Indigenous

CALGARY — The Canada Energy Regulator has approved preliminary interim tolls that would see oil companies pay nearly twice as much to ship crude on the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline as what was estimated in 2017.

VICTORIA — Politicians left British Columbia's legislature Thursday after passing a series of housing-focused laws that Opposition parties say will do little to change the province's status as one of the most unaffordable jurisdictions for housing in

OTTAWA — The federal government's bail-reform legislation is on its way to becoming law after the House of Commons decided on Thursday to accept changes the Senate made to the bill.

OTTAWA — The national spy watchdog says Canada's border agency needs to do a better job of documenting how and why it singles out certain air passengers for possible additional scrutiny.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has filed the first-ever application to secure an unexplained wealth order in Canada, the province's solicitor general said, calling the orders a "powerful tool" to clamp down on the proceeds of criminal act

Calgary police have asked the RCMP to conduct an independent review into how two teenage brothers were arrested and charged in a shooting that left a man dead and two other people injured.

OTTAWA — The Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is defending a bill that would formalize several Métis self-governance agreements, after more than a month of heated debate between Indigenous leaders at a parliamentary committee.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali fell silent for two full minutes as Crown attorney Daniel Porte neared the end of his closing arguments.

ORILLIA, Ont. — Police in Ontario say they have "strong reason" to believe a person arrested in Morocco by Belgian police was also behind alleged bomb threats against schools across much of the province earlier this month.

TORONTO — The Art Gallery of Ontario says it will review some of its governance policies and work on "rebuilding of trust" as it faces intense criticism over the departure of its celebrated Indigenous curator Wanda Nanibush earlier this month.