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The Canada Border Services Agency issued Thursday an "armed and dangerous" alert to officers stationed along the Canada-U.S. border, warning them to be on the lookout for the man suspected of fatally shooting 18 people in southern Maine.

OTTAWA — Sheila North, a former grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, announced Thursday she is joining the contest to become the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, a musician known for decades of Indigenous activism, says she’s always been honest that she doesn’t know the identity of her birth parents, as a CBC report was expected to question her First Nations ancestry.

The man who killed four people – including three of his own children – before turning a gun on himself in Sault Ste. Marie had been charged four years ago with assaulting a police officer, court records show.

MONTREAL — A Canadian researcher whose criminal conviction in Algeria was criticized by human rights groups was released from prison Thursday after an appeal court reduced his sentence.

Quebec City police say a 19-year-old woman was killed in her home early this morning while a 16-year-old boy was seriously injured. Police say doctors fear for the life of the injured teen, who was listed in critical condition.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

MONTREAL — Equipped with a case of naloxone and a backpack of warm socks, two members of Montreal’s social intervention team peer around the side of a dumpster behind a downtown McDonald’s, looking to see if someone needs their help.

TORONTO — The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 649 draw for an estimated $5 million: 01, 04, 16, 22, 29 & 47.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — A day before a man killed four people – including three children – in Sault Ste. Marie, police in the northern Ontario city got a domestic violence call from one of the homes where the gunman carried out his rampage.