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SAINT JOHN, N.B. — There are many issues that need to be resolved in the retrial of accused murderer Dennis Oland before a date can even be set for it, the judge says.

NAPANEE, Ont. — Provincial police say a school bus driver has been charged after his bus ended up in a ditch in Napanee, Ont., Tuesday morning. OPP say five school-age children were on board along with the driver, and nobody was injured.

TORONTO — The Directors Guild of Canada has revealed the filmmakers in the running for an emerging talent award.

TORONTO — Equifax Canada says non-mortgage consumer debt climbed 3.3 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter and warns that consumers' ability to keep up with their debt payments could be affected as interest rates and borrowing costs rise.

SOUTH GLENGARRY, Ont. — Police say two young men from New York have been charged after RCMP seized more than 500 kilograms of contraband tobacco that was being off-loaded from a boat in South Glengarry, Ont.

SUDBURY, Ont. — Police say an 85-year-old cyclist has died after an alleged hit-and-run in Sudbury, Ont., Monday night.

OTTAWA — As they prepare to return to the parliamentary hot seat in two weeks, it seems somehow appropriate that Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberal colleagues are holing up in Kelowna, B.C. — amid smoke from nearby wildfires — to plot strategy.

Ottawa's fall parliamentary session is a couple of weeks away and Canadians are already getting a preview of what could be the season's main event: a scrap over the Liberals' proposed tax changes.

MEXICO CITY — Negotiators have run into a series of early sticking points on nearly every major element considered key to achieving a new NAFTA agreement, according to sources who describe a dialogue-of-the-deaf-like approach to sensitive issues.

OTTAWA — Canada's push to get climate change action included in a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement is turning into a heated domestic dispute just as it makes its debut at the official negotiating table.