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CALGARY — Hockey Canada has reached a one-year athlete agreement with its national women's team. The agreement covers 28 athletes and is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2022, Hockey Canada said Wednesday in a statement.

OTTAWA — Experts are warning against drawing conclusions on whether Canada is getting a good deal for the F-35.

SAANICH, B.C. — An independent review of a wild and deadly police shootout in the parking lot of a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, B.C., has described a series of "dramatic and violent events" that it says unfolded in "mere seconds" on June 28.

B.C.’s police watchdog has cleared officers of any wrongdoing in the shooting deaths of two heavily-armed bank robbers at a Shelbourne Bank of Montreal branch in June.

A deluxe mix of chilled seafood decoratively served in a glass fits the bill for a holiday appetizer.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the jurors at Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles trial were ready to convict him of crimes related to three of the four women he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting.

TORONTO — Khalid Khogiani arrived in Canada from Afghanistan through Pakistan more than a year ago and has been waiting for the Canadian government to process the refugee applications for his wife, mother and siblings ever since.

MONTREAL — First Nations in northern Quebec are calling on the province and the federal government for more funding for Indigenous police forces, following an appeals court decision in favour of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan First Nation.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is signalling a shift away from humanitarian aid toward funding infrastructure projects in developing countries.

OTTAWA — Investors had few places to hide this year. As of closing Wednesday, Canada's main stock index has dropped 12 per cent from the all-time high it hit in the spring.