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A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organizations and hundreds of Indigenous people.

The first set of deadlines included in the energy and climate deal struck between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are not expected to be met, showing early challenges with the agreement that includes pursuing a new export pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

Today, we begin publishing a series of exclusive stories that expose a sweeping RCMP program of surveillance, disruption and infiltration of Indigenous organizations between 1968 and 1982. Though long suspected by Indigenous leaders across Canada, the scope and scale of the spy program has remained hidden behind walls of government secrecy, until now.

OTTAWA — Alberta’s normally straight-shooting Premier Danielle Smith was evasive when asked on Saturday about her government’s proposed ban on advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Pressed on the issue by a caller on her weekend radio show , Smith noted that advance requests aren’t “allowed under the current (federal) law” while acknowledging…

Police in Metro Vancouver are warning drivers to remain attentive, even in a self-driving vehicle, after ticketing a woman who “appeared to be literally asleep at the wheel” on Highway 1.

The class action was filed in 2015 and scheduled for trial earlier this year, but a notice released Monday said the proposed settlement could avoid a lengthy court process and probably offer larger compensation.

The diver who died in the waters off Erieau marina last Wednesday was working to attach chains to a submerged vehicle so it could be pulled from the water, Erieau’s harbourmaster has said.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a press conference Monday evening to give an update on its investigation into the Air Canada crash at a New York airport, but the NTSB had little to say about how the deadly collision unfolded. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy spoke at a press conference at LaGuardia Airport in…

RCMP say three heli-skiers were killed in an avalanche on Mount Knauss just north of Terrace, B.C., in the province’s northwest on Sunday. The same day, one person was killed in a separate avalanche, near the B.C.-Alaska border.

B.C. RCMP say police got a satellite SOS Sunday afternoon reporting an avalanche. It happened near Pleasant Camp and the Klehini River, close to the B.C.-Alaska border.