Indigenous

TORONTO — Lions quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. has earned a spot on the CFL's weekly honour roll for his role in B.C.'s 33-30 road win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Adams was the top-graded quarterback (91.

AIRDRIE, Alta. — Police say a four-year-old boy who was found earlier this month in a pond in southern Alberta has died in hospital. Airdrie RCMP received a call about a missing child in the community north of Calgary on Oct. 3.

Opioid overdoses are killing a growing proportion of people experiencing homelessness in Ontario, a new study suggested Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — Wind and rainfall warnings cover much of the British Columbia coast as a wave of stormy weather washes over western parts of the province this week.

OTTAWA — Canada's inflation rate edged down to 3.8 per cent last month as price pressures eased across the economy, setting the stage for the Bank of Canada to hold its key interest rate steady next week, economists say.

MOORES MILLS, N.B. — A 26-year-old New Brunswick man who was the subject of an emergency alert last week has been arrested and charged with assault with a weapon and resisting arrest.

MONTREAL — Supremex Inc. is closing a facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., that it acquired earlier this year as part of Impression Paragraph Inc. The company says production at the location will be transferred to its facilities in the Montreal area.

A piece of plastic made headlines at the Rugby World Cup in France recently when Samoan fly halfLima Sopoaga took to social media for help finding his lost kicking tee.

MONTREAL — A common front of four major Quebec labour unions has voted 95 per cent for an unlimited general strike mandate. The unions are negotiating as one and represent 420,000 public sector workers in health care, education and social services.

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the implementation of a digital services tax would raise $7.2 billion over five years.