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MONTREAL — Emotions ran high in Montreal on Sunday as thousands of Guy Lafleur's fans gathered to pay tribute to the Montreal Canadiens legend.

Front-line workers are calling for more support for Indigenous families after a Statistics Canada analysis found First Nations, Inuit and Métis women are more likely to experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime if they were in governmen

TORONTO — Saturday's $11 million Lotto 649 jackpot was won by ticket holder in Ontario. The draw's guaranteed $1 million prize also went to an Ontario player. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on May 4 will be an estimated $5 million.

OTTAWA — The last time federal Conservatives were picking a leader, their race was transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than two years later, they are at it again.

MONTREAL — Percylla Battista said she last spoke to her sister, Maggie Quart Robitaille, a week before Quart Robitaille tested positive for COVID-19. "She was feeling pretty good," Battista said in a recent interview.

VICTORIA — Pickleball players readily admit their sport makes noise, but complaining about the sound of people having a healthy good time is out of bounds, say players and officials.

VANCOUVER — The leader of the British Columbia Liberals says he will use his new seat in the legislature to look the NDP government leaders "straight in their eyes and ask tough questions.

SURREY, B.C. — Police in British Columbia say an episode involving a vehicle outside a mosque that had been called a "disturbing incident" directed at the Muslim community was not a racially-motivated hate crime.

OTTAWA — Former "Freedom Convoy" protesters returned to Canada's capital by the hundreds on Saturday to revel on Parliament Hill and denounce COVID-19 mandates as police staged a massive operation to keep the peace and make sure demonstrators actuall

MADELEINE-CENTRE, Que. — Quebec's wildlife protection agency says it doesn't know how a polar bear arrived on the province's Gaspé peninsula.