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OTTAWA — Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra ordered Canada's two major railroad operators to step up their fire prevention efforts as of Sunday as wildfires continue to scorch British Columbia.

OTTAWA — The shaky video pans right to left, looking down on a village with mountains in the background before turning to a green river valley with destroyed buildings in the foreground.

The wildfire-ravaged village of Lytton, B.C., could be rebuilt to set a new North American standard in resilience to better protect people and property from similar disasters fuelled by climate change, a forestry researcher says.

WASHINGTON — The number of incoming visitors to Canada has been gradually increasing in the days since travel restrictions began easing for fully vaccinated, eligible travellers — and the country's border agents are expecting more this weekend.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in the Prairies won Saturday's $18.6 million Lotto 649 jackpot. And the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in British Columbia.

The remains of a second Canadian have been pulled from the rubble of a condo building that collapsed near Miami more than two weeks ago, Global Affairs Canada confirmed Saturday.

Governments around the world should shun Iran's incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-easter

VENICE, Italy — Canada stands firmly behind a two-pillar plan to enact sweeping reforms to the global corporate tax system and limit multinational companies' capacity to shop around for lower tax rates, the country's finance minister said Saturday.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11:45 a.m. Health officials in Nova Scotia are reporting one new case of COVID-19 today as well as one new recovery.

CALGARY — A bird's-eye view of a popular live music venue on its first night at the Calgary Stampede showed hundreds of people standing close together, waiting for a swab or to hand over proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.