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Ottawa inks deal to share more residential school records with reconciliation centre
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Ottawa inks deal to share more residential school records with reconciliation centre

OTTAWA — Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller announced Thursday Ottawa has entered into an agreement with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to hand over thousands more records on residential schools that the federal government has been holding back. The government says the agreement outlines how and when it will send the historical...

Two more Catholic churches burn in B.C.’s southern Interior, chief says
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Two more Catholic churches burn in B.C.’s southern Interior, chief says

CAWSTON, B.C. — Mounties are investigating after they say two more Catholic churches in British Columbia’s southern Interior were destroyed in early-morning fires. RCMP say the Princeton detachment got a report at 3:52 a.m. that St. Ann’s Catholic Church on Upper Similkameen Indian Band land, near Hedley, B.C., was on fire. Another report came in...