Indigenous

OTTAWA — The House of Commons voted late Wednesday to have a committee determine whether Speaker Greg Fergus should be punished for a video message he recorded that was played at a political party convention.

Matt Percillier has joined Canada ahead of this weekend's HSBC SVNS Cape Town, stepping in for the injured Alex Russell. The South African competition is the second stop of the HSBC SVNS season, formerly known as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.

President Joe Biden is pushing to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028.

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby and Opposition BC United Leader Kevin Falcon are looking over their shoulders at the political gains being made by the new kid on the block, says British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad.

REGINA — Saskatchewan legislature members have decided not to investigate the cause of a protest that disrupted the legislative assembly.

The New York Ironworkers, who won the Major League Rugby championship in 2022, have joined the Toronto Arrows in closing shop. The league confirmed Wednesday that the New York franchise was folding.

OTTAWA — The long-promised cap on greenhouse gas emissions for Canada's oil and gas sector will begin as early as 2026 and use a cap-and-trade system that applies by facility, a federal government source said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations is choosing a new national chief as part of its three-day special assembly in Ottawa.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — The wife of a former Mountie charged with murder sent messages to the officer the day of the killing accusing him of letting down his family by having a sexual relationship with the victim.

WINNIPEG — A bill to make Orange Shirt day a statutory holiday in Manitoba has passed its final vote in the legislature. The bill will ensure that workers under provincial jurisdiction get a day off, or holiday pay if they work, every Sept. 30.