National News

An anonymous opponent is targeting Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff with a rather pricey political prank laundered through a BBC mailing address.

British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, left to right, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games CEO John Furlong, Minister of International Trade and the Asia-Pacific Gateway Stockwell Day and wheelchair basketball athlete Richard Peter, bottom, prepare to depart the Olympic Village station aboard a Canada Line rapid transit train during its inaugural run in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday August 17, 2009.

Hundreds of Via Rail passengers were evacuated from a burning locomotive and forced to trudge about two kilometres through the bush near Ottawa on Sunday, a journey that saw more than a dozen treated for minor injuries.

The wife of an eastern Ontario man charged with abducting and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl said Monday that she stands by him and is optimistic as his trial gets underway.

SASKATOON — The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says Canadians need to be better educated about flu symptoms ahead of a possible resurgence of the H1N1 virus this fall.

HALIFAX — NDP Leader Jack Layton was left to deal with questions surrounding his party’s direction Sunday as New Democrats headed home from a weekend convention without debating one of the more contentious issues on the agenda.

OTTAWA — The Netherlands is bracing for the worst if the world is without its two top sources of medical isotopes next year, a scenario that became more likely last week after Canada’s nuclear agency said it will take longer than planned to repair a leaky reactor at Chalk River, Ont.

TORONTO — After staunchly refusing to recognize her citizenship for weeks on end, the federal government is now probing how it handled the case of a Canadian woman who has returned home after being detained in Kenya for months over an identity dispute.

VANCOUVER — British Columbians whose lives and homes were protected by tireless crews this fire season owe a debt of gratitude to a helicopter pilot who died in the line of duty and all of his firefighting colleagues across the province, the Mounties said Sunday.

A former teacher from a prestigious Montreal private school will serve more than 27 years behind bars in Virginia after being sentenced on more sex-related charges involving children.