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OTTAWA — When Sean Whyte opened a fashion store in early 2020, he had no idea a global pandemic would force him to throw out his business plan within a couple of months.

Nine people have been killed in British Columbia avalanches this season, including four since Feb. 11. Avalanche Canada has warned that this year's snowpack is dangerous and difficult to forecast.

VANCOUVER — The Chinese consulate-general in Vancouver has called a newspaper report that cited Canadian intelligence documents and described alleged efforts to oust candidates seen as unfriendly to Beijing, "smearing and discrediting" to China.

HALIFAX — A jury found a former Halifax medical student guilty of second-degree murder on Saturday in the 2015 shooting death of a fellow student whose body has never been found.

MONTREAL — Two artifacts sacred to some of Canada's Indigenous peoples are now back on home territory after a Swiss museum returned them to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy this month.

VANCOUVER — One of just four endangered spotted owls known to be in the wild in British Columbia is now recovering from an injury after being found along some train tracks, slowing the careful plans to revive the species

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP from Montreal says it is time for the country to debate whether the notwithstanding clause should be on the books.

OTTAWA — The RCMP says it has ended its search for an unidentified aerial object shot down over central Yukon last Saturday. The mounties say they searched the highest probability area but could not find the debris.

OTTAWA — A new report from the federal spy watchdog says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service failed to adequately consider the potentially serious adverse effects on people and their families when using its powers to disrupt potential threats.

There was no winning ticket sold in Friday's Lotto Max $30 million draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 21 will be an estimated $40 million. The Canadian Press