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National Aboriginal Day takes place on June 21. It is a special day to celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.

Chairman of Seaspan caught drunk driving after crashing his vehicle in Vancouver Kyle Washington, the executive chairman of Seaspan Corp., has been handed a three-month driving ban but avoided a criminal record after pleading guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention...

The announcement of Caucasian Heritage Night came two days after nine people were shot and killed at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. A white suspect is in custody, and the Department of Justice plans to investigate the shooting as a hate crime. "We understand in light of recent...

Putin says Harper will change his mind on Russia in G8 if U.S. tells him to Russia appears to be angling to make it the G-8 once again and President Vladimir Putin suggests it's something Prime Minister Stephen Harper will just have to accept. "I don't want to offend anyone, but if the...

Emerging after weeks of absence, Justin Trudeau could do no better than to defend his pitiful support of Bill C-51. A flailing performance, it reinforced (if such were necessary) the man’s utter lack of principle, not to mention his unbearable lightness of being. He might have made, he said, a...

Since "Rockin' in the Free World" was written as a critique of the Republican George H. W. Bush administration and how it did not care about America's poor, you can see why Young wouldn't be very excited about the conservative multi-billionaire appropriating his tune and misrepresenting its...

'Religious counselling' among 25 bail conditions imposed on radicalized Canadian Aaron Driver, a Winnipeg man who was arrested for expressing support online for ISIS, has been released on bail with 25 conditions, one of which is that he undergo "religious counselling." Winnipeg human...

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen says the FBI will be involved in the investigation of a shooting at a historic black church that killed nine and is being called a hate crime. Mullen said the FBI would aid the investigation while speaking at a news conference that was also attended by FBI...

As many as 600 million Samsung phones may be vulnerable to attacks that allow hackers to surreptitiously monitor the camera and microphone, read incoming and outgoing text messages, and install malicious apps, a security researcher said. The vulnerability is in the update mechanism for a...

Premier announces he’ll hire a consultant to get to the bottom of the consultants situation. Paddon found that despite the fact the government had recently saved $5.6 million by getting rid of several consultants and creating cheaper permanent staff positions instead, the government still...

Five Hamilton police officers are facing criminal charges for allegedly writing 32 falsified tickets as members of the high-profile ACTION unit. It's alleged the tickets named 18 people who had no idea they were victims. All seven have now...

A local shipbuilder was not appeased by a hastily arranged teleconference Tuesday with government officials to discuss a process that awarded a $40-million ferry contract to a Chilean company. Andy Stanton, the president of Hike Metal Products in Wheatley, was hoping to learn from the Ministry...

The player and assistant coach struck up a friendship, Ferber becoming a mentor both on and off the ice. Within two months, Ferber began sexually preying on the 15-year-old during hockey road trips and secret encounters carefully hidden from Petrie’s parents. . [At a February court hearing]...

"The rich believe, 'If I sacrifice then my business will prosper'," she said. "The poor believe if they sacrifice a child they'll get rich." "Now we are going into elections, you will find that there are so many Ugandans, even high profile people, going to witch doctors' shrines," said Binoga...

The annual event is purported to dispel evil ghosts, cure disease and even boost men's sexual performance. The fight is on to stop an annual Chinese event which is expected to involve the slaughter of more than 10,000 dogs, some of whom are burned or boiled alive. However gruesome it...

NDP’s new political funding rules turn the Tories’ world upside down There weren’t any real surprises in the Notley Government’s first Speech from the Throne yesterday, although the ban on corporate and union donations expected by nearly everyone nevertheless seemed to come as a deep shock...

The big five vultures anticipating the joys of feeding off Medicare's carcass include a B.C. medical privateer's legal challenge, a major trade deal, the public-private partnerships fleecing health budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars in excess costs in virtually every province, a new...

She doesn't seem to understand that she supposed to be the Minister of Health, not the Minister of Pain and Suffering. For barely two months ago she was going after Vancouver's pot shops as if she was the Minister of Justice. And now she's going after people who take marijuana for medicinal...

For Suncor’s roughly 1,000 heavy-haul truck operators, however, the prospect of driverless trucks has raised more immediate fears of significant job losses. “It’s very concerning to us as to what the future may hold,” said Ken Smith, president of Unifor Local 707A, which represents 3,300...

Americans were angry when Wall Street’s greedy and risky behavior triggered a global financial crisis in 2008. They were angrier still when the government had to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest banks and the...