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The sexual assault case of five hockey players faced another major upheaval Friday, abruptly converting from a jury to a judge alone in order to avoid a mistrial that would have rebooted the proceedings for a second time in less than a month.

TORONTO — When a church in Toronto's west end was converted into affordable housing nearly 15 years ago, the group behind the project was already thinking ahead. Andrea Adams, the executive director of the non-profit developer St.

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The Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia says it will ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to conduct further testing for avian flu on a flock of ostriches facing a cull, before the region's landfill accepts the carcasses.

A representative for Amnesty International Canada says the country isn’t doing enough to stop the exploitation of temporary foreign workers brought in on visas that keep them tied to one employer.

VANCOUVER — The winner of what the B.C. Lottery Corp. calls the biggest jackpot ever awarded to a single person in Canada says that winning the $80 million prize is "life-changing." Justin Simporios from Surrey, B.C.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday that when Parliament resumes, the government will put forward a middle-class tax cut, deliver a throne speech and release a fiscal plan in the fall economic update.

LAC DU BONNET — Wildfires in eastern Manitoba prompted the government to evacuate and close another popular provincial park ahead of the long weekend, while many offered condolences to the family of a stranded couple found dead in the ashes.

A coroner's jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental.

OTTAWA — Canadians are showing a lot of enthusiasm for retaliation against the U.S. over President Donald Trump's tariffs — even as many of them fear that the country has slid into a recession already.