Indigenous

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

OTTAWA — As the deadline to repay pandemic loans and receive partial forgiveness approaches, small businesses are still hoping the federal government will reverse course and extend it for another year.

Indigenous Peoples have been part of Canada's military history dating back to the War of 1812, when it's estimated more than 10,000 First Nations people fought.

VANCOUVER — All it took was just under three-and-a-half minutes for the Edmonton Oilers to come undone and the Vancouver Canucks to surge to victory.

TORONTO — The Maple Leafs didn't feel like they had played a bad first period after trudging off the ice to a chorus of boos Monday. As head coach Sheldon Keefe would later explain: "Puck just kept going in the net.

VANDERHOOF, B.C. — A woman who disappeared from a First Nations community in central British Columbia last month has been found dead. Vanderhoof RCMP and the Saik'uz First Nation say the remains of Chelsey Quaw, who was first reported missing on Oct.

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Only three teams remain unbeaten after Monday's second day of action at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Swift Current.

TORONTO — American Sean (Tarzan) Strickland will make his first middleweight title defence against South Africa's Dricus (Stillknocks) du Plessis at UFC 297 in Toronto on Jan. 20.

Three of the four Indigenous men who served 18 years in prison for a murder conviction in Alaska that was ultimately vacated will receive a total of nearly $5 million in a settlement confirmed by the city of Fairbanks on Monday.

TORONTO — In a move it says is meant to revive dwindling competition for internet services in Canada's two largest provinces, the CRTC will allow independent competitors to sell over the large telephone companies' fibre networks in Ontario and Quebec