MONTREAL — An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal.

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared children and unmarked graves at Canada’s residential school sites, as well as the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, through the lens of international law.

The panel of seven judges said Canada historically adopted a series of policies that they deemed were crimes against humanity with genocidal intent, including the residential schools, which were

MONTREAL — The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit.

Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and threatening to blow it up.

A joint statement of facts tabled in Quebec court says Warsame told a social worker at Montreal’s Old Brewery homeless shelter that he wanted to kill a million people by using bombs to blow up trains or subways.

The Somali-born

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV on Friday that Canada wants to take a leadership role in the responsible development of artificial intelligence.

The conversation happened days after the Pope called for robust regulation of AI.

“They discussed the imperative that AI must serve humanity, beginning with the protection of the individual,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a release.

“Prime Minister Carney expressed Canada’s desire to lead internationally on responsible AI and tools to benefit the global community.”

Earlier this week

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations — the latest legal setback for Trump’s efforts to leave his personal mark on the landscape of the nation’s capital.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., ruled that the Kennedy Center board’s March 16 vote to close the facility was “ill-informed

A 28-year-old Georgetown man is facing charges in connection with a sexual assault investigation.

Police in Halton region say just after 7 p.m. on May 25, a female under the age of 16 was walking in the area of James Street and Draper Street in Georgetown when she was approached by a man, who began a conversation with her. Investigators allege he then sexually assaulted her.

Police say the young teen did not suffer any physical injuries.

On May 29, police arrested

Barrie Police say they’ve arrested a suspect after a fatal stabbing in the city on Friday morning.

Officers were called to the Bayfield Street and Dunlop Street West area at around 11:30 a.m. for reports of an injured male lying on the ground.

“When police arrived, it was determined that the victim had suffered a stab wound,” a police release states.

A 36-year-old Barrie man was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says its framework setting limits on delays in criminal trials is flexible enough to accommodate increasingly complicated cases.

Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Friday the framework the court set out in 2016 in R. v. Jordan is adaptable enough to address the Crown’s concerns.

“In my view, the Jordan framework already provides the flexibility necessary to address the Crown’s concerns. To the extent that jurisprudential and legislative developments in the past decade have increased the complexity of criminal trials