National News

WASHINGTON — A U.S. fighter jet shot an unknown object out of the sky Friday off the coast of Alaska not far from the Canadian border, White House officials confirmed, just hours after Canada's defence minister met with her American counterpart at the Pentagon.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Danielle Smith to divulge all her conversations relating to COVID-19 court cases after she acknowledged having contact with an accused before his trial relating to a blockade at a U.S.

OTTAWA — The Bloc Québécois and Conservatives are pushing for an unequal approach to amending Canada's Official Languages Act — one that some warn could reduce English services in Quebec.

LAVAL, Que. — A funeral will be held Thursday for one of the two children killed when a bus crashed into a daycare Wednesday in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith should come clean on whether funding for her leadership campaign has influenced her government's agenda, says the province's New Democrat Opposition.

TORONTO — Canadian organizations deploying aid workers to regions devastated by the powerful earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria say they're working to help survivors gain access to basic essentials in the aftermath of the disaster.

OTTAWA — Canada's aid sector is nervously awaiting this spring's federal budget amid fears of funding cuts that could require projects abroad to shut down.

OTTAWA — The federal government is appealing a judge's declaration that four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps are entitled to Ottawa's help to return home.

Ottawa's decision to contract work around the search for unmarked graves to an non-Indigenous organization based in the Netherlands risks causing harm and lacks transparency, says a government-appointed adviser dedicated to the issue.

OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she hopes Canadians will see the "sincerity" in her efforts to make amends after breaking federal ethics rules, while sidestepping demands that she resign or refund taxpayers.