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HALIFAX - Just over a year after his web of deceit unravelled in a drab police office, a Canadian naval officer convicted of selling secrets to Russian agents rose in court and issued a simple, 30-second apology.

HALIFAX - The RCMP in Nova Scotia are dismissing a reference in a Supreme Court of Canada decision that says they did not adequately respond to a woman's calls for help before she tried to hire a hit man to kill the husband she said was abusing her.

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau wants to reverse his father's famous assessment of backbenchers as "just nobodies.

OSHAWA, Ont. - Darwin the Ikea monkey will stay at a primate sanctuary for at least the next few months after the woman who describes herself as his mom lost a third bid to get him back.

LAVAL, Que. - There's another space race underway — only this one isn't nearly as ominous as the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s to get a man on the moon.

OTTAWA - A body has been found in the Parliament Hill office of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. Authorities say identification has been difficult because of the deteriorated condition of the corpse, which resembled broccoli.

TORONTO - A renowned Russian ballerina insisted Friday there is no link between the threats that forced her to move to Canada and a vicious acid attack against the artistic director of the famed Bolshoi Theatre.

MONTREAL - Filmmakers aren't the only ones hoping to take home some Oscar loot when the fabled golden statues are handed out on Feb. 24.

B.C. Ferries is heading into its busiest-ever period for major ship refits.

Bus passengers have been kicked to the curb mid-trip at least twice in the past week, and likely more often than that, because B.C. Transit would not approve overtime, says the union representing Greater Victoria public transit drivers.