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MONTREAL — Michael Rice said growing up as a Mohawk child, he was told to be prepared to come across portrayals of Indigenous people as the "bad guys." "We are used to being bashed as Iroquois," the high school history teacher said in an interview.

VICTORIA — Health Canada has approved a supervised consumption site in Victoria to allow people to inject illicit drugs in the presence of medical staff.

Toronto is speeding up the opening of three supervised injection sites and asking local police to consider having some officers carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone as the city responds to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.3 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador 15.7 per cent (14.9) — Prince Edward Island 10.0 (10.

VANCOUVER — First Nations in British Columbia are three time more likely to die of illicit drug overdoses but data released Thursday are a year old and don't cover the period when deaths increased substantially provincewide.

A missed defect in an improperly repaired rail led to a 2015 freight train derailment in northern Ontario that caused numerous cars carrying crude oil to catch fire and crash into a local river system, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said T

OTTAWA — A quick look at July employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.3 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 61.6 per cent (61.6) Labour force participation rate: 65.7 per cent (65.

NEWMARKET, Ont. — Police in York Region north of Toronto have arrested a 35-year-old Sudbury, Ont., man in connection with the violent robbery of an elderly woman at an ATM machine on July 31.

LONDON — World medals. One last shot at Usain Bolt. Perhaps a Canadian record. A world championships that had held so much promise for Andre De Grasse went up in smoke during a light 60-metre run on Monday night.

A federally funded study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label.