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Ontario's colleges and universities minister says a pause on student financial assistance payments across all private post-secondary institutions will stay in effect until at least the new year.

Nolan Quinn says in a late afternoon statement that the government has not yet finished setting up a new system for validating career colleges and other private post-secondary institutions and expects that to be ready in the new year.

The family of a First Nations girl fatally shot by Winnipeg police is renewing calls for a public inquiry into police-related deaths of Indigenous people.

Eishia Hudson was killed in 2020 after the vehicle she was driving was involved in a liquor store robbery and police chase. 

One day after Albertans voted to reject separatism, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he favours pursuing pragmatic "common solutions" with the provinces on issues under federal jurisdiction.

Carney warned today that constitutional change can be a "difficult" and drawn-out process and said disputes in areas like immigration can be resolved without constitutional amendments.