National News

SINGAPORE — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's rocky relations with China have stabilized, while telling business leaders in Singapore that Ottawa has committed to a timeline for trade deals with the region.

QUEBEC — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he wants to give Canadians hope for a better future.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon's ombudsman said in a new report Thursday the territory's government had a policy and legal duty to notify parents at a school where a child was sexually assaulted, but instead delayed revealing the information for 19 months.

WEST KELOWNA, B.C. — Residents of wildfire evacuation zones around West Kelowna, B.C., are being warned not to try to dodge police checkpoints and to stay out of restricted areas or face possible fines.

Western Canada was a global hot spot in a summer that climate change made one of the warmest on record, according to a new analysis.

OTTAWA — "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber called for people to "flood the city" in a social media video that was shown Thursday in court as part of his criminal trial in Ottawa.

Quebec provincial police have arrested a man for arson in connection with numerous forest fires that burned earlier this summer in the province's north.

SAGUENAY, Que. — Quebec's justice minister blamed the provincial court Thursday for procedural delays that have led to scores of criminal cases being dropped in the province's north.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada may have to raise interest rates further, given that inflation may stay high for some time, said governor Tiff Macklem Thursday.

OTTAWA — Canada's record-setting wildfire season is spurring the federal government to consider how to tackle future fires, floods or earthquakes.