National News

MONTREAL — Two artifacts sacred to some of Canada's Indigenous peoples are now back on home territory after a Swiss museum returned them to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy this month.

VANCOUVER — One of just four endangered spotted owls known to be in the wild in British Columbia is now recovering from an injury after being found along some train tracks, slowing the careful plans to revive the species

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP from Montreal says it is time for the country to debate whether the notwithstanding clause should be on the books.

OTTAWA — The RCMP says it has ended its search for an unidentified aerial object shot down over central Yukon last Saturday. The mounties say they searched the highest probability area but could not find the debris.

OTTAWA — A new report from the federal spy watchdog says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service failed to adequately consider the potentially serious adverse effects on people and their families when using its powers to disrupt potential threats.

There was no winning ticket sold in Friday's Lotto Max $30 million draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 21 will be an estimated $40 million. The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — The plight of British Columbia's endangered wild salmon came first Friday in the decision against renewing licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms in the Discovery Islands area off Vancouver Island, says the federal fisheries minist

A former British Columbia member of Parliament said he fears Canada has become an "open market" for foreign governments to sway elections after being named in a newspaper report as the target of an alleged campaign by Chinese diplomats to defeat him.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government's long-promised plan to transition Canada's labour force to respond to climate change says a clean energy economy will not prompt massive unemployment in the country's energy towns.

YELLOWKNIFE — The Union of Northern Workers says it is pleased with a ruling by a Northwest Territories Supreme Court judge to lift restrictions on the number of people who can picket outside city facilities in Yellowknife.