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TORONTO — A wave of high-profile cyberattacks has recently hit hospitals, businesses and organizations in Ontario, including the LCBO this week and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and Scouts Canada in December.

OTTAWA — As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has announced new sanctions against two more Haitian political elites.

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SAINT-ROCH-DE-L'ACHIGAN, Que. — Quebec provincial police say at least three employees were missing after an explosion at a propane facility Thursday in St-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Que., north of Montreal

STAR BLANKET CREE NATION — A First Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has discovered more than 2,000 areas of interest and a child's bone was separately found at the site of one of the longest-running residential schools in the country

VANCOUVER — A tribunal has ordered a British Columbia accountant to pay her former employer more than $2,600 after tracking software showed she engaged in "time theft" while working from home.

OTTAWA — A prominent human-rights group says Canada is failing to address long-standing abuses, delivering a rebuke of what it calls the federal government's inadequate climate policy and violations of the rights of Indigenous people and immigration

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will examine federal contracts awarded to consulting firm McKinsey and Company.

BURNABY, B.C.