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VANCOUVER — A woman who has regularly visited China from her home in Delta, B.C.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, anxious to buttress his political bona fides with evangelical Christian voters, was a surprise headliner at Friday's March for Life rally in Washington, calling it his "profound honour" to be the first sitting U.S.

TORONTO — A prominent Canadian aid worker in Nepal has lost his appeal of a conviction for sexually assaulting two children but saw his sentence cut by one year to eight, members of his legal team said on Friday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — One week after a record-breaking blizzard battered eastern Newfoundland, businesses in St. John's were permitted to call in staff Friday to prepare for the expected lifting of a state of emergency the next morning.

ST-HENRI-DE-TAILLON, Que. — Quebec provincial police have resumed their search for five missing snowmobilers from France in the province's Lac-Saint-Jean region.

TORONTO — Some of the people found guilty by juries in Ontario in recent months are quickly taking steps to challenge their convictions in light of a new ruling on jury selection by the province's top court.

A seven-year-old boy hit by a bullet that came through the window of his Hamilton home was the unintended victim of a targeted shooting, local police said Friday as they continued searching for at least two suspects. Hamilton Police Det. Sgt.

OTTAWA — Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre says weeks of uncertainty about whether he actually wanted to enter the party's leadership race came to a head as deadlines to sign contracts loomed.

OTTAWA — Senior officials advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have pressed him gently to rethink how the Liberals have been making vice-regal appointments.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is tapping Sen. Marc Gold, a constitutional law expert and former chair of the Jewish Federations of Canada, to serve as the Liberal government's representative in the upper chamber.