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VANCOUVER — Medical health officers in the Vancouver area are aiming to quickly warn drug users about clusters of overdoses and batches of contaminated drugs based on reports from people who use illegal substances.

OTTAWA — International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will try to persuade her counterpart in the Trump administration not to slash billions in foreign aid as the president has proposed.

MONTREAL — Quebec's public security minister is again urging victims of this spring's floods to be patient as the government works its way through thousands of requests for assistance.

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, July 11 ——— COMMISSIONER QUITS INDIGENOUS WOMEN INQUIRY: A commissioner on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women has announced she will resign at the end of this week — a departure that rais

TORONTO — It's summer, the kids are out of school, and that means getting them outside — to the playground, the sports field, or lakeside at a cottage or camp.

Quebec's representative in the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States says that dossier needs to be settled before talks begin on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

TORONTO — Laurent Duvernay-Tardif isn't letting money change him. The 26-year-old native of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Que., signed a five-year, US$42.

Wildfires that have forced more than 60 provincial parks in central B.C. to close are stoking fears among tourism operators that the financial damage will spread to the province's entire industry early in the critical summer season.

OTTAWA — Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says that Canadian governments should consider emulating the non-profit he has promoted for years as a means of alleviating an affordable housing crunch in this country.

STEADY BROOK, N.L. — Ottawa and the Atlantic provinces are teaming up with industry to spend $24.5 million over three years on touting Atlantic Canada as a top travel destination.