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'An inspiration': Woman mourns brother who died in Northwest Territories plane crash

'An inspiration': Woman mourns brother who died in Northwest Territories plane crash

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — One of the people who died in a charter plane crash outside of Fort Smith, N.W.T., earlier this week was a heavy equipment operator at a diamond mine who loved playing music and being an uncle, his sister said Friday.
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Canada takes no clear position on interim ruling in genocide case against Israel

Canada takes no clear position on interim ruling in genocide case against Israel

OTTAWA — Canada opted to say as little as possible Friday about an International Court of Justice ruling that ordered Israel to prevent a genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix denies sex allegations levelled in class-action suit

Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix denies sex allegations levelled in class-action suit

QUEBEC — A senior leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec is stepping back from his functions as he fights allegations of sexual assault that emerged as part of a class-action lawsuit, the Quebec City archdiocese said Friday.
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Killer Ibrahim Ali to be moved from psychiatric hospital to detention centre: judge

Killer Ibrahim Ali to be moved from psychiatric hospital to detention centre: judge

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that Ibrahim Ali should be removed from the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has been held throughout his first-degree murder trial.
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Federal housing advocate joins push to fix 'deplorable' conditions for Labrador Inuit

Federal housing advocate joins push to fix 'deplorable' conditions for Labrador Inuit

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The federal housing advocate was in St. John's, N.L., this week to join the leader of the Nunatsiavut Inuit in his long-standing fight for an end to the "deplorable" housing conditions in northern Labrador.
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Lametti says he 'wouldn't be afraid' of pending update to assisted dying eligibility

Lametti says he 'wouldn't be afraid' of pending update to assisted dying eligibility

OTTAWA — Canada's former justice minister says he would have no fear of pressing ahead with a plan to allow people to seek medical assistance in dying solely on the basis of mental illness.
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Report details cost estimates, risks of proposed Manitoba landfill search for remains

Report details cost estimates, risks of proposed Manitoba landfill search for remains

WINNIPEG — The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected maximum in an earlier estimate — although searchers could face a "very high risk" from asbes
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Supreme Court rules judge erred in granting stay in drug cases, orders new trial

Supreme Court rules judge erred in granting stay in drug cases, orders new trial

OTTAWA — Several people arrested for drug-related offences must face a new trial because a judge improperly stayed the charges against them, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
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Police announce arrest in 1988 murder of P.E.I. man that shook province 'to its core'

Police announce arrest in 1988 murder of P.E.I. man that shook province 'to its core'

CHARLOTTETOWN — Police in Prince Edward Island say they have solved a 35-year-old homicide case involving a man who was strangled and stabbed in his home by someone who left a message saying, "I will kill again.
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'It's a way of life': Northern commuters say charter flights like taking the bus

'It's a way of life': Northern commuters say charter flights like taking the bus

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — Northerners jump on small charter planes like people in the South would into taxis or buses, says the co-owner of Aunty's Korner Store in Fort Smith, N.W.T.
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