Indigenous News

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks banished the ghost of a tough loss last week for a Halloween night victory.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Kerri Einarson made Halloween extra scary for her New Zealand opponents on Tuesday at the Pan Continental Curling Championships at Kelowna Curling Club. The skip from Gimli, Man.

TORONTO — Cam Talbot just wanted a chance. He got one on the West Coast alongside his old coach — and his new team is enjoying the early returns.

SANTIAGO, Chile — Charles Philibert-Thiboutot of Quebec City raced to a silver medal in the men's 5,000-metre final on Tuesday at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.

HALIFAX — A sold-out crowd of 6,421 soccer fans braved close to freezing temperatures Tuesday night to watch Canada beat Brazil 2-0 in women’s soccer action at outdoors Halifax stadium the Wanderers Grounds.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Public Insurance has reached a tentative agreement with some 1,700 workers who have been on strike for nine weeks.

VICTORIA — Vancouver-based Helijet International has placed what it says is Canada's first order for an electric vertical-takeoff aircraft to add to its current fleet of passenger and cargo helicopters.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has introduced updated legislation that it says would help make sure anyone who contributed to the opioid addiction crisis is held responsible.

CALGARY — Alberta Health Services says an E. coli outbreak that infected hundreds of children at numerous Calgary daycares is over, eight weeks after it started.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — A shipping company serving the Far North says an employee is recovering in an Ottawa hospital after he and almost two dozen containers fell into the water near Nunavut's capital on Friday.