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MONTREAL — The City of Montreal won't promise to stop dismantling homeless encampments, in spite of a recommendation from a study it commissioned to find solutions to the growing problem of homelessness in the city.

Police in British Columbia are investigating after shots were fired at a restaurant linked to a prominent Indian comedian, with apparent footage of the shooting widely shared on social media.

OTTAWA — Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet made history Thursday by becoming the first woman to lead the Royal Canadian Air Force. She took the reins from Lt.-Gen.

A tight-knit village in eastern Ontario is shaken after learning that a teenager was charged with attempted murder and sexual assault on an eight-year-old girl in what police initially suspected to be an animal attack.

OTTAWA — The elections commissioner has levied four fines totalling $4,500 against an accountant relating to his work as an agent for the Conservative party.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government declared a provincewide state of emergency Thursday for the second time this year, as renewed wildfires forced thousands more out of northern communities.

OTTAWA — Former Liberal justice minister David Lametti starts his new job in Mark Carney's Prime Minister's Office on Monday. Lametti posted on LinkedIn to confirm his start date as Carney's principal secretary, a top political aide position.

OTTAWA — The federal government is extending changes it made in March to the employment insurance program in response to the trade war with the U.S.

OTTAWA — A campaign by federal New Democrats to urge party members to shift their donations away from the central party to local electoral associations is a "self-sabotaging" act, says a former NDP strategist.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia father and son are suing the Anglican Church of Canada, alleging the son was conceived as a result of sexual abuse by a female employee of St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay in the late 1960s.