Indigenous News

BARREN LANDS FIRST NATION — One person is dead after a fire tore through a home in a remote First Nation in northwestern Manitoba. Mounties say they received a report of a house fire in Barren Lands First Nation on Monday.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouversays December home sales rose compared with a year earlier as the region closed out 2023 with balanced market conditions despite high borrowing costs.

LONDON — Canadian international defender Shelina Zadorsky has joined West Ham United on loan from Tottenham until the end of the season. The 31-year-old from London, Ont.

TORONTO — Fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries are increasing in Toronto and pose a "significant risk," the city's fire chief said after a blaze aboard a subway train demonstrated how quickly flames sparked by a faulty battery can spread.

Nolan Thiessen has gone from decorated athlete to Canadian curling's big chair. The 43-year-old from Pilot Mound, Man., was introduced Wednesday as Curling Canada's chief executive officer.

OTTAWA — Canada and some of its allies are warning the Houthis that they will bear responsibility for the consequences of their continued attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

TORONTO — Hospital workers are buckling under the pressure of heavy workloads largely brought about by a staffing crisis, an Ontario union said Wednesday as it urged the province to do more to support those working in the health-care system.

WINNIPEG — Infighting has erupted among Manitoba Progressive Conservatives with two former Tory cabinet ministers accusing a third of trying to push through approval of a large mining project after the party lost the Oct. 3 election.

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Scott Salmond and Peter Anholt watched Canada's hopes at the world junior hockey championship evaporate in an instant.