Justin Trudeau has resigned as prime minister as Mark Carney gets set to take over
By Sarah Ritchie and Catherine Morrison Justin Trudeau visited Gov. Gen. Mary Simon this morning and formally resigned as prime minister. Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister at Rideau Hall at 11 a.m., where he will also reveal his first cabinet. His team is expected to be smaller than Trudeau’s 37-member team, and some current ministers will lose their cabinet positions. They include Jean-Yves Duclos, who was public services and procurement minister and Trudeau’s Quebec lieutenant. The ministers now playing key roles in Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war — including Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Champagne, Dominic LeBlanc and David McGuinty — are expected to be part of Carney’s cabinet. Carney is scheduled to chair a cabinet meeting at 2 p.m. A source...
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Mark Carney and his cabinet to be sworn in at Rideau Hall this morning
By Catherine Morrison and Sarah Ritchie -CP-Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister this morning at Rideau Hall, where he will also reveal his cabinet. He officially takes over from Justin Trudeau as prime minister in today’s ceremony. His first cabinet is expected to be smaller than Trudeau’s 37-member team, and some ministers will lose their cabinet positions. They include Jean-Yves Duclos, who was public services and procurement minister and Trudeau’s Quebec lieutenant. The ministers now playing key roles in Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war — including Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Champagne, Dominic LeBlanc and David McGuinty — are expected to be part of Carney’s cabinet. Carney is scheduled to chair a cabinet meeting at 2 p.m. A source with knowledge of the...
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U of W student teachers get lesson in treaties
By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Student teachers are getting a crash course in First Nations history and using Treaty 1 as a tool in their future classrooms not unlike traditional textbooks and 2B pencils. The University of Winnipeg partnered with the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba this week to equip education students with the same training as their certified colleagues. “It’s about understanding why we are the way we are today, why relationships are fractured, why we don’t know what we don’t know and what we should be today, had things gone according to plan (based on) our First Nations communities and ancestors’ beliefs,” said Lisa Maes, a teacher candidate at U of W. Maes, 34, is among 165 students who signed up for the optional two-day event...
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B.C. legislation would give cabinet sweeping powers amid U.S. tariff threats
By Ashley Joannou British Columbia’s government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the “human-caused disaster” coming in like a freight train from the United States. A bill, tabled in the legislature Thursday, gives cabinet the power to implement charges on vehicles using B.C. infrastructure, such as highways and ferries, while allowing the politicians to make directives about public-sector procurement. It would eliminate provincial trade barriers in the province, allowing goods produced, manufactured or grown elsewhere in Canada to be sold or used in B.C. Along with the specific changes, it would also give cabinet the power to make regulations “addressing challenges, or anticipated challenges” from the actions of a foreign jurisdiction or for a purpose “supporting the economy of British Columbia...
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Canada’s top court to hear appeal of Indigenous Nova Scotia man’s assault sentence
-CP-The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a sentence given to an Indigenous man from Nova Scotia who brutally attacked his Indigenous common law partner. Harry Arthur Cope was sentenced in 2023 in provincial court to five years in prison for aggravated assault and eight months for breaching release orders. Cope had initially sought a conditional sentence and probation, and his sentencing circle — a form of restorative justice for Indigenous people — had recommended he serve no more time in custody and instead be supervised in the community. Cope had pleaded guilty to the assault, and he had a lengthy criminal record and a history of serious mental illness. Last year, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal shortened Cope’s sentence to three years for...
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Prince George man admits assault at Musqueam First Nation
By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen A man pleaded guilty March 12 in Prince George provincial court to assaulting an elder at a First Nations community in Vancouver. Judge Cassandra Malfair heard that police were called to a residence on the Musqueam reserve at 11:31 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2023 after a fight broke out. Witnesses said Ronald David Junior Edgar, born in 1980, was the aggressor who attacked an Elder on the victim’s property without provocation. Family members came to the victim’s aid before Vancouver Police arrived. They arrested Edgar for common assault and transported him to the police lockup. In court, Edgar claimed he was pushed and then he pushed back, but agreed that he used more force than was necessary to defend himself....
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Canada’s top court to hear appeal of Indigenous Nova Scotia man’s assault sentence
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a sentence given to an Indigenous man from Nova Scotia who brutally attacked his Indigenous common law partner. Harry Arthur Cope was sentenced in 2023 in provincial court to five years in prison for aggravated assault and eight months for breaching release orders. Cope had initially sought a conditional sentence and probation, and his sentencing circle — a form of restorative justice for Indigenous people — had recommended he serve no more time in custody and instead be supervised in the community. Cope had pleaded guilty to the assault, and he had a lengthy criminal record and a history of serious mental illness. Last year, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal shortened Cope’s sentence to three years for...
