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Canada’s vibrant Indigenous heritage is highlighted in a new book collection – made in collaboration with communities across the country. Canadian Geographic’s Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada is a four-volume set which guides readers through land, languages, people and culture. Source

ISTANBUL -- Turkey will soon conduct joint patrols with U.S. forces in the strategic northern Syrian town of Manbij, once a stronghold of the Islamic State group, a top Turkish official said on Friday The announcement came as Turkey's Defence Ministry said in a Friday statement that the borders of Idlib's demilitarized zone were determined in a meeting with their Russian counterparts during a three-day meeting. Source

MONTREAL -- One day after being ridiculed for saying it was possible to feed a family of three on $75 a week, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard is maintaining his stance. Asked again today about the grocery tab, Couillard said it could be done with some creative coupon usage. Source

Alberta education officials are apologizing after students were asked to identify the positive effects of the residential school system. An assignment given out at St. Paul Alternative Education Centre, taken from an Alberta Grade 11 social studies correspondence course, asked what a positive effect of residential schools was. Source

U.S. President Donald Trump challenged the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, saying that if the alleged attack was that "bad" then she would have filed charges. I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Source

CALGARY -- Jurors are to continue deliberating Friday whether a man accused of raping and killing a Calgary mother of four is guilty of first-degree murder or a lesser charge. The jury was given instructions by Queen's Bench Justice Charlene Anderson on Thursday and they deliberated until 9 p.m. Source

Marc van Bloemen has lived in the old town of Dubrovnik, a Croatian citadel widely praised as the jewel of the Adriatic, for decades, since he was a child. He says it used to be a privilege. Source

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. -- Investigators are looking into the deaths of two grizzly bears that were found shot in northwestern Alberta. Alberta Fish and Wildlife says in a Facebook posting that an adult male grizzly weighing about 227 kilograms was discovered Wednesday afternoon, about 145 kilometres south of Grande Prairie. Source

More than three million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. More than three-quarters of these deaths were among men, the UN health agency said. Source

NEW YORK -- She says he sexually assaulted her; he denies it. Is somebody deliberately lying? Not necessarily. Experts say that because of how memory works, it's possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford -- the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s -- believe what they say. Source