Shenika Chornoby, 17, was taken from a northern First Nation and flown to a hospital in Winnipeg A 17-year-old girl is still getting better after saving several children from an apartment building on a northern Manitoba First Nation that was on fire a week ago. Shenika Chornoby was walking to work on the afternoon of…
Beverley Jacques is a “real force” for change in Saint-Léonard. She started DOD basketball 20 years ago CBC Quebec is focusing on black people in Quebec who are giving back to their communities, inspiring others, and helping to shape our future. These are the black changemakers for the year 2023. Early on in the pandemic,…
Ben Cooper, age 27, is being charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse over a period of eight years in Ottawa and Kingston Allegations against a gymnastics coach who was later charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and other sexual offenses were first brought to the attention of Gymnastics Ontario in October 2021, about…
“There’s no doubt we made mistakes,” says the new head of the OPS As the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) apologizes for the mistakes it made during the convoy occupation last winter, people who were there are thinking about how their trust in the government has been damaged. “I used to believe in the police.” “Now,…
The disaster happened on February 3 in East Palestine, a small town about 100 kilometers south of Lake Erie The Canadian government says it is “highly unlikely” that the train accident in Ohio, which caused a big explosion and sent toxic chemicals into the air, had any effect on southern Ontario. The accident happened on…
Premier Doug Ford and the solicitor general of the province both refused to take part in the commission A long-awaited report on Ottawa’s decision to use the Emergencies Act during last year’s convoy protest slammed the Ford government for its “reluctance” to act. The report said that the public would have known that their provincial…
Richard thought that Canada would be the end of his family’s hard times. His wife says that’s not what happened Jeffrey is almost two years old, but he has already been to more countries than most people do in their whole lives. He hardly makes a sound as he lies on his mom’s lap with…
The report also suggests “increasing allowances for many employees and improving shift premiums. The Public Interest Commission of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board has released the final report for the four bargaining units of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) in the core public administration that stopped talking to the…
A man in his 60s died while waiting for an ambulance a few blocks from the local hospital, the mayor says This story is part of Situation Critical, a series from CBC British Columbia about the problems people in this province have getting health care that is timely and right. A close friend of the mayor…
Community workers want more money and structures to help people who are trying to leave A community group in the Niagara area of Ontario says that the number of asylum seekers asking for help had already tripled before Ottawa started sending more people from Quebec to the province. The general manager of employment and immigrant…