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VANCOUVER — Confused shoppers milled around the front of a London Drugs store in downtown Vancouver on Monday, some wondering aloud why they couldn't access the store to get prescriptions or buy hair dye.

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus for up to 24 hours per week starting in September.

OTTAWA — The commander of the Canadian Armed Forces Space Division says gaining awareness of what's going on outside our planet is one of his top priorities. Brig.-Gen.

OTTAWA — The federal government is being forced to adjust the set-up in the House of Commons and committee rooms after another language interpreter suffered a significant hearing injury.

OTTAWA — A federal inquiry into foreign interference has yet to present its initial report, but the Liberal government is already advancing plans to overhaul a suite of national security laws and procedures.

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are pushing the Liberals to stop allowing drug use in public after British Columbia announced it wants to scale back its decriminalization pilot project. In a policy U-turn, B.C.

MONTREAL — A major Quebec teachers union says it will follow the lead of the English Montreal School Board and seek to challenge the province's secularism law before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Research suggests climate change, not habitat loss, may be the biggest threat to the survival of threatened caribou herds.

VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier David Eby has joined other politicians denouncing remarks at a demonstration in Vancouver where protesters chanted "long live Oct. 7," praising that day's attacks by Hamas on Israel.

OTTAWA — The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to see contracts related to six electric vehicle projects underway in Canada for information on what they do to protect local union jobs.