National News

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OTTAWA — The federal Fisheries Department's failure to properly monitor the country's commercial fishing industry could lead to overfishing, a new audit from Canada's environment commissioner says.

OTTAWA — A total of 75 people connected to Canada finally made it out of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and more departures were planned for Wednesday, Ottawa confirmed, as the federal government worked to get hundreds of Canadians out of the besieged Pal

RICHMOND, B.C. — The mother of a young man killed by a speeding driver on the University of British Columbia campus says the criminal justice system "leaves victims in the dust," after her son's killer was sentenced to three years in jail on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali, who is accused of killing a Burnaby, B.C.

VANCOUVER — The father of a boy abducted in 2011 by Randall Hopley, a high-risk sex offender now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, said he's incredulous that Hopley could walk away from a Vancouver halfway house.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to share a stage in January with an American right-wing news commentator who has been accused of defending a white-supremacist theory and who spread misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

OTTAWA — Indigenous leaders from British Columbia have called on the federal government to stand by plans to transition away from open-net salmon farms, but an industry spokesman suggested the leaders were wading into political waters.

OTTAWA — The national infrastructure program to install electric chargers for passenger vehicles is too concentrated in a small number of provinces and has no data to show where the biggest gaps are, a new audit says.

BOIS-DES-FILION, Que. — A 19-year-old man has been charged with criminal negligence in the death of a young child Monday night in a Montreal suburb. Yacine Mehennaoui appeared by video at the courthouse in Laval, Que., on Tuesday afternoon.