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OTTAWA — Family members, friends, political dignitaries and celebrities packed Montreal's storied Notre Dame Basilica on Saturday for the funeral of Brian Mulroney. The former prime minister died Feb. 29 in Palm Springs, Fla.

MONTREAL — Members of the Canadian establishment gathered Saturday to laud Brian Mulroney as a loyal architect of modern-day Canada, one whose love of life and family transcended the rough-and-tumble world of partisan politics.

Joni Mitchell's music is back on Spotify more than two years after the songwriter pulled it off the platform in protest of other content available on the popular streaming service.

OTTAWA — 1:25 p.m. The family follows the casket out of the church. The bell at Notre-Dame toll 18 times in honour of the country's 18th prime minister. Meanwhile, a 19-gun salute begins at the Old Port of Montreal. ——— 1:15 p.m.

IDRE FJÄLL, Sweden — Another year, another women's skicross World Cup title for Canadian Marielle Thompson. Thompson, of Whistler, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ, earned her sixth victory of the World Cup season Saturday.

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MONTREAL — An RCMP honour guard carried the flag-draped casket of Canada's 18th prime minister into Notre-Dame Basilica on Saturday as the state funeral for Brian Mulroney got underway in Montreal.

Slavko Babincak was getting strange looks while tooling around town one day and couldn't figure out why. "Finally two guys asked, 'Have you been sprayed by a skunk?' And I'm like, 'Maybe?'" Babincak recounted.

TORONTO — The sharing of a cancer diagnosis from Catherine, the Princess of Wales, could be positive for those going through their own cancer journey or people who need to be more aware of the disease, says an executive with the Canadian Cancer Socie

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney died on Feb. 29, in Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 84. He was first elected in 1984 following the largest majority mandate in Canada's history, and was re-elected in 1988.