National News

WETASKIWIN, Alta. - Three teens involved in the shooting death of a five-year-old boy on an Alberta reserve have received the maximum youth sentence for manslaughter in a crime the judge called "domestic terrorism."

CALGARY - There is no longer a threat of Quebec independence because Quebecers have become "addicted" to transfer payments from other provinces, former media baron Conrad Black said Friday.

CALGARY - Former media baron Conrad Black says comments by a one-time high-level political strategist on child pornography were reasonable and innocuous.

EDMONTON - Maverick's eyes dart and his breath quickens as he's propped on a table for his first blood donation.

EDMONTON - A double-murder trial collapsed into angry shouts and obscenities Friday when the Crown dropped the charges after a judge ruled that undercover police had coerced a confession from the accused teenager.

VANCOUVER - Once believed to be a contender to displace the B.C. Liberal Party against the front-running New Democrats in next week's provincial election, the BC Conservatives now face grim returns at the ballot boxes, say a former party member and a political expert.

TORONTO - Ontario's police watchdog is investigating an incident that left a 22-year-old man with a broken collarbone after an officer ordered him to climb down from a tree in a downtown Toronto park.

MONTREAL - The day after a once-mighty mayor was arrested in his own city and accused of being a gangster, aggressive questioning shifted toward local police.

OTTAWA - The federal government is dismissing the notion that a terror suspect recently arrested in the United States entered from Canada.