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TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors paid a steep price for their rough start Wednesday night. Damian Lillard scored 37 points with a season-high 13 assists as the Milwaukee Bucks held off a late comeback effort to top the Raptors 128-112.

OTTAWA — The Kingston Frontenacs won their third in a row in the Ontario Hockey League with a 5-1 victory over the host Ottawa 67's on Wednesday.

BATHURST, N.B. — Yoan Loshing scored a hat trick for the Moncton Wildcats in a 7-4 win over the host Acadie-Bathurst Titan in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's lone game Wednesday.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Centre for Disease Control says there have been eight confirmed cases of a rare strain of salmonella in the province since mid-November.

VANCOUVER — Ryan Reynolds is the newest member of the Order of British Columbia. The Vancouver-born actor and producer received the honour from Premier David Eby and Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin at a private ceremony in Vancouver.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The empty fuselage of a plane that authorities believe is decades old has been found near Kamloops, B.C. RCMP say a hunter made the discovery in the remote area near Knouff and Community Lakes, north of Kamloops on Nov. 3.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is offering groups affected by hate crimes up to $10,000 each in a bid to combat what it says is a spike in racially motivated incidents across the province.

The fate of the man accused of killing four member of a Muslim family was placed in the hands of a jury on Wednesday, as the judge presiding over Nathaniel Veltman's murder trial delivered her final instructions in the landmark case.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says, if nothing else, her government’s proposal to have Alberta quit the Canada Pension Plan has started a national conversation on her province’s grievances.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was rebuked Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a strongly worded statement calling for an end to violence in the Gaza Strip.