Indigenous News

OTTAWA — Advocates are calling on Ottawa to profoundly change the powers of the watchdog who monitors Canadian corporations operating abroad, as the Liberals review how a new ombudsman should take on the job.

VANCOUVER — Arturs Silovs has rocketed up the Vancouver Canucks' depth chart this post-season, going from third-string goalie to starter in pivotal elimination games. The rookie remains unfazed. “You just have to be always ready," Silovs said Sunday.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was a frigid winter morning when authorities found a Native American man dead on a remote gravel road in western New Mexico.

CHARLOTTETOWN — P.E.I.’s The East Pointers are multiple winners as the East Coast Music Awards wrapped up today in Charlottetown.

SOUTH MERLAND, N.S. — A 53-year-old man from eastern Nova Scotia has died in an ATV crash that left another man seriously injured. Guysborough County District RCMP say the collision took place Saturday evening in South Merland.

Toronto Maple Leafs star centre Auston Matthews is a finalist for the NHL's Selke Trophy.

SINGAPORE — For the second year in a row, Canada's men will have to fight to retain their status as a core team on the world rugby sevens circuit.

BOSTON — William Nylander stood in a solemn visitors locker room at TD Garden just before midnight.

EASTERVILLE, MAN. — Two teen girls are in police custody in relation to an alleged homicide in northern Manitoba. RCMP officers with the province's Chemawawin detachment say they were called to a home in Easterville shortly before 2 a.m.

MONTREAL — Two adults in their 20s and a person in their 70s have died after a crash in Quebec's Eastern Townships. First responders were called late Saturday to the site of a collision near Bury, Que., about 160 kilometres east of Montreal.