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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't going to provide more details about his government's pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine — at least not yet.

HALIFAX — Lawyers at the inquiry into the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history are asking why — in an era when teens use apps to locate each other — the RCMP lacked technology to track their officers on foot.

RAYMOND, ALBERTA — The council of a southern Alberta town that has been dry for more than a century has voted against a motion to allow restaurants to serve alcohol.

QUEBEC — A Quebec judge has ruled a mother can have her young son vaccinated against the novel coronavirus without the father's consent and ordered the father not to take the child to COVID-19 protests.

Spending money now to avoid the worst effects of climate change later will literally pay for itself, according to a new analysis.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 20 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

VANCOUVER — Poultry farmers in British Columbia are under pressure to protect their flocks as a highly contagious strain of avian flu sweeps over North America. Ray Nickel, spokesman for the B.C.

HALIFAX — Newfoundland and Labrador residents say they’re frustrated by the lack of free COVID-19 rapid tests when other provinces make them widely available at no cost. Heather Elliott, a retail worker from St.

Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea. No longer.

TORONTO — Someone in Ontario is waking up $60 million richer. There was a single jackpot winning ticket sold in Tuesday's Lotto Max draw.