Indigenous News

OTTAWA — Football Canada named Kevin McDonald as its interim managing director Tuesday. McDonald played football collegiately at Wilfrid Laurier and was a coach at both Queen's and Mount Allison University before joining the CFL in 2001.

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Thick fog covers the mountainside as heavy, pounding rain pelts a remote lagoon Tuesday near the northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos, where a real-life drama involving a stranded killer whale calf is unfolding.

OTTAWA — An Ontario man convicted of murdering three women in Renfrew County has died in prison of what officials say were natural causes.

TORONTO — There’s no evidence that a grocery code of conduct would raise food prices for Canadians, said Empire Co. Ltd. chief executive Michael Medline.

TORONTO — Four new police helicopters will help fight the car-theft crisis and assist searches for missing vulnerable people, the province and Toronto-area police forces say.

Midfielder Quinn and midfielder/forward Olivia Smith have dropped out of Canada's squad for the SheBelieves Cup due to injuries sustained at their clubs. They have been replaced by Emma Regan and Marie-Yasmine Alidou.

TORONTO — Montreal-based healthcare company Searchlight Pharma is being purchased by drug company Apotex. The financial terms of the deal that's expected to close in the second quarter of this year were not immediately available.

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Two people caught in a landslide in western Newfoundland narrowly avoided disaster when their truck was swept into a river shortly after midnight.

Canadians who have combined their favourite McDonald's dishes will soon get to see some of their creations hit the fast-food chain’s official menu — a phenomenon growing in popularity across the quick-serve industry.

Renting your home for life doesn't have to spell financial sacrifice; it simply means directing your money elsewhere. Young people in today’s housing market can feel particularly hopeless, said Shelley Smith, an investment advisor at TD Wealth.