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VANCOUVER — A bank account registered toIbrahim Ali shows transactions in Burnaby, B.C., on July 18, 2017, the same day a 13-year-old was murdered in a city park, a senior investigator at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union testified Wednesday.

CALGARY — The company that runs a commercial kitchen at the centre of an E. coli outbreak that infected hundreds at numerous Calgary daycares has been charged with operating without a business licence.

VICTORIA — A record-high $966 million in wildfire spending and lower natural gas prices have combined to add $2.5 billion to British Columbia's projected deficit for this fiscal year, pushing that number to $6.7 billion.

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani said Wednesday he is confident the Liberals' bail-reform package will have an impact and make the country safer, but he says he cannot measure what exactly that will be.

MONTREAL — The older brother of a mentally ill man who killed three people at random during a 24-hour shooting spree in the Montreal area last year told a coroner Wednesday he questions why his medication regime had been changed before the killings.

GATINEAU, Que. — The complainant in the court martial for Lt.-Gen.

TORONTO — The Toronto office of Peter Nygard's clothing company housed a bedroom suite featuring a door built into a mirrored wall that could only be opened by a control panel, his sexual-assault trial heard Wednesday as witnesses detailed the layout

EDMONTON — A third-party report into the release of millions of litres of oilsands wastewater at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine has found Alberta's energy regulator followed its rules in keeping the public and area First Nations informed — but concludes t

OTTAWA — Immigration is almost solely responsible for the largest annual population boom Canada has seen since 1957, new estimates from Statistics Canada show.

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says she hopes to table a piece of legislation this fall that she says is the closest the federal government has come to co-developing law with First Nations.