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OTTAWA — Parliament was lit in blue and yellow Wednesday evening as a crowd of several hundred people, many wearing the same colour, marked Ukrainian Independence Day.

VANCOUVER — Optimism over an expected bumper season for wild British Columbia sockeye salmon has turned to distress, after a regulatory body's estimate of returns to the Fraser River dropped by nearly half this week.

OTTAWA — Canada’s longstanding resistance to NATO’s involvement in the Arctic appears to be thawing amidst warming temperatures and a coinciding increase in Russian and Chinese activity in the region.

OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to shield "sensitive or potentially injurious information" from disclosure during a court challenge of its decision to return a turbine repaired in Montreal to a Russian energy giant.

OTTAWA — Canada's immigration minister now projects it will take only a few months longer than originally hoped to get application wait times back on track, even though the crisis in Ukraine and other "external" events have worsened the backlogs.

MONTREAL — Quebec's governing Coalition Avenir Québec party is dominating its rivals in fundraising and in the polls — days before the province's fall election campaign is scheduled to begin.

YELLOWKNIFE — The 2022 wildfire season in the Northwest Territories is shaping up to be one of the most severe in the past five years.

OTTAWA — Incoming Supreme Court of Canada judge Michelle O'Bonsawin, poised to become the first Indigenous member of that bench, says she's a "tell it like it is person" and a lifelong student.

OTTAWA — It is feasible to start exporting small shipments of Canadian-made hydrogen to Europe within three years but only if everyone moves quickly, the chairman of a company behind one of the biggest proposed green hydrogen projects in Atlantic Can

HALIFAX — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki apologized Wednesday for her force's failure to meet public expectations during the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, saying she hopes trust will return with time.