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VANCOUVER — British Columbia's opioid crisis became a focal point of the province's election campaign on Thursday after receiving less attention than other issues, despite the ongoing death toll.

OTTAWA — There are a number of terms used in discussing gender. Here are some entries on the subject drawn from The Associated Press Stylebook: Gender: Gender refers to a person's social identity, while sex refers to biological characteristics.

TORONTO — Kelly Oxford has cultivated a sizable Twitter audience of more than 768,000 followers with her witty takes on everything from pop culture, relationships and motherhood to fun-filled anecdotes from her wise-cracking kids.

OTTAWA — A new federal law aims to reduce the number of people who die from opioid and other drug overdoses in Canada.

VANCOUVER — Voters in British Columbia head to the polls on Tuesday as the Liberals aim to cling to power and the New Democrats try to take it back after 16 years in Opposition.

OTTAWA — Federal officials tried to cut through the fog of war last year when they told Finance Minister Bill Morneau that it would probably be cheaper to replace Canada's aging Air Force fleet with Super Hornet fighter jets rather than F-35s.

OTTAWA — Conservative leadership candidate Andrew Scheer picked up some support in Quebec on Thursday and went deep into Maxime Bernier's territory to get it.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has approved a class-action lawsuit against the provincial government over a fuel spill that forced the evacuation of thousand of residents in the Slocan Valley four years ago.

OTTAWA — Parents of transgender youth urged members of the Senate's legal committee on Thursday to back the Liberal government's gender identity and gender expression bill, suggesting it could be a matter of life and death.

TORONTO — Oil prices plunged to a five-month low Thursday, helping pull down the Toronto stock index by nearly one per cent, amid signals from OPEC that it won't slash output levels any further. The S&P/TSX composite index retreated 146.