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Catholics question relationship with church after residential school grave discovery
Bob Hilbig's crisis of confidence in the Roman Catholic Church isn't his first reckoning with the institution that shaped his childhood. It's not even his second. But the discovery over the past month...
Jun 27, 2021
New tool developed to help preserve the language of Blackfoot
BURNABY, B.C. - Eldon Yellowhorn is working hard to preserve the Blackfoot language.Yellowhorn is a professor in the department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He's the lead fo...
Jun 27, 2021
'When we embrace our hijab, we embrace death:' Canadian-Muslims balance faith, safety
EDMONTON - Every time Sana Chaudhry's daughter sees her father getting up to pray, the two-year-old toddler picks up a scarf and waddles behind him to the prayer mat. As she watches her little girl wr...
Jun 27, 2021
Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91
SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) - Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presid...
Jun 27, 2021
Canada's tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S.
WASHINGTON - It took just two weeks for the first Indigenous cabinet member in American history to publicly express her deep personal dismay at the grim residential school revelations emanating from n...
Jun 27, 2021
MPs ponder whether virtual proceedings have any place in post-pandemic Parliament
OTTAWA - Like millions of Canadians, members of Parliament are contemplating with mixed emotions the prospect of returning to business as usual after 15 months of working from home. For most MPs, a re...
Jun 27, 2021
International students navigate numerous barriers as they look to begin fall classes
VANCOUVER - A prospective student from Pakistan who will be enrolling in Vancouver's Simon Fraser University says she's "freaking out step-by-step" as she navigates hurdles to get her education, made ...
Jun 27, 2021
Vancouver Whitecaps earn 2-2 draw with unbeaten Seattle Sounders
SEATTLE (AP) - Jimmy Medranda scored his first goal in three years midway through the second half, and the Seattle Sounders extended their unbeaten streak to 11 matches with a 2-2 draw with the Vancou...
Jun 26, 2021
Free mental health webinar happening June 29 with current and former NHLers
The mental health of so many has taken a major blow this past 16 months, which is why I Got Mind (IGM) is hosting an upcoming webinar entitled The Trouble With(in) Men: Insights into why men struggle....
Jun 26, 2021
Danladi scores in stoppage time, Nashville ties Montreal 1-1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Abu Danladi scored in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time to lift Nashville to a 1-1 draw with Montreal on Saturday night. Danladi headed home Jack Maher's short cro...
Jun 26, 2021