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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Public Services Minister Judy Foote is taking an indefinite leave of absence from her job for personal and family reasons.

TORONTO — Coroner's inquests should be mandatory whenever police kill someone by gunning them down or through other use of force, a wide-ranging review of police oversight in Ontario recommended on Thursday.

BARRIE, Ont. — Police in Barrie, Ont., are investigating an assault they say appears to have been racially motivated.

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, April 6 ——— FORMER CONSERVATIVE PM BRIEFS LIBERAL CABINET ON NAFTA: Former prime minister Brian Mulroney gave the Trudeau cabinet a briefing Thursday on the upcoming renegotiation of the North American Free

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TORONTO — A 58-year-old American man has been charged with mischief after officials found a mock improvised explosive device inside his suitcase at Toronto's main airport, police said Thursday.

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A judge has ordered a Saskatchewan farmer to stand trial in the shooting death of an indigenous man. The decision came at the end of a preliminary hearing for Gerald Stanley.

LAS VEGAS — A tourist-oriented auto racing track near Las Vegas will stay open after agreeing to settle a lawsuit that questioned its safety in the wake of a fiery crash that killed a Canadian man driving a Lamborghini and his instructor, attorneys s

TORONTO — Firefighters are battling a five-alarm blaze at an auto wrecking business in northeast Toronto. The fire began in an oil pit at the business near Sewells Road and Steeles Avenue late Thursday morning.

TORONTO — The lawyer for a man accused of leaving Canada to join Islamic State militants said Thursday that her client wasn't involved in any such plan and intends to fight the charge in court.