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OTTAWA — A pact with the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers across the shared border is constitutional, Canada's highest bench ruled in a unanimous decision Friday, but justices left the door open to further review in court.

OTTAWA — Canada should give "urgent consideration" to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, said a Friday report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces will deploy 15 Leopard 2 battle tanks and about 131 personnel to a NATO force in Latvia by next spring, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Friday.

The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies.

OTTAWA — Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves have encountered a rising number of individuals questioning, or outright denying, that children disappeared or died in residential schools, says a new report from an independent special in

MONTREAL — Residents of a northern Quebec town that has been under an evacuation order for the past two weeks due to forest fires are expected to be allowed home on Sunday, the town's mayor said.

OTTAWA — The House of Commons passed a motion Thursday evening to keep hybrid workplace rules adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This means members of Parliament can attend sittings and committee meetings virtually, and keep voting through an app.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 16 ... What we are watching in Canada ... Residents in Dauphin, Man.

People in parts of Alberta and British Columbia are returning home after wildfire evacuation orders were lifted Thursday. Thanks to recent rain and favourable winds, roughly 2,000 residents from Tumbler Ridge, B.C., were allowed to return home.

KYIV, Ukraine — Yuri Pisarenko reaches high up on the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, pulls down a faded portrait of his grandson and reverently puts an identical photo in its place.