Nunavik police officer charged with assault after Quebec watchdog investigation
By Marieke Glorieux-Stryckman Quebec’s police watchdog says an officer with the Nunavik Police Service appeared in court Monday to face charges of assault and assault with a weapon. The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, or BEI, says the officer appeared in court in Kuujjuarapik, a town on the shore of Hudson’s Bay in northern Quebec. The agency says the alleged assaults took place on Aug. 26, 2025, in the village of Umiujaq, which is about 160 kilometres northeast of Kuujjuarapik. It says the officer was charged after a BEI investigation. A spokesperson said the case is expected to go to trial. The watchdog investigates all criminal allegations against police officers when the victim or complainant is Indigenous. It also investigates allegations of sexual offences involving on-duty police officers and cases where...
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North of North creators dangle spoilers ahead of Season 2
By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News North of North’s second season debuts on Sept. 1 for APTN+ subscribers, arriving on CBC by Sept. 8 and on Netflix later in the year. The show’s creators, Alethea Arnaquq‑Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald, told Nunavut News what they were most excited about ahead of the season’s release. “There are some new Inuit actors in there that the world hasn’t seen yet, a couple who have never even acted before ever but just blew us away,” Arnaquq‑Baril said. New characters and new love interests will join the cast, Aglok MacDonald added. Viewers of the eight-episode season will be introduced to an expanded universe in Ice Cove, the fictional Nunavut community filmed in Iqaluit. “We’ve got some characters from an episode...
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B.C. boaters warned to avoid mysterious floating island
A floating island is seen on Williston Lake in northern B.C. in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Rocky Avery (Mandatory Credit) By Nono Shen Boaters in northern British Columbia are being warned to stay away from a mysterious floating island that has reappeared on a lake after drifting about 30 kilometres in two weeks. BC Hydro spokesperson Bob Gammer says he initially thought reports of the island covered in trees and foliage on Williston Lake, the reservoir for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in the northern Interior, were a hoax, but satellite images confirmed its existence in mid-August. The island measuring about one hectare then disappeared, but Gammer says it was spotted again on Monday, having travelled about 30 kilometres. He says boaters should resist the urge to...
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Élections Québec says it will send out voting information in French only
By Erika Morris Élections Québec says it will only send out voter information in French, to comply with language laws. In previous elections, voter information cards were printed in both English and French. The provincial elections authority says it must follow legislation adopted in 2022 making French the sole language of communication for public institutions. However, it says this year’s documents will include a QR code to access information online in English. Indigenous voters and those eligible to receive English instructions must contact Élections Québec to request English documents. The agency says voters should receive information cards by Sept. 18, ahead of the election on Oct. 5. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 1, 2026. ...
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Deninu Kue First Nation announces opposition to Taltson hydro expansion project
By Kody Ferron, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yellowknifer The Deninu Kue First Nation (DKFN) in Fort Resolution is pulling its support for the Taltson hydro expansion project, claiming that DKFN has been sidelined for years. “[The] DKFN chief and council have determined that DKFN cannot support and will object to the Taltson expansion development,” wrote Deninu Kue First Nation Chief Louis Balsillie, in an Aug. 26 statement. Balsillie posted a long list of reasons why the First Nation has decided to withdraw its support for expanding Taltson. He stated that the First Nation has participated in the development process of the Taltson expansion “in good faith,” but that despite this, the group was not guaranteed any benefits from the project. “There has been a long history of DKFN being excluded...
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Fake “Indian” status cards may be circulating
LONDON, ONT- The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) is alerting the public after fake Indigenous status cards began surfacing in the area. AIAI says the cards are being issued by an individual named William Denby ad claim he has been “falsely representing himself as Indigenous and has been creating false status cards.” AIAI says the cards “have no official recognition with any First Nation, government, or otherwise and are being presented as such by a group calling itself ‘Kawartha Lakes First Nation’”. “These cards undermine all the work Nations, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, have been driving toward for reconciliation and recognition.” Says Grand Chief Joel Abram. “Mr. Denby is attempting to assert rights and authority over lands illegitimately, and they hold no legitimate claims whatsoever. The creation of these...
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MP Cathay Wagantall officially becomes 10th MP to resign this year
By David Baxter Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall officially resigned from the House of Commons on Monday, making her the 10th MP to step down this year. Wagantall announced in June that she would resign at the end of August. She said she originally planned on finishing her term but did not offer a reason for her exit as member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville, a riding she’d represented since 2015. Ontario Conservative Larry Brock is also expected to resign this month. After representing Brantford—Brandt South—Six Nations since 2021, he now plans to go back to his old job as a Crown prosecutor. The House of Commons is set to return on Sept. 21 with three new Liberal MPs elected in Monday’s byelections, all of which were triggered by resignations. On...
