Indigenous

VICTORIA — When B.C. marine scientist Anna Hall encountered a very lost loggerhead turtle in waters near Victoria over the weekend, she knew it faced a grim fate at sea.

OTTAWA — Canada's immigration minister is "pissed off" that a list of people related to Canadians are being blocked from leaving the embattled Gaza Strip, he said Wednesday.

VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier David Eby says his former post-secondary education minister offered her resignation twice before her exit from cabinet over comments she made about the Middle East.

NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Winnipeg Jets defenceman Brenden Dillon for three games for an illegal check to the head of Pittsburgh forward Noel Acciari.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed forward Martin Pospisil to a two-year contract extension. The deal carries an annual average value of US$1 million.

VANCOUVER — B.C.'s government has ordered that flavoured nicotine pouches only be sold from behind pharmacy counters in the province in an effort to prevent youth from becoming addicted.

CALGARY — An officer has been charged with sexual assault more than three years after the province's police watchdog began investigating the alleged offence.

VANCOUVER — Canfor Pulp Products Inc. says it's entered an agreement to sell its Taylor pulp mill. The mill in northeastern B.C., which produces bleached chemi-thermo mechanical pulp, is being sold for $7 million to an undisclosed buyer.

VANCOUVER — Two trucking firms are taking the B.C. government to court to get their vehicles back on the province's roads after an overpass crash last December, in what Premier David Eby called an "astonishing" move. Lawyers for B.C.

A Canadian documentary on the mysterious life of soul singer Jackie Shane is headed to the South by Southwest film festival.