National News

OTTAWA — Sharing a computer with someone does not mean giving up privacy rights over the material stored on the machine, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

Vancouver says a court decision has reaffirmed the city's authority to shut down illegal marijuana dispensaries. In a news release, the city says the B.C.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has laid 38 charges against a man from Chilliwack, B.C., and two companies over allegations of undue suffering to chickens. The agency alleges that Dwayne Dueck, Elite Farm Services Ltd.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Several potential leads that were not pursued by police investigating Richard Oland's murder have been raised by the defence at Dennis Oland's second-degree murder trial. Defence lawyer Alan Gold cross-examined Const.

Premier Rachel Notley says her recent decision to cut oil production seems to be working. And in a speech to northern Alberta leaders Thursday she also served up a little yuletide jab at the prime minister.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The deputy mayor of Saint John is calling for a four-month ban on negative news about New Brunswick's port city.

MONTREAL — A Quebec judge who tried to oblige a woman to remove her hijab in court has lost a legal bid to avoid appearing before the provincial judicial council.

Halifax's former poet laureate says she has received unprecedented online backlash for asking a drugstore chain to remove NHL merchandise that appropriates West Coast Indigenous culture.

EDMONTON — Two security guards were injured in an explosion during an overnight armed holdup at a Scotiabank branch in northeast Edmonton.

TORONTO — The Toronto police's sexual crimes unit has to date investigated eight incidents at a private Roman Catholic all-boys school rocked by student-on-student abuse allegations, the force said on Thursday.