Indigenous

WASHINGTON — Premier Danielle Smith says no matter the outcome of the United States election, there will be challenges for Canada and Alberta.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government tabled legislation Thursday to continue shielding the province's secularism law — known as Bill 21 — from court challenges over Charter violations.

The Canadian men's rugby league team is looking forward to a rare international test, March 1 against the USA Hawks in Las Vegas. And the players are putting aside day jobs and digging into their pocket to represent their country.

TORONTO — Ontario's Appeal Court is set to release its ruling on a provincial wage restraint law known as Bill 124 on Monday. The 2019 law capped salary increases for public sector workers to one per cent a year for three years.

LAVAL — Two white balloons floated into the sky on Thursday, as a community north of Montreal gathered to remember two young children who were killed exactly a year earlier when a bus smashed through the front of a Montreal-area daycare.

Two massive processing facilities will be built in northeastern Ontario, mining company Canada Nickel said Thursday, as the province gears up its end-to-end electric vehicle battery manufacturing chain.

CALGARY — The company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has been cited for environmental non-compliance related to its management of recent flooding in B.C.

NEW YORK — Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment has been fined US$5,000 for interference on Toronto's Jake McCabe after a sequence in Wednesday's game left the Maple Leafs defenceman bloodied.

TORONTO — The parent company of Bell Canada announced it is slashing nine per cent of its workforce and could further scale back network spending as it remains at loggerheads with the CRTC over what it calls "predetermined" regulatory direction.

TORONTO — Taylor Swift delivered massive audiences to global movie theatres as 2023 wound down, but it wasn't enough to keep Canada's largest cinema chain from posting a loss in its most recent quarter. Cineplex Inc.