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OTTAWA — Meeka Kakudluk says she considers herself one of the lucky ones.

Sharon Nyangweso says she first heard of Indigenous people in Canada when she was eight years old. Her family had just moved to Canada for her mother’s job at the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa.

OTTAWA — She was screaming that she "didn't want this," but it happened anyway. A Cree woman had just given birth to her sixth child in Saskatoon, when she was presented with a consent form for her sterilization.

OTTAWA — A bill creating a statutory holiday to commemorate the tragic legacy of residential schools in Canada received royal assent Thursday after passing unanimously in the Senate. The swift passage of Bill C-5 means Sept.

OTTAWA — Retired senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is calling for an independent investigation to examine all burial sites near former residential schools.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and his ministers made every reasonable effort to comply with health rules during a surreptitiously photographed whiskey-drinks dinner on the patio of the infamous "Sky Palace.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Two national Inuit organizations have released their own plan on how to right social, legal and cultural failings identified by a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women.

Some leaders are mulling incentives to get COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of hard-to-reach populations as infection rates slowly decline in most of the country as more people are inoculated.

OTTAWA — Jewish advocacy groups are condemning a mock "eviction notice" dropped into mailboxes across Canada as part of a campaign to draw attention to the planned removal of Palestinians from a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 5:55 p.m. Alberta health officials are reporting 296 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths.