'We're in a war zone;' On patrol with the 'last line of defence' ... "Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare. "Yes sir, that's me," said the man. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her, @jorgebarrera.bsky.social reports www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

First Nation at centre of Oka Crisis gripped by environmental battles linked to cannabis megastores Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A woman from Guinea kept losing her shoes in the snow until finally, she left them and continued in her socks. Two women from Haiti struggled behind them, one carrying an 11-month-old boy.  Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.  www.cbc.ca/news/arrest-...

Concersn in Six Nations over industrial-scale marijuana grow-op that's using foreign workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzH...

A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project on the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in the Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations in southwest Ontario. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The trio walked past the stone walls of the U.S. port of entry, beneath the bulbous eyes of the surveillance cameras and through the metal turnstiles below the sign that read, "Entry to Canada." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

After Canada turned them away, this family of four (with 4 year-old daughter) was jailed by the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Image from Ezra Levant campaign TV ad featuring Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his campaign manager Jenni Byrne mentioned in this story: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Les liens entre le chef conservateur Pierre Poilièvre et Ezra Levant, de Rebel News, remontent à loin. À lire, le texte de notre collègue @jorgebarrera.bsky.social 👇

Yesterday, @theijf.org launched an important new database. It's a searchable trove of documents about residential schools, including 1,000s of pages that weren't previously public. These records show just how many problems were known at the time the "schools" were open. theijf.org/residential-...

The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream in his office.

Ashlee Shingoose from St. Theresa Point First Nation is Mashkode Bizihiki’ Ikwe or Buffalo Woman, APTN News has learned. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

This is an extraordinary piece by Nahum Barnea ,with some fly-on-the-wall Woodward-style scenes. (I read this through Google translate) www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...

Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Video captured two families in the hands of human smugglers days before their deaths on the St. Lawrence River. Full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuZ...

Believe families. Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a beautiful story www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

The news tonight

A woman captured on the parking lot camera of the Super 8 motel in Cornwall, Ont., picking up a Romanian-Canadian family days before their deaths on a human smuggling run pleaded guilty Thursday before a U.S. Federal Court to five counts of alien smuggling.  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Most important news today www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I couldn't detail this in the latest story (cbc.ca/news/canada/... ) but, this Montreal-based human smuggling network moved people internationally using visas and residency permits from countries like India and the UAE through the use of suspected front companies.

Human smugglers sent 2 families to their deaths as RCMP closed in, court records show Records reveal Montreal-based human smuggling network tried to move over 100 people across Canada-US border -- at least 45 succesfully. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'They crossed' Human smuggling networks continue to operate along Quebec's border with Vermont and New York state despite winter conditions and increased law enforcement, according to U.S. Federal Court records about two incidents over the past weekend. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in Vermont on Monday while performing their duties near the Canada-U.S. border, according to U.S. federal and state authorities.  www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Hot heads, cold comfort: How Trump is upending the race in Canada, Evan Solomon writes. www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Mohawk journalist's arrest violates Constitution his ancestors inspired

Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne's Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border.

Good reporting

“[We] need more science, not more trapping. Opinion cannot change the fact that trapper harvest tells you only what animal has died." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A convoy tale: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

NDP leader @jagmeetsingh.ca snubbing and ignoring First Nation chiefs: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y. www.cbc.ca/news/border-...

Border talk reminder. Most illegal guns in Canada come from the U.S. The one pictured below began its journey north in the hands of a sheriff's deputy in Texas: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

[Time capsule opened] At Sun Media parl bureau in 2007 when I first reported on residential school document destruction and missing children. Also - evidence of Con-NDP alliance! And Trudeau campaigns.

🧵 The federal ATIP [FOI] system - a comedy or tragedy? I filed an ATIP for records from Crown-Indigenous Relations (CIRNAC) on Jan. 25, 2019. I received an emailed response on May 2, 2024, saying "we recognize that the file is late." [ five years late].

The rise and fall of Canada's medal-winning women's soccer program. It wasn't just the spying scandal but a toxic work culture, mandatory drinking bouts, avoiding potential positive COVID tests. A 4-month Globe investigation. gift link for first 20 views www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440...

The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration agreed to hold two days of hearings on the issue with testimony from Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, along with reps from RCMP and CBSA. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

At least it’s not a urinal www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Anne Michaels line “because the dead can read” comes from a poem called, To Write

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