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ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Thick fog covers the mountainside as heavy, pounding rain pelts a remote lagoon Tuesday near the northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos, where a real-life drama involving a stranded killer whale calf is unfolding.

OTTAWA — An Ontario man convicted of murdering three women in Renfrew County has died in prison of what officials say were natural causes.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

COCHRANE, Alta. — Horns blared along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary on Monday as a protest against the hike in the federal carbon price slowed traffic to a crawl.

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — The latest advancements in identifying killer whales with the help of artificial intelligence are being put to use to help reunite an orphaned B.C. orca with its pod, but first it needs to leave the lagoon where its mother died.

OTTAWA — Canada is expanding its evacuation of people from Haiti to include relatives and Canadian permanent residents starting Wednesday, if conditions allow.

OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget will include funding for a national school food program that will aim to provide meals to 400,000 more kids per year across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.

QUEBEC — Three Innu communities in Quebec are accusing the provincial government of acting in bad faith a year after the deadline passed to conclude a treaty that has been under negotiation for more than 40 years.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says premiers would rather complain and "make political hay" out of his federal carbon pricing program than present an alternative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

MONTREAL — Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister and well-known constitutional expert Benoît Pelletier has died in Mexico at age 64, his family announced Monday.