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WASHINGTON — Harleigh Walker is just an ordinary American high school kid, but with one important difference: how she's spending her summer vacation.

For the first time in its decade-long history, the Pride festival in Timmins, Ont., had to budget for security this year. Previously, there had been no online threats, no reason to believe safety was any issue.

MONTREAL — A northern Quebec city and a Cree community have ordered to residents to leave their homes as the areas face the threat of forest fires.

DAUPHIN, Man. — They were great-grandparents, a couple in their 80s, a former teacher — and they were "gone in an instant." RCMP Supt.

OTTAWA — A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms has become law.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Wine growers in British Columbia say a bitter cold snap last winter has devastated vineyards, causing irreparable damage to almost half of the province's planted acreage that may force some producers out of business.

FORT MCPHERSON, N.W.T. — Police in the Northwest Territories are warning residents not to take justice into their own hands after a group assaulted two men suspected of drug trafficking and stealing a vehicle in Fort McPherson.

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister David Lametti ordered a new trial Thursday for two Indigenous men who were convicted of murder by an all-white jury in Winnipeg 49 years ago.

Montreal's police chief is refusing to impose a moratorium on street checks despite a second independent report concluding that racialized people are disproportionately targeted by the practice.

OTTAWA — Canadians can be confident there will be a public inquiry into foreign interference, New Democratic House leader Peter Julian said Thursday.