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Estranged wife of alleged killer has home vandalized in B.C., man sentenced

PENTICTON, B.C. — The son-in-law of a man killed earlier this year in Penticton, B.C., was sentenced to probation Wednesday for vandalizing the home of accused killer's estranged wife.

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Ottawa's plan on missing and murdered Indigenous women due by June: Bennett

OTTAWA — The Liberal government will release its national action plan to respond to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by June 2020, says Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett.

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Ontario not on track to achieve 2030 emissions reductions targets: auditor

TORONTO — Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan — and Premier Doug Ford's government knows it, the province's auditor general said Wednesday in her annual report.

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Ties between Trudeau, Trump tested at close of NATO summit

WATFORD, United Kingdom — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau escaped an international summit with his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump apparently intact despite ill-timed comments that threatened to ignite tensions between the two leaders.

Dec 4, 2019 4:39 PM Read more >

N.S. girl earns bravery award for saving family from van that plunged into river

HALIFAX — Six-year-old Sophia Grace LeBlanc and two siblings were in a van driven by their mother in November 2018 when the vehicle left the highway near Little River, N.S., and plunged into a river, landing on its roof.

Dec 4, 2019 4:21 PM Read more >

Scheer warns Liberals his Tories are watching as Parliament prepares to return

OTTAWA — Opposition Conservatives are looking ahead to the return of Parliament Thursday as an opportunity to change the channel after weeks of very public party in-fighting around the future of leader Andrew Scheer.

Dec 4, 2019 3:37 PM Read more >

B.C. bans logging in sensitive border area after urging from Seattle mayor

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government has banned logging in an ecologically sensitive area along the United States border after Seattle's mayor and environmental groups called for protection of the watershed.

Dec 4, 2019 3:00 PM Read more >

Trudeau-Trump trip-ups: A brief history of bumps in the leaders' relationship

OTTAWA — The latest snafu in the relationship between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump played out on the public stage of an international summit on Wednesday.

Dec 4, 2019 2:55 PM Read more >

Quebec chief justice postpones speech to Jewish law society over Bill 21 concerns

MONTREAL — Quebec's chief justice, who is hearing a case seeking a suspension of the province's secularism law, will no longer be speaking to an association of Jewish lawyers in Montreal following allegations of bias.

Dec 4, 2019 1:18 PM Read more >

Trudeau's plane damaged, now backup plane grounded in London, U.K.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's bad luck with planes continues. He was forced to use a back-up aircraft Monday to ferry him to London for a NATO summit because the usual prime ministerial jet was damaged in a hangar accident last month.

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