Beyond Local

TORONTO — Increased time online during the pandemic may have made young Canadians meaner, a researcher said Wednesday, warning that declining empathy which emerged during isolation was now fostering increased cruelty during in-person interactions, including at school.  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is buying itself two more days before it resolves a legal stalemate over the abortion drug mifepristone.

OTTAWA — Humanitarian and development groups are expected to testify this afternoon as the House justice committee examines a bill that would amend the Criminal Code to allow aid workers to operate in Taliban-held Afghanistan.

A lawyer for two Canadian women and three teen girls who were to be repatriated from northeastern Syria earlier this month says they were mistreated by guards and are being detained in a camp primarily holding family members of individuals with alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

OTTAWA — United States chambers of commerce are pushing Washington and Ottawa to strike the right balance between protecting supply chains and maintaining free trade across the continent.

BURNABY, B.C. — A Vancouver police officer told a British Columbia coroner's jury that he punched Myles Gray in the head as hard as he could several times because he didn't think anything else would work to subdue the man, other than shooting him.

VANCOUVER — The mother of a teenager stabbed to death on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C., says she hopes her son's death will bring change.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is reversing part of her government’s new media question restriction policy but says she will continue to limit queries in order to provide more answers.

DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three years.

EDMONTON — A zoo employee is recovering after she was bitten Tuesday by a Burmese rock python.