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TORONTO — Air Canada says its flight attendants need to return to work before the airline can push on with negotiations, even as the union says it won't end its now unlawful strike until a deal is reached at the bargaining table.

OTTAWA — Air Canada flight attendants remain on strike despite back-to-work orders by the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

RICHMOND — Several daily rainfall records were shattered in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia on Friday, with the Vancouver breaking a record set over a century ago. Environment Canada says about 43.

John and Lois Alderman said they felt like "prisoners," stranded in Toronto as they waited with their children for a flight back home to Manchester, U.K.

CAMROSE — Voters head to the polls today in a rural Alberta byelection that's getting an unusual level of national attention.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the federal government is leaving "no stone unturned" to defend Canada's North as changes in the global order in recent years are having direct implications for Canada's Arctic sovereignty.

The investigation itself will not put an end to labour unrest at Air Canada.

MONTREAL — The presidents of two major Quebec unions fear that workers in the province could soon face the same treatment as striking Air Canada flight attendants under a provincial law passed in May.

MONTREAL — Sid Stevens, the co-founder of Montreal-based community organization Sun Youth, has died at age 85. The organization said Stevens died Sunday surrounded by loved ones.

Wide swaths of B.C. and the prairie provinces are expected to be drier and hotter than normal, and federal government forecasters see above-average seasonal temperatures for most of the country over the next three months.