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OTTAWA — Small- and medium-sized business owners are set to receive a long-awaited refund from Ottawa, which was holding onto billions of dollars while it sorted out a way to deliver them their carbon pricing rebates.

MONTREAL — The agency that oversees Montreal's Olympic Stadium is looking for ideas to reuse the components of the building's tattered, old roof — including membranes the size of 26 hockey rinks and cables 12 kilometres long.

VANCOUVER — In a story that moved April 10, The Canadian Press said the Canadian Space Agency issued a joint statement with NASA about a space food challenge. In fact, the statement was from the Canadian Space Agency alone. The Canadian Press

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ZEBALLOS, B.C. — A Vancouver Aquarium expert who has been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she has been trapped for more than three weeks.

OTTAWA — As the federal government belatedly laid sanctions Monday against those it blames for perpetuating a year-long civil war in Sudan, the country's former ambassador in Ottawa said Canada can help lay the pathway for peace.

MONTREAL — A break-in by a wild turkey at a long-term care home south of Quebec City over the weekend is a sign that the range and population of the birds are expanding in Quebec, bringing them closer to people.

OTTAWA — The federal leader of the New Democrats spent Monday insisting his party's position on carbon pricing remains unchanged.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release.

LA MALBAIE, Que. — Linda Simard says her husband frantically told her to call 911 as he watched two volunteer firefighters get swept away in rushing floodwaters in Quebec's Charlevoix region last year.