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FILE - Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller speaks to the media during the federal cabinet retreat in Montreal, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Miller said Thursday, March 21, the country will set targets to reduce the number of new temporary residents in the country.(Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada to set targets to decrease the number of new temporary residents for the first time

Canadian officials say they will set targets to decrease the number of new temporary residents in the country.

FILE -Bayern's Alphonso Davies reacts during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and SC Freiburg at the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, Germany, Oct. 8, 2023. Bayern Munich sports director Max Eberl says the club has made its final offer to Canada left back Alphonso Davies to extend his contract amid reported interest from Real Madrid. Eberl tells the Sport Bild magazine, “I can say we made Alphonso a very concrete, appreciative offer. At some point in life you have to say yes or no.” (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Bayern Munich makes final offer to Alphonso Davies amid reported interest from Real Madrid

People gather for an auction of farm equipment during 56th annual mud sale to benefit the local fire department in Gordonville, Pa., Saturday, March 9, 2024. Mud sales are a relatively new tradition in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish country, going back about 60 years and held in early spring as the ground begins to thaw but it's too early for much farm work. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Spring for Amish people in Pennsylvania means ‘mud sales,’ from pitchforks to pies

The exterior of a Body Shop store is seen, Monday, March 4, 2024, in Toronto. The Body Shop has ceased its U.S. operations on March 1, and is closing dozens of locations in Canada amid deepening financial struggles for the British beauty and cosmetics chain. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

The Body Shop ceases US operations, with plans to close dozens of stores in the UK and Canada

FILE - Lake Koocanusa is seen, June 16, 2021, northeast of Libby, Mont. Rising levels of the mining byproduct selenium is harming water quality, fish and other aquatic life in the lake along the U.S.-Canada border. Officials from the U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups announced a proposal Monday, March 11, 2024, to address longstanding pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that's contaminating waterways and harming fisheries on both sides of the border. (Hunter D'Antuono/Flathead Beacon via AP, File)

US, Canada and indigenous groups announce proposal to address cross-border mining pollution

Fundraising auctions at Pennsylvania’s annual Amish mud sale

Spring in southcentral Pennsylvania brings an annual tradition in Amish communities: mud sales. The auctions benefit volunteer fire departments across what the Amish community refers to as the Lancaster settlement. (AP VIdeo: Tassanee Vejpongsa)

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FILE - Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, Ontario, April 28, 2022. Ahmed, who is now Canada's Minister of International Development, said Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, that Canada is working to airdrop humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada will restore funding to UNRWA, the embattled UN agency in Gaza

Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, weeks after the agency lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza.

Richard Phillips, a 65-year-old man from the Canadian capital, Ottawa, packs his suitcase in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 8, 2024. Dozens of foreigners, including many from the U.S. and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already shut down both of the country's international airports. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Foreigners trapped in violence-torn Haiti wait desperately for a way out

Scores of foreigners are stranded in Haiti, unable to leave the country under siege by violent gangs that have shuttered its international airports, trapping citizens from the United States, Canada and beyond.

FILE - New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announces details of a new Northern Border Alliance Task Force, Oct. 19, 2023, in Concord, N.H. Police in northern New Hampshire would be allowed to bring trespassing charges against people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. from Canada under a bill approved by the state Senate on Thursday, March 7, 2024. The legislation, which now goes to the House, was requested by Sununu, who created a a task force last year to patrol along the state’s border with Canada. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File)

New Hampshire Republicans are using a land tax law to target northern border crossings

The New Hampshire state Senate has advanced a bill that would allow police to bring trespassing charges against people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. from Canada.

Female referee to officiate a men’s first division match in Mexico for the first time in 20 years

A female referee has been appointed to officiate a men’s first division match in Mexico for the first time in 20 years.

Proposed transmission line for renewable power from Canada to New England canceled

A major electrical transmission line proposal intended to carry power to New England from Canada through Vermont and New Hampshire has been canceled.

United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, left, celebrates with teammates at the end of the penalty shootout in a CONCACAF Gold Cup women's soccer tournament semifinal match against Canada, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Alyssa Naeher’s 3 saves in penalty shootout over Canada leads US into the Gold Cup final

Alyssa Naeher had three saves in the penalty shootout after a rain-soaked 2-2 draw with Canada on Wednesday night, earning the United States a spot in the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup final.

