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Cultures collide each Sunday morning at Edmonton's Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, with sage burning alongside candles and both hymns and Indigenous drumming resounding through congregations.

The century-old religious institution, located in the vibrant and diverse McCauley inner-city neighbourhood, routinely blends Catholic and Indigenous rituals in its services, making it an obvious backdrop for the pending visit from Pope Francis later this month.

Canada's industry minister will meet with the head of Rogers Communications today in the wake of last week's massive outage that paralyzed the company's network.

The office of François-Philippe Champagne says he plans to meet with Tony Staffieri and other telecom leaders to discuss the importance of improving Canada's networks. 

The widespread Rogers service outage began on Friday morning and lasted at least 15 hours, knocking out access to many health-care, law enforcement and banking services.

Canada's premiers are starting their summer gathering at a Victoria-area First Nation where they'll meet with leaders of the National Indigenous Organizations, a collection of five national Indigenous groups. 

The Council of the Federation, representing premiers from Canada's 13 provinces and territories, are meeting in Victoria today and Tuesday.

The Songhees Nation says in a statement that Monday's gathering of premiers and Indigenous leaders at the Songhees Wellness Centre creates a precedent by holding such an event on its reserve lands.

Interac says its services are fully available again after debit transactions were halted by a widespread Rogers network outage impacting mobile and network services across much of Canada.

Interac issued a statement on its social media platforms apologizing for the inconvenience and saying it is adding a supplier to bolster service access in the future.

Rogers Communications says it has restored mobile and internet service for "the vast majority" of customers after the outage that got underway early Friday morning and lasted more than 15 hours.

Canadians woke up Friday morning to a widespread network outage at Rogers Communications Inc. that left many customers without mobile and internet service and caused trouble for 911 services, debit transactions and even Service Canada's beleaguered passport offices.

A notice on the Toronto-based telecommunications company's website said the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting phone and chat support. 

If you're a Rogers customer, you may have noticed that paying for a coffee was harder than expected.

This morning, Rogers is currently experiencing a nationwide outage, which is impacting all debit and some credit payments, internet, cable and more. 

The outage is resulting in people having no access to cell services. Whether it's something as small as wanting to check your social media, or something as important as calling 9-1-1, the outage is impacting many all across the country.

If you're a Rogers customer, you may have noticed that paying for a coffee was harder than expected.

This morning, Rogers is currently experiencing a nationwide outage, which is impacting all debit and some credit payments, internet, cable and more. 

The outage is resulting in people having no access to cell services. Whether it's something as small as wanting to check your social media, or something as important as calling 9-1-1, the outage is impacting many all across the country.

The unofficial count is that six to nine homes were affected after a tornado touched down earlier this evening south of Sundre, north of Bergen. RCMP from Airdrie, Didsbury, Sundre and Olds are all on scene assisting with door knocking.

So far all occupants are accounted for and there are no fatalities. There are no details on the number of injuries reported.

Power lines are still an issue as is cell service in the area. Roads around the area are blocked off in the area of Township Road 302 and Range Road 44 and 45. 

More details to come when made available.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is "shocking," and that Canada has "lost a close friend" with his death.

Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the country that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.

Somewhere between six and nine homes were affected after a tornado touched down earlier this evening south of Sundre. 

So far all occupants are accounted for -- there are no details on the number of injuries.

Power lines are still an issue as is cell service in the area. Roads around the area are blocked off in the area of Township Road 302 and Range Road 44 and 45. 

RCMP from Airdrie, Didsbury, Sundre and Olds are all in the area.