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VANCOUVER — A female adult Southern resident killer whale and her three-and-a-half-year-old calf are rapidly declining in health in what appears to be a troubling situation for the creatures.

MONTREAL — A team of Montreal university researchers has developed an audible hockey puck they say could revolutionize the sport for blind players.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is crediting its new gun registry law for a major spike in the number of long guns voluntarily handed over to police for destruction.

CRANBROOK, B.C. — There's "no room for doubt" that a former leader in a religious sect that practises polygamy in Bountiful, B.C.

OTTAWA — Canada's parole officers say the country's corrections system is at a breaking point due to workloads that are "insurmountable" — a situation they say poses real risks to public safety.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $22 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on May 21 will be approximately $27 million. The Canadian Press

YELLOWKNIFE — The search continues for three overdue travellers on frozen Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The group left the Yellowknife area on Monday by snowmobile and were heading toward Lutsel'ke on the eastern edge of the lake.

WINNIPEG — A woman says she helped hide another woman's dead body in a barrel filled with chemicals because the man accused in the killing had total control over her after years of abuse.

MONTREAL — Quebec's Davie shipyard is in line to receive a contract for the construction of two East Coast ferries, the federal government announced Friday.

OTTAWA — Five things to keep in mind in the wake of Friday's news that Canada and the U.S. reached an agreement to end punitive American tariffs on steel and aluminum exports: 1. The devil is in the details.