Winnipeg police are pulling out of the province’s police task force for missing and murdered exploited persons, in a move the service says will streamline and strengthen the investigations. Police announced Friday the service will no longer have dedicated investigators assigned to Project Devote, after some officers were previously reassigned to the general homicide unit in November. The…

This story is part of Stopping Domestic Violence, a CBC News series looking at the crisis of intimate partner violence in Canada and what can be done to end it.    Kitimat, B.C., feels like a town of men. In fast food joints and corporate buses shuttling workers around the North Coast town, employees of the…

Fort Severn First Nation in northern Ontario declared a state of emergency this week after the pump that supplies its water failed — and warmer-than-usual winter conditions may leave it and some other remote First Nations without safe water past the government’s deadline for lifting all long-term boil water advisories. Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller…

The province is defending its decision to invite protesters inside the B.C. Legislature for a meeting that resulted in a sit-in and multiple arrests, as supporters of those arrested gathered in front of the building again Thursday morning.   Seven members of the group Indigenous Youth for Wet’suwet’en met with government officials in the building, which is…

The rail blockade is coming down in Kahnawake, nearly a month after it was erected in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in British Columbia. Since Feb. 8, the encampment had blocked both freight and commuter trains on the Canadian Pacific Railway line that goes through the Mohawk territory south of Montreal. The announcement was made Thursday afternoon after supporters marched…

The group behind newly translated signs in Inuvik, N.W.T., is pausing their project after people began questioning the Gwich’in translation that was used. Three new signs with translations in both Inuvialuktun and Gwich’in were put around town on Monday, leading some people to bring up concerns around the Gwich’in wording.  Questions about word choice Eleanor Mitchell-Firth lives…