monday over racist abuse aimed at a black FC Porto soccer player who walked off the field af...
Feb 17, 2020
14-year-old charged with Barnard College student death
NEW YORK - A 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a park during a robbery in December, a crime that rattled New York City residents, authorities said Sat...
Feb 17, 2020
Portugal leaders rally around racially abused soccer player
LISBON, Portugal - The president and the prime minister of Portugal added their voices to a national outcry Monday over racist abuse aimed at a black FC Porto soccer player who walked off the field af...
Feb 17, 2020
Zuckerberg meets EU officials as bloc's new tech rules loom
LONDON - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met top European Union officials on a visit to Brussels on Monday, days before the bloc is expected to release new proposals on regulating artificial intelligence...
Feb 17, 2020
Quebecois couple on quarantined cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus
MONTREAL - An elderly Quebecois couple from Gatineau, Que., aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, their daughter said on Sat...
Feb 17, 2020