Turtle Island News20h
The Latest: Judge declines to halt Trump administration’s federal workers layoffs
AP-A federal judge on Thursday refused to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit brought by five unions moves forward. U.S. District Judge ...
Turtle Island News20h
B.C. Conservative MLA says drug crisis cost lives of four relatives
The House Leader of the Opposition B.C. Conservatives has described the “unsurmountable” price paid by her family in the province’s toxic drug crisis, which she said had claimed the lives of three of ...
Turtle Island News1d
No damages reported after earthquake shakes parts of Alberta, B.C.
CP-Earthquakes Canada says some Alberta and B.C. residents may have felt the ground shake this morning. A 5.2 magnitude earthquake was detected roughly 63 kilometres northeast of Grande Cache, Alta., ...
Turtle Island News1d
‘We need to be strong’: Music producer Bob Ezrin boasts of Canadian pride after performing arts award
Veteran music producer Bob Ezrin says he’s “beyond proud” to be among this year’s recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, especially as a newly repatriated Canadian in the midst of ...
Turtle Island News1d
Poilievre’s proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire
By Alessia Passafiume Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would incentivize First Nations to support natural-resource projects through industry taxes and revisiting how much sway Indigenous ...
Turtle Island News2d
Six Nations Valentine’s march remembers Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Jim C. Powless By Joshua Santos Writer It was a day of love and solidarity as men and women came out in droves to show ...
Turtle Island News1d
Indigenous healer admits to sexually assaulting 12 women in Saskatchewan
CP-A Saskatchewan man who said he was an Indigenous healer has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting 12 women. Cecil Wolfe, who is 63, entered the pleas Wednesday in Saskatoon court. Wolfe was accused ...
Turtle Island News1d
Supreme Court dismisses appeal for Alberta man convicted in Métis hunter killings
CP-Canada’s top court has dismissed the appeal of an Alberta man convicted of manslaughter for aiding his son in the killings of two Métis hunters. Roger and Anthony Bilodeau confronted Maurice ...
Turtle Island News1d
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota on Wednesday, a day after his release from a ...
Turtle Island News1d
Federal government moving ahead with high-speed rail in Toronto-Quebec City corridor
The federal government is moving ahead with the next phase of a high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday. The planned rail network ...
Turtle Island News2d
Guns, Fentanyl, and Teddy Bear-Shaped Drugs Seized in Six Nations Police Bust
Six Nations in a taxi. Arrests over two days saw two men from Brantford and two others from the Toronto area arrested . The ...
Turtle Island News2d
Ottawa provides $1.5M for sports initiatives across Nunavik and Nunavut
By Cedric Gallant, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News The federal government has announced $1.5 million to ...