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OTTAWA — A dispute between the federal government and provinces over funding and other resources is slowing efforts to transfer military police investigations and prosecutions of alleged sexual crimes to civilian authorities.

The fallout from a massive network outage at Rogers Communications that shut down mobile and internet services across much of Canada continued to come into focus on Saturday, even as the company restored most services and began offering an explanation

Trudeau offered the apology as descendants of the No. 2 Construction battalion's 600 members gathered in Truro, N.S., on the same grounds where the unit formed prior to deployment overseas in March 1917

OTTAWA — The Canadian government has quietly changed the name of Turkey to the official Turkish spelling Türkiye in all official communications.

Cristino Bouvette, a 36-year-old Roman Catholic priest from Calgary, is Italian through his mother and Cree and Métis through his father; his kokum, or grandmother, was a residential school survivor

OTTAWA — Organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" discussed using their ties to Métis identity to play the "race card" as part of an overall strategy to control their public image and garner sympathy for their cause, text messages suggest.

TORONTO — Someone in British Columbia is waking up $30.8 million richer. A single winning ticket was drawn for Friday's Lotto Max jackpot. The jackpot for the next draw on July 12 will be an estimated $10 million. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia is gearing up for a major COVID-19 booster shot campaign this fall with the expectation that new vaccines tailor-made to fight the Omicron variant will be available. COVID-19 boosters will be available to people in B.C.

WHITEHORSE — Several parts of Northern Canada are enveloped in smoke from wildfires along with unusually high seasonal temperatures.