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VANCOUVER — Leaner snowpack in Western Canada and United States mountain ranges is causing drier summers and increasing wildfire risk, says a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Mexican authorities have made an arrest in the killing of a Quebec man earlier this month in the Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido.

MONTREAL — A fire that swept through a heritage building in downtown Montreal was brought under control Saturday about 42 hours after it first began, the city's fire department said.

SAINT-LIN-LAURENTIDES, Que. — Quebec provincial police say a two-year-old girl has died after falling into a grain mixer on a farm north of Montreal.

OTTAWA — A new report is casting doubt on the idea that Canada is facing a widespread labour shortage and bolsters the arguments by some labour economists that high job vacancies aren't due to a shortage of workers.

There was no winning ticket sold in Friday's Lotto Max $60 million draw. However, one of six available Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each was won by a ticket holder in Ontario.

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver man has died while trying to pursue his lifelong dream of climbing Mount Everest. The University of British Columbia's faculty of medicine says it is mourning the unexpected death of Dr.

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is asking the prime minister to allow more members of his party to be briefed on foreign interference attempts, after the leaders of the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois declined to obtain the required security clear

VANCOUVER — The federal government is set to begin accepting proposals to spend the remaining money in a multimillion-dollar fund aimed at fighting invasive species across Canada. Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray says the $8.

MONTREAL — A civil rights organization and a national Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec's decree banning prayer rooms in public schools, the second one in recent weeks.