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OTTAWA — Canada's Fisheries Minister says officials are closely monitoring a spill of Atlantic salmon from an aquaculture facility off the coast of Washington state.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — Restrictions on travel to British Columbia's backcountry and bans on campfires were lifted in some parts of the province on Wednesday as improved conditions lowered the wildfire risk.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The BC Wildfire Service says a $1,150 ticket for violating a campfire ban was issued after an investigation involving workers from the department.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has thrown cold water on suggestions the Liberal government wants to sign onto continental ballistic missile defence, or that it might send troops back into Afghanistan.

BURNABY, B.C. — Police say they have identified more than 90 persons of interest involving the homicide investigation of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a suburban Vancouver park.

CALGARY — In a decision cheered by environmentalists but considered a setback by the oil industry, Canada's national energy regulator says it will allow wider discussion of greenhouse gas emission issues in upcoming hearings for the Energy East Pipel

VICTORIA — The leader of the Green party in British Columbia wants to see the government ban foreigners from buying farmland in a bid to cool the province's real estate market.

The Globe and Mail says one of its journalists was detained while reporting in the Xinjiang region in western China.

VANCOUVER — Parents tasked with preparing school lunches might reach for convenient packaged foods, but the author of a new study says kids across Canada aren't eating enough nutritious food during school hours.

GOULDS, N.L. — Newfoundland's wildly popular Chase the Ace will continue next week after yet another person failed to turn over the ace of spades. Julie Labour-Mitchell of Grand le Pierre, N.L.