People across Canada attended gatherings to mark the 4th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; the day, also known as Orange Shirt Day, officially honours residential school survivors and Indigenous cultures as steps toward reconciliation

Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador reached an agreement on a new contract for the massive Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, after secret months-long negotiations; current deal that ruled power supply for Newfoundland was signed in 1969

British Columbia can bring forward a class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers for opioids-caused harms on behalf of other provinces, territories and the federal government, the supreme court of Canada has ruled

Canada Post general strike enters 2nd week, affecting most services and people, from isolated communities in the North to tens of thousands of citizens whose passports, printed and ready to be mailed before festive season, are being held by Service Canada

Endangered species in Canada could disappear before being protected due to assessment backlog; today the process is critically under-resourced and falls behind each year and it would take 30 years to complete assessments for over 1.000 vulnerable species