National News

Four stories in the news for Friday, Dec.

TORONTO — Police forces in cities across Canada investigated multiple bomb threats on Thursday as authorities in the U.S. said similar threats sent to dozens of locations appeared to be a hoax.

VERNON, B.C. — The Crown says a man who faces a series of charges including alleged assaults of sex workers has been given an absolute discharge in a separate allegation against him by a judge in Vernon, B.C. The B.C.

OTTAWA — Conservative senators are being accused of deliberately stalling Liberal government legislation to keep it in the public eye for political benefit.

OTTAWA — Canada's largest business group has endorsed a carbon tax as the most efficient way for the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

EDMONTON — Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr says he will continue to fight for his freedom.

CALGARY — A prosecutor says the accused in a murder trial made up two other men he says were with him at a woman's home the day she was found dead and her daughter disappeared.

OTTAWA — Canada's cumbersome extradition system means Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou could wait years before her case is resolved even if she will inevitably be committed to stand trial in the United States, legal experts say.

SARNIA, Ont. — A former high-ranking gymnastics coach accused of sexual assault told his trial Thursday that when he apologized to his accuser for "crossing the line," he wasn't referring to any sexual transgressions.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a severely ill woman who wants to accelerate a lawsuit that argues the right to assisted dying is unfairly limited by federal government law.