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SUDBURY, Ont. — The Ministry of Labour says a Canadian mining company has been fined $200,000 for the 2015 death of a worker at a mine near Sudbury, Ont.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A native American band says its anglers have caught about 20,000 fish following the collapse of a commercial net pen rearing farmed Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound.

TORONTO — More than 700 doctors, nurses, harm reduction workers and academics are calling on Ontario to declare opioid overdoses and deaths an emergency, as British Columbia did last year.

WHITBOURNE, N.L. — An eight-year-old boy is among four people who died after a head-on crash in eastern Newfoundland Sunday. Two SUVs collided on an undivided section of the Trans-Canada Highway on the Avalon Peninsula just before 5 p.m.

HALIFAX — The Canadian Hurricane Centre says a large storm system off the coast of Florida will likely push through waters off Atlantic Canada sometime Wednesday or Thursday.

TORONTO — A French-language university is one step closer to reality in Ontario as the Liberal government says it will introduce legislation to create one.

HAMILTON — Art Briles, who was fired last year as the head football coach at Baylor in the wake of a sexual assault scandal within his program, has joined the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats as an assistant offensive head coach.

OTTAWA — Golf star Michelle Wie thanked staff at the Ottawa Hospital on social media after undergoing surgery to remove her appendix.

OTTAWA — As Brittany Marchand walked from hole to hole at the CP Women's Open, she'd sometimes look a little startled when fans called out "Way to go Britt!" or "You've got this!" Every time, though, she'd smile and wave or tip her visor at them.

WHITEHORSE — A reality TV star in Yukon has been ordered to pay $31,000 in fines for violating the territory's Waters Act.