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A woman from Tataskweyak Cree Nation is suing the City of Winnipeg and two police officers after her common-law partner died following an encounter with Winnipeg police. Elias Whitehead, 37, was involved in an encounter with officers near the intersection of Sherbrook Street and Broadway in Winnipeg on Oct. 15, …

It was a chaotic scene at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday as Dr. Nada Abu Al-Rub walked through the halls tending to patients.  One of them, a little boy, had his leg amputated and suffered from burns on his whole body after a strike went off near …

Two Gaza City hospitals have been taken out of service due to Israel’s escalation of its ground offensive and damage caused by continued Israeli bombing, the enclave’s Health Ministry said, as tanks advanced deeper into the territory. The ministry said in its statement that Al-Rantissi Children’s Hospital was badly damaged a few …

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it was opening an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts to empty the city of civilians and confront thousands of Hamas combatants. Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in the city and many …

Two residents of Merritt, B.C., are spearheading a proposed class-action lawsuit against the city for allegedly failing to repair its dikes in the years before the 2021 flood, which forced 7,000 residents to evacuate and damaged more than 600 homes in the area.  The community, located about 190 kilometres northeast of …

Among the many uncertainties in the aftermath of Israel’s strike on Hamas’s leadership in Qatar, none looms larger than the future of its invasion of Gaza City. Israel’s government claims capturing the city is essential to defeating the remnants of Hamas, where many of its remaining fighters are believed to be …

World Many Palestinians have been forced to relocate to the southern Gaza Strip after the Israeli military called for a full evacuation of Gaza City before it launches what it says is a major offensive against Hamas. Israeli military controls 40% of Gaza City, but some say they have nowhere …

After their three children were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in Gaza City last year, Diana and Omar Al-Rubai were just days away from the expected arrival of their baby when they were killed in an airstrike last week. Medical teams rushed to save Diana. But after …

Actor James McAvoy was punched by a man at a downtown Toronto bar, apparently unprovoked, late on Monday evening. A source connected to the actor confirmed to CBC News that, as was first reported by People magazine, a man punched McAvoy without warning while being escorted out of Charlotte’s Room, a bar just a …

Palestinians living in the ruins of Gaza City were bombarded with Israeli leaflets on Tuesday ordering them out, after Israel said it was about to obliterate the area in an assault to wipe out Hamas. Residents of the city, home to a million Palestinians before the war, have been expecting …