National News

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

OTTAWA — The Liberal caucus met on Parliament Hill Thursday to plot election strategy but the biggest conversations were largely about who sitting MPs will back in the upcoming vote to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their leader.

IQALUIT — A Catholic priest's sexual abuse of Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday.

OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that Donald Trump's return to the presidency is the reason she would repeal changes to the capital gains tax she introduced just last year.

MONTREAL — Quebec’s maple syrup producers say they are worried their industry will take a big hit if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to slap 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports on Feb. 1.

WASHINGTON — Experts say U.S. President Donald Trump's push for the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries to bring down the cost of oil conflicts with the Republican leader's own plans to make America energy-dominant.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will press Canada's case against damaging tariffs with the new U.S.

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge of Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21, which prohibits public sector workers in positions of authority, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols o

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould said Thursday she can pinpoint exactly when her party lost touch with Canadians — and it wasn't that long ago.

MONTREAL — The Supreme Court of Canada's decision to hear a challenge of Quebec's secularism law sets up a final legal battle between the provincial government and minority and civil rights groups — and possibly a showdown between Quebec and Ottawa.