A Saskatchewan First Nation says a ground-penetrating radar search at a former residential school has revealed more than 2,000 anomalies, while a physical search also found what is believed to be a child’s jawbone fragment that is more than 100 years old. Areas for the search were selected after testimonials from former students and elders who witnessed or heard stories of what happened at the school. “In just Phase 1, which is just the open area around the site itself, we acquired over 2,000 confirmed hits … does that mean there’s 2,000 unmarked graves? The school opened in 1884 and closed in 1998, making it one of the last residential schools to close. The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse.

Events will address journalism and online safety, public policy, and trust; and the independent production sector and how the creative community can support itVANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 12, 2023 /CNW/ - CBC/Radio-Canada President and CEO Catherine Tait will join industry experts and leaders at two events at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University on Tuesday, January 17. The first event will focus on journalism and online safety, public policy, and trust. Upon arrival, all media will be required to show proper accreditation and sign-in. The second event, presented in partnership with Creative BC , the Indigenous Screen Office , and CMPA-BC , will look at how the creative community can work together to support a healthy Canadian production sector. Guest panellists will include:Kristy Assu , Director of Funding Programs, Indigenous Screen OfficeErin Haskett, President and Executive Producer, Lark Productions, and Chair, CMPA Board of DirectorsPrem Gill, CEO of Creative BC, will moderate.

“Global warming and other long-term climate change trends are expected to continue because of record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” the UN body said in a news release. “This cooling impact will be short-lived and will not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere,” the WMO said. Approaching lower limit of temperature increase int’l community trying to avertThe global temperature in 2022 averaged at 1.15 C above pre-industrial levels in the years 1850-1900. The average temperature over the last decade from 2013 to 2022 is 1.14 C above the time period. The WMO’s final report on the State of the Climate in 2022 will be released in April.

In late December, eight teenage girls who had reportedly met online decided to meet in-person in downtown Toronto on a Saturday night. Three of the teens were 13 years old, three were 14 years old and two were 16 years old. The defendant’s developmental age (14 or 24 years old), chronological age (14 or 24 years old) and race (white, Black or Indigenous) were varied. We found that mock jurors’ responses varied according to developmental age: a developmentally 24-year-old was given more guilty verdicts than a developmentally 14-year-old. When the defendant had a developmental delay (the chronological age was higher than the developmental age), he was perceived as less guilty than a defendant whose chronological age matched his developmental age.

A pigeon found in a Canadian prison yard with a tiny backpack filled with meth is carrying on a decades-long tradition of avian drug smuggling. The pigeon was captured at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in late December, according to the CBC. Pigeons can fly up to 700 miles a day, according to the Pigeon Control Resource Center. And lest we forget, “Narco Paloma,” a pigeon busted smuggling weed and cocaine into La Reforma, a maximum security prison in Costa Rica in 2015, and then turned into a meme. The bird was turned over to a rehab center afterward—the kind for animals.

Rights group releases scathing report on Canada’s violations of Indigenous rightsOTTAWA — A prominent human-rights group says Canada is failing to address long-standing abuses, delivering a rebuke of what it calls the federal government's inadequate climate policy and violations of the rights of Indigenous people and immigration detainees. The criticisms levelled in the group's annual "World Report" extend to Canada's climate change policy, as well. Human Rights Watch had encouraging words, though, for Canada's support for LGBTQ people, highlighting the federal government's recent commitments to a national action plan to strengthen rights at home and abroad. The federal government says 137 long-term drinking water advisories have been lifted since November 2015, with initiatives underway to address the remaining ones. "Access to clean drinking water is fundamental, and we continue to make progress on our commitment to lifting all remaining long-term drinking water advisories in First Nation communities," the joint statement said.

Enraged guest destroys hotel lobby with sports carDuration: 01:04A dispute over a missing laptop ended earlier this week with a serious crime. A guest of a hotel in Shanghai had complained to the staff about his missing computer. After the search failed, the angry man drove around the lobby in a sports car.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield to guest star on ‘Murdoch Mysteries’ episode MondayTORONTO — Astronaut Chris Hadfield's next adventure will be a blast to the past with an upcoming guest role on "Murdoch Mysteries." The retired space veteran will add another notch to his modest acting career through a small part on an episode of the detective series set to air Monday on CBC and CBC Gem. Hadfield plays a self-proclaimed “Rocketman,” who thinks that the populace should instead be embracing the once-in-a-lifetime event. “Can we learn enough in advance and see the symptoms developing that maybe we can head off something really bad happening? I think Murdoch would be a great crewmate on board a spaceship.”Based on novels by Maureen Jennings, "Murdoch Mysteries" follows young detective William Murdoch in a series of stories taking place in Toronto during the 1890s and early 1900s.

