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TORONTO — Canada's money-laundering watchdog says it will review its practices after it was revealed Monday that Manulife Financial Corp. was the unnamed financial institution levied the largest penalty in the federal agency's history.

MONTREAL — The lawyer for former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum says there will be no appeal of his client's conviction on corruption-related charges. Pierre Teasdale confirmed the decision Monday but did not give any reasons.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market was lower for a fourth session in a row Monday after suffering its biggest loss in five months last week. The S&P/TSX composite index declined by 69.96 points at 15,463.

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Feb. 27 ——— O'LEARY BACKS OUT OF TORY LEADERSHIP DEBATE: Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary says he won't take part in Tuesday's official party debate in Edmonton, citing the format.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The group that regulates family doctors in Canada is calling for an end to solitary confinement in correctional facilities.

EDMONTON — Students resumed pilot training at Calgary's Mount Royal University flying school on Monday as an investigator said that determining what caused a plane crash that killed two experienced instructors will be challenging.

WINNIPEG — There is a significant risk of flooding in southern Manitoba this spring, although the rising water may only cover some farmland and spare major roads and communities, the provincial government said Monday.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Police say officers were surrounded by patrons hurling obscenities after they arrested a man and a woman in a bar in Thunder Bay, Ont.

OTTAWA — Celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary has ripped another page out of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign play book, backing out of a planned Conservative party leadership debate over frustrations with the format.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A Nova Scotia judge has ruled that a boy who was five years old and weighed 132 pounds when he was taken from his mother will not return to her care, saying living with her was too hazardous to his health.