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Canadian Forces corporal acquitted of sexual assault, forcible confinement charges
A Canadian Forces corporal on Wednesday was found not guilty of forcible confinement and sexual assault following a judge-alone trial before the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie, Ont.
Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family
A Cree Sixties Scoop Survivor is in U.S. immigration custody waiting on the Alberta government to provide adoption records to prove he is First Nations and it's something that could take months. James Mast, born James Cardinal, was detained by tribal police on the U.S. side of Akwesasne on April 14 and turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.
Toronto criminal lawyer acquitted of all charges stemming from sex assault allegations
Toronto criminal lawyer Mitchell Worsoff was acquitted in early May of all charges stemming from sex assault allegations involving a minor following a judge-alone trial. Ontario Court of Justice Judge Robert Wadden said that testimony by the alleged victim at the centre of this case “had numerous shortcomings.”
Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada
A mother and her two daughters from El Salvador make a final attempt to enter Canada after spending two weeks locked in holding cells at the U.S. port of entry in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away
As the family of four from El Salvador walked over the Rainbow Bridge in March, hoping to cross into Canada to flee immigration uncertainty in the U.S., they had no idea they would instead find themselves jailed for weeks in a U.S. holding cell, stuck in a shadowy limbo advocates say is becoming a worrying trend along the northern border and raising renewed questions about the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S.
Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission.
CBC Investigates
Agnes Benn's death and the hidden history of Birtle residential school's predatory principal
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's principal, Henry Currie.
Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege
A “sophisticated” human smuggling organization run from Montreal posed a threat to national security through its connections to an international network that trafficked in forged Canadian passports, according to allegations in files obtained by CBC News from an RCMP-led investigation.
U.S. guilty plea for woman caught on video with Romanian-Canadian family who died on smuggling run
A woman captured on the parking lot camera of a Super 8 motel in Cornwall, Ont., picking up a Romanian-Canadian family days before their deaths on a human smuggling run pleaded guilty Thursday before a U.S. Federal Court to five counts of alien smuggling.
Quebec judge rules 2 should face U.S. extradition in human smuggling river deaths
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023.