National News

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's freshly appointed cabinet includes a new ministerial post to tackle his election promises on mental health and addictions.

OTTAWA — The fight against sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces entered a new era on Tuesday as former procurement minister Anita Anand became only the second woman to hold office as Canada’s defence minister.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has left his special representative for the Prairies out of cabinet, appearing to signal a departure from trying to quiet tensions in the West.

EDMONTON — The final results from Alberta’s equalization referendum show almost 62 per cent of those who voted want to see the principle of equalization removed from the Constitution.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut residents elected 11 new members to the 22-person legislative assembly in Monday's territorial vote.

OTTAWA — Environmental groups say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending a signal that combating climate change will fall to more than just one department in his government.

Visitors to some Parks Canada locations can now be a part of the organization's research into coastal erosion by taking a so-called coastie.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has lost a two-year-long court battle against the federal government's carbon pricing plan.

MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner is reminding an inquest into deaths at a privately owned Montreal long-term care home that the regional health authority and the home's management were both responsible for care of vulnerable patients.

WINDSOR, Que. — Two people remain trapped in the debris after a multi-storey scaffold collapsed overnight at a paper mill in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Sylvain Bricault, the manager of the Domtar mill in Windsor, Que.