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SHERBROOKE, Que. — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will meet Friday with the family of Edith Blais, who went missing in Burkina Faso and hasn't been heard from since Dec. 15.

ESKASONI, N.S. — Nova Scotia's largest Mi'kmaq community is in the throes of a mental health crisis, with multiple suicides in recent weeks, the chief of the Eskasoni First Nation says.

OTTAWA — Canada's arrest of a senior Huawei executive was the "backstabbing" of a friend, Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye said Thursday, and he warned of repercussions if the federal government bars her telecom company from building a Canadian 5G network

MONTREAL — Netflix is refusing to remove from its hit movie "Bird Box" footage of the rail explosion that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, despite an appeal from the town's mayor.

OTTAWA — America's allies will have to pay their share of a new missile-detection system, U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump grounded Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders Thursday, cancelling — and disclosing — their secret military trip overseas in an apparent fit of pique over the combative House speaker's effort to block the U.S.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Canada's transport minister is optimistic that provinces and territories will agree on a national standard for semi-truck driver training when they meet next week.

Representatives from 10 Christian denominations will meet Friday for training on how to address sexual misconduct in their ranks in a bid to keep religious institutions up to date with secular society.

Canadians aren't keeping up with the need to protect their homes against catastrophic events made more common by climate change, says a coast-to-coast study from the University of Waterloo.

OPASKWAYAK CREE NATION, Canada — Two Manitoba women arrested over online comments that threatened violence against Indigenous people were asked to read what was written out loud to elders this week as part of a process to resolve the case.