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OTTAWA — Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are facing calls to resign — from two federal party leaders — over their involvement in the controversy swirling around the WE organization.

MONTREAL — The mother of a six-year-old girl who died after she was stabbed in an east-end Montreal residence was charged Friday with second-degree murder.

HALIFAX — Premier Stephen McNeil says if panellists leading a review into Nova Scotia's recent mass shooting need more powers, he expects they will request them from his government.

OTTAWA — A Ukraine minister says a preliminary analysis of flight recorders has revealed that Iran illegally shot down a passenger jet from his country over Tehran.

WINNIPEG — The police chief in Manitoba's capital says the number of homicides doubled last year as the city experienced an alarming increase in bold criminal activity.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a class-action lawsuit taking aim at video lottery terminals cannot proceed, saying Friday the claims made in the case are bound to fail.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure.

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — A Nova Scotia fugitive accused of stabbing a police sergeant, assaulting a woman and injuring a police dog remains at large. RCMP spokeswoman Cpl.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is making mask-wearing mandatory in most indoor public places beginning July 31 — even for performers singing at concerts. Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr.

VANCOUVER — New court documents accuse the United States president of "poisoning" the extradition case against a Huawei executive being held in Canada. An application to B.C.