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OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says Ottawa needs the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and a committee trying to renegotiate a child welfare agreement to decide who's leading the talks before any progress can be made.

MONTREAL — Passenger rights advocates are raising alarm bells about a proposed change that would give the country's transport watchdog new powers to penalize air travellers for breaching confidentiality rules.

Bobbi Ann Brady set out in this Ontario election to prove that her win in Haldimand-Norfolk as an independent in 2022 was not a fluke, but winning by the second-largest margin in the province is "mind blowing," she said.

TORONTO — Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won't have long to sit back and bask in the glow of winning a third majority government with an imminent tariff threat around the corner.

MONTREAL — Former federal cabinet minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada is officially in the running to be the next mayor of Montreal.

MADISON, Wis.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is weighing whether to block a Florida law from going into effect that would ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 14- and 15-year-olds.

CHEYENNE, Wyol (AP) — Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic stopped providing abortions Friday, but it remained open after Gov. Mark Gordon approved a law requiring that such facilities be licensed as surgical centers.

QUÉBEC — Quebec Premier François Legault replaced his cybersecurity and digital technology minister Friday after a scandal with the auto insurance board's online platform forced the resignation of Éric Caire.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government might extend its ban on religious symbols following a report on the state of secularism in several public schools.