Jorge Barrera

What police found when they investigated a notorious residential school that built its own electric chair

When Louis Côté became suspicious about a lab that tests DNA ancestry for a self-proclaimed Indigenous group, he sent a sample from his dog. He was told his chihuahua had Abenaki and Mohawk ancestry.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced pointed questions about the Trans Mountain pipeline from First Nation chiefs Tuesday after giving a speech to the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa.

The chief of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen was installed for life in the mid-’90s. Now members who say he rules the reserve for the benefit of immediate family are trying to find a way to replace him.

An Algonquin chief says her people’s history of being decimated by wave after wave of epidemics, though painful, gives them strength and hope, as their survival is a result of their resilience.

Six Nations members have been occupying two housing developments in Caledonia, Ont,. and renamed them 1492 Land Back Lane. It’s the latest chapter in a longstanding dispute over land claims.

Garrie Garrell is suing the federal government for $12 million. He alleges the care he received from medical staff during a recent two-year stint behind bars, primarily at Beaver Creek federal prison in Gravenhurst, Ont., is the reason he’s dying.

Artificial intelligence is used for translation apps, and other software. The problem is the technology is often unable to differentiate between legitimate terms and ones that might be biased or racist.

The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?

A self-appointed “chief for life,” who named his wife as successor upon his death to keep the leadership of a small First Nation in northern Ontario within his family, has been ousted following a Federal Court ruling delivered Thursday.

After being taken into custody on an unpaid traffic fine, Daniel Robinson’s life effectively ended on the floor outside a cell of the Edmonton Remand Centre, lying face down beneath the weight and force of corrections officers, with his hands cuffed behind his back. His family is still searching for answers about what led to those final moments.

Cpl. Oleksii Silin, a Canadian Forces soldier based at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick is facing charges of aggravated sexual assault and forcible confinement related to an alleged 2018 sexual assault at CFB Borden following a hearing on a private prosecution in an Ontario court Friday.

Political dissident Manuel de Jesús Sobalvarro Bravo recalled the early morning that Nicaraguan National Police took him to the courtyard of the Managua jailhouse known as El Chipote, put a hood over his head and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his temple. He and others like him, exiled to the U.S. by what they say is a government hostile to dissent, want Canada to open its doors to grant Nicaraguans permanent resident status.

An Indian national from Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty in Albany, NY, federal court Friday to human smuggling as part of a network that potentially moved hundreds of people from India across the Canada-U.S. border.

The Federal Court has ordered the Canadian Human Rights Commission to re-examine a discrimination complaint against the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which was filed by a former informant and child soldier who says the spy agency cost him a security job on Parliament Hill.

A growing number of Indian nationals are seeking refugee protection in Canada. Refugee claims from India began a steady rise after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in 2014, according to federal data reviewed by CBC News.

A high-speed car chase, a missing man presumed dead and a family legacy of human smuggling. Find out why some locals in a Haudenosaunee community that straddles the Canada-U.S. border have been caught up in what seems to be a never-ending cycle.

A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving “vulnerable” people from Canada into the U.S., according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.