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OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is promising to "work around the clock" to table legislation this fall that would declare Indigenous policing an essential service.

REGINA — Juries comprising six Indigenous people are to participate in two public inquests examining what happened on Sept. 4, when several people were killed or injured in a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan, and in the days that followed.

FREDERICTON — The Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick says negotiations with the province's energy utility have broken down regarding a multibillion-dollar plan to upgrade the Mactaquac dam and generating station west of Fredericton.

TRURO, N.S. — Families of victims of Nova Scotia's mass shooting called Wednesday for an oversight committee to ensure the recommendations coming out of the public inquiry into the tragedy won't be ignored.

VANCOUVER — A woman who clung to a tree and whose husband saw a "wall of water rushing toward them" as they fled a torrent released from a North Vancouver dam are suing Metro Vancouver's regional district for negligence.

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg mother says she was scarred for life when her first child was taken away at birth by social workers, who told her she was unfit to parent her newborn daughter because she was just 17 at the time.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend a state funeral for Japan's assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe next week in Tokyo.

OTTAWA — The Snowbirds have been cleared for takeoff after a crash in B.C. last month forced the military's famed aerobatics team to cancel appearances at several air shows. Military investigators say the crash near Fort St. John on Aug.

OTTAWA — Canada's homeownership rate is on the decline, with young adults in particular less likely to own a home in 2021 than they were adecade earlier, says Statistics Canada. According to the latest census release, 66.

WINNIPEG — Angela Klassen Janeczko calls out to a young woman sitting behind a building in downtown Winnipeg to see if she needs any water or food.