National News

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

Experts say animals know how to protect themselves in a wildfire: Large animals can simply run for it. Smaller animals tend to hide underground or in sheltered places within the burn. Birds can fly away.

Four friends are home safe after getting trapped on the Macbeth Ice Fields, northeast of Kaslo, by a wildfire.

OTTAWA — An internal report from the federal public service released Monday says Black and racialized Privy Council Office employees experience racism and discrimination in the workplace.

MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Police say two people are dead after an amateur-built plane crashed north of the Merritt, B.C. airport, about 270 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

The smoke is so thick in New Denver, B.C., that Nicole Blacksioux can no longer see the flames from her deck that were candling up the trees in the wildfire across the lake.

WHITEHORSE, YUKON — WestJet and Whitehorse-based Air North have announced a new agreement that will allow single-ticket travel across both airlines' networks.

JASPER, ALTA. — Parks Canada officials and politicians angrily denied Monday that forest management policies in Jasper National Park contributed to a catastrophic wildfire that damaged one-third of the townsite.

OTTAWA — Canada is calling on Venezuelan authorities to release detailed polling results of its presidential election, after autocratic President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival both emerged from the contest claiming victory.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government says measures to monitor and assess foreign interference threats will be part of all future federal byelections, not just general elections.