National News

MONTREAL - Quebec and Vermont have partnered to help owners of electric vehicles recharge their rides.

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau remained under fire Monday for taking hefty speaking fees from charitable groups after becoming an MP, despite promising to pay back any organization that was dissatisfied.

MONTREAL - The sounds of hammering, drilling and digging at Quebec's bustling construction sites were replaced by chants and waving picket signs as workers walked off the job Monday in a general strike.

MONTREAL - A little more than a year ago, Saulie Zajdel joined Stephen Harper for a happy-hour pub stop in Montreal as perhaps the Conservatives' best hope to win their first seat in this city in a quarter-century.

VANCOUVER - One of the four RCMP officers involved in Robert Dziekanski's death sat in court Monday with his head bowed as his perjury trial watched the now-infamous video of the confrontation that left the Polish man dead.

WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry (TSX:BB) says it remains confident in the security of its smartphones after a newspaper reported that the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into devices belonging to foreign diplomats at the G20 meetings in 2009.

OTTAWA - In his nearly four years as Barack Obama's envoy to Canada, David Jacobson has always stressed his desire to bring Americans and Canadians closer, to make them more familiar with each other.

OTTAWA - A witness who is helping Elections Canada unravel a Conservative MP's 2008 campaign expenses says he has been publicly bullied, discredited and intimidated.

TORONTO - A new study confirms that statin drugs and some antibiotics can interact badly.