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FIFA drops Vancouver remix of World Cup theme song featuring local FirstNations
By Abby Luciano, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, North Shore News Three local First Nations will help welcome the world to the 2026 FIFA World Cup next year through a remix of the massive event’s theme song. FIFA released the Vancouver remix of the World Cup theme song Monday after local producer and DJ Grayson Repp worked with səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation artists to bring the song to life. The Vancouver remix features First Nation vocals and instruments while blending electronic dance music sounds. “The concept actually started with pen and paper. I wrote down all the sights and sounds of Vancouver – so I incorporated sounds of waves crashing, rain falling – and then what really brought it together was working with the...
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Settlement for Survivors of Indian Hospitals
By Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder Ottawa has reached a proposed settlement agreement with Indigenous survivors of the segregated health facilities known as “Indian hospitals” to provide individual compensation ranging from $10,000 to $200,000. Tens of thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients, including children, were admitted to the overcrowded, poorly staffed and unsanitary institutions. Survivors speak of physical and sexual abuse from hospital staff, along with forcible confinement to beds without a medical reason and being subject to medical experiments. Two such hospitals operated in Saskatchewan at Fort Qu’Appelle and in North Battleford. A deal announced on Thursday, March 6, aims to resolve a $1.1 billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of former patients from a decades-long segregated health-care system that was plagued by widespread mistreatment...
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Randy Littlechild broke barriers as Alberta’s first Certified First Nations Medic
By Kinnukana, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Randy Littlechild, member of the Ermineskin First Nation, is a dedicated First Nationsleader in the field of healthcare. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Maskwacis Health Services (MHS), an organization committed to providing holistic healthcare to the Maskwacis Cree Nations, which include the Samson, Ermineskin, Louis Bull, and Montana First Nations. In addition to his role at MHS, Randy Littlechild was elected as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the First NationsHealth Consortium (FNHC) on October 1, 2024. A founding member of the FNHC, he has been an active board member since 2017, contributing to the organization’s mission to enhance health services for First Nations children and families across Alberta. Randy was born at the Charles Camsell Hospital...
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Greenland’s election winners push back against Trump’s wish to take control of the island
By Danica Kirka NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland’s likely new prime minister on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying Greenlanders must be allowed to decide their own future as it moves toward independence from Denmark. Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s Demokraatit, a pro-business party that favors a slow path to independence, won a surprise victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, outpacing the two left-leaning parties that formed the last government. With most Greenlanders opposing Trump’s overtures, the campaign focused more on issues like healthcare and education than on geopolitics. But on Wednesday Nielsen was quick to push back against Trump, who last week told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. needed Greenland to protect its own national security interests and he expected to get...
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Laura Secord’s influence still holds true, says her local descendant
By Julia Sacco, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With political tensions rising between Canada and the United States, it may be the perfect time for Niagara-on-the-Lake to call upon a woman who Canadian history remembers for helping to thwart a surprise American attack against British troops in Queenston — Laura Secord. Caroline McCormick is president of the Friends of Laura Secord and the great-great-great granddaughter of Secord herself. When she first moved to NOTL around 2011, McCormick took the reigns to honour Laura Secord during War of 1812 commemorations. “As a direct descendent of Laura Secord, I felt that I had the burden of taking some plans on,” she said Now, having established the Laura Secord Legacy Trail and building the First Nations Peace Monument at the terminus of the trail,...
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Trump family fortune began in a Canadian brothel-hotel
By Fakiha Baig -CP-In one of history’s little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump’s annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president’s family fortune more than 100 years ago. To find it, look west. Way west. On a quiet, remote trail in British Columbia near the Yukon boundary sits a wooden facade resembling the brothel and restaurant Trump’s grandfather built at the turn of the century. Friedrich Trump called his business in Bennett, a town that sprang up because of the Klondike Gold Rush, the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel. Parks Canada says the replica at the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site was constructed in 2017, and the kitchen inside is now exclusively used by government workers....
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Advancing clean water to be awarded
By Carl Clutchey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nominations for the National First Nations Water Leadership Award are being accepted until May 31. Created in 2018, the annual award recognizes Indigenous individuals, communities or organizations that “demonstrate leadership and outstanding dedication to the advancement of clean and safe drinking water in First Nations communities,” according to a federal backgrounder. Previous award winners were chosen for a variety of accomplishments, including working to end boil-water advisories and promoting best operational practices. Meanwhile, ensuring water in remote Indigenous communities is safe to drink remains a challenge. According to an Indigenous Services Canada backgrounder, as of the end of February, 32 First Nations were under long-term drinking water advisories. The federal government says it earmarked $1.55 billion starting in 2024 to support clean drinking...
