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VANCOUVER — British Columbia's election hangs in the balance with thousands of votes still to be counted, kicking off weeks of speculation and backroom negotiations with the newly influential Green party.

MONTREAL — Quebec's top court says Ottawa's plan to set up a national securities regulator is unconstitutional.

VANCOUVER — Preliminary results of Tuesday's election in British Columbia show the province heading for a minority government for the first time in 65 years, with the incumbent Liberals one seat shy of a razor-thin majority and the Greens holding the

TIMMINS, Ont. — An Ontario First Nation is calling for an inquest into the deaths of four aboriginal youth in provincial care in the past six months.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he doesn't have to explain his work habits or reveal how he communicates with staff while at his vacation home in Costa Rica.

CALGARY — British Columbia's election has brought unwelcome doubt for the business sector, given the prospect of an ascendant Green party influencing policy on pipelines, natural gas exports, hydroelectricity and other resource projects.

OTTAWA — First they met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and again, a few months later, in New York City. They met two more times in Toronto over the last six months, most recently in March. BlackRock Inc.

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say they've located one victim following an incident in which witnesses report shots being fired between two cars. They say the male was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to name ex-Ontario cabinet minister Madeleine Meilleur as official languages commissioner, The Canadian Press has learned.

WASHINGTON — The political earthquake touched off by President Donald Trump's sudden firing of an FBI director investigating his campaign's ties to Russia left only the slightest, most subtle cracks in the partisan wall that protects him.