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Quebec Premier François Legault will be attending a United Nations climate summit in New York next week.

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to New York next week to take part in the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed today that Trudeau will be at the UN Sept.

EDMONTON — Most Albertans would support some kind of national cap on carbon emissions from the oil and gas sector, two new polls suggest.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

MONTREAL — The union representing dockworkers at the Port of Montreal says it has ended a long-standing hiring practice that has been criticized for fostering nepotism — to the point where workers' preschool offspring were placed on a list of potenti

CALGARY — Public health investigators and scientists in Alberta are working like detectives — interviewing people, gathering evidence and waiting for lab test results — to find out what caused a massive E. coli outbreak at several daycares.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Police say a Sikh high school student in Kelowna, B.C., was pepper sprayed after an "altercation" on a bus on Monday, in the second instance of violence against a Sikh youth riding public transit in the city this year.

VANCOUVER — Wildfire behaviour in British Columbia received a late-summer boost from higher than normal temperatures and lower than normal rainfall, especially in the north, and provincial officials say dry conditions are expected well into the fall.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man who is suing the RCMP claims he walked naked out of his shower to find a female uniformed Mountie standing in his bedroom.

VANCOUVER — An RCMP expert testifying at Ibrahim Ali's murder trial said the first DNA evidence linking the accused to the killing of a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, B.C., came from a discarded cigarette butt.