National News

TORONTO — Dangerously high temperatures persisted on Monday across much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec, as residents tried to keep cool under a lingering heat dome.

Crews battling wildfires burning near Dawson, Yukon, say there's been minimal growth of the wildfire close to homes in the area, although almost 200 properties remain on alert for possible evacuation.

OTTAWA — A top federal official said fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion — and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued

Police in British Columbia believe they have solved a decades-long mystery by identifying a suspect known as "Mr. X" who is thought to have helped test a bomb before the 1985 Air India terror attack.

OTTAWA — A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincewide state of emergency has been lifted as the danger from wildfires recedes. He announced Monday that while the emergency rules are no longer needed, crews remain vigilant as fires rage.

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city will no longer name new streets and city buildings after individual people. Councillors with the City of St. John's, N.L., voted unanimously to accept the new policy during a meeting last week.

In pricey spas, kelp facials and body wraps can set the esthetically inclined human back hundreds of dollars.

MARSTON, QUE — Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after provincial police killed a person in an alleged shootout about 200 kilometres east of Montreal.

BRUSSELS — Canada and the European Union opened a new era of transatlantic co-operation Monday by signing a security and defence partnership at a joint summit in Brussels.