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NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd said on Facebook that a "pedophile" had been blackmailing her for years, as she warned people about an account she said the perpetrator operated, a Crown attorney told B.C. Supreme Court.

An outreach worker on Vancouver Island says news of fatal shootings that police have said involved “transient victims” in Langley, B.C., hit close to home.

OTTAWA — "Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich was once again released from jail on Tuesday after a Ontario Superior Court judge found errors in the decision to revoke her bail two weeks ago.

LANGLEY, B.C. — Police have released photographs of a 28-year-old gunman, as they seek witnesses to Monday's shooting rampage in Langley, B.C., that left two victims dead and two wounded.

OTTAWA — The federal government says all Canadian peacekeepers are safe and accounted for following a second day of deadly anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

WASHINGTON — As campaign storylines go, it would normally seem like an express ticket to the White House: a dutiful, squeaky-clean former vice-president putting his life on the line to rescue American democracy from a despotic ex-boss.

OTTAWA — Michel Ruest, a senior director of Sport Canada, says the federal organization was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving members of Team Canada’s world junior hockey team in late June 2018, but did not follow up with Hockey Canada

HALIFAX — A senior Mountie who investigated the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia RCMP told a public inquiry on Tuesday that the federal police force suffers chronic staffing shortages in its rural detachments.

OTTAWA — Pope Francis delivered a historic apology on Monday to survivors of Canada's residential schools.

MONTREAL — As an international AIDS conference begins in Montreal this week, Canadian HIV and AIDS organizations say Canada’s response to the disease at home has stalled.