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LAVAL — Two white balloons floated into the sky on Thursday, as a community north of Montreal gathered to remember two young children who were killed exactly a year earlier when a bus smashed through the front of a Montreal-area daycare.

OTTAWA — After drawing criticism earlier this week for saying that some First Nations are burning down water treatment plants because of the federal Liberal government, a Conservative MP is now walking back his comments.

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A provincial ban on a type of rat poison, as well as other factors including Vancouver's unusually warm winter, could be leading to a surge of rats in the city, experts say.

Nova Scotia Health says the situation in the province following last weekend's big winter storm has improved enough that some non-emergency services are resuming.

OTTAWA — Representatives from Big Tech companies say a Liberal government bill that would begin regulating some artificial intelligence systems is too vague.

VANCOUVER — Premier David Eby says social media companies can't be let "off the hook" after two British Columbia teens fell victim to online sextortion scams and died by suicide in the past year.

Premier David Eby said he "can't fathom" the ruling and it wasn't acceptable that Randall Hopley, who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011, had been given the same conditions for his long-term supervision order.

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.