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OTTAWA — In medicine, before a doctor treats a patient's illness, they first try to get a sense of the person's health. They collect information on the symptoms, run tests and blood work and gather whatever details they can.

Canada's heritage minister is leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads under a bill forcing Google and Meta to pay publishers for content they link to or repurpose.

VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Ibrahim Ali, who's accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in a Burnaby, B.C.

The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is criticizing Manitoba's government for standing in the way of a search for the remains of two slain Indigenous women believed to be in a landfill, as others say the jurisdictional battle is leaving

WINNIPEG — Canada's premiers ended their annual three-day conference Wednesday with a call for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on infrastructure needs ranging from highways to housing.

MONTREAL — A jail sentence of just three months for a man convicted of promoting hatred against Jews could trivialize the crime, a Quebec court judge said Wednesday as he questioned the Crown's sentencing recommendation.

VANCOUVER — A source close to negotiations over the British Columbia port strike said both sides on Wednesday received the terms of a settlement recommended by a federal mediator that could end the 12-day-old industrial action.

HALIFAX — The interim chief of the Assembly of First Nations says former national chief RoseAnne Archibald was barred Tuesday from participating in the organization's annual general meeting because she violated its code of conduct.

OTTAWA — Recognizing First Nations rights in a proposed policing bill with Ottawa is a "sticking" point in the negotiations, a lawyer for the Assembly of First Nations announced Wednesday.

YELLOWKNIFE — Several communities in the Northwest Territories have broken temperature records in recent days as residents try to beat the heat.