Politics

NEW MINAS, N.S. — Nova Scotia's government is providing some of its surplus land in an Annapolis Valley village to help defray the cost of building 24 co-operative housing units.

OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Wednesday that Canadian military members and their Latvian counterparts will begin training Ukrainian soldiers in Latvia as soon as next week.

MONTREAL — Canada's plan to increase immigration is stoking fears among Quebec's political class, who say the changes would reduce the province's influence in the country and make it harder to protect French.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Misleading claims about the neo-Nazi gunman responsible for Saturday's mass shooting at a Dallas-area shopping center are reverberating across Twitter, in large part because of Twitter owner Elon Musk .

CALGARY — Alberta's NDP says a video showing United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith proposing to sell off hospitals to private operators is highly problematic.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia intends to relocate around 3,100 Ukrainian staff from Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Ukraine’s atomic energy company claimed Wednesday, warning of a potential “catastrophic lack of qualified personnel” at the Zaporizhzhia

QUEBEC — The Quebec government is set to table a bill that would give members of the legislature the highest base salary out of all provincial politicians in the country.

PARIS (AP) — Colleagues of Arman Soldin, the Agence France-Presse journalist slain in Ukraine, gathered solemnly at the press agency’s Paris headquarters on Wednesday, a day after his death, to remember the 32-year old.

CALGARY — The United Conservative Party is promising to increase support for women's shelters and sexual assault counselling centres if re-elected on May 29.

FRANKFORT, Ky.