http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news Latest National news from brandonsun.com en-gb Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:04 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/the-great-one-firmly-believes-nhl-will-return-to-quebec-city-someday-212074121.html MAPLE, Ont. - The Great One firmly believes the NHL will return to Quebec City. The Quebec capital has been without an NHL franchise since the Nordiques left in 1995. But hockey legend Wayne Gretzky said Tuesday his gut feeling is that Quebec City will again have its own pro hockey... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:36:07 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/postmedia-news-ottawa-citizen-win-michener-award-for-reporting-on-robocalls-212068121.html OTTAWA - A Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen investigation exposing the use of "robocalls" to mislead and harass voters during the 2011 federal election campaign has won the 2012 Michener Award. The foundation handing out the award noted that the "detailed and sustained reporting" led to Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:07:02 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/bc-judge-rules-against-first-nation-but-encourages-treaty-talks-212065181.html VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court decision over land use on Vancouver Island could force the provincial and federal governments to implement a treaty first negotiated by the Crown more than 160 years ago, says a lawyer for a First Nation. In a decision posted online Tuesday, Justice Gordon Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:42:04 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/talk-of-sheep-shearing-marks-the-start-of-opposition-filibuster-in-manitoba-212062681.html WINNIPEG - Progressive Conservative house leader Kelvin Goertzen talked of sheep-shearing and canoe races Tuesday, as he started a filibuster — albeit an office-hours one — of the Manitoba government's planned sales tax increase. Goertzen has won unlimited time in the legislature to talk on Bill Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:01 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/quebec-construction-unions-warn-they-could-stay-on-strike-for-a-long-time--212061541.html MONTREAL - Quebec's construction strike settled into its second day with a warning that workers are ready to stay off the job for a long time. Yves Ouellet, spokesman for the alliance of construction unions, said the 175,000 workers had already made several concessions to "reduce the cost of Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:02:05 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/quebec-spends-500000-to-examine-wasteful-spending-by-feds-212058181.html QUEBEC - The Quebec government is spending $500,000 to create a committee to examine wasteful spending by the federal government. The pro-independence Parti Quebecois government wants to examine how much it costs to have federal services that duplicate ones already offered by the province or Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:38:05 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/no-review-for-abortion-doctor-killer-suspected-in-canadian-shootings-212055861.html BUFFALO, N.Y. - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a petition to review the murder case of an anti-abortion extremist who is also suspected in the shootings of three Canadian doctors. James Charles Kopp claims his constitutional rights were violated during the state and federal trials that sent Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:08 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/as-canada-tightens-policy-un-reports-highest-level-of-refugees-since-1994-212052391.html OTTAWA - Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement. More than 45.2 million people either fled their own countries or were internally displaced in 2012, compared to 42.5 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:16:07 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/tory-attacks-on-trudeau-boomerang-raise-questions-about-pmo-involvement--212044581.html OTTAWA - Conservative attacks against Justin Trudeau's paid public speaking career have boomeranged into questions about the propriety of using the Prime Minister's Office to fire off purely partisan missiles. The tables turned Tuesday after the Barrie Advance newspaper outed the PMO as the Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:49:02 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/trial-begins-for-man-accused-in-death-of-flag-worker-at-construction-zone--212044001.html WINNIPEG - A trial has begun in Winnipeg for a man accused in the death of a woman working in a highway construction zone. Brittany Murray, who was 21, was controlling traffic when she was struck and killed by a car in October 2010. Mitchell Blostein is charged with dangerous driving causing Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:13:05 CDT