National News

OTTAWA — Interim NDP leader Don Davies said Friday his party is in "very early" discussions with Prime Minister Mark Carney's government about being granted official party status in the House of Commons.

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario is seeking $200 million in emergency relief from the federal government to address the "critical" state of its water and sewage system as part of legal action launched in Federal Court, lawyers for the community

HALIFAX — A police investigation is continuing into the disappearance of two young children reported missing last week from their home in northeastern Nova Scotia. On Wednesday, RCMP Staff Sgt.

LAVAL — A court hearing will take place in September into whether a man who killed two children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare should be declared a high-risk offender.

VANCOUVER — The group that organized the Lapu Lapu Day festival where 11 people were killed last month has released the names of the dead.

OTTAWA — Canada's labour market was showing cracks in April as the early impacts of the tariff dispute with the United States started to appear in economic data.

TORONTO — Standing in an MRI control room packed with fellow ALS researchers, Dr. Lorne Zinman excitedly points to the brain scan on his phone. There's a white spot on the image, right where Bill Traynor's motor cortex is.

VANCOUVER — A grey whale known as Little Patch has been mesmerizing onlookers in the waters off of Vancouver for weeks, sparking a sense of connection as it stops to feed in the busy region before migrating northward.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9.6 per cent (10.0) _ Prince Edward Island 6.