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MONTREAL — Researchers in Quebec have developed a new warning system for heat waves that they say is more precise and better adapted to climate change.

OTTAWA — Canada has quietly made another multimillion-dollar payment toward development of the F-35 stealth fighter despite uncertainty over whether it will buy the aircraft and calls from some prominent Canadians not to purchase any new fighter jets

OTTAWA — A planned review of the sprawling and antiquated employment insurance system will go ahead even if the country is plunged into a federal election campaign, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says.

OTTAWA — The federal government will continue rejecting and fighting antisemitism in all its forms as hate-motivated crimes against the Jewish community rise in Canada and around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.

MONTREAL — The man accused of attempting to murder a Montreal police officer last January appeared briefly in court today and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Montreal police are still looking for a man they suspect murdered his 32-year-old partner on Monday in what is believed to be the province's 14th femicide this year.

OTTAWA — The federal government is earmarking funds for projects that aim to build on Ottawa's commitment to help revitalize Indigenous legal traditions.

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh might have reason to smile only weeks before a possible election call as a new survey suggests more Canadians believe he would make a better prime minister than the Conservatives' Erin O’Toole.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is naming a longtime central banker as a new deputy governor beginning early next month. The bank says Sharon Kozicki will take on the role on Aug.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ...