National News

OTTAWA — Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is pressing G7 countries to establish a quick-reaction group on cybersecurity to help build up resilience to attacks following the invasion of Ukraine.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chair is to be replaced within months and Canadian Heritage is already accepting applications for the $328,000-a-year role.

OTTAWA — Princess Margriet of the Netherlands paid tribute to the Canadian who negotiated the surrender of the Nazis in her country in 1945.

OTTAWA — Canada's highest court has ruled that the law barring the use of automatism⁠, or a state of extreme intoxication, as a defence for some crimes is unconstitutional and called on Parliament to consider new legislation.

MONTREAL — An English-language leaders debate that was scheduled to take place ahead of Quebec's October election has been cancelled after Premier François Legault refused to participate.

TORONTO — An Ottawa woman who alleges she was violently raped by Jacob Hoggard appeared "distraught" and not like herself after going to meet the singer in Toronto, her friends testified Friday.

OTTAWA — A Canadian warship has been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 while preparing for an overseas deployment in the Pacific. HMCS Winnipeg is back home in Esquimalt, B.C.

INUKJUAK, Que. — Elder Simeonie Ohaituk sits on a caribou skin on the floor of the Unaaq Men’s Association in Inukjuak, Que., pulling and cutting a stretchy, cylindrical piece of sealskin.

OTTAWA — Jill Sinclair has been wracked by a combination of anguish, sickness and anger as well as extraordinary pride as she has watched Ukrainians stand fast in the face of Russia’s invasion of their homeland.

MONTREAL — Quebec's chief coroner is calling a public inquiry into the drowning of a Montreal firefighter last year. Pierre Lacroix, a father of two, died after he was thrown into the St. Lawrence River during a rescue mission in October.