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VANCOUVER — British Columbia should be well into its rainy season, but hot and dry weather that lasted through most of October has created drought conditions.

VANCOUVER — The first showers since September began falling in parts of Metro Vancouver before dawn, but officials in many coastal communities doubt a series of incoming weather systems will relieve the drought gripping parts of British Columbia.

WINNIPEG — Mounties have confirmed some of the movements of members of an Indian migrant family who froze to death near the U.S.

NORMAN WELLS, N.W.T. — RCMP in the Northwest Territories have seized several firearms, as well as swords and ammunition, from a property in Norman Wells. Police say on Monday they executed a search warrant at a home in the community.

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First Nations and environmentalists say they are angry the federal and British Columbia governments continue to stonewall American requests for a joint investigation of cross-border contamination from coal mining as meetings of the panel that mediate

OTTAWA — Conservative Alberta MP Bob Benzen has announced he's retiring. The representative for Calgary Heritage says in a statement that he plans to leave at the end of the year.

David Eby became British Columbia's premier-in-waiting on Wednesday when executives of the NDP disqualified his sole party leadership rival, Anjali Appadurai, on the strength of a report into her campaign by the party's chief electoral officer, Eliza

TORONTO — Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years behind bars on Thursday in the sexual assault of an Ottawa woman, an offence the presiding judge called a "particularly degrading rape.

ESTEVAN, Sask. — The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party was handed a one-year sentence Thursday on a hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in a video posted on the party's website and social media accounts.