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HALIFAX — As the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start, a senior Environment Canada meteorologist says experts are predicting another active year for tropical storms.

FREDERICTON — A three-person team who will lead a review of New Brunswick's debt-laden public power utility says "nothing is off the table" when it comes to finding solutions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well a 25% tariff on smart phones unless those products are made in America .

MONTREAL — Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane.

CALGARY — Police say a woman has died after she was run over in a Calgary restaurant drive-thru. Officers say the woman in her 70s was walking across a Wendy's drive-thru lane Thursday, when it's believed she tripped and fell.

Ontario is planning to require certain construction sites to have automatic external defibrillators.

OTTAWA — Retail sales rose 0.8 per cent to $69.8 billion in March, helped by an increase in new car sales as Canadians looked to get behind a new set of wheels before tariffs started to raise prices.

CALGARY — Vermilion Energy Inc. has signed a deal to sell a group of assets in Saskatchewan and Manitoba for $415 million. The company says it will use the net proceeds from the sale to repay debt.

"It's simply not possible to restore broad-based affordability to the middle class without prices going down," says Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Missing Middle Institute.