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Mom had no idea Indigenous daughter was in jail until staff told her she was dead, Ontario inquest told

WARNING: This story contains references to suicide.  Selina McIntyre only learned daughter Delilah Blair was in a Windsor, Ont., jail when staff called to let her know the 30-year-old Indigenous woman had died, a coroner’s inquest was told Tuesday. A correctional officer found Blair without vital signs in her cell at the South …

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RCMP name 2 suspects they’re searching for in connection with La Ronge shooting

RCMP continue to search for two men considered armed and dangerous who are wanted on charges of attempted murder and obstruction after police were reportedly shot at near a La Ronge home Sunday. Both men are wanted in relation to a shooting Sunday that prompted RCMP to issue an emergency …

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Edward Lake, father of 3 children killed by drunk driver Marco Muzzo in 2015, dies

Edward Lake, the father of three children killed by a drunk driver in a Greater Toronto Area collision almost seven years ago, has died. The mother of Lake’s children, Jennifer Neville-Lake, posted on her social media pages about his passing. “My children’s father, Edward Lake, has joined our kids so they can play together, …

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Canada’s inflation rate now at 7.7% — its highest point since 1983

Canada’s inflation rate rose at its fastest pace in almost 40 years in the year up to May, as the price of just about everything continues to go up fast. Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that an uptick in the price of gasoline was a major factor causing the overall inflation …

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Suburban real estate vulnerable if demand shifts post-pandemic, Bank of Canada warns

The gap between downtown real estate and houses in the suburbs narrowed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a development that may make markets outside big cities even more vulnerable to a slowdown. That’s one of the main takeaways from a recently released analysis by the Bank of Canada that looked at …

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These architects are infusing Indigenous values into galleries, campus buildings across Canada

What role does Indigenous architecture play in the process of reconciliation? The recent work of two design firms in Ontario show it is not just about Indigenizing spaces but also designing places where everyone can benefit from Indigenous values and principles by integrating them into spaces across Canada. One of …

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Frustrated by passport wait ‘chaos,’ would-be travellers in Montreal take matters into their own hands

Marie Soulier has spent four straight days standing in line outside the passport office at Montreal’s Guy-Favreau complex, waiting to collect her passport. She arrives at 5:30 each morning and leaves when the office closes. She is still waiting, and her flight leaves for France tonight. She is just one …

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Transgender women athletes’ future in competition uncertain as sports organizations change rules, issue bans

Just 18 months after transgender athletes competed for the first time at the Olympics, international sporting federations are reconsidering whether transgender women should be allowed to keep participating in elite women’s competitions, as debate rages in sports and politics circles over who has the right to play. Some sports organizations introduced bans …

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Chisasibi moves forward with a radar search of former Fort George, Que., residential school sites

George E. Pachano, left, and his wife, Marie Louise Chakapash Pachano, right, with five-year-old Avaya, in front of a cross that marks the site of the last Anglican residential school on Fort George Island, located near present day Chisasibi. After extensive consultations with survivors and experts, officials here are moving …

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Why Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle is a late-day news dump

Journalists, that skeptical lot, like to refer to government announcements sent out past 4 p.m. as “taking out the trash.” That late-afternoon, almost-evening period is when a government or other institution likes to haul out the news releases or announcements that don’t produce the rosiest headlines — the stuff officials …

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