Colin Perkel
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Colin Perkel
Class-action suit filed by northern Indigenous people against RCMP certified
A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal Court ruled on Wednesday.
Vaccinations put Canada on the path to reopening
More than half of all people in Canada have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as the country edges closer to lifting anti-pandemic restrictions, health authorities reported on Wednesday.
Will Canada's AstraZeneca stockpiles expire unused?
Impatience and a lack of clarity persisted Thursday over the fate of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire in the coming weeks.
COVID restrictions tightened for St. Patrick's Day in some provinces
Officials in many Canadian provinces are tightening anti-pandemic restrictions to keep St. Patrick's Day from becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader event.
Government paid more than $3B to compensate 28K residential school victims: final report
The cost of compensating thousands of victims of Canada's notorious residential schools amounted to more than $3 billion, according to a report released on Thursday.
Tory election campaign ads violated CBC copyright, broadcaster says
The Conservative party's use of CBC news footage in a partisan attack ad and tweets was a copyright infringement damaging to the public broadcaster's integrity and impartiality, Federal Court heard on Thursday, February 11, 2021.
O'Toole urges U.S. envoy to Canada to save Line 5, Keystone XL pipelines
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole urged the acting American ambassador to Canada to tell Washington to preserve the Line 5 pipeline to the United States.