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A CBC investigation discovered that some of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s claims about her Cree ancestry, the community where she grew up and her academic accomplishments are inconsistent with publicly available documents.
Almost two-thirds of Canadians aged 15 and up reported gambling last year and there are higher rates of gambling addiction among Indigenous communities, data from Statistics Canada indicates.
Honorary degree recipients include Supreme Court of Canada Justice, three Ontario judges
Marion Buller will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws at the online convocation ceremony on Oct. 8
Friends of Cindy Gladue, Lisa Weber,(left) Brandy Poorman (middle) and Kari Thomason (right) talk to the media after Bradley Barton was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Gladue in an Edmonton hotel room nearly a decade ago. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia Article content EDMONTON — Lawyers say the retrial of a man to be sentenced next week for killing a woman in his hotel room 10 years ago is an example of how cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should be handled. They say Bradley Barton’s second trial was an improvement over the first, because...