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TORONTO — Ontario is joining five other provinces in a class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers in a bid to recoup costs the government alleges can be directly attributed to the overdose crisis.

OTTAWA — Now that Andrew Scheer has revealed his decision to resign as Conservative leader, the party will start getting ready for the race to replace him.

MONTREAL — Prosecutors have opposed bail for a blogger alleged to have glorified the gunman behind Montreal's 1989 Ecole polytechnique killings, calling it one of the worst examples in recent memory of inciting hatred.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is advising exotic pet owners to practise good hygiene amid a salmonella outbreak in six provinces that's been linked to contact with snakes and rodents.

OTTAWA — How Andrew Scheer announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons on Dec. 12, 2019: Mr. Speaker, I was elected to this House in 2004, at the ripe old age of 25.

MONTREAL — A decision on whether to grant bail to a Montreal blogger alleged to have glorified the gunman behind Montreal's 1989 Ecole polytechnique killings is expected Monday.

SACRAMENTO, United States — Quebec Premier Francois Legault is defending comments made Wednesday to the governor of California in which he declared all French-Canadians are Catholic. Legault was making small talk with Gov.

OTTAWA — New numbers released Wednesday show close to 14,000 Canadians have been killed by opioids over the last four years and more than 17,000 people have been hospitalized for opioid-related poisoning.

EDMONTON — The Alberta Court of Appeal has dismissed a sentence appeal of a man convicted of killing two Edmonton-area seniors.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 12. What we are watching in Canada ...