Indigenous News

TORONTO — Jocelyne Larocque and Renata Fast seldom came off the ice in Toronto's first Professional Women's Hockey League home win Friday night.

BURNABY — Mounties in Burnaby say a section of Lougheed Highway was temporarily shut down Friday afternoon due to an incident involving a crane.

SALT LAKE CITY — Canadian Valerie Maltais captured a bronze medal in a women's 3,000-metre World Cup speedskating race Friday. Maltais, of La Baie, Que., posted a time of three minutes 59.71 seconds to earn her first career medal over 3,000 metres.

Jesse Smith described the loud noise in the burning Winters Hotel in Vancouver as people were streaming out when she went back to help others and their pets escape. "It's wood.

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has improved its warning systems since the last flooding disaster in B.C., and Premier David Eby says it will be on top of the latest series of atmospheric rivers rolling over the South Coast in the next few days.

WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. — Star freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury added to his career World Cup medal haul with a bronze medal in moguls competition Friday. Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., finished with a score on 80.07 points.

TORONTO — Ontario colleges and universities will be required to guarantee housing for incoming international students, Minister Jill Dunlop announced Friday.

Laurent Courtois is already seeing progress within his CF Montreal squad just over two weeks into his tenure as head coach. “They're way in advance on stuff that we've experimented together,” Courtois said over a video call Friday.

OTTAWA — Canada is joining the United States in suspending funding for a UN agency that supports Palestinians, in response to allegations agency staff played a role in the Hamas attack on Israel last October.

NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Montreal Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher five games for an illegal check to the head.