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OTTAWA — The Liberal government is thinking about buying trailers to keep asylum seekers currently living in tents at the U.S. border safe from the cold winter.

HALIFAX — Less than two years after he arrived as a refugee, a Syrian chocolatier has been named to the board of Nova Scotia's economic development agency.

QUEBEC — Forcing francophone students to attend junior college exclusively in French, as some Parti Quebecois members have proposed, is a non-starter for the Liberals, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Friday.

BARRIE, Ont. — Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says police were not to blame for an accident in which a man in custody severed two of his fingers.

HALIFAX — Canada's East Coast navy welcomed its new commander Friday. Rear Admiral Craig Baines took over from Rear Admiral John Newton in a ceremony on the Halifax naval dockyards.

SASKATOON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says now, more than ever, Canadians must stand together against racism and Islamophobia.

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — A lawyer acting for the prosecution in the case of a deadly northern Saskatchewan shooting has been named a provincial court judge.

TORONTO — The Canadian Women's Hockey League will pay its players for regular-season games starting this season.

FREDERICTON — A legislature committee is recommending New Brunswick sell marijuana through government-operated stores to anyone 19 years or older.

Student leaders running the University of Ottawa's orientation week events won't be allowed to administer the opioid antidote naloxone in the event of an overdose due to liability concerns if the injection were to go wrong.