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Katlo Tech CEO attempts to offer assurances over proposed data centre
By Kody Ferron, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yellowknifer We’re protesting the wrong data centres, and we’ve been living next to the right ones for decades, says one of the proponents of a proposed data centre on the K’atl’odeeche First Nation. Amid concern, and even anger, towards the idea of a hyper-scale AI data centre being built in the NWT, Lyle Fabian, CEO of Yellowknife-based tech company Katlo Tech, assured that no one is proposing to build such a massive facility, at least not yet. He said there’s a lot of misunderstanding and confusion around what a data centre is, and what it could mean for the territory. “What we’re building is a traditional data centre, which people have been living near and by for the past four decades,” said Fabian....
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet wins lawsuit against woman who accused him of sexual misconduct
By Morgan Lowrie Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has won his civil defamation suit against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct as part of a class-action lawsuit. Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay ruled that Paméla Groleau’s accusations against Ouellet are unfounded and ordered her to pay him $100,000. “The court finds that the allegations describing the four events cited by Ms. Groleau in the context of the class action are false,” he wrote in a decision released Monday. Groleau had accused Ouellet of touching her without consent on three occasions between 2008 and 2010, while she was training or working as a lay pastoral agent for the church. She also said she felt “hunted” by him at a fourth event, during which Ouellet moved across a room to come...
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Alberta’s Smith says Canadians ‘confused’ by Trump’s targeting of Lake Ontario
By Lisa Johnson Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is pushing her message for an end to the fierce U.S.-Canada trade war directly to Americans. Smith, appearing on the Fox Business Network on Monday, was asked how Canadians feel about U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent move to rebrand Lake Ontario as Lake America. “Canadians are confused. I think they’re disappointed,” she said. Smith added it’s particularly confounding given the two countries’ long-standing economic and military relationship. Canadian troops stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Americans in Afghanistan, she said, and the upcoming 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States is a reminder of that close relationship. “We don’t understand why the Americans would want Canada to be weaker,” Smith said. “I think we’re stronger together.” The United States imposed 50 per...
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Two young bald eagles take flight at Brunswick Point, Delta after successful rehabilitation
By Radha Agarwal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Delta Optimist After weeks of recovery, two young bald eagles have finally returned to the skies over Brunswick Point. Last week, the Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) partnered with the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL) to release the rehabilitated birds back into the wild, marking a successful end to their challenging early lives. Rob Hope, OWL’s senior rehabilitator, shared that both birds were young and had to overcome significant hurdles before tasting freedom. The first eagle’s journey began with tragedy when its nest broke apart. “Unfortunately, a sibling died,” said Hope. “We saved the brother and he’s about four months old now, so he successfully rehabilitated.” The second bird was discovered right at Brunswick Point as it was just learning to fledge. “Unfortunately, he...
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New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says
By Julia Frankel It has been touted by the manufacturer as the ballistic missile of the future: lethal, long-range and pinpoint. Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile has the U.S. military investing billions to update its arsenal. But a close look at what is believed to be its first use in combat — on the first day of the Iran war — highlights the potential peril of deploying this weapon near population centers because it appears to spray pellets over a wide area, according to a review by the conflict monitor Airwars and interviews with weapons experts and former defense officials. Three missiles that struck the southern city of Lamerd on Feb. 28 killed civilians as far as 50 meters (164 feet) from where they detonated, and caused damage more than...
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Liberals win B.C. riding of North-Vancouver Capilano in federal byelection
By Brenna Owen Braeden Caley, a former political aide to Prime Minister Mark Carney, will trade in his staffer hat for an MP’s lapel pin after winning the federal byelection in the British Columbia riding of North Vancouver-Capilano. With more than 90 per cent of the polls reporting late Monday, Caley was well ahead of the Conservative candidate, lawyer Stephen Curran, and Green Party representative Shelley Luce, a scientist and advocate. Caley arrived at his election night party to deliver a victory speech just hours after polls closed, telling the crowd voters had chosen partnership over division in a moment of uncertainty stemming from trade conflict with the United States. He said the byelection result was “an instruction to stand strong versus those unjust tariffs,” along with bringing down costs...
