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A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck in northern Yukon, but Natural Resources Canada says there have been no reports of damage and none would be expected.

OTTAWA — P.J. Akeeagok is still the premier of Nunavut after surviving a tight confidence vote in the Legislature on Wednesday. In a 10-8 vote, MLAs defeated a motion to strip him of his premiership and remove him from cabinet.

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — Teams from Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Quebec remain unbeaten after five draws at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.

KIMMIRUT, Nvt. — Power has been restored to a Nunavut hamlet on Baffin Island following a days-long outage that began on Thursday.

KIMMIRUT, Nvt. — The Nunavut government has declared a state of emergency in Kimmirut after a power outage hit the Baffin Island hamlet two days ago.

TORONTO — Time change discourse happens on a predictable cycle. Every year, twice a year, a chorus of Canadians decries the policy of springing forward and falling back. It really is like clockwork.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says testing around the gold mine where a containment facility gave way, spilling millions of tonnes of cyanide-laced rock, has found increased levels of mercury, cobalt and cyanide.

Yukon's government says the territory recorded a non-consolidated deficit of more than $42 million, an almost $91-million swing from the original forecast of a surplus of $48-million.

TORONTO — Eight-three per cent of adults in this country have a regular primary-care provider, but that still leaves 5.4 million adults without one, a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says.

WASHINGTON — President John F. Kennedy stood before Canadian lawmakers elucidating the important relationship between the two countries: "Geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners.