SASKATOON — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says a coroner’s inquest into a mass killing in Saskatchewan shows Ottawa must return to the table to negotiate long-promised legislation declaring Indigenous policing an essential service.

“This tragedy is a systemic failure of the police and the justice system,” Cindy Woodhouse of the Assembly of First Nations said in Saskatoon on Thursday.

“All the evidence presented throughout the (inquest) further demonstrate that if a First Nations police service had been equitably funded in the James Smith

WEST CALN, Pa. (AP) — A small plane crashed Thursday in a central Pennsylvania neighborhood, and it was not immediately clear if there were any injuries, authorities said.

The crash in West Caln occurred around 1:30 p.m., according to police. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft when it went down just minutes after taking off from nearby Chester County Airport in Coatesville.

The aircraft ended up between a home and some trees. No homes were damaged, and no injuries

The jury at the coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of Sammy Yatim by a police officer more than a decade ago ruled his death was a homicide.

Yatim, who was 18 at the time, was alone on a streetcar and holding a small knife when he was hit by two volleys of shots shortly after midnight on July 27, 2013.

Former Const. James Forcillo was found not guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the first volley of bullets, which the court heard

Two wanted suspects are believed to be behind a recent string of pickpocket-style thefts in Toronto’s downtown core, police said.

Between Jan. 16 and Jan. 20, 2024, investigators received multiple reports about wallets being stolen while people were attending restaurants and food courts in the city.

In these incidents, police said a female suspect, usually wearing a loose shawl, would stand or sit beside the victim’s purse or jacket hanging over the back of a chair.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 2,300 people were killed, injured or kidnapped in Haiti from October to December last year, a nearly 10% increase compared with the previous quarter, according to a new U.N. report released Thursday.

The number of killings alone spiked to more than 1,600 during the period, with officials blaming the vacuum created by for unleashing territorial fights in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince that killed and injured

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursdayon the Toronto Stock Exchange:

Toronto Stock Exchange (21,119.21, up 97.33 points):

FLINT Corp. (TSX:FLNT). Construction. Up two cents, or 66.67 per cent, to five cents on 12.6 million shares.

Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Energy. Up 21 cents, or 0.44 per cent, to $4

OTTAWA — The federal government is lashing out at the U.S. Commerce Department over plans to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

International Trade Minister Mary Ng says the U.S. has signalled it intends to raise duties to 13.86 per cent, up from 8.05 per cent.

Ng calls the move disappointing and entirely unwarranted.

It’s only the latest salvo in a bilateral back-and-forth that Ottawa has described as a drag on efforts to improve the cost and

LOS ANGELES (AP) — has a new term: “Twist on it.”

The driven matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner family will bring the phrase to the Super Bowl forefront during her commercial. She will guest star in an which will be returning to the NFL’s biggest stage for the first time in a decade on Feb. 11.

“I come from a generation where it was all about the commercials for some of us,” said Jenner, who will appear in her first Super Bowl ad

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature’s giving the state a second mostly Black district is being challenged by 12 self-described “non-African American” voters in a new lawsuit.

The challenge filed Wednesday and assigned to a judge in Lafayette says the map, which Republican lawmakers agreed to as a result of a 2022 federal lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge, is the result of “textbook racial gerrymandering.”

It seeks an order blocking the map’s use in this year’