Indigenous News

Olympic champion Canada takes on Jamaica in a two-legged playoff to determine who will join the U.S. in representing CONCACAF at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Jamaica hosts Canada on Friday with the second leg on Tuesday at Toronto's BMO Field.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have signed first-round pick Colby Barlow on a three-year, entry-level contract. The deal carries an annual average value of US$1.2 million.

NEW YORK — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not say Thursday whether Canada will take part in a Kenya-led multinational security mission in Haiti that the United Nations is under mounting U.S. pressure to authorize.

OTTAWA — A Canadian man who was held in China for nearly three years is calling on governments around the world to co-ordinate sanctions and travel bans on states that arrest foreigners for political reasons.

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats still remain hopeful about quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell's return. Mitchell, 33, suffered a lower-leg fracture in Hamilton's 16-12 home win over Ottawa on July 28.

A man accused of murdering four members of a Muslim family in Ontario changed his demeanour with police, becoming more subdued, during his second interview with a detective in the aftermath of the attack, his trial heard Thursday.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Giants have added another celebrity to their ownership group.

HARDIN, Mont. (AP) — Yolanda Fraser is back near a ragged chain-link fence, blinking through tears as she tidies up flowers and ribbons and a pinwheel twirls in the breeze at a makeshift roadside memorial in a small Montana town.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed amateur tryout defenceman Djibril Toure to a three-year, entry-level contract. The 20-year-old from Dorval, Que.

Toronto's ombudsman announced an investigation Thursday into the city's decision to deny refugee claimants certain shelter beds and instead direct them to federal programs.