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OTTAWA — Opposition parties' public fretting over aspects of the newly revised North American free-trade deal — a pact tweaked this week to win American lawmakers' support — suggests the agreement's path to ratification might not be smooth.

OTTAWA — New Brunswick consumers will get a break at the gas pumps come April, after the federal government approved the province's carbon-tax proposal Wednesday.

A national agriculture group says farming needs to change to help save the climate and the industry. The National Farmers Union says in a report that old-fashioned mixed farming needs to be combined with the latest information technology.

Ontario's top court has ordered a new trial for an Ottawa man and his former lover who were convicted in the grisly slaying of the man's wife.

OTTAWA — An MP from Nova Scotia says he won't take his seat in the House of Commons right away after the death of his newborn daughter.

GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. — A plane that one witness describes as crashing in a "huge explosion" that left multiple people dead in British Columbia has been identified as a twin-engine propeller aircraft.

MONTREAL — A Quebec government plan to kill wolves that get too close to an endangered woodland caribou herd is raising concern among environmentalists, who accuse the government of sidestepping the true problem of habitat loss.

MONTREAL — A Quebec government plan that involves shooting wolves if they get too close to an endangered caribou herd is drawing criticism from environmentalists.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 11. What we are watching in Canada ...

GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. — The BC Coroners Service and police have confirmed multiple fatalities in a plane crash off the east coast of Vancouver Island.