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MILLBROOK, NOVA SCOTIA — RCMP commissioner Mike Duheme released a strategy Wednesday outlining how the national police force will respond to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives.

MONTREAL — Quebec hopes to create a new legal status for unmarried couples with children to better regulate the growing number of families in the province who aren't subject to the legal protections of traditional civil status.

MONTREAL — Three men in their 30s died after an apparent avalanche Tuesday during a snowmobiling expedition on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula.

ST. PAUL, MINN. — A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling.

LAC-SUPÉRIEUR, Que. — Quebec provincial police are investigating after two bodies were found in a home in the Laurentians region. The bodies were found about 9:15 a.m. inside a residence in Lac-Supérieur, Que.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

VANCOUVER — Small drug seizures in Vancouver dropped at a "dramatic" rate after decriminalization came into effect in British Columbia, the city's police department says. Insp.

OTTAWA — When Sarah Morin hears the phrase "axe the tax," what enters her mind is "freedom." The 41-year-old is a stay-at-home mother of two who has been using a food bank amid cost-of-living pressures.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers who are asking him to cancel an upcoming increase to the federal carbon price, saying they have not proposed better ideas to fight climate change.

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