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GUELPH, Ont. — Police say attempts to look out for a neighbour's safety went awry on the weekend in Guelph, Ont. They say two women heard an argument coming from the home next to theirs and went over to make sure everyone was alright.

Experts warn it is only a matter of time before another community in Canada is ravaged by a sudden intense wildfire similar to the one that hit Fort McMurray.

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. — A Canadian reserve military unit is mourning the loss of comrades who were on a hunting trip in the wilds of northeastern Alberta.

TORONTO — Home Capital says it expects to receive an initial $1 billion on Monday from the $2 billion credit line it was provided last week as more customers pulled their savings out of the struggling mortgage lender.

CALGARY — Oilpatch CEOs fear their costs will rise when the federal government passes recently introduced legislation to legalize recreational marijuana.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is backing down from some of its most controversial proposals for reforming the way the House of Commons operates in the face of opposition filibustering that has tied parliamentary business in knots for weeks.

TOFINO, B.C. — Two people are dead and three others were treated and released from hospital Sunday after a fishing boat went down off the west coast of Vancouver Island near the remote tourist community of Tofino.

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. — The body of one of four men who went missing in northeastern Alberta a week ago has been found. The RCMP say the body of 42-year-old Walter Ladouceur of Fort Chipewyan was recovered Sunday from the Rocher River.

DENVER — Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012 and became the first state in the U.S. to launch storefront sales in January 2014.

DENVER — Dispensaries sell a dizzying array of dried bud, potent extracts and colourful edibles. Licensed grow-ops are filled with hundreds of fragrant plants. Head shops sit packed with elaborate pipes and vaporizers.