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OTTAWA — Former United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak in Toronto at the end of September. Canada 2020, an Ottawa-based think tank that is hosting the event, says Obama will speak over lunch on Sept.

HALIFAX — Some Canadian universities are gearing up for the new academic year by training staff on how to deal with opioid overdoses and equipping them with naloxone kits.

MEXICO CITY — In the middle of Mexico City, there's an outdoor market so massive you'd need a helicopter to witness its entirety: 90,000 employees, 62,000 daily truck deliveries, supplying 35 per cent of the country's fruits and vegetables, and 500,0

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept.

OTTAWA — A selfie with a camel. Snapshots of cherub-cheeked children looking on in awe at some summertime marvel. Photo captions paying tribute to the support of his spouse.

MONTREAL — Air Transat has launched an airlift to get all its travellers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of hurricane Irma.

TORONTO — A new survey by the Canadian Payroll Association suggests nearly half of workers are living paycheque to paycheque due to soaring spending and debt levels.

EDMONTON — Police in Vancouver say they have apprehended a man who was the subject of a Canada-wide warrant in the death of a woman from Montreal.

MEXICO CITY — The latest round of NAFTA negotiations wrapped up Tuesday with the three countries declaring they have made progress, and committing to work through the harder negotiating issues in time to get a deal by the end of the year.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Archer Brookman and Michael Stovman hit back-to-back homers in the first inning and Edouard Julien added a three-run shot to power Canada to an 8-2 win over Australia on Tuesday at the under-18 baseball World Cup.