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Free shots that can protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus are being offered by some health-care providers in Ontario and the Northwest Territories.

NORMAN WELLS, N.W.T.

WASHINGTON — Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as "sleeping with an elephant," a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year’s tumultuous and polarized American election.

The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed in June "continue to reveal high levels of cyanide.

VANCOUVER — Forecasters have elevated their warnings about an atmospheric river system that is expected to hit coastal British Columbia on Friday, bringing potential flooding, heavy rain and high winds. B.C.

IQALUIT — More than 200 Air India passengers have landed in Chicago after a bomb threat forced their flight to be diverted to Nunavut.

IQALUIT — Canada's emergency preparedness minister says the passengers of an Air India flight that landed in Iqaluit due to a bomb threat remain stuck there, and he has approved a request for the military to help them.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says its coroner's service is investigating six suspected toxic drug deaths between Sept. 23 and Oct. 4.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says mercury levels that "exceeded the water quality objective" were found in a creek near the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed, causing a torrent of cyanide-contaminated rock to escape in June.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The member of Parliament for Nunavut is urging people in northern Labrador to complain directly to the federal government about food prices that have been described as inhumane.