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OTTAWA — Joannie Rochette, who captured the hearts of Canadians when she competed at the Vancouver Olympics just days after her mother's death, is headed to Skate Canada's Hall of Fame.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Police in southern Alberta say a young boy allegedly abducted by his mother and taken out of the country three years ago is back in Canada.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that one Canadian is among 18 people killed in a suspected extremist attack on a popular Turkish restaurant.

HALIFAX — A weatherman says he got more than he bargained for during a recent trip to a Costco in Halifax after finding what appeared to be a live scorpion in a bag of bananas.

TORONTO — An unexpected run to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup has rocketed Canada's newest tennis star up the world rankings. Denis Shapovalov improved from 143rd to 67th in Monday's updated ATP singles rankings.

A widely used pesticide is placing bumblebee populations at an increased risk of extinction, a new study from an Ontario researcher suggests.

WASHINGTON — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland released Canada's list of key demands Monday for a new North American Free Trade Agreement as talks get set to begin in Washington later this week.

WASHINGTON — While the U.S. president trashes NAFTA as a one-sided, job-killing disaster possibly worth scrapping, the man who will lead the American negotiating team when talks start this week is an old proponent of the accord. U.S.

MONTREAL — Some of the asylum-seekers who have recently crossed the Canada-U.S. border say they're struggling to find a place to live once they leave government-run temporary shelters.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Despite a grim account of his imprisonment, the mood was joyful as a Canadian pastor freed from a North Korean prison addressed the congregation at a Toronto-area church Sunday.