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HALIFAX — A Halifax-area father has been charged after a toddler was found alone locked in the back seat of a vehicle with the windows up, in distress. "The child was very upset," Halifax police Const. Dianne Penfound said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Airbnb and the Quebec government announced an agreement Tuesday that will see the home-sharing platform begin collecting a lodging tax on short-term rentals in the province as of October.

TORONTO — Calgary's DaVaris Daniels, Montreal's Nik Lewis and Ottawa's Diontae Spencer made it a sweep for wide receivers as the CFL named its top performers for Week 10 of the season.

MILTON, Ont. — The owner of a Milton, Ont., used car dealership has pleaded guilty to several identity fraud charges after registering cars to people who did not own them.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A gymnastics coach who secretly filmed his young athletes using the toilet has received a two-year sentence for making and possessing child pornography.

TORONTO — Ontario is giving the Ontario Arts Council $50 million in additional funding over the next four years.

HOUSTON — Two Quebec women are among the thousands of people caught up in the flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey — one who can't leave her home and one who has no idea when she can return home.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — China shops, beware — a bull is on the loose in British Columbia's southern Interior. RCMP say the 635 kilogram bull escaped last week from the BC Livestock Yard in Kamloops, about 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

HALIFAX — The Canadian Hurricane Centre says a large storm system that's tracking towards Atlantic Canada is expected to remain well offshore, but up to three-metre swells are expected in some areas of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

TORONTO — "Dunkirk" writer-director Christopher Nolan plans to attend the Toronto International Film Festival for a screening of the Second World War epic. The free event on Sept. 10 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Imax Corp.