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VANCOUVER — A tentative contract has been reached for British Columbia's 49,000 public school teachers in a deal the union says would take them from near the bottom to the "top tier" of pay in Canada.

OTTAWA — Violence in Ukraine has crippled the country's judicial system, the chief justice of its Supreme Court says, and left it struggling to handle tens of thousands of criminal reports arising from the war.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The survival of affirmative action in higher education appeared to be in serious trouble Monday at a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after hours of debate over vexing questions of race.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says a new licence plate could be in place by next summer to raise money for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

CHARLOTTETOWN — The chief executive of Prince Edward Island's main electric utility says the firm is exploring ways to encourage the burying of distribution lines as it reflects on the massive damage of post-tropical storm Fiona.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of people watching ballot boxes in Arizona, sometimes armed or wearing ballistic vests, raise serious concerns about voter intimidation, the Justice Department said Monday as it stepped into a lawsuit over the monitoring.

HALIFAX — Legislation that would limit power rate increases in Nova Scotia jeopardizes the province’s goal of getting off coal by 2030, the head of the province’s privately owned utility told a legislature committee Monday.

VANCOUVER — Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top minister have overstated the privilege they enjoy as politicians as they try to get out of testifying at the Emergencies Act inquiry, the commissioner overseeing the proceeding said Monday in court docume

OTTAWA — Newly released text messages show how the federal government was planning its communications strategy before the arrival of "Freedom Convoy" protesters in Ottawa back in late January.