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CALGARY — The future of the Energy East pipeline has been thrown into question after TransCanada Corp. announced it wants to suspend for now its application to build the $15.7-billion project.

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ST. ANDREWS, Man. — RCMP say a plane that crashed near a small airport north of Winnipeg, killing the pilot, had been taken without the owner's consent. Police say the 29-year-old man from Thunder Bay, Ont., was a licensed pilot who knew the owner.

CHASE, B.C. — First Nations protesters in British Columbia are planning to place tiny homes directly in the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, an idea drawn from an influential Indigenous movement in the United States.

A Quebec man living on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin is calling hurricane Irma the most terrifying experience of his life after 300-km/h winds ripped the roof off his house and others in the same complex.

TORONTO — Canada's major cities are vying to become Amazon's second home, with the mayors of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal all planning to pitch the technology giant on their virtues.

MONTREAL — Homebuyers from mainland China have helped fuel a Montreal housing market that continued to sizzle last month with record sales and rising prices, says one real estate agent.

HALIFAX — In a rare move, Nova Scotia's chief justice has ordered an investigation into complaints against a judge who acquitted a taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female passenger found partially naked and unconscious in his

HALIFAX — A pre-trial hearing for a Halifax man accused of murdering an off-duty police officer will be held behind closed doors.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Institutes for Health Research has concluded new national guidelines for prescribing opioids were based on sound scientific evidence, despite a conflict of interest between one of the doctors who created them and pharmaceutical