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EDMONTON — Police say a house fire that killed a five-month old baby and left his 29-year-old mother clinging to life in an Edmonton hospital was deliberately set.

MONTREAL — More than 63,000 Hydro-Quebec customers were without electricity early Wednesday after severe thunderstorms ripped through southern Quebec, Montreal and the Laurentian region north of the city.

QUEBEC — Canada's opioid epidemic isn't a single crisis but a complex set of overlapping crises that will take multiple strategies to solve, a panel of experts told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association on Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Federal NDP leadership contender Niki Ashton is rejecting an endorsement from a supporter who's been accused of holding anti-Semitic views, including denying the atrocities of the Holocaust.

OTTAWA — The founder of the online news site The Rebel admits its content and management need more oversight in the wake of a string of controversies.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Members of the public in Washington state are being asked to help mop up a spill of Atlantic salmon from an imploded net holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's health minister says the province is addressing concerns about abortion access, adding it appears the need for women to get a referral from a family doctor is simply historical practice rather than law.

TORONTO — A man is facing multiple charges after a series of fires in downtown Toronto. Const. Caroline de Kloet says six blazes were all set within a window of an hour and 15 minutes early Wednesday morning.

TORONTO — Unprecedented household debt levels will give Canadians a rude awakening on their unpaid credit card bills if another economic downturn materializes in the coming years, according to a new report issued Wednesday.

The plan to legalize marijuana should recognize that the black community has been overly criminalized for using the drug, says a Liberal MP who is calling on the government to consider that perspective.