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HALIFAX — The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut says it is rolling out the newly approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The territory is now offering the booster shots to people 70 and older and all residents and staff in long-term care facilities.

LONDON — Canada will have a “prominent” role in the lying-in-state and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom says, as preparations in London shift into high gear with one week to go before the ceremony.

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WASHINGTON — What a difference a day makes — especially a day like June 24, 2022. With the stroke of a pen, the Supreme Court repealed nearly 50 years of abortion rights in the United States.

MONTREAL — Federal politics crept into Quebec's provincial election campaign on Sunday as the province's political leaders faced questions about Pierre Poilievre's status as the newly minted head of the Conservative Party of Canada.

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre woke up Sunday with a list of things to do as he embarks on his first week as the Conservative party's new leader, while his former rivals offered assurances he could count on their support.

HALIFAX — As a girl growing up in the Mi'kmaw community of Membertou, Sister Dorothy Moore came to know what it meant to lose one's path and then find the way back through human kindness.

LONDON — A pink papier maché flamingo, a marmalade sandwich and a Queen-shaped rubber duck are among the items being left among the cards and flowers at a tribute site to the late Queen Elizabeth II in London.

OTTAWA — Federal Liberal MPs will descend on a coastal resort town in New Brunswick on Sunday for a planning session before Parliament returns from its summer break.