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Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders has asked police in Waterloo, Ont., to investigate how his force handled a case involving the alleged assault of a teen by an off-duty Toronto police officer. The province's police watchdog has said Const.

CALGARY — In another sign the bloom is off the boom for the oilsands, the industry has returned almost one million hectares of northern Alberta exploration leases to the province over the past two years — abandoning an area far bigger than P.E.I.

OTTAWA — Great Britain and France intend to bar outright the sale of any gas powered vehicles by 2040 but even one of the biggest proponents of electric cars in Canada says that's likely an impossible goal for this country.

OTTAWA — The federal government has come up with a proposed plan to protect Canada's threatened boreal caribou population, three months after a wildlife conservation group took the environment minister to court over the matter.

MONTREAL — The owner of a Montreal spice shop that is struggling financially says he may close it because of pressure from Quebec's language watchdog over an English-only website.

Six stories in the news for Friday, July 28 ——— PEARSON AIRPORT GROUND CREWS ON STRIKE About 700 ground crew workers at Toronto's Pearson International Airport are on strike after rejecting a contract offer.

BANFF, Alta. — Her future is cloudy. When grizzlies mix too freely with people, the grizzlies usually lose.

QUEBEC — There are lucky men, and then there's Jules Parent. For the second time in nine years, the 69-year-old Quebecer has won $1 million playing the lottery.

LUNENBURG, N.S. — The RCMP are seeking the public's help in the theft of an historic object once owned by Nova Scotia's most famous sea captain — Capt. Angus Walters, skipper of the schooner Bluenose.

TORONTO — As she stepped into the cleats of a seasoned player turned coach for CBC's new TV series "21 Thunder," actress Stephanie Bennett looked to Canadian soccer star Christine Sinclair for inspiration. "I watched a lot of interviews.