National News

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 2, 2020 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

QUEBEC — Residents of Quebec's picturesque capital grappled with grief and shock on Sunday as they mourned the deaths of a beloved neighbourhood hairdresser and a well-respected museum employee slain in what police describe as a deliberate sword atta

Quebec City is reeling after police arrested a suspect in a stabbing incident late Saturday that left two people dead and five others injured.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 2:44 p.m. EST on Nov. 1, 2020: There are 236,840 confirmed cases in Canada.

OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says her COVID-19 test has come back negative.

OTTAWA — A 29-year-old Army reservist from British Columbia has been identified as the soldier killed during a training exercise at a military base in Alberta. The Canadian Armed Forces says Cpl.

QUEBEC — A timeline of major events in the Halloween-night stabbing in Quebec City. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. --- Oct. 31, 10:28 p.m.

OTTAWA — Debbie Sullivan vividly remembers the last time she saw her son Chris Saunders alive more than 16 years ago. The 32-year-old naval lieutenant had driven his young family from Halifax to his mother’s home near Saint John, N.B.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:11 p.m. EDT on Oct. 31, 2020: There are 234,511 confirmed cases in Canada.

Ontario and Quebec are both reporting more than one thousand new COVID-19 cases, while farther west in Manitoba, officials again reported hundreds of new cases as its capital city gets set for tighter restrictions.