National News

MONTREAL — Quebec has introduced new restrictions on Atlantic salmon fishing because of annual fish migrations that are well below average in most of the province's rivers.

OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has thrown out a convicted killer's challenge of a British Columbia prison warden's decision not to allow the inmate to have an electric guitar in his cell.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The defence lawyer for Chris Carbert says her client is “a bit of a wing nut” who fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole at the border blockade in Coutts, Alta., but that doesn’t make him guilty of conspiring to kill police.

RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A veteran Opposition member announced her defection to British Columbia's Conservatives on Tuesday, becoming the fourth elected member to bolt to Leader John Rustad's right-of-centre party ahead of the fall provin

VANCOUVER — Recent rains and cooler temperatures have knocked down wildfire activity in parts of British Columbia, especially in the north, but another hot and dry spell is expected to settle in across the southern Interior, officials said Tuesday.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta will push the federal government and the Town of Jasper to fast-track the rebuild of the picturesque Rocky Mountain townsite.

OTTAWA — The head of the federal public service says he is personally committed to "continuous action" to address racism and discrimination in the workplace, following the public release of an internal report that details employees' troubling experie

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting six additional cases of listeriosis linked to a national recall of plant-based milk beverages.

Alice Munro's husband declined to address the courtroom after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the author's daughter but it was noted that he'd donated $10,000 to a program for abuse victims, a court transcript shows.

HALIFAX — Six clean electrical energy projects in Nova Scotia are receiving more than $192 million in federal funding as the province pushes to get off coal by 2030.