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VANCOUVER — A transgender inmate in British Columbia has won a years-long battle to serve the remainder of her sentence for first-degree murder at a women's prison.

OTTAWA — The week in politics was supposed to be all about kids and playing in the park.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million dollar jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on July 28 will grow to approximately $15 million. The Canadian Press

RED DEER, Alta. — Albertans will find out today whether the province's two right-of-centre political parties will merge into one to try and defeat Premier Rachel Notley's NDP government.

Kenny Shields, the brash lead singer of Canadian rock band Streetheart who swaggered across the country's stages for decades, died of heart failure Friday. He was 69.

COCHRANE, Alta. — Fraud and public mischief charges have been laid against a man who said he was severely injured by barbed wire that was strung across a mountain biking trail and then appealed for $8,000 in donations.

The mayor of Thunder Bay, Ont., was charged with extortion and obstructing justice Friday, almost two months after the northern Ontario city's police chief was arrested in the same case.

MONTREAL — Ontario's transit agency has decided not to appeal a court ruling favouring Bombardier but will exclude the Montreal-based company from bidding to continue operating GO Transit trains as it has done for decades.

WINNIPEG — Officials in Ottawa say they are working to help reunite a Yazidi woman living in Winnipeg with her 12-year-old son, who was recently freed from captivity with Iraqi militants and is recovering from gunshot wounds.

TORONTO — Star striker Sebastian Giovinco is questionable and, upon further review, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney is suspended for Saturday's game against the visiting Colorado Rapids.