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WEST BEND — Mary Herrick has lived in Washington County, just outside of Milwaukee, for 50 years but during a recent lunch with a close friend there was an uncomfortable moment: Herrick said she was going to vote for Vice-President Kamala Harris and

LANGLEY, B.C. — Violence should have no place in British Columbia politics, said New Democrat Leader David Eby as police investigated a bomb threat at a party campaign office on Vancouver Island.

Bill Vigars met Terry Fox in 1980 and served as his public relations officer and confidant as the 21-year-old set out with the goal of running across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

TORONTO — A Jewish school for elementary girls was struck by gunshots for the second time in six months, Toronto police said Saturday as they announced an investigation.

MONTREAL — Two men were charged with second-degree murder and arson on Saturday, a week after a fire ravaged an Old Montreal building, killing a mother and daughter from France.

OTTAWA — A growing number of Liberal MPs are banding together to convince Prime Minister Justin Trudeau it's time to step down, although he appears to retain support from his cabinet.

A B.C. woman got the experience of a lifetime this week after a great white shark washed up on a beach near her home.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says its coroner's service is investigating six suspected toxic drug deaths between Sept. 23 and Oct. 4.

"I don't accept that these people were cleared," says Ian Donaldson, the lawyer for Myles Gray's family. "This event and the result of the discipline authority's work has not contributed, in my opinion, to respect for the police in any way."

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says mercury levels that "exceeded the water quality objective" were found in a creek near the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed, causing a torrent of cyanide-contaminated rock to escape in June.