Sarah Ritchie
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Reporter with The Canadian Press
Parliament marks Ukrainian Independence Day with yellow and blue lights
Parliament was lit in blue and yellow on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, evening as a crowd of several hundred people, many wearing the same colour, marked Ukrainian Independence Day.
Missing Ottawa-area woman found in Ohio after 42 years
On July 16, 1980, Dale Nancy Wyman left her Ottawa-area home with a suitcase full of her belongings, took a taxi to a Greyhound bus station and vanished. She didn't say where she was going and her family had no idea where to look.
Parliamentary committee probes RCMP's use of cellphone spyware
The committee is diving deeper into an issue that's sounded alarms for privacy and civil liberties groups across the country.
Sport Canada learned of Team Canada sexual assault allegations in 2018
Michel Ruest, a senior director of Sport Canada, says the federal organization was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving members of Team Canada’s world junior hockey team in late June 2018, but did not follow up with Hockey Canada over the next four years.
MPs to hear more testimony about Hockey Canada's sex assault settlement
More Hockey Canada officials are appearing before a parliamentary committee this week as fallout continues over allegations that players from two World Junior Championship teams committed group sexual assaults in 2003 and 2018.
Senate report calls for full implementation of First Nation fishing rights
A Mi'kmaw lawyer from the community at the centre of a violent backlash over its self-governed lobster fishery says she's "very hopeful" about a new Senate report that calls for the full implementation of Indigenous fishing rights.
Most Canadians think country is in a recession and prices will keep rising
Most Canadians believe the country is in a recession and that prices are going to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, according to a new poll.
Tory insider says Brown's exit raises questions about ballot counting
A Conservative party insider says Patrick Brown's exit isn't likely to change the outcome of the leadership race, but it may encourage candidates to change their strategies.
Canada becomes first country to ratify NATO membership bids from Sweden, Finland
Canada has become the first country to ratify Sweden and Finland's request to join NATO, bringing the two countries closer to full membership.
Canadians donated over $44M to Liberal, Conservative parties in 2021
The Conservative Party of Canada raised the most money of any federal party in 2021, bringing in $26.4 million in donations during a tumultuous year that ended with an election loss and speculation about the end of Erin O'Toole's leadership.