Indigenous News

VANCOUVER — The CPKC Women's Open isn't just a showcase for some of the LPGA Tour's top players — it's an opportunity for Canada's youngest professional golfers to see how they measure up.

BARRIE, Ont. — Skate Canada is paying tribute to a former Canadian Olympic figure skater who died in a collision involving seven vehicles in Melancthon Township, north of Shelburne, Ont., earlier this week.

VANCOUVER — A lawyer for a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has suggested to the girl's mother that they had a poor relationship, to the point where the teen didn't want to be around her.

CLAYTON, N.Y. — Canadian Chris Johnston remains in the hunt for his second Elite Series event on the St. Lawrence River. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont., remained second Friday in the season-ending event.

VANCOUVER — Politicians and environmental leaders from more than 180 countries have been in Vancouver, B.C.

Officials say about 170 homes and other buildings have been reported damaged or destroyed by wildfires in the Shuswap region of British Columbia, almost doubling the known structural losses in the province's ravaged Interior.

Kathleen Zydowicz hasn't seen much of her husband lately, keeping in touch via text while he and dozens of colleagues fight wildfires around their tiny community of Wilson's Landing, on the west side of Okanagan Lake, B.C.

Two First Nations say they're "shutting down" public access to B.C.'s Joffre Lakes Park for more than a month to allow for harvest celebrations.

A man is facing an attempted murder charge after another man was allegedly thrown into the path of an oncoming vehicle in Sudbury, Ont., earlier this week in what police believe was a hate-motivated attack.

NEW YORK — Vasek Pospisil's hopes of playing in the U.S. Open were dashed Friday. The Vernon, B.C., tennis star lost 6-3, 4-6, 2-6 to Zachary Svajda of La Jolla, Calif.