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Michelle O'Bonsawin is poised to become the first Indigenous woman on the highest bench of Canada. It's good timing for key court challenges around Indigenous self-governance.

O'Bonsawin will be the first Indigenous Supreme Court of Canada justice

An Ottawa-based group with suspected ties to the "Freedom Convoy" says it was threatened with eviction on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, and is ready to take its cause to court in an attempt to set up headquarters in the country's capital.

The international dispute over Line 5 belongs in federal court, a Michigan judge declared on Thursday, August 18, 2022, dealing a critical blow to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's bid to shut down the controversial cross-border oil and gas pipeline.

The federal diversity minister says he's taking action over "disturbing" tweets by a senior consultant on an anti-racism project that received $133,000 from his department.

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra will testify today, August 19, 2022, before the House of Commons transport committee on airport and airline delays that have wreaked havoc on travellers over the past several months.

As of today, individuals and businesses are no longer able to import restricted handguns into Canada, with limited exceptions.

When Stephen Nixon recently noticed a “beautiful” spotted lanternfly by his bag as he skateboarded in Brooklyn, he heeded the request of city officials. He stomped on it.

The Opposition B.C. Liberals have removed MLA John Rustad from the party caucus after he retweeted comments that questioned the role of carbon dioxide in climate change.

The conservation charity founded by Prince William, second in line to the British throne and who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world’s biggest backers of fossil fuels, The Associated Press has learned.

University of Melbourne partners with a U.S. biotech company to plan the genetic restoration of the thylacine.

Criticism of the sponsorships relates to two proposed nuclear waste sites — one for northern Ontario in Treaty 9 territory, the other in Chalk River on unceded Algonquin territory.

A landmark ruling by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found the province’s police force violated the rights of 54 migrant workers during a DNA collection sweep in 2013.

The co-founder of Lucid was left wanting when he suffered a mental health crisis while studying music at university. Now he’s got a team building a digital therapeutic company around its healing properties.

Earlier this week, Victor Lachance and Kirk Albert filed for a judicial review of Ontario’s proposal to build a 235-bed correctional facility in the town of 4,000 about 50 kilometres south of Canada’s capital, in part to relieve overcrowding at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.