Indigenous News

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired right-handed pitcher Chris McElvain from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for infielder Santiago Espinal. The deal was announced Wednesday by Toronto. The 23-year-old McElvain from Columbia, Tenn.

American prosecutors say a Canadian living in China stole trade secrets from a leading U.S.-based electric vehicle company to set up a competing battery business. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government is promising big-ticket spending on health, education and communities along with no tax hikes and a $273-million deficit.

Edmonton City Hall is to reopen to the public on Monday, two months after what police say was a politically motivated attack. No one was hurt on Jan. 23, when shots were fired and Molotov cocktails were lit in the building full of people.

QUERÉTARO CITY, Mexico — The son of a Canadian woman killed in Queretaro, Mexico, says she was on her way back to Canada to look after her elderly mother.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives say a government plan to ban anti-abortion protests near some health-care facilities should be expanded to cover more areas and all protests, including picket lines.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has tabled legislation that updates the federal Elections Act as part of its political pact with the NDP.

WINNIPEG — A disgraced former high school football coach apologized during a sentencing hearing for the "grief and shame" he caused to the nine students he sexually assaulted.

OTTAWA — A parliamentary motion on the Israel-Hamas war the House of Commons passed Monday could make it harder for people seeking asylum in Canada to get out of Gaza, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday.

The federal Public Sector Integrity Commissioner says the Correctional Service of Canada committed "gross mismanagement" when it took nearly four years to fix pipes at a B.C. prison that were leaking chemically treated water into the ground.