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TRURO, N.S. — The final report released Thursday into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting chronicles minute by minute how the tragedy unfolded. --- After 9 p.m.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether police violated a man's Charter rights while impersonating a drug dealer in order to arrest him. The sequence of events began in June 2017 when police in Guelph, Ont.

WINNIPEG — Candice Bergen has signed on to co-chair the Manitoba Progressive Conservative election campaign, weeks after resigning her seat in the House of Commons.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would prevent children under the age of 14 from working most jobs.

TRURO, N.S. — The victims in Canada's worst mass shooting included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their home.

WHITEHORSE — A Yukon man has been charged with manslaughter in an opioid overdose death last year. Police say the charge is the first of its kind in the territory, which had Canada's highest per-capita death rate from illicit toxic drugs in 2022.

QUEBEC — Professors at Université Laval in Quebec City have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal brokered by a conciliator, putting an end to their indefinite general strike.

"Even if we could change the lives of some people in terms of maybe some of their use, I think that would make a world of difference."

The statement, from the Vatican’s development and education offices, said it was right to “recognize these errors,” acknowledge the terrible effects of colonial-era assimilation policies on Indigenous peoples and ask for their forgiveness.

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