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OTTAWA — A made-in-Canada solution to help softwood producers and workers weather the storm of U.S. duties has been delayed at least until the end of May. It has been almost a month since the U.S.

A high-speed rail corridor between Toronto and Windsor, Ont., is in the works — an idea floated in Ontario for decades, but the premier says this time it's happening.

TORONTO — High-speed car chases could soon be a thing of the past for Ontario's provincial police. The force says it has launched a pilot project that will test the use of laser-aimed darts armed with GPS technology to help track fleeing cars.

MONTREAL — The federal transport minister is urging the country's airlines to live up to the spirit of its passenger bill of rights legislation, even before it comes into force as expected next year.

HALIFAX — (NSElxn) Nova Scotia's Tories are promising to introduce a "no-boondoggle guarantee" if they are elected in the May 30 provincial election.

MONCTON, N.B. — The RCMP took time arming officers with high-powered carbine rifles because it was doing "due diligence" on the deadly weapon, a lawyer told the Labour Code trial stemming from a 2014 shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B.

New York City police say a Canadian woman remains in very critical condition a day after a speeding car slammed into pedestrians in Times Square in what authorities said was a deliberate attack.

TORONTO — Ontario is changing rules on workplace defined benefit pensions, including considering them to be solvent when they are 85 per cent funded.

SHIPPAGAN, N.B. — Authorities suspect a violent storm that hit New Brunswick suddenly late Thursday, ripping roofs apart and pulling down utility poles, may have been powered by tornadoes.

CALGARY — The Calgary Zoo says the grey wolf has won a vote to be Canada's Greatest Animal. The zoo says the grey wolf received over 3,000 of more than 11,000 online votes in a campaign launched in late March.