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Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election

As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and acknowledge the ongoing challenges they face, many will do so with a focus on the election.
Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election

As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and acknowledge the ongoing challenges they face, many will do so with a focus on the election.
Pacers counting on continuity and motivation to make a deeper NBA playoff run this season

Pacers counting on continuity and motivation to make a deeper NBA playoff run this season

Indiana Pacers Last season: 47-35, lost to Boston in Eastern Conference finals. COACH: Rick Carlisle (Ninth season with Pacers, 24th overall, 943-828) SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 at Detroit. DEPARTURES: F Jalen Smith, G Doug McDermott.
Four-metre-long great white shark washes up on B.C. beach

Four-metre-long great white shark washes up on B.C. beach

A B.C. woman got the experience of a lifetime this week after a great white shark washed up on a beach near her home.
Report says at least 55 children died or disappeared at B.C. residential school

Report says at least 55 children died or disappeared at B.C. residential school

A British Columbia First Nation says at least 55 children died or disappeared while attending a residential school near Williams Lake, more than triple the number recorded for the institution in the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation memori
Changes now in effect to allow more kids in Manitoba to be kept in care of families

Changes now in effect to allow more kids in Manitoba to be kept in care of families

WINNIPEG — Changes to Manitoba's child welfare system aimed at keeping more families together are now in effect.
Chiefs of Ontario to vote in favour of $47.8B child welfare agreement with Canada

Chiefs of Ontario to vote in favour of $47.8B child welfare agreement with Canada

OTTAWA — Chiefs in Ontario have voted in support of a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform agreement with Canada.

Hajdu, Woodhouse Nepinak urge MPs to drop politics, support First Nations water bill

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak are urging MPs across party lines to support legislation to ensure First Nations have clean drinking water in their communities.
Quebec court grants injunction to stop illegal dumping in Kanesatake

Quebec court grants injunction to stop illegal dumping in Kanesatake

MONTREAL — A Quebec court has granted a temporary injunction against several residents of the Mohawk community of Kanesatake to stop the illegal dumping of contaminated soil on waterfront properties.
Yukon's remote fresh waters are producing NHL-calibre talent in Dylan Cozens and Gavin McKenna

Yukon's remote fresh waters are producing NHL-calibre talent in Dylan Cozens and Gavin McKenna

WHITEHORSE, Yukon (AP) — Buffalo Sabres centre Dylan Cozens had just finished a gruelling summer off-ice session when he and trainer Ben McPherson drove out into the Yukon wilderness to go fishing. “I know the spot,” McPherson recalled Cozens saying.