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VANCOUVER — All the avalanches that killed snowmobilers over the past five years occurred in British Columbia, but two-thirds of the victims were from Alberta.

MONTREAL — A Montreal-area priest has been arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Brian Boucher, 56, was arrested in January and freed on a promise to appear at a later date. He was re-arrested Wednesday after other alleged victims came forward.

OTTAWA — The European Union's environment commissioner wants to join forces with Canada to "defend" the Paris climate change accord in the face of an uncertain political landscape in the U.S. under Donald Trump.

CALGARY — Mount Royal University says it is voluntarily grounding two planes in its flight training program after a third crashed last month, killing two instructors.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been looking north lately for some guidance on policy-making.

VANCOUVER — Three people were in a hospital with serious stab wounds following a series of separate attacks in Vancouver on Thursday. Const. Jason Doucette said officers have arrested a 33-year-old man.

SAINT-JEROME, Que. — The first witness at Bertrand Charest's sex assault trial testified Thursday the former national ski coach began kissing her and touching her breasts in 1997 when she was 17.

HEARST, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say two B.C. men are facing charges related to trafficking the deadly opioid fentanyl. They say two men were arrested by officers conducting a traffic stop on Highway 11 on Wednesday in northern Ontario.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Peel Region's police chief and others deny allegations in lawsuit launched by a Mississauga, Ont., woman who was injured by a stray bullet during an incident in which a man was fatally shot by police in 2015.

OTTAWA — Frustrated indigenous leaders and human rights advocates called out Justin Trudeau on Thursday after the prime minister described mercury contamination at Grassy Narrows First Nation as "very much" an Ontario issue.