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LAVAL, Que. — A Montreal-area company has come up with a novel — if extreme — way to boost employee happiness: buying them a private island.

Fran Forsberg fought years ago for a gender marker to be removed from her child's birth certificate. Now up against the Saskatchewan Party government's pronoun and naming changes in schools, she says she's prepared to fight again.

As Canada struggles through its worst fire season in recorded history, a new survey suggests protecting forests remains one issue that unites most Canadians no matter who they are or where they live.

ROSENEATH, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police have cancelled an Amber Alert for a three-month-old girl who has been found safe. Police say the child's father has been taken into custody. OPP say the girl was found safe in Roseneath, Ont.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... N.W.T.

YELLOWKNIFE — Wildfires threatening communities in the Northwest Territories were kept at bay Wednesday as politicians continued grappling with “astronomical” costs of fighting the blazes and how to eventually get people home. The N.W.T.

WASHINGTON — Voters across the United States got their first live prime-time look Wednesday at the bulk of the Republican field for U.S. president, absent the front-runner whose own hunger for power poses the only real threat to his ambitions.

Wildfires raging throughout British Columbia have damaged or destroyed hundreds of properties and forced more than 25,000 people from their homes. The province remains in a state of emergency as crews battle the more than 375 active blazes.

British Columbia's emergency management minister is calling for unity in the fight against the province's wildfires, as she decried people defying evacuation orders to try to defend their properties.

VANCOUVER — The Chinese mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has taken the witness stand at the murder trial of her accused killer.