Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has opened final negotiations to buy 88 F-35 Stealth fighter jets from Lockheed Martin in a deal worth about $15 billion. The jets will replace Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18 aircraft. There is still an outside chance that if negotiations with American giant Lockheed Martin bog down, Canada could turn [...
VATICAN (AA) – Pope Francis met the leaders of Canadian indigenous peoples on Monday amid the scandal over residential schools in Canada. In a statement, Vatican’s press office said the pope separately met with two indigenous groups, 10 delegates representing the Metis people, and eight others for the Inuit. Pope Francis is set to welcom...
TRENTON, Canada – Two political parties have reached a tentative agreement that will see the Canadian government of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remain in power until 2025, the premier announced. The deal means the minority New Democrat Party (NDP) will support the Liberals in exchange for the government implementing programs th...
ANKARA (AA) – A violent attack took place in a local mosque in one of Canada’s populated cities, Mississauga, during early Saturday. Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Imam Ibrahim Hindy said the worshipers heard a noise of a man emptying pepper spray all over them as they were praying the dawn prayer. “They turned aroun...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Foreign Ministry has blacklisted 313 Canadians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, its foreign and defense ministers and more than 300 lawmakers in a tit-for-tat move. “This step is of a forced nature and was taken in response to the hostile actions of the current Canadian regime, which has been test...
ANKARA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to send another shipment of “highly-specialized” military equipment to Ukraine. Following his phone talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trudeau said on Twitter: “I let him know that Canada will send Ukraine another shipment of highly-specialized military equ...
A new U.N. report calls on Canada to amend legislation that potentially strips “tens of thousands” of Indigenous women of Indian status for marrying non-Indigenous men. While Indigenous women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, which was passed in 1876, their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status. Indigeno...
A Canada First Nation tribe said Tuesday that it has located 169 potential graves at the former Grouard Mission site, a residential school known for serious abuse of pupils. The graves were located using ground penetrating radar and a specialized drone, Kapawe’no First Nation officials said at a press conference Tuesday. The mission, als...
TERNTON, Canada (AA) – A new UN report calls on Canada to amend a law that has stripped Indigenous women of Indian status because they married non-Indigenous men. Yet, while the women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, passed in 1876, and therefore their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status, Indige...
