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TORONTO — Staff at the World Health Organization are "devastated" by President Donald Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency, a Canadian global health specialist says.

MONTEBELLO, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached for a sales pitch instead of revealing any of his cards in his first public reply to U.S.

HALIFAX — The mother of a 16-year-old Halifax boy who was fatally stabbed last year delivered a heart-wrenching statement to a silent courtroom Tuesday, saying her life has lost all meaning since his death.

The capture of 15 grey wolves in British Columbia and their release in Colorado is complete, an operation that led to unspecified threats against staff with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the agency said in a statement.

OTTAWA — The final report of the federal inquiry into foreign interference is set for public release next Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project that would have created another route for Alberta's oil to get to the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs starting Feb. 1 on Canada and Mexico because he says both countries are allowing a "vast number" of people and fentanyl to come into the United States.

OTTAWA — A prominent trans activist wants Canada to update its travel safety guidelines for the United States following President Donald Trump's executive order limiting gender expression to male or female.

A wildlife team from the United States has begun capturing grey wolves in British Columbia for release in Colorado after voters in the state approved a proposal to reintroduce the animals, which have been "functionally extinct" there for 75 years.

OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate ticked lower in December, thanks in part to Ottawa's temporary GST tax break, but economists still see interest rate cuts on the horizon as potential tariffs loom.