Canada
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Policy aims to stem record number of overdose deaths by easing a fear of arrest by those who need help
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Ministers from world’s biggest economies reach agreement that could shift estimated $33bn a year to clean energy sources
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Arkansas-born showman – known as ‘The Hawk’ – cut his teeth on the South’s tough 50s circuit but settled in Canada where he nurtured local talent
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Relatively strict laws help keep firearms violence well below US levels but advocates say ‘there’s much more we could be doing’
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Video shows incident in which driver says he had to kick his way out because the doors and windows wouldn’t open
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Officers responded to reports of a man in his late teens or early 20s carrying a firearm in Scarborough’s Port Union area
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Five local schools were placed under lockdown after several 911 calls about a man walking with a rifle in Canadian city
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Decision setting parole eligibility at 25 years could give hope to at least 18 mass killers serving multiple life sentences
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Premier says ‘we are proud to be a francophone nation in North America’ but English-speaking critics threaten legal action
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Roxham Road, linking New York state and Quebec, is by far the busiest crossing for asylum seekers, thanks to a legal ‘loophole’
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Mary Simon, first Indigenous person to hold post, attends ceremony at Kamloops school to honor thousands of children who died
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The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future
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Huge clean-up after Ontario and Quebec hit by tornado-like weather, felling trees, uprooting utility poles and cutting power to more than 500,000
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Some media portrayals of cases among African and LGBTI people fueling blame, agency says, as infections reported in Europe, US and Australia