Indigenous

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island says a cyberattack launched today has crashed the main provincial government website.

HENDERSON, Nev. — Brady Tkachuk knows eyebrows were raised. The Ottawa Senators signed defenceman Jake Sanderson — a player with just 77 games of NHL experience — earlier this month to an eight-year, US$64.

The number of accidental drug and alcohol deaths almost doubled in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released Thursday said.

TORONTO — A dark comedy about the launch of Canada's favourite old smartphone with a keyboard is among the nominees for this year's Windsor International Film Festival prize.

TORONTO — Ontario's chief medical officer of health is urging residents to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines this fall ahead of the respiratory virus season, starting with the people most at risk of severe illness and complications.

TORONTO — A new report from an advocacy group finds two of Canada's biggest insurers are taking steps toward climate action, but still have a ways to go. The report from Investors for Paris Compliance says climate action from Sun Life Financial Inc.

Quebec Premier François Legault will be attending a United Nations climate summit in New York next week.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Liberals are promising to let social assistance recipients keep more of their benefits as they transition to work.

Montreal billionaire Robert Miller, who faces a class-action lawsuit alleging he paid underage girls for sex, is selling his company Future Electronics Inc. for more than $5 billion to a Taiwanese semiconductor distributor. WT Microelectronics Co.

TORONTO — The U.S. benchmark price of oil has topped US$90 per barrel for the first time since late last year. The October futures contract for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude oil was up US$1.57 at US$90.