Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Will the end of the Liberal-NDP alliance make for a feistier partisan atmosphere on Indigenous issues in the House of Commons this fall? Gary Anandasangaree doesn’t think so. “I like to think that reconciliation is a non-partisan issue,” said the Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in a sit-down interview this week on Parliament Hill in…

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Sask. NDP wants to scrap marshals service as part of ‘tough-on-crime’ platform | CBC News

Sask. NDP wants to scrap marshals service as part of ‘tough-on-crime’ platform | CBC News

Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck says she plans to scrap the province’s marshals service if her party forms government this fall.  The marshals service was first proposed in 2022 and is expected to launch by the end of 2026. It’s intended to focus on rural crime, gangs and guns, arresting people with outstanding warrants and assisting RCMP and municipal police when…

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Boy, 15, fatally shot during RCMP ‘confrontation’ after calling 911 near Edmonton, police say | CBC News

Boy, 15, fatally shot during RCMP ‘confrontation’ after calling 911 near Edmonton, police say | CBC News

The news that a teenager was fatally shot by police early Friday morning has shocked many residents in communities across central Alberta.  The 15-year-old boy from Samson Cree Nation had called 911 for help, alleging people were trying to kill him, RCMP said Friday. Officers found the boy in Wetaskiwin, Alta., a city just north of the First…

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