National News

OTTAWA — For the first time since the pandemic, Canada had a year-over-year decline in its greenhouse gas emissions — though it is still a long way off its 2030 target.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has repealed a law it passed last year to restrict drug use in some public areas because successful court challenges prevented it from being brought into force. Garry Begg, B.C.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says it's not the Liberal government's job to respond to everything U.S. president-elect Donald Trump posts online.

MONTREAL — Julie Snyder, one of Quebec's most famous television personalities, told a civil trial on Thursday that she was sexually assaulted by Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon in Paris more than three decades ago.

OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc is helping Justin Trudeau hold the house together even as a growing number of Liberals turn on the prime minister.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has followed through on a campaign pledge to reverse policy changes by the previous government concerning sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced two new appointments to the Senate, including Nunavut's first ever member of Parliament.

OTTAWA — Canada Post has started accepting commercial volumes of letters and parcels as it works to get back to normal operations following a month-long strike.

OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says a new commission that will review potential wrongful convictions will help racialized and Indigenous Peoples seek justice who are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.

MONTREAL — Quebec anticorruption police have arrested a former university professor for allegedly defrauding and extorting foreign students.