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Wednesday's Council of the Federation talks may be the last time premiers invite Indigenous leaders to their annual summer gathering, after the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Metis National Council declined their invitations for the second year in a row.

Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation executives showed off one of their new cannabis retail stores in Halifax on Wednesday that will begin selling pot on Oct. 17, when widespread pot use becomes legal across Canada.

In what should be a big year for sockeye on Canada's most important salmon river, the DFO warns that fish returning will have experienced the same "unusually warm" freshwater and ocean conditions that have coincided with low survival the past three years.