National News

The mayor of Nanaimo, B.C., says a deferred motion for the city to ask the local health authority to close an overdose prevention site near city hall will likely be settled in the fall.

EDMONTON — Alberta's chief electoral officer is rebuffing calls from Premier Danielle Smith and her justice minister to reverse course and sign off on a proposed referendum question on separation.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada has announced it will end many term and casual employment contracts by October as it faces budget cuts.

OTTAWA — Israeli customs data suggests lethal Canadian arms are still being exported regularly to Israel, despite Ottawa's claim that it has halted such shipments.

OTTAWA — More than 200 candidates are running in the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection, though only a handful have the support of official parties.

RICHMOND — The man accused of allegedly hijacking a plane that triggered a security incident at Vancouver International Airport appeared briefly in a provincial court in Richmond, B.C.

QUÉBEC — The office of Quebec's auditor general says it is investigating the millions of dollars in subsidies given by the province to the electric battery industry.

British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly attack on a couple in the province's Interior over the weekend was likely "defensive in nature," and it's unlikely the bears were stalking people.

As people around the world welcomed a new millennium, Torontonians in the year 2000 were welcoming something even bigger – a herd of hundreds of life-size moose statues.

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