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.

Former clients and employees allege that Vancouver-based company PLC Global operated a pyramid scheme to scam foreigners looking for jobs in Canada — putting migrant workers in a situation one lawyer likened to "modern-day slavery."

Police have seized more than a thousand items of luxury clothing from the home of a Toronto lawyer couple under investigation for fraud, possession of the proceeds of crime and laundering the proceeds of crime, after more than $7 million of their clients' money went missing.

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.

CBC News has learned five workers were collectively awarded nearly $80,000 in a B.C. Employment Standards Branch decision involving a Fraser Valley employer.  Yet when the federal department that oversees the temporary foreign worker program conducted an investigation into the workers’ complaints, it found no problems and gave the companies involved a clean audit.

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.

Three men charged in connection with the 2023 death of Owen Sound, Ont., restaurant owner Sharif Rahman are fighting their extradition from the U.K. The trio's lawyer has raised concerns about overcrowding and disease outbreaks in Ontario jails.

Almost exactly nine years after the Panama Papers were revealed, two dozen countries' tax agencies say they've recovered nearly $2 billion combined in tax arrears thanks to information in the leak about hidden bank accounts and offshore shell companies.

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.

Director Norman Jewison's second wife "made progressive efforts to isolate and control him," his sons have alleged — leading to family drama, lawsuits in two countries and a fight over the late filmmaker's $30-million fortune that even involved a former Ontario premier. Experts say it highlights end-of-life struggles many families face.

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.

Krishan Jogia turned to an immigration consultancy before landing in Toronto in 2023, only to later realize — after spending thousands of dollars to get his wife to Canada — he had been dealing with a "ghost" consultancy. Experts say newcomers prefer consultants to lawyers for their immigration paperwork as they're more affordable. But there are calls for more efforts to penalize those operating without a licence.

Laken Pavan travelled to occupied Ukraine to volunteer for an aid group and ended up being recruited as a Russian agent. The then 17-year-old was sent to Poland to spy on its military, but confessed to police. Now his family hopes to bring an early end to his 20-month jail sentence.