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MONTEBELLO, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached for a sales pitch instead of revealing any of his cards in his first public reply to U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that Canadian imports could face heavy tariffs as early as next week.

OTTAWA - A prominent trans activist says she'll be avoiding travel to the U.S. following President Donald Trump's executive order limiting gender expression to male or female, and wants Canada to update trans citizens on travel safety guidelines south of the border.

A wildlife team from the United States has begun capturing grey wolves in British Columbia for release in Colorado after voters in the state approved a proposal to reintroduce the animals, which have been "functionally extinct" there for 75 years.

VANCOUVER - The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project linking Alberta to the Pacific Ocean.

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has secured the endorsements of four more current and former cabinet ministers.

OTTAWA - The leader of the Bloc Québécois says Canada is playing with fire by suggesting it could cut oil or electricity exports to the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose tariffs on Canadian goods.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's return to the White House brought with it an executive order launching a study of the United States' trade relationship with Canada, pushing the threat of devastating tariffs down the road — temporarily.

LONDON, Ont. - More legal arguments are expected next week in the sexual assault case of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team as they prepare to face trial this spring.

MONTREAL - Three men are facing conspiracy charges in Quebec after allegedly helping to smuggle temporary foreign workers across the border into the United States, the RCMP said Tuesday.

Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published Tuesday suggests, upending a millennia-old trend and raising concerns about a climate change feedback loop. 

A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage. 

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

OTTAWA - The three frontrunners in the Liberal leadership race have all backed away — to one degree or another — from the Liberal government's keystone climate policy in a bid to take a major Conservative line of attack off the table.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his administration could move ahead with with 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on Canadian imports on Feb. 1. 

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said.

MONTEBELLO, Que. - Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Donald Trump's suggestion that he will impose sweeping tariffs on Canada on Feb. 1 is "nothing new," and insists Canada has plans ready for several possible scenarios.

EDMONTON - Alberta's government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

OTTAWA - The federal immigration department is set to cut roughly 3,300 jobs over the next three years.

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada said nearly 1,600 people may have been infected with salmonella linked to the recall of mini pastries. 

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump did not make good on his threat to slam Canada with punishing tariffs the day he moved back into the White House, but it's cold comfort to Canadian political leaders and business groups who say tariffs could still be on the horizon.

MONTREAL - In Montreal, municipal politicians, health officials and community groups can't agree on what to do about homeless encampments, which are regularly dismantled by social workers and police.

FREDERICTON - A mass of cold air that meandered south from the Arctic has sent temperatures plunging with wind chills making it feel like -40 Celsius or colder from New Brunswick to eastern Alberta.

MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC - U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement for a second time is "deplorable" but will not kill off that critical pact, Canada's environment minister said Monday.

The federal privacy watchdog says he's "concerned" about a cybersecurity breach involving a student information system used across Canada, as the country's largest school board revealed the scope of the data that may have been stolen last month.