Reconciliation and a flourishing future with Jaime Fiddler
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Take your left hand and place it at the back of your head and now take your right hand and place it on top of your tailbone — the distance between your two hands is the longest running nerve in your body, the vagus nerve. The lower end of this nerve is where your nervous system allows you to feel safe and connected — whole. And when we feel like ourselves, that is what being grounded and connected to our spirit is. It takes an incredible amount of courage and leaning into doing things that feed our spirit — despite feelings of uncertainty, doubt or fear. This was the course of action our Métis sister Jaime Fiddler walked with that eventually...
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Carney says his government starts in a moment of crisis in Canada-U.S. relations
By Sarah Ritchie and Catherine Morrison Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday morning, along with a leaner Liberal cabinet that he said is focused on “meeting the moment” and facing down the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump. In his first press conference as prime minister, Carney said his government will concentrate on growing the economy, making life more affordable and making the country more secure. “One of the top issues, of course, is the crisis with respect to the United States, and the opportunity with respect to trade diversification,” he said. He said keeping together the core team of ministers who have been dealing with Trump’s tariff threats was very important. François-Philippe Champagne has been named...
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Nova Scotia identifies five areas for development of offshore wind
-CP-The Nova Scotia government has identified five areas that it deems suitable for the development of offshore wind farms. The government issued a statement Friday saying the next step is seeking input from Nova Scotians before official designations are granted, a process that will wrap up April 14. “Canada, with the world’s longest coastline, a stable regulatory environment and decades of experience in offshore energy development, is well-positioned to enter the $1-trillion global offshore wind market,” the provincial government said in a discussion paper released Friday. “Nova Scotia’s offshore is particularly promising, with strong winds and favourable underwater conditions — including water depth and geology — to support offshore wind energy projects.” The province’s goal is to issue licences for up to five gigawatts of electric offshore wind energy by...
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Via Rail on-time performance plunges after CN imposes new speed rules
By Christopher Reynolds -CP-Via Rail’s on-time performance hit new lows in recent months, internal documents show, a decline the Crown corporation blames largely on Canadian National Railway Co. Files obtained through an access to information request show that Via trains, which run mostly on CN tracks, arrived late along its Windsor-Quebec City corridor 80 per cent of the time in February and two-thirds in January. That’s a significant leap from late-arrival numbers below 30 per cent during the same two months last year. In court filings in November, Via said that recently imposed speed restrictions on its Venture passenger trains were causing delays along its busiest corridor, affecting thousands of passengers daily. It is seeking an injunction to have the restrictions lifted. CN responded that it implemented the new rules...
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Judge won’t review decision not to charge Edmonton officer who kicked Indigenous teen
By Aaron Sousa An Alberta judge won’t be reviewing the Crown’s decision not to charge an Edmonton police officer who kicked an Indigenous teenager in the head five years ago. Pacey Dumas, then 18, sustained life-threatening injuries after he was given a “soccer ball” style kick to the head in 2020 by Edmonton Police Service Const. Ben Todd. Dumas filed a judicial review after the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team found reasonable grounds to suggest that Todd had committed an offence. But Court of King’s Bench Justice Michael Kraus dismissed the review because he found no evidence to support Dumas’s argument that failing to prosecute constituted an abuse of power. Kraus says the ruling isn’t to minimize what Dumas suffered or the lasting impact of his injuries. Dumas’s lawyer says...
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Nova Scotia identifies five areas for development of offshore wind
The Nova Scotia government has identified five areas that it deems suitable for the development of offshore wind farms. The government issued a statement today saying the next step is seeking input from Nova Scotians, a process that will wrap up April 14. A regional assessment conducted by federal and provincial officials had initially recommended eight potential areas for offshore wind development, but a further review shortened the list to five. Four of the areas are south of Nova Scotia’s eastern shore: French Bank, Middle Bank, Sable Island Bank and Emerald Bank. The fifth area, known as Sydney Bight, is northeast of Cape Breton. After the areas receive official designation, expected later this year, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator will manage a competitive licensing process. While offshore areas are...
