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OTTAWA — The federal Liberals and Conservatives are showing off their muscular election fundraising efforts, with each flexing their gains from the third quarter. The Liberals say more than 57,100 contributors coughed up $7.

Comedian Mike Ward's disparaging comments about a singer with a disability did not amount to discrimination under Quebec's rights charter, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

OTTAWA — Canada has two "very heavy weeks" ahead as the government gears up for negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

OTTAWA — Canada is watching the U.S. Food and Drug Administration closely now that it has approved Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11.

MONTREAL — Hundreds of firefighters stood at attention Friday and saluted as a piper played "Amazing Grace," a final farewell for a veteran Montreal firefighter who died while taking part in a water rescue.

OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Legion says it plans to raise the flag at the National War Memorial in Ottawa before the Remembrance Day ceremony — and then lower it again to half-mast.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's premier, a "Star Trek" fan and self-professed member of the New Democrats' "Geek Caucus," has received well wishes from a Starfleet captain ahead of undergoing biopsy surgery when tests revealed a growth in his throat.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs had harsh words for the province's largest union Friday as thousands of public sector workers started a legal strike that forced the closure of all schools with little warning.

HALIFAX — The plan to build North America's first wild refuge for whales retired from marine parks took a big step forward Friday in a remote corner of northeastern Nova Scotia.

TORONTO — Fly-in communities will be exempt from a federal requirement that air passengers be vaccinated against COVID-19, Canada's transport minister said Friday, a day before the mandate comes into effect.