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WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says widespread wildfires have the city of Flin Flon on the verge of evacuation while officials work to find places to put thousands more possible evacuees.

While many Canadians were disappointed that the King did not directly push back on Trump's annexation talk, the throne speech emphasized Canada's sovereignty and his close personal relationship with the country.

OTTAWA — The federal government will take "immediate and decisive action" to rebuild Canada's military, Defence Minister David McGuinty told an audience of military contractors at a trade show in Ottawa Wednesday morning.

On Tuesday, in a social media post, Trump said it would cost Canada $61 billion to join as a sovereign country but nothing at all if it became a U.S. state.

OTTAWA — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Canada has invited her to attend the G7 leaders' summit next month in Alberta but she hasn't decided yet if she'll attend.

HALIFAX — RCMP in northeastern Nova Scotia confirmed that two children who disappeared almost four weeks ago were last seen in public with family members on May 1 — the day before they were reported missing.

The B.C. coast is expected to see near-normal temperatures and precipitation.

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OTTAWA — Parliament gets back to work Wednesday with a new Speaker, a new prime minister and plenty of new faces in the House of Commons.

FERGUS FALLS — Two men are to be sentenced today for their role in a human smuggling operation that saw a family of four freeze to death on the Canada-U.S. border south of Winnipeg.