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Connie Williams’s kitchen counter is covered in photos of her late sister, Krista Ball. The photos show Ball smiling, laughing, singing — unbothered by the barriers presented by her cerebral palsy, according to Williams. She said her sister was a ray of positivity until her final days, which she spent …

LISTEN | Full interview with ACLU lawyer Jeffrey Stein: As It Happens6:44Families of Trinidadian fishermen killed in a U.S. boat strike sue for wrongful death When the U.S. launched its first deadly strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela last September, Chad Joseph called his wife to assure …

Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The year that saw the remains of two First Nations women brought home from a Manitoba …

WARNING: This article contains details of child abuse. Manitoba’s families minister is conducting an internal investigation into the circumstances that led to a six-year-old girl in foster care suffering injuries that may lead to her being paralyzed for life, search warrant documents show. Nahanni Fontaine characterized what occurred to the …

Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable. “We were shocked,” said Olha Kushko, whose family fled Kyiv and settled in Ottawa in 2023 under the …

In July, Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton drove to the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec where he’d arranged to pick up his two sisters coming from Miami, but the reunion didn’t happen as planned.  The sisters, who fled Haiti last year due to violence, had hoped to settle in …

A U.S. judge on Wednesday will hold a hearing on whether to approve a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 Max plane crashes that killed 346 people. Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas will consider …

Palestinians in northern Gaza reported one of the worst nights of Israeli bombardment in weeks after the military issued mass evacuation orders on Monday, while Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the Trump administration. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump urged an end to the 20-month-old war, …

After the Chaudhari family landed in Montreal on a flight from Winnipeg they walked out the airport doors to a waiting grey minivan allegedly driven by a key player in a human smuggling network that would eventually lead the four Indian nationals to their deaths,  according to court records obtained …

Two weeks before Briana Martin died, her boyfriend called police to warn that Nanaimo’s drug dealers were becoming more “aggressive.” Steven Whitehead had already done what he could to keep the 27-year-old away from the toxic drugs that were repeatedly causing her to overdose — even reaching out at one point …