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TORONTO — Closing curtain: Ontario's securities regulator hears closing submissions Monday in the case against Garth Drabinsky for his role in the Livent Entertainment fraud scandal nearly two decades ago.

Researchers say they are developing a test for bovine tuberculosis they hope could someday spare ranchers and governments from costly quarantines and mass slaughters of cattle.

MONCTON, N.B. — Three years after a gunman's rampage left three Mounties dead, the RCMP itself faces trial Monday. The Labour Code trial stems from the force's handling of the 2014 massacre in Moncton, N.B.

MONTREAL — Martin Thibert, mayor of a small Quebec town by the U.S. border, was almost finished painting the interior of his kids' public school with the help of a group of volunteers when an inspector showed up.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million dollar prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Apr.

WASHINGTON — The opening shot in a fifth softwood-lumber war between the United States and Canada is expected this week, and policy-makers north of the border are preparing to calculate the potential damage of American duties. The U.S.

Edmonton police have arrested a man and a woman in the case of a toddler whose body was found outside a church on the north side of the city.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Meaghan Benfeito and Vincent Riendeau earned Canada's second silver medal in as many days at the diving World Series, this time in the mixed synchro 10-metre platform on Saturday. The Canadians turned in a score of 314.82 points.

WASHINGTON — Measures to cool the housing market in the Greater Toronto Area have received a warm response from Canada's central banker, who said Saturday it should have some effect on runaway housing prices.

It was something like a flashback for Canadian scientists who gathered across the country Saturday to rally in support of their American counterparts, who say they're facing mounting attacks against science.