Indigenous

Halifax-area RCMP say a Cole Harbour man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with an alleged abduction and hit-and-run that killed a 30-year-old woman.

Toronto-based Deloitte LLP has paid $1.59 million in fines and costs for breaching CPA Ontario's code of professional conduct, the regulatory body said.

MONTREAL — Two Black Montreal firefighters say they've faced years of racist abuse from their colleagues, and they now believe it will take outside action to change the culture of the city's fire department.

OTTAWA — A "big fight" between Canada and the United States could be looming over the federal Liberal government's plan to impose what Washington's envoy to Ottawa described Tuesday as a "discriminatory" tax on digital services.

The Canadian men's rugby team leaves Wednesday for Spain and the four-team La Vila International Rugby Cup.

WINNIPEG — The co-worker of a man found not criminally responsible for stabbing her more than a dozen times is suing Manitoba health authorities, alleging staff at a crisis centre failed to protect her from the violence.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he did not instruct staff to include specific developer-owned lands in expansions of urban boundaries that would have allowed building in those areas, despite internal documents suggesting his office had been

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's education minister says the government is discussing the idea of making naloxone kits available in the province's schools, as the Liberal opposition presses for rapid action.

TORONTO — Ontario has agreed to give public high school teachers and some elementary school education workers retroactive salary increases to compensate them for constrained wages under a law known as Bill 124.

MONTREAL — Quebec's 22 Indigenous police forces have filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, accusing the federal government of chronic underfunding that has left them unable to properly serve their communities.