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HALIFAX — It was an enormous coup for a small art gallery, scoring 2,070 photos by famed American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.

TORONTO — Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid said he's disappointed that the NHL won't be sending players to the Winter Olympic in South Korea next year.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that the National Energy Board can fulfil the Crown's duty to consult Indigenous communities about development projects but it must be done properly.

MONTREAL — The son of former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust says his father is in stable condition after suffering a stroke.

MONCTON, N.B. — Before sunrise on June 16, 2016, three bleary-eyed lobster fishermen boarded a small fishing boat in northern New Brunswick and set out on Chaleur Bay.

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, July 26 ——— COURT QUASHES SEISMIC TESTING AT CLYDE RIVER: The Inuit Hamlet of Clyde River won a nearly six-year battle Wednesday to stop seismic testing in the Arctic that could kill or maim the marine mam

OTTAWA — The Inuit Hamlet of Clyde River won a nearly six-year-long battle Wednesday to stop seismic testing in the Arctic that could kill or maim the marine mammals upon which they rely for food and jobs.

TORONTO — A notorious bank robber who was dubbed the "Vaulter" for his technique of jumping over bank counters has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

MONTREAL — It has been a decade since his granddaughter's disappearance and eventual slaying, but the wounds are still fresh for Henri Provencher. Cedrika Provencher, a nine-year-old freckle-faced redhead from Trois-Rivieres, Que.

OTTAWA — International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8 billion annually to reduce the cost of child care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for itself.