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FREDERICTON — Blaine Higgs lost one cabinet minister Friday and another said he won't run in the upcoming general election, but the New Brunswick premier painted the departures as an opportunity for his Progressive Conservatives.

MONTREAL — A Quebec teachers union whose strike late last year closed hundreds of schools for weeks has narrowly accepted a labour agreement with the province.

OTTAWA — As Canada's public broadcaster projects a budget shortfall, and with Conservatives threatening to defund it if they win the next election, its top executive says the way it's funded needs to dramatically change.

TORONTO — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will not consider any punishment against five players from Canada's 2018 world junior team charged in connection with an alleged gang rape until the conclusion of judicial proceedings.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly paid a surprise visit to Ukraine on Friday to launch what she hopes will be a global effort to secure the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

HARRISON, N.J. — The New York Red Bulls have named former Canada captain Julian de Guzman their new sporting director.

WINNIPEG — A B.C. man recently charged in the cold-case death of a woman in Manitoba had his statutory release revoked after he was in prison for assaulting two women, a parole document has detailed.

OTTAWA — Newly declassified pages from a 40-year-old report on Canada's handling of Nazi war criminals suggest both the author and Canadian bureaucrats felt politics, and not legal arguments, were driving decisions around a man convicted of Nazi war

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SURREY, B.C. — The spokesman for a group advocating Sikh independence says its supporters are frustrated with the lack of action to protect them after a Metro Vancouver home belonging to an associate was hit by gunfire. RCMP in Surrey, B.C.