Beyond Local

MONTREAL — A Montreal elementary school teacher has pleaded guilty to several sex-related crimes involving five young girls.

Two University of Calgary researchers weren’t surprised when their survey of Alberta doctors showed biases against Indigenous patients, but they were shocked by some of the comments.

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are adamant the government's only path forward on foreign interference is to call a public inquiry. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has thus far resisted such calls.

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Monday they have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years, raking in millions of euros.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.

“We want to make sure that it’s done officially in our languages. The whole idea of inclusion and reflecting on and respecting Indigenous peoples history starts here.”

In December, Brendan Benson started noticing his Grade 12 students were handing in essays that looked the same. “I had voices that resembled one another,” said Benson, who teaches English at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ont.

EDMONTON — The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon's dark side.

Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environment minister said Friday.

EDMONTON — A man who worked as a correctional program officer is accused of sexually assaulting an inmate at the federal Edmonton Institution for Women.