Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of national interest — and that was still more than the government had planned. At first, the consultations were to take place over one month. They…

It’s pipeline deadline day and Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are set to make an announcement in the heartland of Alberta’s oil and gas industry. The Prime Minister’s Office said the two will reveal the next step to accelerate a “major infrastructure project.” The two are set to speak Thursday morning in…

Mary Louie remembers wanting only one thing when she was a young girl at residential school: to get home. Louie says she did not understand everything happening around her, but she noticed changes in the friends and became increasingly uneasy. Mary Louie who escaped a Residential school when she was a young girl. She took…

WARNING: This story contains details that may be disturbing to readers. Discretion is advised. Reaction is pouring in to what appears to be a group of white nationalists holding a demonstration on a B.C. First Nation on Sunday. Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 Chief Rosanne Casimir told Global News on Sunday that several individuals wearing black…

The chief of the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc First Nations says a group of masked individuals she believes are white nationalists held a demonstration on the reserve. Video surfaced online Sunday showing several individuals wearing black clothing and hats with white material covering their entire face. Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir told Global News in an interview Sunday…

Four people have died in a helicopter crash in Montérégie, Que., in the Rang des Écossais area. A spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) says the incident happened just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The helicopter crashed into a field in the municipality of Sainte-Brigide-d’Iberville, southeast of Montreal. Get daily National news Get daily Canada…

An overwhelming majority of Canadians want Alberta to remain part of a unified Canada and would vote for their own province to do the same, according to new data from Ipsos exclusively for Global News. A full 81 per cent of respondents outside of Alberta said they want the Wild Rose province to remain part…

In three and a half weeks, the Alberta referendum will ask residents if they want to hold a formal vote on whether to stay or leave Canada — and most have their minds made up. An Ipsos poll exclusively for Global News conducted online interviews with 1,500 Canadian adults between Sept. 18 and 22, including…

Milton, Ont. mayoral candidates Gord Krantz and Zainab Azim sat together at a booth in Troy’s diner Wednesday, sipping on milkshakes — one chocolate and one strawberry. The pair are running against each other in the upcoming municipal election, but are committed to ensuring they run clean campaigns. To do so, they teamed up to…

The number of Ontario long-term care homes receiving emergency funding to bail them out in exceptional circumstances has grown in recent years, new internal data shows, as the sector worries about how it is going to care for an aging population. Data obtained using freedom of information laws shows how much money Ontario spends every…