Indigenous News

FREDERICTON — Members of the only synagogue in New Brunswick's capital city are reeling Sunday from a recent act of vandalism that felt all the more painful for taking place on a global day to honour victims of the Holocaust.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say they're investigating the city's first homicide of this year. A statement from police says officers were called to a home near East 33rd Avenue and Knight Street just after 1 a.m.

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — A priest asked his congregation to pray for victims and first responders at a church service in Fort Smith on Sunday days, after six people died in a tragic plane crash.

LONDON, Ont. — Pro hockey player Alex Formenton, a former member of the NHL's Ottawa Senators who currently plays in Switzerland, has been charged by police in London, Ont., his lawyer said Sunday.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's premier has apologized after he says a member of his staff posted an incorrect message in social media posts linking to his statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday.

OTTAWA — A federal byelection will be held in the Conservative stronghold of Durham, Ont. on March 4 to fill the seat left vacant by Erin O'Toole last spring.

A member of a team supporting a Canadian-Palestinian man documenting humanitarian efforts during the Israel-Hamas war says loved ones have lost contact with the citizen journalist in Gaza. Mansour Shouman was last heard from last Sunday around 4 p.m.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Canadian Jessica Macaulay waved goodbye to the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series from the podium Sunday.

VANCOUVER — A hops farm company and its director have been ordered to pay more than $1 million over an alleged fraud that a B.C. Securities Commission panel described as "near to the most serious type of fraud possible in an investment context.

PERTH, Australia — The Canadian women's rugby sevens team finished the HSBC Perth SVNS on a winning note Sunday, defeating Fiji 26-5 to place seventh.