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JASPER, ALTA. — Parks Canada says a wildfire that forced everyone to flee the Alberta town of Jasper and destroyed close to a third of its buildings is no longer classified as out-of-control and is now listed as "being held.

WASHINGTON — The Swifties4Kamala group is on the march. Popstar Charlie XCX declared that "Kamala is brat." A Beyoncé song plays at the beginning of packed campaign rallies.

OTTAWA — Veteran broadcaster Charles Adler and Saskatchewan hospital executive Tracy Muggli are Canada's latest independent senators, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Low water levels brought on by years of severe drought, paired with meagre snowpack and rainfall, are leaving B.C.'s salmon in a compromising position during their spawning migration, a fisheries expert warns.

JASPER, ALTA. — It could take more than a century for the freshly burned forest in Jasper National Park to regenerate into its previous postcard-perfect form, a wildfire expert says.

OTTAWA — The federal government is backtracking on a move to limit funding for searches of former residential school grounds.

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country.

WINNIPEG — Mounties in Manitoba are investigating four deaths in and around the small community of McCreary, northwest of Winnipeg. RCMP Staff Sgt. Richard Sherring said around 10 a.m.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government hopes mining can eventually restart at the site of the Eagle Gold mine disaster, despite calls from the Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation to halt mining activity on its traditional territory.

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA — More than three weeks after everyone in Jasper had to flee raging wildfires through a curtain of darkness and smoke, some returned Friday morning, greeted by soot-covered tree stumps, Mounties, and long lines of orange traff