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WINNIPEG — Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand told a ceremony for a new treaty that recognizes his organization as the government for the Red River Métis that the moment was 154 years in the making.

SURREY, B.C. — Members of the Métis Nation British Columbia voted Saturday to leave the national organization, the Métis National Council, effective immediately. The vote was held virtually during the B.C.

The chief of a First Nation in central British Columbia says potential unmarked graves have been identified at the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School after nearly two years of geophysical survey work.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump called his meeting with Justin Trudeau productive and said the prime minister made a commitment to work with the United States to end the drug crisis amid the threat of stiff tariffs.

MONTREAL — Fans hoping to see the world's top woman skiers compete next week in Mont-Tremblant, Que., are out of luck after the PwC Tremblant World Cup was cancelled due to warm weather. The races were scheduled for Dec.

DOUALA — Pierre wakes up every morning atop a makeshift wooden table, in an open-air courtyard at the New Bell central prison in Douala, the most populous city in Cameroon.

Trudeau's plane landed in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening, not far from where Trump's transition team is based at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

MONTREAL — Political leaders and press freedom groups on Friday were left shell-shocked after Montreal news outlet La Presse revealed that a hit man had offered $100,000 to have one of its crime reporters assassinated.

For years they were locked in opposition over whether to replace the RCMP in British Columbia's second largest city with a municipal police force. But Surrey, B.C., Mayor Brenda Locke and her predecessor, Doug McCallum, both say they have no regrets.

DAWSON CITY, Y.T.