National News

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed former B.C. lieutenant-governor Iona Campagnolo has died at the age of 91. Campagnolo was appointed as the province's 27th lieutenant-governor in 2001.

LANGLEY, B.C. — Mounties in Langley, B.C., say they are cancelling the Amber Alert issued for a four-month-old boy who was allegedly abducted by his mother on Thursday. Police say in a statement that the child was located and is safe and sound.

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — The young killer whale stranded in the lagoon off Vancouver Island is a girl.

VICTORIA — Family members of a British Columbia Indigenous man who died after being arrested nearly seven years ago were "absolutely shocked" to learn that the manslaughter charges against two of the Mounties involved have been stayed, Dale Culver's

WHITEHORSE — The Whitehorse Star newspaper in Yukon is closing after 124 years. The newspaper's front page on Friday announced that its last publication day will be May 17.

KELOWNA — More than 80 residents from a low-income apartment building in Kelowna, B.C., have learned they won't be able to return to their homes for at least another two weeks.

WINNIPEG — Two First Nations men wrongfully convicted of murdering a restaurant worker are suing three levels of government saying their imprisonment was the result of racial discrimination.

OTTAWA — Canada is wrapping up its Haiti evacuation efforts, with a third and final flight set to depart from the Caribbean country on Sunday.

OTTAWA — A panel of top bureaucrats considered warning the public about possible foreign interference in the last general election, but ultimately decided against it, a senior official testified at a federal inquiry Friday.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon's premier is apologizing ahead of an inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women who were accessing services at the Whitehorse emergency shelter.