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OTTAWA — Newly elected Liberal MP Daniel Gobeil says his experience as a dairy farmer and agricultural leader will help him be a voice in Ottawa for a Quebec region on the front lines of the Canada-U.S. trade war. The former president of Quebec's dairy producers says he may already have contributed to Canada's approach to the Trump administration, even before voters in Chicoutimi—Le Fjord elected him to Parliament in an Aug. 31 byelection.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A chunk of ceiling fell inside a main hallway of the Kennedy Center, according to a spokesperson who said the damage underscores the need to shut down the historic arts venue for renovations sought by President Donald Trump. No one was injured when a piece of the ceiling inside the Kennedy Center's grand foyer collapsed Friday evening, said Roma Daravi, the center's vice president for public relations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died. She was 85. Morgan's death was confirmed Saturday by the Women's Media Center, an organization she cofounded with Jane Fonda and the celebrated author and activist Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday. During the 1960s and ’70s, Morgan embodied and inspired historic changes in how women lived and thought.

NEW YORK — Canada's Leylah Fernandez and Indonesia's Janice Tjen fell 6-4, 6-4 to New Zealand's Erin Routliffe and Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi in second-round women's doubles action at the U.S. Open on Saturday. Fernandez and Tjen had one ace to six double faults and only converted on one of their six break-point chances. Meanwhile, the ninth seeds Routliffe and Sutjiadi had one ace, two double faults and broke on three of their five opportunities.

With a new academic year comes new beginnings, and perhaps new pressures; the unexplored territory of new circles, puberty, and “levelling up” (academically). The Squamish Public Library is on hand with ever expanding material, to help kids (and their caregivers) navigate their journeys, and keep learning about their own communities. This summer saw the library’s most successful summer reading club ever, according to director Hilary Bloom, with around 550 participants, and a total of 16 programs.

Jasmeet Raina leaned on comedy days after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when students at school began circulating rumours that his uncle was Osama bin Laden. "They were like, 'Oh yeah, we saw Osama drop him off at school,'" he said. The driver was his father, who is Sikh, wears a turban and took Raina to his middle school in Guelph, Ont., not the al-Qaida leader who plotted the deadly attacks on the United States.

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "(Russian President Vladimir) Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out against Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight today,” presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s Tass news agency.

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small potatoes” — keep up a new tilt back toward fighting after six months of on-again, off-again war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country on Feb. 28.

CAIRO (AP) — American forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after U.S. Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the U.S. military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small potatoes” — keep up a new tilt back toward fighting after six months of on-again, off-again war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” The military’s statement said a U.S. aircraft carrier and a destroyer evaded “multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks” while patrolling in the region and no U.S. personnel were hurt. It said two Iranian oil carriers were “permanently disabled” and the third, unladen one, was destroyed.