With a "responsibility to pay attention and speak," the First Nations Forward managing director shares her first-hand experiences inside the world's new pandemic epicenter — that's hitting Indigenous people's the hardest.
A crowdsourced survey of Canadian parents suggests that nearly three-quarters of participants are concerned about their children's social lives during the pandemic.
Canada's police chiefs are calling for decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs as the best way to battle substance abuse and addiction.
A former judge investigating allegations of racism towards Indigenous people in British Columbia's health-care system is calling on patients, families, doctors and nurses to come forward with their stories.
The police chiefs said in a report that the "compelling case" for change had been made by public health officials addressing the opioid crisis, which killed over 15,000 Canadians between January 2016 and December 2019, and continues to kill.
The litany of racial slurs inserted into the comments section of an online Conservative leadership debate on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, was not surprising, candidate Leslyn Lewis said the next day.
Indigenous leaders in New Brunswick say they are losing faith in Premier Blaine Higgs and his provincial government after a second meeting failed to produce an agreement for an inquiry into systemic racism and two recent police shootings.
The WE organization has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees to members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's family, it acknowledged on Thursday, July 9, 2020, as organizations that need volunteers awaited word of the future of a $900-million program WE was to run.
Canada is ill-prepared for a second wave of COVID-19, says a Senate committee, calling on the federal Liberals to deliver a plan by Labour Day to help people and communities hit hardest by the pandemic.
“It’s special, and it deserves protection," says Read Island resident Lannie Keller on how her tiny B.C. coast community rallied to save 20 acres of mature rainforest from being clear cut. And, how it now aims to save more.