More than 200 people came out to participate in a fundraising run Saturday in Charlottetown for the sole survivor of last month’s murder-suicide that took place along a highway south of Calgary.

Rio Tinto Alcan has locked out workers at its smelter in Alma, Que. after last-ditch contract talks collapsed and the union’s contract expired at midnight.

In a game that meant nothing in terms of the standings at the world junior tournament, Canada skated by the United States 3-2 at Rexall Place on New Year’s Eve. The win gave the Canadian juniors a perfect 4-0 record after the preliminary round, in which they outscored the opposition 27-5.

A 45-year-old man has died in an avalanche outside of Revelstoke, B.C., the second such death in the province in as many days.

A young Canadian man jailed in Congo following the country’s tense presidential elections has been freed and could return home within the next week, a friend says.