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MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Nearly 15 months after catastrophic floods forced the evacuation of the southern interior city of Merritt, B.C., some residents whose homes were destroyed will soon move into new transitional housing.

TORONTO — Mayor John Tory shocked Torontonians and the political sphere late Friday when he admitted to having an "inappropriate relationship" with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to resign from the city's top job.

The abrupt resignation of Toronto Mayor John Tory has thrust deputy leader Jennifer McKelvie into the spotlight.

TORONTO — The surprise resignation of Toronto Mayor John Tory has put the city's future in flux while presenting an opportunity to move matters of pressing public interest in a new direction, political observers said Saturday as they processed the ab

MONTREAL — A team of young Ukrainian hockey players had a moment of triumph in Quebec City today as they beat the Boston Junior Bruins 3-1 at the 63rd Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be travelling to the Bahamas next week to meet with his counterparts from 20 Caribbean governments. A release from Trudeau's office says he will be in Nassau on Feb.

Toronto has a new archbishop-designate after Pope Francis named a new man to one of the top clerical posts in the Canadian Catholic Church.

A new report predicts there will be almost no narwhal left in an area off the northeastern coast of Baffin Island this summer and says shipping traffic from the nearby Mary River iron-ore mine is to blame.

LAVAL, Que. — It was just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday when André Beaudoin pulled into the parking lot to bring his two-year-old son to daycare. The Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose in Laval, Que.

OTTAWA — Federal watchdogs and members of Parliament are pressing Canada's top corrections officials to improve conditions for Black and Indigenous offenders who are serving time in federal prisons.