Indigenous

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Three people have been killed in a small plane crash in Chilliwack, B.C. RCMP said they received a report that a plane had gone down at about 2 p.m.

CALGARY — Ivanie Blondin, Connor Howe, Isabelle Weidemann and Ted-Jan Bloemen, all Olympians, won gold on Friday at the Canadian long-track speedskating championships. Blondin, from Ottawa, won the women's 1,000-metre event in one minute 15.

TORONTO — A 29-year-old woman who was among a group of women and children returned to Canada in April after years in a Syrian prison camp has been charged with a terrorism-related offence.

BURNABY, B.C. — Forward Precious Achiuwa will miss the Toronto Raptors' first pre-season game due to injury. Achiuwa strained his left groin during a training camp workout. He will also miss tonight's open practice at Simon Fraser University.

Sheldon Irwin was 13 years old when he placed his first bet. It came at a nearby barbershop in his Montreal neighbourhood, where the barbers let him build up losses at poker without calling those losses in.

VICTORIA — A Metro Vancouver RCMP officer has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act after an off-duty crash in which a motorcyclist was seriously hurt. The BC Prosecution Service says Const.

TORONTO — The Canadian media landscape is changing too quickly to wait for a perfect version of the Online News Act, federal Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said Friday, while Google once again threatened to remove news links from its ubiquitous se

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders will face an old nemesis on Saturday when veteran quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell returns to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats starting lineup.

OTTAWA — A group of grassroots NDP activists is planning to push for pharmacare to be a make-or-break element of the federal party's supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals at a policy convention next week.

KANANASKIS, Alta. — Several bear warnings and area closures are in place in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta after some surprise encounters with both black and grizzly bears.