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HALIFAX — A musician in a local heavy metal band and a six-year-old girl who loved dressing up like a princess have been identified as two of the victims who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it will ban people convicted of a number of crimes, including money laundering and forgery, from stepping foot in government-owned casinos.

VICTORIA — The BC Prosecution Service says it has approved several charges against an RCMP officer, three years after a suspect was seriously injured in a crash with a police cruiser.

CHERTSEY, Que. — Officials who run a summer camp north of Montreal for Ukrainian children say one of its signs has been vandalized with pro-Russian graffiti.

MONTREAL — Repairs to the roof of Montreal's problem-plagued Olympic Stadium have become significantly more complicated.

A man charged with murdering a woman who was found dead in eastern Ontario decades ago told police investigating the cold case that he dumped her body in a river, U.S. court documents show.

MONTREAL — A 27-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a Montreal police officer Wednesday. Quebec prosecutors say Menachem Benaroch appeared in a Montreal court this morning.

TORONTO — Ten years after her son was fatally shot on an empty Toronto streetcar, Sammy Yatim's mother said she's still fighting for justice. Eighteen-year-old Yatim was shot multiple times by Const.

OTTAWA — The man charged with causing an explosion that destroyed several new homes in Ottawa earlier this year is expected to plead guilty next month. Kody Troy Crosby, 35, is scheduled to appear in court on Aug.

FREDERICTON — The torrential rain that washed out roads, bridges and a key rail link in Nova Scotia on the weekend is is being described as another sign that engineers cannot rely on past weather patterns to design infrastructure able to withstand ri