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MONTREAL — Three people are dead after a fire in a residential building in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., southwest of Montreal. The victims include two women in their 50s and a man in his 70s.

MONTREAL — Only one bullet hole remains in the wall of the Centre culturel islamique de Québec, eight years after a gunman stormed into the mosque and killed six Muslim men who had come to pray.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Health ministers to speak after meetings The country's health ministers are wrapping up two days of meetings in Halifax today with a busy agenda.

TORONTO — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is looking into the rates for phone calls at correctional facilities across the country, spurred by high long-distance charges that families of inmates at Ontario jails had to

Adventurers and thrill-seekers have been surreptitiously climbing the dome and other historic structures around Montreal for years. But now people are breaking in almost every weekend.

Marie-Philippe Bouchard, CEO of CBC-Radio-Canada, says it's important for Canadians to be equipped with the facts about the likely impacts of stripping away CBC's funding for English-language services.

OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats are urging the Liberal government to move quickly to complete expansion of the dental care program and start signing deals with the provinces and territories to begin pharmacare coverage.

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OTTAWA — Bureaucrats working for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had diplomats push Denmark to speed up the appointment of former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett as ambassador to that country — a change most embassy staff learned of through a media le

VANCOUVER — The relationship between the U.S. and Canada has "fundamentally changed," regardless of whether U.S. President Donald Trump's promised tariffs on Canadian goods materialize on Saturday, according to the chair of a new B.C.