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The government of Canada wants the Chalk River reactor back online sooner than the current estimate of mid-August, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt said Thursday, as she spoke of how to manage a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes.

Canada’s western premiers are developing a joint proposal to reform Canada’s employment insurance program, says Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach.

A helicopter that crashed off Newfoundland’s east coast earlier this year, killing 17 people, lost control because of a faulty tail rotor and its inflation collar system did not work when it slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, federal investigators said Thursday.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Wednesday’s spotty showers did little to quench a very dry reality - B.C.’s Okanagan is facing a serious drought this summer.

SQUAMISH, B.C. — A three-year-old girl is recovering after being attacked by a cougar near her Squamish, B.C., home as her mom relives the terror of locking eyes with the beast she pushed off her bleeding daughter.

The remains of Cpl. Martin Dube, the latest soldier to die in Afghanistan, have arrived on Canadian soil.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff ended their political brinkmanship Wednesday with a deal to avoid an election — at least until the fall.

Air Canada says it will allow passengers to bring their cat or small dog in the cabin on flights beginning in two weeks — for $100 on a domestic return trip and $200 for overseas trips.

The worldwide shortage of radioactive isotopes because of the shutdown of Canada’s Chalk River reactor is perhaps the biggest crisis ever to hit the field of nuclear imaging, says the organization representing the profession.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff appear close to a pact that will allow the Conservative government to survive a confidence vote that could trigger a rare summer election.