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LAVAL, Que. — The man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into a Montreal-area daycare is scheduled to stand trial over five weeks beginning in April 2025.

The Canadian Cancer Society says all provinces and territories should lower the starting age for breast cancer screening to 40.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a ruling that allowed a justice of the peace to remain on the bench after she wrote a column critical of the bail system and the conduct of some Crown prosecutors.

Almost every region of the country has already seen months of warmer-than-average weather.

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

It would take "a few months of wet-season rainfall" to ease the drought.

WINNIPEG — A courtroom in Winnipeg is expected to hear testimony today about the search for the remains of the four victims of Jeremy Skibicki. Skibicki is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of four women in early 2022.

A Canadian diplomat and an RCMP officer heaped praise and gratitude on a sanctioned Haitian businessman that Global Affairs accuses of gangland connections, after he allowed a helicopter airlift of Canadian citizens and police at his luxury golf cour

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby said late Wednesday that the province had identified "sophisticated cybersecurity incidents" involving government networks.

OTTAWA — Canada's energy minister is defending carbon capture and storage technology as both effective and affordable, after an Alberta power company walked away from a planned project and a study found that another project got public subsidies to co