Beyond Local

MONTREAL — A tribunal has found that a Quebec man who became a father after he was sexually assaulted by his wife qualifies for payments from the provincial fund for victims of crime.

OTTAWA — Marco Mendicino should resign or be fired over his office's handling of knowledge that Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Parliament has voted to bestow honorary Canadian citizenship on jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request by a Muslim advocacy group and a civil liberties organization to suspend the province's ban on prayer rooms in public schools.

CALGARY — A Law Society of Alberta hearing into allegations that a former cabinet minister broke the lawyers' code of conduct won't hear final arguments until September.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampede has made an out-of-this-world choice for this year's parade marshal.

CALGARY — One person has been arrested after Calgary police say a suspect waved around a hatchet and made threats aboard a CTrain. Officials say the suspect boarded a CTrain at the Martindale LRT station around 1 p.m. Tuesday, and took out a hatchet.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — A judge sentenced a former medical health officer Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child in northern Alberta.

TSUUT'INA FIRST NATION — Police in Alberta have issued warrants for Nathan Chasing Horse, a former actor in the movie “Dances With Wolves," for nine charges including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and removing a child from Canada under the age of 16.

OTTAWA — The majority of the board tasked with reviewing Canada's military colleges will be people who have not attended one of the schools and have not publicly expressed a strong opinion on their future, according to a recruitment posting.