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WINNIPEG — A courtroom erupted in cheers and applause Tuesday after a Manitoba judge said the words two First Nations men have been waiting a half-century to hear. "You are innocent. You deserve acquittals.

FORT LIARD, N.W.T. — The sky dumped buckets of rain, explosive thunder and lightning shook Jack Yeadon’s home, and the father started to cry.

Canadian filmmaker and deepsea explorer James Cameron said Tuesday that the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people last month was an extreme outlier in decades of safe exploration.

MONTREAL — The Ontario man who died in Sunday's gondola crash at the Mont-Tremblant resort was a selfless military member who was devoted to his family, his brother said Tuesday. Sgt. Sheldon Johnson, 50, of Kingston, Ont.

VANCOUVER — The voice for almost 20,000 RCMP says its members should not be used as "political pawns" in the dispute between the British Columbia government and the City of Surrey over its policing situation.

OTTAWA — Canada is under fire for its support of a controversial telescope slated for development on Hawai'i Island, the largest island in the state, over allegations the project violates Indigenous rights.

Ottawa is putting $212 million more toward interim housing for people claiming asylum in Canada, including about $97 million for Toronto, where a shelter system at capacity has forced people to sleep outside.

OTTAWA — A former high-ranking security expert says Canada may loosen its arms-export restrictions against Turkey as that country moves to strengthen ties with its Western peers.

OTTAWA — The lawyer for "Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich warned the court Tuesday that the upcoming trial on her criminal charges should not put the entire convoy on trial.

WINNIPEG — Police and municipal crews removed a blockade Tuesday at a Winnipeg landfill where protesters had barricaded a road for almost two weeks to demand a search for the remains of Indigenous women.