Indigenous News

TORONTO — U.S. author V. V. Ganeshananthan has won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000.

VICTORIA — Allan Schoenborn killed his three children in 2008 and more than a decade later was permitted to legally change his name under British Columbia's Name Act, but his new identity as Ken John Johnson did not become public until Monday.

TORONTO — Canada's Summer McIntosh was an unheralded swimmer who stole the show at her first Olympic Trials appearance three years ago.

WINNIPEG — New figures show the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives finished last year with $1.2 million in debt and other liabilities.

Canada Soccer has found its successor to John Herdman in Jesse Marsch, a coach with experience at the highest club level in England, Germany, Austria and North America.

A look at Jesse Marsch, the new head coach of the Canadian men's soccer team: — Marsch grew up in Racine, Wis. His father worked on a production line, making parts for tractors. — Soccer took him to Princeton, where he played under Bob Bradley.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will ask the province’s police watchdog to investigate how officers forcibly cleared out two pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.

FORT NELSON, B.C. — Duane Loe lives just three kilometres south of Fort Nelson, B.C., where most of the 4,700 people have fled from a fast-approaching wildfire. But Loe isn't leaving.

Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation president and chief executive officer John Bean will step down and be replaced by Robert Hayes.

REGINA — An organizer with Regina's Pride parade says she was surprised to get an application from the governing Saskatchewan Party asking to take part in the event next month.