Brazil's Antonia, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal against Mexico during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup women's soccer tournament semifinal match, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Brazil earns spot in women’s Gold Cup final with 3-0 victory over Mexico

Adriana Leal and Antonia both scored first-half goals and Brazil earned a spot in the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup final with a 3-0 victory over Mexico.

FILE - In this file image made from a March 2, 2017, video, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yanji, China. The Canadian government has reached a settlement with Spavor, who, along with fellow Canadian Michael Kovrig, was detained in China for nearly three years on national security charges. A lawyer for Spavor, confirmed Wednesday, March 6, 20204, a settlement had been concluded. (AP Photo/File)

Canada reaches settlement with Canadian detained in China for nearly three years

Canada’s government has reached a settlement with one of two Canadians who were detained in China for nearly three years on national security charges during a diplomatic fight between the two countries.

A government official says Canada will restore funding to embattled UN agency in Gaza

Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, a government official tells The Associated Press, weeks after the agency lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza.

A framed portrait of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney leans against the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill as Canadians mourn his death at the age of 84, in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, March 1, 2024. A state funeral for Mulroney will be held on March 23 in Montreal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday, March 5. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

State funeral for former Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney to be held March 23

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will be held on March 23 in Montreal.

A framed portrait of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney leans against the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill as Canadians mourn his death at the age of 84, in Ottawa, Canada on Friday, March 1, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada plans state funeral for late Prime Minister Brian Mulroney

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, though no date has been set yet.

Dixon Terbasket, a syilx Okanagan wildlife technician with the Okanagan Nation Alliance from the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, examines a fenced-off cherry orchard expansion site near Kelowna, British Columbia, on Dec. 6, 2023. Terbasket and other conservation experts are concerned that the cherry orchard's expansion is impacting the mobility of animals that use a nearby wildlife corridor that is under threat from urban sprawl and other development. (Aaron Hemens/IndigiNews via AP)

Orchard expansion in Canada’s wine country stirs fears a key wildlife corridor will be harmed

In a story published March 1, 2024, about a Canada wildlife corridor, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Regional District of Central Okanagan owns land where an orchard expansion is located.

FILE - Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico relationship, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mulroney has died at the age of 84, his daughter Caroline Mulroney posted on social media, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Brian Mulroney, former Canadian prime minister who forged closer ties with US, dies at 84

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died at 84. He forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement that was once vilified but is now celebrated.

In this image taken from video provided by Mike Moody, people work to tow a Jeep to safety after it was accidentally driven off a cliff in Naalehu, Hawaii, on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. A tourist driving in the early-morning dark on the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island accidentally drove the rented Jeep off the cliff, but was able to swim to shore until firefighters pulled him up with a rope and helicopter. (Mike Moody via AP)

A tourist from Canada was rescued after accidentally driving a rental Jeep off a Hawaii cliff

A tourist driving in the early morning dark on the southern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island accidentally drove his rented Jeep off a cliff.

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on housing in Vancouver, Canada, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada reimposes a visa requirement on Mexicans

Canada’s immigration minister says his country is reimposing the visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada.

The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is pictured on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Newly released records made public Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, show that two scientists at Canada’s top infectious disease laboratory lost their jobs after reviews found they failed to protect sensitive assets and information and failed to acknowledge collaborations with China. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)

Fired scientists in Canada failed to acknowledge links to China, newly released records say

Two scientists at a high-security infectious disease laboratory in Canada lost their jobs after security reviews found they failed to protect sensitive material and information and did not acknowledge links with China, newly released records show.

FILE - Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, Ontario, April 28, 2022. Ahmed, who is now Canada's Minister of International Development, said Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, that Canada is working to airdrop humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada says it’s working to airdrop aid to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible

Canada’s International Development minister says Canada is working to airdrop humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.

FILE - A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer informs a migrant couple of the location of a legal border station, shortly before they illegally crossed from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, using Roxham Road. Canada’s government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada, an official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Quebec’s premier has been urging the federal government to slow the influx of refugees which he says has been straining resources. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Canada will reimpose some visa requirements on Mexicans, official says

An official familiar with the matter says the Canadian government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada.

Fiji's Talei Qalo Wilson and United States's Sarah Levy vie for the ball as they are lifted by their teammates during a Vancouver Sevens rugby game, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

US gets more rugby exposure in rebranded Pacific Nations Cup to help prepare for hosting World Cups

World Rugby’s bid to increase the sport’s visibility in the United States ahead of hosting the men’s and women’s World Cups will see the country stage the grand final of a rebranded Pacific Nations Cup tournament.

UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards, right, drives to the basket against South Carolina forward Chloe Kitts, left, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

UConn’s Aaliyah Edwards signs NIL deal in Canada, but can’t talk about it in the US

UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards signed a big name, image and likeness contract this week with Adidas Canada, but wasn’t allowed to speak with reporters about it for fear that promoting the deal might jeopardize her student visa.

FILE - Road signage is posted just outside of Emerson, Manitoba, Jan. 20, 2022. A second man, Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, is now facing federal charges connected with a human smuggling operation in which a family of four from India froze to death at the border of Canada and Minnesota. Patel was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

A smuggling arrest is made, 2 years after family froze to death on the Canadian border

A second man is facing federal charges in connection with a human smuggling operation in which a family of four from India froze to death trying to enter the U.S. from Canada.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, right, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, address the media following their talks, on European security and support for Poland's neighbor, Ukraine, in its struggle against Russia's aggression, in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Trudeau is on his way back from a visit to Kyiv. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish, Canadian leaders discuss boosting Ukrainian food exports to hungry countries outside Europe

The prime ministers of Canada and Poland have discussed boosting exports of Ukrainian grain to the world’s poorest countries to ease protests by farmers in Europe who see the Ukrainian goods as a market threat.

New Zealand women win Oceania tournament to qualify for Paris Olympics

New Zealand will compete in the women’s football tournament at the Paris Olympic Games after beating the Solomon Islands 11-1 in the final of the Oceania qualifying tournament Apia, Samoa.

FILE - Mexican fans attend the World Cup group C soccer match between Mexico and Poland, at the Stadium 974 in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The decade-long dispute between the Mexico soccer federation and FIFA over multiple punishments for fans chanting anti-gay slurs went to sport’s highest court on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The latest appeal by Mexico at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenges financial penalties totaling $114,000 imposed by FIFA for incidents at two games at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Mexico and FIFA go back to sports court in decade-long dispute over curbing soccer fans’ gay slurs

A decade-long dispute between the Mexican soccer federation and FIFA over multiple fines for fans chanting anti-gay slurs has gone to sport’s highest court.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., center, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, right, speak with Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves during a visit to Cleveland-Cliffs in Weirton, W.Va., Sept. 26, 2023. Cleveland-Cliffs announced Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, that it is shutting down the northern West Virginia tin production facility indefinitely and plans to lay off 900 workers after the International Trade Commission voted against imposing tariffs on tin imports. (Craig Howell /The Weirton Daily Times via AP)

Cleveland-Cliffs to shutter West Virginia tin plant and lay off 900 after tariff ruling

Cleveland-Cliffs is shutting down a northern West Virginia tin production facility indefinitely and plans to lay off 900 workers.

GM is nearly doubling the road miles where drivers can use its partially automated driving system

General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles, or about 563,000 kilometers, of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.

GM is nearly doubling the road miles where drivers can use its partially automated driving system

General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles, or about 563,000 kilometers, of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.

Tiger Woods speaks at a news conference ahead of the Genesis Open golf tournament, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Tiger Woods starts a new year with a new look. Sun Day Red is his new apparel through TaylorMade

Tiger Woods and Sunday red is no longer just a shirt. It’s a brand. Woods is starting a new year with a new look.

Canada players celebrates after a goal by Natalie Spooner (24) against the United States in the first period of a women's Rivalry Series hockey game Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Canada routs US 6-1, sweeps final 4 games to claim 2nd straight Rivalry Series

Natalie Spooner and Emma Maltais each scored twice, Ann-Renée Desbiens made 24 saves and Canada routed the United States 6-1 on Sunday in the decisive seventh game of the Rivalry Series.

Canada's Natalie Spooner, left, Marie-Philip Poulin and Sarah Nurse (20) celebrate a goal against the United States during the third period of a Rivalry Series hockey game Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Regina, Saskatchewan. (Liam Richards/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada wins 3rd straight to send Rivalry Series to decisive Game 7, beating US 3-0 in Regina

Natalie Spooner opened the scoring on a power play 58 seconds into the third period and Canada won its third straight to send the Rivalry Series to a decisive seventh game, beating the United States 3-0 on Friday night.