National News

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

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 — 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.

MONTREAL — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won't say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government after the next election.

Air Canada and business leaders are asking Ottawa to be ready to intervene in the airline's labour talks with its pilots with time running out before a potential shutdown, but so far the government has said the two sides need to work things out thems

LLOYDMINSTER, SASK. — RCMP said suspects were at large but the public was not at risk Thursday following a triple homicide at a home in Lloydminster, Sask. Staff Sgt. Brian Nicholl didn't give details about the victims.

OTTAWA — Canada's consul general in New York told members of a House of Commons committee on Thursday that he had nothing to do with the purchase of the country's new official residence in New York City, and he doesn't know when he will be moving in.

VANCOUVER — An expert with the BC Wildfire Service says relentless drought conditions for much of British Columbia sets the stage for more fire activity this fall.