National News

OTTAWA — German auto giant Volkswagen has secured an exclusive contract with Canada that could be worth more than $13 billion over the next 10 years to build an electric-vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario.

OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are rallying to bolster Canada's system of protecting dairy and poultry prices amid trade deals, and suggest developing countries do the same.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country's army and its rival paramilitary force.

OTTAWA — The president of the Canadian Medical Association says the new health funding deal struck between provinces and the federal government represents the biggest nominal injection of cash into Canada's health system, but that won't be enough to fix what's broken

SECHELT, B.C. — The shishalh Nation on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the former St. Augustine's Residential School.

OTTAWA — The federal government needs to start taking stock of whether its climate-change regulations are actually cutting greenhouse-gas emissions or not, Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Thursday

OTTAWA — An organization that helps women in the justice system says it is concerned about an ongoing strike by Canada's largest public-service union after one of its advocates was unable to access an Edmonton prison.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge has ruled that a former medical student who killed another student during a drug deal — and then disposed of his body — will be eligible for parole in about seven-and-a-half years.

Montreal police have arrested a minor suspected of assaulting two Hasidic Jews on the night of Jan. 20.

OTTAWA — Two years ago, Canada embarked on an odyssey to plant two billion trees in just 10 years. An audit of the program so far says the way things are now, it won't even get one-tenth of those trees in the ground in time.