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VANCOUVER — In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded.

EDMONTON — Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.

VANCOUVER — About 400 people attended a memorial mass Saturday morning to honour those killed in last week's deadly vehicle ramming at a Vancouver Filipino festival. Father Amador Abundo said the mass at Delta, B.C.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday held his first news conference since his Liberals won a minority government mandate in Monday's election. He now has a long list of tasks to complete in the coming weeks.

WINKLER — Public health officials in Manitoba are warning of new measles exposure sites in two communities south of Winnipeg, including a medical centre and an elementary school. Officials say people may have been exposed to the virus at the C. W.

OTTAWA — Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed says he doesn't expect Prime Minister Mark Carney to get everything right immediately as he learns about and crafts policies for Indigenous Peoples, but it's clear he's willing to learn.

OTTAWA — More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests.

OTTAWA — The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament.

VANCOUVER — Rev. Francis Galvan was supposed to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival last Saturday, but he was grieving the death of Pope Francis and wasn't in the mood for celebrating. Galvan, the pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Delta, B.C.

LONDON — A woman prosecutors allege was sexually assaulted by five hockey players described Friday feeling increasingly drunk, off balance and out of touch with her surroundings at the bar where she first encountered some of the accused.