National News

VANCOUVER — British Columbia has plans to make Holocaust education mandatory for high school students with additions to Grade 10 curriculum coming in 2025.

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it harder to bring inflation down.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's unfair that Atlantic Canada is being targeted for federal relief on heating bills that won't apply to B.C., after Ottawa announced a three-year pause on carbon pricing for home fuel oil.

SURREY, B.C. — Intoxicated people are dying in jail cells in what the British Columbia police watchdog says is an “outdated practice” of holding them for their own protection when they should be getting health care. A report released by Ronald J.

OTTAWA — Dr. Ezzat Gouda recalls his wife's disbelief when he told her his refugee claim in Canada had been denied, and he would be sent back to his home country — where he faces a death sentence.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to welcome the top two leaders of the European Union to Newfoundland next month. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is to visit St.

VANCOUVER — London Drugs president Clint Mahlman said he never thought he'd be telling a news conference about having to authorize some staff members wearing stab vests.

OTTAWA — A temporary respite from Israel-Hamas hostilities should not be Canada's focus, Israeli and Palestinian advocates argued separately on Parliament Hill Monday, even as the Canadian government continued to push for "humanitarian pauses.

The federal government says its expanded drug and substance use strategy will save more lives and provide more services to people disproportionately affected by Canada's overdose crisis.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government is offering paid fast-track training programs for workers in skilled trades that are most in demand in the province's construction industry, Premier François Legault announced Monday.