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VANCOUVER — Two controversial B.C. religious leaders who were set to challenge Canada’s laws against polygamy won’t soon get the chance now that a judge has quashed the charges against them.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — The repatriation of the Timbit was held up by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tim Hortons executives Wednesday as a shining example of low corporate tax rates luring business to Canada.

The law firm where David Jacobson was once a partner is passing on its best wishes to the newly confirmed U.S. ambassador to Canada.

To hear Prime Minister Stephen Harper tell it, his financial policies helped repatriate the Timbit.

Maritime lobster fishermen in need of financial help got a lift of another kind when they were directed to a toll-free number that was supposed to detail an aid package but connected them to a sex line instead.

VANCOUVER — The testimony of two senior Mounties accomplished little Tuesday to clear up an apparent contradiction between an internal RCMP email and what the four officers who stunned Robert Dziekanski with a Taser at Vancouver’s airport told a public inquiry.

MONTREAL — The author of a $100-million white-collar scam has sent his 9,200 victims a letter of apology.

A former Russian KGB employee who’s been living in a Vancouver church since he was ordered to leave Canada almost four months ago has been hit with another legal setback in his bid to fight deportation.

An infant boy in Winnipeg remains in serious but stable condition after being hit in the head during what police believe was a domestic dispute.

OTTAWA — A diplomatic offensive must accompany the renewal of NATO’s military campaign, otherwise the nearly eight-year-old war in Afghanistan is doomed to fail, a Liberal senator said Monday.