Beyond Local

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to keep "multiple murderers" in maximum-security prison, as fallout continues over the transfer of convicted killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security institution in Quebec.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser says India is among the top sources of foreign interference in Canada, a public designation Ottawa has largely limited to authoritarian states.

OTTAWA — Former governor general David Johnston says he will begin holding public meetings next month on foreign interference attempts in Canada's elections, and the ongoing politicization of the issue will not deter him from his work.

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is earmarking $1.5 million for LGBTQ community organizations to boost security measures at Pride parades and other events this summer.

Canada's emergency preparedness minister says images of wildfires burning across the country are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity.

Notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo's transfer to a medium-security prison that specializes in treating violent rapists almost three decades after his conviction is not unusual, says a Quebec criminology professor who studies sexual murderers.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Medical Association and 14 other organizations representing health workers are urging premiers to keep health care at the top of the agenda at their next meeting in July.

OTTAWA — The union representing workers at Veterans Affairs Canada is calling the deal to privatize rehabilitation services a failure, six months after it was implemented.

NEW YORK (AP) — Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi pressed his criticism of the country’s leadership in a speech Sunday, calling for Indians in the U.S. and back home to stand up for democracy and the Indian constitution.