Indigenous News

Trailblazing playwright David Yee has been awarded this year's $75,000 Siminovitch Prize for his body of work dedicated to uplifting Asian Canadian voices in theatre.

SIDNEY, B.C. — A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was felt in parts of the British Columbia Interior Monday afternoon. Earthquakes Canada says it happened at 2:07 p.m. about seven kilometres northwest of Oliver, which is 390 kilometres east of Vancouver.

TORONTO — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada will eliminate about 600 jobs and an additional 200 vacancies will go unfilled as it contends with a $125-million budget shortfall.

VANCOUVER — Drenching rain, heavy snow, strong winds and high tides converged on coastal and southern British Columbia Monday.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A police officer testified in the first-degree murder trial of a former Saskatchewan Mountie that Bernie Herman texted his wife saying he had shot a man on the night he was arrested.

OTTAWA — Politicians Han Dong and Michael Chan, the federal government and the commissioner of Canada elections are among those granted standing in the factual phase of a public inquiry into foreign interference.

OTTAWA — Canada's climate lobby wants its demand for an oil-and-gas emissions cap to go straight to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault's head.

MONCTON, N.B. — Councillors in Moncton, N.B., have reversed a decision that would have ended a 20-year tradition of lighting a Hanukkah menorah in front of city hall.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says a new model of streamlining access to detox and addiction treatment aims to address the needs of people who repeatedly overdose, while avoiding the possibility of involuntary treatment. St.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government overhauled the board at its Crown-owned energy utility Monday and gave it a new set of marching orders that includes advancing Indigenous reconciliation. The NDP government, elected on Oct.