Indigenous News

FREDERICTON — Alex White has been named leader of the New Brunswick NDP. The 39-year-old was NDP interim leader for about one year before he was acclaimed in the role today.

HALIFAX — A Canadian forecaster says a revised outlook predicting more storms than average in the Atlantic Ocean this hurricane season increases the chance of a significant storm hitting Eastern Canada.

EDMONTON — An Alberta government service provider says the records of more than 1.4 million residents were the target of a cyberattack last month.

TORONTO — Canadian renters have long lamented the increasing prices they see landlords request of tenants, but in July, those totals hit a level unseen in the country's history. Data from Rentals.

BRANDON, Man. — Manitoba Mounties say officers used a spike belt to stop a vehicle on the highway after receiving information from police in Ontario that a passenger may have been held against her will.

Police say a man who is believed to have fallen off his balcony near Toronto's waterfront has died, while another man who was struck by the falling person was left with serious injuries.

TORONTO — A gesture by late musician Robbie Robertson has drawn attention to a Six Nations community's cultural restoration project and local leaders anticipate it will have a lasting positive impact.

WHITECOURT, Alta. — Emergency crews are at the scene of a collision between a fuel truck and a train in northern Alberta.

HALIFAX — A volunteer firefighter who battled one of Nova Scotia’s biggest wildfires must now shell out thousands of dollars to replace the fishing gear he lost to the flames.

REGINA — Premier Scott Moe says he was sent a message about cost of living and housing as his Saskatchewan Party lost two of three byelections in the province.