National News

MONTREAL — Montreal's public transit agency has reintroduced a no-loitering rule in the city's subway tunnels.

ST. JOHN'S — A new study suggests a unique provincial tax on sugar-sweetened drinks may have dissuaded people from buying and drinking the beverages.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

HALIFAX — Advocacy groups are asking the federal Liberal government to adjust its proposed tax bill to ensure people with disabilities don't end up paying more to the Canada Revenue Agency.

Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed Air India Flight 182.

OTTAWA — Running roughshod over the environment. Spawning the next Idle No More movement. Picking economic winners and losers. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Building Canada Act is anything if not a magnet for criticism.

VANCOUVER — Protesters marking the second anniversary of the killing of B.C. Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar say they're concerned about the renewal of Canada's relations with India, whose agents police have linked to the shooting.

CHILLIWACK — Canada's food inspection agency says it has uncovered a case of Newcastle disease at a commercial pigeon operation in Chilliwack, B.C., requiring the birds to be culled and the premises to be disinfected.

MONTREAL — A three-year-old Montreal girl who was reported missing on Sunday was found alive by police in Ontario, bringing a joyful end to an intense search spanning four different days and two provinces.

RIMOUSKI — The lawyer for a Quebec man charged with killing three people with his truck told a jury Wednesday the deaths were an accident.