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OTTAWA — The Manitoba government says former NDP member of Parliament Roméo Saganash, who was charged with sexual assault earlier this year, has been referred to a restorative justice program.

CALGARY — Alberta's police watchdog says two RCMP officers were not negligent when they investigated the killing of an infant by her father in 2021.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby is condemning the rise in hate crimes in the province, driven by the Israeli-Hamas war.

EDMONTON — Alberta politicians return Monday to the legislature for the first sitting since the May election, with a pitched battle expected on the government’s proposal to quit the Canada Pension Plan.

Indigenous people are grappling with doubts over singer Buffy Sainte-Marie's First Nations bona fides after a CBC story Friday raised questions about her Indigenous ancestry and renewed debate about who gets to speak for whom.

WASHINGTON — A Canadian-led effort to formally condemn Hamas for the "deliberate cruelty" of its deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel went down to defeat Friday as the United Nations instead endorsed a call for a humanitarian pause in hostilities.

VANCOUVER — Parks Canada officials have shut down waterbodies in British Columbia's Yoho and Kootenay national parks after the discovery of whirling disease.

TORONTO — Losses in the financial and utilities sectors helped lead Canada's main stock index lower on Friday, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 137.92 points at 18,737.39.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (18,737.39, down 137.92 points): Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B). Media. Down 23 cents, or 25.28 per cent, to 68 cents on 7.

OTTAWA — Lawyers for two "Freedom Convoy" organizers resumed their arguments on Friday in a legal fight for access to internal Ottawa Police Service documents, as they question the validity of police claims that the files are protected by solicitor-c