National News

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say they have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old boy near Robson Square over the weekend.

JASPER, ALTA. — One year to the day a wind-whipped fire forced thousands to flee in the dark of night along one smoke-choked road, the mayor of Jasper acknowledged it was a moment of remembrance that some would much rather forget.

HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA — Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country's premiers downplayed the importance of a looming Aug. 1 deadline in trade talks with the U.S. on Tuesday, saying the objective is to get the best possible deal for Canadians.

MONTREAL — A Quebec woman who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and marry one of its fighters, has pleaded guilty to one count of participating in the activities of a terrorist group.

MONTREAL — First Nations in Quebec have walked away from talks with the provincial government on a forestry bill they say would pave the way to privatizing public land.

OTTAWA — The volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada decreased four per cent last year after three annual increases in a row, the national statistics agency said Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast.

OTTAWA — Bipartisan support could be building behind the idea of reining in the long lists of names overwhelming election ballots in some ridings across Canada.

HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO — British Columbia has signed two more internal trade agreements with other Canadian jurisdictions to boost trade and labour mobility, a day after a similar deal with Ontario was announced. B.C.

MONTREAL — A regional authority in northern Quebec has launched a review into the Nunavik Police Service after the third fatal police-involved shooting in eight months.