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‘You just move forward’: Greenland Energy oil exploration delayed by a year
By Lauren Krugel A drilling rig was being retooled in Alberta. Trucks and cranes were set to ship from Denmark. More equipment was due from Houston. And a Quebec shipping firm was preparing to receive cargoes from those far flung locales at a port west of Montreal, load them Tetris-style onto vessels and sail this fall to Greenland’s rugged and inhospitable east coast. All this, in preparation for what would be the first oil wells to be drilled in the barren tundra of Jameson Land Basin. But then, in mid-August, authorities in the mostly autonomous Danish territory said they needed more time to review Greenland Energy Co.’s plans to tap what it believes could be an oil bonanza. “We literally shut everything down in its tracks,” Robert Price, Greenland Energy’s...
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Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor says ‘Lake Ontario’ lyric now an anti-Trump rallying cry
By Alex Nino Gheciu Greg Keelor had been mulling what to say about Donald Trump all night. Blue Rodeo was about to play “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet” during their Saturday show at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, and the Canadian band’s frontman knew their 1993 hit contained a newly loaded lyric: “Out in the middle of Lake Ontario.” Keelor considered using the moment to tear into the U.S. president, who last week signed an executive order to rename the body of water “Lake America.” “A part of me just wanted to go off on Trump and just call him a lot of bad names,” the singer-songwriter says in an interview Monday. But he opted for a different approach. Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor talks about the viral moment at the band’s Toronto show...
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What we know about Trump’s deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in Venezuela
By Collin Binkley, Juan Pablo Arráez And Regina Garcia Cano WASHINGTON (AP) — Besides a social media post from President Donald Trump, the White House has said little about what he is calling “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY” in Venezuela. Trump said the agreement announced Friday night would give the United States a stake in Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, a step toward his goal of extracting energy from the country after American forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges. Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country’s oil industry. In a televised address to the nation late Saturday, Rodríguez insisted Venezuela’s...
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‘Greenwashing by governments more harmful’: Who is holding Ottawa and Queen’s Park accountable?
By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer When the federal and provincial governments promote themselves as friends of the environment, while pushing legislation and projects that will devastate landscapes and impact our well being, who holds them accountable for the blatant greenwashing? Perhaps no one. “There’s little greenwashing specific laws in Canada overall, and there are no laws that prohibit the government specifically from greenwashing,” Ecojustice Finance Lawyer Tanya Jemec told The Pointer. “The only greenwashing-specific laws in Canada are limited to deceptive marketing.” The Competition Act has historically required corporations and businesses making environmentally friendly claims about their products or activities to base them on adequate and proper testing using internationally recognized methodologies, to prove what they say. In 2024, major changes to the Competition Act through...
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Federal byelection polls open for voters in Vancouver, Toronto, Chicoutimi
By The Canadian Press Voting was underway Monday in federal byelections in Quebec, B.C. and Ontario taking place under the shadow of an intensifying trade war with the United States. Elections Canada reports that thousands have already cast votes in advance polls in the three byelections. It estimates that 11,800 advance ballots came in for Beaches-East York, 11,000 for Chicoutimi-Le Fjord and 16,700 for North Vancouver-Capilano. All eyes are on what could be a close race in rural Quebec. Conservative Richard Martel resigned his seat in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord to sit in the Senate. Martel won a tight three-way race in 2025, beating the Liberal and Bloc Québécois candidates by about 1,500 votes. McGill University political science professor Daniel Béland says if the Tories can’t hold on to the Quebec seat,...
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Family calls for probe of decision to grant parole to man convicted in woman’s death
By Alessia Passafiume Family members of the late Barbara Kentner are demanding that the Parole Board of Canada explain why it granted her attacker full parole without first meeting with them. Kentner was walking on a street in Thunder Bay, Ont., with her sister in 2017 when Brayden Bushby tossed a trailer hitch at her, striking her in the abdomen. The First Nations woman died six months later. Bushby, now 25, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault but was convicted of manslaughter for what the presiding judge described as a callous, misogynist attack. He was recently granted full parole after being sentenced in 2021 to eight years in prison. Kentner’s sister Connie Kentner says her family deserves to know why Bushby was granted full parole and wants systemic changes to ensure...
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National chief encourages eligible First Nation to submit claims
By Jacqueline St.Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor OTTAWA—National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak stated on August 17 that more than 30,000 First Nations children who were removed from their homes have now received compensation through the First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) and Jordan’s Principle Settlement. Over $1.2 billion has been provided in compensation to eligible claimants, marking an important milestone in one of Canada’s largest class action settlements. “Behind every claim is an experience that reflects Canada’s discrimination against First Nations children and families,” said National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak in a press release. “No amount of compensation can undo that harm. This milestone is important because it reflects the thousands of people whose experiences have now been acknowledged, while reminding us that others are still moving...
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