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A biracial teen and his mother will file a complaint against Hockey Quebec with the province’s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission following an incident during a hockey game last December. They believe that Hockey Quebec is not doing enough to combat anti-Black racism against junior players. The first time …
Read More »A lifetime of agony: families of missing, murdered Inuit women call for answers
OTTAWA — Every day on his way to work in 2016, Veldon Coburn drove past Bordeleau Park, by the edge of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa. On a September day that year, while he drove past the park, Coburn heard on the radio that a body had been found …
Read More »Families speak out after explosion at oil and gas site claims two lives
Two families say they are still in shock after losing loved ones from an explosion at an oil and gas site on Nov. 12. Greg Podulsky, 29, and Darcy Schwindt, 47, were killed after a blast at the Marten Hills site, northeast of Slave Lake, about 250 kilometres north of Edmonton. The …
Read More »Give Louise Dean Centre its own location, say families of Jack James High School students
Families of Jack James High School students are speaking out against the proposal to relocate Louise Dean Centre — a Calgary program for pregnant teens and young moms — to the school in Forest Lawn. Hejdi Hodson, mother of a Grade 10 student at Jack James High School, says parents …
Read More »Canadian Kimberly Polman arrested after repatriated from Syrian detention camp for ISIS fighters’ families
Canadian Kimberly Polman has been arrested after arriving in Canada following her repatriation from a detention camp in Syria, according to her lawyer. Polman has been detained for the past three years at al-Roj Syrian detention camp for families of ISIS fighters. She travelled to Syria in 2015 after marrying an …
Read More »N.S. families who lost their homes to Fiona scramble to find a place to live
On the night post-tropical storm Fiona hit Nova Scotia, Dana Boutilier woke up at home to water dripping on her face from the ceiling above. She quickly realized something was very wrong. She jumped out of bed to find herself ankle deep in water. “As I proceeded to leave the room to go …
Read More »Families of Flight PS752 victims call for war crimes probe
Lawyers representing families who lost loved ones in the destruction of Flight PS752 say they put forward a submission Wednesday calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate the case as a possible war crime or crime against humanity. The families say it’s taking too long for Canada to pursue …
Read More »As families gather to bury their dead, James Smith Cree Nation struggles to heal
As most people in James Smith Cree Nation were still sleeping, violence erupted. The killings began in homes around the northern part of the community before sunrise — at least three attacks, followed by five more in the central village and two in the south, said Chief Robert Head, tracing …
Read More »Adding the names of deceased teachers to Alberta’s new registry is unnecessary and hurtful, families say
Sel Healy says she was appalled when the Alberta government sent her husband a letter in June saying he’d be included in a new public teacher registry set to go live in September. That’s because Michael “Joe” Healy, a long-time math and science teacher at Calgary’s Bishop Carroll High School, …
Read More »‘We failed you’: Senior Mountie apologizes to families of mass shooting victims
After two days of intense questioning of how RCMP decisions were made during the mass shooting of April 2020, Chief Supt. Darren Campbell ended his testimony at the public inquiry in tears, apologizing to the families of 22 victims who died. As he broke down, Campbell said it was the …
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