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MONTREAL — A study by researchers at McGill University has found that a microscopic air pollutant generated from vehicles and industry plays a role in the deaths of an estimated 1,100 people in Canada’s two biggest cities each year.

Jasper's mayor says wildfire evacuees will learn Monday when they will be allowed to return home.

Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the day it's believed 15-year-old Tina Fontaine, from Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation, died.

Montreal was drenched in a record amount of rain Friday as a storm system continued to pass through Eastern Canada.

MONTREAL — Remnants of tropical storm Debby doused a large swath of Eastern Canada on Friday, with forecasters saying up to 120 millimetres of rain would fall in some parts of Quebec before it moved out of the region.

A memorial post circulating on social media says MOrgan Kitchen, who was 24 and lived in Calgary, had a “bold and brilliant” personality, a nimble wit and an “outrageous and ridiculous” sense of humour.

CALGARY — City officials are weighing options to strengthen a key water main for the long term -- including building a new one -- after a June rupture forced Calgarians to cut their water use and further inspection found more weaknesses.

With less than a week to go before gala apples will be ready to be picked in British Columbia, the president of the provincial fruit growers' group worries about a devastating season without a way for farmers to refrigerate their crops.

OTTAWA — "Freedom Convoy" organizer Pat King was released on bail Friday after spending more than a week in jail on Crown allegations that he breached his bail conditions.

IQALUIT — A worker has died after being attacked by two polar bears off the eastern coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut. The Nasittuq Corporation says in a statement that employees responded to the attack Thursday at its work site on Brevoort Island.