BREAKING Average hourly wage in Canada now $34.95: StatCan
Average hourly wages among Canadian employees rose to $34.95 on a year-over-year basis in April, a 4.7 per cent increase, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday morning.
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique received a rare offering of thanks from members of the province's Indigenous community.
Carrique was gifted a staff and eagle feathers for his organization's work on cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, which have too often been ignored in Canada's history.
The OPP has a dedicated team, made up mainly of Indigenous officers, to implement calls from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and look at reopening cold cases.
"It's really re-evaluating and rethinking how we do our work, and making it more centred around the victim and the families of victims who are looking for these answers from us," Brooke McRoberts, acting sergeant of the service's Indigenous Policing Bureau, told CTV National News.
There are an estimated 4,000 missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and it's time to right the previous wrongs, says OPP liaison officer Todd Showan.
"[We hope to] identify some of the misgivings or the problems with the investigations of the past," he told CTV National News.
Elsewhere in the country, the RCMP has started a social media campaign bringing attention to 11 cases of missing and murdered women and girls, such as Samantha Hiebert, who was last seen more than two years ago in Manitoba.
In Winnipeg, the city police service recently hired its first Indigenous family support and resource advocate.
"I want to make sure that I'm engaging with families meaningfully," Angie Tuesday told CTV News.
All of these efforts are an attempt to create trust between groups where there's been nothing but distrust for decades.
The goal is for Indigenous women and girls to feel safe instead of being targets of violence.
Average hourly wages among Canadian employees rose to $34.95 on a year-over-year basis in April, a 4.7 per cent increase, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday morning.
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake was recorded west of Vancouver Island early Friday morning.
Andy Kim's 'Rock Me Gently' is marking a major milestone, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
A family of fifth generation farmers from Ituna, Sask. are trying to find answers after discovering several strange objects lying on their land.
Just as she had feared, a restaurant owner from eastern Quebec who visited Montreal had her SUV stolen, but says it was all thanks to the kindness of strangers on the internet — not the police — that she got it back.
Oprah Winfrey said on Thursday evening that she has long played a role in promoting unhealthy and unrealistic diets.
A southwestern Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a hospital in Windsor, Ont., after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated -- and she says she has no intention of paying it.
Toronto police say a man who allegedly attempted to access Drake’s Bridle Path property was taken to hospital on Thursday after an altercation with security guards.
If you're cruising down a highway and realize you have a flat tire, you may want to think twice before stopping to fix it on the side of the road.
A family of fifth generation farmers from Ituna, Sask. are trying to find answers after discovering several strange objects lying on their land.
A Listowel, Ont. man, drafted by the Hamilton Tigercats last week, is also getting looks from the NFL, despite only playing 27 games of football in his life.
A small Ajax dessert shop that recently received a glowing review from celebrity food critic Keith Lee is being forced to move after a zoning complaint was made following the social media influencer’s visit last month.
The Canada Science and Technology Museum is inviting visitors to explore their poop. A new exhibition opens at the Ottawa museum on Friday called, 'Oh Crap! Rethinking human waste.'
The Regina Police Service says it is the first in Saskatchewan and possibly Canada to implement new technology in its detention facility that will offer real-time monitoring of detainees’ vital health metrics.
The stakes have been set for a bet between Vancouver and Edmonton's mayors on who will win Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
A grieving mother is hosting a helmet drive in the hopes of protecting children on Manitoba First Nations from a similar tragedy that killed her daughter.
A chicken farmer near Mattawa made an 'eggstraordinary' find Friday morning when she discovered one of her hens laid an egg close to three times the size of an average large chicken egg.
A P.E.I. lighthouse and a New Brunswick river are being honoured in a Canada Post series.