National News

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

A humpback whale was so entangled in fishing gear, ropes and buoys that it took four days for a Fisheries Department crew to unravel the mess, Paul Cottrell said.

TORONTO — Air Canada says some operations will start to be affected today as time is running out before a potential shutdown because of a labour dispute with its pilots The airline on Thursday called for the government to be ready to intervene to avo

MONTREAL — A 20-year-old man arrested in Quebec last week over an alleged Islamic State terror plot to kill Jews in New York City has a court appearance today in Montreal.

OTTAWA — Today is expected to mark the end of the criminal trial for two prominent organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" protest, more than one year after the proceedings began.

FREDERICTON — Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seekers more equitably across the country.

VANCOUVER — A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said Thursday.

OTTAWA — An Italian art collector who bought a portrait of Winston Churchill says he was surprised to learn five months later the answer to a puzzling, high-profile heist might be hanging on his living room wall.

OTTAWA — The Federal Court has denied Ottawa's bid to quash a case in which advocates for Israel are asking for a reversal of Canada's temporary freeze on the main United Nations agency supporting Palestinians.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses.