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WASHINGTON — Canadians wondering why the United States doesn't appear to be rushing to ease travel restrictions at their shared border should cast a gaze further south, where the frontier with Mexico fosters far thornier political questions for the W

OTTAWA — An organization counting retired military officers and diplomats among its ranks is looking for volunteers to welcome and help integrate any former Afghan interpreters and their families who end up being evacuated to Canada.

OTTAWA — Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is sounding a note of hope that Canadians who mixed and matched COVID-19 vaccines will not have a problem crossing borders in the months ahead.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Evacuation orders have been lifted for all but one building in Kelowna, B.C., as crews have dismantled what remained of a crane that collapsed, killing five people.

WINNIPEG — A former Mountie has avoided jail time after Crown prosecutors appealed a sentence for his actions during a police chase that ended with the shooting death of a man in northern Manitoba.

OTTAWA — Canadian families are seeing the lowest annual increase in federal child benefits since payments were tied to inflation as the pandemic has weighed on price growth over the last year.

OTTAWA — Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government is adding almost $1.4 billion to the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund this year to help communities across Canada facing climate change and environmental disasters.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The Nunavut government says Iqaluit's COVID-19 outbreak is officially over after nearly a month with no new cases. It was 28 consecutive days Monday without cases, which meets the threshold for the outbreak to be declared over.

Montreal police say they are looking for the spouse of a woman found dead Monday in an apartment in the city's Parc-Extension district. A spokeswoman says the suspect is a 30-year-old male. Police say they responded to a 911 call just before 5 p.m.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians say proof of vaccination should be required of all essential and non-essential travellers.