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OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is urging the Fisheries Department to conduct annual studies of the northern cod population off Newfoundland and Labrador to track its recovery.

MONTREAL — The proposed Northern Pass hydroelectric project is a "win-win" deal for both Quebec and New Hampshire, the governor of the New England state said Monday.

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper's one-time communications director admits he was inaccurate when he suggested a Canadian Muslim group had ties to a terrorist organization.

BURNABY, B.C. — Employees at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., told a corner's inquest Monday that they watched a man repeatedly stab himself with stolen paring knives minutes before he was shot by transit police.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A psychologist says a man who beat, raped and then set a woman on fire is not necessarily at high risk to reoffend. Dr.

VANCOUVER — Two Vancouver lawyers have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the British Columbia government and the governing Liberal party alleging misuse of taxpayer dollars for partisan advertising.

TORONTO — Books exploring the subjects of race, Canada's justice system and Newfoundland and Labrador politics, are among the titles vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

TORONTO — Coffee shops and automated bank machines would make ideal locations for installing automated external defibrillators to help people who have collapsed following a cardiac arrest, researchers suggest.

TORONTO — A chorus of Canadian LGBTQ YouTubers, including pop duo Tegan and Sara, is calling for the video service to stop filtering out gay and trans-themed videos for some users.

Police have identified the man who died after an incident at a salt mine in western Ontario over the weekend. He was 36-year-old Darcy Clancy of Chepstow, Ont. Provincial police were called to the Compass Minerals mine in Goderich Saturday morning.