A frantic 911 call from the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old shooter who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school last month was released Tuesday to The Associated Press through a public records request. In a tense call lasting a little more than a minute, Kaylub Giamanco told the 911 operator there’s “someone […]

Paramedic students at a career college in northern Ontario who were approved to receive funding through a signature government program aiming to boost health-care staffing have been swept up in the provincewide pause on student aid. More than 40 affected students have already dropped out, their school says.  Members of Premier Doug Ford’s government have […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee National Guard troops in Memphis last summer trained their handguns on a man as he lay dying on a sidewalk after a guard member shot him in the back, video released Monday by county prosecutors shows. A Memphis police officer can be heard in the footage from an officer’s body […]

El Paso Matters filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a state judge to lift a blanket of near-total secrecy on records in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting held by El Paso police and prosecutors. The petition seeks a writ of mandamus, an order from a judge to a government official to perform a mandatory legal duty […]

Montreal police say a 16-member patrol unit rocked by a racism scandal remained armed and active for nearly a full day after investigators secured enough evidence to take action about allegations some officers engaged in criminal misconduct. Police chief Fady Dagher announced at a late Friday evening news conference in mid-June that he was dismantling […]

Newfoundland and Labrador will blow past its 2030 and 2040 climate targets and is at risk of failing to achieve its critical goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to internal government documents obtained by The Independent. In a document from the Department of Environment, Conservation and Climate Change dated July 7, […]

Three Vermilion Parish residents and a new nonprofit have sued parish officials for alleged open meetings violations related to the landmark SpaceX deal. The stakes of the open meetings suit, filed Monday, are high. It could void the tax incentive agreement reached to land the $100 billion bill, if the court grants the relief sought. […]

In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of six such citizens — essentially representing the wider public […]

Provincial politicians are returning to the Ontario legislature Tuesday for the first time in 21 weeks with some new faces thanks to three byelections, a rejigged cabinet and a new cloud of scandal hanging over the government’s head. The spotlight in question period is expected to largely focus on Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn, […]

The coroner’s report on 70-year old Robert Hénault’s death weeks after a cop shot him was inconclusive.  Without a detailed record of the encounter with Montreal police, coroner Paul Dionne couldn’t form a clear opinion, so he recommended that the police wear body cameras.  That 2015 decision sparked the first embers of over a decade […]

(ANNews) – As debate over Alberta’s potential separation from Canada continued, lawyer Donna Purcell, KC, and strategist Jacqueline Biollo organized a public forum in Central Alberta on Oct. 16 to bring their concerns about public division and the need for informed discussion to the forefront. In an interview with Alberta Native News, the two organizers […]

Havana is urging Ottawa not to drop its public opposition to the decades-long U.S. embargo as Washington ramps up pressure on countries supporting Cuba. “We are confident that Canada will stay with us, as they have done in the past,” Cuban Ambassador to Canada Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz told The Canadian Press. “The blockade and this […]