National News

Honda is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant next to its Alliston, Ont.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will weigh the constitutionality of a pandemic-related restriction that curbed travel for public-health reasons.

OTTAWA — Canada is targeting Iran's defence minister as part of a new round of sanctions imposed after the country's retaliatory attack on Israel earlier this month.

OTTAWA — New Canadian data suggest that over a nine-year period between 2012 and 2020, the equivalent of more 15 billion plastic bottles and as many as 14 billion plastic grocery bags became litter in Canada's environment.

OTTAWA — Federal Conservatives and New Democrats are demanding assurances from Ottawa that local jobs will be protected at new electric-vehicle plants.

CHETWYND, B.C. — An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has triggered the province's first evacuation of this year's fire season.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador’s justice minister has asked his federal counterpart to make changes to the Criminal Code that he says will help protect victims of domestic and intimate partner violence.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A sentencing hearing has started for a former Saskatchewan Mountie who shot and killed his lover. Bernie Herman, who is 55, was convicted in January of manslaughter in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman.

OTTAWA — International environmental advocates are calling for a petrochemical plant in southern Ontario to remain closed in light of reports about a benzene leak that continues to affect a neighbouring First Nation community.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography offences. The top court's decision to review the matter flows from Quebec court rulings concerning the sentencing of two men.