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VIENTIANE, Ont. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Laos this week to meet with southeast Asian leaders — the Liberal government’s latest effort to strengthen Canada’s ties in a region with strong Chinese influence.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's three party leaders offered starkly different visions of the province and its future Tuesday in the only televised debate of what appears to be an increasingly close election campaign.

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MONTREAL — The Quebec government is facing criticism for a program that paid students to learn a construction skill — as less than half the graduates are certified to work in the industry.

The leaders of British Columbia's main parties have squared off in their only televised debate ahead of the Oct. 19 provincial election.

Geoffrey Hinton, the British 91Ô­´´ computer scientist whose machine learning discoveries have proved so profound he's known as the "godfather of AI," has won the Nobel Prize in physics.

VANCOUVER — 91Ô­´´ Police say they are conducting an investigation into a pro-Palestinian protest marking the Oct. 7 anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel where they say speakers expressed "solidarity with terrorist groups.

TORONTO — Roughly half a century ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov dashed into a waiting car after a series of Toronto performances, defecting from the Soviet Union in a move that made international headlines.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was not allowed to speak in the House of Commons Tuesday as his public feud with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly spilled into a second day.

OTTAWA — A former deputy minister of public safety says nothing struck him as "particularly exceptional" in early 2021 about a weeks-long delay in ministerial approval of a spy service warrant.