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INDIANAPOLIS — A Guatemalan man living illegally in the U.S. pleaded guilty Friday to driving drunk in a crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver. Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, pleaded guilty to two counts of ...

MONTREAL — A young beluga that was rescued from a New Brunswick river and released in Quebec last year has been spotted alive and well off the coast of Nova Scotia, a marine mammal research group said Friday. The Group for Research and ...

OTTAWA — Canada's new infrastructure minister says he plans to meet with the people overseeing construction of a new $4.2-billion bridge in Montreal to figure out if — and how — the project can be done on time. The Champlain Bridge project is ...

MONTREAL — Sexual education, usually reserved for elementary and high school students, will be offered to some 1,200 Quebec daycare and kindergarten students beginning this fall as part of a pilot project. The project will be run by the ...

OTTAWA — Canada's top court says police officers accused of crimes have no special right to mount a defence using information gleaned from informers in the course of their work. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's public-sector unions lost a bid Friday for a temporary court injunction against a provincial government bill that would freeze wages for 110,000 workers. Court of Queen's Bench Justice James Edmond rejected a request from ...

PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. — A car burst into flames this morning after striking and killing a moose on a Newfoundland highway. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Terry Alexander says the single-vehicle collision happened on the Trans-Canada Highway about an hour's ...

Seven stories in the news for Friday, July 20 ——— PREMIERS TO WRAP UP TWO DAYS OF MEETINGS Provincial and territorial leaders wrap up two days of meetings today in the seaside town of St. Andrews, N.B. Opposition to Ottawa's carbon pricing ...

BURNABY, B.C. — Protesters at an anti-pipeline camp in Burnaby, B.C., say they are ready to defy an eviction notice handed out from the city. The City of Burnaby issued a 72-hour notice to those occupying "Camp Cloud" on ...

TORONTO — Five men accused in an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme have had all charges against them stayed because of a shortage of judges in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice. Earlier this year, a judge attempting to set a trial date for ...