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POND INLET, Canada — An armed standoff with a man barricaded inside a house in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, has ended peacefully. RCMP say that after several hours of negotiations, a 27-year-old man was taken into custody with no injuries reported.

TORONTO — If Wednesday night's start was Marco Estrada's last in a Blue Jays uniform, he wasn't happy with the way he performed.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A rapidly-moving wildfire has forced people to flee dozens of properties east of Kamloops, B.C.

HALIFAX — It was an enormous coup for a small art gallery, scoring 2,070 photos by famed American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.

CHATHAM, Ont. — The province's police watchdog says it is looking into the circumstances around the death of a man inside a home in southwestern Ontario.

TORONTO — Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid said he's disappointed that the NHL won't be sending players to the Winter Olympic in South Korea next year.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that the National Energy Board can fulfil the Crown's duty to consult Indigenous communities about development projects but it must be done properly.

MONTREAL — The son of former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust says his father is in stable condition after suffering a stroke.

MONCTON, N.B. — Before sunrise on June 16, 2016, three bleary-eyed lobster fishermen boarded a small fishing boat in northern New Brunswick and set out on Chaleur Bay.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index registered a small loss Wednesday despite gains in gold, energy and material stocks, while copper prices soared to a two-year high. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index lost 30.