National News

MONTREAL — The proposed rail bypass around the Quebec town where a freight train derailment killed 47 people nearly 10 years ago hit another snag this week when residents of a neighbouring town voted overwhelmingly against the project.

OTTAWA — Students and staff at the University of Toronto law school are launching a new database this week documenting dozens of cases of wrongful convictions in Canada hoping to draw more attention to the problem.

OTTAWA — More than 36,000 people have signed a petition calling on the federal Liberals to live up to their election promise to ban the live export of horses for slaughter.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — After immigrating to Canada from Kenya with dreams of starting her own business, entrepreneur Jackee Kasandy soon concluded that Canadian banks weren't keen on opening their vaults to folks like her.

Eight of Canada's 13 provinces and territories are celebrating a regional holiday today. It's Family Day in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick, while Manitoba is celebrating Louis Riel Day.

YELLOWKNIFE — Inmates at the Yellowknife jail concentrate as they skin several squirrels, deftly moving their knives to remove the small animals' soft fur, then scraping the remaining flesh and fat away.

Montreal police say a woman is dead and a man was seriously injured in a stabbing in the city's Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough. Police say they received a 911 call for an armed assault inside an apartment building around 1:30 p.m.

MONTREAL — A Quebec man was found guilty of multiple charges on Sunday for his role in the abduction of a couple in their 70s from Upstate New York in September 2020.

OTTAWA — Federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge is calling on her provincial and territorial counterparts to establish independent bodies to handle harassment complaints from athletes by the end of this year.

TORONTO — Peter Herrndorf, lawyer, Canadian media mogul and the former president and chief executive officer of the National Arts Centre, has died at age 82.