National News

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OTTAWA — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne plans to reveal his intentions for the Liberal leadership race today. So far, Ontario MP Chandra Arya and former Montreal MP Frank Baylis are the only two to officially join the contest.

OTTAWA — Elon Musk’s increasing "meddling" in politics and recent changes at Meta to eliminate fact-checking make Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s promise to defund the CBC even more consequential, said Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge.

Grizzly bears that visited ecotourism areas along a river on the province's central coast were less likely than others to encounter conflict with people in communities downstream, a new study by British Columbia-based researchers has found.

OTTAWA — Mark Carney went on late-night television in the U.S. Monday to talk Trump, tariffs and carbon tax, but played coy on any plans to seek the Liberal leadership.

OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will announce her intention to run for the Liberal party leadership just before the U.S. presidential inauguration, a source close to her campaign team said Monday.

A Federal Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge by environmental groups that claimed allowing the expansion of a massive container facility on British Columbia's waterfront would threaten the survival of southern resident killer whales and sal

Florence Girard, who was part of a program for people with developmental disabilities, was 54 when she died in 2018 weighing only about 50 pounds. A coroner's inquest aimed at preventing similar deaths from happening in the future is underway in the case.

OTTAWA — The Liberal party's leadership race will be monitored by Canada's elections intelligence task force for signs of foreign interference, national security adviser Nathalie Drouin said Monday.

Another 22 fire crew members and one agency representative left B.C. for Los Angeles on Monday, said a statement from the Forests Ministry.