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OTTAWA — A Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee has lost another round in his discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency.

MONTREAL — Incidents of harassment and intimidation targeting Quebec politicians have become more common in the last decade, compounding already strenuous work conditions for many local leaders, a new report shows.

INDIAN SHORES, Fla. — A Quebec teenager died in Florida while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico with a high school swim team during spring break, authorities say.

OTTAWA — Supporting women leads to better futures for all, Canada's Governor General said Friday as she reflected on her experience as a woman in power.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the standards that appeal courts have long used to review trial judgments, saying they promote the fair assessment of witness testimony.

OTTAWA — The search is on for the next leader of the Canadian Armed Forces — and it's long past time that a woman became chief of the defence staff, observers say. Canada has had 21 full-time defence chiefs since 1964, all of them men.

SASKATOON — The general manager of a movie theatre in Saskatchewan says it’ll be an extra early Oscars watch party this weekend as the award show airs after most Canadians wind their clocks ahead an hour.

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is imposing new sanctions on two Iranians it accuses of participating in the violent repression of women and girls in Iran.

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

OTTAWA — Blood spattered the sidewalk Thursday outside a suburban Ottawa home where police recovered the bodies of a mother, her four young children and a family friend from the aftermath of a vicious attack.