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Teams skipped by James Grattan and Aaron Bartling will compete in the Canadian men's curling championship after winning their provincial and territorial finals Sunday.

IQALUIT — The devastating effects of Eric Dejaeger's sexual abuse of seven Inuit children more than four decades ago are being felt a generation later, a judge said Thursday as he handed the former Catholic priest a six-year prison sentence.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon RCMP say one person is dead after a vehicle plunged into a lake in an ice-fishing tragedy over the weekend. Police say in a news release they received a call around 1 a.m.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon RCMP say one person is dead after a vehicle plunged into a lake in an ice-fishing tragedy over the weekend. Police say in a news release they received a call around 1 a.m.

IQALUIT — A former Catholic priest took advantage of an already vulnerable community when he inflicted horrific sexual abuse on several Inuit children decades ago, a Crown prosecutor told a sentencing hearing Friday.

IQALUIT — A Catholic priest's sexual abuse of Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday.

Nova Scotia's Owen Purcell and Quebec's Felix Asselin joined the Canadian men's curling championship field by winning their respective provincial finals Sunday.

Christina Black returns to the Canadian women's curling championship after winning Nova Scotia's women's final Sunday. Black defeated Mackenzie Mitchell 6-4 in Halifax.

EDMONTON — A suspect in an August 2023 shooting at West Edmonton Mall has been arrested in the Northwest Territories. Edmonton police say they're working with their counterparts in the territory to execute warrants related to the shooting.

The mid-season departure of Karlee Burgess from Team Chelsea Carey to fill an opening on Team Kerri Einarson was just the latest example of an unusual curling roster change late in the quadrennial.