Beyond Local

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.

“We want to make sure that it’s done officially in our languages. The whole idea of inclusion and reflecting on and respecting Indigenous peoples history starts here.”

In December, Brendan Benson started noticing his Grade 12 students were handing in essays that looked the same. “I had voices that resembled one another,” said Benson, who teaches English at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ont.

EDMONTON — The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon's dark side.

Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environment minister said Friday.

EDMONTON — A man who worked as a correctional program officer is accused of sexually assaulting an inmate at the federal Edmonton Institution for Women.

MONTREAL — CN workers backed a strike vote with negotiations set to resume on a contract for around 3,000 Canadian employees.

VICTORIA — A British Columbia company that received federal approval to produce and sell cocaine has revised its original statement that outlined plans to commercialize the controlled substance.

A British Columbia company that wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.'s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing, its chief forester said.

OTTAWA — The United Nations is bracing for a further increase in the number of refugees this year, as last month's earthquake in Turkey and Syria adds to a series of crises that has the world looking to Canada for more help.