Environment Puget Sound tanker traffic thickens as Canadian pipeline boosts oil flow A 750-foot-long oil tanker and its high-powered escort tug started motoring west from a pipeline terminal near Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday afternoon. John Ryan
Environment Junk from Olympic coast cargo spill still washing ashore nearly 3 years later Canadian officials say 97% of the debris spilled when 109 shipping containers toppled off a cargo ship off the Olympia Peninsula remains at sea. John Ryan
World Canadian police arrest 3 suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader Police said they arrested three Indian nationals in the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. The Associated Press
Health Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic? Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country. Melody Schreiber
Health FDA approves Florida's plan to import cheaper drugs from Canada The Food and Drug Administration's authorization of Florida's plan to import prescription medicines from Canada is a first. But the state still has hurdles to clear before imports could begin. Sydney Lupkin
World Canada grapples with the effects of deteriorating relations with India and China As relations sour with India and China, Canada is grappling with how to stand up to powerful or authoritarian nations without sacrificing its longstanding values, such as protecting human rights. Jackie Northam
Environment Okanagan River salmon eyed for endangered-species protection A fisheries agency is asking for public input on whether to list a salmon from the Columbia River Basin as an endangered species. John Ryan
National Vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge closes U.S.-Canada border crossings The FBI is investigating. Two occupants in the vehicle that exploded are both dead, according to The Associated Press and other media reports citing law enforcement sources. Jonathan Franklin
Animals The couple killed by a bear in Banff were able to send an SOS text: 'Bear attack bad' The two backpackers in Canada's Banff National Park seem to have emptied a can of bear spray, trying to get the animal to leave their camp. When rescuers arrived, the bear charged at them. Bill Chappell
World Canada's House speaker has stepped down after inviting a Nazi veteran to Parliament Just after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy gave an address in the House of Commons, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when the House speaker drew attention to him. The Associated Press
