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MONTREAL — A 13-year-old boy has died after he was found unconscious at a Montreal public pool. An emergency call was placed around 4 a.m. that young person had been found unconscious at a pool in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood.

HALIFAX — Here are a few quick facts about the three Nova Scotia party leaders ahead of the Aug. 17provincial election. At dissolution, the Liberals had 24 seats in the legislature while the Progressive Conservatives had 17 seats and the NDP five.

MONTREAL — In downtown Montreal, it's festival season.

OTTAWA — Whenever Tiff Macklem needs a break, he jumps on the exercise bicycle he bought during the pandemic and does a hard workout to clear his mind.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $36 million jackpot in Friday's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on July 20 will be an estimated $43 million. The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — A sweltering heat wave in much of Western Canada in the last week of June had cascading effects on sea life, experts say.

TORONTO — It's been nearly 22 months since Toronto Blue Jays fans have been able to see Vladimir Guerrero Jr., tear the cover off a fastball down the middle at Rogers Centre.

CALGARY — The company behind a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains has filed a request to appeal a decision by a review panel that rejected the project as being not in the public interest.

VANCOUVER — There would be few advantages to declaring a provincial state of emergency in the battle against wildfires in British Columbia as the province uses all of its available resources to fight them, Premier John Horgan said Friday.

OTTAWA — The Lac Seul First Nation of northern Ontario has won a key round in its long fight to be properly compensated for the flooding of its lands caused by construction of a dam.