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OTTAWA — An impartial group of senior bureaucrats will warn Canadians if malicious actors try to manipulate the outcome of this fall's federal election.

Montreal's McGill University said Wednesday that it needs more time to decide what to do about its sports teams' contentious Redmen name.

OTTAWA — The Defence Department wasn't trying to hide any information when its staff used terms other than Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's name in internal communications, Canada's top military officer testified in Norman's criminal case Wednesday.

OTTAWA — A housing crisis in a northern Ontario First Nation is the tip of a deep, systemic problem in communities across the country that requires the response of a task force, the federal NDP said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster there in fictional dramas, Canada's members of Parliament have agreed unanimously.

MELFORT, Sask. — A sentencing hearing is being held this week for the driver of a transport truck involved in a deadly crash with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus.

TORONTO — The head of an independent investigation into how Toronto police handle missing persons reports has called for an expansion of her mandate to include cases involving serial killer Bruce McArthur, her lead counsel said Wednesday.

The transfer of up to six wolves from a northern Ontario island where they were starving to the U.S. is getting underway following a weeks-long delay caused by the federal government shutdown south of the border.

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — Researchers using ground-penetrating radar have found what they believe is one of the oldest European graveyards in Canada.

Legal experts say a sentencing judge must use caution and not be overwhelmed by victim impact statements.