Indigenous

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Pemberton resident Dean Matt's anxiety has waxed and waned this week with the levels of the swollen Lillooet River on B.C.'s South Coast.

Antony Auclair took a year to ponder his future in football. Once he made his decision, he wasn't going to look back. Not even after receiving a formal invitation from an NFL team.

MONTREAL — TC Transcontinental says it's closing its printing plant in St-Hyacinthe, Que. The Montreal-based company says it will gradually reduce operations at the plant, with a complete closure scheduled in April.

TORONTO — Indigo Books & Music Inc. says it has received a proposal to take the retailer private from a pair of companies owned by controlling shareholder Gerald Schwartz. The non-binding proposal from Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc.

OTTAWA — The New Democrats and Liberals are at odds over the rollout of the new federal dental plan, after the government announced it wouldn't fully expand eligibility until 2025 — contrary to the pact it signed with the NDP.

SASKATOON — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says a coroner's inquest into a mass killing in Saskatchewan shows Ottawa must return to the table to negotiate long-promised legislation declaring Indigenous policing an essential servi

TORONTO — A blast from the past is coming to Toys "R" Us Canada. HMV, the entertainment brand that departed the country seven years ago, said this week that it has begun selling merchandise in five of the toy retailer's Ontario locations.

WATERLOO, ONT. — OpenText Corp. says it earned US$37.7 million in its second quarter, down 85 per cent from US$258.5 million during the same quarter last year.

TORONTO — Jurors in a coroner's inquest into the death of a teen shot by a Toronto police officer more than a decade ago issued dozens of recommendations Thursday in an effort to prevent similar deaths in the future.

TORONTO — The municipal staff who administer the child-care system across Ontario are telling Education Minister Stephen Lecce that an $85.5-million cut to their budgets puts the success of the $10-a-day program at risk.