Shelley Jordan

TERRACE, B.C. – The Gitxsan First Nation is shutting down the Canadian National Railway line through Gitxsan traditional territories in northwestern British Columbia.

LIKELY, B.C. – The president of Imperial Metals has apologized to residents living downstream from a toxic leak from one of the company's gold and copper mines in the British Columbia Interior.

TORONTO – After campaigning nearly as hard as a candidate in Toronto's mayoral race, Sheldon Bergstrom of Prince Albert, Sask., has landed the role of Rob Ford in an upcoming new musical comedy about the city's embattled mayor.

CALGARY – Police investigators are in Mexico as part of an ongoing investigation into the disappearance of a five-year-old boy and his grandparents.

VICTORIA – There is some optimism as both sides in the B.C. teachers' dispute employ their full bargaining teams when they head back to negotiations later this week.

TORONTO – Good times in Canadian tennis were rolling, right up until play started at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.

Start with amenities like a monster TV or fire pit, add a never-ending supply of munchies and a relaxed attitude toward your kids bringing home a friend — or five — and you may just find that your place has become THE place where the tweens and teens want to be.

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. – Authorities say a New York woman who crashed her car into a Long Island fire house was found to be in possession of marijuana — and a stolen snake wrapped around her neck.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Several food writers, including a New York Times reporter, have been subpoenaed by a meat producer as part of its $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC in regards to the network's coverage of a beef product dubbed "pink slime" by critics.

Isabelle Lipari knows firsthand the importance of good health. The point was driven home for Lipari at a very young age when her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 39, followed by several other family members who died of cardiovascular disease. If that weren’t enough, Lipari was given a diagnosis of malignant melanoma at the age of 30. Fortunately, it was detected early and she has since recovered, but suffice it to say: wellness has became her mantra.

TORONTO — Michele Genest has long celebrated the wild ingredients of Northern Canada, foraging and creating delicious recipes with which to savour what she’s collected. Now she’s turned to examining how cultures in other northern countries treat the same ingredients.

“Just bend your knees like you’re squatting, throw your arms over your head toward the ground, and your feet will follow,” Tanis Tzavaras, the adult gymnastics coach at Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics tells me as I prepare (hesitantly) to attempt my first back handspring. “I’ve got you.”

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – The Crown has wrapped up its case after calling 93 witnesses in a serial-murder trial involving the deaths of a teenage girl and three women in northern British Columbia.

OTTAWA – Hackers who targeted Canada's National Research Council infiltrated a system containing personal information, the federal privacy czar says.

COQUITLAM, B.C. – At least one member of a tiny Metro Vancouver First Nation is calling for his chief's resignation over an $800,000 bonus paid on economic development contracts.

TORONTO – The maker of the contraceptive device NuvaRing is informing women about new restrictions for the use of the product.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia's teachers union and the government's lead negotiator have scheduled their first face-to-face meeting in more than a month, as a prolonged strike threatens to delay the start of the coming school year.

CONAKRY, Guinea – An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capital.