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SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. — A former customs agent has been given an 11-year prison term for turning a blind eye to the importation of 182 kilograms of cocaine into Canada.

Justin Newell was a prankster who loved to play tricks on his family, crack jokes and tell silly stories.

TORONTO — Ontario is spending an additional $85 million to clean up a mercury-contaminated river that has plagued two First Nation communities for half a century.

VANCOUVER — Drug users at supervised consumption sites is Surrey, B.C., have been allowed to use substances orally and nasally, not just by injection, in the first such exemption approved by Health Canada.

OTTAWA — The record-breaking kill shot by a Canadian sniper in Iraq should be "celebrated," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, even as he insisted Canada's mission in the battle-racked country remains a non-combat one.

REGINA — The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says concerns about suicide rates among farmers and mental health supports are starting to get some attention. On the weekend, Kim Keller, a farmer from Gronlid, Sask.

VANCOUVER — Leonard George remembers the first time he heard his father, Chief Dan George, deliver his moving and prophetic speech on indigenous rights, "A Lament for Confederation.

OTTAWA — Canada's ambassador to France will be stepping down at the end of September.

ERIN, Ont. — Police in Ontario are looking for a group of suspects who took a horse statue from a park and put it on the roof of a nearby school.

HALIFAX — Pierre Filiatreault looked out his office window at Halifax's naval base 12 years ago and saw two tiny kittens playing together in a narrow alleyway.