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WASHINGTON — Protesters chanted "dirty deal" and belted out a John Denver favourite Tuesday as they disrupted moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin to let him know what they think of the newly fast-tracked Mountain Valley pipeline.

OTTAWA — Low-risk travellers from 13 more countries will be able to skip a visa application if they want to visit Canada, the immigration minister announced Tuesday.

OTTAWA — A rift continues to grow between federal opposition parties and former governor general David Johnston, who insists he will not let the politicization of foreign interference and what he described as false claims deter him from his work.

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused to extend an injunction protecting a homeless encampment under a busy Montreal highway, ruling the tent city must be dismantled by June 15 as planned.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A lawyer is accusing the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation of trying to delay and ultimately quash a sexual harassment lawsuit by attempting to move the proceedings from Newfoundland and Labrador to Quebec.

OTTAWA — While the Liberals insist a Pacific Rim trade bloc should welcome any country that meets its standards, an internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out of the deal.

OTTAWA — The federal government has given an updated deal to a public-service union that signed its collective agreement in the fall in order to match deals reached with the Public Service Alliance of Canada during a strike this spring.

OTTAWA — The federal government has delivered a written offer to Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Andrea Fessler found out her third daughter didn't qualify for Canadian citizenship — even though her two older daughters did — when she arrived at the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong to register.

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice.