The team, which started on Monday, will help to deter and disrupt human smuggling activities in the sector that includes Maine.
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Arctic sea traffic is rising. Canada isn’t ready for it.
Domestic surveillance of the region is incomplete, data that’s collected is insufficient, and there is no effective way of sharing information on maritime traffic.
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Biden vows U.S. won’t walk away from storm-ravaged Puerto Rico
Fiona is expected to pass near Bermuda as a Category 4 hurricane, then reach Canada’s Atlantic provinces late Friday as a post-tropical cyclone.
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A Canadian man shot and killed 22 people. Three of his guns came from Maine.
The Canadian Mass Casualty Commission, charged with examining the shooting, released a detailed firearms report last week.
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Twenty-seven Romanians turned back after illegally crossing into Maine
It wasn’t immediately clear why the group tried to illegally cross the U.S. border from Canada.
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Canadian lawmakers extend emergency powers for truck protests
The act lets authorities declare no-go zones, allows police to freeze truckers’ bank accounts and compels companies to tow away vehicles.
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Canadian police arrest 2 leaders of protesting truckers
Busloads of police arrived near Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, and workers put up extra fences around government buildings.
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Death toll rises to 9 in fishing disaster off Newfoundland
Teams searched about 900 nautical square miles around the site, but high winds and over 30-foot seas impeded the effort amid dwindling hopes of finding any of the 12 missing sailors.
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Tensions mount in Ottawa as police warn truckers protesting COVID-19 rules to leave
Other demonstrators abandoned their sole remaining truck blockade along the U.S. border, opening all crossings for the first time in 2 weeks.
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Ottawa’s police chief ousted as a result of COVID-19 truck protest in Canada
Elsewhere in Canada, vehicles rolled out of a southern Alberta town and ended a blockade that paralyzed a United States border crossing into Montana for more than 2 weeks.