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MONTREAL — A Quebec heritage site on the Island of Montreal that was the former home of a renowned artist has been destroyed in a fire.

Environment Canada's use of Celsius was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... 'It isn't a future thing.

HALIFAX — For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy.

HALIFAX — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is investigating whether debris found on the runway of an airport in St. John's is connected to the plane that caught fire over the weekend after it landed on a Halifax runway.

MONTREAL — Quebec ski hill operators said Monday they're remaining optimistic despite warm temperatures and heavy rainfall that could dampen the lucrative holiday ski period.

The federal government plans to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of February.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver's Joe Average was an artist, advocate and activist whose bright, multicoloured images were as multi-faceted as his existence.

The launch of the Building Material Exchange aims at getting the word out to the construction and development community that their project leftovers have value.

OTTAWA — The head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command says Chinese and Russian air co-operation in the Arctic has Norad's "full attention.