They give the public a completely false image of the LGB rights movement & are undermining our rights. As Mondegreen describes it:The activists particularly harassed two women, pushing one to the ground, and blasting them with bullhorns. When it was over, Trianon gushed on Facebook about how she and her followers had successfully stormed the event. But the available evidence certainly does lead to questions about how much of this mobbing at McGill Law School was spontaneous, and how much of it was pre-planned, possibly by law students themselves. Trans rights advocates are denouncing a talk by McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism led by a speaker associated with a group they say is "notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary."

A video shared on Twitter purportedly shows machine gun fire from a helicopter in Mexico in response to the arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez. pic.twitter.com/xplr9zmSX3 — Xtractiontv (@Xtractiontv_) January 5, 2023Verdict: FalseWhile helicopters were used during the operation, the footage pre-dates the arrest of Guzman. There is no credible news report that suggests this footage is linked to the violent aftermath of Guzman’s arrests. The video predates the event of Ovidio Guzman’s arrest. The capture of the son of kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman unleashed a violent backlash by gang gunmen in Mexico.

© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg A large drop in the price of gasoline in December dragged the official U.S. inflation rate down to a 6.5 per cent annual pace, new numbers showed Thursday. The inflation rate in the U.S. decelerated to 6.5 per cent in December, mostly due to much cheaper gasoline. But overall, the decline in gasoline was enough to drag the overall annual inflation rate down to 6.5 per cent from 7.1 per cent. The numbers for December mean that while the official U.S. inflation rate is still more than twice as high as the central bank's target, the annual rate has fallen for six months in a row. "Inflation is cooling as the economy starts to feel the impact of the Fed's earlier rate hikes," Oanda analyst Edward Moya said of the numbers.

Canada’s Mattea Roach, described as the “first Gen Z super-champion” of “Jeopardy!” will be one of six “Jeopardy! It will feature the six highest ranked current “Jeopardy!” contestants facing off to claim the title of Jeopardy! Roach, a Haligonian-turned-Torontonian who won $560,983 (U.S.) in 23 consecutive games last year, will compete in “Jeopardy! Masters,” described by ABC as “a Champions League style event,” against Matt Amodio, Sam Buttrey, Andrew He, James Holzhauer and Amy Schneider. Months after her winning run, Roach returned to appear in the Jeopardy!

Anyone who has spent any time on the street has seen homelessness visibly manifest in every corner of Toronto. Toronto’s shelter system has space for almost 9,000 people. It’s clear that we simply do not have available housing or shelter space to meet the need. A catastrophic increase in visible homelessness. They served every situation of homelessness, including those who understandably felt unsafe sleeping in the shelter system.

forestry giant Canfor says it is permanently closing the pulp line at one of its Prince George mills, which will result in the loss of about 300 jobs. Kevin Edgson said the lack of raw material for creating market pulp led to the decision. The company said the pulp line at its Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill will be phased out by the end of March, cutting approximately 300 positions across the organization. "We expect about 300 jobs in Prince George will be lost across the Canfor Pulp organization with the shutdown of the pulp line at PG Pulp and Paper Mill. Reduced operations across the industryCanfor operates a total of four mills in Prince George: a sawmill, the Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill, Northwood Pulp Mill and Intercontinental Pulp, each specializing in different wood and paper products.

Gunther Holthoff told reporters earlier this week that his 37-year-old wife, Allison, woke up on Dec. 31 complaining of what she thought was an upset stomach. “She wasn’t doing good and was in pain.”Allison Holthoff died in a Nova Scotia hospital emergency room after waiting seven hours for medical attention, according to her husband. Gunther Holthoff drove his wife to Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Nova Scotia on New Year’s Eve after she woke up with stomach pain. Ali Holthoff/FacebookAround 6 p.m. — nearly seven hours after the Holthoffs first arrived at the hospital — Allison began screaming in pain and begging for help. The Department of Health and Wellness said Monday that Nova Scotia Health Authority has launched an investigation to determine what happened in Allison’s case.