National News

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 20 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

VANCOUVER — Poultry farmers in British Columbia are under pressure to protect their flocks as a highly contagious strain of avian flu sweeps over North America. Ray Nickel, spokesman for the B.C.

HALIFAX — Newfoundland and Labrador residents say they’re frustrated by the lack of free COVID-19 rapid tests when other provinces make them widely available at no cost. Heather Elliott, a retail worker from St.

Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea. No longer.

TORONTO — Someone in Ontario is waking up $60 million richer. There was a single jackpot winning ticket sold in Tuesday's Lotto Max draw.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former Afghanistan war veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Tuesday from a federal lawyer who defended the work of Veterans Affairs Canada.

QUEBEC — Survivors of a stabbing rampage in Quebec City on Halloween night 2020 testified at the murder trial of the accused Tuesday about their encounters with a methodical, emotionless attacker.

OTTAWA — At least eight candidates have crossed the first threshold to having their names appear on the final ballot of the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed plans Tuesday to send heavy artillery to embattled Ukraine as Canada levied new sanctions against more than a dozen close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, including his two daughters.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia is looking to other countries to solve its nursing shortage "crisis," starting with financial support to help internationally educated nurses get registered and licensed faster through a streamlined system.