Beyond Local

OTTAWA — A judge's erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a "wholesale expansion" of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday.

Ottawa has added more Iranian individuals and companies to its sanctions list after the government faced heavy criticism at a diaspora event this weekend.

OTTAWA — A second top-up to GST rebate cheques for low-income Canadians and "significant" new tax measures to keep Canada in the green technology game will be among the highlights in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's federal budget on Tuesday.

CALGARY — Police in Calgary are investigating the shooting death of a teenage girl in the city's northeast Martindale neighbourhood. 

MONTREAL — The bodies of the final two missing victims of a fire in Old Montreal were pulled from the rubble on Monday, as investigators shifted their attention to uncovering the causes of the deadly blaze.

Insolvency trustee Doug Hoyes encounters a lot of Canadians with money troubles, but he's become particularly sympathetic to the plight of young people who find themselves financially underwater.

OTTAWA — Israeli diplomats in Canada are set to return to work on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caved to public pressure and announced a delay in his contentious plan to overhaul the country's judiciary.

BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday accepted a resignation request from a German bishop who asked to step down because of his mistakes in handling sexual abuse cases .

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is under fire for its plan to cut thousands of troops off a cost-of-living allowance without much notice.

IRPIN, Ukraine — Oleksandra Verovkina and her son, Danylo, would stroll half a block through the back alley behind their apartment to a large forest.