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TORONTO — Leo Komarov missed on his first attempt to hammer Alex Ovechkin into the Air Canada Centre boards. He didn't stop though. He shoved the Russian star three times, hooked him, held his stick, and then hit him once more.

OTTAWA — A senior Bank of Canada official says while the country's poised to reap economic benefits from technological progress — it must also brace for potentially painful side effects like job losses and greater income inequality.

HALIFAX — A former Halifax-area junior high teacher has won a delay in her sentencing on a sex charge, as she undergoes a sexual deviancy assessment and awaits the outcome of another teacher's appeal in a similar case.

CALGARY — Police have charged a man after three homicide investigations over 16 years into the death of an amateur musician who was allegedly targeted for financial reasons.

FREDERICTON — There is a growing movement on New Brunswick's First Nations to banish drug dealers, as mourners said farewell this week to a woman who died of a drug overdose.

TORONTO — A former senior executive at Aston Hill Asset Management has agreed to pay $11,000 and accept sanctions for providing a client with secret information about the US$4.9-billion purchase of PokerStars by Amaya Inc.

Some students from the University of Alberta are in emotional orbit after watching a tiny satellite they built launch into space on a giant NASA rocket.

TORONTO — Ontario has the most expensive auto insurance premiums in Canada despite also having one of the lowest levels of accidents and fatalities, a report has found.

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault said his time at the University of Oxford taught him the importance of staying on top of a busy schedule.

Slow-learning bumblebees are just as successful as smart ones and live longer, suggests a new study that researchers say calls into question the assumption that brain superiority is better in the beleaguered pollinators' world.