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Nova Scotia Health says the situation in the province following last weekend's big winter storm has improved enough that some non-emergency services are resuming.

OTTAWA — Representatives from Big Tech companies say a Liberal government bill that would begin regulating some artificial intelligence systems is too vague.

VANCOUVER — Premier David Eby says social media companies can't be let "off the hook" after two British Columbia teens fell victim to online sextortion scams and died by suicide in the past year.

Premier David Eby said he "can't fathom" the ruling and it wasn't acceptable that Randall Hopley, who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011, had been given the same conditions for his long-term supervision order.

VICTORIA — When B.C. marine scientist Anna Hall encountered a very lost loggerhead turtle in waters near Victoria over the weekend, she knew it faced a grim fate at sea.

OTTAWA — Canada's immigration minister is "pissed off" that a list of people related to Canadians are being blocked from leaving the embattled Gaza Strip, he said Wednesday.

Selina Robinson stepped down on Monday after days of pressure over her comments that modern Israel was founded on a "crappy piece of land," which critics called racist and Islamophobic.

The pouches, available in a variety of flavours, are often sold under the brand name Zonnic and are marketed as a way to help adults quit smoking.

OTTAWA — The woman who accuses retired vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson of raping her more than 30 years ago on board a navy ship finished three days of testimony on Wednesday.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government will table a bill Thursday aimed at ensuring the province's secularism law — known as Bill 21 — remains shielded from potential Charter challenges.