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Weather watchers are focused on the world's most northerly community which has been experiencing some record-breaking heat.

MONTREAL — Transport Minister Marc Garneau said he was "surprised" and "disappointed" by legal action from Canadian airlines to quash new rules to beef up compensation for passengers subjected to delayed flights and damaged luggage.

OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is grappling with the consequences of a major data breach at Desjardins Group. The breach, revealed in June, affected roughly 2.7 million people and 173,000 businesses.

CALGARY — A court has heard that a German tourist shot while driving on a highway west of Calgary last year had eight bullet fragments removed from his brain during surgery.

MONTREAL — Provincial police today dispatched a sonar-equipped boat to a reservoir to look for signs of a missing helicopter carrying a Quebec businessman and his teenage son who failed to return from a fishing trip last week.

The Anglican Church of Canada has voted down a proposal to bless same-sex marriage across the denomination, though branches of the church in each province will still be able to make up their own minds on the matter.

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OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is looking into an "administrative matter" at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg after it advised the Mounties of possible policy breaches.

TORONTO — A convicted hatemonger who maintains his defence lawyer deliberately threw his case will get a rare chance to show why his trial should be reopened, a judge ruled on Monday.

MONTREAL — The chief executive of Desjardins Group says it will offer permanent data protection to all its members — and not just those affected by a massive personal data breach reported last month.