Indigenous

VANCOUVER — It started with a voice mail demanding payment of some kind, then a series of missed phone calls, later came the gun shots targeting the home of a Metro Vancouver business owner whose family and community are now gripped with fear.

HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell is taking less to remain with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Ticats announced Friday that Mitchell has restructured his CFL contract that will keep him with the franchise for the next two seasons.

The Professional Women's Hockey League says its first game reached 2.9 million viewers.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say a man posing as a parent tried to take a five-year-old girl from a home daycare, in what they call a "troubling" case. They say the incident happened on Dec.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has stepped into a missing person case involving a B.C. man whose disappearance police now say is suspicious.

Insolvencies in November were 5.1 per cent higher than in October, and 24.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.

OTTAWA — Job growth stalled in December as the total number of jobs in Canada was virtually unchanged for the month and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 per cent for the final month of the year.

A pesky invasive plant found in many areas of Yukon could be put to use helping clean contaminated water from mines, research suggests.

BOISBRIAND, Que. — A 91-year-old man and 46-year-old woman are dead after a Friday morning house fire in Boisbriand, Que., a Montreal suburb roughly 25 kilometres northwest of downtown.

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