Indigenous

OTTAWA — Winter hasn't arrived yet in the Niagara region, but the rain and cold the last few weeks have kept Stephen La Salle from leaving home as often as he'd like.

VANCOUVER — Somewhere at the confluence of politics, commerce and shared values driving a recent wave of Canadian fascination with Taiwan, there were the island's "freedom pineapples.

VANCOUVER — Canada's spy chief has apologized to staff for his response to rape and harassment allegations in the agency's British Columbia office.

BRANDON, Man. — Fourteen-year-old Jaxon Jacobson scored twice in his Western Hockey League debut and the Brandon Wheat Kings went on to beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 5-4 in the shootout on Friday.

EDMONTON — Evan Bouchard has been red hot from the blue line for the Edmonton Oilers of late. Bouchard had two goals and an assist as the Oilers outlasted the Minnesota Wild for a 4-3 victory on Friday.

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KITCHENER, Ont. — Carson Rehkopf scored in overtime as the Kitchener Rangers rallied past the Brantford Bulldogs 6-5 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action.

VANCOUVER — Ibrahim Ali's lawyers had a problem. They couldn't get him to understand a key point — that he was still on trial for the first-degree murder of a 13-year-old girl. "He's useless to us," defence lawyer Kevin McCullough told B.C.

HALIFAX — Mathieu Cataford completed his hat trick in overtime as the Halifax Mooseheads edged the Gatineau Olympiques 5-4 on Friday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.

OTTAWA — A recruitment video for the physical surveillance unit of Canada's spy agency shows people using trains, cars and a bicycle to surreptitiously trail a target through Montreal.