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OTTAWA — The federal government will take "immediate and decisive action" to rebuild Canada's military, Defence Minister David McGuinty told an audience of military contractors at a trade show in Ottawa Wednesday morning.

On Tuesday, in a social media post, Trump said it would cost Canada $61 billion to join as a sovereign country but nothing at all if it became a U.S. state.

OTTAWA — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Canada has invited her to attend the G7 leaders' summit next month in Alberta but she hasn't decided yet if she'll attend.

HALIFAX — RCMP in northeastern Nova Scotia confirmed that two children who disappeared almost four weeks ago were last seen in public with family members on May 1 — the day before they were reported missing.

The B.C. coast is expected to see near-normal temperatures and precipitation.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

OTTAWA — Parliament gets back to work Wednesday with a new Speaker, a new prime minister and plenty of new faces in the House of Commons.

FERGUS FALLS — Two men are to be sentenced today for their role in a human smuggling operation that saw a family of four freeze to death on the Canada-U.S. border south of Winnipeg.

One of five hockey players accused of sexual assault didn't tell police in a 2018 interview that he sent a text message asking teammates if any of them wanted to have a "three-way" in his hotel room after he had sex with a woman he'd met at a bar ear

In a post on social media, Trump said Canada will pay billions of dollars to be part of the Golden Dome if "they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State."