National News

OTTAWA — The Canadian Army is cancelling one of its most important training exercises due to COVID-19.

MONTREAL — A group of Quebec high school students on a humanitarian mission to Guatemala landed at a Montreal airport today after they were scooped out of the Central American country on a chartered plane minutes before its borders closed.

Après avoir essuyé un refus en Cour supérieure du Québec, les élus qui représentent la Première Nation des Pekuakamiulnuatsh ont fait le choix, le 21 janvier, de porter la décision devant la Cour d’appel.

A man arrested by the Prince Albert Integrated Crime Reduction Team wasn’t granted bail March 13. Kevin Ackegan, 40, appeared in Prince Albert Provincial Court again March 13 on 30 weapons and drug-related charges.

Local Osoyoos businesses are taking steps to adhere to new restrictions put in place Monday morning by both the federal and provincial governments concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.

EDMONTON — A judge has delivered a legal victory to a mother who fled to Alberta from France with her two children over allegations her ex-husband sexually abused the youngsters.

MONTREAL — Quebec's finance minister is delaying the deadline for individuals and businesses to pay their provincial taxes in order to ease financial pressure caused by the novel coronavirus.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Parliament will likely sit again to pass emergency measures for the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CALGARY — Some legal experts are warning that the COVID-19 pandemic will have lasting effects on the Canadian justice system.

TORONTO — Canada's top public health officer says supply limitations are forcing COVID-19 testing centres "to be smart" about who they can assess for the respiratory illness while Health Canada rushes to approve commercial testing kits. Dr.