Politics

Ontario's legal cannabis market is poised to grow significantly larger, with the province's largest city that had banned retail pot stores voting Wednesday to opt in. Mississauga, Ont.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A United Conservative Party candidate in northern Alberta will no longer run in the provincial election set for this spring.

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the fall election pleaded guilty Wednesday to gun-related charges.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's invading forces are deliberately using rape, torture and kidnapping to try to sow terror among civilians in Ukraine, the top prosecutor in Ukraine told U.S. lawmakers in graphic testimony Wednesday.

OTTAWA — The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said bills he signed Wednesday are designed to improve foster care, speed up adoptions and help private organizations provide aid to pregnant women in the state that brought the U.S.

OTTAWA — The Defence Department's top procurement official wants defence companies to put more focus on delivering what they have promised and less on trying to win the next contract.

COLUMBIA, S.C.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A proposed change to next year's Montana U.S. Senate primary that was aimed at undermining Democratic Sen.