National News

SAINT-EUSTACHE, Que. - Authorities say at least five children were overcome by carbon monoxide at their daycare in St-Eustache, north of Montreal.

PRINCE GEORGE - British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared officers of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a retired soldier in northern B.C. after reviewing evidence presented in a coroners inquest.

MONCTON, N.B. - A funeral procession for the three Mounties killed in the line of duty wound its way through Moncton on Tuesday with pipers and drummers leading the mourners including police officers from across Canada and the United States.

MONCTON, N.B. - A senior RCMP officer in New Brunswick says a man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Mounties and the wounding of two others in Moncton was unarmed at the time of his arrest early Friday.

MONCTON, N.B. - The RCMP in New Brunswick say a man suspected to have killed three Mounties and injured two others in Moncton was spotted Thursday morning but they were unable to apprehend him. Supt.

MONCTON, N.B. - Three RCMP officers were shot and killed and two officers were injured in Moncton, N.B.

VANCOUVER - Hundreds of scientists are asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reject a federal panel report recommending approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline.

OTTAWA - Liberal Sen. Romeo Dallaire, a career soldier best known in Canada as former commander of the UN's ill-fated peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, is resigning - not retiring, he insists - from the upper chamber.

OTTAWA - The Conservatives used their majority muscle in the House of Commons to pass a controversial bill that makes sweeping changes to election laws. Bill C-23, dubbed the Fair Elections Act, passed Tuesday by a vote of 146 to 123.

OTTAWA -- As Canadians paid tribute to the 40,000 soldiers who took part in the country's 12-year Afghanistan conflict, padre Phillip Ralph gave thanks for the small mercies that come with the end of a war.