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British Columbia wildland firefighter Angus Duguid loves his job, but he doesn't love waking up with headaches or a clogged nose from inhaling smoke.

OTTAWA — Global Affairs sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says it has now helped more than 1,000 passengers leave Lebanon as the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah intensifies.

SURREY, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — NDP Leader David Eby promised Sunday to support police in British Columbia to keep illegal guns off the streets and protect communities, but accused sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Conservative Leader John Rustad of planning to make the province less safe.

In Ottawa, a sea of Israeli flags could be seen draped over participants in front of Ottawa City Hall, with Canadian flags waving alongside them as they called for the release of hostages still being held in Gaza.

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau will travel to Laos later this week for the ASEAN summit, marking what his office says will be the first official visit of a Canadian prime minister to the Southeast Asian country.

The Pope significantly increased the size of the College of Cardinals with Sunday's appointments, further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day elect his successor.

VANCOUVER — The calculus of predicting an election and identifying its key battlegrounds is complex enough in any race, but observers of the British Columbia poll this month are facing a pair of unknown quantities that make the maths even more confou

MONTREAL — Raquel Ohnona Look wipes back tears when her eyes fall on the plaque in honour of her son Alexandre, affixed to a bench in a suburban Montreal green space that was recently renamed for him. "Forever in our hearts.

The other 23 people believed to be in the building when the fire broke out all made it out, with one person remaining in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Montreal police say.

"We need to see peace in the region," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Paris on the final day of the Francophonie summit.