Indigenous News

KELOWNA, B.C. — This season will likely be the most challenging cherry growers have ever experienced in British Columbia, a farmer and industry leader says, after a widespread cold snap damaged trees and buds last month.

Many know Pam Grier blazed a trail for female action heroes, but not everyone knows about her affinity for Canadian hip-hop. “I love Moka Only,” the 73-year-old film icon says on a video call from Santa Fe, N.M.

TORONTO — Nearly two years after his shooting death, a new single by Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moose Wala has debuted at No. 9 on the latest Billboard Canada Hot 100 chart.

MONTREAL — The last psychiatrist to speak to a mentally ill Quebec man before he fatally stabbed a provincial police sergeant last March had a particularly difficult phone call with him days before the killing, a coroner's inquest heard Wednesday.

CANMORE, Alta. — A First Nations community in Alberta has added its voice to a call for a provincial environmental assessment on two major property development projects in a neighbouring mountain town.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,889.40, up 304.43 points): Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). Energy. Down $1.23, or 2.65 per cent, to $45.14 on 16.8 million shares.

TORONTO — Organizers of a pro-Palestinian demonstration that passed by a Toronto hospital earlier this week accused the prime minister and the city's mayor on Wednesday of spreading misinformation and being unfair to peaceful protesters.

TORONTO — The NHL Players' Association says it has filed an appeal of Morgan Rielly's five-game suspension for cross-checking.

The oversight body for a southwestern Ontario police service under scrutiny for its handling of a high-profile sexual-assault investigation asked the force Wednesday to explain why roughly 40 per cent of sexual-assault reports it received last year d

OTTAWA — Canadian manufacturers of masks and other equipment for protecting against COVID-19 are seeking more than $5 billion in damages from the federal government, saying Ottawa misled them about buying and helping sell their products.