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CALGARY — The family of a father who fell ill following a hiking trip to Spain to memorialize his soldier son says they were faced with a massive medical bill — despite having travel insurance.

CALGARY — The traditional 20th anniversary present is china but Canada's Vermilion Energy Inc.

Jack Anawak was eight years old in 1956, the year the doctors came to his family's home in their tiny Arctic community and took his mother south to treat her tuberculosis. Two years later, she died in hospital and was buried, somewhere.

WATERTON, Alta. — Lockey Craig figures he'll be long gone by the time Waterton Lakes National Park returns to its former beauty.

HALIFAX — Nearly two-thirds of Nova Scotians seeking assisted suicide in the first six months of 2017 did not receive a lethal injection, with doctors saying the province's system is short of available physicians and payments are low.

OTTAWA — Politicians, defence officials and Canada's aerospace industry have Monday circled on their calendars as the date to watch in Boeing's ongoing trade dogfight with Montreal-based Bombardier.

VANCOUVER — A years-long crusade to get big money out of British Columbia's municipal elections may finally make headway now that a new provincial government is overhauling its own reputation as the campaign finance ne'er-do-well of the western world

VANCOUVER — Municipalities in British Columbia are clamouring to have a say in the marijuana policies they believe will fall largely on their shoulders to enforce when pot becomes legal next summer. Vancouver Coun.

TORONTO — Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 draw was claimed by a ticket sold in Ontario. And the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec. The jackpot for the next draw on Sept. 27 will again be approximately $5 million.

VANCOUVER — An American energy consultant told the BC Utilities Commission that the Site C hydroelectric dam currently under construction in the northeast region of the province doesn't make sense from an economic or energy production perspective.