Indigenous News

CALGARY — Tourmaline Oil Corp. says it earned $700.2 million in the last quarter of 2023, up from a loss of $30.4 million a year earlier. The Calgary-based company says revenues were $1.7 billion, down from $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Health Canada says it plans to completely ban a powerful poison used to control predators after completing public consultations on use of strychnine.

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has granted a Montreal synagogue and a Jewish organization an injunction barring some pro-Palestinian protesters from coming within 50 metres of their buildings.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and King Charles spoke Wednesday for the first time since the King's cancer diagnosis. The Royal Family said the King held an audience with the Canadian prime minister via video link.

OTTAWA — Canada hasn't made a final decision on whether to resume funding to a United Nations aid organization in the Gaza Strip when its next scheduled payment is due in April.

MONTREAL — Two Montreal-area Chinese groups and their director have filed a lawsuit alleging the RCMP defamed them when officers said they were investigating clandestine Chinese government "police stations"operating out of their premises.

EDMONTON — An Alberta First Nation has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the province's energy regulator and the government over releases from an oilsands mine, alleging the agency acted in bad faith and is set up in a way that violates the Constituti

TORONTO — Constellation Software Inc. says its net income attributable to common shareholders was US$141 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, down from US$152 million a year earlier. The Toronto-based company says revenue was US$2.

OTTAWA — Government officials say online hate speech would have to portray a group as "inherently violent" or "unhuman" to meet the threshold for investigation by a human-rights tribunal under a newly proposed law.

GUELPH, Ont. — Linamar Corp. says it earned $104.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, up from $92.2 million a year earlier. The Guelph, Ont.-based manufacturing company says sales were $2.5 billion, up from $2.