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OTTAWA — Canadian privacy could be imperilled by apparent U.S. plans to demand cellphone and social media passwords from foreign visitors, a federal watchdog says.

OTTAWA — Famine-ravaged countries in Africa and the Middle East will breed and spread terrorism if the world can't help feed their people and give them hope, says Canada's international development minister.

OTTAWA — Conservative MPs who weathered months of friendly political fire from fellow leadership rivals trained their sights back on the Liberal benches Monday as they rallied around newly elected leader Andrew Scheer on Parliament Hill.

TORONTO — Maxime Bernier was clutching his partner's hand so hard his knuckles were white, his brown leather brogues nervously tapping the floor.

OTTAWA — Well known on Parliament Hill after four years as Speaker of the House of Commons during Stephen Harper's majority government, those outside the national capital may know little about new Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.

MONTREAL — Former Quebec student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois strolled to victory for Quebec solidaire in a provincial byelection in the Montreal riding of Gouin on Monday.

WASHINGTON — Former members of America's intelligence community are plumbing the depths of their reservoir of metaphors to express distress over news that the president's son-in-law tried setting up a secret communication channel with Russia.

CALGARY — Two paramedics and a police officer have been injured by a combative patient at the scene of a collision on a Calgary freeway.

VANCOUVER — A lawyer for a transgender woman who was forced to stay in a men's jail says his client hopes her human rights case against the British Columbia government will change policies for other inmates.

TORONTO — An Ontario government grant of about $120,000 that is going toward a giant rubber duck for Canada 150 celebrations is ruffling some feathers.