Indigenous

VANCOUVER — Animal health experts are warning about avian flu returning to poultry farms as wild birds begin migrating south for the winter. Ray Nickel, spokesman for the B.C.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's scheduled appearance before a House of Commons environment committee next week has been cancelled. Smith had said she would speak before the environment and sustainable development committee on Tuesday.

YELLOWKNIFE — The premier of the Northwest Territories said Thursday she doesn't expect the North to get essential critical infrastructure before the next climate disaster, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the fire-ravaged region.

MONTREAL — For Artzi Korostelev, the professional is now tragically personal.

OTTAWA — A former RCMP investigator who worked on a money laundering probe says he was unaware at the time that someone had sent secret information to people who were of interest to authorities.

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says a single-payer universal drug plan would cost federal and provincial governments an additional$11.2 billion in the first year of the program, and $13.4 billion in the fourth year.

TORONTO — A lobby group for Canada's newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those same publishers for use of their work.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,500.24, down 163.60 points): Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ). Energy. Up 91 cents, or 1.03 per cent, to $89.48 on 8.

TORONTO — Jeremy Dutcher saw the risks of singing in English on his second album.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's government is inserting itself into the process of approving residential developments in Halifax, saying it needs to create a fast-track system to deal with housing shortages.