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KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Low water levels brought on by years of severe drought, paired with meagre snowpack and rainfall, are leaving B.C.'s salmon in a compromising position during their spawning migration, a fisheries expert warns.

JASPER, ALTA. — It could take more than a century for the freshly burned forest in Jasper National Park to regenerate into its previous postcard-perfect form, a wildfire expert says.

OTTAWA — The federal government is backtracking on a move to limit funding for searches of former residential school grounds.

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country.

WINNIPEG — Mounties in Manitoba are investigating four deaths in and around the small community of McCreary, northwest of Winnipeg. RCMP Staff Sgt. Richard Sherring said around 10 a.m.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government hopes mining can eventually restart at the site of the Eagle Gold mine disaster, despite calls from the Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation to halt mining activity on its traditional territory.

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA — More than three weeks after everyone in Jasper had to flee raging wildfires through a curtain of darkness and smoke, some returned Friday morning, greeted by soot-covered tree stumps, Mounties, and long lines of orange traff

OTTAWA — The Liberal government said it has not yet made a decision about whether it will grant a bonus for the head of CBC after the public broadcaster eliminated hundreds of jobs.

MONTREAL — Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory on Friday after a broken water main erupted into a "geyser" that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings.

MONTREAL — There are still 5,704 vacant teaching positions in Quebec with the new school year less than two weeks away, and Education Minister Bernard Drainville said Friday the gap is partly due to immigration.