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VANCOUVER — The death toll from drug overdoses is still rising in British Columbia but the chief coroner says the count would be higher if it weren't for harm prevention measures.

OTTAWA — The International Monetary Fund is warning about the risks to the Canadian economy due to a possible correction in the housing market and urged governments to do more to protect against them.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is condemning a massive suicide explosion in Kabul that killed 90 and wounded hundreds of people inside the city's so-called diplomatic zone.

CALGARY — The president of Kinder Morgan Canada (TSX:KML) has defended the Trans Mountain project as having gone through rigorous assessments in his first comments since the B.C. NDP-Green party alliance resolved to stop the pipeline expansion.

MONTREAL — Bets on the outcome of a Donald Trump presidency are officially open.

CALGARY — When Jill was 27, she woke up with tingling and numbness in her left hand that eventually spread to half her body.

CALGARY — An investigation into a derailment at a rail yard has found that the locomotive engineer had been awake for 23 hours when the accident occurred and employee fatigue remains a key safety issue in the industry.

TORONTO — The time off was nice, but Corey Chamblin is happy being back where he belongs. Chamblin is in his first season as the Toronto Argonauts' defensive co-ordinator, secondary coach and assistant head coach under new head man Marc Trestman.

MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police said they arrested 36 people Wednesday in connection with an alleged drug trafficking network operated by the Hells Angels and their associates in the province's Mauricie region.

MONTREAL — Quebec should consider a province-wide framework on how schools manage food allergies rather than leaving it up to individual school boards, allergy experts said Wednesday.