British Columbia recorded 153 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths in November, the coroners service has announced. The figures released Monday bring the province’s death toll for 2020 past 1,500.
Arrests have been made in connection to the death of Jonathan Henoche, an Indigenous man housed at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary while awaiting trial on murder charges.
Michelle Latimer, director of the CBC Television series Trickster, announced in a Facebook post Monday that she is resigning from the second season of the show, after her Indigenous identity claims were called into question last week.
A spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry says Canada was taking advantage of the grief of families who lost loved ones in the downing of Flight PS752, saying the Trudeau government was politicizing the issue for domestic gain.
Breaking with U.S. President Donald Trump, outgoing Attorney General William Barr said Monday he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel to look into the president’s claims of election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of president-elect Joe Biden.