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The U.S. government is reviewing the deaths of two beluga whales that were moved from Marineland in Canada to an American aquarium last year. Havana, a young female beluga, died last month at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

OTTAWA — Dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked with Canada's military gathered on Parliament Hill to demand the federal government help their family members.

HALIFAX — In the seconds after a Mountie sped past a gunman wanted for a murderous rampage in Nova Scotia two years ago, the officer hesitated about whether to give chase, and by the time he did the suspect was gone.

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VICTORIA — It was almost 40 years ago that Sharon Gregson says she became an advocate for child care out of necessity.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A moment of silence for the children who didn't return home from the St. Joseph's Mission Residential School near Williams Lake, B.C., marked the end of a visit Wednesday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

VANCOUVER — A retreating glacier in a remote British Columbia valley caused a massive landslide that crested a 100-metre-tall tsunami, wiped out kilometres of salmon habitat and was detected as far away as Australia, a study says.

OTTAWA — Canada will extend some settlement services to fleeing Ukrainians, but they will not receive all of the same supports as typical refugees, the federal immigration minister said Wednesday.

VICTORIA — British Columbia introduced an Indigenous reconciliation plan Wednesday that sets goals toward implementing its law on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

OTTAWA — Afghan interpreters who helped the Canadian military say the federal government has lied to them about bringing family members to Canada, and that people have died while waiting for paperwork to be processed.