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MONTREAL — Despite a downward trend, Quebec still reported nearly record-high population growth last year due to immigration, even as the province's fertility rate reached its lowest level on record.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump's preliminary trade agreement with the United Kingdom sent a signal to countries around the world — including Canada — about the goals of his campaign to upend global trade with tariffs.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to invest in Canada's foreign service, arguing that diplomacy is becoming increasingly important in a dangerous world.

OTTAWA — Ottawa and the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association have signed a first-of-its-kind, $514 million agreement to help boost entrepreneurship.

KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ — The Nunavik Police Service in Quebec's Far North says officers involved in a fatal shooting on Tuesday night were wearing body cameras.

There is a street named after him in a British town. A plaque at the local hospital tells the story of how the 29-year-old pilot saved many lives while sacrificing his own during the Second World War.

OTTAWA — Canada's premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet in Saskatoon on June 2 to discuss ways to work together to make the country stronger.

TORONTO — Marc Parravano has donated blood 146 times. He remembers regularly going to the blood collection centre with his mother when he was a kid and followed in her footsteps after he turned 17 and was able to donate himself.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... NDP faces 'Parliament from hell,' says ex-MP The NDP will return to the House of Commons without official party status at the end of May.

OTTAWA — After the Second World War came to a close, Canada pulled itself away from Great Britain and planted itself firmly within a North American political and economic compact that generated prosperity for much of the western world for decades.