The heads of 633 First Nations will vote for the position of national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) tomorrow, July 18. In a race with eight candidates vying for the top position, an unprecedented half of those are women. Read more…

Elections Ontario says personal information about as many as 2.4 million voters in the province may have been compromised. Read more…

VANCOUVER - The federal government will appeal a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that struck down Canada's ban on assisted suicide, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Friday. Read more…

TransLink, which operates transit services in the Lower Mainland, has cancelled a plan to phase out a program that allows transit users living with mobility challenges to buy $80 worth of half-price taxi vouchers each month. Read more…

Metro Vancouver's middle class has shrunk and poverty has become more common in the suburbs over the last four decades, according to data mapped by a University of Toronto Cities Centre research team. Read more…

The Sliammon band, whose reserve is located just outside Powell River, is voting today on whether to become the third First Nation to enter into a treaty agreement with B.C. The vote comes nearly a month after protesters blocked the initial vote on June 16. Read more…

A group of protesters that blocked a treaty ratification vote on B.C.'s Sliammon reserve are seeking an injunction to halt the next vote rescheduled for July 10. Read more…

Many women and men working as cleaners and security guards in Canada's commercial buildings are getting a dirty deal, according to a study released by the Shareholders Association for Research and Education (SHARE). Read more…

Doctors and health care workers across the country say a slight reversal in cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) -- only for refugees the government itself sponsored -- is "too little and too late." But CIC spokesperson Alexis Pavlich says the government's intention is "to ensure that those who come to Canada as asylum seekers from abroad do not receive better health care coverage than Canadians," and the reversal is merely a "clarification." Read more…

Occupy Vancouver member Sasha Wiley-Shaw claims she and other protesters were unlawfully and violently arrested Wednesday during a series of protests asserting their rights to political expression following the arrests of other protesters last week and earlier Wednesday. Read more…

By the time Jason Kenney began his speech yesterday morning in Surrey, the Citizenship and Immigration minister had been confronted at least four times during his short B.C. visit – lambasted by critics he retorted were "extremists" and "anarchists." Read more…

The allegations contained in a newly released memo related to the BC Rail case were aired in British Columbia Supreme Court three years ago, before the person who wrote them pleaded guilty to corruption charges. Read more…

Civil liberties advocates are raising questions after five people were arrested in Vancouver on the weekend at a Quebec solidarity protest -- four of them signing undertakings banishing them from the entire downtown Vancouver area until their court date on Aug. 8. Read more…

World, say goodbye to Canadian shortwave radio. As part of the cuts announced in April’s budget, Radio Canada International has shut down its shortwave transmitters and moved to an online-only Internet stream. Read more…

A bid to overturn the federal election results in a handful of tightly contested ridings should be tossed out, because the cases were filed too late, the Federal Court heard Monday. Read more…

A treaty ratification vote on the Sliammon reserve has been rescheduled for July 10, despite a continuing blockade that halted the initial vote on June 16. A dozen members of the Sliammon band have blocked the reserve's voting station in opposition of a process a group of protesters called "undemocratic" in a press conference at the office of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs on June 21. Read more…

The BC Civil Liberties Association wants the RCMP to release data on serious injuries and deaths caused by its officers.

The call comes on the heels of a June 12 press conference the BCCLA held to draw attention to three serious injury incidents that occurred in the past five weeks in northern B.C. Two of the incidents happened in Terrace, and the third, in which a 15-year-old girl suffered a broken arm, happened in Prince Rupert. Read more…

Quebec students applauded a UN agency Monday night for slamming the province's controversial Bill 78, which puts limits on protests. Read more…

The B.C. Supreme Court's recent move to strike down a ban on doctor assisted-suicide has reopened debate around the responsibilities of doctors providing end-of-life care. While some doctors say the decision will guarantee rights for terminally ill patients seeking to alleviate suffering, others contend the decision could lead to patient abuse. Read more…

British Columbia is no longer has the most poor children, but leads the country in the overall poverty rate for the 12th year in a row. Read more…