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CALGARY – A trial began Monday into an alleged multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that investigators say bilked thousands of investors around the world.

MONTREAL – Luka Rocco Magnotta's lawyer says he is looking for open-minded and intelligent people to serve as jurors in his client's first-degree murder trial.

CHICAGO – Hundreds of children in about a dozen states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials suspect may be caused by an uncommon virus similar to the germ that causes the common cold.

LONDON – Prince George is not going to be an only child for long — the toddler will soon have a baby sister or brother to share his fancy digs at Kensington Palace.

VANCOUVER – All half a million of British Columbia's public school students remain locked out of their classrooms at the start of the second week of the school year as the teachers strike continues.

VICTORIA – Christy Clark will be British Columbia's first premier to visit the controversial Tsilhqot'in Nation territory as she negotiates a new relationship with an aboriginal group that has a recent high court rights ruling and 150 years of ill feelings over the hangings of six of its chiefs.

VANCOUVER – Twenty people have died on British Columbia's highways and roads in the last week, 10 of them within the last 24 hours.

MINSK, Belarus – A cease-fire took hold Friday night in eastern Ukraine after the president’s representative signed a deal with Russian-backed separatists in an effort to bring an end to nearly five months of fighting.

OTTAWA – Canada's economy unexpectedly shed jobs in August thanks to heavy losses in the private sector, raising the eyebrows of economists who widely expected a modest gain in Statistics Canada's flagship monthly report.

TORONTO – GSK, Canada's largest flu vaccine supplier, will not be able to fill about 30 per cent of its Canadian order for the upcoming 2014-15 flu season, the company said Thursday.

BERLIN – Visit any tourist destination, and you're bound to see individuals and groups taking photos of themselves for sharing on social media. It's a declaration to the world that they were there.

TORONTO – Facebook is being more proactive in ensuring its users fully understand their privacy settings and who can see their posts.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia's teachers' strike is sailing into uncharted waters, with no resolution on the horizon for the turbulent dispute that has delayed the start of the school year for the first time in provincial history.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.

LONDON – As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors.

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