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How one research project is ‘re-neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities
By Vanessa Watts ,Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology, McMaster University December 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report and its Calls to Action. Other forms of reconciliation are also happening among Indigenous communities that had previously been unconnected but share common experiences of systemic removal at the hands of powerful institutions. This new reconciliation includes two Indigenous groups that narrowly missed one another at a very specific and dark time in Canadian history now coming back together under new terms — their own. In southern Ontario, the similar yet distinct experiences of two groups of Indigenous people, both displaced from their homes and families and compelled to live in colonial institutions, played out separately, just 40 kilometres apart: First Nations children...
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Judge won’t review decision not to charge Edmonton officer who kicked Indigenous teen
By Aaron Sousa -CP-An Alberta judge won’t be reviewing the Crown’s decision not to charge an Edmonton police officer who kicked an Indigenous teenager in the head five years ago. Pacey Dumas, then 18, sustained life-threatening injuries after he was given a “soccer ball” style kick to the head in 2020 by Edmonton Police Service Const. Ben Todd. Dumas filed a judicial review after the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team found reasonable grounds to suggest that Todd had committed an offence. But Court of King’s Bench Justice Michael Kraus dismissed the review because he found no evidence to support Dumas’s argument that failing to prosecute constituted an abuse of power. Kraus says the ruling isn’t to minimize what Dumas suffered or the lasting impact of his injuries. Dumas’s lawyer says...
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Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister
By Sarah Ritchie and Catherine Morrison -OTTAWA-CP-Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday morning — along with a leaner Liberal cabinet that he said is focused on confronting the immediate threat of U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs. Breezing past reporters on his way into the ceremony about an hour after Justin Trudeau stepped down, Carney said his team was ready to go. “We’re a very focused government, focused on action. We’re going to get straight to work,” he said. The new government includes 20 Trudeau-era ministers along with three new faces from the Liberal caucus. Carney has kept the core members of the team that has been handling U.S.-Canada relations since Trump returned to the White House,...
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Here are the people making up Mark Carney’s new Liberal cabinet
-OTTAWA-Prime Minister Mark Carney has named a 24-member cabinet, a team of ministers who will lead during the coming federal election campaign. Here’s a list of ministers and their portfolios: Dominic LeBlanc, minister of international trade and intergovernmental affairs and president of the King’s Privy Council for Canada • Mélanie Joly, minister of foreign affairs and international development • François-Philippe Champagne, minister of finance • Anita Anand, minister of innovation, science and industry • Bill Blair, minister of national defence • Patty Hajdu, minister of Indigenous services • Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of energy and natural resources • Ginette Petitpas Taylor, president of the Treasury Board • Steven Guilbeault, minister of Canadian culture and identity, Parks Canada and Quebec lieutenant • Chrystia Freeland, minister of transport and internal trade • Kamal...
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Trade war turmoil topples Canada’s main financial market from its all-time high
By Damian J. Troise NEW YORK (AP) — Trade war turmoil is weighing heavily on financial markets in Canada. Canada’s main stock index has been tumbling along with U.S. indexes since President Donald Trump initiated a trade war with his North American neighbors. Mexico’s main stock index has remained relatively steady following measures from the Mexican government to stabilize financial markets. The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index reached an all-time high on Jan. 30. It started sliding a day later following the first salvo in the form of announced 25% tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico. Since then, Trump has rattled markets with uncertainty as he changes his mind on implementing or delaying tariffs on a seemingly daily basis. The S&P/TSX composite has shed about 5% since...
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Here’s the latest as Mark Carney prepares to become Canada’s 24th prime minister
Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa today. Here’s the latest on today’s events — which also include the introduction of a new cabinet (all times Eastern): ——— 10:45 a.m. Guests begin to be admitted to Rideau Hall. ——— 10:35 a.m. Carney arrives at Rideau Hall. He tells reporters that his government is focused on action and will get “straight to work.” ——— 10:30 a.m. Former prime minister Jean Chrétien speaks to reporters outside of Rideau Hall. He says he supports Carney and that he thinks the incoming prime minister will do “very well.” ——— 10:20 a.m. Member of Parliament Karina Gould, defeated by Carney in the Liberal leadership race, congratulates Carney and his cabinet members on social...
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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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