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VANCOUVER — The wildfires ripping through British Columbia's Interior are beginning to exact an economic toll, forcing companies in the forestry and mining sectors to scale back or suspend operations altogether.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Help from other provinces and the federal government has begun to pour in for firefighters and thousands of evacuees grappling with more than 200 intense wildfires raging across British Columbia.

A conservation group said Monday it had bought 16 hectares of property in eastern Ontario that is a hot spot for many grassland birds such as the endangered eastern loggerhead shrike.

REGINA — Relatives of a woman who died in her Regina home say they were forced to hold a backyard funeral for her because they couldn't get help from the Saskatchewan government.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher amid expectations that the Bank of Canada appears poised to hike its interest rate later this week. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 78.12 points to 15,105.28, with most sectors higher.

TORONTO — The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan will ask a Canadian court on Thursday for an urgent order aimed at preserving any money the federal government paid former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr for breaching his rights, n

OTTAWA — A man accused of slaughtering villagers in Guatemala using a grenade, gun and sledgehammer is fighting Canada's attempt to revoke his citizenship.

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian officials say a double-decker tour bus went out of control and rolled over on a narrow road in the hills in the country's capital, killing nine people and injuring 48 others, including two Canadians.

TORONTO — Researchers say changes to Ontario's cervical cancer screening guidelines have led to thousands of women not being tested and diagnosed for chlamydia.

OTTAWA — Catholic leaders are criticizing the Trudeau government for allowing "political ideology" to dictate its advocacy of abortion rights in its new feminist international development policy.