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 Aug. 11 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

OTTAWA — A new survey finds more Canadians report a strong attachment to their primary language than to other markers of identity, including the country they call home.

TORONTO — The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 649 draw for an estimated $5 million: 08, 09, 36, 38, 44 & 45.

VANCOUVER — It was difficult to see any difference had been made to the tent encampment in Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside on Wednesday, a day after city staff began what's expected to be a weeks-long process to remove the structures.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba became the first province Wednesday to sign on to a new federal funding plan for crisis hotlines that help victims of gender-based violence.

OTTAWA — Two containers of food bound for Afghanistan have been cancelled by a Canada-based aid agency because of a law banning any dealings with the Taliban.

REGINA — Two children at the centre of a Saskatchewan Amber Alert were found at a campground in the United States along with their mother and a man wanted by police, Mounties said Wednesday. Benjamin Martin Moore, 50, was apprehended near Sturgis, S.

REGINA — Two children at the centre of a Saskatchewan Amber Alert were found at a campground in the United States along with their mother and a man wanted by police, Mounties said Wednesday. Benjamin Martin Moore, 50, was apprehended near Sturgis, S.

OTTAWA — More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa's plan to ban several single-use plastic items but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he’s confident the attempt will fail.

PENTICTON — Drones are helping map hot spots in a wildfire burning in British Columbia's Okanagan region as cooler conditions helped firefighters elsewhere in the province bring blazes under control.