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Local man charged with impaired and dangerous driving after collision
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND-An Ohsweken man is facing impaired driving charges after a passing motorist reported a motor vehicle collision to Six Nations Police (SNP) last month. Six Nations Police responded to a single motor collision on Third Line Saturday, February 22, 2025, at about 11:46 p.m.. Police and Six Nations Fire and Emergency Medical Services were all on scene. SNP said witnesses at the scene told police two individuals were seen inside the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was still on scene, but the passenger had been picked up by a passing vehicle and left the scene prior to police arrival. SNP said signs of impairment were observed on the individual remaining. SNP arrested and charged Steven VanEvery-Hill, 29, of Ohsweken, ON with the following criminal offences:...
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Rankin Inlet students come up with names for police trucks
By Darrell Greer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Early this year, the Rankin Inlet RCMP sent an invitation to students at Leo Ussak Elementary School — ranging from kindergarten to Grade 6 — asking them to take part in a contest to help name their police trucks. The RCMP noted that they had partnered with Social Services, the Community Justice Centre and the Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Center in Rankin Inlet to provide prizes to the contest winners. The police force announced on Feb. 18 that the following students won the contest: Kindergarten: Horse Rider by August Bolt Grade1: Great White North by Lillian Pilakapsi Grade 2: Qamutik by Mason Iguptak Grade 3: Polar Bear by Kesha Kolit Grade 4: Arctic Hare by Katie Nordman Grade 5-6: Northern Lights by Rhea Eecherk...
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Some media outlets start receiving Google payments from Online News Act: journalism group
EDITORS NOTE: NOT ALL MEDIA OUTLETS IN CANADA RECIEVE GOOGLE FUNDING By Tara Deschamps -CP-Money has started to flow to some Canadian news outlets from the $100 million Google agreed to pay them in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act, the organization administering the fund said. The Canadian Journalism Collective announced Thursday that the first portion of cash sent to eligible news businesses amounted to $17.25 million, with additional payments slated to be transferred by the end of April. The collective first estimated the money would start flowing at the end of January. However, it extended the timeline to give news companies more time to review the agreement they’d need to sign to receive the money. Early recipients of the money include for-profit and non-profit outlets, large...
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Caribou society and Sinixt Confederacy prepare to welcome animals to maternity pen
By Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It was a crisp, sunny day on March 6 for the Arrow Lakes Caribou Society (ALCS) open house at the Caribou Maternity Pen. The morning began with a ceremony held by the Sinixt Confederacy, to honour the mountain caribou and make offerings for their recovery. “The caribou for my ancestors were a really big food source,” said Rick Desautel, outreach technician with the Sinixt Confederacy. “If the caribou hadn’t fed my grandfather, I wouldn’t be here today.” Historically, the Central Selkirk herd traversed the Monashee, Selkirk, and Purcell ranges. However, their population has dwindled to just 28 adults in only the Selkirk range near Nakusp and Trout Lake. The ALCS’s maternity pen – constructed in 2019 – aims to alleviate pressures on pregnant...
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Conservative book-ban group crashes Kindergarten open houses
By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter WINNIPEG, MAN.,-Members of a conspiracy theorist group have been showing up uninvited to kindergarten open houses in Winnipeg to warn young families about “pornographic” content in public schools. The Pembina Trails School Division recently contacted Action4Canada — described as a radical conservative group with a mandate to protect “family, faith and freedom” — to request representatives stay off its properties. “Schools must be safe and caring environments free from unauthorized demonstrations, protests, or propaganda,” superintendent Shelley Amos said in a statement to the Free Press. A4C members have gone to at least eight division campuses in recent weeks to distribute brochures and, in some cases, approach parents and students directly to discuss their cause. “Individuals who do not have a reason to be...
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QNW unveils Charter for Equality Between First Nations Women and Men
By Marc Lalonde, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Quebec Native Women unveiled what they are calling an “ambitious and transformative initiative” aimed at recognizing and promoting the individual and collective rights of Indigenous women and girls late last week. The organization announced the creation of a Charter for Equality Between First Nations Women and Men, saying it aims to address First Nations women, girls, men, and boys and will engage a wide range of institutions and sectors to ensure its sustainable and effective implementation. The Charter also aims to guarantee equal rights, opportunities, and access to public services for First Nations women and girls while valuing and respecting their cultures, languages, and traditional knowledge, said QNW president Marjolaine Etienne. “This Charter represents a historic milestone for the rights of First Nations...
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