Some families of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims are surprised to learn that error-riddled obituaries of their loved ones have been posted on a website that's selling flowers and memorial candles. Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada's plans to drill an exploration well off the coast of Halifax. Sentencing arguments for Quebec City's mosque shooter resume today as Alexandre Bissonnette's legal team begins to present its case. The 28-year-old Bissonnette pleaded guilty to six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder.
Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada's plans to drill a deep-water exploration well roughly 330 kilometres off the coast of Halifax. This comes one day after the oil and gas company was granted approval by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB). McKenna touched on the issue briefly on Sunday during a press conference in Nova Scotia for the federal government's new public consultation platform on plastics and waste.
A Canadian found dead in Peru was a suspect in the death of an Indigenous human rights defender, local police say. A statement from the Peruvian Interior Ministry says the country's national police force discovered the body of Sebastian Paul Woodroffe in the Ucayali region, and his remains have been transferred to a morgue in Pucallpa. The government release says Woodroffe was the main suspect in the death of Olivia Arevalo Lomas, a human rights activist of the region's Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people.
Evelyn Moore sings the alphabet song as her tiny running shoes plunk down on the treadmill. The Edmonton girl made headlines and melted hearts in 2016 with images of her expertly rolling along in a homemade wheelchair that her father fashioned from a foam baby Bumbo seat, a cutting board and bike wheels.