National News

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed Jason Jacques to a six-month term as the interim parliamentary budget officer. Jacques is already the office's director general of economic and fiscal analysis.

Members of the union representing thousands of British Columbia public service workers set up picket lines Tuesday in what the union says is a "last resort" in its labour fight with the province.

OTTAWA — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson will be in the Ottawa region this week for a gathering of his peers from most G7 countries and Ukraine.

EDMONTON — Alberta's education minister is directing school boards to pause a government order to remove books with explicit sexual content from libraries.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it is ending funding for Northvolt's planned battery plant in the province's Montérégie region.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier François Legault testified on Tuesday that he was kept in the dark about hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns at the auto insurance board, laying most of the blame for the scandal on the leaders of the state-run

WINNIPEG — The federal government's major projects legislation, closing the infrastructure gap on First Nations, and federal budget expectations are expected to be discussed at this week's annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations.

Canada allows for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan but strictly limits development work under terrorism legislation.

OTTAWA — Canadian medical associations are marking the first school year for a new accreditation system for medical schools that is fully separate from the United States.

OTTAWA — The federal finance minister said Tuesday he wants to address service delays at the Canada Revenue Agency within 100 days, even as Ottawa plans spending cuts across the public service.