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The British Columbia government has appointed a former chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court to report on safety measures for event organizers and police after 11 people were killed in a vehicle attack in Vancouver.

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five ex-world junior hockey players agreed Wednesday that she took on a "porn star persona" as a coping mechanism while in a hotel room with the men and that it may have appeared to them that she was

"Anybody can do it," the supercentenarian said in a recent interview. "I don't feel any different as any other day really, except I can't move as fast or think as fast."

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is confident the independence of the court won't be influenced by his feelings that the man accused of killing 11 people at a Filipino festival should "spend the rest of his goddamned life in jail." The B.C.

Canada's South Asian community is on edge after conflict erupted between India and Pakistan in the form of missile strikes that killed 31 people in Pakistani-administered areas.

OTTAWA — Over 800 special ballots cast during the recent federal election were mistakenly kept at the office of a returning officer in B.C., Elections Canada says.

TORONTO — Canada's largest school board says it has received a ransom demand over student data that was stolen last December, even though the company behind the affected software paid ransom in hopes of securing that information.

KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ — Quebec's police watchdog is investigating a fatal shooting involving an officer in the province's Far North.

MONTREAL — New rules on tipping and on price displays at grocery retailers took effect Wednesday across Quebec, in a move the government describes as an effort to make things easier for consumers.

MONTREAL — Asylum claims doubled at a Quebec border crossing in April as the Trump administration seeks to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States.