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OTTAWA — A family slain in a stabbing rampage at an Ottawa home late Wednesday threw a birthday party for the alleged suspect just days ago, says a religious leader who knew them.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon's finance minister says too many of the territory's residents are being affected by inflation, a global housing crisis and a lack of health-care workers but the government is focused on helping them while the economy is "booming.

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby said he was reflecting on his leadership after the "humbling" resignation of former cabinet minister Selina Robinson from the NDP, citing allegations of antisemitism in the party caucus.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Rival protesters faced off on Thursday outside a synagogue north of Toronto, where a touring Israeli real estate exhibition promoting land for purchase in the occupied West Bank was making its final Canadian stop.

OTTAWA — 7:07 p.m. Candles, flowers and teddy bears cover a table and two chairs that are sheltered by a gazebo in a park close to the slain family's home.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon Liberal government tabled its 2024 budget Thursday. The $2.08-billion budget forecasts a surplus of $119 million. Here are some other key figures and projects being funded: — $484 million in capital spending — $1.

OTTAWA — The union that represents front-line Mounties is urging the federal government to make the RCMP the police force of jurisdiction for Parliament Hill to bolster security.

MONTREAL — A Superior Court judge has denied a request from Montreal's Roman Catholic archdiocese for an exemption to a Quebec law requiring all palliative care centres in the province to provide medical assistance in dying.

VERNON, B.C. — An RCMP investigation has revealed a possible privacy breach for thousands of employees who worked or work at a health authority in British Columbia's Interior.

VANCOUVER — Federal authorities have closed Canada's only known live coral reef in the Pacific Ocean to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the indefinite closure came into effect on Feb.