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TORONTO — One of Canada's most high-profile forecasters is projecting comparatively mild temperatures and dry conditions for much of Canada this coming fall.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames say they're pulling out of talks with the city for a new arena as a civic election campaign heats up. Team president Ken King said Flames owners believe they can't make a deal because negotiations have been unproductive.

TORONTO — Fifteen people are facing drug charges after Toronto police raided a downtown marijuana dispensary earlier this week. Police say they searched the Canna Clinic dispensary Monday evening and seized close to 169 kilograms of marijuana, 14.

SMITH FALLS, Ont. — Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED) has signed an agreement with AusCann Group Holdings Ltd. to be its exclusive supplier of medical cannabis for the Australian market.

TORONTO — Three writers have been named finalists for the $10,000 Writers' Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Sharon Bala of St. John's, N.L., was nominated for "Butter Tea at Starbucks," published in The New Quarterly.

Eight stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept.

CALGARY — Man's best friend is moving on up — to the 16th floor of a downtown Calgary office building.

OTTAWA — Allan MacEachen, a long-serving Liberal MP and senator from Nova Scotia who was a driving force behind many Canadian social programs, has died at the age of the 96.

OTTAWA — The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating a police-involved shooting in Ottawa. The SIU says at about 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, there was an altercation in the city's east end between two police officers and two males.

TORONTO — The Tenors are releasing a new collection of Christmas songs that effectively overshadows a previous album that featured their ousted fourth member.