National News

WASHINGTON — Michigan joined the Line 5 legal fray unfolding just across state lines Wednesday as lawyers for Enbridge Inc. and an Indigenous band prepared to square off over whether the controversial cross-border pipeline should be shut down.

MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal has cut a decade from the time a man convicted of ordering a series of killings must serve before being eligible for parole.

OTTAWA — It would be against the law for Saskatchewan to run its coal-fired power plants after 2030 unless the greenhouse-gas emissions from those plants are captured, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday.

EDMONTON — A United Conservative Party candidate who compared transgender children in schools to having feces in food is apologizing while staying on to run in the Alberta election.

OTTAWA — Experts say a Liberal bail reform bill introduced this week could be subject to a Charter challenge and see limited results.

MONTREAL — A brazen daylight shooting of a Montreal salon owner has Mafia experts calling out the ruthlessness and arrogance of organized crime in the city.

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — As burnout and high turnover plague groups that work to combat violence against women across Canada, community organizations in Labrador are trying to buck the trend.

YELLOWKNIFE — RCMP in the Northwest Territories say 911 service has been restored across the territory. The territorial government said Tuesday night that people trying to call emergency services were not able to get through by calling 911.

FORT MCPHERSON, N.W.T. — A hamlet in the Northwest Territories' Beaufort Delta region has declared a local state of emergency due to flooding from the Peel River.

OTTAWA — Three former senior judges will have the final say on the public disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest-security laboratory.