Residential schools are closed, but memories linger on healing day

It has taken nearly fifty years for Muriel Betsina to gain self-confidence after the physical and emotional abuse she recalls at the native residential school she attended.

Aboriginal children were taken from their families and put in residential schools.

Inquests ordered in deaths of psychiatric patients

Inquests must be held in the deaths of two patients who died while under restraint at a psychiatric hospital, the Ontario Human Rights Commission has ruled.

Hells Angels store closed in Charlottetown

Police on Prince Edward Island have closed down a store that sells merchandise for the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

Police used dogs during raids at suspected Hells Angels locations on Thursday. (CBC)

Public funeral for Goddard today

Capt. Nichola Goddard, the country's first female combat soldier killed in battle, will be memorialized today in a public funeral in Calgary.

Capt. Nichola Goddard was Canada's first female combat soldier to be killed in action. (Department of National Defence)

Public doesn't care about spat with press gallery: Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says most Canadians don't care about a dispute he's having with the national press gallery in Ottawa.

Toronto police officer who let suspect go keeps his job

Toronto police have decided to allow an officer to keep his job even though he let a suspected drunk driver go and later accepted $320 hockey tickets in connection with the incident.

Harper, Bush expected to meet in July

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President George W. Bush will meet on July 6.

Tories to criminalize street racing

The federal government is cracking down on street racing by making it a criminal offence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

With their muscle cars, these people are drag racing along streets in defiance of the law. (Canadian Press)

N.B. to continue publicly funded abortions: health minister

Gynecologists at two hospitals have offered to perform publicly funded abortions, staving off concerns the service might soon be unavailable in the province, New Brunswick Health Minister Brad Green told CBC News on Thursday.

New Brunswick Health Minister Brad Green. (PR Direct/CP)

Democracy watchdog files complaints against Harper government

An Ottawa-based democracy watchdog group filed a formal complaint on Thursday against the federal Conservative government for breaking a "baker's dozen" promises to tighten ethics and accountability policies.

Police prepare to remove West Vancouver protesters

Police have moved in at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver, blocking traffic as they prepare to remove the protest camp established more than a month ago.

Quebec probes evolution battle at northern school

 

Fishery must change, summit participants agree

The "status quo is not an option" for the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery, Premier Danny Williams said following a day-long summit on the troubled industry.

Improving the economics of the fishery will take co-operation, N.L. Premier Danny Williams says. (CBC)

Klein threatens to abandon equalization

Alberta would pull out of the federal equalization program rather than see the other provinces benefit from its oil and natural gas resources, Premier Ralph Klein said.

Quebec health minister calls doctors' ads 'deplorable'

A long-simmering pay dispute between Quebec and its top medical specialists boiled over Wednesday following a set of newspaper ads by doctors that Health Minister Philippe Couillard described as "deplorable" and "unethical."

Transsexual had right to choose female officer for strip search

Transsexuals who are strip-searched by police should be able to choose whether it's done by a male or female officer, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled Wednesday.

Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll no longer give news conferences for the national media, after a dispute led a number of journalists to walk away from an event when he refused to take their questions. 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces Canada is increasing aid to Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region as Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mackay looks on in Ottawa, Tuesday May 23, 2006. It was during this news conference that some reporters left after being told they would not be allowed to ask questions. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand) Canadian Press

West Vancouver protesters could face arrest

A B.C. Supreme Court judge granted an enforcement order to help push through the construction of a controversial new section of highway through Eagleridge Bluffs, in West Vancouver, which has been the subject of fierce environmental protest.

Goddard to be buried in Ottawa military cemetery

Capt. Nichola Goddard, Canada's first female combat soldier to be killed on the front lines, will be buried at Canada's national military cemetery.

Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard was killed while fighting Taliban forces outside Kandahar. (Department of National Defence)

Fourth teen charged in online threats case

A 15-year-old girl is the fourth teenager to be charged with conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly making online threats against students and teachers at a Halifax-area school.