National News

OTTAWA — Canada's top military officer says it would have been "preferable" for a Canadian fighter jet to shoot down a suspected balloon over Yukon last month – but they were delayed by freezing rain.

MONTREAL — The Canada Border Services Agency says it helped put two Montreal-based companies with alleged ties to the Russian military on a United States sanctions list. Late last month, the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Canada and the United States both support a holistic, long-term approach to their shared immigration challenges, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday after a meeting in the U.S.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says the federal government needs to reform Canada's bail system now instead of simply talking about it.

MONTREAL — A Montreal elementary school teacher pleaded guilty on Tuesday to sex-related crimes involving five young female students whom he manipulated into acts of sexual abuse.

OTTAWA — People who have been convicted of a number of indecency and anti-abortion offences that are no longer on the books can now have those convictions expunged.

OTTAWA — Canada's official Opposition is expressing little confidence that the Liberal government will appoint a truly independent watchdog to investigate foreign interference.

OTTAWA — Canada's major political parties have accepted the results of the 2019 and 2021 election and a panel of bureaucrats has determined both elections remained free and fair, an assessment that national security agencies agree with.

CALGARY — Alberta's energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater, says a lawyer.

OTTAWA — The federal government has "more than enough" staff to process applications for economic immigrants on time, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report.