National News

MONTREAL — Akwesasne Mohawk Police say they have seized vehicles believed to be connected to the eight migrants whose bodies were recovered from the St. Lawrence River late last month.

OTTAWA — If Pierre Poilievre wants to "defund the CBC" while maintaining its French-language programming, he'll have to overhaul the country's broadcasting law in order to do it.

TERRACE, B.C. — Some flights out of northern British Columbia are cancelled due to ash from a Russian volcano that erupted thousands of kilometres away.

MONTREAL — Quebec's power utility said Thursday it was working to get its website and mobile application running again after they were knocked off-line by a cyberattack, for which a pro-Russian hacker group claimed responsibility.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Emergency Health Services has released grim statistics on the toxic drug crisis ahead of the seventh anniversary of the province declaring a public health emergency

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. — A Quebec provincial police officer who was killed while on duty was remembered Thursday as a mother, a daughter, a friend and as a policewoman who dedicated her career to keeping others safe.

MONTREAL — A $14.7-million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought against the Montreal Roman Catholic archdiocese, and a judge will be asked to sign off on the deal in the coming weeks, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Thursday.

REGINA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the RCMP Depot in Regina a "Canadian institution" Thursday, but fell short of committing to keeping the Mountie training facility open.

WASHINGTON — Canada's electronic spy agency says it warned system operators "in a timely-as-possible way" about a Russian-backed hacker who lurked in their computer networks three months ago with the capacity to do physical damage.

HALIFAX — At the heart of the multi-volume report into Canada's worst mass shooting lies a recommendation calling for governments to replace 19th-century principles about law enforcement with a revised notion of what police are for.