National News

OTTAWA — A Canadian Armed Forces surveillance plane was heading home on Tuesday after two intelligence-collecting flights over Haiti.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The City of Iqaluit says it lost between six and 10 million litres of water over the past three days as crews worked to address problems with its piped water system.

OTTAWA — Two of Canada's former envoys to China say Ottawa is enabling foreign interference on Canadian soil by not launching a registry to track those acting on behalf of other countries.

VICTORIA — British Columbia has introduced legislation to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday. If the legislation passes, B.C. would become the sixth province or territory to designate Sept. 30 as a holiday.

MONTREAL — Quebec's police ethics board has found that two Montreal officers lied to investigators who were looking into the 2017 death of a man in custody.

OTTAWA — Premiers got their fist look at Ottawa's offer to increase long-term health funding Tuesday at a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but the federal proposal falls short of what they were seeking.

Ottawa is spending $2 million for an international organization to provide Indigenous communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former residential school sites.

A new coalition is calling on the federal government to invest $6 billion in its upcoming budget to develop an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy.

VICTORIA — A report from British Columbia's coroner says a prominent anti-vaccine and COVID critic died in 2021 of a drug overdose, although he also tested positive for the illness post-mortem.

OTTAWA — One-third of Canadian households say their financial situation has worsened over the last year, with families in lower income brackets more likely to report being worse off, a new poll suggests.