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MISCOU ISLAND, N.B. — Crews have knocked down a large forest fire on Miscou Island in the province's northeast, but 25 people who fled the flames can't return to their homes just yet.

TORONTO — The Toronto Islands, a popular summer destination for both city residents and tourists, reopened to the public on Monday after a nearly three-month closure due to flooding.

KENTVILLE, N.S. — A reservist who allegedly made a racial slur towards a civilian kitchen worker and struck his superior officer is facing a court martial today in Nova Scotia. Retired Cpl.

WHITEHORSE — Fresh firefighters have arrived from Yukon to help bring British Columbia's wildfires under control.

TORONTO — A biopic starring Shia LaBeouf as tennis great John McEnroe will open the Toronto International Film Festival. Organizers made the announcement on Monday, noting this will be the world premiere of "Borg/McEnroe.

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged people over the weekend to donate to the Canadian Red Cross to help British Columbians affected by raging wildfires and he made a similar appeal for Ontario and Quebec flood victims earlier this year.

TORONTO — A rash of drug overdose deaths in Toronto was called unusual by police on the weekend and it generated the kind of publicity all too familiar to residents in Vancouver, which has been grappling with a crisis for years.

TORONTO — There were widely differing accounts Sunday on how Canada's busiest airport coped with the strike of 700 ground workers. Swissport, which employs the strikers at Toronto's Pearson airport, said there were no major delays Sunday afternoon.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Two more dead whales have washed ashore on Newfoundland's west coast. The federal fisheries department says the discoveries bring the total of confirmed North Atlantic right whale deaths to at least nine.