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TORONTO — Hockey commentator Don Cherry is in the limelight yet again, this time for complaining that he rarely sees people he believes to be new immigrants wearing poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.

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PLUMAS, Man. — Two adults and a toddler are dead following a mobile home fire near a small Manitoba community. RCMP say they and firefighters responded to the blaze early Friday night near Plumas, Man., about 175 kilometres west of Winnipeg.

QUEBEC — Two people are dead after a fire swept through a home in Matane, Que., in the lower St-Lawrence region. Quebec provincial police say the fire began about 5 a.m.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia jury will return to deliberations Sunday morning in the case of two special constables charged in the death of an impaired 41-year-old man who suffocated in a Halifax police jail cell.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government has overturned a decision to deny a French woman her Quebec immigration documents because a chapter of her PhD thesis was written in English.

MONTREAL — An unattended cigarette may be behind a fire inside a west-end Montreal apartment late Friday that left a woman and her eight-year-old daughter dead and her five-year-old daughter fighting for her life, police said Saturday.

VANCOUVER — Scientists say a marine heat wave that blanketed a large area of the west coast has weakened, but the potential disruption to ocean life isn't over yet.

TORONTO — There was no winning ticket for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Nov. 12 will grow to approximately $20 million. The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver is getting a $1 million boost from the B.C. government to support the establishment of a Chinese-Canadian museum, with the goal of creating branches in other communities across the province.